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Title: Dark Wallet has surpassed $100k donations on Indiegogo
Post by: genjix on December 11, 2013, 04:06:51 PM
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bitcoin-dark-wallet

We made it!

Time for updates. This is an exciting moment. We've been slaving, writing code for 3 years now through hardship and all kind of opposition. With these funds, we can invest wisely into critical things blocking our progress and help the Bitcoin space to grow. We are social entrepreneurs, and our goal is to use technology to affect a new way of life.

Here's an interview with Peter Todd (aka retep). Peter is a well reknowned Bitcoin thereotician. He helped create the trustless mixing concept and chose the CoinJoin name. Peter has also co-developed the more recent CoinSwap proposal- a highly technical for ultra anonymity of sending Bitcoins. Peter is responsible within the community for researching and creating new concepts to improve privacy of Bitcoin transactions, scalability of the blockchain and a well functioning network.

Peter Todd interview, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb-QHhbKMAY

The meeting was a success. Our community is well organised, super passionate and with lots of spliff. We've set our goals and reached consensus with how we want to progress. More important than the project itself, is bringing the right minds together to collaborate on a vision. We can write code, but it's about writing tools for the future not tech toys only we will use.

During the meeting, Taylor Gerring (Hive wallet) and Amir Taaki (libbitcoin) created dat.wallet, a new Android Bitcoin wallet by leveraging DarkWallet technology. Amir says "just like when we created trustless mixing, we were able to use our tools to very quickly create a prototype Bitcoin application."

http://images.indiegogo.com/file_attachments/253760/files/20131210142311-dat.wallet.png?1386714191

libbitcoin (http://libbitcoin.dyne.org/), the base for our development efforts has been a long time in development. We have an extensive toolset and scalable architecture. Now we are deploying our infrastructure for production. This will entail extensive testing on multiple platforms and distribution efforts. In development are new components to better handle the blockchain and network.

http://images.indiegogo.com/file_attachments/253746/files/20131210141222-darkwallet.png?1386713542

Here is a prototype which you can find in our git repo (https://github.com/darkwallet/darkwallet). Sem (frontend developer) says "We had to go initially with a Chrome extension despite preferring Firefox. Chrome has a more stable API which enables rapid development during the early stages. Later we will port the code to Firefox. It's written to be easy to port."

Note: we don't recommend Google Chrome. Use Chromium or Firefox (better).

For those who need more juice, see the DarkWallet living document (https://wiki.unsystem.net/index.php/DarkWallet/Intro) which details our ideas for DarkWallet in more depth.

Dark Wallet wants to enable the power of crypto for users of the web. We are the developing the tools that will empower web developers to create services utilising the full power of Bitcoin.

Interview with Wendell Davis of Hive wallet, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn3m_K5AJec

Intro video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuPo5NJ-AZQ


Title: Re: Dark Wallet has surpassed $100k donations on Indiegogo
Post by: x86Daddy on December 11, 2013, 04:51:25 PM
Congratulations!  I keep seeing analogies between Bitcoin and the Internet itself, but in my mind, this reminds me of the World Wide Web evolving... and now with projects like this, we're stepping beyond the world of Mosaic and Lynx into a more diverse span that made HTTP and HTML all the healthier and robust.  It's exciting!


Title: Re: Dark Wallet has surpassed $100k donations on Indiegogo
Post by: whiskers75 on December 11, 2013, 05:01:10 PM
How will you prevent JS injection, browser vulnerabilities, etc from getting the privkeys?


Title: Re: Dark Wallet has surpassed $100k donations on Indiegogo
Post by: LiteCoinGuy on December 11, 2013, 05:23:48 PM
Congratulations. when you also use Zerocoin at the same time you should be safe ;-)


Title: Re: Dark Wallet has surpassed $100k donations on Indiegogo
Post by: genjix on December 11, 2013, 07:38:00 PM
How will you prevent JS injection, browser vulnerabilities, etc from getting the privkeys?

https://wiki.unsystem.net/index.php/DarkWallet/DesktopCounterpart

Also the tech we build will benefit other wallets which we can also take code from like Kryptokit or SpareCoins. So we provide backend and devs can make the frontend. We have a long term vision for this stuff.


Title: Re: Dark Wallet has surpassed $100k donations on Indiegogo
Post by: cnblue on December 11, 2013, 09:09:44 PM
so Dark wallet would be a online type of wallet like blockchain service they offer?