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Title: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: Polycoin on February 21, 2014, 09:06:52 PM
IPO started!
Bitcoins can be accepeted here: 16D1Np59BZr4r6SvLTDT2FZqUQSKvCvRjL
Litecoins can be accepted here: LUrQ1mS39py12EQ8ZNs3XFHwfnvrRYBPq2
(Maximum of 100,000 Polycoins per individual)

Github: https://github.com/SexyGuy

Polycoin is a second generation crypto coin.

Polycoin is being developed in collaboration between , Myth and Syndicate under Darknet Plan and OP Ecko.

Polycoin is designed to be a simpler, easier to use, more secure Bitcoin. Polycoin emphasizes simplicity, security and usability over doing everything.

Polycoin is designed to survive the looming internal and external threats Bitcoin is facing. Polycoin is setting a new standard for security and crytocoin protocol design.

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Besides building a better, more robust, most secure, more usable Bitcoin, the Polycoin project is working towards several long term goals we believe are necessary.


- The long term goal of the Polycoin Project is to bridge the "last mile" between homes and fiber with a distributed wireless mesh and community ISPs.
- Polycoin is working on several applications using Polycoin as a credit unit.
- Storage, networking (cjdns inspired), messaging and routing protocols.
- SOPA, PIPA, ACTA and the Comcast/Time Warner merger have made it clear that political solutions are no longer viable.


Technical Specs:
- open access
- multi-home routing / link-aggregation
- end-to-end encryption
- link level encryption
- new post PKI cryptographic primitives
- Designed to run on Raspberry pi and Ubiquity Hardware
- "zeroconf", no configuration network deployment
- financial incentive for relaying traffic and node deployment
- routing protocol agnostic, allows choice of routing proticols (OSPF, DHT, ant-routing)


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Polycoin uses a protocol called Obelisk instead of PoW. Obelisk is a provably secure PoW alternative for creating fair total orderings in decentralized systems with adversarial nodes.  Obelisk was chosen over other proposals because it is provably secure and can be layered over Bitcoin's existing security model to eliminate the possibility of 51% attacks.


Polycoin transactions are free. Users receive coin-hours for each hour they hold a coin. Coin-hours are spent on transaction fees. Transactions bid to enter a fixed sized block.


Polycoin transactions are fast. Most transactions are executed within fifteen seconds. Off blockchain transactions are instant.


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Bitmessage Contact:
Private Messages: 16D1Np59BZr4r6SvLTDT2FZqUQSKvCvRjL
Announcements (subscribe to address): 16D1Np59BZr4r6SvLTDT2FZqUQSKvCvRjL
Channel: name: Polycoin, key: 16D1Np59BZr4r6SvLTDT2FZqUQSKvCvRjL


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Development Process:


All Polycoin components are in Golang and C. There are different teams working on Polycoin and multiple independent software components required to achieve the long term vision of the project. This is an open source project. There is a huge list of bug fixes and things that need to be implemented.


Allocation of coins are reserved for developers and contributors.


---


Design:


Polycoin tries to offer more security, greater privacy and better usability than Bitcoin.


Polycoin Philosophy:
- too complex systems cannot be secure
- We strive for simplicity over complexity
- decentralized but pragmatic
- Huge emphasis on usability


----


Partial feature list:


Security:
- higher level of security for non-technical users with improved ease of use
- deterministic ESDSA, enforced signature mutability
- hardening against SHA256 pre-image attacks, hardening against side channel attacks
- hardening against "offline" attacks on secp256k1
- optional quantum computer resistant TwoStep protocol transactions
- standardized remote signature HMAC API for hardware wallet devices


Privacy:
- Polycoin transactions have higher privacy than Bitcoin transactions ("wallet mixing", "money pot")
- Polycoin protects its users from identification for increased safety in hostile countries (ex. HTTPS/TLS tunneling)
- stenographic wallets
- We're also hoping to release a proxy protocol similar to Tor within Polyocoin, aka if you wish to be absolutely anonymous, the proxy will be available to you.


Usability:
- Wallet supports Bitcoin and Polycoin
- 15 second transactions (point-of-sale)
- simple 256-bit deterministic wallets
- clients only need unspent output set instead of whole block chain ("Snapshot")
- coins divisible to 8 places


Distributed Exchange:
- Off blockchain Transactions (through standardized API, "gateway")
- powerful scripting language for contracts (non-turing complete statically typed LISP variant)
- Open Transactions type crypto-equities, bonds, options and other securities
- OTC gateway API (based upon FIX, SWIFT, FIXatdl)


The blockchain is for settlement between counterparties. Price data and bid/ask orderbook data is not in the blockchain, but supported through the gateway API. Fractional Polycoin transactions and micropayment are handled as off block chain transactions.


---


Coin Distribution:


- There will be an average of 500,000 coins released annually, more or less depending on the demand for them, similar to how the United States Treasury and Federal Reserve works like.
- There is no mining.
- All coins are created in genesis block.
- The coins will be distributed in a fair, open process, through automatic release of coins relative to the demand for them, we are also open to your suggestions.
- There will be a coin giveaway for alpha testing when the Open-Beta comes out, most likely in April, and absolutely before May.
- No matter what distribution strategy is chosen, we expect that some people will whine.


---


Software Release Schedule:



The first Polycoin client will be released in April. White papers will be released as they are finished.


---


No Mining:



August 7, 2010 (BitcoinTalk Forums): “The utility of the exchanges made possible by Bitcoin will far exceed the cost of electricity used. Therefore, not having Bitcoin would be the net waste.”, as said by Satoshi is being, if not already proved false, as many alt coins improve upon the amount of electricity needed to mine.
 Miners are the greatest non-crpytographic threat to Bitcoin retaining value on geographic time scales. Mining introduce human factors and greed into the survivability of Bitcoin as a currency


- Dishonest miners may destroy Bitcoin
- We are close to a 51% attack
- gigahash.io has abused its hashing power to steal Bitcoin from gambling sites
- services such as cex.io allow people to rent a 51% attack by the minute
- mining pools will form cartels to orphan blocks mined by non-cartel members, to enhance their block rewards
- mining cartels will rent capacity to orphan blocks from other pools, if the reward is greater than the cost
- pools have begun capping block size to drive up transaction fees. Bitcoin transaction processing rate may be unable to keep up with growth in transactions from new users. Bitcoin is becoming unusable for micro-transactions.
- Every month more mining power is concentrated in the hands of a smaller number of people
- Mining ensures majority of new crypto-coins go to people with botnets, GPU farms and ASICs not available to the public.
- No one benefits from mining except miners and electricity companies
- electricity used by mining is wasted. Money spent on mining is being thrown into a hole, burnt and the costs are passed on to every Bitcoin holder
- Mining will substantially increase transaction fees to unsustainable levels when block rewards decrease. Bitcoin transaction fees may reach a level higher than the banking system Bitcoin was created to replace.
- Miners selling newly created Bitcoins to pay equipment and electricity costs, drives down the price of Bitcoin.
- If Bitcoin reaches viability as the next global reserve currency, the incentives for nation states to monopolize and control mining will be too great to contain.


Polycoin was designed to eliminate mining completely and eliminate the problems it creates. Polycoin replaces reliance on honest miners with reliance on mathematics.


- Polycoin is more secure because it does not rely upon the good will of miners
- Polycoin transactions will be cheaper because there are no mining costs being passed on to users
- Polycoin transactions are not subject to 51% attacks by mining cartels
- Polycoin is environmentally friendly and sustainable. Polycoin does not require twelve coal power plants to power mining


Eliminating mining creates new problems for coin distribution.
- We will not do a Nxt or Mastercoin style IPO because we believe they are unfair and discourages new users.
- We will not create 100,000,000,000,000 coins and give 10k coins to each user and hoard the other 99,999,996,000,000 coins like Ripple did.
- There will be no Ripple style secret back door deals at below market price.
- People who contribute to the success of Polycoin will receive whole bags of coins


Distribution will be as fair as possible.


---

These are some things we are working on.


TwoStep: Quantum Computer Secure Transactions


This is a draft protocol for securing crypto-coin transactions against future advances in mathematics or computing which render discrete logarithm based public key cryptography insecure.


TwoStep is part of QuantumEclipse, a suite of next-gen cryptocoin protocols developed under OP Darknet Plan for the Polycoin Project.


This protocol is:
- secure if addresses are not reused
- lower overhead than Lamport Signatures
- works with SHA256 preimages equally as well as Secp256k1 signatures
- is not dependent on the security of discrete logarithm based public key cryptography


Proticol:
1> A user creates a transaction and publishes the SHA256 hash of the transaction onto the block chain (effectively a timestamp)
2> The user waits several blocks and publishes the transaction. Miners enter the transaction onto the block chain.


A transaction with a prepublished hash is "timestamped" by the publication of the hash. A transactions without a prepublished hash is a "non-timestamped" transaction.


Transaction Precedence Rules:
- if an unconfirmed non-timestamped transaction spends outputs used by a non-confirmed timestamped transaction, the non-timestamped transaction is invalid (time-stamped transactions have priority over non-timestamped transactions).
- if two unconfirmed timestamped transactions spend non-disjoint sets of unspent outputs, the transaction with the earliest timestamp is the valid one.


Address pub keys are not being published until they are first used in a transaction. The TwoStep protocol delays the publication of the public key for an address until transaction publication and then renders any transactions an attacker creates from the recovered private key invalid using the precedence rules.


Strict transaction precedence rule enforcement is not possible in Bitcoin, but is possible in Polycoin using new blockchain primitives introduced by Obelisk.


CoinJoin RFC:


- Polycoin naively supports a simplified CoinJoin protocol
- CoinJoin mixes transactions from multiple wallets to increase transaction privacy
- CoinJoin is optional.
- Polycoin is designed so that it is impossible to determine which transactions are CoinJoin transactions


Polycoin Coin Join Protocol:

- three people send their inputs and outputs to a remote server
- server creates a transaction containing the inputs/outputs from all three people
- the server sends each person the transaction.
- Each person verifies the transactions and sends the signatures for their inputs
- The server publishes the transactions.


This protocol is much simpler than zero coin or NXTcoin while dramatically improving transaction privacy

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Github: https://github.com/Polycoin

Polycoin is a second generation crypto coin.

Polycoin is being developed in collaboration between , Myth and Syndicate under Darknet Plan and OP Ecko.

Polycoin is designed to be a simpler, easier to use, more secure Bitcoin. Polycoin emphasizes simplicity, security and usability over doing everything.

Polycoin is designed to survive the looming internal and external threats Bitcoin is facing. Polycoin is setting a new standard for security and crytocoin protocol design.

---

Besides building a better, more robust, most secure, more usable Bitcoin, the Polycoin project is working towards several long term goals we believe are necessary.


- The long term goal of the Polycoin Project is to bridge the "last mile" between homes and fiber with a distributed wireless mesh and community ISPs.
- Polycoin is working on several applications using Polycoin as a credit unit.
- Storage, networking (cjdns inspired), messaging and routing protocols.
- SOPA, PIPA, ACTA and the Comcast/Time Warner merger have made it clear that political solutions are no longer viable.


Technical Specs:
- open access
- multi-home routing / link-aggregation
- end-to-end encryption
- link level encryption
- new post PKI cryptographic primitives
- Designed to run on Raspberry pi and Ubiquity Hardware
- "zeroconf", no configuration network deployment
- financial incentive for relaying traffic and node deployment
- routing protocol agnostic, allows choice of routing proticols (OSPF, DHT, ant-routing)


---


Polycoin uses a protocol called Obelisk instead of PoW. Obelisk is a provably secure PoW alternative for creating fair total orderings in decentralized systems with adversarial nodes.  Obelisk was chosen over other proposals because it is provably secure and can be layered over Bitcoin's existing security model to eliminate the possibility of 51% attacks.


Polycoin transactions are free. Users receive coin-hours for each hour they hold a coin. Coin-hours are spent on transaction fees. Transactions bid to enter a fixed sized block.


Polycoin transactions are fast. Most transactions are executed within fifteen seconds. Off blockchain transactions are instant.


---


Bitmessage Contact:
Private Messages: 16D1Np59BZr4r6SvLTDT2FZqUQSKvCvRjL
Announcements (subscribe to address): 16D1Np59BZr4r6SvLTDT2FZqUQSKvCvRjL
Channel: name: Polycoin, key: 16D1Np59BZr4r6SvLTDT2FZqUQSKvCvRjL


---


Development Process:


All Polycoin components are in Golang and C. There are different teams working on Polycoin and multiple independent software components required to achieve the long term vision of the project. This is an open source project. There is a huge list of bug fixes and things that need to be implemented.


Allocation of coins are reserved for developers and contributors.


---


Design:


Polycoin tries to offer more security, greater privacy and better usability than Bitcoin.


Polycoin Philosophy:
- too complex systems cannot be secure
- We strive for simplicity over complexity
- decentralized but pragmatic
- Huge emphasis on usability


----


Partial feature list:


Security:
- higher level of security for non-technical users with improved ease of use
- deterministic ESDSA, enforced signature mutability
- hardening against SHA256 pre-image attacks, hardening against side channel attacks
- hardening against "offline" attacks on secp256k1
- optional quantum computer resistant TwoStep protocol transactions
- standardized remote signature HMAC API for hardware wallet devices


Privacy:
- Polycoin transactions have higher privacy than Bitcoin transactions ("wallet mixing", "money pot")
- Polycoin protects its users from identification for increased safety in hostile countries (ex. HTTPS/TLS tunneling)
- stenographic wallets
- We're also hoping to release a proxy protocol similar to Tor within Polyocoin, aka if you wish to be absolutely anonymous, the proxy will be available to you.


Usability:
- Wallet supports Bitcoin and Polycoin
- 15 second transactions (point-of-sale)
- simple 256-bit deterministic wallets
- clients only need unspent output set instead of whole block chain ("Snapshot")
- coins divisible to 8 places


Distributed Exchange:
- Off blockchain Transactions (through standardized API, "gateway")
- powerful scripting language for contracts (non-turing complete statically typed LISP variant)
- Open Transactions type crypto-equities, bonds, options and other securities
- OTC gateway API (based upon FIX, SWIFT, FIXatdl)


The blockchain is for settlement between counterparties. Price data and bid/ask orderbook data is not in the blockchain, but supported through the gateway API. Fractional Polycoin transactions and micropayment are handled as off block chain transactions.


---


Coin Distribution:


- There will be an average of 500,000 coins released annually, more or less depending on the demand for them, similar to how the United States Treasury and Federal Reserve works like.
- There is no mining.
- All coins are created in genesis block.
- The coins will be distributed in a fair, open process, through automatic release of coins relative to the demand for them, we are also open to your suggestions.
- There will be a coin giveaway for alpha testing when the Open-Beta comes out, most likely in April, and absolutely before May.
- No matter what distribution strategy is chosen, we expect that some people will whine.


---


Software Release Schedule:


The first Polycoin client will be released in April. White papers will be released as they are finished.


---


No Mining:


Satoshi has stated that mining is Bitcoin's only flaw. Miners are the greatest non-crpytographic threat to Bitcoin retaining value on geographic time scales. Mining introduce human factors and greed into the survivability of Bitcoin as a currency


- Dishonest miners may destroy Bitcoin
- We are close to a 51% attack
- gigahash.io has abused its hashing power to steal Bitcoin from gambling sites
- services such as cex.io allow people to rent a 51% attack by the minute
- mining pools will form cartels to orphan blocks mined by non-cartel members, to enhance their block rewards
- mining cartels will rent capacity to orphan blocks from other pools, if the reward is greater than the cost
- pools have begun capping block size to drive up transaction fees. Bitcoin transaction processing rate may be unable to keep up with growth in transactions from new users. Bitcoin is becoming unusable for micro-transactions.
- Every month more mining power is concentrated in the hands of a smaller number of people
- Mining ensures majority of new crypto-coins go to people with botnets, GPU farms and ASICs not available to the public.
- No one benefits from mining except miners and electricity companies
- electricity used by mining is wasted. Money spent on mining is being thrown into a hole, burnt and the costs are passed on to every Bitcoin holder
- Mining will substantially increase transaction fees to unsustainable levels when block rewards decrease. Bitcoin transaction fees may reach a level higher than the banking system Bitcoin was created to replace.
- Miners selling newly created Bitcoins to pay equipment and electricity costs, drives down the price of Bitcoin.
- If Bitcoin reaches viability as the next global reserve currency, the incentives for nation states to monopolize and control mining will be too great to contain.


Polycoin was designed to eliminate mining completely and eliminate the problems it creates. Polycoin replaces reliance on honest miners with reliance on mathematics.


- Polycoin is more secure because it does not rely upon the good will of miners
- Polycoin transactions will be cheaper because there are no mining costs being passed on to users
- Polycoin transactions are not subject to 51% attacks by mining cartels
- Polycoin is environmentally friendly and sustainable. Polycoin does not require twelve coal power plants to power mining


Eliminating mining creates new problems for coin distribution.
- We will not do a Nxt or Mastercoin style IPO because we believe they are unfair and discourages new users.
- We will not create 100,000,000,000,000 coins and give 10k coins to each user and hoard the other 99,999,996,000,000 coins like Ripple did.
- There will be no Ripple style secret back door deals at below market price.
- People who contribute to the success of Polycoin will receive whole bags of coins


Distribution will be as fair as possible.


---

These are some things we are working on.


TwoStep: Quantum Computer Secure Transactions


This is a draft protocol for securing crypto-coin transactions against future advances in mathematics or computing which render discrete logarithm based public key cryptography insecure.


TwoStep is part of QuantumEclipse, a suite of next-gen cryptocoin protocols developed under OP Darknet Plan for the Polycoin Project.


This protocol is:
- secure if addresses are not reused
- lower overhead than Lamport Signatures
- works with SHA256 preimages equally as well as Secp256k1 signatures
- is not dependent on the security of discrete logarithm based public key cryptography


Proticol:
1> A user creates a transaction and publishes the SHA256 hash of the transaction onto the block chain (effectively a timestamp)
2> The user waits several blocks and publishes the transaction. Miners enter the transaction onto the block chain.


A transaction with a prepublished hash is "timestamped" by the publication of the hash. A transactions without a prepublished hash is a "non-timestamped" transaction.


Transaction Precedence Rules:
- if an unconfirmed non-timestamped transaction spends outputs used by a non-confirmed timestamped transaction, the non-timestamped transaction is invalid (time-stamped transactions have priority over non-timestamped transactions).
- if two unconfirmed timestamped transactions spend non-disjoint sets of unspent outputs, the transaction with the earliest timestamp is the valid one.


Address pub keys are not being published until they are first used in a transaction. The TwoStep protocol delays the publication of the public key for an address until transaction publication and then renders any transactions an attacker creates from the recovered private key invalid using the precedence rules.


Strict transaction precedence rule enforcement is not possible in Bitcoin, but is possible in Polycoin using new blockchain primitives introduced by Obelisk.


CoinJoin RFC:


- Polycoin naively supports a simplified CoinJoin protocol
- CoinJoin mixes transactions from multiple wallets to increase transaction privacy
- CoinJoin is optional.
- Polycoin is designed so that it is impossible to determine which transactions are CoinJoin transactions


Polycoin Coin Join Protocol:
- three people send their inputs and outputs to a remote server
- server creates a transaction containing the inputs/outputs from all three people
- the server sends each person the transaction.
- Each person verifies the transactions and sends the signatures for their inputs
- The server publishes the transactions.

This protocol is much simpler than zero coin or NXTcoin while dramatically improving transaction privacy.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

As this is the beginning advertising of a newly made second gen. alt coin, we will be releasing the IPO at 2/21/2014 5:00pm Eastern and it will end in 2 weeks, on 3/6/2014 7:pm Eastern, I've been working on this coin full-time since early Febuary, while also have a few hired freelance programmers working for me, and in the means of adding a Polycoin Marketing Team.
Bitcoins can be accepeted here: 16D1Np59BZr4r6SvLTDT2FZqUQSKvCvRjL
Litecoins can be accepted here: LUrQ1mS39py12EQ8ZNs3XFHwfnvrRYBPq2

As this is the IPO, any bitcoin or litecoin recieved will give you a certain amount of Polycoins at the Official launch of Polycoin.
.05c per Polycoin.

Each person can have a Maximum of 100,000 Polycoins in the Pre-sale.

-All bitcoins/litecoins will be used in paying the expenses to cover the making of this coin, and stored for future community projects concering Polycoin.
-I will personally PrintScreen(Take a picture of) every donation I recieve, and also the blockchain on bitcoin or litecoin and past it on this thread.
-The price of Bitcoin will be determined from the average of three bitcoin prices from the three biggest bitcoin exchanges, as with Litecoin.
-All bitcoin/litecoin recieved, will have the individual sender's name on a list, with the amount of Polycoin they will recieve when Polycoin is officially launched in April.
-The list will be posted on this thread within the next couple of days.


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency
Post by: heskey on February 21, 2014, 09:16:13 PM
This is EXACTLY what i've been waiting for! I wish you all luck you can possibly get!

I love the choice of using C, as Linus T. said himself:

"C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot
of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much
easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if
the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out,
that in itself would be a huge reason to use C."


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency
Post by: Michael Becker on February 21, 2014, 09:17:03 PM
Satoshi has stated that mining is Bitcoin's only flaw.

I fully agree that mining needs to disappear. However, I'm curious as to where/when Satoshi wrote that. Source please?


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency
Post by: NutMasterTardd on February 21, 2014, 09:22:01 PM
Interested +1


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency
Post by: instacalm on February 21, 2014, 09:22:58 PM
This is merely an almost 1:1 copy of SkyCoin thread text: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=380441.0


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency
Post by: Polycoin on February 21, 2014, 09:35:21 PM
I used to work as a Developer for Skycoin (SKY), but seeing that the original creator aka "leader" of the coin was hardly doing anything, I mean ziltch to promote, or help me develop the coin further, I decided to release Polycoin in collaboration with a few other developers, similar to that, but with all the updates and mechanisms that were supposed to go to Skycoin, but I doubt highly ever will...
Everything thought of for Skycoin will be implemented in Polycoin instead, seeing as Skycoin has stalled updating anything when I and a few other devs left.


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency
Post by: SlidingHorn on February 21, 2014, 09:49:49 PM
Sounds like this is taking a little from the PMC model.

Not saying anything negative, but it'd be nice to see a hat-tip in their direction :)


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency
Post by: otila on February 21, 2014, 10:27:11 PM
Everything thought of for Skycoin will be implemented in Polycoin instead, seeing as Skycoin has stalled updating anything when I and a few other devs left.

Skycoin latest changelog:
Fri Feb 21 09:43:17 2014 -0800

Polycoin git contents: README.md

Am I missing something?


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency
Post by: metstijl on February 21, 2014, 10:33:39 PM
How do you mine this ?
Trojan wallet ?


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency
Post by: SlidingHorn on February 21, 2014, 10:35:19 PM
where en when to mine ? ??????????????
first page I'm famous hello mom and dad. I made it. I'm rich by the time you read this.

Way to read the OP.

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No Mining:



August 7, 2010 (BitcoinTalk Forums): “The utility of the exchanges made possible by Bitcoin will far exceed the cost of electricity used. Therefore, not having Bitcoin would be the net waste.”, as said by Satoshi is being, if not already proved false, as many alt coins improve upon the amount of electricity needed to mine.
 Miners are the greatest non-crpytographic threat to Bitcoin retaining value on geographic time scales. Mining introduce human factors and greed into the survivability of Bitcoin as a currency


- Dishonest miners may destroy Bitcoin
- We are close to a 51% attack
- gigahash.io has abused its hashing power to steal Bitcoin from gambling sites
- services such as cex.io allow people to rent a 51% attack by the minute
- mining pools will form cartels to orphan blocks mined by non-cartel members, to enhance their block rewards
- mining cartels will rent capacity to orphan blocks from other pools, if the reward is greater than the cost
- pools have begun capping block size to drive up transaction fees. Bitcoin transaction processing rate may be unable to keep up with growth in transactions from new users. Bitcoin is becoming unusable for micro-transactions.
- Every month more mining power is concentrated in the hands of a smaller number of people
- Mining ensures majority of new crypto-coins go to people with botnets, GPU farms and ASICs not available to the public.
- No one benefits from mining except miners and electricity companies
- electricity used by mining is wasted. Money spent on mining is being thrown into a hole, burnt and the costs are passed on to every Bitcoin holder
- Mining will substantially increase transaction fees to unsustainable levels when block rewards decrease. Bitcoin transaction fees may reach a level higher than the banking system Bitcoin was created to replace.
- Miners selling newly created Bitcoins to pay equipment and electricity costs, drives down the price of Bitcoin.
- If Bitcoin reaches viability as the next global reserve currency, the incentives for nation states to monopolize and control mining will be too great to contain.


Polycoin was designed to eliminate mining completely and eliminate the problems it creates. Polycoin replaces reliance on honest miners with reliance on mathematics.


- Polycoin is more secure because it does not rely upon the good will of miners
- Polycoin transactions will be cheaper because there are no mining costs being passed on to users
- Polycoin transactions are not subject to 51% attacks by mining cartels
- Polycoin is environmentally friendly and sustainable. Polycoin does not require twelve coal power plants to power mining


Eliminating mining creates new problems for coin distribution.
- We will not do a Nxt or Mastercoin style IPO because we believe they are unfair and discourages new users.
- We will not create 100,000,000,000,000 coins and give 10k coins to each user and hoard the other 99,999,996,000,000 coins like Ripple did.
- There will be no Ripple style secret back door deals at below market price.
- People who contribute to the success of Polycoin will receive whole bags of coins


Distribution will be as fair as possible.


---


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency
Post by: metstijl on February 21, 2014, 10:36:41 PM
hahaha what a complete joke.


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency
Post by: Cyberjnky on February 21, 2014, 10:43:23 PM
I will pay attention.  Always like to see how something new works out.  Good luck!


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency
Post by: heskey on February 21, 2014, 10:47:43 PM
I would like to prupose a way of distribution.

The idea:

Along with the coin release there should be an exchange. All coins are placed as one big order at a ratio of 1BTC : 10,000PLC, as such:

(Approximetly 12,000,000 * 10,000)

Sell Order: 120,000,000,000
Sell Price: 0.0001

This will surely make the value stay consistent, and the distribution will at least be honest. The big amount of coins will make it more convenient as a means for payment.

But there remains one key question "where will all the Bitcoin payment go?" and after some thinking I came up with, CHARITY! If we can make sure that the transactions are traceable and transparent, this could be really cool! - Coins created out of charity -
There are already fund raisers in the bitcoin movement (for example http://bitcoinsforcharity.org/) we just have to be 100% sure that is no monkey business involved. Perhaps start a new charity that is completely transparent and discloses how all money are spent.

Ofc. it wont be as simple as I just made it sound, but maybe worth looking into?


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency
Post by: johhu12 on February 21, 2014, 11:23:26 PM
Oh this is really promising! Looking forward to this. Are there any kind of help needed @Polycoin ? Would be more than glad do to that.


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency
Post by: Michael Becker on February 21, 2014, 11:33:45 PM
Satoshi has stated that mining is Bitcoin's only flaw.

I fully agree that mining needs to disappear. However, I'm curious as to where/when Satoshi wrote that. Source please?

Bumping this, I am extremely interested to have a source on it.

Or is it bullshit?


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency
Post by: mailliam on February 21, 2014, 11:34:46 PM
When will distribution start?


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency
Post by: Raist on February 22, 2014, 12:28:04 AM
If it is not a joke - then really interesting. With really fair (or even very close to fair) distribution and good technical fulfillment this coin can change a lot. Want to wish good luck to author. 


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency
Post by: drakoin on February 22, 2014, 12:36:17 AM
Bitmessage Contact:
Private Messages: 16D1Np59BZr4r6SvLTDT2FZqUQSKvCvRjL
Announcements (subscribe to address): 16D1Np59BZr4r6SvLTDT2FZqUQSKvCvRjL
Channel: name: Polycoin, key: 16D1Np59BZr4r6SvLTDT2FZqUQSKvCvRjL

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Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency
Post by: xiaocong on February 22, 2014, 01:02:07 AM
this coin is great,i am in,hope it success,i will post it on other forums,let more people know it. :)


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency
Post by: Polycoin on February 22, 2014, 03:15:33 AM
Hard at work adding new features to Polycoin, such as a chat interface, where users can remain anonymous and chat with each other in designated chatrooms.


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: tornstaf on February 22, 2014, 03:23:52 AM
sent you 1 bitcoin, thats about 50,000 polycoin! really looking forward.


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency
Post by: fxmulder on February 22, 2014, 03:24:46 AM
Hard at work adding new features to Polycoin, such as a chat interface, where users can remain anonymous and chat with each other in designated chatrooms.

Do you have more detailed documentation regarding the features in this coin?


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: ppnew990 on February 22, 2014, 03:37:00 AM
next big thing?


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: MsCollec on February 22, 2014, 03:54:38 AM
This is definitely a scam run by mods, my post got deleted and i didn't even got a notification


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: Jeezy911 on February 22, 2014, 03:56:07 AM
I stopped reading at IPO


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: Polycoin on February 22, 2014, 04:02:48 AM
As of this moment, I've paid out of my pocket for everything concerning Polycoin. I'm launching the IPO because we have hopes of releasing Polycoin very soon, we are sure Polycoin will revolutionize cryptocurrencies as we know it.


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: MsCollec on February 22, 2014, 04:05:51 AM
As of this moment, I've paid out of my pocket for everything concerning Polycoin. I'm launching the IPO because we have hopes of releasing Polycoin very soon, we are sure Polycoin will revolutionize cryptocurrencies as we know it.

can you tell me why post are disappearing since this is not a self-moderated topic


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: Jeezy911 on February 22, 2014, 04:07:17 AM
As of this moment, I've paid out of my pocket for everything concerning Polycoin. I'm launching the IPO because we have hopes of releasing Polycoin very soon, we are sure Polycoin will revolutionize cryptocurrencies as we know it.

So we make you rich now, and you pay us back later amirite?


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: MsCollec on February 22, 2014, 04:12:22 AM
As of this moment, I've paid out of my pocket for everything concerning Polycoin. I'm launching the IPO because we have hopes of releasing Polycoin very soon, we are sure Polycoin will revolutionize cryptocurrencies as we know it.

So we make you rich now, and you pay us back later amirite?

He's going to run off. No screenshots, there's no proof of Polycoin in existence. He copied announcement from Skycoin page and hours later he started IPO with ridiculous price 1 Polycoin-0.5c?? or btc

SCAM


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: Polycoin on February 22, 2014, 04:12:49 AM
As of this moment, I've paid out of my pocket for everything concerning Polycoin. I'm launching the IPO because we have hopes of releasing Polycoin very soon, we are sure Polycoin will revolutionize cryptocurrencies as we know it.

So we make you rich now, and you pay us back later amirite?


All bitcoins/litecoins received will go towards future community projects and the gathering of resources necessary to continue implementing updates for Polycoin.
None will be used by me or any individual personally, I'll also be releasing a list, yes a list, of people who donated so all can see.


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: MsCollec on February 22, 2014, 04:16:57 AM
I see my post didn't disappear you created a new announcement page to cover your tracks

There you have it people https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=480659.msg5287739#msg5287739

I am flagging your account >:(


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: Polycoin on February 22, 2014, 04:21:41 AM
You're wrong, look at Github, I'm working with  a team of qualified professional programmers to build Polycoin.

But alas, one man cannot please the whole world.
To those that wish to join the newest and biggest alt coin, Polycoin, then take your time and send bitcoin to DADDY1NpdSKvCvRjL
for the pre-sale, 1 bitcoin =50,000 future polycoin. Once polycoin is released on an exchange, you'll most likely expect 200000x returns.


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: MsCollec on February 22, 2014, 04:22:17 AM
BEWARE SCAM IPO, MULTIPLE ANN PAGES PLUS NEW IPO COPIED SKYCOIN ANN PAGE


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: MsCollec on February 22, 2014, 04:26:55 AM
You're wrong, look at Github, I'm working with  a team of qualified professional programmers to build Polycoin.

But alas, one man cannot please the whole world.
To those that wish to join the newest and biggest alt coin, Polycoin, then take your time and send bitcoin to 16D1Np59BZr4r6SvLTDT2FZqUQSKvCvRjL
for the pre-sale, 1 bitcoin =50,000 future polycoin. Once polycoin is released on an exchange, you'll most likely expect 200000x returns.

1) release the coin as an open-beta
2)Start IPO with the choice of escrow
3)Launch Polycoin


I am not greedy and not interested in your  200000x returns.


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: tacotime on February 22, 2014, 04:33:51 AM
The authors of Skycoin have notified me to tell me that this is a scam.


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: Jeezy911 on February 22, 2014, 05:16:18 AM
I hope you guys really didn't invest  :( . Be fucking careful on here.


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: voilo on February 22, 2014, 05:28:42 AM
mark and  INTERESTED,BTW  interesting does not cost my anythings :) :) keep watching!

Showing interest in a coin that already labelled as a scam by reputable members sent a misleading signal to other members. That could earn you a bad trust on your profile.

Example;
 
sent you 1 bitcoin, thats about 50,000 polycoin! really looking forward.

Thanks for reminding, I noticed that ! ;D


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: Jeezy911 on February 22, 2014, 05:34:58 AM
http://www.mememaker.net/static/images/memes/3141521.jpg


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: killer_csky on February 22, 2014, 06:01:31 AM
scam?


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: GurungBoi on February 22, 2014, 07:20:08 AM
HEY I"M a new user with the ID as my coin
SNAP
I want to get some IPO
yoo you hungry Btc people that want to make easy money
U want in on my IPO?
i become wolong vers. 2 for u yo

Enough of these IPO bull shit.
I can do a write up for your shit and state blah blah blah
it's like writing an 2k words essay
it's time to stop beaming out new coins

Btw just for you
set up a trollcoin address  and I'll flip you some trollcoins for this comedy bs.

Regards


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: YourMine.org on February 22, 2014, 09:31:31 AM
All this since early Feb Rubbish Jury is in session.


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: heskey on February 22, 2014, 01:55:58 PM
This is so silly, I cant even find words for it.

Can someone please make a coin like this happen?!


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: MsCollec on February 22, 2014, 03:11:25 PM
This is so silly, I cant even find words for it.

Can someone please make a coin like this happen?!


It's called Skycoin.


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: SlidingHorn on February 22, 2014, 09:36:12 PM
As of this moment, I've paid out of my pocket for everything concerning Polycoin. I'm launching the IPO because we have hopes of releasing Polycoin very soon, we are sure Polycoin will revolutionize cryptocurrencies as we know it.

What about the sock puppet account you've created to exchange false positive feedback?  

How about the fact that this sock puppet account is the only one to have "sent" bitcoin to your IPO?

I'm also suspicious of any "developer" (while I know you didn't develop this coin - you were asking around on your sock puppet acct days ago for someone else to create one for you) who can't spell the word "Protocol".

Get lost, scammer.


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: TheMightyX on February 22, 2014, 10:15:00 PM
Doesn't this sound like skycoin?

  • Darknet plan
  • Wireless mesh
  • Time warner merger comment

?


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: Rigen on February 22, 2014, 10:45:59 PM
Very primitive scam. Draw at least some diagrams to make people believe in it


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: kufan on February 24, 2014, 01:18:34 PM
scam?
why didn't answer people's question?


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: S3MKi on February 24, 2014, 03:08:00 PM
IPO?


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: Djentriser on February 24, 2014, 03:18:43 PM
Until i see some further evidence, I call it SCAM

You were warned!


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: Sergio_Demian_Lerner on April 08, 2014, 05:13:31 PM
The "TwoStep" method is seems like a re-invention of MAVEPAY method.

Links to relevant papers here:

http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/mavepay-a-new-lightweight-payment-scheme-for-peer-to-peer-currency-networks/
http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/mave-digital-signature-protocol-for-massive-bulk-verifications/

But less secure. MAVEPAY used three steps to protect from DoS attacks.

Best regards, Sergio.



Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: swisspirate on September 23, 2014, 05:50:53 PM
hey polycoin, fix your shit site. redirects to shit russian pharmacy scam page. http://polycoin [dot] io/riding.html



The IP address 137.117.224.218 corresponds to a web site that is infected with a spam or malware forwarding link.

The website's host name is "polycoin.io", and this link is an example of the redirect: "http://polycoin [dot] io/riding.html".

In other words the website "polycoin.io" has been hacked.


http://cbl.abuseat.org/lookup.cgi?ip=137.117.224.218&.submit=Lookup


EDIT: broke links to redirect


Title: Re: Polycoin (PC): Brilliant New 2nd Generation CryptoCurrency |IPO STARTING|
Post by: bitcurrenty on September 23, 2014, 06:11:52 PM
Fucking greedy IPO  ;D