Kinda related to previous post, do you think it would help speed development if we set up a bounty for lyra2 implementation and gpu miner? I'd be happy to throw in few hundred vtc, and I know quite a few people here have expressed interest in supporting the development with vtc/btc funds.

As someone pointed out above, Darkcoin relies on masternodes to perform mixing. As they said, I don't think this technology has been reviewed by actual cryptographers, and another thing is this semi-centralized system puts forth an attack vector for malicious actors to focus their efforts on.

I don't think Stealthcoin has actually implemented any real anonymous transactions. They were talking about using chandran signatures, but that seems to have been shot down by some people as not workable in the form they initially proposed.

What other coins offer anonymous transactions outside of cryptonotes? All I see are promises to implement something in the future, except for anoncoin, and their implementation seems to getting some pointed critiques. You're correct that Monero wasn't the first, Bytecoin was the first, but they had an effective 80%+ premine, making bitmonero/monero the first fairly launched and de facto first anonymous cryptocurrency, unless I'm mistaken.

Great to hear!

I voted 'no', but maybe if you promise to implement the first Proof-of-Troll network I'll change my vote

sweet! thanks Claymore

lols 

Network snapshot of pool distribution of any pool with more than 1 Mh/s a few minutes ago: 

Please consider mining anywhere except cncoin.farm and bbr.geilidao.com, as both of these pools are close to 50%. This would include bbr.poolto.be, bbr.mbkpool.info, bbr.5limi.com, solo mining, or boolberry.extremepool.org and sheepman.mine.bz (not shown).

There's been open source nvidia miner for several months, and there is also a russian miner (kminer) which has a much lower fee (0.7%) and supposed to have faster speeds as well, for last month or two.

vertcoin.org back up, and https working now

Makes a lot of sense. Also, a description of the cryptorush bonds should be on the homepage, visible without logging in, imo.

kinda seems unlikely, but mebbe...

I hope price stays relatively low and we see volume go up as well. Looking at the price and volume data on poloniex, you can see that on XDN's highest day of trading volume ever, there was about 40 BTC of volume at an average price XDN price of 32 satoshi - this means about 125M XDN changed hands. 125M is a small fraction of the 6500M XDN in existence, about 2%. Typical volume is more like 3 BTC, which at current prices means only about 15M XDN are changing hands per day. Considering half of all XDN were mined in the first month when the network hashrate was pretty low, I'm not convinced that there isn't a few people holding a large percentage of the total coin supply. Volume does seem a bit higher on Hitbtc, but still on the highest volume day there were ~375M XDN sold. I think low price leading people to sell isn't a bad thing in light of the  rapid emission, especially since there is no way (apparently/supposedly) to do blockchain analysis to see how many people/addresses own how many coins in cryptonotes.

Implementing proof-of-stake (depending on the interest rate in comparison with the rewards from PoW at that point) could lead to a rich get richer scenario, if there are a few wallets holding massive amounts of coins, a high staking/interest rate, and only 150 XDN per block PoW reward. I'm very interested to see how PoS can be implemented when there is not really anyway, afaik, to determine how many coins an address is holding. How do your coins gain staking weight when the network can't see which address they're in?

Perhaps you're unfamiliar with cryptocurrency exchanges - bitfinex, cryptsy, etc.?

I've contacted minergate via support ticket about a public api a month or so ago, and they responded within a day or three.

semi-related, the icon in the windows 7 tray notification area icons (Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Notification Area Icons) says "Bitcoin Core (OSS GUI for Bitcoin)"

Technically you might want to remove VIA as well, since greater than 10% of the total coin supply was sold, rather than distributed by PoW. Anyway, nice to see more innovation promised from dNote. Will be interesting to see how staking is implementing while maintaining anonymity.

You would need to mine your own blocks if you use a fee less than 0.1 XMR, as I'm pretty sure all of the major pools will only accept transactions that have a fee of 0.1 or greater. If you look through block explorer you will see occasionally (not sure how much anymore) a tx goes through with a lower fee because the block is mined by some pool or solo miner running an older version of the daemon, but they are very few and far between.

That sucks :/
I'll try and contact him again I guess...

That's nice, but could we get someone to fix up the subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/darknote/
As someone on IRC (I think) so eloquently put it: "It looks like it's written/moderated by a Kazakhstani fisherman."
Can we get some links in the sidebar? CSS? Moderators that English not Engrish?
I PMed the moderator, /u/crispyaromatic, who I presume is dNote, offering to help how I could, but got no response.