@weedo84  You mentioned:  "Peter Todd does seem to like speaking about colored coins and Mastercoin but so much with Viacoin..."

This is EXCELLENT for the Viacoin protocol BC that's exactly what Clearinghouse is - a much faster meta-protocol with colored coins (and a notary...and CustodyChains...and much more to come).

Congrats to Drak and Peter Todd on your most recent developments in Viacoin.  Drak, when you get a chance, please give us a shout-out and update over on the Clearinghouse thread

@Charles  LOL...I thought you'd enjoy that!  Keep up the good work, buddy

This all looks great so far!  Thanks Charles  Here's an excellent new YouTube video with great visuals to help teach and explain cryptography (maybe you'd like to use it):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

@derrend  Thank God!  They finally uploaded a YouTube video of Peter Todd's Treechains presentation in Tel Aviv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

@Loreelol  You're right - the coin is dead as a hammer...I'll help you out and buy your XCH for 100 sat each - how many do you have?

I'm just trying to help

I couldn't agree more!  A video of Peter Todd's presentation would be excellent for teaching and marketing

Is there any way you could make this happen, drak?

@erikoehler  Happy to see you taking initiative - you can expect warm support from the Viacoin community on all your projects

@Moolah.lol  You seem to think that only external catalysts affect Viacoin's price, but you are missing 3 MAJOR elephant variables in the room that also affect its price, and since you're so confident "it will never surpass 7k sat again", there's really no reason for me to convince you otherwise, Moolah.lol.lol

I like you too, dark

...and Peter Todd

@fox19891989  Excellent Chinese translation for Viacoin...thank you
http://www.xinbi123.com/?p=1341

Will you also be doing a translation for ClearingHouse XCH info?

Awesome Chinese translation      - way to go!

...and thank you very much, drak, for doing an update on the World Crypto Network!

@drak  Ahhh...I didn't even realize there is a brand new tab called "Documents" in ClearWallet!

It's super clear to me now...I also transferred my notarized document to another one of my Viacoin addresses...very easy and straightforward.

I guess my only other question is:  how does the hash relate to the actual document on my desktop?  And if I send my hash to someone else, how can they use the hash to retrieve or find the original document?  (...or does CustodyChains come into play here?)  ...sorry, that's more than 1 question...if you answer these in your video, I'll gladly wait until then

@drak  Awesome...this is exciting stuff! 

I assume you'll answer my questions in your Q&A and/or your video...I'll just wait until then...keep-up the good work, buddy

@drak  I just created my first notarized document in ClearWallet - very easy, user friendly, and fast

I was just testing it out...I used a jpeg I had on my desktop and notarized it.  It gave me a hash and I named it "Trading Truth jpeg".

I noticed Chris Ellis doing a lot of this recently to prove ownership of his videos (I think that's what he's doing).

Can you please explain to me exactly how this works...for example: 
Can I send that hash to another Viacoin address now? 
Where can I view the notarized documents I created? 
How does that hash relate to the actual jpeg file stored on my desktop? 
Is the actual jpeg picture on the blockchain now?

Thanks...this is pretty cool

Patrick Byrne Wired.com article  (October 6, 2014)
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/overstock-com-assembles-coders-build-bitcoin-like-stock-market/

...he’s committing between five and ten percent of Overstock’s cash flow—”single-digit millions”—to the company’s cryptosecurity project. “Building this—and being the company that owns this—can be more valuable than Overstock,” Byrne says. “It can be more valuable than Alibaba.”

“This could be as big or bigger than the internet,” Bryne says.
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The potential implications of this are simply MIND-BOGGLING! 

Byrne hired the Counterparty developers, but I don't see where he explicitly says that he'll be using Counterparty (which would be a surprise to all those who just panic-bought XCP...lol).

I've listened to most of Byrne's YouTube videos from this year, and only a few months ago he said, "I'm looking to hire programmers who are familiar with blockchain technologies and turing complete programming languages; if you qualify, please get in contact with us" (which instantly made me think he was planning on using Ethereum to launch his cryptosecurities).

I personally think that the Counterparty guys got in contact with Patrick and NOT the other way around.  Byrne was bascially inviting applicants, and I bet the XCP guys jumped at the opportunity.

Byrne DOES SAY that he wants his cryptosecurity platform to run on the Bitcoin blockchain as it is the most secure and time-tested...whether or not he will use Counterparty or some new software that his team builds, I'm not 100% sure.

(personally speaking...the Bitcoin blockchain is just too slow!  ...hell, people get mad when a video takes 10 extra seconds to load)
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How this relates to ClearingHouse...I personally think this is extremely positive for XCH as Clearinghouse is basically a much faster and improved Counterparty.  This is extreme VALIDATION and real world corporate PROOF that Clearinghouse is attempting to solve an extremely RELEVANT problem!

What I've learned from Patrick Byrne is that many of the clearinghouses in the US are using Fractional Reserve Securities (selling and lending equities that they DO NOT OWN) - this is their biggest technique of fraud, which is what Byrne is trying to fix!

It's very exciting to realize that we're in the ballgame, and these technologies can disrupt the big boys

@derrend  My obvious answer is:  if you "almost certainly know the future of XCH", then why bother participating in this thread?

My substantive answer is:  read my previous posts on this thread if you really want to know the value proposition for XCH going forward.  

As for XCP vs. XCH:
1.  Counterparty is painfully slow as it's on the Bitcoin blockchain (10 min. blocktime)
2.  Since XCP is on the BTC blockchain, there's tons of politics holding-back innovation (whereas Drak and Peter Todd have complete control over the Viacoin protocol)

XCH developments in progress:
1.  ClearWallet notary
2.  ClearWallet escrow
3.  ClearWallet digital asset transfer
4.  ClearWallet Colored Coins transfer (i.e. "real life" physical asset transfer)
5.  CustodyChains - proof of ownership and receipt for transfer of assets

These are spelled-out in detail in my other posts, and Drak also made some recent posts about them as well.  Each one of these innovations is a substantive advancement in blockchain technology (i.e. VALUABLE innovations that do not exist right now).

It comes down to active development and MEANINGFUL development, and Drak and Peter Todd are simply creating tools that will dramatically empower the users as well as eliminate inefficient (and dramatically overpaid) middlemen. (read my previous quote from Andy Kessler on why and how this creates wealth)

To reiterate - Drak and Peter Todd understand the big picture - ClearWallet is not an "end in itself", but rather a "means to an end" to ensure Freedom, Liberty, and personal empowerment in the 21st century and digital age.  It's a TRUSTLESS system where you are empowered with the tools to do things on your own and aren't forced to use the tools provided by centralized systems: banks, online retailers, lawyers, notaries, patent offices, escrow services...etc.

Drak just gave a big update 2 days ago on the ClearingHouse tread (scroll to the bottom)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=734674.360

If you want to stay up to date on the entire Viacoin project, read both the VIA and XCH threads

Viacoin is the entire protocol...viacoin (lowercase) is the coin used to fuel the Viacoin protocol

ClearingHouse is a metaprotocol on-top-of Viacoin, and its token is XCH - used to create assets, Colored Coins, CustodyChains, notary, escrow, etc.

@EtherCoin  What browser are you using?  At first, some people said Firefox was the issue, but I use Firefox, and ClearWallet is actually working extremely well now with Firefox - I'm not having any of the error issues or any problems seeing the "buy side" order book. 

To be honest, ClearWallet even seems to be running quicker and more smoothly for me now.

The 1 thing that I did notice is that I can no longer access the "betting" feature as it says "it's not allowed in my country" (which is USA)...I certainly understand that Amerika is a mess, and the bastards from NYC will try to use the legal system to eliminate all competition. 

I'm very happy that the UK seems to be encouraging crypto innovation, AND now that Russia is attacking crypto, it seems that the UK will encourage it even more  

Drak, I'm just curious...what are the country restrictions for the betting features in ClearWallet (and what is your exact reasoning for this)?

P.S.  I 100% support this proactive move on your part

For mac users having wallet problems:

Firstly, before recommending a bunch of command line prompts that 8 out of 10 people have NO CLUE what they mean, let me explain it in simple terms so you don't delete something important!

1.  Open your old wallet that contains your pre-sale address.

2.  Click - File - Backup Wallet...

3.  It will ask you to save your wallet file.  I suggest saving it to several locations for safety (flash drive, desktop, etc.)

4.  Your saved "wallet.dat" file is the ONLY THING unique to your wallet...(close your old wallet)

5.  Right click on Finder - click - "Go to Folder" - type:     ~/Library

6.  Double click "Application Support" folder

7.  Delete the entire "Archcoin" folder (this is your old wallet) MAKE SURE YOUR wallet.dat file is already backed-up

8.  Now download the new wallet:   http://archcoin.co/wallets/archcoin-qt-osx.zip

9.  Open the new wallet, let it load, then CLOSE it (you'll see it has the wrong address)

10. Your new wallet replaced the folder you just deleted in Application Support

11. Repeat steps 5 and 6 and you'll see your new Archcoin folder in Application Support

12. Enter the Archcoin folder...delete the new "wallet.dat" file and replace it with your old one

13.  Now reopen your new Archcoin wallet and it will contain your correct wallet address


For BTCarchitect giving the Syscoin guys such a hard time...his mac wallet launch wasn't a whole lot better.

Viacoin (with Drak) was the only IPO that I ever had a good experience. 

I must say, Drak, that was a nice little touch inside of ClearWallet - your new banner that provides access to outside exchanges for XCH...Well done

It would be really cool if Mintpal-V2 eventually offers a XCH/BTC trading pair...I'm really excited to see their new platform!

Absolutely...if Bittrex, Cryptsy, and/or Mintpal-V2 want to add a XCH/BTC trading pair, they certainly can   It's entirely possible (if that's what you're asking), "when" they will is another question...