Why is Tokes always in maintenance on Bittrex?

Tokes are getting a terrible beating.

Can someone please give me an invite to the slack discussion channel.

TY

What do you mean?

Why is the wallet on Cryptopia frozen? Where are the developers? Is this coin dead after V3 integration/swap?

jack19123 - Are you sending it to Cryptopia?

Mojocoin - Do you know why Cryptopia's wallet is in maintenance? It says that it is because of network issues.

CS - You have done all you could for this coin but if the community is not interested, then the believers are fighting a loosing battle. Moreover, if the exchanges are only interested in volume/profit, then it will be difficult to list on other exchanges. ANC needs new developers if it is to survive.

Does anybody know what the wallet is in 'maintenance' on Cryptopia. It says that they are 'checking for network issues'. Also, is it normal to take more than 24hs for a transfer?

It has been days since Livecoin support replied to my request. I keep contacting them to resolve my problem but they keep ignoring my tickets. I have coins locked supposedly leaving the exchange but in reality, they are still there locked. The wallet for the coin is working properly and transfers are happening as I write this post. The only thing I want are my coins released. This exchange is starting to look a bit dodgy!

Do you mean that Stealth was also threaten with delisting?

K1773R - I have tried 1 million ways to get to get to the IRC2p platform, but with no success. The only platform I am able to get to is http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#anoncoin on clearnet. Can you please help

It was posted on this thread June 04, 2017, 10:48:58 PM.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1481693.320

woogod - do you have much involvement with zcoin? This is what Cryptoslave wrote about Zcoin:

The zcoin implementation of zerocoin is done using a trusted source for accumulator namely RSA-2048. The RSA-2048 number was created by RSA Laboratories in March 1991 to encourage research into computational number theory and the practical difficulty of factoring large integers. It was thus created by a company incorporated in USA and this company is thus to be trusted to not have kept the original two prime factors. Because we cannot trust this company to not have kept the factors, it is to be assumed this company or employees can forge fake zcoins at will, which can be done easily when the factor are known. Furthermore they badly coded their zerocoin implementation with a typo that allowed to reuse spent zerocoin. Zcoin by this way in February suffered a heist of  370000 zcoin worth about 2600000$ now.

The Anoncoin implementation of zerocoin aim to use RSA-UFO as trustless accumulators. In contrast, RSA-2048 or a multiparty computation both involve different degrees of trust. In a similar way that what happened with zcoin, if some entity known the prime factors they can then generate infinite amount of zerocoin with fake Zero knowledge proof.

Hoppefully, Sander gave a way to generate semiprime number with a certain degree of certainty in a trustless way using an algorithm. Those numbers are called RSA-UFO for generalised RSA moduli of Unknown complete Factorisation. It is important to note that this work by Sander is superior to secure multiparty computation protocols. Indeed, if MPC are employed during system setup colluding member could recover P and Q and thus the problem of someone who known the trapdoor also remain in the distributed setting. In contrast nobody know the complete factorisation of the RSA-UFO thus the problem of trapdoor is resolved with this setup for the accumulator.

Gnosis implemented a function that on startup all Anoncoin wallet software deterministically generates the same 16 raw UFOs using SHA-256 hashing of the numbers 0-15. This being done, people from the Anoncoin community brute forced those numbers for 75 days using the Elliptic Curve Method of factorization to remove the small factors up to 165 bits. If the RSA-UFO bit length after division by small factors is lower than 3456, the RSA-UFO was unfit for the security level we wanted because it would have been possible to use the General Number Field Sieve (GNFS) to factor it. It was shown by Monte-Carlo simulation that with this minimum number of 3456 bits the RSA-UFO was unfactorable with a certainty of 80%. By using 13 such RSA-UFO, and with only one of them needed to be secure, and the zerocoin having to be accumulated in all of them, the probability of all of them to be unsecure is 0.2^13=0.0000000008192 ~ 1 out of 1 billion.

So the procedure to generate the complete RSA UFOs is 1) create the 13 "raw" UFOs by hashing, and 2) divide out the small factors found in the UFO project. This is performed not only by the UFO clients and server, but also will be performed on startup by all Anoncoin wallet software. This is the trustless way to zerocoin we want to finalize in Anoncoin. In this way, the security will resist extremely powerful attackers able to remove factors by the Elliptic Curve Method (ECM) up to 768 bits and able to factor numbers up to 2048 bits using the Generalized Number Field Sieve (GNFS). This is far beyond what anybody is likely to be able to do for many decades.

To summarize, the difference between zerocoin-in-Anoncoin and zerocoin-in-Zcoin is that the latter is using a trusted accumulator. For Zcoin and Zcash, even using MPC, no amount of studying the source code will tell you if the master key was destroyed as it's supposed to be. Nobody can be sure. In contrast, studying the source of Anoncoin (and relevant papers on the crypto, and the RSA-UFO wiki page) enables people to verify that there are no backdoors. This is why Anoncoin aim for using such a trustless solution. This, combined with the only implementation of I2P-SAM in the wallet of all coin, development of the C++ i2p router i2pd with orignal, and cooperation with services such as exchanged.i2p lead us to be the best trustless anonymous coin on the market.

It seems we have been rejected anyway. I am sure we are not going back there after Cryptoslave wasted 0.1btc applying to list there. We need another couple of exchanges though.

Anoncoin Development Team & Community Members


Development team

Meeh
Founder, Anoncoin Core Lead Developer

Meeh has strong beliefs that the Anoncoin project is a necessary step to take as the central banks are in motion to prevent trading of popular cryptocurrencies.

GroundRod
Anoncoin Core Lead Developer

GroundRod ported the Anoncoin Core codebase to the new 0.10 version and of updating the I2PSAM module to get the smoothest running build. He is very knowledgeable in computer code and testing software and has an extensive comprehension of the Anoncoin and Bitcoin code.

K1773R
Security, Developer

K1773R is a solid developer with security in mind. K1773R has worked on other cryptocurrency projects before joining the Anoncoin development team.

Gnosis
Cryptography, Zerocoin Developer

Gnosis has an in-depth understanding of cryptography and will be a valuable resource during our implementation of Zerocoin. He has successfully launched our testing phase of RSA-UFOs, which is a critical precursor to our trustless implementation of Zerocoin.

Orignal
I2P Networking, LibI2Pd Developer, AncI2Pd Developer

Orignal is the developer of LibI2Pd, and the original developer of I2Pd, a C++ based router for the I2P darknet. He is unremittingly working for the integration of the router into Anoncoin (AncI2pd project).

Mrebum
Themes Compatibility, QT's CSS Developer

Mrebum has a few decades as a programmer and engineer. He has ported the use of customizable qss stylesheet based themes for the QT wallet.

Lunokhod
Documentation, Project Manager

Lunokhod is responsible for overseeing the project, documentation, website and wiki. He brings with him several years of experience as the leader of a scientific research lab and as the editor-in-chief of a major scientific journal.

Cryptoslave
Testnet, Project Manager

Cryptoslave keeps track of development and is making sure issues reported are filled for further review. He dedicates his time to better the coin by communicating with the other members of the team and listening to the community.

Community members

Abyss
Creator of ExchangeD.i2p, the first anonymous cryptocurrency exchange.

Alacast
I'm just an enthusiast helping Anoncoin on my spare time...

BroTroxer
BroTroxer has extensive knowledge of the cryptocurrency markets, he shares the same beliefs as the dev team regarding the future of cryptocurrencies.

Geekz
Geekz is the web designer who is in charge of Ancblockchain, Anoncoin block explorer.

N00n
N00n is the graphic designer responsible for the Anoncoin brand identity.

I know, but he hasn't been active for a while. Maybe he is busy with with work or something.

Another message:

There was one person who was willing to invest 500 Anc last night "C". Even if all we do is bring interest and an increase in value for ANC it may pursuade other developers to join the development team. It maybe that a developer is only able to complete a partial section. This may keep them loyal to the project if they've contributed so much. If we just think of the crowd funding as PR it may not be the revenue generator.

The developers seemed refreshed with the idea of bringing in new blood. It seems like their stuck and they need a nudge into investing their efforts into it again after so long of stuck progress. The great thing is that tgey haven't been idle and have been focusing on projects around the coin itself to improve infrastructure,duch as i2p and the exchange

Here is the message he sent me with the discussion he had with the developers.

There were other developers that chatted but only one person would throw out a figure. That figure was $20k . This would not encourage existing developers as $300k is a walk in the park for these guys. So this $20k figure would attract new blood looking to make a name for themselves. They wanted to know more about Crowd funding, so if you could come up with a proposal, I will run it past them and copy the whole conversation. Please do not quote individuals as this was a private chat and I think it goes against the i2p terms to copy and paste, not sure as noone reads the T&C's?

I'll get back to you with more info but the guys appreciated  the work we're putting in. They were only aware of ICO's bringing in devlopers, they didn't thinnk of crowdfunding. I think it's genious thinking of this investment method.

I've told them I would want to make the first updates based on the crowdfunding. Giving frequent updates on crowdfunding figures.

Going to Bed now as too tired to carry on the chat. Annoying that most devlopers are active at rediculous hours.

Thanks


Just the last window of our chat:

<A> also C dont you remember meiers said gnosis idea with several smalller RSAUFO was not good
<B> W're probably looking at new blood trying to make a name for themselves?
<A> meiers say it is unsecure
<C> ah
<A> B, yep
<C> that is true
<C> being an underdog is difficult
<A> well I cannot judge, although the idea makes sense, the gnosis asumption
<A> if meiers say it is not good then maybe it is true
<A> so the dev has to be cryptographer
<C> gnosis just clearified
<A> again orignal invented stuff for i2p that people tried for years so I do not think gnosis was wrong
<C> cryptographers are hard to come by
<B> I think a crowdfund may bring various developers into the ANC arena. All of which may contribute, but may not all lead to zerocoin implenation. It's a win win
<C> B, how would you do a crowdfunder
<A> it makes sense if number are big enough to resist both factoring method and you use several and according to the paper it is y probabilit one fail and several is y^x and then probability all fail is inversely proportional it all makes sense
<B> That's Y's remit. We've delegated jobs. I'm the i2p guy who does the info gathering so he can do his bit
<A> but again meiers said no and I cannot prove it as I am no cryptographer
<A> only some cryptographer can say idea of gnosis was valid and decide to code it

I personally can only remember a member of the community having spoken to some developers on the i2p chatroom and being told how much it would cost to integrate the zerocoin protocol. That is the reason we came up with the idea of doing a crowdfunding project to raise the money. He was quoted $20k and some members of the community pledged some of their anoncoins to help fund the project. However, the price of ANC was much higher then than it is today.

I think we need first for Cryptoslave to post again so we can find out what we need next. When I return to the UK, I will try to go to the chatroom and ask some questions about zerocoin to the developers there. Maybe Cryptoslave will be there. I think they might be able to help. However, the community needs to discuss here what our goals are and suggest how we can move forward as a community.

The only major development ANC needs at the moment is the integration of the zerocoin protocol. Cryptoslave has updated the desktop and portable wallets and the network explorer. I2P is also working well, therefore, if zerocoin works, we could have one of the best anonymous coins in the market.