Zerocoin and DarkCoin is making a big deal about their anonymous transactions/coin mixers coming out that are in the works. Cool and all but...

Looks like this coin TiPS (aka FedoraCoin) already has a working version that is live since early this week. Like, it works flawlessly. Looks like this small operation beat all these big guys to the punch. Just a simple checkbox to anonymize your transaction. Check it out, worth a shot. The developers seem like they are doing good work, gravity well implemented as well. Seems like the community is having an indentity crisis with the logo and stuff though.

I really think this is a diamond hiding in a bunch of bad alt coin clones.

Heres their website:
http://fedoraco.in

Announcement thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=391192.0

Do you think coin mixing is going to bring good or bad things into the crypto-currency world? Think about it, anonymous transactions.

I personally think it's a great step towards privacy, however one could argue why do you need your transactions hidden unless you are doing something illegal.

I used the mixing feature in TIPS coin today and it seemed to work well, a slight delay over a normal transaction though.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=391192

What about DarkCoin? Seems they have not got it down yet but may have better anonymity then the TIPS coin and work faster.
http://www.darkcoin.io/

Will this be the new feature every coin starts implementing, like the gravity well. Is it worth investing in a coin that features this, will this skyrocket the price?

Discuss.

I want to setup a pool, using MPOS and all of that. I already have web hosting, and will have the actual website/user interface on the web hosting separate from the server.

What type of hardware is required to support 50 mh/s? or a 100 mh/s pool?

Do I need a dedicated server or VPS?

I have been mining scrypt based alt coins for a long time.

I have always wanted to setup a mining pool, just to learn and educate myself. I see with all of these crap coins coming out, I can probably just make a pool for some joke coin as it's not serious anyway.

Anyway, I have plenty of experience with linux, web stuff, etc... I actually used to optimize dedicated servers for web hosts at a small fee back in the day during the whole web hosting boom. I consider myself up to the task I guess.

I have read through the MPOS guide and it's very accurate, my only thing is the guide tells you how to setup for litecoin or bitcoin which is all great. How do I get it to point at some crazy crap coin that just came out?

Sure, I have a lot to learn. That's the whole point of it. Any suggestions, guides, whatever are appreciated.