As you've pointed out there isn't a whole lot of useful marketing that can really take place on this forum.

What version of boost you use isn't that important as long as it is not 1.54, which had a bug. At one time (maybe still) 1.54 was the default version in some popular Linux distros so the install instructions specify 1.55.  Anything newer is okay too. That should be updated in the README.

<mixin> is optional, and you will get a reasonable default, so you can just


Seems difficult huh?

Good news!

Our friends over at Monero (moneromooo in particular) have figured out how to use Tor with Cryptonote coins using the torsocks wrapper, so you can enjoy using AEON with Tor-protected anonymity at the network level.

1. Make sure you are running a Tor demon. With Ubuntu Linux you can just apt-get install tor and you'll be all set

2. torsocks aeond --p2p-bind-ip 127.0.0.1 --hide-my-port

In the case of Monero there are some issues with DNS being blocked and required some code changes, but AEON does not use DNS, so we don't have to worry about that issue at all.

There is one message (harmless) that gets reported during IGD (UPnP) setup, but that can be ignored. I added a --no-igd option in github, so you can use that to get rid of the message if you build from the latest source, but it isn't really necessary.

Depending on the version of torsocks you have installed, you may get some messages about missing symbols. Those can also be ignored.

There is probably a way to do something similar on Windows, but I don't know it. Anyone?

No, other than the implicit ability of stakeholders to soft fork or maybe hard fork. It doesn't have a voting or budget system like Dash.

Actually now that I think about it, the ability of stakeholders to hard fork in PoS is pretty clear. That's another way the consensus of PoS is absolutely weaker than PoW.

Somewhat true but remember "money laundering" is expansive and includes transmission of money that is the proceeds of fraud or to facilitate fraud. As such Fincen's scope reaches anti-fraud and consumer protection, often in cooperation with other agencies.

Was certainly very common in 2014 though. If it happens enough times to enough coins you can't really consider it a glitch.

The orders are really tiny and would take a long time to even take out one ask order. Other than creating a slightly misleading tape (for people who merely look at last tick direction without paying attention to the volume) it doesn't really drive up the market.

Updated. One full month now, staking return has been 3.27%.

To be fair you replied to a table that included SDC. That is also off topic on this thread. No reason to go even more off topic though.

In that case, the system doesn't work at all, because it doesn't enforce consensus. You might as well have "the community" record everyone's holdings on a spreadsheet.

Also, attacking via 50% doesn't necessarily require "buying up" anything. It could be (at least in part) having hacked an exchange or other large holder, or having accumulated stake through borrowing. The same with PoW (compromising a large pool for example), except that it isn't permanent.

Maybe, but dooglas has said that he won't use his position as admin of JD to impose control over the network. He has implemented a system for JD investors to decide on their own share of clamour blocks and presumably would do so for fork voting as well.

1. Monero has released many more than one "white paper". There is one formal research paper (ringCT) but at least 4 other MRL reports and some other documents.

2. Bitshares is off topic on this thread. PoS isn't entirely off topic since Dash's masternodes are a form of PoS (even more so in evolution since masternodes/stake will verify transactions).


It is absolutely correct. Once you control a PoS coin, you control it forever at no additional (significant) cost. How can anyone else ever take control away from you since you control staking and the only way anyone else can get stake is by buying it from you? No one can and you don't need to continue expending resources (mining) to retain control as you do with PoW.

Why? Zerocoin (note this is zeroCOIN not zeroCASH) was developed years ago and well-discussed by experts (and generally rejected as a poor approach) already on this forum and elsewhere. Just because some pump-and-dumpers recycle their zerovert scam into a new ICO coin they are trying to hype, why would developers care about that?

Certainly very interesting.

It has been a tough crypto market the last few years but Monero has held up nicely.

Yes as I said earlier some community member did that. I use community member broadly since I have no idea who it is nor their intentions.

EDIT: earlier comment was on reddit. To clarify here, @aeoncoin is the official twitter. @aeoncurrency is "someone" independent (I don't know who)

Those very early prices were pretty meaningless. The float was tiny and the volatility massive. The highest prices were achieved during the "mintpal pump" which was based on the rather (or, rather, very) questionable premise that trading on that now-defunct exchange would somehow make the coin worth more, when it was already trading on other at least two other major exchanges. (I can see the first or second exchange being worth something, but not the third).

Now even putting that aside, there is a bit of a downtrend, though market cap has remained fairly steady (less than 20% below ATH in fact). The market has accepted all the new coins, but only at a lower price per coin. Maybe that isn't great but it is respectable.

Castles are so 2014 Bitcoin.

Maybe a space station would be fun.

Did you lose the editable version of the white paper?

Good points. It is easy to forget how tiny this crypto economy really is, including Bitcoin.