When is the IOS chat app available in the itunes store?

Any update as to when the new Wallet will be released? 

A)
Vertcoin's stealth addresses are closed source.. Shadow authored ShadowSend's stealth code, it's own dual-key implementation not cloned from any coin. Unlinkable and untraceable are two separate things. Stealth Addresses help with unlinkablity (creation of addresses not linked to their main public key).

B)
Shadow isn't implementing zerocoin or zerocash, and I would hope that they(ZC devs) would be able to beat anyone trying to implement their idea (ZC). The underlying technology in zerocash is zk-SNARKs, this doesn't mean that Shadows devs are borrowing or cloning any of their code. Also, the current Zerocash blueprint isn't a final representation of their model, it dates back to May and Dec respectfully. zk-SNARKs was not invented by zerocash and has yet to be implemented into a cryptocurrency. Shadow's SNARKs implementation is it's own protocol. I initially thought coming into this project that it was a ZC implementation until Ryno corrected me in IRC and explained the differences in their method. That's when I got excited and started focusing this as my long-term crypto investment.

As for the reasoning behind zk-snarks and stealth addresses it is part of the ShadowSend protocol and you would need to speak with Ryno for a more detailed explanation of how they will be tied together.

C)
"Chat also has the problem that the sender and receiver need direct communication to exchange the secret. That's horribly limiting: "Hey Ted, we need to exchange some money, when are you available to do that?" At some point, the conversation has to be initiated on the private channel. So sender and recipient have to meet and exchange a secret to meet up on the channel. It defers the problem and so you still haven't solved it. Again. Chat, etc. become irrelevant because of this need to establish the private channel."

There has to be some medium of negotiations or communication outside of the actual transaction. Otherwise there would just be something like a smart contract binding both parties to the deal without there being a convo before hand or in the case of a crypto exchange where communication is irrelevant between buyer and sell.  The underlying concept of the ShadowChat is still the same: two addresses exchanging information. In a perfect world there wouldn't need to be a line of communication between parties, but unfortunately this isn't a perfect world and there is still an element of interaction in business relations i.e. shipping, transaction details, item questions, pseudo-invoicing, graphic design changes, etc. Negotiating a deal in a private room and exchanging information between two anonymous parties (ShadowChat) then using zk/sa to send funds(ShadowSend) leaves no trace of the transaction to outside parties, except the two involved. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's "irrelevant" because without a secure line of communication you rely solely on traditional means of communication: e-mail, chat, phone, forum posts.

This is the exact same concept that is applied on Craigslist, arguably the biggest grey (new and used items) and black market (stolen items, drugs, prostitution through code words which is a form of cryptography) on the net (also monitored the most), but in a more primitive manner. I have product A listed, you want to buy "A" from me. I list a method of contact: phone, e-mail, text. You use one of those lines of the communication to arrange the deal: time, price, date and location. The actual transaction is done with cash leaving no trace of the deal outside of the initial lines of communication or if the deal was under surveillance by the 3rd party.

In this sense you can look at ShadowChat is a method to replace those contact methods further reducing a potential man-in-the-middle attack. Leaving the actual transaction traceless (ShadowSend).

ShadowChat = Negotiations, Planning, Communication
ShadowSend = Exchange

D)

As far as "borrowing" the idea from ZC, almost all technology is borrowed from an originating source and credited. ZC (Ian Miers, Christina Garman, Matthew Green, Aviel D. Rubin) borrowed SNARKs from the original authors of the concept (http://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/archive/2011/CRYPTO/video/rump/1d53ee327ee49f4afdbac8ed3b013657.pdf). Shadow looked at ZC's proposal and thought of a better proposal completely different from ZC. It wouldn't be the first time that technology has been improved on by an outside source.

Feel free to hop on IRC devs are online pretty much 24/7 #shadowcoin

 The dev hasn't released anything fully yet except what there is in the current client and all the papers are around the internets to prove their implementation.
you can find  all the links you need fist page of this thread  

Nothing gets released until its ready and done a concept you are failing to find all through this thread somehow! When the features you are speaking of are released you will be able to find information on them and how they are implemented but the source will be on a delayed released.

I hope this satisfys you! And before you say the team is hyping i just want you to understand that the community asks for things and we asked for a roadmap it is the community here hyping the new features. And i disagree we shouldn't be but people cant seem to control themselves and end up with people like you asking questions and looking awfully confused which then negates some of the genuine legitimacy and wisdom the dev team possess.

So please forgive some of this community for hyping things they really don't need to be hyping and i hope you can look past the bullshit and understand the process here..

Im sure you are smart and can work out that the team is to be trusted and has a record to prove it and no one is forcing you to do anything but keep and open mind and take a better look without applying all of the garbage you may come carrying in with you! You look like a smart person i'm sure you can work out the difference!

Does Shadowcoin have anything earth-shattering on the way like the recent stealthcoin announcement?

New GUI, for people that weren't in IRC.  Shadow raising the bar once again.

Happy to be joining the Shadow Team! Watch this space for more updates in the near future !

Devs.
No update,No active.
Look like dead.
Only dump and dump.

Please take a look at the title of this thread and everyone stop using steathtext or stealthchat. Obviously Hondo was trying to get the point across to everyone exactly what the Android app will do. Anon(stealth) sending of the coins in your wallet at home from your phone using sms to make the transaction(tx) happen. At least that is how I understand it.
   
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You got a point there and not being able to change the code could be another reason it will be hard for it to become mainstream, Any way i'm thankfull for BTC because it has built the foundations for other great crypto's to rise up the ranks and that will happen much faster then BTC did, but anyways i wonder what else our dev has planned for shadow Blockchain 2.0, web 3.0 there is so many great things he could do with SDC anyone spoken to him about anything like this and have any idea if it's on the table?

This project has no limits. Mark my word

Research my name, all the coins ive been involved in have boomed.

Check it out. Darkcoin, XC, Cloak and now shadow! Keeping the best for last

~15M in circulation.  the biggest problem is not the whales who are still holding.  its the ones that will buy 10% or 20% of total CINNI and only intention is to dump when the price rises.  CINNI is basically at teh beginning again pricewise.

I'm still in and hope a suitable person can found to continue development.

I just started this thread because yes i invested but It seams like it's unheard of here! the thread is so quiet and i just don't understand it..
i mean in a bit over a month the Dev has got a shit load done, and from what i can see, all looks good all works good, if someone wanted to review the code or anything and dispute it, i would like to hear there opinion because my knowledge of code is very limited unlike a lot of people on this forum, but so far they have delivered, fast and it all works from what i can see, they have a lot of things in the future from what i have gatherd including a trust less version  of  zk-snarks.

The stealth code was sent to Peter Todd as stealth was his vision and SDC is the first open source stealth code using openssl.  I dont know if Todd has commented.