It's this kind of news that I see as a big deal. Not using payment processors, keeping the bitcoins.

http://www.coindesk.com/singapore-architecture-design-firm-accept-keep-bitcoins/

There was a theory floating about that said, using bitpay etc. actually does nothing for the bitcoin community, as it creates selling presure whenever a merchant accepts bitcoin as a means of payment, the btc is converted almost immediately into fiat.

It's forward thinking companies like the one in the article who will spearhead the second phase of merchant adoption. i.e. - keeping the bitcoins for B2B transactions.

BitMessage is anonymous but NOT secure. Add a layer of crypto to your messages and you may have a chance.

Less "moody" coin version.

http://bayimg.com/CaNIaAafO

And some fake 3D... Not sure

http://bayimg.com/CAnicAAfo

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https://github.com/blockchain/Sharedcoin it is written in JavaEE

Any idea why price of anc is dropping hard ?

Hi all!

Been a little afk from internet the past week, but back now!

Many has wondered and asked about whats Anoncoin going to do when v2 of zerocoin is released, if it's gonna affect it's development, etc etc etc. And it's not time effective to answer one at a time

I will write a blog entry about it, where I will answer where,what,when,why and hopefully the rest of w's :p

We're about to release a new site as well. I'll get back to you in short time! Also, I think Matthew is going to give a talk on Monday at New York City College, so I think I post the blog entry after that, in case he says anything that could become a question.

...there will be an option in Anoncoin to choose between types of payments...

There's also the Zerocoin that could be launched at any time right? They've decided to launch it as an alt coin. Once they do that Anoncoin will have some direct competition.

It sounds like he is implying a back door, but in another post he said "it's no one's business" which seems hard line enough to imply there is not a back door.  "Not to the public anyway" could also mean he does not expect their methods to be susceptible to common methods of discovery, but that he would not rule out the NSA or IRS from figuring methods out.  He is very much into the details of crypto and is NOT quick to say "no one can break this".

Since zerocoin is switching to be an independent cryptocurrency, are you just going to use the part of the open source code that you need?  They are being really quiet about what they are working on and I wonder why they are keeping it closed-source for apparently 2 or 3 months.

Is the new zerocoin going to somehow hide sender and receiver without Tor or I2P?

Here are the only comments I've found (from matthew green's November 16 - 20 twitters)

"Now I can pay you a specific amount directly in ZC, without revealing the amount or our IDs. (To the public anyway.)"

Sharedcoin transactions on blockchain.info lowered to 0.0001 BTC per repetition. On average 1.8 unique participants are joining in together each transaction, so over several repetitions there is a very good chance your transaction will be directly mixed with other users not just the sharedcoin server.


It's just for Sharedcoin transactions and not BIP32 yet but I hope that will be available soon.

How can this link still be your customer support section?

I'm fed up guys... Fix your transaction fee.

This is the last time you'll bugger a transaction for me. I'm not recommending your service again until you get it fixed. Sending without a transaction fee when the wallet profile is set to normal is not ok. You're the best option for new users on iPhones, so this needs to be a priority.

Peg the default transaction fee to $0.01 and everyone will be much happier. At the very least add an option to send the equivalent of $0.01 for every transaction.

I haven't read this thread, so I don't know how much of a steady whine this is...

Get it fixed before black friday and I'll donate 0.1 btc to the charity of your choice.

CoinJoin needs to be nicely implemented in Bitcoin-Qt before any of these ridiculous blacklist proposals take off. So for the next 30 days, I will match donations to the CoinJoin bounty fund (3M8XGFBKwkf7miBzpkU3x2DoWwAVrD1mhk), up to a maximum of 5 BTC. Just donate to that address, and in 30 days I'll donate the difference between the current received amount (16.21420773) and the received amount at that time (max 5 BTC).

Definitely interested and happily will become a patron of local SD shops that start accepting BTC.  Sign me up!  

Time for a fee reduction, no?

thanks for clearing that up maaku.

*tangent warning* blind signatures are amazing. some people talk about how the future will be saved from tyranny through peaceful parenting. others through the political system. some through revolution. but my money is on the efforts of people like yourself and gmaxwell. idk if you ever stop to think about this, but just the hand full of you guys working on these sorts of technologies might be responsible for saving the entire human species from extinction or worse. i know that sounds dramatic but i really think its hard to overstate the importance of this sort of research.