No, my account has had ~1000 in for weeks now. There haven't been any significant transfers for a while.

Thanks! But mine shows a balance ~90 BTCD lower than it should be. Any ideas why?

That is something that's being worked on, I believe. Hopefully there will be more soon.
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Fresh board, just got started.
I've been sidetracked by writing up James' thoughts on anon communication. I'd really love for people to pitch in and leave their thoughts on the API in those threads. It would make my job a lot faster/easier, and there is a 1000 BTCD bounty if you can break the API. Just play with it, jot down any notes, and see what damage you can do

What's going on is that I've finally had enough of people seeing BTCD crash on very low volumes and am sending some cash to Poloniex to pick up some more. Thanks!

You would gain more respect for your views if you had the guts to use your real handle.
Though not much more.

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Updates as well as layperson's explanations of the tech will be included to the extent that is possible. (Unfortunately, James has a bad habit of adding functionality faster than we can understand it, let alone create documentation.)

Now here I'm a little hazy. I think you may not have to, but BTCD will be involved at some point along the way. So although you may not directly own any yourself, if you want to send BTC anonymously, it will go through a BTCD transaction, and will have a fee attached too.

Who'd have thought it would have ended like this? They seemed like such a legitimate business. And offering such believable returns with complete transparency, too.
I guess they just got really unlucky when they were trying to satisfy their over-demanding customers with the audit, right?
Face. Palm.

In order to send money anonymously, you must own BTCD - even if temporarily.
So must everyone else. So there will be demand for BTCD. The same could be said of gold - some people like to transact in it or use it store value. Maybe not you, but if you think more of those people are going to exist, then maybe there's a case for getting some.
Then you have the 5% stake, and the SuperNET dividends going to BTCD, which are separate from the SuperNET dividends going to holders of SuperNET.

Right. There is some super-cool stuff (no pun intended this time) going on behind the scenes, as anyone able to get even the gist of James' coding updates will realise. I'm pretty sure that no system like this privacy network exists anywhere in crypto, and possibly anywhere, full stop - feel free to comment if you know more about what's out there. (One of the reasons I suspect this is because James, possibly as a punishment for something unpleasant I did to him in a previous life, has asked me to write up his new ideas on sending messages anonymously. This breaks new ground - it's like sending someone a letter without knowing their name or address. This anonymity will be built into BTCD's communications, within the client.) Anyway.

There remains some ongoing confusion over the relationship between BTCD and SuperNET, as well as the overall development process, timetable and so on. That's understandable, and is mainly just a result of the decentralisation on which all crypto is based; decentralisation has its cons as well as pros. In any case, it's worth addressing to the extent that is possible, especially in the light of recent price slides. These could be due to any number of reasons unrelated to the progress of the tech and as far as I am concerned are no big deal, but it gives trolls a foothold to spread their FUD within the community and cause various problems. The best lies, after all, are close to the truth.

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BTCD and SuperNET

Analogies are often more powerful than explanations. Imagine a new country, spread out in front of you. Scattered around the landscape is everything you might need or want. Stores, selling anything you could ever hope to buy. Casinos and other entertainment centres. Exchanges, financial services and trading posts. News and information outlets. These are like the services offered by SuperNET. Incredibly, though the cryptocurrency world offers so many remarkable businesses, no one has thought to link them together before. They are just a set of isolated organisations, either competing with each other or just operating independently.

BTCD is the highway that connects everything. The infrastructure it provides will enable communication between you and all of the different services, through what it shaping up to be one of the most secure communication links ever developed. It’s like a network of roads, tunnels and bridges that enables you to go anywhere and do anything.

To complete the analogy, NXT is the sophisticated engine that gets you around this network of roads and the services you can find there. It’s a 2.0 car that’s designed to do far more than drive from A to B. NXT doesn’t just allow you to transact; it houses the Asset Exchange and many of the other services that will allow you to interact meaningfully with others on your way around SuperNET - the whole Super Network of integrated coins and services.

So how might it look in practice? (Thanks to mackowski for this concept)

You’ll need the new BTCD wallet that longzai is working on to access SuperNET. The good news is, that’s it: everything is housed inside it. That’s the whole point of SuperNET - unity.

You’ll click a tab in the BTCD client and it will open SuperNET. From there, you’ll directly be able to access SuperNET’s functionality. You can send cash anonymously, using Teleport (James’ new anonymity protocol). If you’re particularly concerned about privacy, you can pass it through a Boolberry exchange first to make absolutely sure, layering Teleport with BBR’s ring signature technology. Perhaps you play neoDice for a while - that will be built into the client. You check your portfolio of assets, which include SuperNET itself; you’ve been paid dividends, which include both NXT and shares in a new company that has recently joined SuperNET.

You may want to exchange some NXT for BTC, which you can do through the peer-to-peer instant exchange, InstantDEX. Maybe you also need some to spend in the real world, so you cash some coins out to your SuperNET card - the anon card offered by Coinomat. Then you decide to browse FreeMarket for a while to see whether anything interesting is for sale. Lastly, you message a friend about a joint project you’re working on. All of this happens completely securely, because privacy is built into every transaction that takes place with BTCD.

Makes sense. Perfect for cold storage, and no back door.

Sorry...

It's also an uncapped ipo. Interesting to see how this works out for them.

And CannabisCoin has described a textbook bubble formation. Who'd have thought?

Teleport is referring specifically to funds: anon transfer. Telepathy is the whole system of anon communication.
I suppose it's a bit like the difference between 'give' and 'talk' (caveat simplification).

My next crypto paycheque is going straight into BTCD at these silly, silly low prices. 5% nxtPrivacy income, staking income, SuperNET market: what sense does selling make?!

Let us not raise objections about what something may or may not be called when the big picture is that things are moving forwards in a very promising direction.

I am not a project manager, so please do not go thinking I am PRINCE2 or Agile qualified or anything like that. (I cannot begin to tell you how bad a move that would be.) However, as a relative newcomer to BTCD - I think it was July - I feel I have earned the right to ask some stupid questions:

Who is working on the GUI? Is it funded? Is there an ETA? Is there anything you need to help you?

Who is currently testing the API? This doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CGUgDAhimVhz7aHAnITeZGr2S4RiZPzF2LYZIWGbJ1E/edit gives installation instructions. There is more on the SuperNET forums and Slack channels for those who are interested. Please pitch in. This is really important if you want to see progress. What is stopping people from getting involved in this?

What are the current bottlenecks to completion?

I am no kind of community organiser. But perhaps we can start asking the right questions of the right people, showing them some appreciation and giving them some incentive to complete their work. Perhaps it is not a coincidence that the current price of 1 BTCD is about the same as a beer or a latte (in the US; in the UK, where quality and taxes are higher, it is 2 BTCD). People will also know where to volunteer if there are gaps.

This is pretty cool
Today I happened to read this article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29567782
in which the head of Europol's Cybercrime Centre says, "There is confusion among the good guys on the internet between anonymity and privacy. I don't think they are the same. I think that you have right to privacy but that doesn't mean that you have the right to anonymity."

The increasing trend towards greater encryption of online communications is not acceptable, he said.

"Imagine in the physical world if you were not able to open the trunk of a car if you had a suspicion that there were weapons or drugs inside... we would never accept this.

"I think that should also count for the digital world. I hate to talk about backdoors but there has to be a possibility for law enforcement, if they are authorised, to look inside at what you are hiding in your online world."