All bounties on the wiki are still open!

To clarify: we are still looking for DNS seed nodes, as well as I2P seeders.

Anoncoin open bounties: SEED NODES

Anoncoin is looking for volunteers to help with seed nodes (clearnet, DNS, and i2p)

The normal clearnet seed nodes will be hardcoded into the software, and will be used by the client to reach the anoncoin network, especially in the case of a DNS failure. Given that these IP addresses (which must be static) will be hardcoded, the volunteer will need to run the Anoncoin client 24/7 for a long period of time.

Bounty: 5 ANC per IPv4 address (40-50 wanted)

We are also looking for volunteers to add their I2P public destination&b32-address to the source code as I2P seed nodes. These addresses must be static since they will be hard-coded in the software.

Bounty: 5 ANC per public destination&b32-address on I2P (5-10 wanted)

Finally, we are also looking for DNS seed nodes, which are a bit more complicated to run (see How to run a DNS seeder). For this, you must have an IP number that can be used for Anoncoin on port 53/UDP, and a domain name.

Bounty: 150 ANC per DNS Seed (2-3 wanted).

For more information, see the Anoncoin wiki. For additional questions, please contact myself, or better yet, K1773R. As always, the easiest way to get info is on the #anoncoin IRC channel.

Please send seednode info to myself by PM or by mail at lunokhod@i2pmail.org. The bounties will be paid out one month later to ensure that the seednodes are stable.

At Meeh's request, Cryptoslave and myself have joined the Anoncoin team as project managers. As you are all probably aware, the Anoncoin developers have full time jobs, and Meeh in particular has been having a hard time juggling his responsibilities at work, Anoncoin, and i2p. He has not been able to keep everyone in the community as informed as they should, and this will all change. Cryptoslave and I will bridge the gap between the development team and community, and we will provide much needed help in organizing certain aspects of the project. For myself, I have relevant experience as the head of a scientific research lab, so I think that I am up to the job.

We are not here to pump the coin, and ask that you judge both us and the developers based on the progress that is made, not the price of the coin. We are well aware that Anoncoin is at a low point in its history, and many (including myself) are disappointed with the missed deadlines, the problems with the difficulty algorithm, and the fact that many exchanges are not accepting deposits or withdrawals. We face an uphill battle, and it is easy to become disheartened when other so-called anonymous coins are seeing progress and adoption.

Despite the immediate difficulties we face, I still believe that Anoncoin has much to offer. To start with, it is the only coin that offers support of the i2p darknet. You have all seen the recent news of Tor darknet market places being raided by authorities, showing the need for incorporating i2p into digital currencies. Equally important, even if the Zerocoin deadlines proved to be overly optimistic, Anoncoin is still the only coin that has made progress on its implementation. Though other coins are claiming to be implementing Zerocoin as well, if you look closely, you will see that they have only copied the publicly available Zerocoin library into their code, and nothing else. But finally, all of the developers are committed to internet privacy issues, and are not in to cryptocurrencies to make money. Anyone who thinks otherwise just needs to look at the long term trend in the value of ANC...

I can assure you that progress is being made, and that both Gnosis and Meeh are working on fixing the most pressing issues (the difficulty algorithm, and an update to the bitcoin 0.9.3 base code). It is true that Meeh does not visit bitcointalk often, in part because of the rampant trolling and sock puppets, but he is on IRC, and that is where most of the core team members meet and discuss things. I would like to invite you all to join us on the #anoncoin irc channel, either via i2p, or by our new server irc.greyhat.no (port 6697). If you are really interested, ask us to invite you to join the developer channel as well. We are currently migrating the irc forums to greyhat (and leaving freenode) given the greater level of privacy that is offered (such as connections via ssl).

Our first priority will be to put together an Anoncoin development schedule, and the community will be able to use this to see the progress that is being made. We are tentatively planning on three releases, one to fix the immediate problems, a second to implement fully i2pd and other features, and third zerocoin. This will likely require 2 hard forks. We are also planning on rolling out a new forum as the trolling at bitcointalk is becoming annoying to everyone. I expect to share the development schedule with all of you in about a weeks' time.

Finally, I would like to remind you how you can keep informed on the Anoncoin project. The best sources of information concerning anoncoin:

• The #anoncoin IRC channel (and corresponding developer channel)
• The Anoncoin wiki
• The AnoncoinNews and AnoncoinProject twitter feeds.
• The Anoncoin reddit page
• and lastly, here.

Stay tuned...

Message from Meeh

Meeh has asked myself (lunokhod) and cryptoslave to take a more formal role in the Anoncoin project as project managers. This move is designed to give the other developers more time to concentrate on what they do best, all while bringing in extra help to aid in dealing with general organizational and PR issues.

We will provide a more detailed statement in the next 24 hours as to what this will mean in practice. You can rest assured that development is continuing and that the project has not been abandoned: If things were not moving forward, we would never have agreed to take on this responsibility!

https://sigterm.no/pastebin/?63f04c0fc2455287#RParhwYSXqDkdWVNbRCFTzWeYph6//uZWkTVY1tgTIk=

Yeah, I have to agree.

First Bluetrade, then Cryptsy, then CEX. I think that the verdict is in: the problem is with Anoncoin and not the exchanges.

The last Anoncoin release (based on bitcoin 0.8.6) was Dec. 24, 2013. Though there has been a lot of bull-shitting and promises made, nothing has been accomplished in almost a year. The code base was not kept up to date, and now we are at the mercy of those exploiting flaws that were fixed long ago in other coins.

Now, if this was just some software project, so be it. However, Anoncoin is supposed to be a cryptocurrency, and the current market cap is about half a million USD (it used to be, and should be, well over million). It doesn't matter whether you own a lot, or just a few coins: the lack of action from the lead developer is causing the value of whatever you own to plummet. On top of that, even if Anoncoin were a store of value, there is now little utility in holding ANC: you can not exchange it, and you can not transfer it with all the craziness in the network difficulty.

So, is the verdict that the Anoncoin experiment is a failure? Or will Meeh actually wake up and patch his sinking ship?

Thanks, I just upgraded to 0.8.8.4-release, and replaced all my wallet files with backed up versions. Everything synchs up fine, and my balance returned to what it was before.

However, now, when I try to make a transaction, I get this error message


and in the deamon, I get


The same thing happens if I use the official osx binaries, or if I install by brew. Any ideas?

I'm hoping that someone can help me with a transaction I sent, but that appears to have disappeared. This is my first ever transaction with monero, so perhaps I have done something stupid.

So, I sent some XMR to an exchange (poloniex) using the command


and I got the response


After almost three hours, it hasn't shown up at the exchange, and if I use the command


I get the response that there are no payments with that ID.

Yes, I refreshed the wallet, and the amount was debited from the balance of my wallet. I am using v.0.8.8.1.

Thanks for the help

Shadowcoin/shadow send is not 100% anonymous. Please discuss that coin on that thread. Not here.

Does anyone have a chart of the total number of ANC in circulation as a function of time?

I could be wrong, but I think that about 300,000 coins have been minted in the past couple months in relation to the difficulty algorithm problems. If that is true, we will burn through a million coins (1/3 of total supply) by the end of the year.

BLUETRADE IS REMOVING ANC FROM THEIR EXCHANGE.

From their webpage:

NOTICE: We're removing Anoncoin market on October 17. Withdraw your Anoncoins! | Possible #Anoncoin Bug Report. Please read: http://forum.bleutrade.com/index.php/topic,40.0.html

Here are some partial answers:

1. Not sure, but lets say that on an old system the times are 10 times slower: half a minute seems like a small price to pay for anonymity.

2. Zerocoin is in effect a mixing pool. However, the mixing pool contains everyone who ever bought a zerocoin. The size of this mixing pool will be many orders of magnitude larger than those used with other coins.

3. You are right about this example. I suspect that the wallet will have a check to make sure that the user doesn't do something stupid like that. Another potential problem is a timing analysis. If you buy some zerocoins, and then immediately redeem only a portion of them, this might look suspicious in the block chain. As far as i know, these are the only flaws with the zerocoin model: timing analysis, and minting/spending the exact same amount.

Yes. This has been rectified, there will be no bloat to the blockchain. The proofs are stored off the blockchain in a separate database that will be deleted periodically. You can read more about this here

Zerocoin

There have been problems recently with the hash rate going up and down by large factors when multipools join and leave. This is supposed to be fixed in an upcoming patch to the KGW algorithm that sets the difficulty. In fact, given that we are burning through 10 second blocks again, the current hash rate is likely from a multipool. About a month ago the hash rate was only a few GH/s.

If you find out the answer, please let us know. If this is a result of solo miners with scrypt asics, I don't know how you will ever find out who is responsible.

Hi RedZeppelin,

That message is from a new account with only 3 posts. Since you are new here, I would suggest that you simply ignore new users; over the past month we have been experiencing problems with trolls and sock puppets. If you didn't get the response you were looking for, it is probably because many of us now just assume that newcomers to this thread are here only for the purpose of causing problems.

The best place to get information is the anoncoin IRC channel. The devs respond within 24h (most of the time they are on line), and there is always someone there who is willing to help.

Also, as you have probably realized, the anoncoin community is very small. If you find the answers to your questions, you could help out by updating the wiki. Just PM me and I'll set you up with an account. Two pages you might want to work on are

Mining pools, and How to mine Anoncoin.

As I am not a big miner, these pages are in need of help!

Cheers,

Graphics are now working on the wiki (thanks Meeh!). Feel free to upload anything you want. Here is an example

Anoncoin press materials

Please be so kind to READ THE FAQ.

I wish that this were fixed as well. However, if the problem is Cryptsy, then investors should lose faith in them, not Anoncoin.

Everyone on this thread agrees that Cryptsy blows for reasons other than the stuck transactions. Have you ever dealt with their "customer services"? Have ever noticed the large number of scam coins they are dealing in?

K1773R claims that the problem is with Cryptsy, and that he is not interested in fixing their problems.

Hi Geekz, as we discussed on IRC as few weeks ago, the image upload is not working. When I try to upload an image, I get the following error:

Upload warning
Could not create directory "mwstore://local-backend/local-public/4/46".