I've been daydreaming at work giving some thought to the question of just what this coin, in fact any coin, is for.

BitpopCoin does not fit the profile of your garden-variety pump-and-dumper. There are no extravagant promises to be fulfilled at some unknown future date. It has no gaudy baubles or shiny distractions, no promise of value through rarity with half a billion to be mined. The staking is quite inflationary at 7% too.

It is attractive for some of us simply because it has a dev with some credentials of trust and integrity, launched smoothly and has so far had an untroubled run. But what is it for?

What is any currency for?

To facilitate trade in goods and services, isn't it? Isn't that what BitpopCoin should proudly stand for?

Since there is already some infrastructure for BitCoin we should take advantage of that. To do so we should have an in-wallet trade facility so that users can convert BPC to BTC on-the-fly to trade with BTC-only merchants. That way we can become the gateway cryptocurrency for users, more prolific and more affordable than BTC, easy to use and a relatively low-risk, low-cost entry into the digital commerce arena. Traders in goods and services in the digital economy can then make it even simpler for new entrants by dealing direct in BPC, knowing they can convert to BTC in a moment through their own wallet and if they choose on to their local fiat currency by whatever means they currently do so.

For these reasons I think we should look at making the wallet a one-stop commerce gateway, even if we need to partner with exchanges or BitPay-type enterprises for the on-the-fly swap to BTC if required.

That's my 2¢.

The floor is open...

Thanks for responding.

Dark, Cloak and Super spring immediately to mind though, with maybe a sprinkling of Mammoth....

If I might ask, what's your proposed sidechain usage?

We are not in silence. We have to sleep!

Most of us are in Pacific time in the US. Look to see what time it is in California if we haven't posted in a few hours.

Also, we are active in IRC chats for exchanges, etc.

We will keep the community updated on progress.

Following is a quick draft of the plan, although we are loathe to make promises considering how promises plague so many coins these days.

First, the goal for Stealth Coin is what we call "government resistant" privacy protection. We've already mentioned the principle parts of our plan, but we repeat them here: Government resistant privacy protection has two facets: (1) block chain analysis resistance using plausible deniability cryptography and (2) network analysis resistance using Tor.

So where are we in our plans? Well, Tor is implemented and you are already using it, so Stealth Coin is currently resistant to network analysis.

For block chain analysis resistance, we already have a proof-of-concept codebase. So we know what the implementation will be and, more importantly, know that it works. Our goal now is to implement it on top of the Stealth Coin protocol. This is a little trickier than Tor was, admittedly, but certainly not impossible. In a worst-case scenario, we foresee the possibility that the current block chain structure may not be compatible with the new protocol. If this is not easily resolvable, we'll simply dispatch a new wallet and have some low-tech way for users to convert to the new block chain structure.

Please note that the lead developer is going to go on a 10 day retreat to work on integrating block chain analysis resistance into the Stealth Coin protocol, starting tomorrow. During this time, a general silence does not mean that the development team is stagnating. Rather, it means we have time to work on the code base. We will, however be very responsive to any problems that arise in the network, just as we have been already.

We understand the importance of interfacing with the community, especially here at bitcointalk, but it does take time from development, so please be understanding of this fact when our posts in the thread are infrequent.

Finally, we thank supporters, welcome criticism, and hope to deliver much stronger privacy protection in the coming weeks.

Mine is fine! are you using the latest version?

If you have a fully synced chain, please do not stop your wallet.

We have a fix for this problem. Our lead programming dev was off the grid all day and found out about the bug only about 1.5 hours ago. We are testing now and will release wallets as soon as they are built.

I uploaded the blk0001.dat and blkindex.dat. That's right?
Ignore DS_Store file. It's a file that OSX creates in all folders

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8hv2qvd7E66WjQzLWE4SUNzbjg/edit?usp=sharing

I do, but don't know how
can you explain?