Hopefully trade volume will increase on SDC at Cryptsy now.  I noticed Monero is not on Cryptsy yet, and it was the most requested alt-coin on the coin votes.  Probably because its much harder to implement XMR.  I wonder if Cryptsy implements XMR, then they will maybe have the API's for cryptonote coins meaning they could accept Shadow deposits along side of SDC deposits.  I was thinking of the possibility of Shadow trading on its own currency pair, but I guess that may be confusing to newbs, and may fracture the market and reduce liquidity on the coin as well.

But how about it Mullick? Any chance to accept Shadow deposits alongside SDC deposits in the future, or offer Shadow withdrawals as well?  I guess not any time soon because its low priority.

Anyone know what the average amount of orphaned blocks should be when staking?  It seems I have been getting a lot of blocks generated/mined, but they aren't accepted.

I think the price is just because nobody much knows about Shadow yet.  It needs some press in the media.  People got burnt out on anon coins that had a lot of promises but never delivered.  I remember Coindesk had a piece a while ago on how darkcoin is the new king of alt-coins.  In my opinion SDC blows DRK out of the water, and DRK has like a 10 million market cap still.  Perhaps when the decentralized Shadow marketplace is up, it will get more attention.  Also since its around Christmas, its hard to get much attention.  Perhaps in the new year we will have more luck.

I haven't seen any alt-coins at all that have as nice of wallet as SDC, or devs that are obviously putting in HUGE amounts of work and effort.  These guys are obviously brilliant and very talented and dedicated.  I think if we build it they will come.  SDC has the best anon solution I have seen.  SDC is like the guy on the hockey team who has got all the tricks and the talent, he scores all the goals and sets up all the plays.  Hes got the smarts. He works harder than anyone else.  Yet its DRK, and XPY that get all the attention and credit and wear the C on their jersey.  Its unfair, but just trust in honor, dignity, and true value.  Its not about the money or fake hype for these devs, and that is why in the end SDC will prevail.  I hope these devs will keep at it, its only a matter of time before this project gets the attention it deserves.

So like OpenBazaar style?  Will it be anonymous?  Over Tor?

According to the roadmap on the sidebar http://www.reddit.com/r/ShadowCash, it says voice, video, and file support will be added in January.  After that it is to be announced.

So would Shadow Tokens (SDT) be considered a sidechain on top of SDC?  Or no?

Thanks that makes sense.  But I still wonder if having both the SDC/SDT existing has any additional purposes to those you listed.  It kind of seems like having both may increase the anonymity in some ways along with other possible benefits, but I am still trying to think it through more thoroughly.  But hopefully someone else can comment if this is so or not.

What is the deal with shadow to shadow transfers?  Are they linkable on the blockchain?  I think possibly one of the main benefits of the Shadow scheme for anonymity is not just the crypto stuff(although that's the foundation), but the fact that you don't have to change shadow back to SDC at any particular time.  Is this what makes it different from Monero?  Kind of seems like the blockchain and the SDC act kind of like an anchor for the shadow (SDT) to exist and be able to be spent and transferred. Any insight? I'm still trying to fully understand.  

People said that Satoshi's Bitcoin invention wasn't so great either.  They said the encryption and most of the schemes were already invented.  The brilliance of Satoshi however, was putting those pieces that were invented by others before him, together in a brilliant way that created a powerful incentive system.  I see what Shadow is doing as much similar.  Perhaps the developers borrowed and used techniques from those that came before, but what they have done is put those pieces together in a unique genius way.  It has the same essence and feel as Bitcoin does, and I like that.

Yeah I know, lol.  I plan to try it later but I was afraid of making a mistake losing some coins, so maybe need to make a fresh wallet.  I am still confused on how to account for Shadow compared to SDC in the wallet.  So once you convert to shadow, how do you know how much shadow you have and how do you select it to transfer back to SDC is what I have to figure out.

Edit: I guess for now you just remember what address you sent to and then use the coin control option?

I think you are right.  If you look on slide 7 here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yX2jN618Rnzs4g2ri_utdKdHbny6-xnRcPhOuhLNGB0/edit?pli=1#slide=id.g577a31a2a_3351


You will see that once Bob got the SDT, he could then send the SDT to carol without ever transferring the SDT back to SDC.  If true it would mean it would be much more private because you don't have to transfer the SDT back to SDC right away, you can send it around as well.  Seems pretty genius, but hopefully others can tell us better if this is truly how it works, because honestly I am still wrapping my head around it.  Afraid to try it out yet.

CoolStoryTeller posted a nice explanation earlier that might help.  Here it is: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yX2jN618Rnzs4g2ri_utdKdHbny6-xnRcPhOuhLNGB0/edit#slide=id.g577a31a2a_696

I think you have some good questions.  Wheatclove's answer sounds pretty good though.

A lot of the other so-called anonymous coins never felt right to me.  My gut tells me SDC is where its at, especially after this implementation. I was never impressed with coinjoin. Zero-knowledge is where its at. These devs are doing big things and have the right vision for the future.  Ryno seems like a super cool dude also.  I just hope the market will not be so stupid.  Paycoin seems like a scam, and has 80 million market cap right now, yet SDC only 500K, its insane.

This seems epic.  I wonder why ShadowCash is not getting much attention yet.  Seems like the price is way undervalued.

I saw that, but I was not able to change the value or save/apply it.  It just always reverts to zero.  I am usually only staking less than 10% of my coins, I believe they are all matured by now.  Is this normal? I want to stake 100%  Also any insight into what the minimum stake interval, or min/max ring size should be?  Also when it says staking, what does it mean by telling you your weight?  How is it factored?

Oh I see thanks. I am glad its normal then so I am not doing anything wrong.  The wallet client seems pretty impressive though.

How do you stake this coin properly?  I want to stake majority or all my coins, but the client always bounces around.  Sometimes none are being staked or only a small percentage of coins are being staked.  Is this normal?