Dark mainstream adoption is starting to happen? That's a good one! Funny!
To my knowledge we have 59 merchants accepting DRK. From VPS providers, VPN Providers to hardware stores, wine merchants, 3d printing services, a lawyer(!)Good thing too. Sounds like people using DRK are going to need one!  (sorry, couldn't resist  ) |
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It would be nice to get weekly/monthly updates here. This is the first place people look for information about coins, and not everyone is aware that there are lots of discussions about development going on in slack.
Yes, this is a good idea and we should try to get some more frequent updates going on the thread here. |
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I've gotten the impression for a long time from people who know a lot more about crypto than I that mixing in general is not a strong form of anonymity. And that given enough resources an attacker should be able to link the transactions and deanonymize the user.
Maybe the technology has improved over time though.
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Awhile back there was a scare among the community of dev's that big brother was looking into them and going to have a field day. Did anyone think for a second that these steps are legal precautions where every word may now be monitored and used against them in a court of law? Perhaps those letters did get mailed and this is a lawyers reaction?
I don't understand why they're doing this in the US. That seems like an extremely poor choice of venue for a project like this. Even if they try to do everything by the book I wouldn't be surprised if it's costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees. Ethereum moved to Switzerland I believe. There's probably quite a few good places in Asia that would be much better suited for this type of project I think. The cost/benefit to staying in the US seems off to me, but maybe there's something I'm not considering. |
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I think Bytecoin is pretty damn old and one of the first non Bitcoin fork coins. Too bad it was a premined scam, but luckly Monero saved the project and improved it.
Monero say they forked Bytecoin and don't have anything to do with Cryptonote consortium - I can't see anything earth shattering that Monero has added to Cryptonote. Apart from self-moderated hype, pump, dump repeat scam on BCT forum. I thought I read that they had done a large amount of refactoring the code and such. Plus they hired a bunch of independent researchers/cryptographers/mathematicians and such which is pretty good. |
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No. I want to keep myself as far as possible from jl777 scams.
LOL, I think jl777 already delivered a lot of amazing work to prove he is no scammer ... troll Could you give some examples of these "amazing work"? SuperNET Ramchains Telepathy Teleport InstantDEX https://github.com/jl777/libjl777As far as I can tell... None of this is actually functioning in a production environment yet... Oh, there is a SuperNET client, but I would be stunned if more than 50 people are running it. And it's a good thing you linked to a code library... Because the official InstantDEX thread has not seen a post from James in 142 days... Which is pretty much the case for the whole nxtVenture empire. https://nxtforum.org/nxtventures/The best source of centralized information appears to be the SuperNET newsletter. http://nxter.org/supernet-newsletter-14/I love this one, what a shocker!!! "Chancecoin’s lead developer, magician, seems to have disappeared." Production as in live final release and available for all? No not yet. Functional and being tested and worked on everyday? Yes. The question was for examples of his work and all of those projects are all in the advanced stages of development. jl777 has been posting technical updates regarding InstantDEX daily in the SuperNET thread on here. An old thread that's not active doesn't really say much. You seem to have a pretty bad impression of things, not sure why. Looking at the NXTVenture forum posts I can see that pretty much every post there is a very active project. |
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No. I want to keep myself as far as possible from jl777 scams.
LOL, I think jl777 already delivered a lot of amazing work to prove he is no scammer ... troll Could you give some examples of these "amazing work"? SuperNET Ramchains Telepathy Teleport InstantDEX https://github.com/jl777/libjl777 |
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Yes, when there is a GUI ready for it.
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I think Bytecoin is pretty damn old and one of the first non Bitcoin fork coins. Too bad it was a premined scam, but luckly Monero saved the project and improved it.
There was an old alt called Bytecoin that was started by Maria a few years ago but it has nothing to do with the Bytecoin that we know today which was started in 2014. The original Bytecoin was just a fork of Bitcoin with nothing special going for it. |
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still doing nothing these guys are biggest scammers always pumping there coin by saying things and then nothing for weeeks
Things take time. And the Game Payments Platform is important for lots of different projects. Not just GMC. yeah they take time so why say anything untill they are ready they have pumped it like 3 times and still nothing So now you'd prefer no updates? I get the impression that no matter what happens you'll find a way to frame it negatively. |
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still doing nothing these guys are biggest scammers always pumping there coin by saying things and then nothing for weeeks
Things take time. And the Game Payments Platform is important for lots of different projects. Not just GMC. |
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The thing is that NXT itself didn't benefit from the 'NXT millionaires'. The whole altcurrency space did however by attracting a bunch of dreamers and scammers trying to recreate what happened with NXT. While NXT itself continues to be ignored by many even though it was probably the fairest IPO out them all(two months, capped buys ect). |
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if increase in price continues with the buy ups that are happening network may correct itself beforehand, or at least network speed increase to get five blocks a day ...
It would be ironic if the price rise was due to the proposed algo switching and the price rise itself actually made the switch unnecessary. |
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One of the last threads I read here Stan spoke about how all the devs were getting alpha-geek Google style salaries until recently. That doesn't exactly make me picture "broke-ass" devs.
Also, I think the whole 'NXT millionaires' thing has probably done more harm than good and has given people a skewed perception of NXT. NXT's reputation as a poorly distributed currency doesn't really seem to connect with the reality in my experience thus far. And a lot of people seemingly dismiss NXT outright based on that skewed perception of a very poorly distributed currency.
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At least one core-dev is still furious about the swatting, Jeff still claims NXT is a "scamcoin" as is opinion shared by many core-devs towards many other alts, Regardless of what promise and innovation they may bring.
That hissy fit by Jeff was ridiculous and made me lose a lot of respect for him. He's still doing a lot of good work from what I can tell but that twitter tirade was embarrassing for him. |
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Don't know who this ginger dude is but he's mad as hell at the developments
What kind of a Bitcoin Maximalist are you if you don't know who gmaxwell is? |
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^ There is a debate going on currently whether DRK should move its whole network under tor (or i2p) - apparently that would mean pools as well then. Problem is I guess, that people would need to install tor separately, unless it is possible (does the license allow it? other problems?) to include tor client within the wallet itself so the users don't even have to know it's running under tor.
Monero is working on i2p implementation from what I understand. Bitcoin Core already includes Tor and has forever so I'd assume there's no licencing issues. The problem is that a lot of people aren't very confident about Tor these days. Network level anonymity is important though for sure. Whether it's through Telepathy, i2p, or some other proprietary solution. I thought I remembered a while ago reading that DRK was working on their own verison of Tor or something like that with the masternodes. What happened to that? |
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A better comparison would probably be DRK vs BBR (Boolberry) Darkcoin provides a reasonable solution for making anonymous transactions. Boolberry has the best CryptoNote implementation to date, ihmo. Let me sum this up for you.
The technology behind cryptonote obliterates darkcoin. It's mathematically provable, it doesn't have random nodes that mostly exist in the amazon cloud to mix shit.
Monero cons
Original authors are scam artists so other devs have taken it over (for XMR)
Low market cap
Mostly held up by bitcoin whales who have no experience in altcoins
Not enough money to fund development (devs are using their own money). Probably will run out at some point and project will die.
Kinda fubar'd emission
Dark cons
Massive premine
Alternated emission curve to jack price up (make early guys rich on shoulders of late guys after the fact). Use of node required funding to prop price up.
Spaghetti code
Hypeish name that attracts the wrong crowd
Project will die as soon as devs don't have more coins to unload on a market they create by releasing features. Even if that isn't the case, changing emission curve as dramatically as it was PLUS the massive instamine will kill it longterm.
This I think is a very accurate description of the cons. I think the underlying theme is they are both bullshit and better can be done. In terms of 'true' anonymity no coin offers this at present. It is one thing to be able to make anonymous and obfuscated transactions, however the main issues still to be solved are that of acquisition / ownership and traffic analysis. - The originator of an 'anonymous' transaction is perhaps much less likely to be identified by tracing a transaction. For example, researching individuals who are mining (or mined) coins in clear net mining pools or who brought and exchanged coins using a 3rd party service makes for a much easier starting point. In fact, simply running an 'anonymous' coins client wallet would most likely flag an individual in a sub-set in terms of the meta data alone. A truly 'anonymous' coin would need to offer PoW pool mining through Tor (or a similar trusted anonymity network), with a strong focus on decentralization, from the get-go. Stealthcoin is a good example of a coin that protects its users from traffic analysis using Tor. However, PoW mining is still a much better way to secure a network in terms of user based anonymity and privacy. Bitcoin actually offered good anonymity when it was first released and users could mine solo in the wallet, without pools. Creating 'truly anonymous' digital cash is not an easy task. Privacy, Security, Anonymity and Trust. Pick any 3.This is what SuperNET is trying to achieve with BBR. |
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Ah-ha....and I thought I was having sync issues with my shiny new BTM wallet.
Just to check: what is the last processed block that you guys are seeing?
I'm on 46553, which was 10 hours ago.
http://bitmark.co:3000/ says 46554 just came an hour ago, so that sounds about right. We're working on some things to help fix the issue, but the slow blocks give us advantage of supply being more or less halted while demand is low. It would be easy to just hard fork to fix it, but then we would be flooded with supply in the short term. So better to wait it out for now while things continue to develop. |
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