***The Unofficial XC Weekly Review***
Soon XC will add a new layer of privacy based on your XChat address.
XChat addresses are soon to be implemented as "stealth addresses" to which people can send payments.
This means that you'll receive payment on a different address that not even the sender knows.
As such, you can publicly display your XChat address as a kind of cryptographic "business card" for both payments and messages, without anything being linked to it on the blockchain!
Finally, combining this with Privacy Mode will conceal the amounts sent to this address.
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XC is very proud to launch its very own store!
Go ahead, buy yourselves TOR Sticks @
www.xcmerch.com- All orders are currently pre-orders with an estimate arrival date of late August for the first batch.
Product Description:
Portable privacy: The XC TOR Stick runs a secure XC wallet, connects to XC’s network via TOR, and makes your coins as portable as a credit card.
XCurrency is very proud to announce the XC TOR Stick, a milestone in digital privacy. It’s a fully featured Xnode “wallet” embodied in a flash drive that connects to the XC network over TOR for maximum privacy. With no installation required, it leaves no trace on the computer you use it on, and its ultra-portable form factor allows you to carry your XCurrency around as easily as a credit card.
XC is the current market leader in decentralised private cryptographic transactions, being the first project to deliver a working, scalable anonymous platform for digital transactions, communication and other “Blockchain 2.0” services. The XC TOR Stick enlarges this platform by adding several unique use-cases:
USE CASES
The XC TOR Stick is a fully featured app; it can stake coins or earn Xnode transaction fees when running. In keeping with XC’s flexible approach to design, it can run on any computer, and can be embodied in other flash drives, CDs, or a virtualised environment. And of course it is private, very private: not only do transactions leave no link between sender and receiver, but your IP address is not revealed, thanks to TOR.
• Insert it into any computer to make payments without installing anything.
• Unplug it, and none of your personal files or information remain on the computer.
• When unplugged it functions as cold storage for your coins.
• Keys can be imported into it, allowing it to function as a backup of your addresses.
• By existing outside of a computer it is protected against viruses.
• Make a safe copy of the private keys on it, and you won’t even lose funds if you lose your TOR stick.
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Some of the PR articles that were on various sites this week/weekend:
CryptoCoinNews Exclusive:
http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/news/xcurrency-begins-selling-highly-anticipated-xchat-tor-stick/2014/08/07Coinbuzz article on XChat!
http://www.coinbuzz.com/2014/08/10/new-secure-chat-client-based-bitcoin-blockchain-xchat/GadgtSpot.com: "XChat makes chatting online untraceable".
http://gadgtspot.com/2014/08/08/xchat-makes-chatting-online-untraceable/-----------------------------------------------------
TOR-STICK ISO Updated to XChat RC3
http://downloads.xc-official.com/release/xc-torstick/XCurrency_livecd_X86_v2.47h.isoFor those of you who don't want to wait, you can make your own XC Tor Stick using the above link and a flash drive.
