[ANN][ANC] Anoncoin (anoncoin.net) | Privacy-centric currency | I2P darknet

[Cryptoslave]

ANONCOIN 0.9.6.13

Anoncoin Core & PurpleI2P present:

ANCI2Pd 1.0.13.0 - Anoncoin & I2Pd bundle - 13 june 2017

The first stand-alone cryptocurrency and C++ I2Pd router bundle!

Featuring the latest version of Anoncoin 0.9.6.13 & i2pd 2.14.0

Easy to install, easy to use, your IP address is completely obfuscated by the I2P integration!

Recent deanonymization attacks that exploit weaknesses in the Bitcoin peer-to-peer (P2P) networking protocols are impossible for Anoncoin thanks to the I2P traffic routing.

Enjoy!

To install, just execute the self-extracting file, go in the chosen folder and then execute StartANCI2PdPortable.exe



ANCI2Pd 1.0.13.0 Windows version (32 bits) only:
https://github.com/Anoncoin/anoncoin/releases/tag/1.0.13.0


https://github.com/Anoncoin/anoncoin
https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd

Special thanks to Orignal, R4SAS, Omen and all contributors from i2pd team and irc2p ru channel


For those who prefer the full installer over the anci2pd bundle:

Anoncoin 0.9.6.13 Setup for win32 and win64:
https://github.com/Anoncoin/anoncoin/releases/tag/5e441d8

[Cryptoslave]

ANONCOIN 0.9.6.12

ANONCOIN NEW VERSION 0.9.6.12 RELEASED - 12 OCTOBER 2016 - HARDFORK @ BLOCK 585555

We announce the official release of the new master based on Anoncoin 0.9.6.12.

This new version (v0.9.6.12-3fd47af) is an obligatory update of Anoncoin with an HARDFORK @ block 585555

Featured changes in this version are the following:

Difficulty algorithm tuned:
- PID tuning to make diff adjustment less aggressive:
      NMAXDIFFINCREASE "200" -> 150 (less difficulty increase, to avoid huge spike in diff)
      NMAXDIFFDECREASE "170" -> 130 (less difficulty decrease, to avoid lots of easy mined block)
      DMININTEGRATOR 170 -> 176 (less difficulty increase on long term because it is not needed as testnet showed)
      DMAXINTEGRATOR 190 -> 195 (more difficulty decrease as we have seen multipool jumping on/off in long term slow the blockchain)
      WEIGHTEDAVGTIPBLOCKS_UP 4 -> 9 (taking more blocks into the average up slow down diff increase and avoid huge spike in diff)
      WEIGHTEDAVGTIPBLOCKS_DOWN 6 -> 20 (taking much more blocks into the average down slow down the difficulty decrease and hence avoid too many easy blocks in a row)
      PID_PROPORTIONALGAIN 1.7 -> 1.6 (reduce aggressiveness of proportional term)
      PID_INTEGRATORTIME 172800 -> 129600 (integral term of 1.5 day to adjust quickly to abnormal number of emitted block)
      PID_INTEGRATORGAIN 5 -> 8 (the integral term now has more weight in the difficulty calculation, the ranges are respectively of (180-176)*8=32 vs 50 for difficulty going up and of (195-180)*8=120 vs 50 for difficulty going down. So compared to the previous settings, the difficulty can adjust more readily to a slow blockchain to achieve 180 sec avg per block.)
     PID_DERIVATIVEGAIN 0 -> 3 (adjust quickly to change of block time ie at apex of difficulty it will drop quicker, and at lowest turn up quicker)

- Auto-adjustment of difficulty via getblocktemplate to a low one if no block is found in 30 minutes

- The difficulty is now expressed again into a positive >1 number, because people and services complained of 0-1 range

- Blockchain synchronization issues fix (in case no block is found for a long time because of miner exodus, mining will be allowed up to one week old unsynchronized chain)

- Bug because of toolchain build of protobuf solved


Old version featured the following:

- Full I2P-SAM support
- An upgraded to bitcoin 0.10.99 code
- Many excellent improvements such as for instance header-first synchronisation, leading to much quicker I2P synchronisation and block download
- Deterministic fork selection
- A rewritten communication protocol (I2P and clearnet)
- No more using IRC for synching peers
- Anoncoin's test network (testnet) and regression test mode (regtest) available
- A new Kimoto Gravity Well v 2.0 using curves that is much quicker to calculate (it will be useful only for blocks before the hardfork and for first synching as KGW will be obsoleted by PID)
- A second new innovative difficulty algo "GroundRod RetargetPID" using a PID (Proportional - Integral - Derivative) controller, that will be enforced at block 555555 as the new difficulty retargetting system
- Real hashes calculation and not pseudo difficulty (we will be the only Scrypt coin to use true hashes in calculus of difficulty)
- Multisig Anoncoin address
- An improved mining through I2P only, to go forward a fully I2P darknet coin
- Themes support in anoncoin-qtt (currently for Win32, OS-X and linux, not for win64)
- SAM support ported to 0.10.99 and working with both Java and C++ implementation of I2P (Orignal's i2pd, LibI2Pd)
- New I2P and DNS seednodes
- Headless building with toolchain
- New alert key management
- Auto generation of I2P addresses provided the java I2P router is configured with default options during setup
- Bug fixes

Every Anoncoin user shall update to this 9.6.12 version ASAP. This is a mandatory upgrade, as after block 585555 the old peers will be disconnected. The version 9.6.11 will be obsolete when the HARDFORK block 585555 will be mined. This will occur the 27 October or in about 2 weeks.

To update to the new version (v0.9.6.12-3fd47af), simply rebuild master following this guide:
To build from source: https://wiki.anoncoin.net/How_to_build_Anoncoin_from_source

Windows build are available here:
https://github.com/Anoncoin/anoncoin/releases/tag/v0.9.6.12

https://github.com/Anoncoin/anoncoin/releases/download/v0.9.6.12/anoncoin-0.9.6.12-win64-setup.exe
anoncoin-0.9.6.12-win64-setup.exe Checksum: MD5 AC0B96AB335BE6E7E78B7D325AF4EBB3 SHA-1 DDB9A4BF777A870D874D872FCB381EF05FBF5E38

https://github.com/Anoncoin/anoncoin/releases/download/v0.9.6.12/anoncoin-0.9.6.12-win32-setup.exe
anoncoin-0.9.6.12-win32-setup.exe Checksum: MD5 564AE5FAC81FC550389071FB9C2BF927 SHA-1 7F7A9E2C303682EA9056DA55136D25C391BE3873

CS

About Anoncoin:
 
- Launch date: June 6, 2013.
- Type: Proof of work with Scrypt hashing algorithm.
- Total coin supply: 3,103,954 ANC.
- Block target speed: 3 minutes (before block 87777, it was every 3.42 minutes)
- Block difficulty retargeting:
        Block 555555 upward: GroundRod Retarget PID - retarget every block using Proportional-Integrative-Derivative developed in house by GroundRod algorithm
        Block 555554-87777: Kimoto Gravity Well - retarget every block
        Block 87777-1: ~1680 blocks using classic BTC algorithm
- Premine: 1000 blocks (4200 ANC) that were returned to the community by community donations and a public faucet.
- Anonymity: Built in support of I2P and Tor. Zerocoin to be implemented in a future release.
- Current block reward: 2.5 ANC per block.
- Block reward schedule: 4.2 ANC for blocks until 42,000; 7 ANC until block 77,777; a 10 ANC bonus block for 77778; 5 ANC until block 306,600; and then halving of block rewards every 306,600 blocks (approximately every 638 days).

Official windows and OSX builds: https://github.com/Anoncoin/anoncoin/releases/tag/v0.9.6.12
anoncoin-0.9.6.12-win64-setup.exe Checksum: MD5 AC0B96AB335BE6E7E78B7D325AF4EBB3 SHA-1 DDB9A4BF777A870D874D872FCB381EF05FBF5E38
anoncoin-0.9.6.12-win32-setup.exe Checksum: MD5 564AE5FAC81FC550389071FB9C2BF927 SHA-1 7F7A9E2C303682EA9056DA55136D25C391BE3873

To build from source: https://wiki.anoncoin.net/How_to_build_Anoncoin_from_source

Exchanges:

Clearnet:
Nova Exchange ANC/BTC. correct chain!


Darknet:
Exchanged.I2P (link needs I2P client). First Ever Darknet CryptoCurrency Exchange. Trade altcoins anonymously. ANC/BTC.
Clearnet proxy link correct chain!
Tor correct chain!
I2p correct chain!
Bitcointalk thread

Charts:
Sosobtc ANC/CNY BTC38
Dc-charts ANC/CNY BTC38

Marketcap and mining difficulty
CoinGecko
CoinMarketcap
Coinwarz shall update

Block explorers
Cryptoid
Dark Gamex

Mining Pools
hash-to-coins.com correct chain!
prohashing.com correct chain!
tompool.org correct chain!
xpool.net P2Pool correct chain!
ypool.ga correct chain!
correct chain!

[url=http://ispace.co.uk/]ispace.co.uk disabled
multipool.us disabled

I2P powered


With full mining compatibility over I2P, I2P darknet exchange (ExchangeD.i2p) and complete I2P integration built in the wallet, Anoncoin can gives a full experience of the I2P darknet.

TOR powered

GitHub link: https://github.com/Anoncoin/anoncoin/releases/tag/v0.9.6.12

Official site: https://anoncoin.net/

Official wiki: https://wiki.anoncoin.net/Anoncoin_Wiki

A message from Meeh concerning the change of leadership

Previous threads:
Re: Official Anoncoin chat thread (including history)
Official Anoncoin Information, FAQ & Description thread. I2P/Tor explained [Mod]

Special thanks to our developers and long term fans: Meeh, K1773R, BroTroxer, Gnosis, Lunokhod, Cryptoslave, GroundRod, Mrebum, Abyss, Ssuag, Orignal, Alacast, Geekz, N00n & all others

This build could not have been done without the long term commitment and excellent work of GroundRod who updated all the codebase to 0.10.99, developed the difficulty retarget algorithm GroundRod PID, reworked SAM support, reworked the communication protocol, implemented the regtest mode, developed a new alert key management, worked on the test suites and implemented the toolchain build.

[Cryptoslave]

Guide to install I2P and run Anoncoin 0.9.6.12 anonymously through I2P:

Quick summary worth a read, especially if you had a previous 8.5.6 installation If there was a previous installation of Anoncoin 8.5.6, delete everything in anoncoin data directory BUT KEEP WALLET.DAT

Graphical guide to install I2P on windows and configure the SAM bridge to run Anoncoin on I2P

Graphical guide to install Anoncoin on windows and configure Anoncoin with the anoncoin.conf file

How to build anoncoin from source

Text guide to install and start I2P on Linux systems using CLI

Using the command line to generate a random anoncoin address and run anoncoind with I2P

Classic wallet during the header-first synchronisation:



Classic wallet showing mixed mode connections to clearnet and I2P:



GroundRod Retarget PID information

Follow the link if you want to read more on the new difficulty retarget system employed by Anoncoin from block 585555

[Godson_Mansa]

welcome to 2014. were anon coins are all the rage.

[jwinterm]

Nice. Glad to see continued development

[generous]

supply? wallet? ico?

[entertheabyss]

Now Trading Anonymously on ExchangeD.I2P

ExchangeD.I2P (link needs I2P client). First Ever Darknet CryptoCurrency Exchange. Trade altcoins anonymously. ANC/BTC. Clearnet proxy link.

[Scott J]

Does this coin still plan to introduce the zerocoin tech?

Any details on this would be greatly appreciated

[konstant111]

ICO?

[steve321]

AnonCoin blockchain, freshly synced, is available for download at CryptoChainer.com.  This snapshot is from the new wallet.  This is a very old coin, and takes nearly forever to sync from scratch.

[Cryptoslave]

AnonCoin blockchain, freshly synced, is available for download at CryptoChainer.com.  This snapshot is from the new wallet.  This is a very old coin, and takes nearly forever to sync from scratch.

Hi steve321,

http://216.14.113.56/cryptochainer.chains/chains/AnonCoin_blockchain.zip : The requested URL /cryptochainer.chains/chains/AnonCoin_blockchain.zip was not found on this server.

Also, it may have been the case the blockchain was slow to synch on 0.8.5.6, but with this new client 0.9.6.11 featuring Headers-first synchronisation it is much more quick!

Here is a test I did today:

21h50: start a freshly installed Anoncoin 0.9.6.11 64 bit with no blockchain and no bootstrap.dat, on a win7 laptop

21h50-23h30: Synchronisation of the block-headers takes 1h40 (see the first part of the graph, with smallest bandwidth).
It may seems the client is doing nothing as the blocks increment slowly, but the progress can be followed by checking the bandwidth use or by typing 'getchaintips' in the debug console.



23h30: begin block download from 16 peers in parallel (the blocks increment quickly and bandwidth increase alot). Header-first synchronisation as adapted in Anoncoin 0.9.6.11 download the headers from 2 peers in parallel but the blocks from all the peers, here from 16 peers which is the max outbound connections possible.



1h30: Anoncoin 0.9.6.11 was fully synched after 3h40 and 506 MB.



So I would not say "this coin takes nearly forever to sync from scratch!"

Synching through an I2P-only session takes about three time as long without bootstrap. The bootstrap can be downloaded following those instructions.

[Cryptoslave]

Does this coin still plan to introduce the zerocoin tech?

Any details on this would be greatly appreciated

Since 2014 and the price crash, Gnosis went away for more than a year. The coin development went almost to a halt because Meeh and Gnosis were both absent. Fortunately, following calls to the community by Lunokhod and me, GroundRod stepped in as the new Lead Developer in early 2015. GroundRod started first by reworking all the code to bitcoin 0.9.x then later up to Bitcoin 0.10.99 codebase. In doing so he put alot of new functionnality from Bitcoin and repaired the many problems the old Anoncoin wallet 0.8.5.6 has such as poor protocol communication, I2P SAM module issues, innacurate transaction fees and the crap difficulty algo KGW was removed for a PID at next Hardfork. I helped him by giving idea and debugging this new wallet last year until he went away in September 2015. Then development stopped until I finished the GroundRod 0.9.6.9 build with the help of Orignal (C++ I2P router i2pd dev). This led to this very 0.9.6.11 build. A few months ago, Gnosis went back to the team with a friend of him, Ssuag. They plan to both finish the zerocoin implementation, Gnosis for the main Zerocoin code and Ssuag for Zerocoin GUI in Anoncoin. We believe in trustless mixing on the blockchain. Right now we acknowledge as good trustless option only Zerocoin and CoinShuffle. Compared to zcash, which use a one-out-of-many to trust setup, or even to the failed zerocoin implementation such as in zerovert, zerocoin in anoncoin will be setup in a trustless manner using RSA UFOs (generalized RSA moduli of unknown complete factorization) which Gnosis did generate previously.

In fact the development schedule can be found on the wiki. Release A is finished and is this very build with hardfork@block 555555. Release B is worked upon by me currently and will feature multi-POW (YEScrypt, Lyra2RE2, Scrypt) to have CPU-GPU-ASIC mining on the Anoncoin network. Release C will be zerocoin with RSA-UFO by Gnosis and Ssuag.

[causestud]

any bounties for translations devs? thanks and good luck on your new dev team takeover

[Scott J]

Does this coin still plan to introduce the zerocoin tech?

Any details on this would be greatly appreciated

Since 2014 and the price crash, Gnosis went away for more than a year. The coin development went almost to a halt because Meeh and Gnosis were both absent. Fortunately, following calls to the community by Lunokhod and me, GroundRod stepped in as the new Lead Developer in early 2015. GroundRod started first by reworking all the code to bitcoin 0.9.x then later up to Bitcoin 0.10.99 codebase. In doing so he put alot of new functionnality from Bitcoin and repaired the many problems the old Anoncoin wallet 0.8.5.6 has such as poor protocol communication, I2P SAM module issues, innacurate transaction fees and the crap difficulty algo KGW was removed for a PID at next Hardfork. I helped him by giving idea and debugging this new wallet last year until he went away in September 2015. Then development stopped until I finished the GroundRod 0.9.6.9 build with the help of Orignal (C++ I2P router i2pd dev). This led to this very 0.9.6.11 build. A few months ago, Gnosis went back to the team with a friend of him, Ssuag. They plan to both finish the zerocoin implementation, Gnosis for the main Zerocoin code and Ssuag for Zerocoin GUI in Anoncoin. We believe in trustless mixing on the blockchain. Right now we acknowledge as good trustless option only Zerocoin and CoinShuffle. Compared to zcash, which use a one-out-of-many to trust setup, or even to the failed zerocoin implementation such as in zerovert, zerocoin in anoncoin will be setup in a trustless manner using RSA UFOs (generalized RSA moduli of unknown complete factorization) which Gnosis did generate previously.

In fact the development schedule can be found on the wiki. Release A is finished and is this very build with hardfork@block 555555. Release B is worked upon by me currently and will feature multi-POW (YEScrypt, Lyra2RE2, Scrypt) to have CPU-GPU-ASIC mining on the Anoncoin network. Release C will be zerocoin with RSA-UFO by Gnosis and Ssuag.

Thanks for the detailed update!

I'm glad to see work progressing here

[tomothy]

Hey Cryptoslave, Do you have an eta as to when we will hit block that results in hard fork? I thought it was early June but recognize that could just be the original launch. Also, have there been any discussion about getting re-listed post hard fork on any exchanges? I'm assuming this hardfork will also fix the stuck coin issue (i.e., cryptsy screwing up broadcast, having to get rawtxid, begging killer or another miner to mine stuck transaction?). Thanks again. Haven't stopped never stopping lol.

[Cryptoslave]

Hey Cryptoslave, Do you have an eta as to when we will hit block that results in hard fork? I thought it was early June but recognize that could just be the original launch. Also, have there been any discussion about getting re-listed post hard fork on any exchanges? I'm assuming this hardfork will also fix the stuck coin issue (i.e., cryptsy screwing up broadcast, having to get rawtxid, begging killer or another miner to mine stuck transaction?). Thanks again. Haven't stopped never stopping lol.

Hi tomothy

It will fork in 19440 blocks, which shall be around Wednesday 6 July 2016, at 8h30 GMT.

I asked Bittrex but they seems to not look forward to as there was not much volume before (because all volume for western market was on Crapsy, sadly). Also exchanges still remember the TX fees problems and they don't like this, although some like BTC38 or exchangeD or Cryptopia never complained of this. And Crapsy we know was using this bad TX broadcasting as an excuse to cover their scam, they also did it with several coin to pay BigVern is 1.5 million house he gave to his wife and divorced so gov cannot take it away from him when he will get hopefully sued for fraud. So basically every ANC holder on Crapsy (there were 350000 ANC iirc) paid for BigVern swimming pool and he made up the TX bad broadcasting as an excuse. But then Bittrex also complained so I cannot think they did not have some problem at some point. Nevertheless now the TX fee logic and IPV4/I2P connectivity is completely fixed and I also have put back an hidden feature in the console called 'resendwallettransactions'.

Code:

23:56:37

help resendwallettransactions


23:56:37

resendwallettransactions

Immediately re-broadcast unconfirmed wallet transactions to all peers.
Note: the wallet code periodically re-broadcasts automatically.
Returns: array of transaction ids that were re-broadcast.

Thank you for your long term care about Anoncoin

[sorrros]

This all looks excellent! Thanks guys for your time and efforts in this project - you rock!

[sorrros]

This all looks excellent! Thanks guys for your time and efforts in this project - you rock!

Looks excellent and works perfectly, the screens with traffic and peers are quite nice.

[Tommo_Aus]

Running the latest wallet synced to the same block as https://prohashing.com/explorer/Anoncoin but my wallet is reporting 0.00000135 difficulty?

[sunsofdust]

Running the latest wallet synced to the same block as https://prohashing.com/explorer/Anoncoin but my wallet is reporting 0.00000135 difficulty?

Since I update to v0.9.6.11-eaf7af2 I am seeing the same thing for all the blocks.

getmininginfo
{
"blocks" : 538434,
"currentblocksize" : 0,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.00000135,
"errors" : "This is a HARDFORK build for block 555555",
"genproclimit" : -1,
"networkhashps" : 3302921396,
"pooledtx" : 1,
"chain" : "main",
"generate" : false
}