Official Anoncoin chat thread (including history)

[matthewh3]

I agree in that if the targets in the roadmap had some clearly defined public deadlines then everyone would feel better.  Even if those time frames for those deadlines were given a lot of extra leeway.

[Cryptoslave]

I agree in that if the targets in the roadmap had some clearly defined public deadlines then everyone would feel better.  Even if those time frames for those deadlines were given a lot of extra leeway.

We have seen it is better to not have deadlines planned to avoid possible pumping of the price in the month before the deadline and dumping of the price if the date becomes overdue. We think what happened in October shall not happen again and we prefer not to give anymore deadline for this reason. People who want to have more information about the implementation are warmly invited to come ask on the IRC channel #anoncoin or to read our development track at wiki. 

[K1773R]

I agree in that if the targets in the roadmap had some clearly defined public deadlines then everyone would feel better.  Even if those time frames for those deadlines were given a lot of extra leeway.

We have seen it is better to not have deadlines planned to avoid possible pumping of the price in the month before the deadline and dumping of the price if the date becomes overdue. We think what happened in October shall not happen again and we prefer not to give anymore deadline for this reason. People who want to have more information about the implementation are warmly invited to come ask on the IRC channel #anoncoin or to read our development track at wiki. 

i like to see this. im sick of ppl who just wanna make a quick buck and dont give a shit otherwise.

[thunderjet]

Did developpers consider idea to replace Scrypt algorhythm with Lyra 2RE(Vertcoin is doing hardfork with it for few days)? It will remove stability threat  from Scrypt ASIC farms and is extremely adaptable for any future changes.

[K1773R]

Did developpers consider idea to replace Scrypt algorhythm with Lyra 2RE(Vertcoin is doing hardfork with it for few days)? It will remove stability threat  from Scrypt ASIC farms and is extremely adaptable for any future changes.

No "butthurt GPU miner" algos...

[SmokingSkull]

How is the ZKP stuff going?

Don't expect any real updates from "Meeh" here on bitcointalk OR on IRC.

In fact, don't get your hopes up when it comes to Anoncoin.
Main developer doesn't seem to work at all on the Code, nor see I action when it comes to the other developers if you can call them that.


The Coin started off very well in 2013, work was being done. Now devs don't get in contact, don't write back, I just see a bunch of people on the IRC merely talking, and sometimes Meeh making "promises" that this happenes, and that happens ...

Forget it - Take your money, use it for real trading - on the stock market - and leave the Crypto market to the kids and developers.

This is a playground and nobody should put money into this especially when the developers just shut up about their once so loved project.


If the developers were serious about this project, we would not see such inactivity. In fact it looks just like a developers hobby to code a little here and there.



I'm out of this game, I don't see Anoncoin ever getting this codebase or Zerocoin done. This is my view.

[CycleSurfer]

Regarding ShadowCoins zerocoin progress, any thoughts from the Gnosis and the rest of the ANC dev team?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=745352.msg9852228#msg9852228

[pookielax31]

Regarding ShadowCoins zerocoin progress, any thoughts from the Gnosis and the rest of the ANC dev team?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=745352.msg9852228#msg9852228

Its ShadowCASH my man

[matthewh3]

Which of the following nightly builds do I need for Xubunty 14.04LTS - https://nightly.privacysolutions.no/Anoncoin-Linux - I got the top one build 100 and get the following error

Code:

./anoncoin-qt: error while loading shared libraries: libdb_cxx-5.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I've installed

Code:

libudev-dev

I used to use the Ubuntu launchpad but can't seem to find a link to it anymore?

[matthewh3]

Which of the following nightly builds do I need for Xubunty 14.04LTS - https://nightly.privacysolutions.no/Anoncoin-Linux - I got the top one build 100 and get the following error

Code:

./anoncoin-qt: error while loading shared libraries: libdb_cxx-5.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I've installed

Code:

libudev-dev

I used to use the Ubuntu launchpad but can't seem to find a link to it anymore?

Found the launchpad and just used that - https://launchpad.net/~anoncoin/+archive/ubuntu/anoncoin - you should advertise that on your website.  As it will make things a lot easier for the average *buntu user. 

[K1773R]

Which of the following nightly builds do I need for Xubunty 14.04LTS - https://nightly.privacysolutions.no/Anoncoin-Linux - I got the top one build 100 and get the following error

Code:

./anoncoin-qt: error while loading shared libraries: libdb_cxx-5.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I've installed

Code:

libudev-dev

I used to use the Ubuntu launchpad but can't seem to find a link to it anymore?

Found the launchpad and just used that - https://launchpad.net/~anoncoin/+archive/ubuntu/anoncoin - you should advertise that on your website.  As it will make things a lot easier for the average *buntu user.  

installing libudev when you need libdb wont help. i told meeh its a bad idea to link to db 5.1, verify that your anoncoin binary is linked to libdb4.8.

[matthewh3]

Official instructions for *buntu users or a highlighted link to the launchpad would help a lot of people.  Since the Snowden revelations there's been a lot more people trying Linux out for the first time and most new Linux users start with an *buntu based distro.  *buntu is a pretty popular OS now as well.  I've got a little bit of insight into using the terminal and my friend is a systems admin who I can always call on for help.  Although most new users will just give up and not bother.

[lunokhod2]

Official instructions for *buntu users or a highlighted link to the launchpad would help a lot of people.  Since the Snowden revelations there's been a lot more people trying Linux out for the first time and most new Linux users start with an *buntu based distro.  *buntu is a pretty popular OS now as well.  I've got a little bit of insight into using the terminal and my friend is a systems admin who I can always call on for help.  Although most new users will just give up and not bother.

Here are the updated Anoncoin download links:

https://wiki.anoncoin.net/Download
https://anoncoin.net/index.php/downloads

Let me know if anyone is having problems finding a version that works on their preferred operating system.

[AnonCoinTwitter]

ANC has not lost the zk race to SDC yet! Every coin has its problems. Lets complete our checklist and get back to the top! Innovation has taken longer than expected to implement but there is still hope!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=745352.msg9878952#msg9878952

If you look at the timestamps, Fluffy pony made those comments before shadowsend v2 was open source...

Yep, that's correct. I made the first two comments with respect to commit 94bfb03. Thereafter (the following day) commit 317b9b1 was made and pushed to the repo, and subsequently pointed out to me. I reviewed that, and thus updated that thread with the additional comment.

Honestly, I don't really care to get into a this-coin-that-coin debate. Kudos to the dev(s) for actually putting in effort to implement a very simplified ring signature system. If they add bad utxo blacklisting and also provide a suitable fix for the chain reaction privacy reveal outlined in Monero Research Lab's MRL-0001 research bulletin they are well on their way to implementing one half of the two core privacy principles espoused in Monero's cryptography (that is to say, they would then be able to provide a measure of cryptographic untraceability, but not cryptographic unlinkability).

[geekz]

currently http://ancblockchain.com is down. I am working on fix.

[newb4now]

currently http://ancblockchain.com is down. I am working on fix.

I also am not seeing any active connections to the ANC blockchain from the windows client (and am therefore unable to sync my wallet). Could these problems be related?

[poncom]

currently http://ancblockchain.com is down. I am working on fix.

I also am not seeing any active connections to the ANC blockchain from the windows client (and am therefore unable to sync my wallet). Could these problems be related?

They might be. Perhaps we need some working nodes to put in the conf file.

[newb4now]

currently http://ancblockchain.com is down. I am working on fix.

I also am not seeing any active connections to the ANC blockchain from the windows client (and am therefore unable to sync my wallet). Could these problems be related?

They might be. Perhaps we need some working nodes to put in the conf file.

That would be great! I have not seen an update to the conf file in quite some time.

[newb4now]

currently http://ancblockchain.com is down. I am working on fix.

I also am not seeing any active connections to the ANC blockchain from the windows client (and am therefore unable to sync my wallet). Could these problems be related?

They might be. Perhaps we need some working nodes to put in the conf file.

That would be great! I have not seen an update to the conf file in quite some time.

Update: I am getting some connections now to allow sync (but not many)

A new conf file would still help.

On another note, why has it been so long since meeh posted here? I can see he is still busy with privacy solutions i2p stuff. This coin still has lots of potential with its name, i2p integration and Zerocoin code progress in GitHub.

Any updates on the new hashing algorithm? How are Cryptsy deposits/withdraws working lately? I have not seen any recent posts about that either

[NullProto]

currently http://ancblockchain.com is down. I am working on fix.

I also am not seeing any active connections to the ANC blockchain from the windows client (and am therefore unable to sync my wallet). Could these problems be related?

They might be. Perhaps we need some working nodes to put in the conf file.

That would be great! I have not seen an update to the conf file in quite some time.

Update: I am getting some connections now to allow sync (but not many)

A new conf file would still help.

On another note, why has it been so long since meeh posted here? I can see he is still busy with privacy solutions i2p stuff. This coin still has lots of potential with its name, i2p integration and Zerocoin code progress in GitHub.

Any updates on the new hashing algorithm? How are Cryptsy deposits/withdraws working lately? I have not seen any recent posts about that either

I've had 100 ANC stuck at Cryptsy for over a month.  I submitted a ticket.  They replied with effectively, "we're not going to fix any more ANC deposit/withdraw problems until the devs fix their fundamental problem".  I can get the actual quote if anybody needs it.

-NP