http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bitcoin-dark-walletWe made it!
Time for updates. This is an exciting moment. We've been slaving, writing code for 3 years now through hardship and all kind of opposition. With these funds, we can invest wisely into critical things blocking our progress and help the Bitcoin space to grow. We are social entrepreneurs, and our goal is to use technology to affect a new way of life.
Here's an interview with Peter Todd (aka retep). Peter is a well reknowned Bitcoin thereotician. He helped create the trustless mixing concept and chose the CoinJoin name. Peter has also co-developed the more recent CoinSwap proposal- a highly technical for ultra anonymity of sending Bitcoins. Peter is responsible within the community for researching and creating new concepts to improve privacy of Bitcoin transactions, scalability of the blockchain and a well functioning network.
Peter Todd interview,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb-QHhbKMAYThe meeting was a success. Our community is well organised, super passionate and with lots of spliff. We've set our goals and reached consensus with how we want to progress. More important than the project itself, is bringing the right minds together to collaborate on a vision. We can write code, but it's about writing tools for the future not tech toys only we will use.
During the meeting, Taylor Gerring (Hive wallet) and Amir Taaki (libbitcoin) created dat.wallet, a new Android Bitcoin wallet by leveraging DarkWallet technology. Amir says "just like when we created trustless mixing, we were able to use our tools to very quickly create a prototype Bitcoin application."
libbitcoin, the base for our development efforts has been a long time in development. We have an extensive toolset and scalable architecture. Now we are deploying our infrastructure for production. This will entail extensive testing on multiple platforms and distribution efforts. In development are new components to better handle the blockchain and network.
Here is a prototype which you can find in our
git repo. Sem (frontend developer) says "We had to go initially with a Chrome extension despite preferring Firefox. Chrome has a more stable API which enables rapid development during the early stages. Later we will port the code to Firefox. It's written to be easy to port."
Note: we don't recommend Google Chrome. Use Chromium or Firefox (better).
For those who need more juice, see the
DarkWallet living document which details our ideas for DarkWallet in more depth.
Dark Wallet wants to enable the power of crypto for users of the web. We are the developing the tools that will empower web developers to create services utilising the full power of Bitcoin.
Interview with Wendell Davis of Hive wallet,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn3m_K5AJecIntro video,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuPo5NJ-AZQ
