[ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency

[stealth923]

Also check out this article - the rise of anonymity is going to be huge...DarkCoin is at the front of the pack...

The crowd funding + anonymity is the same as what we talked about a week or so ago about supporting Snowden or Assange

http://www.jasonkolb.com/5-disruptive-technologies-that-will-change-the-world/

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[InternetApe]

 I was contacted by MintPal, asking if we were interested in adding more markets, trades with other coins. I said sure we would be interested in any or all coins.

The next message asked for money to do it, I told them to nevermind, it was their loss.

They got upset and said they were taking DRK off their exchange.

They really had no volume, not its not a huge loss. Just sux that people are like that.

[enzo86]

P2Pool having a rough time finding blocks that past few hours.  Odd the diff isn't up that much.

[mannie]

Also check out this article - the rise of anonymity is going to be huge...DarkCoin is at the front of the pack...

The crowd funding + anonymity is the same as what we talked about a week or so ago about supporting Snowden or Assange

http://www.jasonkolb.com/5-disruptive-technologies-that-will-change-the-world/

Good find. Someone should contact him. He could be a great champion of DarkCoin.

[the_darkness]

Latest Bounties as at 17th March   
   
Fundraiser Donation Address: Xc8xGSP7FwWGPQpgw298z7NYdA8xJK8ooh   
Total bounty donations: 2244 DRK.   
Note: Bounties and amounts are subject to change. As more is donated to the pool, the bounty amounts will go up. Feedback welcome!   
   
*** PLEASE NOTE: Translation bounties will apply only to the new website, which is not yet launched! Expect it to be launched within a couple weeks. ***   
   
Bounty (DRK)   Description
234.36   New website design (using existing content; community will select the winner)
234.36   Professional vectorised logo, header & branded art (community will select the winner)
117.18   Chinese language translation of website
70.31   * Russian language translation of website
0.00   Spanish translation of website
46.87   Professionally produced infographic of darksend, reference: http://imgur.com/GXPvNgn
35.15   Reddit submission with a positive darkcoin message  with 100+ upvotes
117.18   get us listed on btc-e
35.15   explain darksend in layman's terms in 2-5 sentences (we'll pick the best)
58.59   reddit tipbot working in all major subreddits (at least top 100 by subscribers)
35.15   absolute beginner's guide to getting started with darkcoin (using wallet, screenshots)
58.59   Get everything working on mac (all recent versions of OS), including instructions
58.59   Get darkcoin support included in the official BAMT release
99.60   Professional grade video explaining darkcoin & darksend
117.18   Article at CoinDesk, Bitcoin Magazine, Forbes or Money Week
46.87   First new pool launched from 11th Mar to reach 1GH
35.15   Facebook acocunt with 100+ followers
35.15   Google+ acocunt with 100+ followers
117.18   * First ATM accepting Darkcoin
23.44   * Comprehensive media mailing list
175.77   * Optimise CUDAMiner to at least 70% of AMD cards' X11 performance relative to scrypt
41.01   * Accurate mining profitability calculator, including hashrate & power draw of common cards
41.01   * New CSS theme for /r/drkcoin subreddit, matching darkcoin.us/io (we'll pick the best submission)
175.77   * First decentralised exchange supporting DRK, trading some significant volume
334.36   * Android wallet, darksend compatible, open source
--------------------------   
Total donated: 2344 DRK   
   
* Newly added   
   
Notes for CUDAMiner bounty: If a R9 280x gets 2100 kh/s in X11 and 750 kh/s in scrypt (a ratio of 2., X11 cudaminer performance should achieve at least: 0.7 * 2.8 = 1.96 times Nvidia CUDAMiner scrypt performance   

Hey, I took a stab at breaking down Darksend in layman's terms. It's pretty hard to do given how smart Evan's innovation is, but here are two options:

1) First approach, didn't try to get into specifics too much

[We don't have to include this first part for those who understand the basics of crypto but might be useful for those who just heard about Bitcoin on the news etc.]
Darkcoin is a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. What makes it different is privacy through the implementation of a new technology called Darksend. 

Darksend is a new approach that makes the blockchain, the list of transactions between users, private. On Bitcoin, the blockchain is public, meaning that any user’s transactions can be identified by any other user. This could be used, for example, to trace a user’s payment activities. Darksend anonymizes transactions by a process called “denominating”. When a user denominates a transaction, their payment is camouflaged in a pool of identically-sized payments created by other users. Coins are then sent from that anonymized pool to the final users. This means that another user can’t see where individual payments are coming and going from, because the only transactions that they will see are transfers into or out of the pool.


2) This is longer but touches on some of the specifics of how stuff is actually done   

Darkcoin is a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. What makes it different is privacy through the implementation of a new technology called Darksend.

Darksend is a new approach that makes the blockchain, the list of transactions between users, private. On Bitcoin, the blockchain is public, meaning that any user’s transactions can be identified by any other user. This could be used, for example, to trace a user’s payment activities. Darksend anonymizes transactions by a process called “denominating”. By denominating, multiple payers all agree to send an identical amount (e.g. 10 DRK) into the pool. Sending the same amount means that all of the transactions appear identical. The pool then acts as an anonymous middleman, sending the desired payment to each recipient. Any difference between the denominated amount (10 DRK) and the actual desired payment (e.g. 5 DRK) is returned to the payer anonymously via another pool. This means that another user would never be able to identify the payer, recipient, or transaction amount, because all transactions pass through the middleman of a pool.


Happy to hear any suggestions/corrections from folks!

[DieCommieScum]

Going to put a run of these together if there's enough interest. If I get 15 orders I can get these to US residents for $23usd (payable in BTC or DRK, can use Moolah for Escrow), non-us residents we just need to figure out a shipping surcharge.

Sizes are up to 4xl

If you want in, shoot me a PM or email me at my handle name @ cointrepid.com

EDIT: Design updated to include website text

EDIT2: International shipping now priced, EU is an extra $10, Canada an extra $5

EDIT3: We've reached minimum, last call for group buy price. Extras may be resold later.

[louiseth1]

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• 24/7 Monitoring on Stratum, MPOS, Central Wallet, Mysql and much more
• DDoS Protected
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• Brand new hardware, Built by us
• Raided SSDs to ensure maximal database performance and reliability
• Hosted in a state of the art Datacenter
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Point your miners at: stratum+tcp://stratum1.suchpool.pw:3335

Our team is knowlegeable and can help you start mining. Just ask us!

Come start mining now on http://Dark.SuchPool.pw

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    Email: admin@suchpool.pw
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Thank you for your interest in our pool, we hope to see you soon!

[InternetApe]

I was contacted by MintPal, asking if we were interested in adding more markets, trades with other coins. I said sure we would be interested in any or all coins.

The next message asked for money to do it, I told them to nevermind, it was their loss.

They got upset and said they were taking DRK off their exchange.

They really had no volume, not its not a huge loss. Just sux that people are like that.

Ok, it seems maybe there is another account that is impersonating them.

@MintPalExchanqe    vs     @MintPalExchange

Its odd because the firstone actually has more followers than the second, which seems to be the correct one.

I am contacting them directly

[tifozi]

Going to put a run of these together if there's enough interest. If I get 15 orders I can get these to US residents for $23usd (payable in BTC or DRK, can use Moolah for Escrow), non-us residents we just need to figure out a shipping surcharge.

Sizes are up to 4xl

If you want in, shoot me a PM or email me at my handle name @ cointrepid.com

In!!! This is awesome

[rim12]

I was contacted by MintPal, asking if we were interested in adding more markets, trades with other coins. I said sure we would be interested in any or all coins.

The next message asked for money to do it, I told them to nevermind, it was their loss.

They got upset and said they were taking DRK off their exchange.

They really had no volume, not its not a huge loss. Just sux that people are like that.

MintPal @MintPalExchange
Just a reminder, we never DM to ask for payment to list coins. There are accounts trying to impersonate us. Remember, use the voting page.

Anyhow I just got into dark, mining on official pool hoping to see some coins soon.

Tips welcome
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[DieCommieScum]

Going to put a run of these together if there's enough interest. If I get 15 orders I can get these to US residents for $23usd (payable in BTC or DRK, can use Moolah for Escrow), non-us residents we just need to figure out a shipping surcharge.

Sizes are up to 4xl

If you want in, shoot me a PM or email me at my handle name @ cointrepid.com

In!!! This is awesome

Heads up I just updated the design to include the website as text.. shoot a PM or email and I'll add you to the order list... once I have enough orders I'll reach out for payment.. you'd be order #2 of 15

[Corazon79]

New in from the Darkcointalk forum...

Software for sale, for DRK...

Seller is username Loki, email contact:

softwareguru7  at    hushmail dot com

Email enquiries.

[Corazon79]

While Evan gets the technical side sorted, we as a community need to get things moving on the marketing side BEFORE the first stable release and public audit. This way the website looks sexy, all the information about the coin is in one place, and we look like an established community/business.

When the media and journalists start investigating they will more likely give us the attention we deserve if everything looks organised and professional.

Calm down, stealth. It's all under control. We have pros who are working diligently behind the scenes on this for us.

You're not necessarily hearing much about it at the moment. But rest assured, it is happening.

[GreekBitcoin]

I downloaded the new wallet and ran it without deleting anything from folder with wallet.dat, blockchain etc

I want to be sure that this is correct. So i see:

{
"blocks" : 35462,
"currentblocksize" : 0,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 301.36988270,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"networkhashps" : 8957502707,
"pooledtx" : 3,
"testnet" : false
}

v0.9.0.0-unk-beta

am i good?

[tifozi]

I downloaded the new wallet and ran it without deleting anything from folder with wallet.dat, blockchain etc

I want to be sure that this is correct. So i see:

{
"blocks" : 35462,
"currentblocksize" : 0,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 301.36988270,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"networkhashps" : 8957502707,
"pooledtx" : 3,
"testnet" : false
}

v0.9.0.0-unk-beta

am i good?

Yup, looks good.

Code:

{
    "blocks" : 35463,
    "currentblocksize" : 1000,
    "currentblocktx" : 0,
    "difficulty" : 297.27934792,
    "errors" : "",
    "generate" : false,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "hashespersec" : 0,
    "networkhashps" : 8867785636,
    "pooledtx" : 0,
    "testnet" : false
}

[TanteStefana]

I was contacted by MintPal, asking if we were interested in adding more markets, trades with other coins. I said sure we would be interested in any or all coins.

The next message asked for money to do it, I told them to nevermind, it was their loss.

They got upset and said they were taking DRK off their exchange.

They really had no volume, not its not a huge loss. Just sux that people are like that.

Don't sweat it, I'm sure most if not all of us back you up on that!

[anonymousxx1503]

I was contacted by MintPal, asking if we were interested in adding more markets, trades with other coins. I said sure we would be interested in any or all coins.

The next message asked for money to do it, I told them to nevermind, it was their loss.

They got upset and said they were taking DRK off their exchange.

They really had no volume, not its not a huge loss. Just sux that people are like that.

Don't sweat it, I'm sure most if not all of us back you up on that!

Just so everyone knows - that wasn't the real mintpal, they run a quality site even though we don't have much volume there right now.

[TanteStefana]

I was contacted by MintPal, asking if we were interested in adding more markets, trades with other coins. I said sure we would be interested in any or all coins.

The next message asked for money to do it, I told them to nevermind, it was their loss.

They got upset and said they were taking DRK off their exchange.

They really had no volume, not its not a huge loss. Just sux that people are like that.

Ok, it seems maybe there is another account that is impersonating them.

@MintPalExchanqe    vs     @MintPalExchange

Its odd because the firstone actually has more followers than the second, which seems to be the correct one.

I am contacting them directly

Man, there are scammers everywhere, and they come from all sides!  Good you noticed and can tell them!

[TanteStefana]

Going to put a run of these together if there's enough interest. If I get 15 orders I can get these to US residents for $23usd (payable in BTC or DRK, can use Moolah for Escrow), non-us residents we just need to figure out a shipping surcharge.

Sizes are up to 4xl

If you want in, shoot me a PM or email me at my handle name @ cointrepid.com

EDIT: Design updated to include website text

I just love this, and wish I could join with you all, but I took the last of my cash to buy dark, and I'm not going to spend it until it's worth something, but it's an awesome idea!

[HammerHedd]

Going to put a run of these together if there's enough interest. If I get 15 orders I can get these to US residents for $23usd (payable in BTC or DRK, can use Moolah for Escrow), non-us residents we just need to figure out a shipping surcharge.

Sizes are up to 4xl

If you want in, shoot me a PM or email me at my handle name @ cointrepid.com

EDIT: Design updated to include website text

Put me in for 2 x XL. I know what I'm giving for birthday presents next month

It would be awesome if we got some coins minted soon, too. Did we ever decide on a final design? I've have a company that I regularly use to make commemorative coins that I could get a quote from, if nothing else.