It's that time again, here are two drafts for the press release for open source. Kudos to Tungfa, David, Minotaur, Vertoe, & others for this.
This is for the more technical audience. The short release for mainstream audience is already out and done.
Please tell us which version you think we should go with, and if you spot any fixes we need to make or things that you feel strongly should be reworded. This is planned to go live fairly soon so we don't plan on doing any major rewrites at this stage.
[Edit: rigors -> rigours]
[Edit: we know
https://darkco.in/instant-tx doesn't currently work]
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Tungfa Version >1Darkcoin Solves Bitcoin Privacy Challenges; Releases Open Source CodeDarkcoin is designed to ensure financial privacy by making it virtually impossible to trace a transaction back to its source. This is accomplished with a key piece of technology called Darksend, which works by mixing up the digital fingerprints of the user's coins. Darksend’s technology is based on the Masternode Network, currently 900+ Servers spread around the world (Decentralized) and maintained by DRK supporters.
Darksend was developed as a closed-source technology while the kinks were worked out and bugs were squashed. Following last Monday's release of the newest version of Darkcoin, called RC5, the developers of Darkcoin are confident that their software is ready to meet the rigours of mainstream use and has opened the Darksend source code. Darkcoin is now the first fully open-source cryptocurrency with financial privacy built directly into the software.
Open-sourcing of a financial software such as Darkcoin is vitally important. It allows people to be confident that their financial privacy is protected and leads to increased confidence in the quality and performance of the software. Furthermore, the community can go through the code and improve it, as has been done over the years with Bitcoin.
The core developer of Darkcoin, Evan Duffield has also announced that Darkcoin has moved out of the beta stages of development and is ready to drop the "release candidate" label. Darkcoin is now considered ready for mainstream, real-world use.
Future updates to Darkcoin are expected every few months, and will include such things as an Instant Transaction system, described here: [https://darkco.in/instatn-tx], which will allow Darkcoin to compete with credit cards in terms of transaction speed. The release of Instant Transaction technology will also make Darkcoin the fastest-confirming cryptocurrency in the industry.
The Darkcoin client and more information can be obtained at our website:
http://www.darkcoin.io.
Media Contact:
press@darkcoin.ioFuture Press Releases:
http://www.darkcoin.io/media.html_______________________________________________
New Tungfa Version 2>Darkcoin Solves Bitcoin Privacy Challenges; Releases Open Source CodeDarkcoin is a revolutionary new cryptocurrency which offers privacy at fast transaction speed. Four years ago, the mysterious and brilliant Satoshi Nakomoto developed a revolutionary piece of software called Bitcoin. In doing so, Satoshi created both a digital currency (so-called "cryptocurrencies" are decentralized and secured by cryptography, rather than by a government) and an inexpensive payment network. Bitcoin uses a decentralized financial ledger called a "blockchain" to keep track of everybody's balances and to transfer money from one bitcoin address to another.
Yet, Bitcoin has two shortcomings. First, because it operates on a ledger system, anybody can freely view the account balances and transaction history of other people. Secondly, the Bitcoin network takes up to an hour to transfer money and fully confirm it, which makes it less useful in day-to-day retail environments. Darkcoin has already solved the first problem, lack of privacy, and is rapidly advancing toward a solution of the second Bitcoin Issue, speed. Instant Transactions for DRK were announced by Evan Duffield for the next Release after Open Source Code.
Open-sourcing of a financial software such as Darkcoin is vitally important. It allows people to be confident that their privacy is protected and leads to increased confidence in the quality and performance of the software. Users can also easily inspect the code to ensure there are no vulnerabilities, backdoors, or the like. Furthermore, the community can go through the code and improve it, as has been done over the years with Bitcoin.
The core developer of Darkcoin, Evan Duffield, has also announced that Darkcoin has moved out of the beta stages of development and is ready to drop the "release candidate" label. Darkcoin is now considered ready for mainstream, real-world use. Future updates to Darkcoin are expected every few months, and will include such things as an Instant Transaction system, described here: [https://darkco.in/instant-tx]. Instant transactions will allow Darkcoin to compete with credit cards in terms of transaction speed. The release of Instant Transaction technology will also make Darkcoin the fastest-confirming cryptocurrency in the industry.
The Darkcoin client and more information can be obtained at our website:
http://www.darkcoin.io.
Media Contact:
press@darkcoin.ioFuture Press Releases:
http://www.darkcoin.io/media.html
