[ANN] Stegos - Completely Private, Confidential, and Scalable Cryptocurrency

[stegos4privacy]

Snowden: ‘The Most Important Thing Bitcoin Is Missing Right Now Is Privacy’

Bitcoin’s biggest flaw is its lack of privacy, said Edward Snowden at the Bitcoin 2019 conference.

Share us your thoughts on this. Read more in this article:
https://www.coindesk.com/snowden-the-most-important-thing-bitcoin-is-missing-right-now-is-privacy

[TimeTeller]

What different in your blockchain between a lot others? Some blockchains already have sharding technology while you will create this in Q4 this year...
And why do you have POS consensus, while DPOS is more popular nowdays?

Aside from that, who are your target clients for this platform?
What is your unique edge that you are bringing to the table?
The team is quite impressive but actual implementation will tell us if you can achieve your deliverables.

Our target are those who want or need privacy. What makes Stegos unique is that it is incredibly easy and secure to make payments and send data. Please read the whitepaper for the rest. https://stegos.com//docs/stegos-whitepaper.pdf

We do know that your target consumers are those who want privacy.
But do you have in mind who are those particular group of persons or entities, or should I say you are talking to all crypto users who want privacy with their transactions?
Honestly, I don't see anything unique as there are payment systems that are having these kind of features already.

[stegos4privacy]

The Crypto-Surveillance Capitalism Connection

The real centralizing power-mongers of our digital economy have been pillaging our data and reshaping humanity into an instrument of their domination.

Read more about the crypto-surveillance capitalism connection: https://www.coindesk.com/blockchain-crypto-surveillance-capitalism-shoshana-zuboff

[stegos4privacy]

What different in your blockchain between a lot others? Some blockchains already have sharding technology while you will create this in Q4 this year...
And why do you have POS consensus, while DPOS is more popular nowdays?

Aside from that, who are your target clients for this platform?
What is your unique edge that you are bringing to the table?
The team is quite impressive but actual implementation will tell us if you can achieve your deliverables.

Our target are those who want or need privacy. What makes Stegos unique is that it is incredibly easy and secure to make payments and send data. Please read the whitepaper for the rest. https://stegos.com//docs/stegos-whitepaper.pdf

We do know that your target consumers are those who want privacy.
But do you have in mind who are those particular group of persons or entities, or should I say you are talking to all crypto users who want privacy with their transactions?
Honestly, I don't see anything unique as there are payment systems that are having these kind of features already.

Yes, that's correct, crypto users who want privacy with their transactions. Everyone deserves privacy. There are many people whose jobs and sometimes even lives depend on the ability to send and receive crucial information privately and with confidence. People like whistleblowers, activists, journalists, and businesspeople. These people are all vital elements of a free and safe society.

Moreover, what makes Stegos unique is not only it can send payments but data as well. Other privacy tokens can only be used for payments, and all display weaknesses in terms of scalability, privacy, security, or usability. Stegos builds and improves upon these and other privacy coins and can be used to send both payments and data with complete confidentiality.

[stegos4privacy]

Don’t Count on Government to Protect Your Privacy

Learn how blockchain and other innovations keep our data private.

Read more in this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/14/opinion/kevin-mccarthy-privacy-blockchain.html

#stegos #blockchain #privacy

[stegos4privacy]

New Tech Systems Need o be Created to Protect Rights of Internet Users

"People think of 2013 (global surveillance disclosures) as a surveillance story, but it was really a democracy story." — Edward Snowden

Read more: https://reclaimthenet.org/edward-snowden-surveillance-democracy/

[stegos4privacy]

⛑️COMPARISON OF PRIVACY COINS⛑️

MONERO                           ZCASH
Unlinkable ✓                       Unlinkable ✓
Untraceable ✓                     Untraceable ✓
Confidential ✓                     Confidential ✓
Prunable ✘                         Prunable ✘
Shardable ✘                       Shardable ✘
Non-interactive ✓                Non-interactive ✓
Consensus - POW                Consensus - POW
Trustless Setup ✓                Trustless Setup ✘
Data & Apps ✘                    Data & Apps ✘


DASH                                GRIN
Unlinkable ✘                       Unlinkable ✓
Untraceable ✓                     Untraceable ✘
Confidential ✘                     Confidential ✓
Prunable ✘                          Prunable ✓
Shardable ✘                        Shardable ✘
Non-interactive ✓                Non-interactive ✓
Consensus - POW/POS         Consensus - POW/POS
Trustless Setup ✓                Trustless Setup ✓
Data & Apps ✘                    Data & Apps ✘


STEGOS
Unlinkable ✓
Untraceable ✓
Confidential ✓
Prunable ✓
Shardable ✓
Non-interactive ✓
Consensus - POS
Trustless Setup ✓
Data & Apps ✓

[frcat]

What is the different between a lot of other blockchains? Smart contracts and sharding have a lot of new projects (like ZIL, Pchain, QuarkChain etc.). 21 mln is quite big for new blockhain nowdays. For example Pchain has just 5 mln cap after 1 year of development.

[stegos4privacy]

⛑️ Arthur Hayes on Financial Privacy and the Possibility of BTC Hard Fork

"Society obviously values privacy. That is why some people like to use cash. They don’t want governments, families or someone else to know what they are buying." — Arthur Hayes

Read more here: https://cointelegraph.com/news/arthur-hayes-on-financial-privacy-and-the-possibility-of-btc-hard-fork
#stegos #blockchain #privacy

[stegos4privacy]

Tech Report July 1st - July 15th

Here's the latest tech report. Take a look at what we have accomplished in the period of July 1st - July 15th.

Read the full report here: https://stg.to/tech070115

[XCASH]

Has the mainnet launched yet?

[Weezenhofnar]

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I collaborated, since 2015, with several projects that launched on Bitcointalk.org translating full threads, White Papers, websites and other kind of documents.
Moderator services on the Portuguese language (and English) are also possible on diverse social platforms as Telegram, Discord, Medium and more .

If there is a possibility to collaborate with you guys, I would be very interested.

here is some of my portfolio:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10kV9hPHP7x1wsWUStrnjAE210gSTvMft1eS64EFjmm8

thank you for your time.

[stegos4privacy]

Has the mainnet launched yet?

Not yet, but it will be launched very soon. More details will be announced on our Official Telegram Channel https://t.me/stegos4privacy_official

[stegos4privacy]

What Makes Stegos Transaction Private and Confidential?

Stegos uses multiple methods to ensure maximum privacy. User identities are obfuscated using cryptographic key pairs, and each transaction uses a new stealth address for the recipient(s). Transactions are combined into super-transactions to make it impossible to trace token flow between senders and recipients, while all transaction amounts are hidden using cryptographic commitments (Pedersen commitments) and zero-knowledge range proofs (Bulletproofs).

Learn more about Stegos at https://stegos.com/

Stegos Official Channels:
Facebook - https://stg.to/fbtgen
Twitter - https://stg.to/twtgen
Reddit - https://stg.to/rdtgen
Telegram Group Chat - https://stg.to/tgtgnen

[stegos4privacy]

What is the Role of a Validator?

The Stegos privacy blockchain uses a version of Albatross PoS consensus algorithm which has been optimized for privacy and mobile compatibility. In this algorithm, a random group of nodes is regularly chosen at a predefined interval of time (measured in micro blocks), to become validators. The role of validators is to verify transactions sent by the users and collectively seal them into blocks.

Learn more about Stegos at https://stegos.com/

Stegos Official Channels:
Facebook - https://stg.to/fbtgen
Twitter - https://stg.to/twtgen
Reddit - https://stg.to/rdtgen
Telegram Group Chat - https://stg.to/tgtgnen

[stegos4privacy]

How does Stegos Private Messaging work?


Stegos private messaging is supported by two features provided by the blockchain: sending a zero-valued transaction and posting a comment in the transaction. Users can exchange messages between each other without sending actual tokens. In the first version of the desktop wallet application, users will be able to send messages using comment fields in transactions. Later on, we are going to add full scale chat functionality to desktop and mobile wallets, in order to simplify private messaging for our users.

Learn more about Stegos at https://stegos.com/

Stegos Official Channels:
Facebook - https://stg.to/fbtgen
Twitter - https://stg.to/twtgen
Reddit - https://stg.to/rdtgen
Telegram Group Chat - https://stg.to/tgtgnen

[XCASH]

Has the mainnet launched yet?

Not yet, but it will be launched very soon. More details will be announced on our Official Telegram Channel https://t.me/stegos4privacy_official

Will you be pre-announcing a launch date here too?

[stegos4privacy]

Has the mainnet launched yet?

Not yet, but it will be launched very soon. More details will be announced on our Official Telegram Channel https://t.me/stegos4privacy_official

Will you be pre-announcing a launch date here too?

Yes, we will. You can watch this space to be updated.

[stegos4privacy]

Mainnet Preview 4 is out!

This is a bug fix release containing 100 fixes since Mainnet Preview 3. Find out more here: https://stg.to/swnbtt2

[stegos4privacy]

Stealth Mode Deactivated

Dear Community,

First of all, I'd like to apologize for the lack of updates: when you're as serious about privacy as we are at Stegos, it can be hard to strike the right balance between secrecy and sharing!

Rest assured, the whole team has been working hard behind the scenes on the Stegos chain, app, and a LOT of new marketing content, but I haven't done a good enough job of keeping you, our loyal community, up to date.

That changes now.

Starting from today, we'll be making regular weekly announcements about our progress across every aspect of Stegos, not just the technical details of our blockchain development (although of course those will continue as well).

But I promised you a surprise announcement, didn't I? Don't worry, it's not just the fact that we've been too quiet about our progress (that's not news to anyone...).

Here goes...

We're now in the home stretch of our launch and ironing out the details of public sale. It's taken longer than we'd like to get everything perfect, and so in recognition of everyone's patience and loyalty I've decided that…

…drumroll please…

…everyone who already invested in our earlier private sale rounds will receive DOUBLE TOKENS.

That means when our mainnet launches everyone will receive twice as many tokens as they thought.*

So when will the launch be? I know there’s nothing worse in crypto than hearing “soon”, so I won’t say that. But we do still have a few legal and technical hurdles to clear which are being resolved in the next few week.

Next week I’ll be holding an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session where I’ll be answering all your burning questions about mainnet, this double token reward, and more. Details to be confirmed very soon, so start thinking about what you want to ask!

What else?

Finally, we've been planning something extremely exciting on the community and marketing side. It’s something which has never been tried before in crypto and we're sure you're going to love it. I know I promised we’d be sharing more information from now on, but this is so awesome I'm going to enjoy the feeling of keeping you in suspense for just a few weeks more... (But keep a close watch on our Telegram channel and you might get some hints…)

I’ll be in touch again soon with the details of the AMA and the next steps for claiming your double tokens.

Until then,

Joel

*Conditions apply: This offer doesn't apply to tokens bought during the seed round. Also, I’d hoped to be able to give out this double token surprise automatically, but unfortunately the lawyers say we’ll need to sign new contracts to confirm it. But I’ll be in touch about that separately. For now let’s just savor the moment