[ANN] AEON: Cryptonote privacy, efficiency, decentralization, and stability

[boomboom]

@boomboom. I have seen him during my first days here in the community, however, none of what he creates are being used. Look at all the work he did in NXT, they are irrelevant.

The NXT devs made decisions that were not backwards compatible and broke all jl777's apps back in 2016, that made him realise he had to create his own platform to work on, which he did with komodo. You're correct that a lot of his tech isn't being used, but that's changing now, and AtomicDEX is the killer app for privacy conscious people who want to use crypto without burdens of KYC and security risks from centralised exchanges.

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[bbc.reporter]

@boomboom. Ok, and it will not be bad for Aeon to be listed in AtomicDEX, I reckon hehe. You should message smooth and stoffu and suggest it to them directly.

[estenity]

a good argument for anon transactions: the "dusting" attacks.

https://bitcoinist.com/litecoin-wallets-hit-by-large-scale-dusting-attack-so-what-is-it/

moreno and even aeon are firm against btc;
it seems to me that these "dusting" attacks are conceptually important to retrace filiation..

[bbc.reporter]

@estenity. It is not only a protection versus dusting attacks but also a protection versus influencers from tweeting about large amount of coins moving and assuming something bad and tweeting about it in social media to cause a panic.

Dove Wan is an example if she is wrong. Search for her name in the news.

[estenity]

@estenity. It is not only a protection versus dusting attacks but also a protection versus influencers from tweeting about large amount of coins moving and assuming something bad and tweeting about it in social media to cause a panic.

Dove Wan is an example if she is wrong. Search for her name in the news.

thank you bbc.reporter, in effect a lot of noise there;
plustoken scam confirmed ?
https://elementus.io/blog/plustoken-analysis-ethereum/

[bbc.reporter]

@estenity. I do not know. The bitcoin news media appears to be very excited to confirm that it is owned by the plustoken ponzi, however, what if the wallet is owned by a rich investor? His privacy has now been destroyed because of a few tweets hehe.

[smooth]

All of the planned changes for the next release have been merged to master except for the fork height and any fixes that might be needed after final testing.

At this time, anyone able to build from source is encouraged to pull from master and test the code. Ideally try to test as many of the functions of the CLI and/or GUI as you are able, not necessarily just the common ones you normally use.

There will likely be a testnet rollback or restart at some point so the forking code can be tested as well as the post-fork consensus code (K12 proof of work and fixed ring size). Stay tuned for announcements on this schedule to help with testnet testing.

[stoffu]

All of the planned changes for the next release have been merged to master except for the fork height and any fixes that might be needed after final testing.

At this time, anyone able to build from source is encouraged to pull from master and test the code. Ideally try to test as many of the functions of the CLI and/or GUI as you are able, not necessarily just the common ones you normally use.

There will likely be a testnet rollback or restart at some point so the forking code can be tested as well as the post-fork consensus code (K12 proof of work and fixed ring size). Stay tuned for announcements on this schedule to help with testnet testing.

Perliminary binaries before tagging for easier testing
https://www.reddit.com/r/Aeon/comments/cxeacs/perliminary_binaries_before_tagging_for_easier/

[bbc.reporter]

@smooth. Organizing a small bug bounty using the community funds might be suitable. It might receive interest not only from the Aeon community because there is a financial interest to do it.

It might also be good as a way to promote Aeon and the winning bounty hunters might also become one of us hehehe.

[McNab]

This might be the beginning of more future delistings for anonymous coins.

@smooth. What do you speculate for the future of Monero and Aeon and the exchanges' bending the knee to the regulators' demands?

Source https://beincrypto.com/heres-why-uk-coinbase-will-no-longer-support-zcash/

Aeon should look into getting listed on jl777's AtomicDEX, 100% non-custodial decentralised exchange, no proxy tokens, no centralised servers, fully legal, no KYC, atomic swaps, users always control their private keys.

Other cryptonote coins are working on integration with jl777, aeon could benefit significantly.

No sure that is fully legal in all countries to trade on a platform of a non-registered society.

[bigslimvdub]

Do you have any other docs other than whitepaper? Blogs? Could not find anything like this in the thread body.

Yes, we started a community repository here: https://aeoncommunity.github.io/

Github link here: https://github.com/AEONCommunity

Also, check out medium blogs here: https://medium.com/@AEON_Community  (many links to things "aeon" related)

I have been lacking on medium blogs for a while since there has been little to add and I have been very busy this summer. I was trying to get one this weekend but "fall cleaning" took over my weekend.

[bigslimvdub]

re: French Translation

Hey, thanks for the French translations. They are integrated into the website now.

[bigslimvdub]

FYI,

HitBTC $AEON wallet now functional for deposits/withdrawals for those who use their platform:

https://twitter.com/AeonCommunity/status/1171269754851647489

[bigslimvdub]

State of Aeon 9_15_2019

https://medium.com/@AEON_Community/the-state-of-aeon-9-15-2019-c953c2a94960

Note the community meeting we need to plan, reddit post for ore info.

[boomboom]

State of Aeon 9_15_2019

https://medium.com/@AEON_Community/the-state-of-aeon-9-15-2019-c953c2a94960

Note the community meeting we need to plan, reddit post for ore info.

Thanks for the link, great to see Aeon community is still strong!

[stoffu]

Set mainnet v8 fork height to 1146200 (October 25th 2019) with diff reset to 20 trillion
https://www.reddit.com/r/Aeon/comments/d847w9/set_mainnet_v8_fork_height_to_1146200_october/

[stoffu]

Yet another testing before tagging v0.13.0.0
https://github.com/stoffu/monero-core/releases/tag/v0.13.0.0.pre.3-aeon-stoffu

[smooth]

Aletheia (0.13.0.0)

This mandatory release improves the long term stability, sustainability, decentralization, and performance of the blockchain by removing the ASIC-resistant PoW (which requires frequent forking in an arms race with ASIC-developers) and replacing it with the much faster-to-verify and ASIC-friendly (currently FPGA-friendly) Keccak-based KangarooTwelve (K12) algorithm. The use of K12 for PoW was reviewed and approved by the Keccak-team, developers of Keccak/SHA3.

It also contains numerous other improvements for reduced transaction size, improved fungibility, safer long-term blocksize growth, and dozens of performance and reliability patches.

The mainnet fork date is scheduled on October 25 (height 1146200)

Changes include:
KangarooTwelve (K12) Keccak variant PoW for FPGA- and eventually ASIC-friendly protocol stability
Borromean signatures for smaller transactions
Tighter big bang protection preventing exponential blockchain growth
Consensus lock time aligned with reference wallet preventing alternate wallets from damaging fungibility
Fixed ring size at 3 for improved fungibility
Gamma-distribution selection on non-RCT outputs for better ring member ambiguity
Improved non-RCT tx output selection for reduced transaction linkages
Upstream reliability and performance improvements
AEON community-contributed improvements

Thanks to stoffu for the majority of the AEON-specific work and additional thanks to all of the AEON community and upstream contributors

https://github.com/aeonix/aeon/releases/tag/v0.13.0.0-aeon
https://github.com/aeonix/aeon-gui/releases/tag/v0.13.0.0-aeon

[bigslimvdub]

Additional v0.13.0 info ANN: https://medium.com/@AEON_Community/aeon-v0-13-0-network-upgrade-5643b8c3f3be

[watergold]

AEON was one of the coins that was quite good in its time where the price increase was quite high and many investors were lucky, if this platform will be upgraded hopefully it can make EAON much better.