[ANN] AEON: Scalable, private, mobile-friendly cryptocurrency

Aeon isn't a cryptocurrency. It's a lifestyle.
It's about polished perfection, attained by breaking the rules with calculated mastery of the art. It's about respecting history and pushing innovation forward at the same time. It's about more than just math: it's a vision of a world where luxury is the same as entry-level, and the limits are the heavens themselves.
If you're just buying Aeon to get rich, don't even bother. Aeon needs more than just the next wave of crypto speculators: we're looking for the truly elite.
But if you think you have what it takes to redefine global finance and discover new magnitudes of wealth in the process... Well, Aeon is ready for you.
Are you ready for Aeon?

--americanpegasus

UPDATES:
Recommended Version 0.14.2.2
Minimum Required Version 0.14.1.0
*** The latest mainnet upgrade fork was November 11, 2020 (height 1280000) ***

Anonymous Electronic On-line Coin

www.aeon.cash

About:

AEON was launched on 6.6.2014 at 6:00 PM UTC, with no premine or instamine. It has no dev tax. 100% of funding is by voluntary community donations which have created a dev fund of almost 500 000 AEON (as of May 2018).
AEON is for people who want to pay and live freely, who want to be part of the cryptocurrency revolution and want to try something new.
It is based on the CryptoNote protocol and uses the CryptoNight-Lite^[1] PoW algorithm (K12 after Oct 25 fork), and features:
- True anonymity & data protection
- Untraceable payments uses ring signature
- Unlinkable transactions with random data by the sender
- Blockchain analysis resistant

Roadmap

Under development

Development Team:

Lead developer: smooth
Release engineering, Q/A, support: ~~Arux~~ (currently MIA)
Frequent contributing dev, binary releases: stoffu
Community lead: katiecharm
Other roles: open (PM smooth)
Original developer (as Monero fork): anonymous

Bounties:

None currently open.
You can send donations for the AEON bounty fund and development.

Code:

AEON address: WmsSWgtT1JPg5e3cK41hKXSHVpKW7e47bjgiKmWZkYrhSS5LhRemNyqayaSBtAQ6517eo5PtH9wxHVmM78JDZSUu2W8PqRiNs
View Key: 71bf19a7348ede17fa487167710dac401ef1556851bfd36b76040facf051630b

Code:

Bitcoin address: 12Cyjf3qV6qLyXdzpLSLPdRFPUVidvnzFM

Specifications:

PoW algorithm: ~~CryptoNight-Lite^[1]~~K12 after Oct 25 fork
Max supply: Infinite (see note below)^[2]
Block reward: Smoothly varying using the formula (M−A) / (2¹⁸) / (10¹²) where M = 2⁶⁴ −1 and A = supply mined to date.^[3]
Block time: 240 seconds^[3]
Difficulty: Retargets at every block
P2P-bind-port: 11180
RPC-bind-port: 11181

Downloads:

Current release 0.14.2.2 (CLI source code, Windows/Mac/Linux binaries)
Current release 0.14.2.2 (GUI source code, Windows/Mac/Linux binaries)

Recommended: Use caution with community-provided downloads, check reputation and scan for malware

Links & Resources:

No endorsement of third party services is implied. Use at your own risk. In the event of forks or other network issues be sure any service you use is properly updated and supporting the correct chain.

Trading:
- Bittrex - AEON/BTC
- Bisq (decentralized) - AEON/BTC
- Hitbtc
- OTC thread - AEON/XMR
- Speculation thread (moderated by americanpegasus)
Pools
- https://aeon-pool.com/
- https://aeon.rupool.tk/
- https://aeonminingpool.com/
- https://pooltupi.com/
- https://durinsmine.com/
Stratum proxy (for solo mining with GPU miners and/or multiple computers)
- https://github.com/sammy007/monero-stratum/tree/aeon
Block Explorers:
- http://aeonblocks.com
- AEON.lol
Community:
- Reddit (very active, consider monitoring for announcements and news!)
- Steem
- Twitter
- IRC channel #aeon @ Freenode (Webchat Link)
Cold storage:
- Bootable image to manage AEON cold wallets (by Arux) github
Mining applications
- https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak (xmr-stak CPU/GPU all-in-one miner)
- https://github.com/Bendr0id/xmrigCC (xmrig with control center support)
- https://github.com/Bendr0id/xmrigCC-amd (xmrig-amd with control center support)
- https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig (CPU Miner)
- https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig-amd (AMD GPU Miner)
- https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig-nvidia (NVIDIA GPU Miner)
- https://github.com/tpruvot/cpuminer-multi (CPU Miner)
^{Dead Links / Outdated: cryptocointalk white paper}

^{[1] Cryptonight-Lite: Louis d’or whitepaper; crypto_zoidberg, doe1138; December 8, 2014. Previously: Cryptonight}
^{[2] Initial number of atomic units is M = 2⁶⁴ - 1. However, once the block reward reaches 0.3 AEON per minute (sometime in 2022), that is treated as the minimum subsidy, which means that AEON's total emission will forever increase by ~157680 AEON annually.}
^{[3] Previously: (M−A) / (2²⁰) / (10¹²) each 60 seconds block where M = 2⁶⁴ −1 and A = supply mined to date (coins generated per day unchanged).}