BitcoinDark is down over 43% this month. What happend?
BitcoinDark is a project that will be obsolete before it is (if ever) finished.
Bitcoin has Confidential Transactions on the way. Monero has Compact Confidential Transactions on the way.
BitcoinDark, besides having a stupid and unforgivably misleading name, is completely useless.
There is nothing to do with BTCD except send them in and out of SuperNet all day.
Investors want RESULTS, not empty PROMISES to finish VAPORWARE.
Ya man, it's been obvious for months that BTCD is a complete scam:
(1) It's still the same copy/paste coin that any competent crypto Dev could launch in a few days.
(2) Zero improvements or even a single upgrade since launch in mid-2014.
(3) "Teleport" is just a buzzword in an ancient "dark paper"... unimplemented and will never be peer reviewed.
(4) The "dividends" are fake...
jl777 pulled at least couple of million $$$ from NXT AE "investors"... then pays you stupid mooks $50, if that.
(5) InstantDEX doesn't work and nobody understands it... so blaming it on "lack of testers" is laughable.
(6) Pangea poker is the biggest Red Flag...
The design is something that would be laughed off the web in 2002...
Only a complete idiot would play "poker" with ZERO protection in place against collusion.
(7) You guys are "investing" in buzzwords and an Excuse Machine....
While jl777 sits in Riga, Latvia assuming a staunch NATO ally would never extradite him to Lower Manhattan.
tl;dr
You guys are watching a very poorly executed Exit Strategy... it would be infinitely smarter to just disappear.
(1) github.com/jl777/btcd is the development repo, you must be looking at the laowais repo
(2) api.supernet.org is just a subset of the instantdex API. it seems to exist and a decentralized trading api that can also do cross market arbitrages would seem to be some sort of improvement over the baseline
(3) the github.com/jl777/btcd has a working teleport function, though it has been improved from the darkpaper description, due to peggy. Also jumblr is achieving a proof of concept stage.
(4) actually I am not paying out any dividends yet as the revenue streams are not yet. However there are several initiatives that are paying dividends
(5) i am sorry you are not able to understand api.supernet.org, but that does not mean that instantdex does not work. there are certainly some bugs to fix and i will
(6) pangea implements cryptographically verifiable deck shuffling and dealing. Since you are incapable of understanding instantdex (which is algorithmically simpler than pangea) I doubt you are able to understand pangea. Now pangea is bandwidth intensive, so it is limited to one game per node. This provides a certain amount of protection against one player setting up many players on a single PC. Against someone who has 6 computers and 6 internet connections, it seems that no online system is able to do anything directly. But for multitable play, there will be random table balancing. Additionally the pangahosts (who get to charge a rake) can provide whatever level of collusion prevention by manually checking what accounts are playing or whatever means they want. Since there is currently no cryptographic decentralized poker, it seems getting that working first is kind of key. Then a layer to minimize collusion can be worked on.
Also, I have BOUGHT a lot of supernet and BTCD over the months and am a net purchaser, so rather than exiting, i am entering more and more. The vast majority of the funds raised are still in the SuperNET accounts, it hasnt gone anywhere all these months and its not going anywhere. For BTCD Azeh is the one who keeps the SN balance.
Recently I have been dealing with the user adoption issue. I have ported SuperNET core into a chrome app. It is still a bit rough, but github.com/jl777/SuperNET_API is the repo for that effort. There wont be any need to install anything once this is done, just click and install a chrome app.
Last year I integrated nanomsg into SuperNET and recently bitcoin has integrated zeromq into bitcoin. nanomsg is the next generation of zeromq created by the devs of zeromq. I predict that in a year, most all of the popular crypto will be in the form of chrome apps, especially since the SuperNET_API is a ready made development enviroment with full crypto support, from gen1, curve25519 and even quantum resistant encryption tech.
Does this sound like a copy/paste job? I mean really. I can understand complaints about delays, but to say BTCD is copy/paste, well, that is quite ridiculous.
James
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