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[Wanderlust]

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4. The big bad "solo miner"
I see nothing to suggest that the said address is a "solo miner"... Could it have been a select group of miners? like the Chinese ASIC that everyone wispers about in BCT? Could be who knows.
Can I say with absolute certainty that this address was a "solo miner"? No ... but I can equally not say with certainty if I had not already known that the "chickenstrips" address was a pool because both addresses show the same behaviours.
The suggesting that this was a "solo miner" is just "speculation at best".

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6. Unfair launch
You can make your own decisions about if this was a unfair launch or not; I have stated the facts above without any of the nonsense or other hidden agenda.

All of this info has been taken from the original thread + inspection of the blockchain.

What can I say?

The address being debated:
http://shadow.blockexplorer.cc/address/SYnHd6uBbbiXitR235TTysjqLRiRDxFbZ8

1.No tx's to connect the alleged solo mining addy to a known mining pool (good) addy
2 Actually the suspiciosu addy demonstartes diff behaviour fom a pool addy since it does not give out regular payouts and the balance only grows (thats why i got suspicious in the 1st place)
3 Could have been Chinese guys? OK

4 thanks for your honesty. as I have read twice from your post  above you were not there in the beginning. Noted.

If you think I posted the above for you, you are clearly misguided. I could care less what you think or pretend to know because clearly you disregard everything that does not fit your "deluded mindset".

Do yourself and everyone else a favor and leave like you said you was going to half a dozen times.
You have your own thread which is full of your delusion and lies; so go and enjoy your lonely existence.

^^ In response to the nonsense your posted on your own thread about me doing an investigation "in order to restore faith" .. I did the investigation to prove you pretend to understand something you clearly do not. Like your imaginary developer Ivan and your sock puppet accounts you use to bump your own thread.

Twice you mentioned you were not on the team in those days. You are  no fool.

Furthermore you, as an expert, cannot invalidate my claim that is a shady addy

[Wheatclove]

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4. The big bad "solo miner"
I see nothing to suggest that the said address is a "solo miner"... Could it have been a select group of miners? like the Chinese ASIC that everyone wispers about in BCT? Could be who knows.
Can I say with absolute certainty that this address was a "solo miner"? No ... but I can equally not say with certainty if I had not already known that the "chickenstrips" address was a pool because both addresses show the same behaviours.
The suggesting that this was a "solo miner" is just "speculation at best".

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6. Unfair launch
You can make your own decisions about if this was a unfair launch or not; I have stated the facts above without any of the nonsense or other hidden agenda.

All of this info has been taken from the original thread + inspection of the blockchain.

What can I say?

The address being debated:
http://shadow.blockexplorer.cc/address/SYnHd6uBbbiXitR235TTysjqLRiRDxFbZ8

1.No tx's to connect the alleged solo mining addy to a known mining pool (good) addy
2 Actually the suspiciosu addy demonstartes diff behaviour fom a pool addy since it does not give out regular payouts and the balance only grows (thats why i got suspicious in the 1st place)
3 Could have been Chinese guys? OK

4 thanks for your honesty. as I have read twice from your post  above you were not there in the beginning. Noted.

If you think I posted the above for you, you are clearly misguided. I could care less what you think or pretend to know because clearly you disregard everything that does not fit your "deluded mindset".

Do yourself and everyone else a favor and leave like you said you was going to half a dozen times.
You have your own thread which is full of your delusion and lies; so go and enjoy your lonely existence.

^^ In response to the nonsense your posted on your own thread about me doing an investigation "in order to restore faith" .. I did the investigation to prove you pretend to understand something you clearly do not. Like your imaginary developer Ivan and your sock puppet accounts you use to bump your own thread.

Twice you mentioned you were not on the team in those days. You are  no fool.

Furthermore you, as an expert, cannot invalidate my claim that is a shady addy

Your claim is incredibly unsound. You could point to any fucking pool and say "hey look this is shady, they mined 6.25% of the coin supply."

[Automatic Monkey]

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4. The big bad "solo miner"
I see nothing to suggest that the said address is a "solo miner"... Could it have been a select group of miners? like the Chinese ASIC that everyone wispers about in BCT? Could be who knows.
Can I say with absolute certainty that this address was a "solo miner"? No ... but I can equally not say with certainty if I had not already known that the "chickenstrips" address was a pool because both addresses show the same behaviours.
The suggesting that this was a "solo miner" is just "speculation at best".

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6. Unfair launch
You can make your own decisions about if this was a unfair launch or not; I have stated the facts above without any of the nonsense or other hidden agenda.

All of this info has been taken from the original thread + inspection of the blockchain.

What can I say?

The address being debated:
http://shadow.blockexplorer.cc/address/SYnHd6uBbbiXitR235TTysjqLRiRDxFbZ8

1.No tx's to connect the alleged solo mining addy to a known mining pool (good) addy
2 Actually the suspiciosu addy demonstartes diff behaviour fom a pool addy since it does not give out regular payouts and the balance only grows (thats why i got suspicious in the 1st place)
3 Could have been Chinese guys? OK

4 thanks for your honesty. as I have read twice from your post  above you were not there in the beginning. Noted.

Looks like just a big miner to me. He appears to have been the only one in the game for a while, but the time period is only for a couple of hours. Anything can happen over a couple of hours, pools go down, people are sleeping etc. Scrypt wasn't a bad choice, there are Scrypt ASIC farms out there but still plenty of GPU mining too, and I don't think a new coin is going to take the big players off Litecoin any more than a new SHA-256 coin is going to take petahashes off Bitcoin. Most new coins are crap and everybody knows it. I would have chosen a different algorithm, but that's just me and I'm not a dev. 

[Wheatclove]

The best distribution model would involve everyone alive on the planet receiving 1/totalEarthPopulation of the total coin supply. Someone will always find an advantage otherwise.

[LiteBit]

PROPOSED COVER FOR THE SECOND "ALT-ERNATIVE" BOOK

It has been decided that each of the 50 cryptos and assets will have 6 pages each.  As a result, more information will be included (especially about their respective block rewards through time.  

So.. PIGGY would be on the back cover?  ^oo^

Not necessarily.  Coins will be ranked according to market cap on a particular day.  The top 30 get onto the front cover.

Reference Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=985422.140

[dasource]

Reminder for everyone including the Hard Fork date of 19th of October 00:00 GMT

Update: Thursday, October 1, 2015

Hello everybody,

It’s time for another development update to bring you up to speed with recent changes in the Shadow project.

The last weeks our main focus has been on the successful implementation of the HD Wallet into the ShadowCore platform, fixing GUI issues, bug smashing, testing, testing and more testing. While Tecnovert, St3bas and myself have been working on getting new Shadow components ready for our upcoming releases, a team was set up and is currently updating the documentation and writing new tutorials to help users navigate through the various features that are available for Shadow. We have launched a new, up to date, documentation website (doc.shadowproject.io) and will be adding text and video based tutorials as we move along. Details about the documentation will be revealed on our official development blog (blog.shadowproject.io).

For now, let’s look at some of the updates in more detail.

Hierarchical Deterministic (HD) wallet
We have successfully implemented a BIP32 framework and keys (HD Wallet) on which we will be building many interesting features in the future. For now, we have implemented a hierarchical deterministic wallet; that allows you to recover all the keys in a wallet using only the master key.

The latest version of ShadowCore is released and contains lots of code improvements and bug fixes. The biggest change is the implementation of a complete HD Wallet and a totally new user experience for management of your wallet keys. This was a fairly extensive update from our core developers. You can view the full details of the 156 changed files with 17,818 additions and 2,451 deletions. There’s a summary of the changes in the release notes here.

HD wallets really opened up a field of possibilities for Shadow because they are useful for multiple aspects of the project. For example: the implementation was a big step towards the release of our decentralized marketplace because we will be using BIP32 keys for the market categories. They allow us to have tree level categories in messages, so people can subscribe and publish to certain categories.

This HD Wallet consists of the following implementations:
BIP-0032; hierarchical deterministic wallet
BIP-0039; mnemonic sentence for the generation of deterministic wallets
BIP-0044; multi-account hierarchy for deterministic wallets

Technical Aspects:
BIP32 - https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki
BIP39 - https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki
BIP44 - https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0044.mediawiki

Below you will find some of the new features and advantages that these implementations bring to the Shadow platform:

- You now only need to create a backup on initial creation.
- Easily backup and restore your wallet without needing any other information (wallet backup and restore consists of simple list of 12 to 24 common words).
- Conveniently create a single backup of the seed in a human readable format that will last the life of the wallet, without the worry of this backup becoming stale.
- New receive and change addresses are used for each transaction.
- Easily and securely accessed your wallet from multiple devices (Desktop, Mobile).
- Use the same 12-24 mnemonic sentence as your Bitcoin HD wallet to create a Shadow wallet.
- You no longer need to create a physical backup that can be traced or linked to your identity (just make sure you remember the 12-24 mnemonic series of words).
- Use a single seed that generates all private keys (never lose any coins because you forgot to do a back up).

All of the above comes together into a very simple and elegant solution which brings you the first native hierarchical deterministic wallet on the Satoshi code base!

Hard Fork for Ring Signature update
We are ready to implement a new ring signature scheme on mainnet that is based on the efficiency improvement work of Adam Back and Andy Toshi. It offers a stunning >42% improvement over our current ring signature scheme. To add these changes we have implemented a hardfork for the 19th of October 00:00 GMT. Please make sure you have updated your client to the latest version before then.

To demonstrate the difference between the old and new ring signature scheme, see below for the before and after size of the data stored in the blockchain for a transaction with 16 ring signatures.

Before hard fork: ≈1.5KB
After hard fork: ≈1.11KB

To run the tests yourself, make sure you have all the dependencies needed to build the deamon, then cd shadow/src && make -f makefile.unix test, then ./testshadow -t ringsigtests -l all > ringsig_tests.txt.

*For more detailed information on the changes in this release please view: https://github.com/ShadowProject/shadow/blob/v1.3.3/release-notes.txt

ShadowCore v1.3.3.3 ***LIVENET***
Before downloading any of the files below, please make sure to backup your wallets first! The Shadow team uses Gitian as its software distribution method. Gitian uses a deterministic build process to allow multiple builders to create identical binaries. This allows multiple parties to sign the resulting binaries, guaranteeing that the binaries and tool chain were not tampered with and that the same source was used. It removes the build and distribution process as a single point of failure. We strongly advice you only download from official websites and if in doubt always double check.

http://shadow.cash/downloads/shadow_1.3.3.3_win32.zip
http://shadow.cash/downloads/shadow_1.3.3.3_win64.zip
http://shadow.cash/downloads/shadow_1.3.3.3_linux32.zip
http://shadow.cash/downloads/shadow_1.3.3.3_linux64.zip

Please note: Windows 10 pre-installed settings are privacy-intrusive by default, we highly recommend changing these settings. Go to: https://github.com/10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking or http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-privacy-statement for more information.

ShadowGo
The next release of ShadowGo is currently undergoing final testing. Once we have ironed out the last bugs we will move it to beta and begin public testing! This new version of ShadowGo uses the new SHA256 algorithm creating quite a number of improvements in terms of security, processing power and energy consumption; overall the update has resulted in a huge 60%+ reduction in the memory footprint of the application. To give you an idea the previous application used to consume between 650-750MB whereas the new one is ~100MB.

To give you a heads up, some of the new features will include:

- Latest HTML5 Interface (new responsive design)
- Thin mode support (less memory consumption)
- ShadowChat support (encrypted messaging)
- ShadowSend v2 support (private transactions)

ShadowGo sneak preview/promo video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM414dJEWBM

ShadowMarket
Now that we have successfully managed to implement a HD wallet into ShadowCore we will be moving on to the next stage of ShadowMarket’s development! Let’s take a look at what our team will be working on next:

- ShadowCore V1.3.3.3 hardfork (19th October 00:00 GMT)
- ShadowCore GUI v2 (November 2015)
- ShadowMarket v1 (November 2015)
- Decentralized Escrow (tba)
- Voting + Feedback and rating system (tba)
- ShadowChat v2 (tba)

Now that most of our core developers are focussed on ShadowMarket’s development we’re getting closer to to finishing the first version (Alpha) of Shadow’s decentralized p2p commerce platform. Please note that the ShadowMarket Alpha testing phase will be exclusive and testing will only be available to a select number of people. Starting with community members that have made a donation or contributed to the Shadow project in the past. Stay tuned, because we plan to start sending out private invites around November this year!

That covers our development updates for now. As always, we look forward to hearing about your experiences and kindly request you send us your feedback on IRC or SLACK. You can stay up to date with our progress by registering to ShadowTalk, subscribing to our development blog or following us on twitter.

The Shadow Project
Rynomster (lead developer)

[Wanderlust]

Looking at roadmap

How can market alpha pre-date decentralized escrow (tba)? Surely the latter is necessary for the former?

[rutherford]

code: Think a bit further child,
It's to test the GUI experience, market offerings will appeae but no real trades.
Is that not enough?

[Wanderlust]

code: Think a bit further child,
It's to test the GUI experience, market offerings will appeae but no real trades.
Is that not enough?

A market GUI alpha? Non-functional for trades. Got it. Glad I asked

I suggest renaming the version from V1 to V0.1

Q#2

How does android wallet perform when sending SDT (not SDC) in terms of resource consumption. I'm guessing memory footprint increases and CPU spikes like with desktop wallet?

[LongAndShort]

code: Think a bit further child,
It's to test the GUI experience, market offerings will appeae but no real trades.
Is that not enough?

A market GUI alpha? Non-functional for trades. Got it. Glad I asked

I suggest renaming the version from V1 to V0.1

Wanderlust Child-harold

Thankyou for your suggestions, however, please reframe from posting here as you have been given stricter rules for your participation. This is your 6th or more warning. You are not to speak your mind on this thread anymore until notified.
You are to make your own thread, however, you are welcome to link to it here and that is it. If the link post is disrespectful and or the linked topic you chose to announce here is also disrespectful and unworthy to link, it will be deleted. Make your own respectful and unbias topic, link to it here if you have any furthur questions.

Failing to do so Child-Harold, Wanderlust, and your posts will be catogorised as spam and will be deleted. These rules are for you and any other troll wishing to conduct themselves like you in this thread.

Everyone else is welcome to post if it includes constructive conversation and or Service announcments.

Any onlookers wondering why we are being harsh on this individual i suggest you look back at all the clutter created in this thread by them and the countless times the comunity have asked them to conduct themself in a more appropiate manner to be heard.

We are not censoring constructive, respectful, conversation be it negitive impacting or positive, it does not matter. We are however, censoring the clutter and the people who wish to spam it.
There are plenty of alternatives to be heard, this thread is not the be all and end all thread to achieve that.

Child-Harold, Wanderlust

If you have anything you wish to talk about

You can make your own, respectful thread here : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=67.0
You can participate in a discussion at slack chat :  https://shadowproject.herokuapp.com
You can also make your own thread at the Shadow specific forum : http://talk.shadowproject.io

[rutherford]

code: You clearly don't understand the difference between an alpha market and a beta market.

Beta includes trade.

This is common sense, I can't even express this with certainty, but hey it's common sense.

Then again the listing and categories will probably work (unofficial)

[Automatic Monkey]

code: You clearly don't understand the difference between an alpha market and a beta market.

Beta includes trade.

This is common sense, I can't even express this with certainty, but hey it's common sense.

Then again the listing and categories will probably work (unofficial)

I'm curious to see how much system resources the distributed market will consume. That's a lot of data, especially with images.

And given the nature of the market it would probably not be a good idea to have a bootstrap of it available to download directly. Users might just have to bite the bullet and let it run.

[LongAndShort]

Child-Harold, Wanderlust...

I am not part of the core team i am a comunity member contrinubting what little time i have.

This is a sad day for you im afraid, your threats are meaningless, your requests are rediculus and you yet again, you baffle me with how lost you are.
No, one, individual makes the rules around here son. It has been a comunity decision to tell you to go make your own threads, it has been a comunity decision to also remove your clutter when necesary.
What you are attempting is exacly what you are mistakingly accusing me, an individual of chosing to do.

You made your bed now sleep in it. Your choices directly affect how you are treated within this comunity and the world. They are no one elses. Your freedoms are not taken away from you, you chose how you are treated here.
You continue to harass this entire comunity with your rubish and dont expect any consequences. That is not how it works kid. You have been treated fairly, you have been treated with respect from the majority. You chose not to do the right, respectful things, you wont listen to your friends so you are then treated exacly how you chose to be. The choices are yours, please let that sink in.

It is and will be a comunity decision to remove you and your garbage from this thread. Its that simple! Untill that changes you are to follow the fair and just guidlines set for you here. ^


Refrence to your rubish demands and rediculus, unrealistic expectations and correlations. You have ostracise yourself. No one to blame but you.
https://i.imgur.com/lP2WwWp.png

You will not have any more courtesy, we are done dealing with you. Change your ways or dont expect to be respected and heard here!

[dasource]

code: You clearly don't understand the difference between an alpha market and a beta market.

Beta includes trade.

This is common sense, I can't even express this with certainty, but hey it's common sense.

Then again the listing and categories will probably work (unofficial)

I'm curious to see how much system resources the distributed market will consume. That's a lot of data, especially with images.

And given the nature of the market it would probably not be a good idea to have a bootstrap of it available to download directly. Users might just have to bite the bullet and let it run.

I expect this to actually be fairly quick, images will not be stored on the blockchain and I suspect loaded on-demand ...
Lots of cool testing in the coming weeks and months no doubt.

@LongAndShort: I would like to say I am surprised but the truth is I am not .. what a shame!

[Wheatclove]

Where's the OSX wallet?!

New blog post from Ryno.

http://blog.shadowproject.io/2015/10/08/cross-compiling-for-windows-and-mac-from-windows/

[ZonedOutSpace]

This wallet looks amazing..

[Wheatclove]

This wallet looks amazing..

Lots of work being put into the wallet design by crz. If you have any suggestions for a page layout, he's open to them all. We were talking yesterday about ideas for the Receiving tab in the new GUI2.0 that he's creating.

[ZonedOutSpace]

This wallet looks amazing..

Lots of work being put into the wallet design by crz. If you have any suggestions for a page layout, he's open to all suggestions. We were talking yesterday about ideas for the Receiving tab in the new GUI2.0 that he's creating.

Well crz is doing a great job.
I'll grab some SDC now 

[LiteBit]

Where's the OSX wallet?!

New blog post from Ryno.

http://blog.shadowproject.io/2015/10/08/cross-compiling-for-windows-and-mac-from-windows/

Can we add a "Subscribe" button to the blog?

[Wheatclove]

Where's the OSX wallet?!

New blog post from Ryno.

http://blog.shadowproject.io/2015/10/08/cross-compiling-for-windows-and-mac-from-windows/

Can we add a "Subscribe" button to the blog?

I agree, would be very nice.