What if staking would work on Tails? I think most people will use SDT instead of SDC for transactions just because they can and also for privacy reasons.
Bitcoin-qt works on Tails, the client also has an option to use Tor, couldn't Shadow have something similar? Some sort of checkbox which you can check if you're running Shadow on a OS that has I2P or Tor.
I'd rather use Tails for sensitive things, i.e. all financial and privacy matters, simply to seperate my working machine from everything else.
By any chance do you know what dependencies Shadow needs to run on Tails? If so we should try it out and get it to work, maybe post some instructions on The Hub forums, DeepDotWeb etc., allowing others to follow a step-by-step guide.
How big is the current Shadow blockchain?
Staking will work on Tails but the point being made was that you need "mature" coins and also people may not keep there Tails installation online 24x7 .. hence you miss out on staking.
I see no reason why you could not run Shadow on Tails today.
Current Block chain is roughly 300M.
What about using ShadowChat to securely exchange SDT addresses for transfering funds back and forth?
One could use Tails for one's daily spendings or earnings and later on simply transfer them back to the "staking" machine.
If it's possible to run Shadow on Tails could you please be so kind and release some short of short instructions on how to install it? So some of us could test it on Tails.
Am I correct to assume that I have to build it? But first installing all the necessary packages from
https://github.com/SDCDev/shadowcoin/blob/master/doc/readme-qt.rst ? Or is there an easier way of getting it done?
These are good points. An SDT address is untraceable online so it can be openly revealed online, but I think what you're getting at with TAILS is what happens if your machine is physically under control of authorities and they can look at your wallet, see your addresses and transaction history, and link that to the things they observed online. Under your system all they would see is a SDC installation, with occasional transactions going to an SDT address, and that SDT address is in a wallet in your TAILS drive that is stored somewhere else.
Something like this would be important for sellers in a reputation-based market, because that reputation will be linked to an address and they can't change that all the time if they want to build up a reputation.
Another thing that would be helpful is tight security in the wallet installation itself. It would be nice if the wallet could be open and staking, but you have to enter a strong password to be able to see any information from it at all. Also we should be able to delete old addresses, and when the wallet deletes information it wipes and overwrites it as well.