Quote from: GameOfCoins on July 20, 2015, 11:47:23 PM

Quote from: sdcoin on July 20, 2015, 10:32:38 PM

Update: Monday, 20th May 2015

Happy 1 Year Anniversary To Shadow

1 year ago, Shadow emerged as an innovative and unique open source project with a mission to create the first truly anonymous currency and set up a economy where privacy is always a priority. In traditional financial terms, many cryptocurrencies represented trackable and linkable check or card options while we wanted to create a digital currency that worked more like cash. Trust has always been a sought-after commodity on the web and so, we started our mission to build a completly anonymous and decentralized economy. Inspired by the Cypherpunks call for an anonymous currency, we decided to bring together several Bitcoin related technologies and services and in the process improve their overall security with advancements in zero knowledge cryptographic primitives.

A Big Thank You To All Supporters!

Thanks to your support Shadow has evolved from a simple idea into one of the most advanced crypto projects to date. The last 12 months of development have resulted in the creation of an entire privacy based currency and platform with superior privacy guarantees that do not require trust in operators, centralized technology or the drawbacks associated with it. Our first year has been an exciting journey, with a bigger and better development team and supportive community, there is no telling what Shadow will achieve by its second birthday. Please share our 1 year anniversary message to take part in the celebration!

ShadowCore V1.3 Public Testing Started!

We have started public testing BIP 32 framework and keys (HD Wallet) on which we will be building many interesting features in the future. For now, we implemented a hierarchical deterministic wallet; that allows you to recover all the keys in a wallet using only the master key. Since we are already testing, we have also decided to publicly test a new ring signature scheme (42% improvement on the previous scheme) based on the efficiency improvement work of Adam Back and Andy Toshi. This was a fairly extensive update from our core developers. You can view the full details of the 122 changed files with 13,789 additions and 6,391. Theres a summary of the changes in the release notes here.

If you want to get involved and help us test this new release you can refer to our testing thread on Shadowtalk. We look forward to hearing about your experiences and kindly request you send us your feedback or questions on IRC or SLACK (#shadowtesting channel).

That covers our development updates for now. If you have any questions regarding recent or upcoming changes you can contact us via IRC, SLACK or Github. You can stay up to date with our progress by registering to ShadowTalk, subscribing to the Shadow blog or following us on twitter.

The Shadow Team
Rynomster (lead developer)

Thanks for the update team! I'm looking forward to testing the new ring signature scheme which according to Adam Back, "This alternate linkable ring signature tends to 1/2 the size of the crypto note ring signature as the signature is 3+n values vs 2+2n values". ICYDK, Adam is the creator of the Hashcash currency that inspired Bitcoin (Bitcoin without inflation curve).

What an awesome 1st year for Shadow - steady organic growth with non-stop incremental advancements to the codebase. Without a doubt we have the most competent team working on any currency project.

One small step for SDC, one giant leap for crypto.

for sure this is a step, thanks to the whole team for their efforts! Since I join the community I only saw steady improvement in the code like better than any team need to do to keep moving on.

The new wallet seems work perfectly on testnet, what else are you deserve to us? ... a market!