Re: [ANN][DASH] Dash | First Anonymous Coin | Inventor of X11, DGW, Darksend and InstantX
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I just want to say that Evolution is probably not going to be explained in detail for quite some time. It might even start out closed sourced just like DarkSend did.
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I just want to say that Evolution is probably not going to be explained in detail for quite some time. It might even start out closed sourced just like DarkSend did.
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Ahem... That's something that would get some seriously bad feeling from some of the geeks amongst us, open source isn't just a method, its a philosophy and there's a strong "us and them" aspect to it. Darksend wasn't released closed source, you and many others wanted the source kept secret on release but Evan went with keeping things open:
So KGW is working great, the fork went off with out a hitch and now we're whale proof! So I want to move on to the next topic. A few days ago I asked if we should open source the technology or not and the vast majority of you all want it to be open source, so we're going to do that. So, that being the case earlier today in #darkcoin we were discussing the anonymous technology (An improved variant of coinjoin built into the client) and we were brain storming names for it.
Since it's going to be opensource we want to brand it, if other coins add it the users will know where it came from. So we have these ideas, we want to do a sort of poll and see what everyone likes.
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Since it's going to be opensource we want to brand it, if other coins add it the users will know where it came from. So we have these ideas, we want to do a sort of poll and see what everyone likes.
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Not meaning to be bitchy about it but it's a much more serious issue than most windows users imagine
Its something the FinTec crowd don't get when they're dealing with Bitcoin either, lots are touting their special, propitiatory "secret sauces" in attempts to monopolise the market without realising they're not just cutting themselves off from a seriously smart hivemind of geeks but making targets of themselves in the bargain.This is not true. Darksend was closed source until RC5 in August/September 2014, when the source code was released. The rest of the Darkcoin source was open, but the Darksend portion was closed until Aug/Sept 2014. I helped write the official press release about Darksend being open-sourced, so I remember it well =)