Here is an excerpt from my fully completed white paper for my revolutionary anonymity invention.

I am proposing to release this white paper either publicly or for exclusive implementation in Monero or other coin, which ever the community prefers; and forsake my former plans to implement it first in my Ion project. The benefit is to get this anonymity breakthrough implemented sooner for those of us in the community who desire such a feature.

Other potential benefits include enabling me to demonstrate an example of my technical capabilities, demonstrate that I am for sharing/open source, and to rebuild to my entirely depleted savings so I could for example seek proper health care for my strange autoimmune-like chronic illness which includes relapsing chronic fatigue syndrome, peripheral neuropathy, gut pain, and strange head pain/sensations which potentially implicate Multiple Sclerosis (3+ years suffering). Also it would enable me to refund my Ion project angel investors, in case due to my health I am unable to complete Ion. Note I can still code features because I am not ill every moment, but the concern is whether I have enough good hours to complete and manage an entire crypto project. I may have found a breakthrough on my health to be explained soon, but I am hedging my opportunities just in case.

Forsaking the "first mover" advantage of implementing it first in Ion, I lose the strategy by which I intended to capture compensation for the following work I already completed. Thus I need to compensated via some other means, and a donation model has been suggested to me. I am interested to test a "Kickstarter" style funding threshold which is discussed below.


I also excerpt the section names below, without revealing all the text and math which embodies the epiphany of the invention.


Please read the prior discussion about the above anonymity feature, including my recent peer review that identified/revealed the flaw in an attempt to create the same invention by someone who may be affiliated with Monero.

I have estimated that the work done would cost $112,000 at my highest-level of opportunity cost achieved in my career:


But there is no way I would set a crowdfunded donations threshold that high, because I doubt it could be reached (because it isn't a comparative equity offering) and even though it might be my opportunity cost from 2001 when I was at the top of my career, it isn't my recent opportunity cost. I am in strange situation because on the one hand if I finish a project like Ion, I could potentially earn more per hour (inflation-adjusted) than I did in 2001 but the risk of not completing such a project or the project not being successful for what ever reason is significant (how many altcoins have succeed versus how many have died even if considering what talent I bring to bear).


Above I am referring to the work I already did, not any additional work to implement the anonymity design in a coin.

I am not against being paid to help implement this anonymity design, but I think it should be a separate funding because for one reason we don't know yet which coin wants to implement this anonymity design. As I said I will let the community decide if the crowdfunded donations will be for releasing the above design publicly or privately to one coin (such as Monero) for them to get a jumpstart on implementation before they announce and release publicly. I believe the best for the community is have the white paper released publicly so not only can it be peer reviewed by any one (not just a chosen few) and so that coins can compete to implement it first so we get this feature implemented asap. If there is another coin that wants to try to raise donations and have this design be exclusively for this coin, then make a serious post in this thread how you plan to achieve that.

So I propose to set a  minimum crowdfunding, donation threshold of $21,000 to release my white paper publicly. The terms I propose is that if the threshold is not reached (and I don't opt to accept the lower threshold reached) or if the white paper is broken such that it can't do what is claimed in the above excerpted Abstract and I can't fix it, then the donations are returned.

I'd really like to receive about $75,000 total for the work already done plus assisting on implementation. If I am not mistaken, the guy who was selected to optimize Monero's mining algorithm pocketed an alleged $150,000 worth of coins before releasing the optimization generally. I would be quite pleased (and motivated to work in crypto on the donations funding model) if the total donations for the work already done would exceed the threshold and reach roughly $35,000. Yet I propose to set the minimum threshold to $21,000 and we can see if donations exceed it. I am not even sure if we can reach the $21,000 level for this work I did?

Note the extra $1000 over $20,000 is to cover the 4 BTC we donated to Denis Lukianov after I completed my invention.

There appear to be different ways to collect the donations for a crowdfunded campaign. Kickstarter takes only fiat and about 8% fees total, but you get exposure to a wider audience of donators. Monero has some methodology for funding improvements but the entire process isn't described in full detail and do we want to make this exclusively for Monero? I didn't find any good crypto crowdfunding platforms. Mike Hearn's Lighthouse has some severe restrictions such as only 684 donators max and the exact donation amount has to be reached (can't be lower or higher). And Swarm seems to be socialist.

Thus the alternative to Kickstarter appears to be having all donations go to a Bitcoin address controlled by a trusted escrow person (or persons with multi-sig). The escrow would enforce the terms I have proposed. I would nominate smooth but I have not checked with him if he is willing to do this. I would propose to offer him 1% fee for his time and effort, unless he decides to implement this in Aeon in which case he should donate his fee to the implementer or to Denis Lukianov the author of the CCT white paper from which I gained much inspiration (and some discussion) to make this invention (but the invention came only from me). He could counter-propose if he is interested and thinks my proposed terms are not suitable. I would also like to hear from the community who they would nominate to do the escrow, and your general thoughts on how best to proceed.

I also hope that any coin that successfully implements this new anonymity invention, also makes some token donation to Denis Lukianov. My angel investors already donated 4 BTC to him thus far. We would probably donate more to him if ever Ion was successfully launched with this anonymity feature.

We could perhaps have both Kickstarter and Bitcoin escrow and sum the two to reach the threshold, but I don't know how we can integrate that with Kickstarter's policies so probably this is not possible.

We could perhaps have two donation addresses, one for those who want public release and another for those who want private release to Monero's chosen few reviewers. You could donate even to both and receive a refund for the losing option.

Note I also invented an improvement to the CCT algorithm (CCT is an alternative to Blockstream's CT) as noted in the excerpted quote from the white paper, but in the unlikely event this improvement is incorrect, my anonymity invention can still be used with the original CCT algorithm, so it would still satisfy the claims of the Abstract. It appears that my anonymity invention can also be alternatively integrated with Blockstream's CT instead of CCT, but that is not required to meet the claims of the Abstract.