CryptoNote technical discussion
Most legitimate CryptoNote projects are on friendly terms. Much of the content below is Monero related solely because it is the largest, most actively developed CryptoNote coin. This thread is coin agnostic, so if you have relevant content that I can add, please let me know! Specifically I would love to add links or concise descriptions of Aeon innovations below.

Monero (CryptoNote)
https://getmonero.org/
https://downloads.getmonero.org/whitepaper_review.pdf
https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0001.pdf
https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0002.pdf
https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0003.pdf
https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0004.pdf
https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0005.pdf (must read)
https://github.com/Monero-project/research-lab/commit/60a63a3b5d3f50afd504a76193925f0a132b7bb4 (new)

Quote from: smooth on March 24, 2016, 01:18:02 AM

Monero yesterday completed its first planned hard fork, implementing several changes:
1. Block time 1 minute -> 2 minutes (with block reward also doubled)
2. Minimum block size increased to 60 KB (50% increase from the previous 20 KB considering the block time change)
3. Minimum mixin requirement on all transactions (with some special exceptions for existing "dust")
4. No new "dust" allowed.

"dust" being defined as

Quote from: smooth on March 25, 2016, 01:22:44 AM

anything not conforming to N * 10^M where N is 1-9 and M is an integer.

Boolberry (CryptoNote)
http://boolberry.com/
http://boolberry.com/theory.html
http://boolberry.com/files/Boolberry_Solves_CryptoNote_Flaws.pdf (Monero has improved upon this as of Jan 2016 with a min mixin)
http://boolberry.org/files/Boolberry_Reduces_Blockchain_Bloat.pdf (Aeon has improved on the Boolberry approach to pruning)

Aeon (CryptoNote)
http://www.aeon.cash/
http://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/832/does-aeon-have-a-development-roadmap
http://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/1393/what-is-the-aeon-currency
https://github.com/aeonix/aeon/releases/tag/v0.9.7.1 (new release with preliminary code for future RingCT support)

Below are some alternatives each with strengths and weaknesses of their own. Some are highly theoretical and do not yet exist. I am ignoring CoinJoin (which many coins are based on) for the moment as it offers by far the weakest privacy (compared to CryptoNote, Zerocash and Confidential Transactions) and is being improved upon with CoinShuffle.

Zerocash
http://zerocash-project.org/paper
https://github.com/Electric-Coin-Company/zcash/wiki/specification
https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/41vg68/monero_vs_zcash_eli5_fundamental_differences/

Confidential Transactions
https://github.com/ElementsProject/secp256k1-zkp

CoinShuffle
http://crypsys.mmci.uni-saarland.de/projects/CoinShuffle/coinshuffle.pdf

Monero vs. Boolberry Chess Challenge
This thread will not only be about CryptoNote technical discussion. We are also here to have fun and play chess!

The idea for this game came from someone on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/3lwro6/chess_challenge/

Players from all levels are welcome. If you don't know the rules of chess start below, then return and ask questions:
http://www.chess.com/learn-how-to-play-chess

I made the thread moderated for one reason. I want to prevent people from purposely recommending or voting for bad moves with the goal to sabotage one side. For example If Monero is white and Boolberry is black I might moderate recommendations for a move in situations like this:

1. e4 Nf6
2. Qh5 (recommended by multiple trolls trying to sabotage Monero by allowing Nxh5)

Other than situations like this I will let the communities vote for the moves freely without any interference. To date I have edited/deleted 0 thread posts made by people other than myself. I will update the last sentence if something changes. The move with the most votes win. I propose 1 move per 24 hours (so that there is time for everyone to vote and see feedback from others) starting from the next 0:00 UTC time following the other teams move.

Ties will be decided based on the recommendation from ArticMine:

Quote from: ArticMine on October 03, 2015, 07:53:01 PM

We need a tie breaking mechanism. For example one can look at the result before the vote that led to the tie and use that instead.

Players are free to choose their own side but cannot play for both teams. Everyone knows that Monero has a larger community, but it is yet to be determined if that is a good or a bad thing (for this chess game). The quality of players and an ability to convince team members to vote for the best moves is probably more important than the number of people involved.

Current position
Based on the votes in this thread Team Monero has chosen to play Kf4. Now it is time for Team Boolberry to respond. I will plan to count votes again tomorrow at approximately 0:00 UTC.

white to move

Team Boolberry (white pieces) vs. Team DarkFlarb (black pieces)
Game 2 PGN:

Code:

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.Nc3 O-O 5.e4 d6 6.Be2 e5 7.d5 a5 8.Bg5 h6 9.Be3 Na6 10.h3 Nh5 11.Qd2 Nf4 12.O-O-O Nxg2 13.Bxh6 Bxh6 14.Qxh6 Qf6 15.Kb1 Nf4 16.Nd2 Nc5 17.h4 a4 18.h5 Qg7 19.Qg5 a3 20.b3 f6 21.Qg3 g5 22.Rdg1 Qh7 23.Bg4 Bxg4 24.Qxg4 c6 25.Qf5 Qxf5 26.exf5 Kh7 27.Nde4 Nxe4 28.Nxe4 cxd5 29.cxd5 Kh6 30.Rd1 Ra5 31.Nxd6 Rxd5 32.Rxd5 Nxd5 33.f3 Nc3+ 34.Ka1 Ne2 35.Rh2 Nd4 36.Rf2 b5 37.Kb1 Ra8 38.Ne4 Ra6 39.Kc1 Nxf5 40.Kd2 Rc6 41.b4 Kxh5 42.Kd3 Kg6 43.Nc3 Nd4 44.Nb1 Kf5 45.Nxa3 Kf4

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Team DarkFlarb (white pieces) vs. Team Boolberry (black pieces)
Game 1 PGN:

Code:

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4 a6 5.c4 Nc6 6.Qe3 g6 7.Nc3 Bg7 8.Be2 Nf6 9.O-O O-O 10.h3 Nd7 11.b3 Nc5 12.Bb2 f5 13.exf5 Bxf5 14.Rad1 Qa5 15.Rd2 Rf6 16.Nd5 Re6 17.Qf4 Ne4 18.Bxg7 Kxg7 19.Rb2 Nc3 20.Nd4 Re5 21.Bf3 Nxd5 22.Bxd5 Qc3 23.Nxf5+ Rxf5 24.Qd2 Qxd2 25.Rxd2 Rb8 26.a3 e5 27.Be6 Rf6 28.Bd5 Nd4 29.b4 b6 30.Rb2 g5 31.a4 Rff8 32.Rfb1 Rfc8 33.f3 Kf6 34.g3 Rc7 35.Rf1 Nf5 36.Kf2 h5 37.Rd1 Rg7 38.Be4 Nd4 39.Rg1 Rf8 40.Ke3 Rc7 41.Bd5 b5 42.cxb5 axb5 43.a5 Rc3+ 44.Kd2 Rfc8 45.Rf1 Ra3 46.h4 gxh4 47.gxh4 Kf5 48.Bb7 Rcc3 49.a6 Re3

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Game_Notation