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Re: [ANN] Datacoin - Censorship-Free Data Storage
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extro24
on 19/05/2018, 10:47:55 UTC
I have refrained from posting a "roadmap" while we sort out the (minor) issues around Datacoin Core 0.15.99.  But I see most of those issues have been cleared and I think we can now look to the future.

I think we need to focus on the following:
1.  Datacoin media via Apertus.io and DTCBrowser.  Perhaps it is possible to expand bitfossil to demonstrate some of the social media possibilities that are already encoded into Apertus.io.  We also need someone to run an online instance of DTCBrowser, or incorporate it into the client.
2.  Anonymity.  I am not sure how easy it is to add anonymity with these latest Bitcoin clients but it seems that we are on the way to being able to swap anonymity algorithms in and out.
3.  Smart contracts, and the gaming applications that become possible once those contracts are enabled.

The emergence of ASIC mining for ZCash has shown how important the Prime algorithm is.  Datacoin, Primecoin and Bitcoin Prime will remain ASIC resistant for many years to come.
The Next exchange continues to add coins, and at some point they will come to Datacoin.  We need to be patient.
I believe the wallet with the 11million DTC is the BTER wallet (now trading as Gate.io).  I have asked them to restart trading (with a negative response) and if they do then that wallet will be drawn down.
Another perspective is to note that 2 billion Datacoin will be issued over the next 500 years, and that the 11million will shrink to an insignificant percentage of the coins in circulation.

Because of the immutability of the data, I cannot see how we can fork the chain.

Thank you.
-extro