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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN][DRK] DarkCoin | First Anonymous Coin | No Premine | Hard Fork At 34140 (DGW)
by
eduffield
on 18/03/2014, 18:35:06 UTC
Apparently we needed a white paper to be a legit crypto-currency, so here it is:

http://www.darkcoin.io/downloads/DarkcoinWhitepaper.pdf

Let me know if you see anything that could be improved, clearer, typos, etc.

Some very, very minor grammar corrections. I'll leave the readability on the technical issues to those smarter than me.

Last sentence of the first paragraph in the "Introduction" section: "This has implications. . ."
Second paragraph in the "Introduction" section: ". . .of Conjoin as its implementation. . ."
First sentence, first paragraph in the "Darksend" section: remove a in the sentence ". . .into a larger anonymous transactions. . ."
First sentence, first paragraph in the "Defending Against Attack" section: ". . .challenges to dealing. . ." or ". . .challenges in dealing. . ."
Second sentence, second paragraph in the "Defending Against Attack" section: "A transaction for. . ."
First sentence, fourth paragraph in the "Defending Against Attack" section: eliminate space after first parens
First sentence, fourth paragraph in the "Improved Anonymity" section: ". . .will be elected in its place."
First and second sentences, first paragraph in the "Master Node Election" section: ". . . transaction IDs in the darksend pool. By adding up the hash values of the transaction IDs,. . ."
First sentence, second paragraph in the "Master Node Election" section: ". . .pubkeys of the 
users' outputs."
Second sentence, second paragraph in the "Master Node Election" section: Not sure of sentence construction here, ". . .can know who is master, that is 
tamper­proof and decentralized."
First sentence, third paragraph in the "Master Node Responsibility" section: ". . .their inputs and outputs. . ."
First sentence, first paragraph in the "Improved Pool Anonymity" section: "Users who want. . ."
Third sentence, second paragraph in the "Reward Curve vs Reward Halving" section: ". . .drop very steadily over. . ."
Third paragraph in the "Reward Curve vs Reward Halving" section looks unfinished?
First sentence, second paragraph in the "Proof-of-Work Utilizing X11" section: ". . .more difficult to create. . ."

Updated, thanks!