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Are my bitcoins safe with this?

This is an important question.
The definite answer is: Yes!

The Zibcoin source repository is structured more like a patch than a traditional fork.

This means that installing Zibcoin is really like installing a new version/variant of Bitcoin.
Shut down your Bitcoin client before installing; then you can just install Zibcoin on top of Bitcoin.
There's no need to re-download the blockchain, because all Bitcoin data files are 100% compatible with Zibcoin.

For every version of Bitcoin, there will be a corresponding version of Zibcoin.

The Zibcoin Core development team aims to make only minimalistic changes to the source code, while closely tracking the upstream repository.
This essentially means that the Zibcoin development is backed by the world-class programmers of the Bitcoin Core development team.

Everything is done to protect your wealth in both zibcoins and bitcoins.

Quote from: gojomo on March 20, 2014, 12:37:04 AM

Zibcoin is named for, among other things, ZIB the Soviet space dog.

Drafted at the last moment when the intended astro-dog was unavailable, ZIB survived a suborbital test flight in September 1951. Attaboy, ZIB!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_dogs#Bolik_and_ZIB

That means he got closer to the moon than any Shiba Inu.

I think we should elaborate a little bit more on the space dog theme:

Because, you know, dogs are quite popular these times. Cheesy

Any thoughts?