Ok, so we had some great entries for the 2-5 sentence layman's explanation of DarkSend. In the end I went with TanteStefana's submission, since it's pitched at newbies, is to the point & concise:
DarkSend is an integrated technology inside DarkCoin that protects privacy by pooling like-sized payments and by hiding who paid whom. This blocks the pattern-seeking detection methods that are used to break privacy by making them too difficult and expensive to pursue. The developers of DarkCoin and DarkSend believe they offer users the best possible privacy protection available to any crypto-currency.
TanteStefana, PM me your darkcoin wallet address and I'll send the bounty through!
imho-
1. by hiding who paid whom. => by hiding the transaction details (i.e. who paid whom)
2. This blocks the pattern-seeking detection methods => This dissolves the blockchain's transparency and pattern-seeking detection methods
And also:
DarkSend is an integrated technology inside DarkCoin that protects privacy
=>
DarkSend is a technology integrated into DarkCoin that protects your privacy
using "integrated" and "inside"
sounds clumsy is superfluous
Incidentally can we not get a bit more concensus before awarding these bounties? How many people judged the entries? Was there an official closing date posted?
I dont mind TanteStefana getting the 40 DRK per se, I just think we could maybe do better
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Depends on the bounty. Some of them I decide, some of them the dev team decides, some the community will decide on. Generally each is marked as such. It's difficult to put bounties to vote because money is on the line, and psudonymous voting can be gamed.
This one was more of a fun bounty, hence the low amount. I'm not going to enter into debate about the decisions though, let's just congratulate the winners and move onto the next target.