Quote from: TanteStefana on March 23, 2014, 08:21:15 PM

Quote from: chompyZ on March 23, 2014, 10:35:02 AM

Quote from: LimLims on March 23, 2014, 10:23:33 AM

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:

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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

I know there were many more precise ways to write this, and boy, I really must have bugged LimLims as I sent so many ideas in, but my husband and I finally hacked that last one out. The thing is, most of us here are technically minded. Actually, this is going to sound really bad, but the people on this thread are going to be way at the top end of the bell curve. I realized the assignment was to explain it to "normal" people, but it was hard!!!Write 2-3 sentences that explain darksend to the uninitiated? Well, actually I don't remember at the moment, the exact words, but we finally wrote it for all of my extremely normal friends and family, LOL. So that the masses can get the basic idea, and if they wanted more information, they could dig deeper.

Anyway, that's why it was written so simply, yet we tried to show the two main steps that obfuscate the transactions and punctuate it with "it's the best available".

Thank you LimLims, I'm really honored, but need to read more of the thread

hahaha! I've been talking about this to a bunch of "normal" people, and about 5 minutes in I invariably get -

"Wait, what is the blockchain for again?"

Good work, and good luck on a VERY difficult task.