Re: [ANN][DRK] DarkCoin | First Anonymous Coin | First X11 | First DGW | ASIC Resistant
It is already a known fact that Darksend will come with I2P. Also, if I remember correctly, some community members were also working on tor integration.
2. Why not do it now? Well because you can't leave DarkSend in beta ad infinitum while Evan is continually trying to catch up to the "cutting edge". At some point it has to be open sourced and released - and when it is... it will the best open source, fully released anonymous cryptocoin solution at the time. If you know of any other anonymous coins that are not in alpha, beta, testing, brainstorming, or some other preliminary phase then point them out. AFAIK, there are none.
The odd thing about CryptoNote is that it's actually pretty old (by cryptocurrency standards). The first coin to use it was Bytecoin (not BTE, but BCN). This coin was coded from scratch and the blockchain for this actually shows the genesis block being mined on July 2012! CryptoNote itself started research phase before that. However, it was hidden in deepweb communities and only surfaced on the clearweb in March 2014. So this has all been going on for a while, but the origins are shrouded. Other CryptoNote coins are popping up only now and they're using Bytecoin as the reference just like most altcoins have been using Bitcoin.
It's not really alpha since everything works, including the ring signatures. There's no GUI however.
So it sort of reminds people of Bitcoin back in the early days before Qt (which was the third client). I think it would be great if DRK adopted this sort of protocol too. Anonymity is the most worthwhile ideal to pursue in cryptos right now.
Thanks for the info. I'll have to read up some more on the coins trying to implement this and their stage of development.
Plus, I'm implementing I2P into the masternodes. We're going to have our own private network just for DarkSend.
2. Why not do it now? Well because you can't leave DarkSend in beta ad infinitum while Evan is continually trying to catch up to the "cutting edge". At some point it has to be open sourced and released - and when it is... it will the best open source, fully released anonymous cryptocoin solution at the time. If you know of any other anonymous coins that are not in alpha, beta, testing, brainstorming, or some other preliminary phase then point them out. AFAIK, there are none.
The odd thing about CryptoNote is that it's actually pretty old (by cryptocurrency standards). The first coin to use it was Bytecoin (not BTE, but BCN). This coin was coded from scratch and the blockchain for this actually shows the genesis block being mined on July 2012! CryptoNote itself started research phase before that. However, it was hidden in deepweb communities and only surfaced on the clearweb in March 2014. So this has all been going on for a while, but the origins are shrouded. Other CryptoNote coins are popping up only now and they're using Bytecoin as the reference just like most altcoins have been using Bitcoin.
It's not really alpha since everything works, including the ring signatures. There's no GUI however.
So it sort of reminds people of Bitcoin back in the early days before Qt (which was the third client). I think it would be great if DRK adopted this sort of protocol too. Anonymity is the most worthwhile ideal to pursue in cryptos right now.Thanks for the info. I'll have to read up some more on the coins trying to implement this and their stage of development.