iOC was fair launched on July 24th, 2014. iOC is a Privacy based cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem project. iOC was initially launched via POW X11 (video card resistant) algorithm. The difficult mining period lasted for 2 weeks. This in order to properly and fairly distribute 16M coins before switching over to our own unique flavor of Proof of Stake Cipher to secure our blockchain. There are around 18 Million iOC in circulation with a maximum cap of 22 Million. The remaining iOC are minted via POS reward system for Stakers who work on confirming transactions. Stakers also receive transaction fees from on chain services. Their is no governance model. We value freedom and the community was built with a free, fair minded and decentralized spirit. iOC was launched without any Initial Coin Offer (ICO) or Premine.

In 2015 we were the first ones to move away from the Bitcoin QT wallet and replaced it with a unique "fully decentralized" HTML5/JS based UI wallet. Along with IONS DNS. In 2016 The iOC community and developers formed the I/O Digital foundation to further awareness of the open source public blockchain as it was done for Bitcoin, Litecoin and a few other fair launched projects. In 2017 I/O developers upgraded iOC's blockchain protocol to codename DIONS "Decentralized Input Output Name Server" further enhancing the base platform to host decentralized applications.

iOC Enabled On Chain Services include:

The iOC Blockchain enables identity storage, you can store your own personal identification and be in full control of who can view it and who you share it with.  Our avatar creation allows storage for art and pictures. Also deeds, copyrights, trademarks, proof of ownership, data and much more. All of which are fully encrypted, fully controlled by you. Private and Public identities, Stealth Addresses, AES 256 Encrypted 1MB Document/Data (upload, transfer via private users) capabilities, along with AES 256 Encrypted Instant Messaging. The I/O dev team also enabled and increased capacity to 4MB blocks with up to 16 second confirmation times. Along with our very own POS Cipher and shuffle staking features. Ensuring that even low weighted users would always see a reward for their work.

In 2019, iOC's main focus continued a strong path towards privacy for all. Ensuring to serve as a privacy based economic and social platform. This by expanding our privacy mechanism with soon to be released Zero Knowledge protocol "NightHawk" ring signatures. Once NightHawk protocol goes live (which is slated for Q2 2020) the team will follow with project codenamed "Chameleon - a scalable entropy based molecular graph ledger, to advanced interoperability of multiple blockchains and deploy our own scalable virtual machine and I/O abstract smart contract Ecosystem". The team will follow Chameleon with DIOEX. Essentially creating a completely private, secure and fully decentralized economic ecosystem.

iOC is a fully decentralized world wide cryptocurrency maintained by the I/O Digital Foundation and the iOC World Wide Community.  iOC is here to give back control to the people.
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