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Looks like the diff is sure heating up on this coin n people grabbing it like a boss. Will be interesting too see where things are at once POW is over and done and seems to be approaching fast too 13,189 half way their and a little more so it seems only 48% ish to go

Its been less than a day since I got involved with BTCD and of course the price triples on me. We are almost 10% of bittrex volumes.

Maybe I should say some negative things so the price comes down? Everytime I try to get some, people just outbid me like crazy monkeys. Stop that! I need to get some more.

James

I've just been buying up the orderbook to accumulate. Bought it up to .0002, then up to .0003, then up to .0004, then up to .0005

...you guys are welcome.

I guess I wont be getting much more BTCD, maybe have to beg for donations?

Anyway I was thinking of posting a tech roadmap, but I am afraid the price would go way too high too fast.

How many are available for some testing? It will be command line level stuff, basically a text API to submit various commands.

James

Well, if you released a road map of the development, that may boot up the price, but a basic white paper may be good; nothing fancy, complex, or in-depth, just something simple. I have had some ideas that may help with the over-all functionality of the coin, if you would like me to PM you with them, let me know.

I am not smart enough to see the final solution, until I get past the last difficult patch.
I use an iterative development approach. Basically, I solve what I can and that simplifies the remaining problem.
Repeat and eventually I see the final solution.

So, a white paper is going to be wrong as soon as it is written.

The goals I have are of course, anon (but I call it privacy), but also a lot more. I also take an open-tent inclusive approach and like to use the best tech that is available, wherever it might come from. I tend to drive anybody that is super-organized and methodical pretty crazy, but this is the only way I know to do the stuff that hasnt been done before.

The current plan is to have nodes that anybody can run (as long as you have 64bit computer and decent bandwidth) and these nodes will be the privacyServers. So, you either run your own privacyServer or find someone that you trust and use theirs. I know this is kind of counterculture to require some trust, but we are talking about privacy and you simply lose too much privacy with a direct connect to the Internet.

I have a dedicated server that I use as my privacyServer, so I can do all the cool things, but the only server that knows my IP is my privacyServer. I will do what I can to ensure privacy if you run a node from where you are physically, but there is only so much privacy you get if you are broadcasting your IP address to every website you go to!

I suggest to enable the squid proxy on the privacyServer (I have easy to use install script) and route all your http/https via your privacyServer.

Now once we get a network of privacyServers, all sorts of things become possible. I dont want to disclose too much about the anon secret-sauce yet, but when I do it will all be open-source. None of this closed for now and someday it will be open!
The basic idea is that people will have private accounts that only the privacyServer even knows the number of. All the comms between your node and the privacy server are encrypted so any packet sniffers just get garbage.

The privacyServers form a, yes you guessed it, a private network among themselves offblockchain and this allows things like a realtime trading (InstantDEX), decentralized sportsbook (Privatebet), but I am getting ahead of myself.

Actually, the InstantDEX is needed to implement a lot of other features, such as autoconvert bridges and automated gateways.
I am currently getting an alpha release of InstantDEX done and that will be what we need to test first. to be able to get rolling right away, I will leverage NXT and we can plug right into all the NXT Asset Exchange functions. Also, by routing things into and out of a different blockchain will make any attacker's job that much more complicated.

Anyway, my test run just finished, gotta go analyze the results.

James