Quote from: DFJ on July 24, 2014, 01:00:03 AM

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Quote from: DFJ on July 24, 2014, 12:13:51 AM

Quote from: Conurtrol on July 23, 2014, 11:33:35 PM

I think some patience is necessary here. Let them finish Rev. 3, publish the whitepaper, and offer a big bounty for anyone who can break the anonymity of XCurrency. Those things will put us in the spotlight and get us all the attention we ever wanted. Days can seem like weeks in this fast paced crypto jungle but let's remember all our strengths and be content.

The thing is that support now matters. Look at DRK. Supposedly, we are all here because we think we have a better technology than DRK does, correct? Yet DRK has a far higher market cap, far higher user base, etc. They have that because they built support early.

Every day XC waits to build additional support is another day some other community gets to take that support and hold on to it. CLOAK is another instructive example. If everyone thinking about CLOAK knew XC already had solved anonymity, they would be far less interested in CLOAK. Instead, those investors do not believe XC has solved anonymity and are attracted to CLOAK as a solution. So they become attached to CLOAK, and are less likely to support XC in the future. This is not a good thing because (to the earlier point about Betamax and bluray) at some point the ship really does sail and all the proof in the world that your tech is 10% better won't matter because it won't be enough to overcome the disparity in community size. Lots of coins have better tech than BTC, but Expedia doesn't use them as a payment solution because they can't compete with the early support BTC got...

So if we have the best anon lets start proving it rather than waiting around and assuming that will just work out fine. XC would benefit by improving its messaging.

What are you suggesting we do?

Would you read my prior posts before replying?

It's uncommonly known that the XC team has a plan. :-)

I'm suggesting we write a whitepaper now rather than later, or at least have a good answer to the following: Can you point interested users, service providers and investors to a concise explanation of why we have a better anon solution than any of the following coins they might choose from:

DRK
Vericoin
Cloak

And I'm not meaning high level statments such as "we have multipath" or "we have more nodes." Why do those characteristics matter? Under what scenarios is XC more secure? Why would a payment processor, ecommerce marketplace, etc, choose XC over its competitors?

Or: what are the shortcomings to our anonymity solution? What are the shortcomings of competing solutions? These would all be valuable.

It's important that

- we do not publish our very valuable ideas before they are implemented

- we do not promise without being able to deliver

- nonetheless, we get the word out about that we have now

So a whitepaper is on the cards and in my opinion is best kept for Rev 3.

In the meantime there is a steady stream of daily communication from me to social media, the press, threads on Bitcointalk, etc. On occasion there are paid press releases. On occasion there are events, whether software releases or conferences.

I think that we're doing just fine for now.

If you think that XC should be well known already, well, these things just take time to disseminate.

Lastly your ideas about stating use-cases are solid. They're part of how I write. Nice one.