Re: The Pros and Cons to Cloakcoin and Darkcoin, lets discuss them.
You're right about Cryptonote coins. I should've worded my statement more carefully.
My opinion of Cryptonote is that it causes an unworkable degree of blockchain bloat - so much so that it's unlikely to scale even on PCs, never mind on mobile phones. Boolberry have made hotly disputed claims about being able to reduce bloat, but to my knowledge this has not been implemented yet.
If a coin bloats, then in my opinion it should not be considered "workable", since it simply can't scale to mainstream (or even sizeable niche) adoption.
So although there's a clear sense in which Cryptonote coins are "working", there's also a clear sense in which they're not workable solutions.
XC, on the other hand, is designed from the ground up for mobile. It's eminently scalable.
My opinion of Cryptonote is that it causes an unworkable degree of blockchain bloat - so much so that it's unlikely to scale even on PCs, never mind on mobile phones. Boolberry have made hotly disputed claims about being able to reduce bloat, but to my knowledge this has not been implemented yet.
If a coin bloats, then in my opinion it should not be considered "workable", since it simply can't scale to mainstream (or even sizeable niche) adoption.
So although there's a clear sense in which Cryptonote coins are "working", there's also a clear sense in which they're not workable solutions.
XC, on the other hand, is designed from the ground up for mobile. It's eminently scalable.
I'm confused, are you suggesting that mobile devices will run a full node? That seems ill-advised for XC or Monero or any other cryptocurrency.
I'll let Synechist speak for himself, but I do want to add in my opinion
Being able to run a full node on a mobile device is not only a great idea, it's absolutely necessary for the advancement of crypto. Just think about the direction everything is going in our world today... it's going mobile. That's where crypto should be looking to expand, and XC has been bearing that in mind from the beginning.