Quote from: K1773R on September 16, 2014, 07:39:22 AM

Quote from: mannie on September 16, 2014, 12:49:35 AM

Quote from: Skaia on September 16, 2014, 12:36:52 AM

Quote from: btcseller3c on September 16, 2014, 12:13:12 AM

The point was that anc took advantage of their "intellectual property" without their permission but now some want to claim that work as proprietary to anc. I have no respect for "intellectual property" rights and was not criticizing the use of zerocoin. I was criticizing the hypocrisy.

Libzerocoin is under MIT license:
http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

Libzerocoin warning on Github:
THIS IS DEVELOPMENT SOFTWARE. WE DON'T CERTIFY IT FOR PRODUCTION USE. WE ARE RELEASING THIS DEV VERSION FOR THE COMMUNITY TO EXAMINE, TEST AND (PROBABLY) BREAK.

Gnosis worked tons of hours on zerocoin implementation. The code on which it is based has nothing to do with the current zerocoin.
Don't be afraid of ANC dude, just buy some and enter in the game. It's not too late. The price is very low today. In some weeks, we will be on the top 3.

To top Ripple and get to #3 ANC would have to be worth $116 each, by my calcs. If Zerocoin is successful it will be a monumental step for cryptocurrency. Considering the low supply side sell pressure for a tightly held, low supply coin, and the demand for ANC with ZC, I think it could get there but it would be a phenomenal thing!

Ripple is not a crypto currency, its debt based fake crypto money/coins.

I know that there are a lot of people that hate Ripple, and I don't want to start a useless diversion, but....

I would consider XRP to be a cryptocurrency, but with a semi-centralized consensus system that is largely controlled by (but not entirely) Ripple and its collaborators.

It is true that Ripple did not explicitly intend XRP to be a separate currency, but more of an internal medium for exchanging other currencies, including fiat and cypto (similar to SDRs?). It is also true that all non-XRP balances are based on trust, and could conceivably disappear if the trusted entity went bankrupt. It is also true that the entire supply of XRP was created at once (like NXT and others....). And finally, it is true that they probably are more concerned with the established banking community than most cryptos are (including the Ripple fork Stellar). The benefit of not using mining, and somewhat centralized consensus, is that transactions are instantaneous. As long as you know all this, I think it is a better system than Visa/Mastercard/Paypal/etc, but not as good as what bitcoin-style cryptos have to offer.

The thing that gets me mad about ripple is that they recently added Karl-Theodor zu Guttenburg to the board of directors, who plagiarized his Ph.D. thesis.... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Theodor_zu_Guttenberg). Its hard to trust a company that would do that...