What perplexes me is why people are bending over backward to claim that shadowsend doesn't use (something very close to the) the cryptonote design for anonymous coins. It's a great system, the best one around. Your project and developers should be congratulated for choosing it and apparently implementing it effectively.
Instead this turns into a food fight over claims of "No, it's completely new!" (which as someone else pointed out is rather silly even if it weren't incorrect with respect to cryptonote, since every single coin is copied from bitcoin) and who is supposedly advertising in your thread. Silly.
Just give cryptonote their due credit for their part of all this (which is sort of done in the white paper since they are listed as a reference) and get back to the business of building and promoting the coin.
The reason for the behavior could be that they were told Shadow would get "ZK" and that would blow everyone's minds and make Shadow stand out and make everything else obsolete. It's tough to give up that thought.
Give it up? Why? All of what you just said is accomplished.
(with russian* accent)
http://www.monitor.co.ug/image/view/-/1909066/highRes/539956/-/maxw/600/-/3guimc/-/news003px.jpg*georgian to be precise
What I meant was all the talk previously that "snarks can be slotted right in" and "it will blow everything else out of the water" etc as if it was just around the corner and in the works, and now it looks like snarks are coming only if someone somewhere figures out how to do it efficiently and publishes a white paper, and it's not even clear if that's even possible. But if/when that happens, anyone can implement that into their coin.
Can drk implement into their coin? Can you name me a project that has a working pos litewallet or even one that has a staking wallet that works on the iOS platform...Can you name me one other project that has that AND a network leveraged encrypted messaging app within it?
A coin can Try to implement snarks and TRY to get the trust of an already very jaded crypto community. Or they can support one that has proven its worth by its MANY crypto firsts and unique implementations coupled with its useful utility and complete inovation! Bitcoin is the front runner in its field and ShadowCash is the front runner here!
cmon what you are saying is weak and i expected far better from you.
All i see is assholes trying to discount extremely good use of dev time, shame on you seriously. This project is a gold mine for anyone with half a brain to build on it. And when we finally get to that point, which i cant wait for because i'm just sick of these really one sided discussions about its future. From people who just have tons of bias towards it because its a massive threat to their prior investments. Its done 10x the work on itself then any other project out there in the same time on the same budget. It is 10x more useful and efficient to its targeted market, then anything out there already and it has 10x better future then every other project out there besides a very small, select few that have actual decentralized utility or infrastructure built to leverage it. And not some claim to it!
I'm not claiming anything that isn't already done by this project.
