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Re: [SDC] The Shadow Project | Anon POS | Market* | Thunderclap 1,3M+
I seriously doubt the market will be full of shit, It hasn't happened to any of the previous darkmarkets so don't know why it would start now even some of the markets that are almost unknown have quality stuff, most people selling on the darkweb have fairly high standards when it comes to quality and purity.
But it needs to have some kind of system that removes items that people show no interest well would be nice if possible.
Or just have a separate section of the market for items that get little interest or attention and vendors with bad trust ratings so it's not cramping up the items that do get a lot of attention and keeps the dishonest vendors from the honest ones, sort of like a naughty corner for useless items and untrustworthy vendors, your not censoring the market just arranging it in a way that i don't have to see those items and vendors if i don't want to, because most products and vendors will be legit but we want to keep everything looking nice and clean.
But it needs to have some kind of system that removes items that people show no interest well would be nice if possible.
Or just have a separate section of the market for items that get little interest or attention and vendors with bad trust ratings so it's not cramping up the items that do get a lot of attention and keeps the dishonest vendors from the honest ones, sort of like a naughty corner for useless items and untrustworthy vendors, your not censoring the market just arranging it in a way that i don't have to see those items and vendors if i don't want to, because most products and vendors will be legit but we want to keep everything looking nice and clean.
The ShadowMarket will appeal to much more than traditional "darkmarket" users...
Libertarians, AnCaps & Agorists would LOVE the opportunity to be able to buy & sell goods on a completely secure, decentralized, anonymous, TAX-FREE market.
This is the Holy Grail of Agorism.
Counter-economics is basically the idea that it is preferable & more ethical to keep one's financial transactions in the grey market, so as to not be supporting governments through taxation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agorism Ideology
Agorism is considered a branch of, or a transition strategy for achieving, anarcho-capitalism, however Konkin characterized it as a form of left-libertarianism,.[2] Agorists generally consider themselves to be market anarchists. Agorists often oppose voting for political candidates and political reform. Instead, agorists stress the importance of alternative strategies rather than politics to achieve a free society. Agorists claim that we can achieve a free society more easily and sooner by employing such alternative methods as education, alternative currencies, entrepreneurship, self sufficiency, and most importantly "counter-economics".[1] Some agorists consider their message to be scientific because science is an appeal to reason, which they believe is only possible in a free market; these agorists argue that state-backed science is illegitimate, believing that it inherently involves an appeal to authority.[3]
http://agorism.info/
There are tons of Libertarians out there...
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I agree with you 100%. While I could personally care less about the drug markets or anything of that sort. People should have the choice to buy whatever they want as long as they aren't hurting anyone else. I'm more interested to see businesses spawn out from grey markets. One example is the hackintosh industry.
Psystar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation) was a company that was selling open computers, basically custom rigs that ran dual booting OSX/Windows computers. Apple crushed them with a lawsuit and basically drove the industry back into the underground and DIY'ers.. The argument was that Apple's EULA prohibits the OSX operating system from being installed on hardware not approved by Apple. For someone who is building these types of systems Shadow offers a perfect solution to expand their reach. Most of these systems are sold on craigslist for cash because the risk is too high for merchants services, processors or banks to support this type of grey market business.
Apple uses the same internals as PCs and they also sell their operating system by itself just like Microsoft sells Windows. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard. Back in the 90s, Microsoft was hit with an anti-trust lawsuit by Netscape Navigator for including Internet Explorer with Windows OS.. Yet, somehow Apple is able to sell you an operating system and dictate what you can and can't install it on. According to this article http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/27/apple-mac-sales-q1-2015/ Apple sold 5.5 million macs in the 1st quarter of this year. About 11%-15% of their reported $80 billion revenue this quarter came from mac sales. Based on those numbers we could see the next Dell or Gateway computers spawn from SDC's ecoystem to evade the Eye of Sauron (Apple). This is just one type of industry that could benefit from the upcoming marketplace and the existing privacy technology. In my opinion, these types of grey market industries could end up being a serious driving factor behind the Shadow economy and SDC's marketcap.
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Re: [SDC] The Shadow Project | Anon POS | Market* | Thunderclap 1,3M+
If they note the copyright in the source code and/or whitepaper, it's not a rip off.
This is the purpose of open source software. They can take the code and do what they want to it as long as they give the copyright to the correct sources on the code that they copied.
There is nothing wrong with what they are doing, so please don't attack them for that. Your opinion on if it may be a potential scam is your opinion. I am wary of the coin myself due to the recent ICO and dynamic PoS scams.
But don't attack them for using open source code.
This is the purpose of open source software. They can take the code and do what they want to it as long as they give the copyright to the correct sources on the code that they copied.
There is nothing wrong with what they are doing, so please don't attack them for that. Your opinion on if it may be a potential scam is your opinion. I am wary of the coin myself due to the recent ICO and dynamic PoS scams.
But don't attack them for using open source code.
Copying the source code and giving credit in the codebase is one thing. They are using the same copywrite as SDC in their ANN to explain the technology that SDC pioneered while rebranding it "Stealthcash" instead of "Powered By" Shadowcash or ShadowSend. Any linux distribution can be used as a primary example of how to properly use open source code and cite references. For example, Ubuntu references Linux same like any distribution that uses it on their "About Ubuntu" section. They don't claim credit for creating linux only attempting to improve upon it in their own way. The "about" section on any open source project's website is a similar equivalent of an ANN on Bitcointalk.
The SDC team as a whole wrote the descriptions to promote and describe this project in the ANN thread. Whenever someone uses someone else's text they should cite a reference otherwise it's plagiarism.
Any competent developer would know know to cite references. It's common sense.. something people learn in primary school. I'm labeling it as a scam because if the developer is promising development when he hasn't even learned how to cite references then his motives are clear. Plagiarism is a form of intellectual theft.. scamming the audience into believing they wrote the work.
Re: [SDC] The Shadow Project | Anon POS | Market* | Thunderclap 1,3M+
Beware of shitcoins! Meet "StealthCash" the latest SDC clone. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1059653.20
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, StealthCash is the greatest form of plagiarism. He ripped off everything from the project without citing any sources for the work. You've been warned fellow investors. An informed investor is the greatest defense against regulations.
I called out the developer in a lengthy post but it was deleted. Here is my reply to the deleted post (which was also deleted).
Credit for your work should be in the ANN. Any legitimate developer would reference the authoring developers. SDC authored this technology and named it "ShadowSend" yet I don't see any reference to it in your ANN. There are heaps of Darkcoin shitcoins running around yet the majority of them use the term "Masternodes" because that is term established by Darkcoin/Dash. Rebranding someones innovation is plagiarism. Reference Shadowcash as the author for this if not don't use the same text.
How can anyone trust this project when you aren't even capable of referencing the authoring developers? You should change the name of your project to "StealCash" because that's your end goal.
This isn't a clone of Stealthcoin. The only thing they share is the former portion of the name.
Agreed!
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Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, StealthCash is the greatest form of plagiarism. He ripped off everything from the project without citing any sources for the work. You've been warned fellow investors. An informed investor is the greatest defense against regulations.
I called out the developer in a lengthy post but it was deleted. Here is my reply to the deleted post (which was also deleted).
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Typo Fixed.
Credits of STX sources will be present in our whitepaper and source code.
Credits of STX sources will be present in our whitepaper and source code.
Credit for your work should be in the ANN. Any legitimate developer would reference the authoring developers. SDC authored this technology and named it "ShadowSend" yet I don't see any reference to it in your ANN. There are heaps of Darkcoin shitcoins running around yet the majority of them use the term "Masternodes" because that is term established by Darkcoin/Dash. Rebranding someones innovation is plagiarism. Reference Shadowcash as the author for this if not don't use the same text.
How can anyone trust this project when you aren't even capable of referencing the authoring developers? You should change the name of your project to "StealCash" because that's your end goal.
this is just a blatant copy of Stealthcoin XST, a long-running legitimate coin.
This isn't a clone of Stealthcoin. The only thing they share is the former portion of the name.
what an amazing project this is
look at 50k sell wall, they will cry harder and harder
look at 50k sell wall, they will cry harder and harder
Agreed!
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Re: [SDC] The Shadow Project | Anon POS | Market* | Thunderclap 1,3M+
The biggest complainers tend to be the people expecting a reward for not doing anything. I'd love to know what Skip60 has done for the project that entitles him to constantly spew his bullshit into this thread. All I see are lies about his holdings and critique of others efforts. My analysis is that he dumped at 18k and is trying his hardest to get the price back down there so he can buy back in. He's a trojan horse packaged as a concerned investor. Thankfully there is an ignore button for those who know where to find it.
In my view, the influx of anonymous shitcoins into the altcoin market promising decentralized marketplaces right after the release of the SDC motherboard article is/was a defense mechanism by scam developers and pump groups. They pumped out enough shitcoins to distract potential investors from the real innovator. None of them will deliver on their promises except SDC and none of them will make headline news. After the dust settles and they get delisted from exchanges SDC will still be here and those pumped and dumped coins will retain their headless cheerleader communities. The SDC development team is taking its time and effort to craft a real solution and each release is a precursor to the project's next major milestone. From what I can tell the bulk of developmental work is almost done and we could expect the alpha/beta milestone very soon.
Remember SDC was featured on Vice.com, one of the top news publications in the world. This opens the door for future coverage by large mainstream media publications and that means more exposure for the project, in turn resulting in larger growth. Something 99% of the projects listed here can't look forward to. An artificial pump wont get your project in the mainstream limelight (coindesk and cointelegraph are not mainstream). However, real development and delivery will. At the time of this writing the coin is worth around 14 cents a coin. I believe in the very near future we will all look back and laugh at these haters and their shitty speculations. The project is exposed to the world right now and despite what the charts read the coin is on the precipice of a meteoric rise to one of the top market caps. The only thing holding it back right now is the failures of other projects before it that promised a similar platform. Where they failed SDC will succeed with delivery. For those crypto advocates that can read between the lines there is no better coin to put your BTC than SDC.
Let's start acting like a mature community. Do what you can to assist others in learning about the SDC ecosystem.. be it your offline friends or someone new to the space. The community will only grow once it realizes it's position on the world scale. New investors coming here don't want to see bickering they want to see unity and brotherhood amongst like-minded people. If you'd like your investment to grow do your part and enjoy the ride! How about we reserve this thread for actual discussions about the project instead of piss poor speculations from subpar traders.
In my view, the influx of anonymous shitcoins into the altcoin market promising decentralized marketplaces right after the release of the SDC motherboard article is/was a defense mechanism by scam developers and pump groups. They pumped out enough shitcoins to distract potential investors from the real innovator. None of them will deliver on their promises except SDC and none of them will make headline news. After the dust settles and they get delisted from exchanges SDC will still be here and those pumped and dumped coins will retain their headless cheerleader communities. The SDC development team is taking its time and effort to craft a real solution and each release is a precursor to the project's next major milestone. From what I can tell the bulk of developmental work is almost done and we could expect the alpha/beta milestone very soon.
Remember SDC was featured on Vice.com, one of the top news publications in the world. This opens the door for future coverage by large mainstream media publications and that means more exposure for the project, in turn resulting in larger growth. Something 99% of the projects listed here can't look forward to. An artificial pump wont get your project in the mainstream limelight (coindesk and cointelegraph are not mainstream). However, real development and delivery will. At the time of this writing the coin is worth around 14 cents a coin. I believe in the very near future we will all look back and laugh at these haters and their shitty speculations. The project is exposed to the world right now and despite what the charts read the coin is on the precipice of a meteoric rise to one of the top market caps. The only thing holding it back right now is the failures of other projects before it that promised a similar platform. Where they failed SDC will succeed with delivery. For those crypto advocates that can read between the lines there is no better coin to put your BTC than SDC.
Let's start acting like a mature community. Do what you can to assist others in learning about the SDC ecosystem.. be it your offline friends or someone new to the space. The community will only grow once it realizes it's position on the world scale. New investors coming here don't want to see bickering they want to see unity and brotherhood amongst like-minded people. If you'd like your investment to grow do your part and enjoy the ride! How about we reserve this thread for actual discussions about the project instead of piss poor speculations from subpar traders.