Topic: [ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency - page 6062. (Read 9724115 times)

I'm excited!

Ok, so I understood I need to update my DarkCoin wallet but here (https://darkcointalk.org/threads/rc2-hard-fork-on-may-14th.357/) I see that there are two different versions - with and without DarkSend. If I wouldn't send any Darks anywhere soon, can I update to the version without DarkSend?

 This is actually an interesting idea, and it could definitely be useful. I will look at what it would take to implement this, the issue "I" see would be having to rescan the blockchain when you switched.

I think people still don't get it. This is not about Darksend, this is about having a qualified dev willing to spend full time in this coin. The ring signature thing, don't you think Evan has thought about it already? If it could help the coin, how long do you think it would take to implement it to a possible Darksend2.0? This or any other feature .... this is what other coins don't have.

And the reason why people are mining cryptonote clones is basically because they hope for it to be the next thing because they missed many other trains before, it's 2 years old ...

 I don't think the Evan has posted the info yet, but he has an idea how it could make Darkcoin impossible to trace!! We are not giving out the complete details on it yet, but "I" wanted to give everyone a heads up about a new feature that will be a very big improvement!!! I'm sure there will be people, trolls, that will say this is not possible, but when you get the details even the trolls will have to agree.

 Look for the details coming out soon!

Yup like you said before I meant to be able to switch wallets on the fly. Just like you can go file>backup wallet, I think it would be cool to have an import wallet option there, where you then select the .dat file.


Nice!

Not exactly understand what he meant.
maybe he can elaberate more.

Please clarify for me:  Did you mean a feature where you could load different wallet accounts from an open wallet?  Or did you mean to merge two accounts?  I assumed you meant to switch wallet accounts on the fly in an open wallet.

I think he means it would be cool to switch wallets on the fly, instead of always switching out the .dat files manually.  I keep several wallets because I figure it might be safer.  If one wallet is cracked, it's only some of my coins i loose.  I keep my "current" wallet with a low number of coins because it's online most of the time, the others are in cold storage, except when i'm testing darksends or something

That would be a very cool feature!  I'm going to add it to the list of things to (maybe) do on our darkcointalk.org forum!  Thanks for that great idea!

done!
https://darkcointalk.org/threads/list-of-future-development-ideas.89/

It may be actually better if Darkcoin implements things differently, and we get a successful CryptoNote coin as well because choices and competition are healthy, and there is an inherent level of safety in numbers if coins function differently, in that if one is somehow cracked, the other could continue on, keeping the private crypto currency goals going.

So which version of monero has the best developers and momentum now?  It's unfortunate they fell apart like that.  

I am really excited for the possibilities the infrastructure of Darkcoin's masternodes hold.  Because it's not just about having privacy, but being able to do things with your coin.  Waiting for a few stores to adopt the coins is going to take a long time, but a decentralized, secure auction site, or consignment site would be beyond awesome!  And I can see that happening in the not too distant future. I've got stuff I'd like to sell, but ebay and paypal take so much of your funds, it's highway robbery!  Even if there were a 1% charge for the use of the service that went to the masternodes, I wouldn't mind... heck, ebay charges insertion fees and almost 10 freakin percent!

Another cool thing is the possibilities should bring in new developers who could implement these new ideas for the masternodes as personal projects, and in so doing, will hopefully become familiar with Darkcoind and DarkSend, and getting a feeling of ownership and kudos, and possibly income from their creations (why not?  Like P2pool)  And having a stake in the continued success of Darkcoin, these developers would presumably become part of the team that continues to develop Darkcoin.

I just see an incredibly healthy ecosystem that could seriously go on into the deep future with this coin.  i'm super excited about it!

If you get the private key from the old .dat file you can import the key into your new wallet with no problems.

I tried Bytecoin when it "surfaced" (apparently the delay in public release was equal to a a very large premine which is already considered a scam)... problems in compilation, problems in mining, command line wallet (!!!), I was like wtf is this shit... "everything works" may be something of an overstatement.

Personally I gave up on it... too broken and regressive for my preference. And I'm a linux / cli type of guy... However that's not a criticism on its anonymity technology (which I am not equipped to say if it's sound or not, but I haven't seen anyone say anything bad about it - seems an ok solution). More about the general "package".

Does any coins wallet have a feature of Import wallet (.dat file) rather than having to move it to the folder manually?
Not a big thing but would be a cool feature. Along with update notifications.

It is already a known fact that Darksend will come with I2P. Also, if I remember correctly, some community members were also working on tor integration.



Thanks for the info. I'll have to read up some more on the coins trying to implement this and their stage of development.

The odd thing about CryptoNote is that it's actually pretty old (by cryptocurrency standards). The first coin to use it was Bytecoin (not BTE, but BCN). This coin was coded from scratch and the blockchain for this actually shows the genesis block being mined on July 2012! CryptoNote itself started research phase before that. However, it was hidden in deepweb communities and only surfaced on the clearweb in March 2014. So this has all been going on for a while, but the origins are shrouded. Other CryptoNote coins are popping up only now and they're using Bytecoin as the reference just like most altcoins have been using Bitcoin.

It's not really alpha since everything works, including the ring signatures. There's no GUI however. So it sort of reminds people of Bitcoin back in the early days before Qt (which was the third client). I think it would be great if DRK adopted this sort of protocol too. Anonymity is the most worthwhile ideal to pursue in cryptos right now.

That'd be me!  I'm really good at losing coins!

I have to admit, it seems more decentralized than I thought it would

im coming

Without skyrocketing to anonymint levels of paranoia, it's nevertheless trivializing to read so many posts a day people talking about the NSA without having a clue about the what they can and cannot do from a technical perspective.

Here's a fact, darksend without i2p, tor or ring singatures will be trivial to break by the nsa. For those of you who even follow the news, you will know that the NSA has long had direct access inside amazon, google. They have direct access via prism, which I first read about 7 years in 2007 when working within net security. I currently work in a firm where at least one of my colleagues worked as a contractor and have confirmed its existence. And that it's old news because the nsa has moved on to much bigger things.

The nsa needs fuckall to do with buying darkcoins. That's such a fucking joke.

They have all traffic forwarded to them willingly. They have all metadata forwarded to them willingly. Even if this were not the case, they have complete and utter authorization to track any traffic that originates from US non-citizens, which they can qualify from any non-US ip. They can then fisa the entire darkcoin masternode network and track every single connection with ease.

So talk about darksend, talk about privacy.. but don't open your mouth to talk about "herp derp my coins are safe from nsa eyes" when you have no clue what you're talking about.

ps. For those of you who don't know but want to know more, all this and more are available for your reading pleasure.. Some of the easy to find stuff is available on wikipedia: prism, google "nsa direct access" "nsa at&t traffic" and a bunch of other permutations about "nsa traffic access security" etc... You might consider reading all the stuff snowden has leaked but most of this stuff is pretty shallow to the real stuff you can find if you keep at it.