Latest Bounties as at 17th March Fundraiser Donation Address: Xc8xGSP7FwWGPQpgw298z7NYdA8xJK8ooh
Total bounty donations:
2244 DRK.
Note: Bounties and amounts are subject to change. As more is donated to the pool, the bounty amounts will go up. Feedback welcome!
*** PLEASE NOTE: Translation bounties will apply only to the new website, which is not yet launched! Expect it to be launched within a couple weeks. *** Bounty (DRK) Description234.36 New website design (using existing content; community will select the winner)
234.36 Professional vectorised logo, header & branded art (community will select the winner)
117.18 Chinese language translation of website
70.31 * Russian language translation of website
0.00
Spanish translation of website46.87
Professionally produced infographic of darksend, reference: http://imgur.com/GXPvNgn35.15 Reddit submission with a positive darkcoin message with 100+ upvotes
117.18 get us listed on btc-e
35.15 explain darksend in layman's terms in 2-5 sentences (we'll pick the best)
58.59 reddit tipbot working in all major subreddits (at least top 100 by subscribers)
35.15 absolute beginner's guide to getting started with darkcoin (using wallet, screenshots)
58.59 Get everything working on mac (all recent versions of OS), including instructions
58.59
Get darkcoin support included in the official BAMT release99.60 Professional grade video explaining darkcoin & darksend
117.18 Article at CoinDesk, Bitcoin Magazine, Forbes or Money Week
46.87 First new pool launched from 11th Mar to reach 1GH
35.15 Facebook acocunt with 100+ followers
35.15 Google+ acocunt with 100+ followers
117.18 * First ATM accepting Darkcoin
23.44 * Comprehensive media mailing list
175.77 * Optimise CUDAMiner to at least 70% of AMD cards' X11 performance relative to scrypt
41.01 * Accurate mining profitability calculator, including hashrate & power draw of common cards
41.01 * New CSS theme for /r/drkcoin subreddit, matching darkcoin.us/io (we'll pick the best submission)
175.77 * First decentralised exchange supporting DRK, trading some significant volume
334.36 * Android wallet, darksend compatible, open source
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Total donated: 2344 DRK
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Newly added Notes for CUDAMiner bounty: If a R9 280x gets 2100 kh/s in X11 and 750 kh/s in scrypt (a ratio of 2.
, X11 cudaminer performance should achieve at least: 0.7 * 2.8 = 1.96 times Nvidia CUDAMiner scrypt performance
Hey, I took a stab at breaking down Darksend in layman's terms. It's pretty hard to do given how smart Evan's innovation is, but here are two options:
1) First approach, didn't try to get into specifics too much
[We don't have to include this first part for those who understand the basics of crypto but might be useful for those who just heard about Bitcoin on the news etc.]
Darkcoin is a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. What makes it different is privacy through the implementation of a new technology called Darksend.
Darksend is a new approach that makes the blockchain, the list of transactions between users, private. On Bitcoin, the blockchain is public, meaning that any user’s transactions can be identified by any other user. This could be used, for example, to trace a user’s payment activities. Darksend anonymizes transactions by a process called “denominating”. When a user denominates a transaction, their payment is camouflaged in a pool of identically-sized payments created by other users. Coins are then sent from that anonymized pool to the final users. This means that another user can’t see where individual payments are coming and going from, because the only transactions that they will see are transfers into or out of the pool.
2) This is longer but touches on some of the specifics of how stuff is actually done
Darkcoin is a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. What makes it different is privacy through the implementation of a new technology called Darksend.
Darksend is a new approach that makes the blockchain, the list of transactions between users, private. On Bitcoin, the blockchain is public, meaning that any user’s transactions can be identified by any other user. This could be used, for example, to trace a user’s payment activities. Darksend anonymizes transactions by a process called “denominating”. By denominating, multiple payers all agree to send an identical amount (e.g. 10 DRK) into the pool. Sending the same amount means that all of the transactions appear identical. The pool then acts as an anonymous middleman, sending the desired payment to each recipient. Any difference between the denominated amount (10 DRK) and the actual desired payment (e.g. 5 DRK) is returned to the payer anonymously via another pool. This means that another user would never be able to identify the payer, recipient, or transaction amount, because all transactions pass through the middleman of a pool.
Happy to hear any suggestions/corrections from folks!
. You're around quite regularly, I'll make a note drop you a line last minute before the order just in case things change 
