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eduffield

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Quote from: illodin on January 28, 2014, 06:56:51 PM

Why not just DARK or DRK? Cool

EDIT: well DCO could turn into "d-coin" in the mouths of the laymen, so that's nice as well.

DRK is fine with me. I guess that makes more sense. DRK it is.

illodin

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Why not just DARK or DRK? Cool

EDIT: well DCO could turn into "d-coin" in the mouths of the laymen, so that's nice as well.

eduffield

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From now on XCoin is officially known as DarkCoin (DRK)! I think it reflects the projects goals perfectly and I guess the other project is dead. I'll change over everything in a bit.

Why the change? There's actually another company named XCoin (xcoin.com), that was a payment network and had awful reputation. So we settled on DarkCoin because it represents the goals of the project pretty well (Anonymous block transactions + encrypted transaction network)

eduffield

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Quote from: Coolstoryteller on January 28, 2014, 06:30:35 PM

Quote from: eduffield on January 28, 2014, 06:04:29 PM

Quote from: Coolstoryteller on January 28, 2014, 05:14:54 PM

Any word on a GPU miner?

Not that I'm aware of

This is going to be far more expensive to operate than GPU mining. Some of these guys are getting 10,000KH/s + I'm running a few diffe[Suspicious link removed] instances and an 8 CPU is only doing 200KH/s which is around $160 a month. To get 10,000KH/s it would seem that it would cost like $8000 a month (50x$160) which doesn't make much sense economically. I understand the reasoning for going with the algo you went with but this only benefits people with large pockets in the same way the ASIC does so it kind of defeats the purpose lol. If you went with something that was GPU friendly it would benefit the coin as well as the network.

The algorithm is very GPU friendly, it's just no one has done the work to implement it -- or they haven't told us and are reaping the rewards. X11 consists of the 11 SHA3 finalists, of which all are hardware optimized. So it'll be very efficient on that front.

singula

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Quote from: eduffield on January 28, 2014, 12:15:15 PM

We're decided we're going to be changing the name of XCoin to something else. It's already kind of confusing to search for XCoin on Google and we want to differentiate ourselves from the other company using the name.

We thought it might be fun to actually let the community suggest the future name for XCoin. Any ideas?
...

Some ideas of my own:

Xeleven (It's still sort of X11, but nicely pronouncable and well googlable) - Xeleven Coin
Xelf (variation of the same in German. Not so nice, but a bit shorter)

Coolstoryteller

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Quote from: eduffield on January 28, 2014, 06:04:29 PM

Quote from: Coolstoryteller on January 28, 2014, 05:14:54 PM

Any word on a GPU miner?

Not that I'm aware of

This is going to be far more expensive to operate than GPU mining. Some of these guys are getting 10,000KH/s + I'm running a few diffe[Suspicious link removed] instances and an 8 CPU is only doing 200KH/s which is around $160 a month. To get 10,000KH/s it would seem that it would cost like $8000 a month (50x$160) which doesn't make much sense economically. I understand the reasoning for going with the algo you went with but this only benefits people with large pockets in the same way the ASIC does so it kind of defeats the purpose lol. If you went with something that was GPU friendly it would benefit the coin as well as the network.

eduffield

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Quote from: Coolstoryteller on January 28, 2014, 05:14:54 PM

Any word on a GPU miner?

Not that I'm aware of

Coolstoryteller

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Any word on a GPU miner?

Bansheroom

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I liked XCoin very much, but was confused about the google too...

Lets call it...

XtraCoin
XtendedCoin
CoinX11

illodin

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Quote from: phm on January 28, 2014, 03:37:51 PM

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chromaticd

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xenocoin (xeno-: a combining form meaning alien/strange/guest).

Other variants: illuxcoin / illuxoin (illu = illusion), gloomcoin, crosscoin, archcoin, anacoin (anarchy?), rootcoin (??), xanthocoin / xanthcoin (xanthos = yellow), xaucoin (eXtra AnonymoUs Coin

), xaviercoin (= bright coin???).