Its been awhile since I've checked in here, so I'd like to give everyone just a very brief update on what we have been doing lately.
First of all, we have a new
Anoncoin web site, and we have reorganized the
Anoncoin wiki for clarity. If you have any suggestions, or if you would like to help out with editing content on the wiki, please let me know.
Second, for the past several months we have been working with GroundRod, who is now an Anoncoin core developer. He has experience working with other crypto projects, and has been instrumental in upgrading our code to 0.9.4. We are running beta versions of 0.9.4 now, and are working on fixing a few bugs. You are welcome to build the current version on the develop branch at github: if you do so, let us know if you encounter any errors. Unless you are brave, you might want to hold off on this for about a week. I'm hesitant to give a deadline for when we will have a release ready, but I would be surprised if this would take more than a month.
Third, if you want to keep up to date, we have a
developement schedule on the wiki that we update on a regular basis. As you can see, our next big project will involve updating the difficulty algorithm and changing to 3-chain mulitPOW merge-mining. We consider this essential for securing the blockchain and to avoid the problems we encountered late last year. This will involve a hard fork, and we have already made some progress on implementing this. As for Zerocoin, this is still the primary goal of the project, but we have decided to stop all such development until after our next release.
Lastly, if you are unhappy with the pace at which we are progressing, we are looking for all types of volunteers and coders. We still have a few bounties that are open on the wiki. Even if you can't code, there is graphic design work that could be done, or work in contacting businesses to use ANC.
Given that we are very close to a release, you can expect to get more regular updates here. Regardless, the best way to keep informed is by IRC on the #anoncoin channel. Most of our discussions are currently on the developer channel (there are pages of uninteresting error messages and tests), but if you ask a question at #anoncoin, someone should get right back to you.
Cheers,
Has it been "more than a month yet" or are you surprised?
Anyone else getting a sense of deja vu with reports of development progress (predictions made in spring/summer 2014 and then revised deadlines for October 2014 with a "1 week delay" for Zerocoin from Gnosis)?
Maybe I am just paranoid because delays are normal in software development. What does the community think?
I hope there is good news soon (such as the upcoming I2P exchange mentioned in this thread) or I am afraid the recent China (btc38) led ANC rally price increase will be erased.
Short term the dev team seems to be focused on the right things to fix existing problems.
Long term ANC still needs Zerocoin in order to be successful. I2P integration and a fair POW distribution alone (and a good coin name) will not be enough to attract many users and merchants.