Topic: Official Anoncoin chat thread (including history) - page 87. (Read 530660 times)

Your fine, I for one really appreciate your time and hard work.

It's too late in the day for me to make a progress update, except to say that I have been writing code at a very rapid pace  You all can expect a real update in ~21 hours.

Generally the quieter I am on btctalk and IRC, the more work I am getting done, so don't worry if I'm not posting much here!

I have checked using http://www.timeanddate.com :

Genesis block : Sunday 02 June 2013

Up to block 87777 theoretical time for a block was 3.42 min hence : for 87777 x 3.42 min = 300197 min = 5003 hours

Sunday 02 June 2013 (noon) + 5003 hours (208 days, 11 hours) = 27 December 2013, 23 h 00 m 00 theoretical

In practice block 87777 timestamp is 2013-10-31 05:37:47

Hence two months in advance, probably due to diff too low in begining and/or attacks when diff adjust was like litecoin.

Taking 31 october 2013 for block 87777 and adding 257343 (actual block) - 87777 = 169566 blocks of 3 min each :

2013-10-31 + 8478 hours (353 days, 6 hours) = Sunday 19 October 2014, 18 h 00 m 00 (today)

--> hence I conclude the diff adjustment using KGW is on time even if having highly variable block time.

So there is no problem and not a million coins will be burned like you said in 2014. We are 49223 blocks = 246115 ANC before the halving reward, the date of halving is about 30 january 2015.

Does anyone have a chart of the total number of ANC in circulation as a function of time?

I could be wrong, but I think that about 300,000 coins have been minted in the past couple months in relation to the difficulty algorithm problems. If that is true, we will burn through a million coins (1/3 of total supply) by the end of the year.

So...

What's going on now with the update? We've been informed that it would come and we already should look out for Infos in bitcointalk and reddit 


I just wonder, because the problem with the wallet/exchanges/hashrate is going on for quite long

In the spirit of amateur gimpage and boredom (The A in the shadow of the Z . Skills/talent lacking, that's what the intention is.):

http://s2.postimg.org/hz30roxl5/zero2.png

But in all seriousness, I think a good feature would be -- and I'm not sure how to put this -- if there was some kind of way to verify ANC addresses are not ASCII strings. The thing I really find invasive about bitcoin/blockchains is that people are now using it to store all manner of unsavory information to our drives. I don't want a blockchain on my boxen with possible kiddie porn or malware payloads or what'evs. I know it's great on one level -- proliferation of information/censorship -- but I think that maybe a blockchain as a ledger should be just that -- something separate to another ideological thingiewingie. Must I submit *that* freedom in order to have my coinage?

I think anonymity, in this regard, is really the option to opt out -- to abscond -- from the status quo (bitcoin's exposure of the individual in this case). I don't see how a blockchain that allows anyone to put any old info on my drive as being in any way conducive to that idea. But I suppose implementing such limitations might be highly impractical (impossible?), and even offensive to some users?

Edit: Just did a 'strings -n 20 *.dat | more' on the blockchain. "02/Jun/2013:  The Universe, we're all one. But really, fuck the Central banks. - Anonymous 420" Followed by a whole lot of coin-miner tag-spam.

Steps for adoption: Think dark markets.  Think getting blessing from core bitcoin developers as providing valuable technology, even if not appropriate for bitcoin itself.  Think talking to the coinbase guys.  Email ben horowitz.

BUT all this is dependent on having best in class tech.  And it has to be better and more marketable than darkcoin.  Once we are up and running, anoncoin needs to extremely credibly be able to say all of the following:

1) We have solved the anonymity problem.  Further work in this area (by other coins, etc) is a waste, because there are no shortcomings to our solution

2) Our solution (if not the math itself) is easy to understand, and is an elegant technology like bitcoin, not a hack-y technology like all the other coins with mixers and masternodes and minimum coin requirements and so forth (looking at you darkcoin, for all I admire you)

3) We can scale just as well as bitcoin for the following A, B, C reasons related to dealing with keeping the blockchain a reasonable size and being able to verify transactions with reasonable computation requirements

+100 Do you have any ideas on where to look for merchants. I'll keep my eyes open, and be happy to get the word out on this great coin.

I hope everyone is thinking about how to help ANC after Zerocoin. The development team is not working on ANC alone!

Lets think about merchants we want to approach and privacy focused consumer groups who may be interested.

Adoption will come much faster if we make sure key partners are aware of our groundbreaking technology and how it can benefit them

Energy drinks fit perfectly with coding.

That being said sleep deprivation can only last so long. At some point the community should chip in and start a vacation fund for meeh and gnosis after their projects are complete

Any updates from Meeh?

Still alive, coding his ass of? The lack of sleep and energy drink abuse make me worried. 

I hope all is well and that he takes care of himself. Health and general well being should be priorited. Anoncoin development is not a sprint, but a long term project.

+1

These logos are entertaining but Soviet Union collapsed in 1989...
I liked the one with formulas on the back as it refers to the hard-core maths behind zANC - but why a chain?

Thanks Gnosis- for your work and updates; we definitely appreciate 

Gnosis: hold on ! (and have sleep also). Your work is much appreciated 

Delays in Germany!!?? Does not compute

Ouch, 2 days behind.
Well, you can do it Gnosis^^
I trust your estimate.
hope it will be on time

I had to deal with delays each day for 2 weeks now. train services union are striking in germany

Thnx! Will do.

Done:
    CWalletCoin
    zerocoin_wallet storage
    RPC mint txn (but still need a high level command: "mintzerocoins")
    relaying mint txns


Almost done:
    accum. chkpts in block

Next:
    wallet witness update
    wallet mint logic
    refactor CoinSpend
    RPC create spend + impl.
    store own spend pieces locally
    RPC get seeding spend proofs
    net: seed spends
    net: receive and verify spends
    store received spend pieces
    wallet spend logic
    2 1/2 days debugging
    (GUI if time permits)


I'm a little bit behind schedule, but I have more time each day for the next 4 days, so I'll definitely be able to catch up.

I know that n00n doesn't like 3D stuff, but here is a little compromise  between the actual flat logo and something more techno-ish :

https://cdn.anonfiles.com/1413623695607.png

https://cdn.anonfiles.com/1413624362503.png