I've been running an xmixer for over a week now and haven't received a single fee. However, I have been charged a very minimal fee of -0.0001 XC that Dan said was a mistake.
Is anyone running an xmixer and actually processing private transactions? If so how often?
Thanks
Its pretty reasonable that your xmixer, IF set up correctly through firewall, didnt receive any fees. XC is private, but its still not marketed widely, its code hasnt been ironed out for release, and its still not "mainstream" easy to do most stuff(like use the xchat). It might be easy to setup a mixer, and try the xchat for us, but its nowhere as easy as using paypal to transact, or skype to chat. Its more than possible though.
When Dan released the xmixer tech and its revisions, there were a handful of people testing mixers plus private transactions, with rewards such as ~0.00043 per transactions. We still havent cleared the formula of the fee, but that mixer reward included transactions up to 10 xc only, if I recall correctly, and there were people receiving rewards twitch or 3 times per day, just for the testing pf what? 10? 20? 50 people at most, holders and lurkers alike?
Xmixers can still stake mind you, Im still not sure how you can arrange your addresses to maximize staking+private fees, but I get a feeling there will be LOTS of info on that, after XC mainstream release. Now with blocknet, you need not even speculate that XC gets super massive mainstream usage, because ur mixers will serve
every participating coin community wanting to transact in private through the comfort of their own funds/wallet.
Now imagine XC team staying true(like it always has) to its roadmap development, and getting some mainstream love as a leader in private tech, XC ITO launching, and XC itself get some sweet mobile/desktop app dressing up(team is working on desktop/mobile UI and official site as we speak). People realising they can use private mixers tech to gain fees from the WHOLE blocknet itself. What if the opened source xbridge gets accomodated in BTC wallet itself? BTC? With xbridge? Being served by your mixer?
I am going to answer akkula's concern: "I cannot buy 20 to 30 XC every now and then, its just pointless". Well that's what people did with BTC back in 10/11/12 and now they would die to be able to get their hands on 20 or 30 BTC every now and then.... Exaggerating? perhaps. But if technical analysis is even 25% correct, in 1 years time BTC will have exploded and most decent alts will gain real value along with it.