I haven't seen an announcement from Dan saying here is REV2 complete. There is no anon UI.
Again, there is no reason for you to be expecting an anon UI at this point. It was never promised to be delivered with rev2, in fact on the roadmap it clearly says that rev2.5 will include an updated wallet UI. If dan brings the anonymity features into the UI before rev2.5, then he is over-delivering.
Correct: the UI update comes with Rev 2.5 as per the roadmap. However we'd like to avoid people having to use command lines to send XC because it's unnecessarily complicated, and so a nice little "anon" button could come in handy...
We're aware that there was a general perception that 7 July would bring a "completed" Rev 2. Perhaps this was a reasonable enough assumption given that the roadmap didn't specify grades of completion, but just said "Rev 2". However these "rev" things are milestones upon a continuous development path, and the entire project is under development up to and beyond Rev 3. If you recall, when Rev 1.5 came out there were several updates after the initial one; you can expect the same thing around every milestone. Basically the idea of a milestone is simply to have implemented a certain type or layer of technology at that point. But this doesn't imply that there'll be no refinements after the milestone. In fact, after Rev 3 there'll be the big bounty to provably break XC's anonymity. So the process of development is a continuous one, and "revs" are just markers to designate the stage we're at.
On the other hand it's still in our interest to reach a milestone with a stable and user-friendly app rather than a confusing one. We'll always aim at this - if not more. However it's not considered a failure to deliver a new technology at a milestone that isn't entirely finished; in fact, "revs" are by nature unfinished.
So there's a distinction between a rev and an official public launch, at which point everything will need to be stable and ready for bulletproofing tests.
Anyway, expect updates on a regular basis, and - if Dan's past progress is anything to go by - the occasional surprise.
Let's just put this in perspective:
We delivered a world-first this week. Until now, no-one's been able to use a mediator to pass on information without having to trust the mediator. Henceforth XC has trustless mediators. It's pretty incredible.
When Satoshi invented Bitcoin, he succeeded in solving the Byzantine Generals' problem for the first time. However, Bitcoin doesn't provide anonymity of a sort suitable for several common use-cases. So several anoncoins introduced supernodes that mix and forward transactions in order to provide the necessary anonymity. But when you introduce transaction-forwarding for the sake of privacy, you introduce the Byzantine Generals' problem all over again in a new way.
So Dan comes along and solves the Byzantine Generals' problem, in 6 weeks, through multipath.
If any of you are feeling some sense of disappointment about this, I'm at a loss as to why.
its not understanding how big of a revolution this really is and fear of beeing outperformend by yet another short term pump somewhere cause they only see the short term. don't get discouraged
I've been looking at altcoins and trading them for a year now, i've since than been waiting for a coin to really bring something new improving upon bitcoin taking it to the next level, some had new algos , distribution models , more transaction speed, and so on. All important.
I expect the perfect crypto to be to digital transactions, what gold/silver is to paper. The one thing bitcoin was missing was Privacy for your holdings and transactions. some did this before XC but where no option to me because of their centralized approach which stands against the whole point of crypto.
So with the latest beta release THIS IS IT!! And it came about in Lightspeed so far. And its no coincidence that this coin has such a high profile team already. Its a result of this fundamental evolutionary step in development . the talent is naturally attracted to the good projects.
