All Things Alt: Block Chain Notaries, Bottle-Backed Coins and a Darkcoin Update
After a low-volume summer in the community, we just might be seeing some activity that, fingers crossed, could kickstart the alternative digital currency marketplace. Although the risk of project collapse is still out there, as recent failures like ghostcoin have shown, recent developments in the space indicate that the altcoin story is far from over. Viacoin team implements block chain notary service. One of the next-generation use cases proposed for the block chain is that of a notary. Instead of relying on a central authority to certify the authenticity of a document, the block chain....
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Darkcoin has risen – and the news now is that it has grown to become the fourth biggest cryptocurrency, surpassing Dogecoin. Since its beginnings four months ago, Darkcoin’s innovative privacy capabilities which have been constantly updated, have been gaining more and more followers as the true security of the Bitcoin block chain comes under increasing scrutiny. Safety in numbers? As of 14 May, one darkcoin was worth US$2.86, up from US$1.65 the previous week. Now, in light of the continuing popularity of the RC2 update to its privacy settings, Darkcoin is worth US$11.72, while its market....
For those unfamiliar with Darkcoin, you better start researching on it as it had begun a new era of anonymous coins in cryptocurrency which is arguably the reason for which we see many anonymous coins these days. Coin Specifications. Darkcoin was launched at the beginning of the year, and the constant updates it has been receiving may be a shock to many who do not believe in altcoins. Being one of the few coins that has shown long-term promise, Darkcoin is definitely a great contender for the future. An interesting feature that was introduced into the altcoin market by Evan Duffield,....
Darkcoin Developer Evan Duffield released a newer version of their open source platform Onyx, promising more features and improvements than the previous one. As per the details available on Darkcoin's forum, the 10.17.19 Onyx V3 update has fixed a number of issues that were surfaced in earlier versions, the major one being "Dead Change". This flaw was originally found by a new Darkcoin member 'Aswan', who argued over the inability of Darksend (Darkcoin's transaction obfuscating feature) to differentiate between anonymous and identifiable funds. Aswan provided an illustration of 20 coins....
Darkcoin rises back! After some drama with other anon coins, Darkcoin again has firmly put itself in number 3 position market caps and on a positive upward trend. This story for me is bitter sweet, as I sold on the downward trend, but hey, still made a profit several times over. With Masternode payments to be fixed and new revision of Darksend to implement ring signatures that are set to hit before this month is over, I only see good things for Darkcoins future with slight corrections here and there. Darkcoin will only gain more popularity once more Scrypt ASICS hit the market and miners....
This week's altcoin news update discusses the Darkcoin price downtrend, Cloakcoin's PoSA, and Feathercoin's move to NeoScrypt. Welcome to the CCN weekly altcoin news update, where we profile newsworthy items that have flown under the mainstream radar. This week's edition features an exceptionally impressive lineup of stories. In the past week, the Darkcoin price fell below $5, which may be partly due to Cloakcoin's announcement that their unique Proof of Stake Anonymity algorithm entered public beta. Finally, Feathercoin is set to become the first noteworthy altcoin to adopt the NeoScrypt....