Is Gnosis still working on the Zerocoin implementation if not who is if anyone. Also if it is going to take a long while to successfully implement the AuxPoW myriad fork. Then to vastly improve the security of the Anoncoin network. Wouldn't it make sense to implement just Scrypt AuxPoW only for now. Which I gather wouldn't be as difficulty to implement technically. And would greatly improve the security of the Anoncoin network for the meanwhile. Plus would help to stop the dramatic increases and drops in Anoncoin network hashrate.
Hi Matthewh,
We've decided to stay with scrypt only for the next release with an updated difficulty algorithm (this has been updated on the development schedule). There will be numerous security enhancements in the next version, and though we are still concerned with the low hash rate of the network (two-chain myriad will be implemented in the release that follows), we think that our improvements will solve most of our current problems.
As for zerocoin, our main developer at this point is Groundrod. After rewriting large portions of the Anoncoin code, bringing us nearly up to bitcoin 0.10, and fixing some important bugs along the way, everything is now working and he is cleaning up the code. This is not yet on github but will be "soon". Following our next release, Groundrod has expressed interest in working on zerocoin as well, so we are hoping that he will make quicker progress on this than gnosis has. Also, after our coming release, we will have a big push to increase the number of active anoncoin developers. As you might have noticed, one problem of an anonymous coin with anonymous developers participating on a volunteer basis is that the number of active developers we have at any moment fluctuates in time. We would like to ensure that there are at least two active developers at any given time to guard against problems that might arise when one is overwhelmed with real world commitments. More details on this will follow after our next release.
