DarkSend+

Over the last week or two, Darksend+ has made some significant advances. We’re happy to say that we’re closing in on a finished product.

We've opted to employ a strategy for Darksend+ that is slightly different than the one we outlined in our last update. This new strategy has several advantages, and we think it is a significant improvement over the previous iteration in terms of both privacy and efficiency. The Darkcoin client will now store pre-mixed, denominated Darkcoins in the user’s wallet, to be used instantly at any time the user desires. The mixing and denomination process is seamless, automatic, and requires no intervention on the part of the user. The 10 DRK limit previously in place with Darksend v1 will be permanently removed. With RC4, the amount that users can send via Darksend+ is limited only by the available balance in their wallet.

Here's how it works:

Every 10 blocks, user clients network-wide will send any unmixed, traceable Darkcoins in their possession through an anonymization phase. In this phase, Masternodes are used in chained succession to mix the coins they receive from the network and break them down into homogenous denominations. After being processed by a minimum of 2 Masternodes, the coins are either sent to the next Masternode in the chain or back to the user’s wallet at randomly generated change addresses.

Depending on the desired depth of security and privacy, users may select between 2 and 8 “hops” to successive Masternodes before their coins are sent back to the client. Hops are made every 10 blocks, so anonymization at a depth of 2 hops will take 10*2*2.5=50 minutes, 3 hops 10*3*2.5=75 minutes, and so on. The desired mixing depth can be selected in the client GUI.

At the end of the anonymization phase, the user’s coins are returned to their client at randomly generated change addresses. When the user wishes to make a transaction, the client forwards the intended amount from these anonymous change addresses directly to the intended receiver’s address. There is no direct involvement of of Masternodes in the final person-to-person transaction.

Proof of payment will work as it always has: a user can see the send transaction with the receiver’s address in their own wallet, and the blockchain will show that the receiver’s address received an input in the corresponding amount.

Gold taking off on the back of the Malaysian Airlines incident.

That means Bitcoin to follow + the rest of the alts to follow that.

 I love dark but I see a large drop coming.

Agreed. The subtlety is good, but the up/down doesn't tell me anything considering the left/right nature in the top bar... Since it's a number, +/- makes more sense. Numbers do not technically go up or down, they get bigger and smaller. A graph describing numbers might go up or down, but this is not a graph...

Change to +/-, immediately understandable.

It looks damn sexy and I want to hire you to un-suck my websites.

A little detail, but... Coinbase shows your BTC ballance to 2 decimal places, but upon mouseover, shows 4. They also round up on that shortened version, which really messes with you when making a withdrawal.

I'd like to see it show show 3 places (matching the mix depth), mouseover to full duffs. Do not round up. Simply show a + or something to let the user know there's a dangly bit of duffs hanging off there. Or, have 4/8 decimal depth be the defult, and the actual values of how deep it goes can be customized. Way easy to do this and it adds another touch to that which is already fucking classy.

I would also swap the version label to the left side, mirror the white area that shows the balance so that it appears underneath the stack of numbers. You expect to see the total at the bottom of a stack of numbers... Not on the opposite side. Keeps it more appropriately segregated.

Damn beautiful though. I want it...

Fools! Darkproton is controlling you like pawns... I just got rid of half my dark. Hes selling this time. I see your game Proton, and Im ready to play. I for one wont be left holding the bag... I love dark but I see a large drop coming.

As not what your master nodes can do for you... Ask what you can do for your master nodes...

I see the DRK price dropping, proton.... and I can think of only one man who has enough DRK to dictate the market like that.