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    NEW OFFICIAL THREAD HERE:
    https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/781207






    Introduction Talkcoin

    Most people who learned about Bitcoin look at it as nothing more than a currency, but the reality is that it's much more than that. At its core, Bitcoin is a new technology that allows everyone around the world to come to a consensus on who owns what without the use of a centralized third party. There are many different applications that can be built on top of this technology, and Bitcoin is only the first of many apps to come. Talkcoin uses the real innovation behind this protocol to create a new generation of cryptocurrency. Talkcoin is a new experience that will bring something new to the crypto world and beyond it.




    Decentralizing the Internet


    P2P chat.

    Talkcoin starts a new generation of cryptocurrency as the first decentralized chat and voting system. Talkcoin is completely decentralized and the first to offer a true decentralized chat program that won't rely on a central server to deliver messages from the sender to their recipients and lets you communicate freely with anyone in the world without censorship.

    Talkcoin is the first coin to have true decentralized blockchain communications.

    We are interested in using the blockchain as a secure communications platform so people can communicate freely, securely.

    Our vision is for Talkcoin is to build an open platform that helps people to communicate securely, anonymously or publically, without the need for any centralized servers or control by any one person or government.  

    Distributed Technology.

    The most fundamental difference compared to many existing chat programs is that Talkcoin Chat won't rely on a central server to deliver messages from the sender to their recipients. Messages are stored in the block chain and frequent block generation (20 sec) means messages are delivered quickly and the network can handle more transaction volume.




    Note: To prevent spam and flood, one coin is required to write a message. It can always be changed later if it's too expensive or too cheap.




    Democratic and secure voting system made for everyone

    In Talkcoin,  the money supply is continuously decided by a true democratic and secure voting system, everybody can vote, that is not limited to miners. Each user will have to send coins to vote, so nobody can vote millions of times and get the block reward to whatever direction he wants. Voting takes place twice per week.



    Namely, users can vote the amount of coins to be given to developers in each block that they found. This policy allows better communication between community and project development team. If you want to give 1%, 2% or 3% you choose! The default value is 1%. Note: you also can reduce donation to zero! Sad




    Secure Hash Algorithms NIST SHA-3 candidate algorithms

    - Implementation based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) publication.
    (cf. http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2012/NIST.IR.7896.pdf)

    The NIST hash function competition was an open competition held by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop a new hash function called SHA-3 to complement the older SHA-1 and SHA-2. NIST selected five SHA-3 candidate algorithms to advance to the third (and final) round: BLAKE - Grøstl (Knudsen et al.) - JH - Keccak (Keccak team, Daemen et al.) - Skein (Schneier et al.)

    NIST noted some factors that figured into its selection as it announced the finalists:
    •   Performance
    •   Security
    •   Analysis: "NIST eliminated several algorithms because of the extent of their second-round tweaks or because of a relative lack of reported cryptanalysis – either tended to create the suspicion that the design might not yet be fully tested and mature."
    •   Diversity: The finalists included hashes based on different modes of operation, including the HAIFA and sponge function constructions, and with different internal structures, including ones based on AES, bitslicing, and alternating XOR with addition.




    Features

    √ Decentralized public chat
    √ Democratic block reward voting
    √ Group chat by country – next release
    √ Send private encrypted messages – next release
    √ New efficient algo based on NIST SHA-3
    √ cpu/gpu miner




    Specifications

    √ Currency: TAC
    √ Algorithms: NIST5: BLAKE - Grøstl - JH - Keccak - Skein
    √ Block time: 20 sec.
    √ Cofirmations: 3
    √ Block reward: 0-50 max (decentralized reward voting), default: 25
    √ Multipool protection: Talkcoin Gravity
    √ QR code support
    √ TOR support
    √ Multilanguages
    √ Port: 9802
    √ RPCPort: 9801




    Fair Policy Fair Launch


    The project has an open, fair and transparent model.

    √ No IPO.
    √ No premine.
    √ No instamine.
    √ No difficulty adjustment too low (prevent fastmine)
    √ No massive block rewards at the start.
    √ No people/No dev who hold the majority with millions of coins, nor even only one coin.
    √ A gpu miner, developed for talkcoin, will be available from start for everybody.




    Links

    ► Official website: http://talkcoin.org/

    ► Official website: http://talkcoin.org/

    ► Paper Wallet: http://talkcoin.net/

    ► GitHub project: https://github.com/talkcoin


    GPU Miner: link1 or link2

    Windows Wallet: link1 or link2

    Mac OS X Wallet: link1 (not tested)


    QQ Group: 346927017
    Weibo: http://weibo.com/talkcoin
    Chinese forum: http://talkcoin.joybbs.cn
    Chinese blog: http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/5132009612



    How To Mine Talkcoins

    To start with sgminer, use the command line:
    Code:
    sgminer.exe -k talkcoin -o http://127.0.0.1:8000 -u user -p x

    and in your talkcoin.conf:
    Code:
    rpcuser=user
    rpcpassword=x
    rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
    rpcport=8000

    Getting Started with SGminer



    Pools

    http://tac.nonce-pool.com/

    http://dwarfpool.com/tac

    https://tac.suprnova.cc/

    http://xhash.net/




    Block Explorer

    http://talk.cryptocoinunion.com/




    Miscellaneous

    Translation of pre-ann thread

    - Chinese
    - Dutch
    - French
    - India
    - Korean
    - Portuguese
    - Russian
    - Spanish





    Release date: 4th May 2014


    "This is the official thread from the original developer. Please don't use any unofficial wallets from the takeover group"

    For more explanations see:
    https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/767634


    Dev fund report:
    https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/775018
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