What will really help the price of XST is its adoption on Open bazaar and other black markets. Its no doubt XST has a totally new technology - anonymous sms sending of money - but this unique feature is not sufficient for XST to succeed.

Only its constant and steady use on black markets will help XST to survive in the huge competition of anonymous coins.

If not Silkroad, Bitcoin`s value would still be under 0.1 USD. It`s well know truth that only Silkroad and other black markets helped BTC to rise.

What a load of garbage..Silk road bitcoin made up of around 5% of all transactions at the time it was first taken down! 30k bitcoin in escrow is hardly close to the millions in circulation!

Geeze some of the things you guys say in this thread is without a doubt... I wont say anymore on that because its just rude. But wow, you guys need to pick up your game bigtime! You have without a doubt though, become the joke community of anon coin projects... And emilio is mostly to blame but the rest of you seriously need to smarten up just a tad. You are making the rest of the projects just look really stupid and we are all trying to crack the anonymous and mainstream markets right now and you twits here saying some of the crap you do is just walking us all backwards!!

I'm glad you have all stopped chanting chandran signatures but whats next i mean i think all the time you spend here isn't it time you studied the ecosystem, just a little bit!?

Im assuming you possibly arrived long after dogecoin even. And really missed the whole rise of bitcoin in april and the end of 2013. One could really guess it had a lot more to do with gox manipulating its own markets.  And it did not take a brain surgeon to work it out both times but mostly the rise to $1200 was at the time of the US debt default scare..Most definitely not silk road. Its all documented, just go and read more about what this is all about PLEASE for everyones sake! The drop in price of bitcoin wavered when silk road was shut down and the rise to $1200 was after that!

Some references can be found here http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/03/bitcoin-price-silk-road-ulbricht-value
and here https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/files/pdfs/tech_reports/CMUCyLab12018.pdf

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Really? You're back?!

It's rich that a guy involved with a coin which has less than 250 addresses with positive balances comes in here talkin' FUD about an ecosystem when SDC has no community (Zero Community).

If you're upset that I came in your thread to discuss a recently published article about SDC and to confirm the November wallet release date is not firm (nor should it be) than I suggest we discuss the matter there.

In the meantime I really don't see why you're here.

Perhaps if you weren't such a dick you'd actually have a community to look after rather than idling over here to take cheap shots at a coin with an academic dev that perhaps you envy.


Now piss off.

Again I would like to thank those who have pointed out publicly a critical deficiency in Chandran signatures as they apply to crypto-currencies [1]. Namely, the deficiency is that Chandran signatures are untraceable. I would especially like to mention that LongAndShort's relentless research into the matter was impressive and genuinely helpful.

Most wonder exactly how the deficiency in traceability may be addressed for sub-linear ring signatures. Fortunately, work by Eiichrio Fujisaki shows that sub-linear ring signatures may be constructed such that they are traceable [2]. Thus, despite references to Chandran signatures in the the whitepaper brief, Chandran signatures will not be used in their original form. Recognize that Fujisaki's work builds on Chandran signatures, so it is a matter of semantics whether one uses the term "Chandran signatures" to refer to the proposed signature system for StealthSend.

Some may wonder if I was aware of the lack of untraceability in Chandran signatures when I wrote the whitepaper brief. I was aware of this deficiency. However, I was not aware at that time that traceability must be an integral part of the signature scheme. I believed that I could add this property ad hoc. This misconception was a result of my own lack of knowledge about cryptography. In retrospect, I would not have proposed Chandran signatures, per se, had I known then what I know now. Instead, I would have proposed the system by Fujisaki.

A misconception about the whitepaper brief is that it was somehow a perfect blueprint for StealthSend. It was not. At the time, it was suggested to me to make a technical proposal for StealthSend, so I wrote down my thoughts--unfinished and infused with my own imperfect knowledge of cryptography. At this moment I feel compelled to advise anyone that unless a product has been implemented, a whitepaper describing the product is simply a proposal and subject to revision. This advice pertains to any product of any crypto-currency.

One question that has seemed to arise in this thread is whether or not I know what I am doing when it comes to implementing the cryptography I propose. I believe that remains to be seen. I am not a cryptographer by training. It is still difficult for me to work my way through cryptography literature although I am getting better. However, keep in mind that I am a scientist by training. I am extremely comfortable at the edge not only of my own knowledge, but also that of humanity. I have always found a way to learn what I need to know in order to achieve the objectives I set out for myself. I have no reason to believe that my plans for StealthSend will be any different.

Finally, I should address the timeline. At this moment, I am behind on the roadmap. We have not been able to procure the help that we need for the wallet upgrades, despite advertising and active recruitment of developers. This could be a reflection of low bitcoin prices right now.

StealthSend is behind as well. I have tried to make frequent updates with the wallet, but these updates have come at the expense of working on StealthSend. At this moment, I can't make a projection for how long it will require. Additionally, I am hesitant to make a projection because I have come to realize that any delay may be interpreted later with suspicion. So at this point, I'll say only that it may take months to produce StealthSend.

-- Hondo

[1] http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-73420-8_38
[2] http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-19074-2_25

People! Can't we all just get along ? (I've seen that in a movie  )
Well, at list for a while ?
LongandShort is just a hypocrite safeguarding his investment, but we don't really care about him.
He will pop up here when any announcement will be made...all of course in the name of "technology", being afraid that his shadow will came in second. So fuck him...he is a loser....but what about the rest of us ?
So can we stay in our own threads for a while? I'm tired of this shit...please ?

See but that begs the question, what counts as someones own thread? IS every person limited to only one coin? What if they hold multiple coins, what then?

Guys, don't let LongAndShort push your buttons. He's trying to get a reaction out of you and when you give him one, it's like feeding a stray cat...he won't leave. Remember what happened last time? It's not worth it. XST certainly didn't benefit from the last exchange. Let him think whatever he wants. If he thinks that everyone here is an idiot...let him think it...who gives a shit? Don't let yourselves get manipulated. Don't take the bait.