With what's gone on over the last week I thought now would be a good time to introduce people (who aren't already aware of it) to The Shadow Project.
We've been trying to make it easy for people to do everything they're used to doing online - chatting/trading/sharing files etc. - whilst maintaining their privacy. So far it consists of:
- ShadowCash - an anonymous PoS cryptocurrency (using ring signatures and stealth addresses)
- ShadowChat - an in-wallet encrypted messenger
- ShadowGo - mobile clients (*being upgraded)
- ShadowLite - lite mode (SPV like Electrum) to allow users to sync quickly
The current phase of development is centred upon the creation of a decentralised marketplace - ShadowMarket - which will also be integrated into the ShadowCore client and will make use of the encrypted messaging system. Joseph Cox has just written a piece on it for Motherboard which includes some of the designs:
The Race for the First Decentralised Silk Road Is On
We've a development team of seven (including one cryptographer) and there was no Initial Coin Offering or pre-mine so they're mostly unpaid (beyond community donations). Nonetheless their passion for the project and its goals has resulted in a rate and quality of development that's pretty remarkable. The project's open source (GitHub repo) and we're always glad to have more people aboard so if there are any developers who'd like to contribute please get in touch.
When the market's complete it'll give users access to a wide-scale, distributed and decentralised private economy via a single application (available on all major platforms). If you'd like to try the wallet out now it's available from our website (use the bootstrap for faster syncing).
Other links:
Subreddit: /r/shadowcash
Forums: ShadowTalk
Bitcointalk: Shadow Thread
IRC: #shadowcash -Freenode
If you've any questions please leave them below and if I can't answer them I'll do my best to find someone who can.
P.S. There was a post on another sub about the market a few days ago, and I'm not sure if this was over-enthusiastic supporters of the project or if it was a sly form of trolling... but no one believes it when someone posts from a brand new account saying: "I got 48 hunnert bitcoinz and im gonna put dem all shadow!!!"
So please don't. :P
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