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Haha, that's funny. yeah, sadly there's not a whole lot of money in investigative journalism, unless you get a huge story. But than again, if money was my main goal I wouldn't be a journalist. :) it also requires a level of technical knowledge that other journalists might be lacking, and one...

Yeah actually, I get devs are very busy, anyone that knows enough and is an active member can help.

Thank you Moli. Yeah, I sure am putting allot of time into this one. :) I've read a couple of articles about it though and it seems that there is information missing or a general lack of clarity about IX. So its an interesting opportunity. An interview or chat with someone would be the fastest...

Well, I'm getting scepticism about instantX from developers from the outside. So im doing research to reconcile what you guys are saying and what they generally think. In the middle, im seeing if there is a story here, as a journalist. At a deeper level, im trying to learn more about this...

well, IX broadcasts the tx ID, so if im snooping on the incomming packets and their IX tx ids than I could look that up on the blockchain and find the deposit address. So that's what I meant by information leak. But yes, You've answered my question, ty.

Ok, here's another one. Given that IX txs broadcast the tx id of the transaction. Isn't that an information leak? in other words, is there any use in combining darksend with IX, as far as keeping the information private? or are IX and DS+ currently two separate and non compatible features?

I'm starting to get a better understanding of Darkcoin's goal too. Or rather of Evan's goal. "The goal of Darkcoin, is to be the best possible e-currency. With Darksend (for anonymity) and InstantX providing nearly instant payment technology, we can reinvent the way digital currency is used on...

I'm sorry if I've come off overtly critical btw. I just have been keeping an eye on darkcoin for a while and I think it is time for me to take a closer look. I also think there may be important information about the current limitations and potential of Darkcoin's IX that needs to be -say-...

So its for relatively small retail transactions. Is it safe for say exchanges to accept InstantX's at face value?

5.2 under "futher work" suggests that instantx will be possible without waiting for confirmations, with something called "instant validations". I guess this is still in the works than. I would quote it, but the pdf is writen in a hellish format. as if I had pressed enter after every letter...

Howdy! doing some research on Darkcoin, now in particular about instantX. One concern and criticism I've heard is that, if the receiver of an IX is able to resend it elsewhere, say to an exchange to trade for bitcoin. And there is a rollback on the source of that tx, than the exchange would...

ok. That sounds good, certainly more resilient to this theoretical attack than the question implies. Now, assuming quantums did come, and some crazy person wants to de-anonymize darksend users, Is there any data available on how many rounds the average user does? or what the cost of going to...

Great, old transactions with less than 8 rounds of darksend would than be vulnerable.

Assuming that these quantum computers could not break the cryptography that governs crypto-coins. Could the coin join implementations of privacy, like darksend, be broken by quantum computers in the future? This is a critizism of darkcoin that I picked up somewhere, curious what you think...