https://www.binance.com/?ref=15316928

(This will be the only “shilling” done here, and my newest play this week is located here)

My last two top calls made well over 200%; and VIBE is still trailing North up over 300% (all in under 3 weeks time). I do NOT recommending chasing either of these coins at such significant price climbs. In the crypto space there are certain attributes, “tells” that can be analyzed leading to the highest likelihood of positive returns. The same methods that applied to finding VIBE and TRIG have found a 3rd coin which is likely the most undervalued project of 2018.

This article announcing this particular significantly undervalued project will be released on Bitcoinist this Saturday (time TBD, likely around 1pm EST).

The coins ATH was more than 95% higher than where it is currently, and with a platform coming out by the end of the year and some of the most impressive partnerships (and team) in crypto this one even surprised me when I found it flying under the radar.

Enough for the upcoming highly undervalued plays, let’s discuss my favorite play (of course a bit bias):

ANON UPDATES:

1. Cryptopia has agreed to list ANON, open withdraws and deposits Monday. This was confirmed from Cryptopia themselves to myself.
2. ANON solidified a deal with General Bytes ATMS to be in ATMs all over the world.
3. We have a token burn likely destroying 25% of all ANON in existence (all unclaimed BTC/ZCL) occurring January 1.
4. Dev team looking to update tech and incorporate lightning ASAP.
5. The Bounty 2.0 just started! Our first was such a success we brought it back, join here:

ANON - Official Community

Masternode returns are currently over 1000% annually.

Do I need to say more? We have top advisors, top tech, a great team, and had a successful fork. Now it is time to focus on the road ahead!

Masternodes have approximately $1million USD to determine how to spend (listings, partnerships, platforms, etc). Let the decision making process begin.

ANON’s project has fiscal backing, a strong team, incredible advisors, a community of loyal supporters, and now it is time to face the future head strong.

Alone we can be seen but together,

WeAreANON

2 Prior Top Coins Are +200–400%, ANON Updates, Newest Top Project was originally published in ANON on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Below we are excited to discuss how to claim your ANON following the snapshot! PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU USE A METHOD YOU ARE COMFORTABLE WITH FROM THE LIST. There are methods that are very quick, there are methods with minimal steps, and there are methods built on convenience. The ANON team recommends using a supporting wallet (ZELTREZ) or maintaining your private keys for the fastest setting up of a masternode and attaining your ANON. There were also updates to the code that will be described below along with the future viability, masternode fund updates, and community governance of ANON.

Methods to Claim ANON on September 10, 2018 at 9pm EST (21:00 EST):

· Using a supporting wallet: Zeltrez.

· Holding your ZCL/BTC in a supporting Exchange:

Cryptopia, Tradesatoshis, and Safe.trade.

· Holding your ZCL/BTC in a wallet where you control the private keys (Coinomi, Jaxx, etc).

Important Notes About Claiming ANON:

· Make sure you are using TRANSPARENT addresses to claim your ANON, 2:1 will be given to the ZCL transparent addresses.

· Make sure your ZCL/BTC are on a supporting wallet, exchange, or somewhere you hold the private keys for before the 8th as 500 confirmations takes 24 hours to send.

Supporting Wallet — ZELTREZ

Zeltrez is where the downloadable, easy to use ZELTREZ wallet is located. Exchanges can take up to a few weeks to credit users a forked coin if they are supporting. The fastest way to attain your ANON for a masternode is by using a supporting wallet or a wallet with private keys. Below are the steps to use the supporting wallet ZELTREZ.

Steps:

1. Go to: Zeltrez.io and click download.

2. Register a username and password (any that you will remember).

3. Login using your username and password.

4. Click “Add Coin,” click “ZCL.”

5. ZCL has been added to your portfolio, click “ZCL.”

6. The ZCL window will appear “Send” or “Receive.”

7. As you are depositing ZCL you will click “Receive.”

8. A ZCL address will generate, copy and paste this into the wallet or exchange withdrawal system you are using.

9. On a non-supporting exchange or wallet, login, click “send/withdrawal” and paste the “ZCL” address you generated in step 8.

10. Click “withdraw/send” on the exchange after placing the ZCL address and your funds will arrive in your Zeltrez wallet within 24 hours (exchanges take a while to send).

11. The ANON wallet will automatically populate with ANON after the snapshot.

12. The only step will be selecting “Add Coin” and selecting “ANON.”

Supporting Exchanges: Cryptopia, Tradesatoshi, and Safe.Trade

Steps:

1. Register for a new account at one of the supporting exchanges.

2. Sign-up using a username and password (any that you will remember).

3. Login using your username and password.

4. Go to wallets and click “Deposit” or “Receive” next to ZCL or BTC.

5. If you are sending/receiving ZCL make sure you click “Deposit” specifically for ZCL. If you are sending BTC make sure you click the “Deposit/Receive” button next to BTC.

a. Sending coins to a wrong address may permanently result in loss of coins.

6. Login to the exchange/wallet you are sending from.

7. Click “Deposit” or “Receive” next to the proper crypto (BTC or ZCL), copy and paste the address that is generated by Cryptopia, Tradesat, or Safe.Trade.

8. Paste the address into the exchange you are withdrawing from.

a. For example: If you are withdrawing your ZCL from Bittrex you must be logged into Bittrex and a supporting exchange. Generate a ZCL address on the supporting exchange after doing steps 1–7 above. Once you have the ZCL address go to the Bittrex homepage and click “Wallets.” There will be a red and green small button. Click the small red button next to “ZCL” or “BTC.” Paste the address provided to you by the supporting exchange and enter your authenticator (if required).

9. Most exchanges are sending with 500 confirmations currently, make sure you send off of a non-supporting exchange immediately to guarantee it arrives prior to the snapshot!

Attaining ANON Using Private Keys (Coinomi or Jaxx)

Coinomi and Jaxx are examples of downloadable wallets that allow the user to possess their private keys. Coinomi has ZCL and BTC, while Jaxx only has BTC wallets available. If you prefer to keep your ZCL/BTC in these specific locations at the time of the fork you will still be able to attain your ANON. However, the process is a bit more tedious and is not automatic like using the Zeltrez wallet or an exchange (which could take extra days).

1. Download and unzip the ANON full node wallet: https://github.com/anonymousbitcoin/anon-full-node-wallet

2. Start it and allow the blockchain to update.

3. Go to wallet — Import One Private Key — — Sweep (this will take time)

4. Enter all private keys and sweep ANON into new address.

5. This exposes your private keys so make sure your ZCL/BTC are no longer in your ZCL/BTC wallet when you go to attain your ANON.

Updates from the Team

Every top 10 exchange was targeted for support and listing of ANON pre-fork. Formally we have still not been denied anywhere. However, it is very important individuals move their ZCL/BTC to a supporting exchange or wallet immediately to guarantee you do not miss the snapshot time as there will not be a delay. Exchanges (including the top 10) will continue to be targeted post fork and now their tech teams will be able to see our mainnet live which is a very important feature when they consider listing.

The ANON team has been discussing with Cryptopia how to insure we have their exchange support without their having to expose their private keys but also without having a closed premine. We have come to the novel resolution that Cryptopia will provide the ANON team with an estimation of their total ZCL and BTC prior to the fork (once ZCL has been transferred), and a 3rd UTXO will be inserted with BTC and ZCL into the ANON blockchain. This will allow for the creation of the estimated number of coins that Cryptopia will need to distribute to their traders. Cryptopia’s unexposed private key wallets holding ZCL will be burnt January 1, 2019, which means this method is unlikely to impact the total ANON circulating supply. Because Cryptopia will have to estimate the total ANON needed, the ANON team will inevitably have to generate more than the estimation incase more individuals than expected use Cryptopia. This will result in ANON being leftover and available for future tech support, to pay for a direct listing post fork, and to fund the Masternode fund (which already has 11,111 ZCL compliments of the ANON team). Breakdown of leftover ANON funds: 50% Masternode fund, 20% direct listing on exchanges, and 20% for future dev team support.

Masternodes will have the ability to decide what to do and how to spend the current ZCL in the MN fund and the new ANON in the MN fund. If they wish to spend it all on exchange listings so be it, that is the power of decentralization and voting.

This will position ANON’s masternodes with funding for the future while guaranteeing Cryptopia’s support for the fork. However, this leads to a final discussion about the coin burn in January. The ANON team is going to let the community and MNs vote on whether they want to ‘revive’ any percent of the burnt coins January 1, 2019. This will be one of the first proposals decided through the voting and MN system. With the majority of BTC holders likely to not collect their ANON there will be millions of ANON being burned in January. If the masternode holders decide, a portion of those millions of coins can be revived on the burn date.

This decision the team has decided would be best to leave to the future community and masternode holders of ANON. Make sure to collect your ANON and set up a masternode so you can help us decide…should a percentage of the burned coins in January be revived so the masternode fund will have more crypto for ANON’s future or should we keep supply lower?

This decision will be one of the first (if not the first) decided through our on chain voting!!

#WeAreANON

Final Update Pre-Fork — How to Claim Your ANON was originally published in ANON on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

The month of August was exciting for both ANON and ZCL. We applied to every top 10 exchange and many more! We are still awaiting confirmations or denials from every exchange we have not mentioned below.

The ANON team has worked very hard to make sure we met both legal and tech requirements for listing on all exchanges imaginable. The larger the exchange, the longer their tech and legal review usually take.

This is why the public will sometimes get notices “At this time…we are not supporting the fork.” The default for an exchange is not to support any forks or airdrops until both technology and legal review are complete, every top exchange will state “At this time….we are not supporting the fork.”

Both ANON and ZCL have had many successes this month:

• The ANON Testnets went live August 10th.
• The ANON Full Node wallet was released on our GitHub.
• The ANON ratio for ZCL holders was increased to 2:1.
• Masternode requirements were increased from 100 to 500 ANON, decreasing the total MNs by 500%.
• The ANON project was noticed by John McAfee (Organic Marketing).

John McAfee on Twitter

I've studied all security tokens. Few have survived, but far superior technology exists! We will never create ultimate anonymity with overpromised forks or mismanaged teams. I'm seriously excited about the ZCL fork to ANON on Sept 10th. @ANON_WeAreANON the new standard!

• TradeSatoshi announced support and listing of ANON.
• Cryptopia announced support and listing of ANON.
• The team worked endless hours to guarantee ANON was listed on exchanges, in wallets, and most importantly would have long-term utility.
• The Whitepaper was updated to include all our advisors and minor edits.
• ZCL passed their GitHub to Nimbosa of ZCL Classic CE (no longer in BTCP hands).
• Bounty payments of over 5000 ZCL have been successfully sent and well received by winners. Congratulations!

ZCL’s Twitter has expressed acknowledgment of the ANON fork and has become active:

Zclassic on Twitter

ZCL is forking to ANON and is being supported by many wallets and exchanges. @ANON_WeAreANON ZCL is being taken over by ZCL Classic CE. We look forward to a cooperative future 💪✔️

Exchanges:

Currently, ANON will be listed on TradeSatoshis and Cryptopia post fork, and if you are holding your BTC or ZCL there pre-fork, you will automatically be credited with ANON. They are supporting the ZCL and BTC fork while also listing ANON subsequently.

Trade Satoshi on Twitter

Tradesatoshi will support the ANON fork Those users holding ZCL will recieve a 2:1 ratio of anon, and BTC will receive a 1:1 ratio of ANON. The snapshot will take place on 9/10/2018. #ANON #Fork #ZCL

Cryptopia Exchange on Twitter

We are supporting the upcoming ANON fork. All users holding Zclassic $ZCL or Bitcoin $BTC balances on Cryptopia at the time of the snapshot (1:00 AM UTC on 11 September) will be airdropped $ANON. Find out more about the ANON fork here: https://t.co/Tsa3HgDJ7e

If other exchanges do not announce support of the fork by September 5, the ANON team HIGHLY recommends you move your ZCL off any non-supporting exchange into a wallet you possess the private keys of, an exchange supporting the fork, or a wallet supporting the fork.

Wallets:

Currently, the ANON team has released a Full Node wallet on our GitHub page. If you possess your private keys, you can keep your BTC and ZCL in any wallet of your choosing (for example JAXX).

If you want to use a wallet that will 100% support the fork without having to import private keys we recommend: ZelTrez. They will have a ZCL wallet live by September 5, and immediately following the snapshot and mainnet release will have an ANON wallet that will automatically populate with your ANON!!

We are currently working with Coinomi to have the fork supported as we know many community members love using their platform and wallets as well!

(Source: Zeltrez)

Currently, the fastest way to claim ANON will be by holding it in one of the approved wallets, or a wallet that you hold your private keys to so you can import them to claim your ANON.

The Future of ANON: Utility and Tech

ANON is focused currently on being listed on the largest chain of crypto ATMs worldwide. The dev team is building out a marketplace where ANON can be spent on a multitude of items, a point of sale system (to integrate ANON into other merchant websites).

(Source: ANON)

ANON wants to beat the other privacy coins to necessary scaling technological upgrades such as implementing lightning (within 2018). To compliment ANON’s tech advances the dev team is planning on continuing to build out essential platforms.

Fork Date and Time:

September 10, 2018, at 9 pm EST

A tutorial on how to set up Masternodes and a compilation video of the project as a whole will be released before September 5!

(Source: ANON)

Wallets, Exchanges, ANON Pay, Platform Development on Track as Privacy-Centric ANON Readies for… was originally published in ANON on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

We would like to thank the Dev team for taking a rare moment away from coding to make themselves available and further engage with our community. This is indicative of the interactive community dynamic that we are all so proud of.

HUGE Thanks to the Admin team for their work in managing the growing community, addressing questions at all hours, and drafting this FAQ.

*If you would like to get your question on our next FAQ, bring it to an admin’s attention either by PM or in general chat*

Are there any plans to list on advertising sites such as ‘masternodes.pro’?

Yes, we plan on listing ANON on various advertising sites as we get closer to September 10th. These listing fees have already been factored into our marketing budget.

Has the treasury fund been set up as per WhitePaper?

Yes, 100k USD worth of ZCL has been deposited into the address below at a valuation of 9.00$ per ZCL. We have both of our ZClassic and Bitcoin addresses publicly visible for the community to monitor (and donate to if they wish).

ZCL: t1cuaDF4AdJV6NzREz4gpuVASqCbcPWWDPA

BTC: 1Nn6ayGS8YK1o5TdCf545TdGTeJQmkyXnJ

In terms of future partnerships: can we also look into integrating Anonymous Bitcoin with collateralized loan service providers, like celsius or salt etc.?

We have this noted, and are actively exploring partnerships and options.

Can we have the website updated to include Ran as an advisor? Can we also include the new translations that have been completed?

We have added Ran Neuner as an official advisor on our website, as well as our new Korean advisor, Dr. Lee Jang Woo. We have also added translations for 7 new languages, and also a website run by the ANON Admin ‘BradPat’ (for the German Speaking Community). Please, take a look! → http://anonymousbitcoin.de/

Is there talk about switching to zk-STARKs in the future?

ZK-SNARKs or (Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge) allows for shielded transactions to be fully encrypted in the blockchain, but still have the ability to be verified by the network conesus rules by using zk-SNARKs proofs. ZK-STARKs improved on this and includes the ability to have a trustless solution in the blockchain. This new protocol promises to be cheaper, faster, more scalable, and more secure than its predecessor, zk-SNARKS.

We are currently looking into this protocol in depth. We will consider implementing this feature if we get enough interest from the community (we are here for the community after all). We will keep our community completely up to date regarding the zk-STARKS.

Does the reward per block also mirror BTC (12.5 per)?

Block reward detail TBA soon along with masternode financial models currently being prepared by lead dev Sam Abbassi.

How will treasury funds be decided upon and used?

Treasury funds will be solely decided upon by masternode votes. We have made the trust public as a check from our community. Chris was tasked with finding the best way for masternode governance to occur, and he decided upon using Dash’s governance. Any holder of ANON will be able to submit a proposal to the network at a fee, which is high enough to prevent spam but low enough that anyone is able to submit a proposal. This will propagate through the gossip protocol, all masternodes will then be able to submit their vote at no charge.

Obviously we have all heard about these new equihash ASICs and all of us GPU miners are praying for a fork asap! Snowgem has recently switch algo to equihash 144_5. Has the anon team decided on a new algo or talked with the Snowgem team to use the same algo?

We have been in talks with both BTCz and BTG, and have decided to coordinate a change in Equihash parameters that will be the same as the 144, 5 adjustment.

“We decided on changing the algorithm to 144,5, which makes it ASIC resistant. When dealing with the Equihash parameters, there are two variables that you can change, N and K. We changed the parameters where it basically requires more RAM, which will be extremely capital intensive for ASIC producers to change their ASICS to incorporate this additional RAM needed. These parameters were changed alongside BTCZ and BTG. It’s hard to predict the universality of ASICS, so ANON will be ASIC-resistant into the foreseeable future.”

— Sam Abbasi, Lead Developer, Anonymous Bitcoin

Will there will be an opportunity to volunteer / mine the testnet.

Yes, there will be an opportunity for all community members to volunteer / mine the testnet. We will also be making all code public via our github, https://github.com/anonymousbitcoin, by the time of the testnet release.

In short, we are officially opening up the testnet to the public on August 10th, and we have had a private testnet up for quite some time already. We have been testing on an alpha testnet around the clock for the past few weeks, and will continue to do so up until August 10th, which is the launch of the public testnet.

We will have an open testnet for 30 days where we will be able to accumulate bugs and failures and fix them on the spot before our live launch on September 10th. We have had 2 major testnets up for the past 45 days on two different ports and networks, which are both completely stable.

— Chris Agrello, Lead Developer, Anonymous Bitcoin

How can people participate in the testnet?

We will write up instructions on how to download, run, and compile the testnet very soon. If we do get a lot of excitement and people interested in using the testnet, we could possibly look into building and releasing signed executables and beta wallets where you can go through the entire experience early.

Is it possible to add testnet and exchange listing announcement date to ‘Coinmarketcal’?

According to Coinmarketcal’s listing requirements, we must be on at least 1 exchange before we are allowed to be hosted on their website. Due to this being impossible until post fork, we will not be on their website until post-September 10, 2018. We have, however, added the fork event onto the BTC and ZCL calendar on Coinmarketcal. We will add all additional events accordingly as soon as we meet this requirement!

What is the block height where the fork occurs?

We will determine the block height closer to actual fork date. The block height will be a block that falls on Sept 10, 2018 (TBD at a future date).

How is this different from other ZCL/BTC forks?

We have implemented Masternodes. Masternodes perform regular node services to the ANON network, and additionally:

• Masternodes are allowed to vote on network proposals/governance
• Masternodes will be compensated through 35% coinbase of each block
• Community governance. We have no board dictating direction.
• We have a completely different equihash algorithm (144,5).making our network more secure vs 51% attacks.
• No pre-mine
• A coin burn to remove unclaimed supply.
• Privately funded project — not reliant on a community pool.
• We will announce secured exchange listings and support pre-launch.
• We support, and engage with the future development teams of ZCL — and have actively assisted in restoring some social assets to ZCL community control.
• We have also implemented a robust bounty program for our community with over 5,500 ZCL.
• Anonymous Bitcoin believes that the wider cryptocurrency community would benefit greatly from a spirit of cooperation and friendly rivalry as a modus operandi.
• Our team is uniquely equipped and experienced, and we are dedicated to the ideals of decentralization. The intangible purpose, drive, innovation, community focus, and interpersonal relationships within ANON itself marks our project as different.

Will ANON masternodes have penalties, and if so how will these work?

Yes, ANON masternodes will have penalties. Masternodes must always hold (N) collateral at all times and consistently be online, 24/7. The penalty for violating this condition would be dropping to the bottom of the block reward list.

Can we have a video of Sam demonstrating how to do the set-up for ANON masternode?

Sam was thrilled to have been asked by the community to make a video showing how to set-up an ANON masternode, and has agreed to make one. We will also be releasing a written step-by-step guide on how to set-up your masternode.

Will there be supernodes on the roadmap like ZenCash?

We will consider changes to all code through our governance system (Masternodes), but at this time we are not considering future node hierarchy. All nodes are created equal.

We intentionally did not want any type of node hierarchy, like how other coins have masternodes set up, I just personally don’t think it’s a good model. If the community comes back and they submit a proposal to have different types of masternodes, then we will comply

Do we have an ETA on when the Anonymous Bitcoin wallet will be released?

We feel that it is vital to provide our community with a wallet that is not only efficient, but also embraces ease of use. Because of this we started working on the wallet early on, and have recently dedicated a member of the development team (Yo, Kevin!) to solely working on the wallet. We plan on releasing it to the public shortly after the snapshot date.

Which platforms are supported for Anonymous Bitcoin Wallet? (Windows, IOS, Linux, …)

After launch we will have Linux, MacOS and Windows wallets available.

Is there a 5 year roadmap (post fork roadmap)?

We are working on an extensive roadmap with corresponding time horizons.

Any mobile wallet in production? Any Api gateways for websites/merchants?

These will be addressed on our aforementioned roadmap.

How about some more links referring to other social media like reddit, website, twitter, telegram and discord, under each video (just make a template for each video and copy paste it)?

This is a great idea! We have decided to incorporate it into all of our future videos! Thank you for the suggestion.

How will you solve the problem of low block rewards for ANON? With so few coins left to mine after the snapshot, what incentive will miners have to secure the network?

See above

How would one go about claiming the tokens?

We suggest using the private key method when claiming your ANON tokens. When left on an exchange, we credit the ANON to the exchange, and it is their responsibility to credit it to you. This takes time and is out of our control.

• Non-Exchange (Manual) Method:

YOU MUST WAIT UNTIL THE FORK SNAPSHOT HAS PASSED. AFTERWARDS YOU WILL BE ABLE TO IMPORT YOUR PRIVATE KEYS INTO THE ANON WALLET. ***THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT***

Export private keys from BTC/ZCL wallet/node and import keys into ANON wallet.

Steps:

• On Sept 10, 2018 we will take a ‘snapshot’ of the BTC and ZCL blockchains. During that snapshot you need to have your coins under your own control with your own private keys….you will not able to claim funds if your coins are not in your own personal custody (or if they are on a non-supporting exchange) at snapshot date.
• After Sept 10, 2018 we will release the ANON wallet. When you have downloaded the software/wallet you will be able to import private keys (from BTC/ZCL wallet/node) into the ANON client. This is what gives you access / the ability to claim your ANON coins. Very shortly after, your balance will be updated- and you will see your ANON, and you will be very happy! You can then access your funds and: run a masternode (if you have 100 ANON), hodl, or spend them ANONYMOUSLY

Exchange / Wallet (3rd Party) Method:

• Hodl your ZCL or BTC on a supporting exchange or wallet (TBA). The exchange/wallet will credit your account with the corresponding amount of ANON at a time determined by the exchange/wallet themselves (beyond the ANON team’s control).

Why was 100 ANON selected as the collateral for a Masternode and wouldn’t this low requirement pose economic ROI issues given the cost of hosting a VPS per node? -

Sam Abbasi, our inhouse crypto-economist, explains:

The objective that Jake first had when he came to us (Bushido Labs) with the idea for masternodes, was a low barrier to entry that is accessible to everyone.

I am a firm believer that it does not make a difference what the collateral is (within the range we were considering) because if there are too many people on the network, people will drop out and it will simply balance out in the long run.

In economics, we talk about the short run and long run, and to me the long run is more important in this case. In the long run, the collateral amount really doesn’t make much of a difference, what is more important is the block reward, which will balance out in the end.

Due to this low barrier, early on we expect to see a high number of users prop up masternodes. But as the competition to get the reward grows because of the increased number of masternodes, and the probability they will get a block reward is lower, people will drop out.

This will consolidate itself regardless of what the masternode collateral is. If we upped the collateral, it would be targeting larger investors, which wasn’t the community run coin Jake first envisioned. After running multiple tests with different collateral amounts we saw that the long term effects would be similar.

Will there be a Masternode rewards/payout site?

Directly after the fork we will be working on putting up our masternode explorers. On our masternode explorer you will be able to see how many masternodes are on the network and are currently running, the last masternode that was paid, who was paid on what block and more. We will also incorporate some statistics on the average payout in coins, per day, per month, per year.

Important Links

Youtube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU-BMMTH8z0ow0xHjWZHRUg
Whitepaper

https://www.anonymousbitcoin.io/whitepaper

Subreddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/AnonymousBitcoin

Discord Server

https://discordapp.com/invite/3PQ3Sgz

Website

https://www.anonymousbitcoin.io/

Twitter

https://twitter.com/ANON_BTC

Telegram Server

https://t.me/anonymousbitcoin

#weareANON.

ANON Community Q&A #1 was originally published in ANON on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

The development team has met with developers from the most notorious privacy coins and continues to be ahead of schedule for our September 10th fork date. If they remain ahead of schedule ANON will proudly announce one of the first deadlines in cryptocurrency history that will be moved forward.

Today ANON is excited to share our whitepaper which can be seen on our website: Anonymousbitcoin.io

A few major highlights from our whitepaper include:

• All ANON unclaimed by January 1st, 2019 will be burned. This will dramatically reduce the circulating supply associated with unaware individuals, exchanges, along with “Satoshi” and “Mt. Gox” wallets.
• ANON will be provided in a 1:1 ratio for each BTC and ZCL held at the time of the snapshot. (If you own 2.4 BTC and 8 ZCL you would receive 10.4 ANON).
• A trust managing a cryptocurrency wallet funded by both ANON team members and the general public starting with $100,000 USD in ZCL will be made public by July 1st. The spending of the wallet will be determined by masternode voting (exchanges, advertising, etc.).
• ANON’s dev team (Bushido Lab) has been contracted for a year of post fork blockchain support. This will allow for the continued development and maintenance of the ANON blockchain. The ANON trust will not be used for these expenses as the commitment has already been solidified.
• Testnets will be live approximately a month before the September 10, 2018 snapshot.
• Exchange announcements will occur by mid-August, as the most important exchanges monitor testnets and wallets to ensure security.
• We have 1 advisor to announce today and 2 more to announce at some point in June!

Hopefully the Whitepaper impressed you, please provide feedback as we are open to the community and implement much of what we are requested to.

ANON is Proud to Announce Our New Advisor is Ran Neu-Ner, One of Crypto’s Most Influential Individuals, of CNBC Crypto Trader (Twitter: @cryptomanran)

We stumbled upon Mr. Neu-Ner (one of the top 20 influencers in crypto) while attending our first conference in Miami and have since solidified a strong relationship. When the ANON team saw Ran at Consensus he explicitly stated we had no “big news” and was uninterested in a follow-up until we had our whitepaper out or major news. Well a few weeks later in Berlin, Ran saw our Founder discussing ASIC resistance with a ZCL Community dev, right as the whitepaper was being released. Having had multiple positive interactions and having been provided plenty of words of wisdom the ANON team decided Ran was the perfect fit.

His expertise in the crypto field is endless and moving forward we look forward to all the talents and wisdom he can bestow upon the ANON team. ANON will regularly seek his advice and guidance throughout the course of our future. With advisors like Ran NeuNer and Steven Nerayoff, ANON is positioning itself to become one of the top privacy coins and most publicized projects of the Summer of 2018.

COMING UP THIS SUMMER

The month of June and July is still packed with excitement as we bring on new advisors (at least 2, one from Asia and one from Europe) and attend conferences on three continents. The website has been translated into many different languages and now is the time to build the ANON community. ANON’s lead devs will be speaking at colleges across the country from Miami to MIT (yes, that MIT). Stay tuned for more videos of the team transparently showing what it takes to build a cryptocurrency and community from the ground up.

We request the help of the current ANON community members to share the word about ANON!

Please share the whitepaper! Share our videos regarding transparency and conference interviews! Share our CNBC interviews!

It is time to let the world know ANON is a legitimate and transparent fork. Please join our social media channels to find out about updates first:

ANON’s Telegram: https://t.me/anonymousbitcoin

ANON’s Twitter: @ANON_BTC

ANON’s Discord: https://discord.gg/J6yWHtx

ANON’s Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnonymousBitcoin/

The ANON team can develop, can travel, can network and spread awareness. However, without the ANON community, we are nothing.

Together we are ANON

ANON White Paper Announcement was originally published in ANON on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Anonymous Bitcoin is not first to market. That has allowed us to analyze both the successes and failures of previous projects. Ultimately, our team strives to perfect the mistakes of our predecessors, bring down barriers to entry and deliver a truly Anonymous Bitcoin with additional features that will excite the community and contribute to a truly lasting economy.

We have selected the ticker ANON; this reflects our ethos, and reminds our stakeholders of the highest truth- that transactions truly are Anonymous.

Blockchain and cryptocurrencies have evolved dramatically over the past few years. Bitcoin (BTC) was the first real “brand”, and has since captivated the hearts and minds of all crypto-enthusiasts. However, BTC’s underlying technology has been around for ten years, and debates over its relevance and specific utility have emerged in the community.

Bitcoin has high fees, slow transaction speeds, centralized mining outlets and lack of privacy features that have created forking-opportunities like Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin Private (BTCP). Unfortunately, prior forks have fallen short of expectations, and herein ANON looks to excel.

We intended to accomplish wide Market adoption, exchange listings, deliverables, a strong community, and team professionalism. The Anonymous team has meticulously monitored each step of prior forks of both BTC and ZCL; we understand their mistakes.

Where others have faltered in their fork attempts, ANON will be successful. ANON’s superiority lies in its adoption of ZCL’s zk-SNARKs privacy technology — an MIT created privacy technology for transactions.

By coupling zk-SNARKs technology with masternodes, ANON is creating a hybrid between PoW and PoS by introducing staking and allowing both miners and masternode holders to be rewarded for their contributions to the network. A collateral amount of 100 coins will be required to maintain a masternode on the ANON network.

The distribution of the block reward will be 65% to the miners and 35% to the masternodes. The only way to participate in this fork and receive ANON is by being in possession of the underlying BTC and ZCL cryptocurrencies. Hodlers participating in the ANON fork will receive 1:1 ratio on September 10, 2018. The circulating supply at the time of the fork will be about 24M, the max total supply of ANON will be 31.5M.

A composite list of supporting exchanges will be announced by August 15, 2018. Multiple top five exchanges by total volume will be targeted for listing of both ZCL and ANON. The whitepaper, a “surprise” Advisor and a more detailed Roadmap will be available on AnonymousBitcoin.io prior to June 1, 2018. The site is currently live with information regarding the team, social links, and the project.

By announcing exchange support long before the day of the snapshot and having the development team funded for a year of work beyond the snapshot date, ANON is actively ensuring that holders are able to exchange and utilize their coins.

By analyzing past forks and their missteps, the Anonymous Bitcoin team has developed a technology-centered roadmap, a transparent development process, in addition to building the necessary network, platform, and relationships to ensure market adoption takes place. We all are ANON.

Official Executive Summary was originally published in ANON on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Last week in crypto, we announced to the world our intentions to “hard-fork” Bitcoin & Z Classic, in an effort to build upon better where the others failed.

We chose to choose the highly credible platform of CNBC to propagate our strong intentions of creating the Anonymous Bitcoin, hoping to kill any doubts in the community’s mind by virtue of our grand-stage announcement.

To further cement the belief of a serious, focused team working around the clock to ensure we are counted amongst the rare projects who fulfill time-lines, we decided make team-transparency a major part of our coin’s ethos, dedicating a whole section to it on website and related social pages.

After all, Anonymous Bitcoin aims to set a new standard in what coin projects must look like, and it was imperative that the front-end be as good, if not better, as the developer-end.

However, I increasingly hear the community expressing dissatisfaction about the Anonymous Bitcoin project, while fixating on their faith in the price action of a related project, instead of the arguably superior technology we aim to provide.

This brings me to my point, that of addressing the daily demands of “news,” from our community members.

For all sane purposes, it is impractical for us to provide details of every line of code we type, every conference we plan to make plans for , or every word we jot for the next blog post.

Billion dollars projects have been seen in this space without whitepapers, and teams with whitepapers have been known to exit-scam.

So, is presence of a whitepaper the definitive of a “serious” project?

Or, is presence of a transparent team — reachable right from the founders to social media admins, which is readily communicating with the community — a better indicator of trustworthiness ?

This is not to say that we aren’t releasing a whitepaper. It comes out around the third week of May, 2018.

This is also not to say that we are forcing anyone to participate in our hard-fork. It is completely a supporter’s decision.

The core belief of our team lies in providing the world with the future of scalable, private, secure transactions, and no amount of pumped millions will dissuade us from achieving that.

In short, we won’t rest until the knowledge of our brand reaches ears around the world, with an evident working product available on exchanges big and small.

What we are answerable to, is our efforts.

What we aren’t answerable to, is the price of a related project.

Putting to rest all questions at once, here’s what we really won’t, can’t, or shan’t answer -

1. When Lambo ?
2. Why is ZCL/BTC price stagnant?
3. Why is the dev team not responding to trolls on Reddit? (Isn’t that obvious?)
4. When (inserts line totally unrelated to the Anonymous Bitcoin Project) ?

Here’s what we, the team at Anonymous Bitcoin, will readily answer —

1. Tell me more about the Anonymous Bitcoin Protocol ?
2. Who are your team members, and why should I be investing in them ?
3. What made you choose ZCL for a hard fork ?
4. I have a question regarding the tech/vision/team.
5. Which exchanges are you working towards getting listed on?
6. What effort is the team putting in for the project?

P.S — We launch our executive summary this week.

P.P.S — We highly recommend going through our blog in case the reader seeks education of “why hard-forks are required?”

Go on, hit us up on twitter, telegram, or discord.

Members of our spectacular admin team are located around the world — no chance of a question going unanswered for more than an hour.

Rome Wasn’t Built In a Day was originally published in ANON on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

In all honestly, Knowledge is one of the things most people falter at, and a peculiar human fallacy is the tendency to collectively echo thoughts— like bees in a hive —irregardless of their meaning, throwing away all logical rhyme and reason.

The ethos of bitcoin, and blockchain, lies deeply in its decentralized, open-source nature.

Anyone willing to put in the man-hours can work on a project, irrespective of caste, creed, or color, and yet, the very ethos of open-source is humorously opposed by coins who claim to be “building the decentralized world.”

Let’s take a time machine back to 2008, when a person/s called Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin.

We all know what happened later. He disappeared without a trace —leaving only his code behind.

All the years after that, are simply collective efforts of individuals across the world who are willing to see a complex, decentralized financial system that exists beyond anything their mind could previously visualize.

Did Nakamoto call them “frauds” ?

Did they build BTC to “pump the price” ?

No one knows, yet ten years later, the cryptocurrency sector is challenging all status quo.

All because someone decided to build what Nakamoto abandoned.

Year after year, group after group came together to announce their own project, their own coin, and more recently — their own fork.

And here we are, another team, another collection of individuals, who are taking that ideology ahead to create something that will last beyond our tiny life-time.

What are we doing?

Simply taking the privacy protocols of a project which over-promised and under-delivered, and fusing it with the best parts of the pioneer cryptocurrency.

In short, building much better what someone abandoned.

We are highly transparent in every step, and each one of our team members can be reached personally on various social mediums.

Compare this to billion-dollar crypto-teams with NO PRODUCT, NO WHITEPAPER, and NO PRIOR WORK EXPERIENCE.

I can open the kimono a lot more give you a lot of details, but we like surprises. Our snapshot is not until September, 2018, and every other week, we’d like to slowly give out info, bit by bit.

To fully understand what a hard fork is, and why WE are choosing to hard-fork ZCL and BTC, take a look here —

https://hackernoon.com/why-are-hard-forks-required-cdffbb6bd6b9

The future is here, and we love criticism.

Because only when your rival speaks against you, is when you know you are progressing.

Fin.

To all non-believers, FUDDER’s, believers, and Anons,

Shaurya Malwa,

Core Team

A Quick Note from the Core Team’s Desk was originally published in ANON on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

AN INTERESTING FORKING PROJECT

It may be difficult at times to hold back the excitement but to ensure a fair report of the project I will try to withhold my very enthusiastic nature regarding the project. One of the main reasons is when has CNBC ever decided to cover a Forking Announcement (very punny I know)?

A fork (soft or hard) has become a fairly common occurrence in the crypto space. The question arises which ones are real and which are scam related. Premined forked coins are always ones to be concerned with along with teams that chose to remain anonymous. Anonymous Bitcoin intends to achieve a fork of ZCL and BTC completely transparently to the public, with weekly video updates and communication with the community.

The project is titled Anonymous Bitcoin, and the Anonymous Bitcoin team intends to succeed where prior forks have failed while also adding unique technology to already tried and true blockchains. The co-fork will occur using BTC and ZCL, so in order to obtain the new forked coin, Anonymous Bitcoin, one would have to purchase either BTC or ZCL before the date of fork snapshot.

The Anonymous Bitcoin testnet will go live August 10, providing a month for exchanges to test the wallets and infrastructure before the snapshot occurs on September 9, 2018. The mainnet will be live within 48 hours of snapshot allowing for swift integration onto exchange platforms. Exchange listing and targeting ones with significant volume are one of the most important features of a new coin beyond utility and technology.

The main features of Anonymous Bitcoin will include anonymity while transacting (using zkSNARKs technology), increased transaction speed (through increased block sizes), and the ability to stake coins through masternodes. This trifecta of technological upgrades will create a cryptocurrency in Bitcoin’s image, with staking abilities and anonymity upgrades.

The Anonymous Bitcoin Team is broken into multiple layers. The BTCA team is composed of the core development team, founders, advisors, social media gurus, blockchain journalists, and even crypto compliance attorneys. The core development team is led by the founders of Miami-based Bushido Lab. The most notable advisor, Steven Nerayoff, has worked on projects such as Ethereum, Lisk, tZERO, ZClassic, AION, and many more. Having advisors of this caliber is essential — especially for a forked coin — to ensure market adoption.

Blockchain journalists and Fintech analysts have come on as advisors to ensure the progression within the space and to provide inside news coverage regarding the entire forking process. A production team has been assembled to provide weekly video updates about what the team has been up to regarding conferences, networking, and ‘work’ for the week. This will allow transparency literally from within. The crypto compliance attorneys are solely there to ensure we remain compliant with the ever-changing regulatory structure of cryptocurrencies. A fork is not considered a securities offering as no tokens are being sold but it always helps to have attorneys making sure compliance is maintained on all fronts.

With a roadmap that has already been structured and deadlines that will not be missed Anonymous Bitcoin is ready to begin their journey from concept to a forking cryptocurrency.

Please visit the project website Anonymousbitcoin.io — which will go live on Sunday — for further details or get in contact with the team directly:

1. Twitter: @BTCA_FORK
2. Discord: https://discord.gg/xJWCGB9
3. Reddit: AnonymousBitcoin

To get in contact directly with the Crypto King, you can on Twitter (@JbtheCryptoKing) or Reddit (ICO updates and Daily Reports).

What are your thoughts on the upcoming fork and creation of Anonymous Bitcoin? Let us know in the comments below.

The Forking Is Official. ZCL + BTC = Anonymous Bitcoin ! was originally published in ANON on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

In the vast glossary of the blockchain industry, there’s one word widely used and yet unknown to the average enthusiast — “hard fork”

Fret-not!

What sounds like a very technical term, is actully a pretty simple concept pertaining to a coin’s underlying blockchain.

A Hard Fork is more of a developmental action.

To fully understand the concept — and appreciate the act of a “hard fork”, imagine a developer team working remotely, on a particular coin, say XCoin.

The team promises military grade security, instantaneous transactions, and multiple exchange support.

However, somewhere down the line, the team abjectly fails on various fronts, and ends up creating a product that takes 5 minutes to transfer, is not as secure as promised, as doesn’t feature on more than 2 crypto-exchanges.

A classic case of overpromised, under-delivered !

One fine day, an unrelated team of developers — or some disillusioned members of the aforementioned coin — decide to fix the flaws, and create a coin (on the same blockchain) that actually delivers what’s promised.

And because the fundamental concept of a blockchain is decentralized, open source software, practically any apt, experienced developer team can come together and create a better offering — without ANY permission or consensus of the previous developers !

What more — after the hack on ETH’s DAO, the Ethereum community almost unanimously voted in favor of a hard fork in order to roll back transactions that siphoned off tens of millions of dollars worth of digital currency by an anonymous hacker. The hard fork also allowed DAO token holders to get their ether funds returned to them.

And then, XCoin is “hard forked”, giving birth to the superior — let’s call it — Anonymous XCoin.

Here’s how the hard fork occurs –

In technical terms, the hard fork is “a radical change to the protocol that makes previously invalid blocks/transactions valid (or vice-versa).”

Put differently, a hard fork is a permanent divergence from the previous version of the blockchain, and nodes running previous versions will no longer be accepted by the newest version.

Hence — all running nodes of the XCoin blockchain, are required to update, or migrate to Anonymous XCoin’s blockchain. And with strong fundamentals, there’s would be little reason for miners to not support the upgraded coin.

Essentially, a fork is created in the XCoin blockchain: one path following previous nodes, transactions, and blockchain, and the other with a new, improved blockchain.

To make things more clear — let’s move to a real example of a hard fork, and one that deals with improvement on all fronts.

On 29 April, 2018, a developer team from Florida annouced the hard fork of Zclassic and Bitcoin — to create Anonymous Bitcoin.

As per the annoucement, the hard fork swiftly aims to merge bitcoin’s transaction prowess, with the secure features of Zclassic.

The Dev team of Anonymous Bitcoin has it clear — correct crucial security risks found in BTC and ZCL, and add new, improved functions.

In short — to create a BETTER, more trustworthy, consumer-centric cryptocurrency.

To make this possible, the Anonymous bitcoin team would split the path of ZCL’s, and BTC’s blockchain by invalidating transactions confirmed by nodes that have not been upgraded to the new version of the protocol software.

Unlike the ethereum DAO, this hard fork would not unwind the network’s transaction history.

Some features of the Anonymous Bitcoin include –

Real Decentralization — Anonymous Bitcoin uses equihash, a Proof-of-Work algorithm.

True Anonymity — Uses MIT’s tested zkSNARK’s, the most secure privacy protocol to date.

Community Drive — Social channels allow ideas crafted by the community to be taken into consideration.

Masternodes — We provide the ability to stake coins, incentivizing long term hodlers and allowing for dividend style returns over time.

Transparency — Although your spending habits should be kept private, the forking process should not. The team will be providing video updates and regular Q&A sessions, we are prepared to show the world what a legitimate fork entails.

Exchange Support — Through our elaborate network, Anonymous Bitcoin is in discussions with top volume exchanges.

In my next post, I shall explore the coin in a much detailed, deeper manner, dissecting the site, team members, and coin tech — in order to more effectively study and provide technical advice for all cryptocurrency enthusiasts, about summer’s most awaited bitcoin fork.

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Hard Forks for Dummies was originally published in ANON on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.