astrobwt VS oxen-core

Join the discord, keep your Atlantis seeds safe. Create a new wallet on the Stargate network using an official wallet from https://dero.io only, so you can be ready to do your swap. Second swap opportunity will be announced soon. https://discord.gg/H95TJDp

Hi, I've been trying to join the Dero community forum but it doesn't send my email a link through to email. Does this link directly to a Dero technical rep to help me rather than needing to get onto Dero form via dero.io?

You're correct that Dero has unprofessional management with trigger-happy mods seeing a troll in everyone who does not praise it and fall in line. There could be no factual discussions held in Discord without being labelled a traitor, shunned, ridiculed and eventually banned. I sincerely hope it changes at some point. Their devs never explain the vision or discuss theoretical concepts behind the code. No current whitepaper either. Now they are arguing that DERO does not advertise private SCs, while https://dero.io clearly states on the front page: "Private Smart Contracts and Services", lol. I would love to see the project succeed however difficult it may seem with the current attitude of turning people away with obscurity and attacks instead of attracting them with openness to discussion and transparency.

There’s also DERO. https://dero.io/ which is private by default and handles private smart contracts on it’s base layer. It’s also ASICS resistant POW.

You probably wouldn't play cards with a blindfold on, right? Well with many of the digital gaming platforms you are doing just that. The game algorithms often remain a mystery. You rely on unseen, third party forces to determine the fairness and outcome of the game. In some instances they can even refuse to payout a players winnings. With dReam Tables, we want to remove the third party from this equation. All our games are open source, verifiable and operate in a decentralized manner. The apps run locally on your computer. Unlike most crypto games that use public ledgers, at dReam Tables your balances & transactions are stored on a private ledger allowing you to play in complete privacy. We use the power of Dero's private smart contract platform to achieve this. With our private table model we aim to give digital games a bit more of a personal feel. Once you have a dReam Table you are in control, play as you please.

Dero- https://dero.io

Hi I sent all dero to TO exchange to swap from Atlantis to stargate. And I created CLI wallet already via dero.io . But I get ERROR in red while syncing node, What to do now ?

Check dero.io, join the Discord server, the forum at forum.dero.io, or documenting dero on Medium which is what really helped me bootstrap my knowledge.

Every official Session community hosted on the getsession.org domain, as well as the official websites (https://getsession.org, https://oxen.io) are unreachable as of now. https://lokinet.org seems to have issues as well.

Oxen is very much alive, as is Haven. Technologically Electroneum is very far away now, not being a privacy coin anymore, but it did start as a Monero fork and at least is still around.

Really great list. Thank you. Some of these I wasn't even aware of. I've been using Session for about a year. A year ago it definitely had some missed messages and I was about to ditch it but I held strong and haven't experienced that issue in a while. Been flawless for about half a year. The Oxen/Loki network overall https://oxen.io/ is a really interesting alternative to Monero and Tor. It's interesting how it can be both!

Widely used? No. I've found Session to be a decent alternative however it's still early development which entails some scuff and details as to how they intend for it to be financially supported long term aren't clear.

https://getsession.org/

TLDR on Session is that it's a fork of Signal (effectively same front end, key scheme, encryption scheme, etc) with a modified transport/delivery and notification system and without the phone-number-as-an-identifier caveat that signal has.

Note: Sorry for the wall of text below.

As for what that modified transport layer is, it's routing all the messaging and data hosting over Oxen (https://oxen.io/) which is a cryptocurrency that serves as a decentralised short term / small size addressable data store and an onion router for those messages/data. As much as cryptocurrency=bad in a lot of cases, here it kinda makes sense as it's just an automated digital marketplace for data hosting and bandwidth with tooling wrapped around it to support privacy and anonymity preserving tools without relying on some hopefully benevolent dictator to run it.

As for who's backing it, same group that develops the Oxen, an Australian non-profit focused on privacy tech and bearing the same name (Oxen Privacy Tech Foundation). While Oxen is pay for use (messaging and all that has an on chain cost), it looks like the foundation is covering the costs of running Session for the foreseeable future. Given the nature of the project, it should eventually be possible for users to pay their own infra costs however that doesn't seem to be implemented yet.

It's pretty easy to use.

1. Install via F-droid or download from the web.

2. Basic cryptocurrency wallet style setup where your account is based on a randomly generated "recovery seed" phrase (string of words with equal bits of randomness as the private key which can be used to rebuild the private key on a new device).

3. Then you can share your "Session ID" which is basically just your public key or you can pay for a custom username which is addressed to your public key (you can set names for contacts after adding them so the username is mostly for ease of discoverability).

4. After that it's basically just Signal but where you can make and throw away accounts at the drop of a hat.

My main complaints are

1. that it's a bit slow on delivery

2. The onion routing half of decentralised storage + routing is still being implemented for Session as the project is very much WIP at this stage.

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My takeaway is that provided it can stick around, Session has potential to shore up where Signal falls short. Give it a year or two in the oven and I might recommend it as a daily driver for messaging.

Likewise for the OPTF and their goals in general. It looks like once Session is "fully implemented" they are looking at trying to expand the approach to a discord/slack/matrix competitor as well which could be interesting. As far as I can tell they are just a bunch of privacy nerds with a little bit of a cryptocurrency lean to them but they are doing good work.

Lets kickstart with Oxen, an open source privacy tech blockchain with 2 working products; Sessions Messenger - (a fully anonymous encrypted messaging service) and Lokinet - (a cutting edge low-latency onion router) - which both utilize the Oxen Service Node network to safeguard user privacy and anonymity.

The https://oxen.io/ community patiently waits for the integration of their Ledger app. Any idea on when that's going to happen?

Wallet3 RPC calls for Get Balance, Get Address and Export Keys https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1525

Removes macro and goto code in wallet2::import_outputs function https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1516