Darkcoin this week announced that it has exited beta and is now ready for mainstream use. Also, the software’s code is now open source. Darkcoin — a Bitcoin competitor — is the first fully open source cryptocurrency with financial privacy built directly into the software, its developers claimed. Open-sourcing financial software is vitally important, they said, because it instills confidence that users’ financial privacy is protected, which in turn leads to greater trust in the software’s quality and performance.
Darkcoin Steps Out of the Shadows
Posted by: Katherine Noyes October 1, 2014 06:06 PMDarkcoin this week announced that it has exited beta and is now ready for mainstream use. Also, the software’s code is now open source. Darkcoin — a Bitcoin competitor — is the first fully open source cryptocurrency with financial privacy built directly into the software, its developers claimed. Open-sourcing financial software is vitally important, they said, because it instills confidence that users’ financial privacy is protected, which in turn leads to greater trust in the software’s quality and performance.