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Interview with Chris of @bit_send, explaining where Bitsend comes from and where it is going. #masternodes $Bitsend #Bitsend

Interview with Chris a Bitsend core developer. In this interview, Chirs explains what is Bitsend, where it comes from and what are the plans for the future. There are many interesting nuggets of info which Chris shares about x11, masternodes and the Segwit implementation.

Can you introduce yourself?

I’m Chris. I’ve been the developer of Bitsend for about two years now. I’ve been a crypto…

Recent TumbleBit developments:

nTumbleBit is the new TumbleBit: The python reference protocol implementation in BUSEC/TumbleBit has been finished. With this done, no more work is planned on the BUSEC/TumbleBit implementation. Instead active development efforts have moved to nTumbleBit. nTumbleBit is a C# open source implementation of the TumbleBit protocol created by Nicolas Dorier.

nTumbleBit is making great progress: As of this post nTumbleBit currently has 256 commits, 14 merged pull requests and 5 contributors (none of them are me, so hopefully 6 contributors soon). nTumbleBit is functional; several people have successfully mixed testnet Bitcoin on the nTumbleBit Classic Tumbler. It is currently undergoing user testing, audits and security improvements. Under the old roadmap nTumbleBit would have fully completed Phase 1. Parallel work is now being done to complete Phase 2, Phase 3 and Phase 4.

TumbleBit has a new Logo: As shown above Nicolas Dorier has created the excellent TumbleBit logo.

The Breeze Wallet: Stratis Blockchain is now building Breeze a privacy-focused wallet which supports TumbleBit in Classic Tumbler mode. Follow the development of Breeze on github.

/r/TumbleBit: TumbleBit is on reddit.

TumbleBit at NDSS'17: TumbleBit has been presented and published at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) a top peer reviewed security/privacy conference.

Much more work is happening behind the scenes. Additional annoucements will be made over the next few weeks.

From our updated readme on github:

Road Map

Road map for TumbleBit software development. Given the early nature of TumbleBit development the roadmap should be viewed as a rough guide and is likely to be updated and changed as development continues.

Phase 1: Code Safety and Testing

Move as much code as possible into python for improved memory safety.

Modularize code to allow our core protocol to be used in other settings.

Replace openssl-ECDSA with libsecp256k1.

Phase 2: Server Features

Payment Hub support.

Misbehavior reactive server and client.

Session Management and parallelization.

TOR integration.

Standardized REST Interface.

Phase 3: Usability and Wallets

Wallet Prototype.

Classic Tumbler Wallet integration.

Payment Hub Wallet integration.

Wallet to wallet demo.

Phase 4: Operational Concerns

Monitoring.

Audit and test at-scale deployment.

Assess, test and mitigate server compromise risks.

Release ops guide.

Phase 5: Alpha Release

User guides and documentation.