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Noir
Community built, privacy driven.
Noir is a decentralized digital cryptocurrency created to ensure your transactions are secure, private, and untraceable. Technology is based on the Zerocoin Protocol which provides you complete anonymity over your funds. Noir is a rebrand of Zoin.
Zerocoin is a project to fix a major weakness in Bitcoin: the lack of privacy. Project’s goal is to build a cryptocurrency where your neighbors, friends, and enemies can’t see what you bought or for how much. A collaboration between the original Zerocoin project members and cryptographers at MIT, The Technion, and Tel Aviv University have produced a far more efficient protocol that allows for direct private payments to other users.
Governed by Community
NOIR in comparison to many other coins is completely governed by the community and belongs to everyone who wants to participate in shaping its future. The reason why NOIR has become a community-governed cryptocurrency is ingrained in its history.
It was the community who decided to take over the project after it was abandoned by the original dev(s). Today, the Noir Team consists of volunteers from the community who offered their time, knowledge, experience, and dedication to the development of NOIR. In the near future, major decisions will be made by the community as a whole. This will be done through voting, which will be integrated in the official wallets.
The Noir Team will release a financial report at the end of every month. It will offer updates and information on:
• The current balance of the development fund in NOR & BTC
• Cost of current and past projects
• Information on how to donate NOR & BTC
The goal is to turn NOIR into a currency for daily payments. A coin that is not only traded for speculative reasons but a currency that enables people to buy products and services in a secure and untraceable way. One of the main goals is therefore to develop a wallet that integrates markets, users democracy, exchanges, communities and security for both buyer and seller.
Project plans for the next few years the following activities:
- Mobile wallets on iOS and Android
- Add Noir to more Exchanges
- Add Real-World Usescases
- Get Noir into an Existing Crypto CreditCard
- Community voting build right into the wallet
- Shared Masternodes Service
Development Reward Fund
It was voted on by 95% of the community, has been instated and initiate at block 230250 until block 255250 increasing block rewards to 50 and allocation 37.5 Noir per block to the fund. This will not affect miner rewards, once block 255250 is reached, block rewards will go back to 12.5.
How Zerocoin works
With the new Zerocoin protocol, Zerocoin allows direct anonymous payments between parties. Zerocoin transactions exist alongside the (non-anonymous) normal transactions. Each user can convert non-anonymous coins into anonymous coins, which project calls Noir-Zerocoins. Users can then send Noir-Zerocoins to other users, and split or merge Noir-Zerocoins they own in any way that preserves the total value. Users can also convert Noir-Zerocoins back into normal Noir, though in principle this is not necessary: all transactions can be made in terms of Noir-Zerocoins.
Watch VIDEO below INTRO of Noir
Coin specification
Name: Noir Coin
Ticker: NOR
Community Coin
Mining & ICO: no Premine, no ICO
Only mineable per CPU
Zerocoin Protocol
Total Coins: 21 Million
Block time: 2.5 minutes
Proof of Work, Algo: Lyra2z330 (2,330,256)
Initial reward: 100 NOR per block
With block 210000 the reward is 12.5 NOR and halving every 210000 blocks
Mined blocks mature in 101 blocks
MN Collateral: 25 000 NOIR
Roadmap
01 – Noir is quite strong on tech, what it really needs right now is more people who know about it.
02 – Create custom Noir mobile wallets for the community.
03 – Have Noir integrated into a wide array of wallets.
04 – Noir WordPress Plugin for easy integration into existing WordPress sites.
05 – Noir needs to be more than just a financial asset, which is why real-world uses are crucial.
06 – Enabling paying for your daily purchases with Noir.
07 – Removing the need to download the Desktop wallet to create a paper wallet.
08 – Create and integrate a secure community voting method for use in the Noir Core Wallet.
09 – Bringing the latest improvements to Noir.
10 – In the mobile wallets only, this will greatly increase the usability of the wallets in ones daily life.
11 – Enabling Noir to make a listing on exchanges and negotiations with possible partners much easier.
12 – Removes the need for a trusted setup while also reducing the size of the Zerocoin proofs, which increases scalability.
13 – Being able to easily set up shared masternodes without the need to rely on third parties.
14 – A place where you can sell and buy with Noir directly.
Project management
Organization, Communication, Development and Treasury Responsible
Max Werner (@NotAWiz4rd), Germany
Lead Developer
Florian Hintermeier (@flo071), Austria
Community, Communication and Marketing
Salvatore (@WolfIsaac), Italy
Community, Communication and Marketing
Jalil (@jalil), Spain
Server Admin/Engineer
Christian (@pellkopf), Germany
Art/Graphics and Design
Mathias (@malt1), Sweden
Community Management, Organization
Tom (@Novus), Great Britain
Community Moderators
@Hrld, @FatDogey, @Venom35769
Engineering
Florian (@ffuszthaler), Austria
Technical Advisors
@Dasche