Also for interoperability and portability. Pretty much every language has a way to bind to C code, and pretty much all hardware can run C.

Antox, the android client: https://github.com/Astonex/Antox

Please do! It's all free and open source.

I believe there's someone working on a completely different iOS client that looks pretty snazzy, but they haven't got any public code in their repo yet.

I find this very ironic given this: http://paulgraham.com/say.html

Tox (http://tox.im)

Secure, encrypted, instant messaging, voice, and video, over a distributed network, aiming to be easy enough to use to completely replace Skype.

The core is a library written in C, and there are several different clients in different languages, help on any of them or the core would be great.

https://github.com/naxuroqa/Venom (Vala/GTK+ cross platform client)

https://github.com/stal888/Poison (Objective C OS X client)

https://github.com/Astonex/Antox (Android)

https://github.com/Jman012/Toxicity (iOS)

There's an android client in the works: https://github.com/Astonex/Antox

Thanks for letting me know, fixed!

Nah, wasn't me, but thanks!

I don't see why not, it's not real money and hey, everyone else is doing it. I'm going to talk to a lawyer if people start using it.

In America it is illegal to make a currency that competes with the USD. Congress will eventually rule that Bitcoins do compete with the USD and then yes it will be illegal.

Yeah, you're considered a money transmitter under FinCEN. There are regulations, look up the memo from FinCEN.

Yeah, it would be a bit much to call what I have so far a startup too, but I'm hoping to do a lot of work on it over the summer. Hit me up on IM or email at anon754268@gmail.com.