Topic: [ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency - page 2893. (Read 9723776 times)

Throwing it to the floor.

@oblox

I suppose I was really making three points:

1) CRYPTO:What happens if 50% of MN's are run by "bad actors" or have backdoors (thru VSP provider consent)

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The answer of ~6% if 4 rounds chosen was the answer given. Interesting but not really to my point. BTW What is the avg no. of rounds usually selected? What is the default number?

2 ) FLOW: Since MN's have static IP's (at this time) and are obvious targets for traffic flow analysis how can u combat traffic flow analysis like "upstreaming" which were used to compromise TOR?"

As I said initially it is not so much the crypto that is the weakness (albeit slightly outdated imo), but rather the patterns derived from traffic analysis techniques like "upstreaming" which may reveal sensitive information.

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Certainly every crypto-currency network is also threatened by such analysis, but for DRK it is the limited number of MN's currently sitting on fixed IP's which make a juicy target. The crypto in TOR was by all accounts strong and it was these sorts of attacks which compromised TOR's security iirc. Interestingly there were similar numbers of TOR nodes that you have MN's. I'm thinking maybe 3-4k TOR nodes were being run worldwide.
Perhaps MN's will have to grow in number to help deal with this and maybe a 500DRK sum should be permitted to run an MN so as to create more. In fact why shouldn't every node be capable of serving as an MN? And if DRK adopts a ZK (Zero-Knowledge) solution like Shadow then why have MN's at all (InstantX I guess)

3) BLEND: A "blended attack" where a bad actor runs (or has access to) a number of MN's combined with traffic analysis is most likely the true threat model here. It is unclear to me at this point if "Masternode blinding' might help the bad actors as much as the good ones.

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It's interesting...but tbh He's not going to get hardly any darkcoin since everyone assumes he'll keep the huge walls there permanently.  He won't market buy so everyone has a false sense of security pumping the price.  If the walls are put back at .111, the price will dump back down in an instant.  As much as I love the project, I know the price action is highly dependent on the walls.  If the walls change or are removed...the price will dump hard.  Just being realistic here.

I have to say that I admire your timing on the market. You never go against the momentum of the market and you've been building amazing and well timed support for a long time now. Of course accumulation is nice but since you already have so many, the price going up isn't against your wishes either and when you put your walls at a certain level, it gives me the impression that I would be foolish to sell to you at that price.

PSA

These new walls at 0.012 are because I wouldn't mind accumulating a few more DRK at this price right now, I don't guarantee that they will stay here if and when I decide that I have been sold enough coins for the time being, but if I do move them back down then they will only revert to 0.01111 at the lowest and from there they will neither be lowered nor removed just as stated before, so that still remains the floor, the walls are just doing a little walkabout.

They'll be there for at least eight hours anyway as I'm going afk soon, so feel free to sell in to them anyone who would like to do a little profit taking or what ever and I'll check back tomorrow to review the situation.

 

Wow, Thanks to Tao's masternode guide I got my MN up and running some hours ago and just received a payments 

guys some OT but... what is going on with BTC

check blockchain.info its not connected with nodes, or rest of the explorers same problem, no confirmations in last 2h

this is the 1st time im seeing this on BTC

EDIT: confirmations are ok, i deposited on finex some BTC, then i saw this blockchain.info problem... but i got my btc on finex

http://prntscr.com/6axyv2

we should FUD btc for this haha

guys some OT but... what is going on with BTC

check blockchain.info its not connected with nodes, or rest of the explorers same problem, no confirmations in last 2h

this is the 1st time im seeing this on BTC

EDIT: confirmations are ok, i deposited on finex some BTC, then i saw this blockchain.info problem... but i got my btc on finex

http://prntscr.com/6axyv2

we should FUD btc for this haha

I totally agree GhostPlayer! I will work on that straight away!

EDIT: Done! Please RT if you're able!

https://twitter.com/taoofsatoshi/status/571607554041782273

Tao

0.013-0.014 this week end ? or maybe we will kick bitshares on coin market cap

Ok cool, so it did get confirmed instantly like it's supposed to, right?
Edit: Minotaur26 just answered my question, thanks

If possible i would like to see the fee lowered to 0.01 (3 cents) for anything under 100DRK. Only reason i can see for not doing it would be that it could cause some kind of spam attack.

Now that we're on it... Darkcoin has been around for quite a while, and a lot of poo poo did hit the fan, admittedly, and thankfully. What did not break us made us stronger!!

 I think its time to make a infographic that quickly reflects current states of affairs, starting 2015.

 a) would make FUDsters mum's feel shame on their own spawn, and spank them accordingly
 b) bring up to speed to the Kim DotComs, Andreas, Snowden, Assanges, Malala Yousafzai's etc etc etc of today
 c) Spot attention to big industry chiefs like Patrick Byrne
 d) General population sensibilisation.

New age of DRK is slowly going up to a boil. It will take a while until new flashy feats come out to even strengthen the project. So we could start dropping "bombs" with what we have right now.

 I would love to do this, but of all I know, the least I am proficient in image creation/editing/photoshop/vectorisation, etc... And I am a PR amateur.

 We need to kick off 2015 with a full-on PR/MKT campaign.

 I propose child_harold as a poster boy