Topic: [ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency - page 3534. (Read 9723733 times)

waiting for the next update so I can practice masternode updating

yawn on the price actions...let's get some action going!

Along the same lines I would like to get a cycling jersey made with a Darkcoin logo.

If you know where you can get some made up, there are some promo graphics here: https://www.darkcoin.io/resources/promotional-graphics/

Sorry to interrupt all this price talk, but I would like to buy a sweet Darkcoin sticker for my snowboard. Any ideas?

In this case it was a whopping 0.00059575 DRK at 2.89999999 USD 

if someone buys 0.1drk at 2.90 the price jumps to 2.90... DRK/USD market is very small on cryptsy

Well this points towards just the issue I'm referring to:

Take a Win 8.1 user for instance. If they have a device with a touch screen they'll scroll through that disastrous "Metro" interface until they find the icon for Darkcoin to run the wallet. Except, if they've downloaded the "binary version" because they saw "Windows (32-bit)" and knew enough to realise they're on a 64-bit version of Windows so clicked on the other "Windows (zip)" icon instead then (as per your "Download wallet. Double click on it. WTF does anyone need an installer for?" comment) the icon's not there because it's buried down in the unzipped directory from the wallet download and they have to know to right mouse click and "Pin to start" to get it up into the "Apps" collection. That may not sound like much to you but to the millions and millions of mainstream Windows users that always run a setup process to get their software "installed" they just won't have any idea about how to get it to run if it hasn't "installed" and provided an icon. And many will just walk away at that point as the software doesn't seem to install correctly.

Some money to be earned here... Not too much though

https://www.freelancer.com/projects/bitcoin-Cryptography/Online-Teaching-Advanced-Bitcoin-tracing.html

We are at 131 DRK, lets keep this going 

Why not? I can, here:

DRK will go to 0.00537000 BTC before recovering.

Whew, that wasn't so hard!

I haven't used Windows for 15 years, but back when I did I just double-clicked the icon where possible, because I knew where it was, rather than hunting through some ass-backwards cascading start menu...

And who uses a start menu on a tablet or phone when you've got a screen full of app icons to poke your fingers at?

Maybe I'm just odd.  

-g2 --thread-concurrency 8192 or 5120 -I 16 or 17.

You should be getting around 2.6-2.8 Mh/s depending on how hard you push your clocks.

No reason other than the fact that the coin itself is far different than it was at launch back in January and being that instantx code is already written, that leaves 7 weeks of testing and time for fixing DS. It would be nice to approach 2015 as a year of modest version updates (i.e. every 3-6 months) and focus more on adoption and awareness.

Isn't that a spife? 

To clarify Darkcoin is a very innovative project we have done several hard forks so far to implement new features into the software.  We recently implemented a successful hard fork to enforce masternode payments. Right now, a change in the way fees are paid in the anonymization process is necessary to harden Daksend and we will probably use a hard fork again to implement this.  Having said that,  the development team invented months ago the Multi-phased fork or "Spork" which is a way safer way to implement this sort of changes and is instrumental to Dakcoin's accelerated development pace.

From the OP:

Multi-Phased Fork Implementation (aka the “Spork”)

 In response to unforeseen issues with the rollout of RC3, the Darkcoin development team created a mechanism by which updated code is released to the network, but not immediately made active (or “enforced”).  Communication is sent out to users informing them of the change and the need for them to update their clients.  Those who update their clients run the new code, but in the event of errors occurring with that new code, the client’s blocks are not rejected by the network and unintended forks are avoided. Data about the error can then be collected and forwarded to the development team.
Once the development team is satisfied with the new code’s stability in the mainnet environment - and once acceptable network consensus is attained - enforcement of the updated code can be activated remotely.  Should problems arise, the code can be deactivated in the same manner, without the need for a network-wide rollback or client update. This innovation allows for far smoother transitions than in the traditional hard fork paradigm, as well as the collection of test data in the live network environment. We set out with the intention of calling this method of updating the “Soft Fork”, but the Darkcoin community quickly dubbed it the “Spork” and the name seems to have stuck.

In what dimension did you live that hard fork fiasco ?  

masternode setup on Amazon AWS free tier...easy as cake.  Used Tao's guide but with AWS.  Thanks Tao!

Lonecrouton this is EXACTLY why crypto has so little take-up. Mainstream PC/tablet users DO NOT double click on executable files to run software. They "install" whatever app they're wanting to use then go to the start button to run it. If crypto is to achieve any level of mainstream acceptability it HAS TO confirm to norm in the way apps are distributed, installed and run.

The rest of us here (especially if we're running MNs) know all about where the files are, what some of them do and how to fix syncing/blockchain issues (peers.dat, etc). But anyone who's not confident dabbling around within the file structure of their device (which is millions and millions of people) will just be completely turned off by the need to find their way down to a directory and run a specific executable.

Hmmmm....try to look at it from a noob point of view, after all, we were all noobs once, even you. The installer is the top, uppermost link that says windows - so instinctively that will be the one that a noob will click on. They'll install it, it won't work. They'll uninstall it & leave thinking "WTF was that?".

To be adopted (which is what everyone wants), it has to be clear & it needs to work. Simple.