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legendary
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Here's the new schedule for development:

- RC2 (masternode payments, DGW3) : May 14th
- RC3 (1000 DRK limit and denominated change) : May 21st
- After this, I'll find someone to vet the code and open source.
- RC4 (Bugs, security issues)
- Testing, then opensource

My personal translation of this is: "I have though of a bunch of cool new stuff to implement. You're private space yachts will have to wait a bit longer, but they'll be bigger private space yachts."

My senility is getting worse, or someone is deleting posts at a rapid rate, the thread pagecount keeps dropping.   Huh
legendary
Activity: 1456
Merit: 1000
Here's the new schedule for development:

- RC2 (masternode payments, DGW3) : May 14th
- RC3 (1000 DRK limit and denominated change) : May 21st
- After this, I'll find someone to vet the code and open source.
- RC4 (Bugs, security issues)
- Testing, then opensource

That's pretty awesome news.
full member
Activity: 280
Merit: 100
The Future Of Work

I am sure I have read somewhere that you need the passphrase in ""s, eg. ./darkcoind masternode start "passphrase"   -   but I am old and my memory sometimes fails me.

I'll be having my 1st go at a masternode later today, hours of baffled incomprehension to look forward to!  Tongue


Yah, I always use quotes, which are usually needed if you use a lot of weird characters... Hope someone can clarify if something is missing here for me.  I'll see it tomorrow if anyone can, got to go to bed now Tongue


Start darkcoind on remote machine.
On your local machine specify the IP at launch with -masternodeaddr=YOUR_SERVER_IP
Unlock your local machine wallet with your passphrase.
On your local machine, ./darkcoind masternode start

Something really seems to be missing because my remote server does not see my local wallet.  I'm assuming the last line above should read "on your server, ./darkcoind masternode start "passphrase" but since it was written that way, I tried starting the masternode on my local machine, and it still didn't connect to my server.  Could my problem be that I'm behind a router?  Maybe that's what I'll try tomorrow, plugging directly into my modem, maybe that will work?
legendary
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Dash Developer
Here's the new schedule for development:

- RC2 (masternode payments, DGW3) : May 14th
- RC3 (1000 DRK limit and denominated change) : May 21st
- After this, I'll find someone to vet the code and open source.
- RC4 (Bugs, security issues)
- Testing, then opensource
hero member
Activity: 784
Merit: 1005

And the hashrate is still way up. Which is getting annoying..

You know why the hash rate is so high, despite the fact that mining DRK isn't exactly the most profitable thing to be doing right now, nor has been in the past?

Because... there are people out there with a clue!

Amazes me that there are so many actually.   Wink   But what the hell, I don't mind some other people getting rich too.  Kiss

I am curious how many people out there are mining DRK at a loss when they would be better off buying the coins outright. Don't get me wrong, I see the bigger picture, but I'd end up with more coins through purchasing than mining (and that happens to be the case for me).

You are not seeing the full picture. To many many people in Europe it's more profitable to mine DRK than any scrypt once you account for electricity. Also to many people who mining DRK is a little bit less profitable than mining scrypt, they just prefer to earn maybe 5% less but keep their rooms at an acceptable temperature. And if you think they could mine other more profitable X11, probably most people don't want the daily dealing with exchange, it's more convenient to directly mine DRK and forget about your rigs.

So once you add those 3 things, electricity cost, heat and stability of DRK, it makes a lot of sense to have so many people mining it instead of anything else.
sr. member
Activity: 294
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some reference changed

http://drk.poolhash.org/poolhash.html

1) block found percent :  last 100 blocks(4.1 hours) to last 24 hours(almost 576 blocks)
2) poolhash percent : 1 hour avg to 30 minutes avg
3) Recent blocks : 2 hours to 3 hours
4) pool hashrate : 2 minutes interval to 2 minutes interval + 30 minutes avg

previous graph is here http://drk.poolhash.org/darkhash.html
legendary
Activity: 966
Merit: 1000
Ok, I have verified it works.

Start darkcoind on remote machine.
On your local machine specify the IP at launch with -masternodeaddr=YOUR_SERVER_IP
Unlock your local machine wallet with your passphrase.
On your local machine, ./darkcoind masternode start

Slickness indeed.

darkcoin.conf (stolen from chaeplin's thread, thanks buddy)
Quote
addnode=23.23.186.131
listen=1
server=1
daemon=1
logtimestamps=1
maxconnections=256
masternode=1

Could someone kindly help me?  I can't seem to get this to work.

I started my server darkcoind wallet

I started my local darkcoind with the command:
./darkcoind -masternodeaddr=YOUR_SERVER_IP
I unlocked my wallet

I then tried to start my server with ./darkcoind masternode start passphrase

I get "not capable masternode"

I tried starting my local darkcoind as a masternode, unlocking the wallet, then went back to my server and still could not start the masternode.

Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong?  Thanks Smiley

I am sure I have read somewhere that you need the passphrase in ""s, eg. ./darkcoind masternode start "passphrase"   -   but I am old and my memory sometimes fails me.

I'll be having my 1st go at a masternode later today, hours of baffled incomprehension to look forward to!  Tongue
full member
Activity: 280
Merit: 100
The Future Of Work
Ok, I have verified it works.

Start darkcoind on remote machine.
On your local machine specify the IP at launch with -masternodeaddr=YOUR_SERVER_IP
Unlock your local machine wallet with your passphrase.
On your local machine, ./darkcoind masternode start

Slickness indeed.

darkcoin.conf (stolen from chaeplin's thread, thanks buddy)
Quote
addnode=23.23.186.131
listen=1
server=1
daemon=1
logtimestamps=1
maxconnections=256
masternode=1

Could someone kindly help me?  I can't seem to get this to work.

I started my server darkcoind wallet

I started my local darkcoind with the command:
./darkcoind -masternodeaddr=YOUR_SERVER_IP
I unlocked my wallet

I then tried to start my server with ./darkcoind masternode start passphrase

I get "not capable masternode"

I tried starting my local darkcoind as a masternode, unlocking the wallet, then went back to my server and still could not start the masternode.

Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong?  Thanks Smiley
hero member
Activity: 658
Merit: 500

this is great info! Are there any VPS hosting companies you'd recommend checking out? I see GoDaddy offers it but at $30/month. I saw someone mention that you can get a VPS server for as low as $5/month...

Also, all the instructions I've seen so far refer to Linux/Unix server. Can the masternode be setup on a Windows server instead?

Linux only I believe and the best bang for your buck is most likely a Digital Ocean / Linode VPS ? 5$ A month on DO.
Amazon is free. AWS service. Kinda scary at first but you'll come to love it
hero member
Activity: 532
Merit: 500

this is great info! Are there any VPS hosting companies you'd recommend checking out? I see GoDaddy offers it but at $30/month. I saw someone mention that you can get a VPS server for as low as $5/month...

Also, all the instructions I've seen so far refer to Linux/Unix server. Can the masternode be setup on a Windows server instead?

Linux only I believe and the best bang for your buck is most likely a Digital Ocean / Linode VPS ? 5$ A month on DO.
sr. member
Activity: 291
Merit: 250
It seems to me that the next 2-3 weeks are going to be 'Anonymous weeks', with everyone coming out with their announcements and products - DarkWallet, Zerocash, Zerocoin to name a few.

From a marketing perspective, this is an awesome opportunity for us.
If Darkcoin is released in time (as Evan stated May 14th), we can ride this upcoming media wave.
If we are not out in time, or remain closed-source at the time, we will not be seen as a legitimate and serious contender and will be left out from these articles and reports.
If that happens, we will remain out of the general-public's perception as to who actually provides an anonymity solution. To get back into the public's perception will become much harder.

Normally, I would agree with people's view that we need to be cautious and play it safe, but not this time. I agree with Evan that we need to go out and lead the heard RIGHT AWAY.

So why am I suddenly less afraid about security issues-
I am not a security expert and this is imho, but I differentiate between 2 items:

a) hacking - I see the potential for hacking darkcoin and/or darksend and/or supernodes as very low. darkcoin is running for several months now; darksend is a protocol, and supernodes will be able to remain in cold storage. Not too much risk at any junction.

b) compromising anonymity - I see the potential of this threat as moderate (not by the Average Joe, but by serious institutions) via timing attack or some other means to 'estimate' who sent who at some degree of confidence (even if it low confidence). Yet I'm sure over time Evan will come-up with better and better ways to make Darksend even more anonymous than it will be in version 1.0

My conclusion - May 14th here we come. It's time to rock!!!

* EDIT- other coins will not clone darksend overnight, and by the time they do we will be moving even further to version 2.0, services through supernodes and other developments.
IMHO our greatest advantage over other shitcoins is that ALL people here understand the difference between innovation and crap (otherwise they would be in some shitcoin rather than here) and we are not afraid to fork as much as needed to get more innovation out. We are here to revolutionize, not pump-n-dump.
sr. member
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Come help test RC2, we have pool support now. We could use some GPUs and CPUs.
- We need some masternodes
- We need all pool operators must test the new patch for stratum
If all goes well we fork, release RC3 and opensource on May 14th. Sound good?
https://darkcointalk.org/threads/rc2-testing-with-pool-support.353/
Other than great initial publicity, isn't best not to let competitors use your technology until atleast the coin is more mature and mainstream like maybe open source it once Darkcoin hits 5,000 avg difficulty?  There's good arguements on both sides here so maybe opening it up immediately is best.  My gut tells me to be wary of rushing out the open source part though.
sr. member
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I might have been 7 years ago when I still lived in Gentoo, but since I decided to use my computer instead of babysit it all the damn time, I'm a bit rusty...

I haven't dedicated the time to reading up on it since I haven't dedicated the time to hardening my VM, which has to be done first... Do point me to the FM so that I might RTFM?

Ok, I have verified it works.

Start darkcoind on remote machine.
On your local machine specify the IP at launch with ./darkcoind -masternodeaddr=YOUR_SERVER_IP
Unlock your local machine wallet with your passphrase.
On your local machine, ./darkcoind masternode start

Slickness indeed.

darkcoin.conf on both machines (stolen from chaeplin's thread, thanks buddy)
Quote
addnode=23.23.186.131
listen=1
server=1
daemon=1
logtimestamps=1
maxconnections=256
masternode=1

There's not much to it really! On your server lock down ports except for 9999, disable root, make ssh accept connections from your IP only, etc, etc. I recommend chaeplin's guide on DarkcoinTalk, he does a good job. Then, just follow that sequence above. You can take your local machine's wallet down and store it offline after you start the master node. Mine has been running for three days with this configuration and my wallet was only online for maybe two minutes.


this is great info! Are there any VPS hosting companies you'd recommend checking out? I see GoDaddy offers it but at $30/month. I saw someone mention that you can get a VPS server for as low as $5/month...

Also, all the instructions I've seen so far refer to Linux/Unix server. Can the masternode be setup on a Windows server instead?
full member
Activity: 168
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Expect news to start filtering through next week about how Australia plans to tax cryptocurrencies. If all goes well all you Yanks can move over here.

http://newsbtc.com/2014/04/30/australian-tax-office-preparing-bitcoin-tax-guidance/
legendary
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Merit: 1023
Good news on the development front, yet a small dip on the charts. Are folks not happy with the open source release of DarkSend?


Well we've just had a huge pump and recovered just amazingly well. We're still close to 3x the value we had before this pump with a peak around 4.2x the value before the pump. DarkSend hasn't been open sourced yet though.

Here's a little graph to help you understand how Darkcoin price works for people who follow development versus people who only notice darkcoin when they are done with their pump and dump shitcoins.



hahaaa
well put, specially the part with the 2 year old ….>>
sr. member
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how secure is the 1000DRK that is sent to the daemon to become a masternode? Is it based on the encryption/password placed on your DRK wallet? If so, would DDOS protection even mitigate the risk of losing the 1000DRK, or does it just prevent downtime?

Apparently there is a way to not keep the coins on the node itself, so they could actually be in cold storage after you set the node up initially.
sr. member
Activity: 336
Merit: 250
Good news on the development front, yet a small dip on the charts. Are folks not happy with the open source release of DarkSend?


Well we've just had a huge pump and recovered just amazingly well. We're still close to 3x the value we had before this pump with a peak around 4.2x the value before the pump. DarkSend hasn't been open sourced yet though.

Here's a little graph to help you understand how Darkcoin price works for people who follow development versus people who only notice darkcoin when they are done with their pump and dump shitcoins.



Post to reddit.com/r/drkcoin

you deserve some karma  Grin
sr. member
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Im wanting to create a master node, i have experience in linux and work in IT, so should be pretty straightforward.
What i want to know is how many DRK do i expect per day with a master node at present?
From what i understand, the more masternodes that are running, the smaller the payout?

Masternode payments haven't gone into effect yet, they go into effect with RC2 which is not yet live - probably in the next week or so RC2 will be live.  Masternodes will get 10% of mining output, this equals about 900-950 coins per day, divided by the current number of masternodes.  Currently there are only 41 masternodes on the network (http://drk.poolhash.org/darksend.html), but I expect this number will climb rapidly once masternode payments go into effect.  So at the current level of 41 masternodes each node would be pulling in 23 coins per day.  Pretty damn good money actually. My guess is that in 2-3 weeks there will be 100-200 masternodes, so payments would be ~5 coins per day about.  Hope that helps. Smiley
I was under the impression that only the masternode chosen received the 10% reward, not all of them.

Yep, but mathematically it is the exact same if you are calculating profitability, plus or minus a little luck from day to day.
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