Topic: [ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency - page 6406. (Read 9723858 times)

If I had the money I'd do the same thing.

Yah, we may all have to work, including those of us in retirement,, LOL

If darks hit 1,000 we know whos gonna be rich lol

Awesome!!!

back to a master node misbehaving, there is a problem here.

A human will not know if they are hosting a master node as they shut off their machine for whatever reason, therefore we have a backup slave node to take over.  I would think that the only "punishment" for the master node is that they will not participate in that round's rewards.  Otherwise, we can hurt people who are just running their wallets.

I still haven't seen, but may have missed it, can we password protect our wallet while running the nodes?  Also, can our balances and identity be inferred from running a node?

Sounds like someone wants to setup a few MasterNodes haha

He will struggle to get it filled though. I posted a few pages back that I want to buy some DRKs and didn't get a single PM.

87 btc buy order.. say wuttt

Yeah, DGW2 fixes what they're talking about

Expect a lot more coins to implement Dark Gravity Wave

KGW --> Needs a fix.
Digishield --> Needs a fix

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/regarding-auroracoin-tw-exploit-fix-included-552895


Too bad it is a BTC bear market going on. Confidence in cryptos might be at an all time low which is hindering Darkcoin as well. I still think Bitcoin rushed too much too soon.

If done correctly a VPS on AWS or any provider can be secure.  enough so that places like netflix run their massive environment on AWS. if your Linux admin foo is great you will be fine.

I think you are a trend setter.

Just dumped my entire BTC reserve and bought more DRK.

Like a goddamn tycoon.


If it all goes tits up I'm going to have to work for a couple of days to make up for it. 

I'm been mining this coin since before it was even called DarkCoin, and taken part in numerous DarkSend betas. VERY excited about this coin, and of course also interested in being a Master node(s)

Seeing Evan and InternetApe's devotion and pure intelligence grows my confidence in DarkCoin daily.

 We ,Darkcoin team, are planning on putting out an AMI and iso image for people to use.

 Even IF you used a rooted image or server, if your wallet is backed-up and encrypted its going to be VERY hard for someone to take your coins.

 Now with that said no matter how much something is encrypted and secure, if someone wants something bad enough they can get it. If someone wants your coins and you have it on a paper wallet and someone wants it bad enough they will just find where you put it and take it.

 The problems with running a master node is you MUST know what you are doing! You need to be prepared if someone decides to DDOS your node. The reason for the 1000DRK in the wallet is to weed out people that wouldnt know how to manage the issues that could come up.

Important: Please take time to read this!

I see a lot of excitement from people looking to run masternodes, but ensure you know what you are doing. Among them, is NOT putting a masternode on ANY VPS provider.

Here is a checklist of things that could go wrong. Remember it's your 1000 drk sitting in a hotwallet.
1. Remember you did not do the install, you launched an image that was prepared. This is analogous to putting your key into someone else's computer. There is no way of knowing the image is not rootkitted because you are INSIDE the image.

2. VMs are still rather new and there are plenty of host privilege escalation exploits. This means security of your vm is not 100% yours. You are multiplying your risk by the number of other VMs on your VM host, and the network it is connected to.

3. VPS storage is rather primitive and NOT designed for security. Your root storage is NOT encrypted at all. Encrypting a container inside your vm will not do any good because it must be decrypted for your process to run it. Then the VM host has access to it.

4. (offtopic) If you don't have the resources to set up your own machine and are just looking to use a VPS, you may not have general knowledge of hardening your image against vulnerabilities. A few topics to be knowledgeable about include selinux, PaX, iptables, auditd if you run anything else what so ever on the VM.

5. Trusting your provider: those of you who have been in this game long enough will remember countless heists, but the one that rings out in my memory is the one where someone lost a wallet of 25k btc when btc was at $20 USD. He cried over $500k of btc, what was he thinking when 25k btc meant the loss of $30million+? I haven't looked it back up, but as I recall, he NEVER found out how he lost it, and that was the worst part. The only suspicion was that he uploaded a backup of his wallet onto dropbox. Who took it? A dropbox employee? Was dropbox compromised? As far as I know, no one ever found out. No amount of security audits can help find the culprit when the number of doors and windows are an unknown variable.

If you're into darkcoin because privacy is your thing but you don't think twice about online security, I have a VM to sell you.



ps. sign up for your free darksend.it/username at http://darksend.it

easy to compromise:

to compromise the darksend network you need to run master nodes, the more masternodes you run, the easier it becomes, but
the mixing is going through several master nodes, so you need control all of most of them to try and demask the users

real life chance of success: possible, but slim at best.

bad mixing:

sorry that is just bullshit

masternodes need trust:

Trust yes, but if a masternode does not behave, it gets penalized

dos the whole network, see above

Also, since its expensive to run a master node, it is going to be very costly to run one, and lets just say you want to run enough to have a descent success then you will need 10s of thousend drks to run them.

I've heard people say that darksend is "easy to compromise, bad mixing...masternodes need trust, easy to destruct and dos the whole network."

I'm bullish and hold DRK, but I don't know enough of the technical details to debate. Is there any merit to the statement above?

Windows Wallet v0.9.1.0 http://www.darkcoin.io/downloads/darkcoin-qt.exe

tested with
https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/81e958a8079c179e1e6f0a04c1eda0e8a2d9ce5a7883626a6ec0c510c333a36a/analysis/1396479141/

results in:
SHA256:   d42e042337222f54cc0459f8ca290262aac6954c5b1f234ab8768c1403a028ef
File name:   darkcoin-qt.exe
Detection ratio:    7 / 51
Analysis date:    2014-04-02 22:52:27 UTC ( 2 minutes ago )

so the wallet contains a miner, or what is the reason for these 7 hits?

not suspecting anything malicious, just checking.

thx :-)

Aha ok...