Has it already been mentioned somewhere in this thread about how much less power it takes to mine Dark? I know the thread title says it runs cooler which is great and all, but I think a pretty cool selling point is how much less electricity you use to mine it. My experience:
3x 280x rig mining Scrypt - 900W as measured with kill a watt meter
Same rig mining Dark - 490W
If you pay high electric rates that's a huge savings!
Topic: [ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency - page 6671. (Read 9724017 times)
March 05, 2014, 08:41:23 PM
March 05, 2014, 08:38:19 PM
anyone has problem in http://pool.darkcoin.io/ 
its stopped going to confirmed points...
its stopped going to confirmed points... March 05, 2014, 08:37:59 PM
EVERYONE ON THIS THREAD NEEDS TO VOTE ON EACH OF THE THREE EXCHANGE VOTES BELOW!!!!
BTC38 : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/poll-lockedill-start-a-new-post-soon-501963
BTER : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annvote-new-coins-on-btercom-which-new-coin-should-bter-add-in-next-week-502363
Bitrex.com : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/which-new-coin-should-bittrex-support-week-1-round-1-497351
Thanks
BTC38 : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/poll-lockedill-start-a-new-post-soon-501963
BTER : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annvote-new-coins-on-btercom-which-new-coin-should-bter-add-in-next-week-502363
Bitrex.com : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/which-new-coin-should-bittrex-support-week-1-round-1-497351
Thanks
done, done, done! Its amazing that we are still under the radar!
I like it...the longer this takes, the better the overlong health of this coin will be! March 05, 2014, 08:33:21 PM
Can more people please come join us at LotteryPool? We have a weekly lottery from half the pool fees, which are only 1% so effectively 0.5% pool fees with the fun of a lottery to look forward to.
The owner has upgraded to a faster/more reliable server and I haven't seen any down time yet! It's working smooth as silk ATM, so come join us!!! The more people we have, the larger the lotto pool/winning and the funner it is to mine!!!!
The owner has upgraded to a faster/more reliable server and I haven't seen any down time yet! It's working smooth as silk ATM, so come join us!!! The more people we have, the larger the lotto pool/winning and the funner it is to mine!!!!
The pool is great, however people are most likely hesitant of any sort of lottery. They see it akin to snake oil - one is more likely to die in a plane crash than hit the jackpot.
Not to say that the pool in question isn't fair, but perhaps if it were explained in a more pragmatic manner I would consider joining.
Thanks.
How the lottery works:
When you mine there, the system takes a snapshot several times a day, to find active miners, the system allows a 35 % variance in activity, so that all miners are accounted for, the way it has been running so far is that everyone mining gets 1 lotteryticket per day, so, for example
a b and c are mining at the pool
a mines at 2 MH/s with 1 worker
b mines at 20 MH/s with 5 workers
c mines at 200 KH/s with 2 workers
so a,b and c gets each 1 lottery ticket.
and the end of the period a list is compiled with all the names in it, like following
a mined for 4 days
b mined for 1 day
c mined for 3 days
the list would look like this:
a
a
a
a
b
c
c
c
then this list is taken to random.org's list randomizer and run through X number of times (determined by random.org's random number generator
with a number from 1 to 100)
then we do a random number generator with the number of lines in that list, in this case 8
that number coming out, is the winner
After todays lottery, we are changing the way the lottery goes about, instead of once per week, we are going to do it EVERY day instead
and for the next 7 days, im going to add 28.5 DRK on top of the lottery pool which consists of 50% of all fees collected
edit: And for those wondering, nope, my name is never on that list, so i can never win.
You battled the tooth fairy - you are already a winner
March 05, 2014, 08:23:21 PM
What kind of speeds are you guys getting cpu mining? I'm getting 498-502 kh/s with my i5-4670k @ 4.5 GHz.
About the same with a i7-2600k @ 4.0 GHz
March 05, 2014, 08:22:42 PM
http://pool.darkcoin.io is down
Just about every pool will eventually have some downtime... I mine BTC on eligius, and it "sort of" goes down frequently.
I highly recommend running with a failover script or batch file. Someone posted two good examples a while back in the thread. If someone wants, I can repost them - but I can't take credit for them.
March 05, 2014, 08:16:27 PM
we are growing, come and help mine darkcoin, and get a chance of winning the lottery pool.
Pool Pays Witdrawal fee: 0.0
Please spread your hashing power, we dont want 1 pool to have >50%
DDOS Protected pool
Come over to the new server, its blasting fast compared to the old server
old miners, your miners have been port forwarded to the new server,
when you get the time, change it to stratum+tcp://lotterymining.com:4444
old miners, your miners have been port forwarded to the new server,
when you get the time, change it to stratum+tcp://lotterymining.com:4444
the following 6 days there will be a draw EACH day, for 50% of the fees + 28.5 DRK
.
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Todays Winner is: tesquenure amount won: 30.125 DRK
Status: 298 bekräftelser, sänd genom 3 noder
Datum: 2014-03-05 10:59
Till: XgY2afhXTFgUafMVUanTtQ5xRyMCvH1Crf
Belasta: -30.125 DRK
Nettobelopp: -30.125 DRK
Transaktions-ID: 22de0367b25f8573f372e4b05c1e7f7c007102ba365244b83243097eac97f0a1
Also, I'm going to have to start learning German soon anyway
March 05, 2014, 08:13:16 PM
I'm putting 3 kids through college now, and non of them have a job 
Set them up with treadmills to power your mining rigs... and fans!
March 05, 2014, 07:47:35 PM
It may have been mentioned already but how about getting the faucet up and running. There's a link to it on the website and it would seem more professional if it were working. I could probably donate a few coins and the higher the price gets, the lower the number of coins I would be willing to give - I imagine it's the same for many people.
you are more than welcome to add funds to the faucet, ive allready used 1000 darkcoins on it, and think its time for others to dip in as well, the donation address is at the faucet...
March 05, 2014, 07:43:59 PM
What kind of speeds are you guys getting cpu mining? I'm getting 498-502 kh/s with my i5-4670k @ 4.5 GHz.
March 05, 2014, 07:37:45 PM
Appreciate those posts eduffield.
Have you by chance expounded upon the "encrypted transaction network", or at least gave a brief outline/framework somewhere? I'm curious what your vision is for this. I think I've read every post in this thread but I may have missed it.
Have you by chance expounded upon the "encrypted transaction network", or at least gave a brief outline/framework somewhere? I'm curious what your vision is for this. I think I've read every post in this thread but I may have missed it.
I'm not dead set on how I want to implement this yet, and have a few separate ideas.
Before implementation: proxies have always been supported, which would do the same thing. They just require a bit more work on the users part to setup.
Implementation #1: Building in something like tor to use an existing network to secure communication between the nodes and yourself. The problem is this causes everything to slow down substantially.
Implementation #2: Turn the Darkcoin network into a proxy network and pick a node to securely relay through. This could even have N hops before reaching an exit node and would only work for internal system messages.
Implementation #3: Unencrypted relaying using a "Pass this message on to 1 node (and tell them to do the same) you're connected to or if random number > X broadcast", so the message would hop multiple times before it was actually broadcasted by the exit node. You would never know who the original client was because N hops would be random.
Implementation #4+? I'm open to other ideas.
I don't know if he still plans on doing any of this. He used to have it listed on the first post as a feature that would be implemented sometime in the future.
March 05, 2014, 07:33:30 PM
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/03/05/most-popular-bitcoin-apps-soon-to-run-on-tor-anonymity-network/
@eduffield , can you comment on this and what it means for darkcoin?
Quote
Bitcoin core developer Mike Hearn says that an upcoming version of bitcoinj, the software that powers many of the most popular Bitcoin apps like Multibit, Hive, and Android Wallet, will route all connections to the Bitcoin network over Tor’s anonymity network. When users of those apps buy or sell Bitcoins, their transactions will be sent through Tor’s system of three encrypted hops through computers around the world before they reach another Bitcoin node.
@eduffield , can you comment on this and what it means for darkcoin?
The only information this will hide about a transaction is the ip address associated with it.
Sending address and receiving address of transaction are still visible and traceable when routing through tor.
Darksend hides the connection between the sending address and the receiving address.
this. and of course darkcoin can be used with tor too.
It would be a great idea if this would be built in DarkCoin wallet too. Since this is privacy centric coin, it should provide as much privacy as possible
Code:
darkcoind --help
DarkCoin version v0.8.9.2-4-g1070db1-beta
Usage:
darkcoind [options]
darkcoind [options] [params] Send command to -server or darkcoind
darkcoind [options] help List commands
darkcoind [options] help Get help for a command
Options:
-? This help message
-conf= Specify configuration file (default: darkcoin.conf)
-pid= Specify pid file (default: darkcoind.pid)
~~~
-tor= Use proxy to reach tor hidden services (default: same as -proxy)
DarkCoin version v0.8.9.2-4-g1070db1-beta
Usage:
darkcoind [options]
darkcoind [options]
darkcoind [options] help List commands
darkcoind [options] help
Options:
-? This help message
-conf=
-pid=
~~~
-tor=
March 05, 2014, 07:31:15 PM
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/03/05/most-popular-bitcoin-apps-soon-to-run-on-tor-anonymity-network/
@eduffield , can you comment on this and what it means for darkcoin?
Quote
Bitcoin core developer Mike Hearn says that an upcoming version of bitcoinj, the software that powers many of the most popular Bitcoin apps like Multibit, Hive, and Android Wallet, will route all connections to the Bitcoin network over Tor’s anonymity network. When users of those apps buy or sell Bitcoins, their transactions will be sent through Tor’s system of three encrypted hops through computers around the world before they reach another Bitcoin node.
@eduffield , can you comment on this and what it means for darkcoin?
The only information this will hide about a transaction is the ip address associated with it.
Sending address, receiving address, and amount of coins are still visible on the blockchain when routing through tor.
Darksend hides the connection between the sending address and the receiving address.
Thanks Dafockbro. Would love to see this implemented as well.
March 05, 2014, 07:30:02 PM
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/03/05/most-popular-bitcoin-apps-soon-to-run-on-tor-anonymity-network/
@eduffield , can you comment on this and what it means for darkcoin?
Quote
Bitcoin core developer Mike Hearn says that an upcoming version of bitcoinj, the software that powers many of the most popular Bitcoin apps like Multibit, Hive, and Android Wallet, will route all connections to the Bitcoin network over Tor’s anonymity network. When users of those apps buy or sell Bitcoins, their transactions will be sent through Tor’s system of three encrypted hops through computers around the world before they reach another Bitcoin node.
@eduffield , can you comment on this and what it means for darkcoin?
The only information this will hide about a transaction is the ip address associated with it.
Sending address and receiving address of transaction are still visible and traceable when routing through tor.
Darksend hides the connection between the sending address and the receiving address.
this. and of course darkcoin can be used with tor too.
It would be a great idea if this would be built in DarkCoin wallet too. Since this is privacy centric coin, it should provide as much privacy as possible
you can already use tor for every coin. and it should have been already implemented in every coin. it will happen in every coin rather soon than later.
March 05, 2014, 07:25:32 PM
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/03/05/most-popular-bitcoin-apps-soon-to-run-on-tor-anonymity-network/
@eduffield , can you comment on this and what it means for darkcoin?
Quote
Bitcoin core developer Mike Hearn says that an upcoming version of bitcoinj, the software that powers many of the most popular Bitcoin apps like Multibit, Hive, and Android Wallet, will route all connections to the Bitcoin network over Tor’s anonymity network. When users of those apps buy or sell Bitcoins, their transactions will be sent through Tor’s system of three encrypted hops through computers around the world before they reach another Bitcoin node.
@eduffield , can you comment on this and what it means for darkcoin?
The only information this will hide about a transaction is the ip address associated with it.
Sending address and receiving address of transaction are still visible and traceable when routing through tor.
Darksend hides the connection between the sending address and the receiving address.
this. and of course darkcoin can be used with tor too.
It would be a great idea if this would be built in DarkCoin wallet too. Since this is privacy centric coin, it should provide as much privacy as possible
March 05, 2014, 07:23:00 PM
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/03/05/most-popular-bitcoin-apps-soon-to-run-on-tor-anonymity-network/
@eduffield , can you comment on this and what it means for darkcoin?
Quote
Bitcoin core developer Mike Hearn says that an upcoming version of bitcoinj, the software that powers many of the most popular Bitcoin apps like Multibit, Hive, and Android Wallet, will route all connections to the Bitcoin network over Tor’s anonymity network. When users of those apps buy or sell Bitcoins, their transactions will be sent through Tor’s system of three encrypted hops through computers around the world before they reach another Bitcoin node.
@eduffield , can you comment on this and what it means for darkcoin?
The only information this will hide about a transaction is the ip address associated with it.
Sending address and receiving address of transaction are still visible and traceable when routing through tor.
Darksend hides the connection between the sending address and the receiving address.
this. and of course darkcoin can be used with tor too.
March 05, 2014, 07:21:41 PM
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/03/05/most-popular-bitcoin-apps-soon-to-run-on-tor-anonymity-network/
@eduffield , can you comment on this and what it means for darkcoin?
Quote
Bitcoin core developer Mike Hearn says that an upcoming version of bitcoinj, the software that powers many of the most popular Bitcoin apps like Multibit, Hive, and Android Wallet, will route all connections to the Bitcoin network over Tor’s anonymity network. When users of those apps buy or sell Bitcoins, their transactions will be sent through Tor’s system of three encrypted hops through computers around the world before they reach another Bitcoin node.
@eduffield , can you comment on this and what it means for darkcoin?
The only information this will hide about a transaction is the ip address associated with it.
Sending address, receiving address, and amount of coins are still visible on the blockchain when routing through tor.
Darksend hides the connection between the sending address and the receiving address.
March 05, 2014, 07:18:34 PM
I have been following every thread, test and revision here, and have come to a conclusion that i'm VERY happy that we haven't done any promotion yet.
I think that the dev should focus ONLY on getting the act together, making darksend immune to DOS; no coins lost in transactions, and so forth.
Only after we have things really stable and people can transfer coins safely with Darksend, THEN we should start promotion. Otherwise, at this stage, i fear many people will dismiss the coin as not delivering to its promise...
I think we'll get just one chance to really kick-in the media, and i'd rather it is done when we are really ready and not get burned.
Developers - you are on the right track.
My 2cents.
I think that the dev should focus ONLY on getting the act together, making darksend immune to DOS; no coins lost in transactions, and so forth.
Only after we have things really stable and people can transfer coins safely with Darksend, THEN we should start promotion. Otherwise, at this stage, i fear many people will dismiss the coin as not delivering to its promise...
I think we'll get just one chance to really kick-in the media, and i'd rather it is done when we are really ready and not get burned.
Developers - you are on the right track.
My 2cents.
I totally agree !
Price and promotion and all that can and HAS to wait
as there are still too many bugs going on in Darksend and such !
We have to be 100% up and rolling (and double secure) before we take this to the next level !!
The programmers are doing their thing and things need time, so we should NOT rush them into anything, let them sort the technical side out
and then … it is on us to promote that puppy ! and it will be a great ride !
(but first it has to be standing 100%)
!!!
March 05, 2014, 07:13:34 PM
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/03/05/most-popular-bitcoin-apps-soon-to-run-on-tor-anonymity-network/
@eduffield , can you comment on this and what it means for darkcoin?
Quote
Bitcoin core developer Mike Hearn says that an upcoming version of bitcoinj, the software that powers many of the most popular Bitcoin apps like Multibit, Hive, and Android Wallet, will route all connections to the Bitcoin network over Tor’s anonymity network. When users of those apps buy or sell Bitcoins, their transactions will be sent through Tor’s system of three encrypted hops through computers around the world before they reach another Bitcoin node.
@eduffield , can you comment on this and what it means for darkcoin?
March 05, 2014, 07:12:30 PM
Is Darksend ready to be marketed to the public yet?
Let's upvote a simple, informative post to the front page of r/bitcoin once Darksend is ready to be unveiled to the public.
Let's upvote a simple, informative post to the front page of r/bitcoin once Darksend is ready to be unveiled to the public.
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