Topic: [ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency - page 6830. (Read 9723508 times)

Hello All,

I am VERY glad to have joined this community, and i hope I will not get on anyone's nerves with newbie questions or suggestions.
I am a technology analyst (aka- economist) and while I understand barely half of what you guys are talking about regarding mining hardware, efficiency and optimization, I hope to contribute my 2cents in ideas and in observation on key elements (that's basically the only two things that Analysts are claimed to be worthwhile at).

building a network effect on non-techies:
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I have been into cryptos for a long while and I have lately felt that all my friends who are not techies want to get into cryptos, but do not have the minimum understanding (in spite of all the material out there). They have all heard about bitcoin; they have all heard about gox collapsing and coins being stolen at exchanges... and they come to me asking how to start.
Normally, i tell them to open an account at btc-e, buy btc and transfer it because if they start by downloading a -qt wallet and have to wait for 24hours until it synchronizes, and then learn how to open it, or encrypt it, etc. they simply abandon any interest in getting into the game.

Last night, I downloaded and installed darkcoin-qt because I decided darkcoin is in line with everything I believe in crypto (open source, no pre-mine, no billion coins, difficultly adjustment, darksend/anonymity, etc.).
It them struck me that within minutes, the wallet was synchronized and ready to go...
 
I know this sounds trivial because it is a new coin... but it's also a huge advantage.
I've been playing around with the idea of social network effect as means for bringing more people into the game.
From my perspective, we are in 1990 in terms of internet adoption, with merely 2 million crypto users, just as it was 2 million internet users in the 1990, aka - really early in the game.
I know that until now there were bonuses and bounties given to users, but I'm thinking about making a "trusted social pool", like a pyramid scheme, only there is no "reward", only giving.

Yesterday, I bought a handful of DRK, and I am responsible for some of the rise in price.
Suppose I put 1,000 drk into such pool, and invited 10 people that are trusted by the community or myself, each gets 100 drk and is required to open 10 wallets to 10 people he/she trusts and transfer 10 drk each. each of them will them be required to open 10 wallets and transfer 1 drk to each. and so forth.

Within the third interaction, we reach 1,000 users... and thus the word spreads.

I know this probably sounds naive, but if we had a structured system to verify that the users who get the coins really open new accounts for new people, that could be great. If there is no such system, then social ties/trust is a way to go.
Having coins transfered within minutes, and darkcoin-qt installed and synchronized in minutes is a great advantage that will evaporate over time. Why not be the first coin to tun this disadvantage into an advantage?

Here's the nodes I've found:


addnode=23.23.186.131
addnode=50.16.206.102
addnode=50.19.116.123
addnode=98.165.130.67
addnode=54.242.50.205
addnode=50.17.98.53
addnode=54.225.43.37

https://www2.coinmine.pl/drk/index.php?page=dashboard

that pool is reporting 3723 mhash pool rate out of 4700 network.

Hope to see up again.
I don't want to lost my drk

Nice, but can someone set up a p2pool nearer to EU or US?
I'd be happy to contribute/partner/invest in a server, but I work offshore and maintenance is too complicated when I'm behind very tight proxies

With pool.darkcoin.io down?

Tyvm will try it later. Atm phm-s miner is giving 1200 / 270x so its probably pointless to switch even tho thats not the newest.

With current 4760Mhash/s net difficulty there must be several huge pools at least. But I can't figure any of them that are as much as 700MHs and alive. Can it be that all the power is getting from p2pools?

Try to remove some parameters, especially the thread-concurrency and gpu-commands and add them again one by one if it works?
We're doing it more or less the same way and it works over here..

Didnt work with the p2p pool url also

It could be simply that it has a lot of traffic going on atm. Try to set up a few backups to see if it's just hanging on the connect-attempt.
I had the same problem yesterday, and when I gave it more pools to play with it connected on one of them until the most wanted started answering.

anyone know why this isnt working? Miner simply doesnt start.

sgminer -o stratum+tcp://drk.coinmine.pl:6090 -u myuser.worker -p x --gpu-engine 1100 --gpu-memclock 1150 -k darkcoin -I 19 -g 1 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 20000  --lookup-gap 2 --no-submit-stale --gpu-fan 85

One of the sgminers writes "Kernel darkcoin is experimental" and doesnt go on the other doesnt even start.


Tried miners found here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-sph-sgminer-multi-coin-multi-algorithm-gpu-miner-added-marucoin-475795 (SPH)

Would be happy if someone could help!

ty