Topic: [ANN][PIVX] - PRIVATE INSTANT VERIFIED TRANSACTION - PROOF OF STAKE - ZEROCOIN - page 272. (Read 782370 times)

Pretty much a given we will be moving away from this forum. It is NOT mobile friendly at all. It will be certainly still used for 'official' announcements to the crypto world. But it isn't really suited for every day use.

I believe Slack will remain the CHAT application. People are investigating www.Discourse.org as the new forum app.

We will use Confluence for the Wiki, and Trello/Jira for tasks/tickets.

More to come.

In order to grow, Darknet needs to move forward. We can't just remain stuck in a spot and expect to grow.

I was a major Dash holder. Now I hold a lot of DNet. I made the referral to the branding company, but I am not part of that company.

 I have never seen you on this thread before?

Are you a DNET holder or are part of the rebrand company?

Hope this name change is going to result in some new developers coming on board and pushing things forward.

Also why is this community moving off to slack more than being on here?

Let's keep the main action on this forum.

I will add your note to the Slack channel, but it already looks like .org is by far the popular choice.

can you vote for me (i own 70+ mn's atm and i'm not on slack and never will be)?
i would go with .org ....

btw nice article:
http://fintechist.com/sponsored/pivx-next-generation-fungible-privacy-centric-digital-currencies/

Hey everyone,

We are about to place a vote on the Darknet Slack in the #polls channel.

There is a difference of opinion on if the main domain should be:


www.PIVx.org

or

www.PIVx.io


We would like to make this decision quick. If it is a close vote - we'll run it for a while. If it is blatantly obvious what people want, we'll close the vote earlier.

Cheers.

raptor is name of a military plane we are a peaceful org...

PIVX stands for Private Instant Verified Exchange. (Exchange can have multiple meanings)

I'm as open as it gets when it comes to opinions. But I also like to question everything.
So with Raptor, I immediately thought dinosaur or a fighter plane. Maybe it's just me?
But maybe that a good thing? Not sure. But I do get search results on both like below.
http://www.tellmewhereonearth.com/Images6/Raptor%20coin%20thumb.jpg
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/9d4AAOSweW5VPbbn/s-l300.jpg

Many people HATED the new name DASH also when announced if I remember correctly.

DNET devs will work with whatever name. But Darknet had negative/illegal connotations so it had to go if we wanted wider acceptance.
There were paid marketing guys that were twiddling thumbs until we had a new name. So it was better to have one sooner than later.

I was really against PIVX at beginning. But now I think a clean slate name such as PIVX is easy to work with.
It's very easy to pronounce in any language, unique on the net, meaningful acronym, no strong image etc.

Heck, a name is sometimes only a name until the product & marketing backs it up.
An example mentioned on slack was StarBucks. It's now a synonym for "coffee"!
So yeah, please give it time to sink in. It took me over a week to start liking it!

P.S. Now that we have a name that's secured, we will involve this thread more publicly for the name/logo artworks.
It wasn't so easy with the name as any new name needed securing incase someone grabs all the domains, IDs etc.

I really like Raptor too! Or just keep the DNET for "Digital Network" or "Decentralized Network" token!

to make things simple, start out with all your dnet in one input, the in the console, use 'splitstakethreshold 3000' then, the stake/inputs will auto-combine until the input is large enough to split into (2) inputs of 3k dnet

put staking=1 in conf file , restart wallet, unlock wallet

please use this release for now: https://github.com/Darknet-Crypto/Darknet/releases/tag/v2.1.3.0

thanks for contributing to the network !

nice cross of 400K.. due to give other a chance I forego acquisition of 100K at 800 sat (its a bargain btw and BTC run wont last this will)

status: all 115 nodes working and gathering funds.. no need to be too greedy in fact counter productive

PIVx name is very good and it will stick.. has "x" in it an exchange/market place will be huge not just for this coin

how do i activate staking? what is splitstakethresholdwhat should i set it at? and is this this what it should look like if i do set it " setsplitstakethreshold <250,000>

PIVx what does it stand for?

I really hate to say this but Dash is a way better name  and I detest that scam coin.

I like  Raptor - describes the coin well. Intelligent, stealthy, effective....

Are there really devs queuing up to help dnet if we change the name?

I guess if PIVx floats their boat and they will help dev the coin then that's all that matters. I feel less confident about this coin now for some reason.

I guess it leaves the name darknet free for another coin now. That is annoying too. I thought it was a great name.

I only have a handfull of masternodes so it's not a huge deal. Although if I was holding 50+ of them I would have tried harder to resist PIVx

Ripple, Ethereum, Dash, Steem, Waves etc all don't sound like crypto currency to me if I didn't know any better.
Heck, even DARKNET doesn't sound that crypto either.

One positive thing to note is that it is very rare to find a short name like PIVX that nets zero search results on Google.
So at least I think that's a very good start. PIVX is also an acronym which is very much crypto. Another plus IMHO.

Anyways, for any new name, it is normal to take a long time to sink in.
I've known it for days and is only now slowly starting to grow on me...

P.S. Media company will now be creating the name and logo design etc. Expect more updates as we receive them!

PIVx? Sorry but it not sounds like cryptocurrency at all.

  What do those even mean? DNET is much better still. 

Last I heard 3 days ago was that devs were trying to track down the stake issue.
So it is being looked into as priority. While doing so, they did find other bugs also.

Edit: It is expected to be fixed this week.

All, I can understand and in many ways, agree with some of your concerns and compaints.

But please keep in mind that this BCT thread is not the only place of DNET community activity nor should be.
In fact, we have far more people being active on Slack to fill pages and pages of this forum thread every day.

We have posted here multiple times for everyone who care about the coin to participate on the vote.
We have posted on Slack multiple times to remind people to join the vote also.
We wanted people in crypto to vote but also those who aren't to get a better non-biased feedback.
Hence the decision to not utilize MNO voting but involve far more people via secure anonymous poll.
I'm quite certain that most DNET masternode whales have voted. So they have not missed out.

Also, another reason was that a good name, if it's this publicly listed here, will be taken by name poachers long before poll gets finished.
If you have a great name suggestion, make sure you buy all the .com, .org etc domains as well as secure all the SNS and forum ID's etc.
That costs a lot of money and time. We have secured many domain names out of our own pocket. Many that didn't even make this poll!
So yeah, we can go on and on with a new name poll. But keep in mind that it does cost money and also takes away marketing time.

I think I'll always have reservations with any new name. I really liked "DNET" myself. But I guess that's coz I got used to it.
Thanks to a community member forking out a lot of money, we have a professional marketing company doing this for us.
Whatever new name we get, once a "good" logo & artwork is made for it, and we let it sink in, I'm sure it will be fine.

BTW, we have had many discussions in slack about how to improve governance as we know it needs improvement.
We have ideas (In-wallet voting but not just MNO's etc) but not enough devs to make it happen any time soon.
If any of you are able to assist with improving the current Masternode Voting system, please PM me or s3v3nh4cks.