Topic: DyslexicZombei's Darkcoin Community MasterNode Svcs: CLOSED. Nodes 2 4 5 Refunds - page 18. (Read 27973 times)

Hey DZ, I did my own MNs, so you can take me off the Batch2.

Awesome, thanks Ozziecoin. I was going to PM you on Reddit later, but you saved me the time.  

thomas_s. will be along later to state his involvement with this new project when he wakes up. Otoh will stop by later as well.

I can vouch for these guys.  They are legit.

Please state "Reserved" below in order to sign up for Batch 2 before June 1st. Management fees double and setup fees will be incurred for Batch 3 signups.

Mahalo!

DZ DRK MASTERNODE LIST

The original Reddit post was successful and Batch 1 is CLOSED!

Batch 1 nodes -

1. DZ, Otoh (45/55 split)
2. Kauai Bitcoin Club (DZ and another DZ MC member), DRKsi
3. Otoh (100%)
4. Optional MasterNode2 (DRKsi, may be teamed with others)

Batch 2 DRK MN Waiting List (to be launched when team/funds complete and Batch 1 is stable) - CLOSED

5. jwuerz (Reddit)
6. Ozziecoin (Reddit)
7. RyanArr
8. Anon. Gentleman
9. Anon. Gentleman
10. 2dogs
11. Anon. Gentleman (d...7)
12. pyre

Batch 2 Deposit Address (Please leave Tx ID and amount in thread when making a stake deposit): XvJXGuqUBzdMxXjFJdX5fTzAXgxcpM5jWh

This waiting list is closed.

Batch 3 Waiting List - (OPEN).
Batch 3 may be slotted in with Batch 2 Nodes in order to fill Batch 2 MasterNodes

13. Anon. Gentleman
14. RedditTooAddictive
15. JesseLivermore
16. Anon. Gentleman (25%, Reddit, d...b...m...n)
17. Anon. Gentleman (Reddit, s...m...e)

Batch 3 Deposit Address (10 or 25% stakes, Please leave Tx ID, amount sent, and a payout address in thread or via PM when making a stake deposit): XucWymKo3MCmVvFwGW1SKBtNrshbmfBmpE

Please make sure to include extra DRK for the transmission fee (such as 0.01 DRK extra if sending from Cryptsy, for example) when making a stake deposit as well as a DRK payout address (Feel Free to PM me if you don't want this info to be public).

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Referrals receive 10% of 2 months of DRK MN Management Fees for referred users who sign up for this Darkcoin MasterNode Service:

1. Anon. Gentleman, referred #7 #8 on Waiting List (sorry, I had to move Anon. Gent #7 to #8 as a Reddit user barely beat your reservation time)

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"Dear DyslexicZombei,

I'm willing to go with your service for setting up a Masternode for me. I've just a few questions left:

- In your post you state a 30 DRK fee for setting up to be able to cover costs for "antivirus, firewall, and DDOS protection which *must* be paid by the team". Am I able to purchase this myself so I can be sure of 100% pure ownership by me?

- When choosing your second package. Do I understand it correctly you or your team have full access to my wallet where DRK are stored?

- When I let you or your team set this up and have it managed, what are the total fixed costs and monthly costs? Does the % fee stop after a X DRK's as payment made?

Feel free to add me on Skype to discus all ins and outs. Make sure to PM me here since I've a few imposters. Skype: XYXYXYXY

Cheers!"


Hey man,

Now that I'm not as tired as when I posted that last night I'll try to clarify that further.

The 30 DRK is for setup fees. This setup fee is being waived for Batches 1 and 2.

The price of these mentioned protections are way too varied to nail down in one quote. What I meant about a client making 1 payment to us, they'd make 1 payment of the AV/FW/DDOS package of their choice that we buy on their behalf listing them as owners, which can easily be seen by anyone that takes the time to look OR we'll pick a package for them that should offer them sufficient protection without breaking the bank (that also can be named to a 100% MN owner who wants to move his or her software licenses to a new machine).

I'll really try to simplify that part of my post (I tend to edit and re-edit my sales posts).

I'd actually prefer that the client(s) already had their own antivirus, firewall, and DDOS protection already purchased or even pre-installed and set up (even if the client is willing to live with free DDOS) on their hardware of choice. FWIW, as a pro, I have access to all kinds of volume licenses and free software for all kinds of software, so I certainly don't need to go around stealing licenses.

To be safe, and so we're not a bunch of rank amateurs that get ripped off because we left the front door open, we can't even begin to think about putting a node up until these 3 conditions are met (and patches are up to date and set to autoupdate (but require a human to restart)).

"- When choosing your second package. Do I understand it correctly you or your team have full access to my wallet where DRK are stored?"

No, if you own the node 100% then the node is pointed at your wallet address but we don't have your private keys, passwords, authenticators, or trade accounts needed to make any use out of a wallet address alone. If you don't own the node, you're trusting us to payout your percentage of accrued DRK twice a month minus a 1.5% Management Fee for Batches 1 & 2, and 3% fees for everyone after.

"- When I let you or your team set this up and have it managed, what are the total fixed costs and monthly costs? Does the % fee stop after a X DRK's as payment made?"

Fixed and monthly costs would be dependent on customer decisions about Antivirus/Firewall/DDOS which are subscription based. When I did my original listing at the 1.5% management fee I was charging for, I was essentially hoping to break even on this (like companies have loss leader sales) just to get a couple of nodes up. The thought of making this a service came later, after I saw that there was interest.

I think 1.5-3% Management fees on top of monthly software subscriptions is more than a fair price for this service from veteran network pros, as we have a specialized skillset and experience that's taken us years to gain.

Getting back to the software package: The exception to this custom AV/FW/DDOS protection suite, is if a client didn't care or have enough knowledge to make these decisions and would like us to help them either choose a protection suite OR they could just let us handle the vendor decisions (which would be a base package that we use on nodes we own stakes in). Our own personal nodes will be hosted at Amazon or at minersource.net (still working out rates with my co-founders at minersource.net)

For the first couple nodes, they're essentially test platforms for those that will follow and I wanted to give myself enough time to get these nodes organized and running before tackling Batch 2 (which should roll out quicker when we work out this process in Batch 1).

Thanks for writing me! Hope this info helped.

Cheers,
DZ

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Disclaimers/Terms:

DRK is not meant for illegal purposes and we will not assist in ANY efforts to circumvent or bypass local laws and regulations. DRK MasterNode partners must be willing to accept the following risks:

- That even with the best of intentions and the best pro security mitigations, that DRK MNs may be targets for hacking and brute force attempts, and that even the best defense can be beaten.
- That like cash, DRK can be misused for illegal purposes, but those participating is this venture will not knowingly participate in illegal activities and that should this activity become illegal in pertinent regions, we will cease activities and remove resources in exact proportion to the original terms, or remove stake owners, as necessary, to comply with local laws and regulations.
- Ownership is kept by the original stake owner(s), excluding sales of accounts, which are not prohibited but incur the following:

* 1.5% Owner Swap Fee** paid by the new owner upon completion of previously agreed upon terms between 2 parties
** 1.5% Owner Cash Out Fee paid by the original owner.

- Stake Owners must provide a 3 day notice to vacate their stake to allow arrangements to secure their original stake with a new stake owner. There is also the **1.5% Owner Cash Out Fee** meant to help dissuade Stake Owners from cashing out from MasterNodes, which can cause chaos to these small teams.

- Referral Program: Offer limited to veteran BTC Talk members to reduce fraud. 10% Referral Fees are limited to members with an activity level more than 25]

Additional Risks: We are not your business attorney or licensed financial adviser, but these are considered speculative investments. Do not invest funds you cannot afford to lose as even the best computer security can be beaten or circumvented (even companies with immense resources have been hacked previously). While near 100% uptime is the goal, we are not responsible for lost revenue in the form of Darkcoins for necessary downtime and other acts beyond our control

Resources Needed:

1000 DRK - Reserved only for function of the DRK MN. Can be removed at any time at loss of node function, so technically is not a "cost"

Costs Varies - Hardware or virtual hardware hosting (Amazon's cheapest ECS is sufficient), antivirus (highly recommended), firewall (mandatory, pro level recommended), DDOS protection (mandatory, pro level protection is MANDATORY or we will not be involved: typically costs for DDOS are $50-60 month fee for 1st level pro protection). Choose your own software suite or have me handle this for you at retail costs.


Quotes for the above hardware/software are customized based on client decisions OR we can handle these decisions for you and give you a non-marked up base quote should you not have the expertise to decide on a package. In other words no extra cost is added by us. Quotes prepped for hardware/software will be actual hardware and subscription costs at the same price as normal retail.

6/2 Update: Estimated costs for having me handle all of the above at normal retail costs = $8.50 - $10 per month per 25% DRK MN Stake Owner for my Standard Software Protection Suite Package - which includes hosting and a comprehensive security suite - chosen by a veteran IT Security Pro.

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Set Up Process

A. 2 to 4 people agree to set up a MasterNode together at 25% stakes for 4 stakes total per DRK MN team (excluding the first DRK MN we set up which will be setup as a 45/55 shared node). Trust should have been already been built among the team in some way such as thru a vetted network engineer or veteran miner who serves as the team leader.

B. Secure resources: 1) The team secures and sets up their own hardware, ISP service, professional antivirus, firewall, and DDOS protection pre-paid by the client either directly to the relevant 4 vendors of this hardware and these services.

Alternatively, you can have all of this easily set this up thru us in 1 total payment instead of 4 (and professional hosting at minersource.net), OR 2) arrange to have us set this up as part of setup services for a small additional fee

C. 1000 DRK per MasterNode that is set up through my new service must be deposited to the DRK address listed below.

XuFmZmR5x66gbyR4rKMNBj3wPXzdoybFZJ )

for us to begin setting up the team's DRK MN. Please post your transaction ID and info when making a deposit to this address when setting up a Team Node.

I will personally send the DRK needed to the allocated address to set up the DRK MN, once the team has their minimum funds of 1000 DRK deposited at said address.

D. Administration account(s) are handed over to the client for imminent password changes OR DRK MNs are managed by us at a 1.5 - 3% monthly fee deducted at time of payouts of accrued new DRK.

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Stake Owner Cash Out - DRK MN Stake Owners may cash out provided they give a 3 day notification so that new stake owner(s) may be found to take your place.

- There is a 1.5% Stake Owner Swap Fee paid by the new Stake Owner.

- There is also a 1.5% Stake Owner Cash Out Fee deducted from original DRK funds.

These fees are meant to help deter Stake Owners from cashing out and causing chaos among DRK MNs as well as for administrative costs.

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8/2 Update: Sigh, seeing too many problems with this RC3 beta software and too much rebuilds and re-activations needed at the moment IMO. Nodes 2, 4, 5 to be refunded late 8/2 with no refund penalty.

I may reopen this service again after RC5 or Version 1.0, if node stability improves a lot.


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BATCH 1 CLOSED - 1.5% Management Fees, Setup Service Fees Waived

BATCH 2 CLOSED - 1.5% Management Fees, Setup Service Fees Waived)
Accepting Waiting List, new Batch 2 Waiting List sign-ups end 5/31 9PM HST

BATCH 3 CLOSED - (3% Management Fees, 30 15 (Until 6/21 6/18) FREE DRK MN Setup Service Fees, Sign up for B3 reservations end: Wednesday, 6/18 9PM HST.

6/19 Update: Unless you previously contacted me here, Reddit, or Darkcoin Talk regarding a B3 reservation: Batch 3 is now Closed. We're at 5 Community Nodes funded, so far!

BATCH 4 - UPCOMING - No firm ETA, Batch 1 Full node Q must clear first before Batch 4 Partial Nodes become available.
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7/1 Update: There's partial funds for a Node #5! If you're interested please send a deposit to Batch 3 wallet address and please follow the instructions below.

6/2 Update: Estimated Monthly Operating Costs Per Team per DZ DRK MasterNode: Standard Package, meets FIPAA, NIST, PCI DSS 2.0, SAS 70 standards among others: Only $12 per month per Team for Highest Quality Professional Server Co-location Hosting + Power/AV/FW/DDOS protection! [Batch 1 stake owners are exempt from these monthly fees and management fees]

New! You may now opt to "pay as you go" for pre-configured pro level protection for all of the 5 services listed above + DZ DRK MN Management Services at only $1.50 per 25% MN stake per payout! (250 DRK coins out of 1000 DRK)

Estimated Monthly operating costs do not include a 1.5 - 3% Management Fee. Please see the bottom of Page 2 of this thread for a sample DZ DRK MN payout for a typical 250 DRK coin 25% stake.

Server Setup, MasterNode software installation and configuration, Network Administration, Network Security, & Pen Testing provided by a veteran Network Engineer who specializes in InfoSec and has multiple designed and certified DoD accredited systems and LANs as part of a design and installation history accumulated over 10+ years.

6/6/14 update: we're live on our first community node! Node payment start has been pushed back to 6/18 by Darkcoin dev team.

6/10 update: RC3 launch pushed back to 6/27 to thoroughly test upgrades and patches before public release. This is a good thing as the market tends to punish those who can't protect their own coins key variables & rules (double spending is an example of the abuse of the variables involved).

Devs are also adding the ability to hold the 1000DRK offsite (pref.in cold storage) which also reduces some of the incentive for trying to break into a MN.

With that in mind, we'll launch nodes at a slower pace which allows me to take even more time locking down security, which should be multi-layered and multi faceted, and requires constant attention as to the latest zero days and other cyber threats.

Also: since there's been another two week delay I'm now offering free MN setups for those that sign up before the 21st!

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Minimum Stake: 250 DRK minimum needed for a 25% stake, client may own entire DRK MN.
Small teams simplify accounting, paperwork and decision making.

We may consider 10% stakes on Batch 3 (Please send a PM if this interests you).

**  By Request: 10% Ownership stakes are Now available for Batch 3 until June 21, 9PM HST! **


Developer Update: MasterNode Payments have now doubled from 10% to 20%!
Source - https://twitter.com/DarkcoinCrypto/status/471332917235290114


New! Earn a 10% referral fee on 2 months of Darkcoin MasterNode Management Fees!

Simply tell your friends about this new service and have them mention your name when contacting us. If your referral decides to have us set up and/or manage their DRK MN, then you get 10% of the Management Fees for Two Months (+ 10% of Service Fees!)! [Offer limited to veteran BTC Talk members to reduce fraud. 10% Referral Fees are limited to members with an activity level more than 25]



I hope to offer the first legitimate matching service of vetted network engineers and administrators and those seeking help with securely setting up and/or managing their own Darkcoin MasterNode or DRK MN. I have a long history of helping others, standing up for fellow miners, and NOT taking community funds entrusted to me for volume priced miners that are NOT mine, when I founded DyslexicZombei's Miners Cooperative, the largest Bitcoin public miner's co-op of 2013.

I've discussed my credentials for holding such an important supervisory and security position in these threads below on Reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/DRKCoin/comments/268lnf/looking_for_a_5050_master_node_partner/

Helping others and volunteering in my local community is something I do for free:

http://www.reddit.com/r/DRKCoin/comments/26ezfk/traded_all_my_dogecoins_for_darkcoin/
http://www.reddit.com/r/DRKCoin/comments/26ffx8/shibe_herejust_checking_you_guys_out/
http://www.reddit.com/r/DRKCoin/comments/26fmsf/im_thinking_of_setting_up_a_website_to_provide/
http://www.reddit.com/r/DRKCoin/comments/26fvs9/i_want_to_be_part_of_a_masternode_but/

...and all over the internet from here, to Reddit, to Surfermag BB (user KauaiDKer, ID est. 2005), ebay (with my wife rainbowlady03, trust rating 162), and real life.


Benefits of running a Darkcoin MasterNode vs. ordering a Bitcoin Miner:

- Appreciates in value over time: One month ago on April 27, the USD value of a DRK node's reserved coins was $1.6K. On May 13, 14 days ago it was $2.7K. Today on May 27, it currently requires approx. $12K worth of reserved DRK to start a node.
- So far: Does NOT depreciate in value at double digits every month like a Bitcoin Miner which continuously yields less BTC as difficulty skyrockets
- Receives 10% 20%! of DRK coins generated on the DRK MN (5/27 dev. Update)
- Provides a revenue stream that pays out in DRK coins, the fastest growing major alt-coin, which has outperformed BTC growth in value tremendously in the last few months.
- To get started: Does NOT rely on an ASIC mfg. that may either keep the funds (looking at you HashFast) or delivers late and/or overpriced hardware that likely will never ROI.
- Coins can be removed at any time (but ownership transfers using separate transactions should be utilized instead of withdrawing coins from the team's 1000 reserved DRK for the MN when switching partial stake owners)

SERVICES OFFERED

1. DARKCOIN MASTERNODE SETUP AND HANDOFF
2. DARKCOIN MASTERNODE SETUP AND MANAGEMENT SERVICES
3. MATCHMAKING SERVICES (Planned)

1. I, or an IT Network Professional I personally vet, will set up and handoff your own Darkcoin MasterNode for a service fee of 30 DRK and/or perform ongoing management services. This includes setting up and securing pro-level protection for antivirus, firewall, and DDOS protection which *must* be paid by the team of 2-4 people setting up a DRK MN. Any used admin accounts will be handed over for Password changes. Beyond normal setup of security, we will not responsible for on-going security and losses incurred due to poor or non-existent security after the handoff. The handoff assumes that the client will have pro level firewall and DDOS protections that we installed kept in place and subcriptions kept active.

2. I, or an IT Network Professional I personally vet, will set up for a service fee of 30 DRK (setup fees are waived for Batches 1 and 2!) and manage your DRK MN for an agreed upon rate of 1.5% (recommended) to 3%. As a benefit to Batch 1-2 Partners for being first to recognize the value of them, these first Nodes will be services will only be managed at only 1.5%!

Payouts are twice a month minus the agreed upon management fee of 1.5% for Batches 1 & 2. Payouts and accounting of stake ownerships will be handled by thomas_s. , the head of logistics for MinerSource.net and my co-founder of the DZ MC. His integrity in the Crypto community is without question and he has handled literally thousands of BTC worth of the community's funds and mining hardware without issue.

3. (Planned) Please contact me if you are a Network Engineer or Administrator and you would like to help others set up their own Darkcoin MasterNodes. You must be willing to share your personal ID and your LinkedIn info to confirm your credentials to become vetted. So far, I have protected the personal information of about 12 vetted Group Buy Coordinators and/or Miner Hosts on this forum.


** For Engineers and Administrators who are referred to setting up or managing a client's DRK MN, a one time 10% Referral fee of management fees for the first month or 10% of the service fee is sent to DZ for helping to set up this matchmaking service, vetting qualified network professionals, and acting as a marketing agent for network pros. **


Referral fees will go to this DRK address: XuFmZmR5x66gbyR4rKMNBj3wPXzdoybFZJ