Only 200 till 220 MasterNodes are actually working. (Depending on day time.)
Are the offline/inactive 50% turned off as backup ressource or disguise (and get randomly turned on?)? Or are they misconfigured or is the list wrong?
Why did you do that ??
We have wonderful tool for that.
https://elbzo.net/masternodes.html
Darkcoin MasterNodes Monitoring (last refresh 2014-06-29 11:28:06 / refresh every 1min)
I have port check: closed, is that a problem? everything else is green except darkcoin.io: unlisted
If port is closed somehow, nothing happens if the NM is not selected for DarkSend master.
If the NM is selected, DarkSend client tries to connect the NM.
If DarkSend client can't connect the NM, Masternode re-election msg is broadcasted.
I don't know yet, whether port problem will affect score of “top 10 masternodes”
https://www.darkcointalk.org/threads/rc4-development-and-path-going-forward.1604/
Over the last few days we’ve been looking at a few different options to enforce Masternode payments in RC4. We’ve settled on a brand new implementation that is much more simple, yet robust enough to protect the network.
Each round, a winning Masternode is chosen to carry out Darksend transactions. This process is carried out by the individual nodes across the network independently using the masternode election algorithm. This algorithm chooses a winning node for Darksend, but there is also a runner up, third, forth, fifth place, etc.
Utilizing this code, we can make a deterministic list of the “top 10 masternodes” with the winning scores. These will be the same nodes accross the network and they will vote on who they believe should get paid for that round. The winning Masternode will be the one with the most votes (up to 10 votes) and the network will reject blocks not containing that payment entry.
Other functionality
RC4 will also still include improvements to the anonymity of Darksend. After the implementation phase is complete we will begin by testing the non-enforcement / enforcement switch and the new anonymity layer on testnet.
okay thanks, will look into it