So, so much this! I've been giggling on and off for 5 hours now.

Then I found this site: http://www.robietherobot.com/buzzword.htm and noticed it makes use of both "mesh" and "paradigm". So I thought, what are the odds I could make a coin ANN using nothing but phrases generated by that site (with a couple connecting verbs, etc) and just how successful could it be?

Anything insightful you might have to say carries no weight and will be ignored by myself and many others, due to your completely out-of-line banner on the previous page.

Edit: and also the other mindless drivel you've posted over the last day(s).

Well, it wouldn't be the Masternodes, it'd be the network, but I believe it should be possible.

I think just running some numbers can tell you that 10% is not enough. I've been in favor or going to 20% for awhile now (the timing is a bit odd though).

At reward 5:

5 X 576 = 2,880 coins/day
2,880 X 0.1 = 288 coins for masternodes

If you want 1,000 Masternodes (for example), you're already down to around 100 coins per Masternode per year, which is not very enticing in the wild crypto game of life.

And also, re. DRK existing to make money for Masternodes: I'm of the opinion at this time that what's good for Masternodes is good for every DRK holder. If masternodes are desirable, more will be bought, which in turn means higher prices for everyone, including those that don't have 1,000 DRK.

Within reason: I don't think 100% of rewards going to Masternodes would be good for DRK, obviously, but going from 10% to 20% is definitely going up the scale of what's good for DRK, not down, if that makes any sense. All IMO, of course; for me, the cutoff where it starts hurting DRK would be somewhere around 30-50% of rewards (including more negative perception we'd get from that, not to mention there'd be big incentive to run Masternodes, leaving little liquidity to do private money transfers, which is the whole point of DRK, right?). << holy run-on sentences

I've been thinking through various scenarios about the cold storage method via using a signed message. I even considered whether we need authentication at all (as in, if you'd just let the MN start with "Here's my pub key", what motivation would someone have to run your MN for you? But it would be an attack vector with malicious nodes misbehaving, etc., so I concluded that's not a wise idea). A simple one-time signed (random) message wouldn't work either for authentication (for a cold wallet) because someone else could just present the same signed message as their own, putting us back to not having authentication at all (as described above).

But what about this?:

A 1,000 DRK address wants to create a masternode, so he:

1. Signs a message "I want to create a masternode. I have 1,000 DRK, as you can see. Oh, BTW, my desired Masternode public key is *newly generated DRK address*" This message would get stored, *permanently* in a "potential" Masternode list.
2. Exports the private key corresponding to the newly created MN public key above.
3. Takes his 1,000 DRK wallet offline.
4. Imports the newly generated private key to his Masternode candidate.
5. Starts Masternode as normal, with no real worry about someone discovering his private key, as that would just take us back to the (undesirable) no authentication described above.

There would be little reason (that I can think of) to do garbage collection on a list as described above, as you could only add to it with a 1,000 DRK address. So in my view, an entry should stay until either:
1. The originating private key requests it be removed.
2. The originating private key requests it be updated to a new address (if someone managed to hack your Masternode and you wanted to return to a valid authenticated state).
3. The network detects that any of the 1,000 DRK have been transferred.

If any of the above were to occur, the network would immediately reject the validity of any Masternode using the public key defined in the message.

This seems pretty simple and elegant to me. (or is this what has been planned all along and I'm just stupid?)

Well, voting threads speculating on price @ X date. I'm not sure if there was much discussion or not though.

I think coins101 does a pretty decent job of that. More is better though, right?

So, who wants to talk about DRK?

Let's go "whale" hunting together!

Someone has 123,456.789 LGC. Ha! (can I beat that?)

http://chainz.cryptoid.info/lgc/address.dws?46057.htm

I definitely know of a guy who lost around 10k DRK via formatted SSD. My guess that'd be #69, or more possibly #49

Also, there's the whole "Scrypt Proof of Work" thing.

I will send an additional 250 LGC to the address in your signature, if that's ok.

Edit: sent.

Whew, been reading this thread page by page on and off all day. However, I was on my phone and not at my computer, so never even started up my wallet (I'm also not running MNs presently).

Came home, downloaded 0.9.4.11, fired it up. All appears fine, assuming current block is 75323. I guess I missed the whole thing.

1501 pages, over 30,000 replies now!

Is there a bounty fund we can donate to?

As for the above bounties, consider them doubled. godwits, if you'll let me know when/if they get completed with the appropriate address, I'll match these amounts.

[23:14] <Dark-Bot`> luigi1111: 1.0045 DRK @ 0.02540001 DRK/BTC (source:mintpal) = 0.02551431 BTC / $13.37 USD (source:bitstamp)

Wheeee. (stupid bot...I tried)

Getting closer e'ryday.

Edit: someone just bought up to 4k.

lol, I'll let you know what the right title is later on.

What's interesting to me is all I hear is MRO this, MRO that. Why is MRO the de facto cryptonote coin? Why is it better than the others? What does it offer that they don't?   It's not the first CN coin. Its market cap is way smaller than BCN's. Of course BCN is no angel either. I just don't get it.