With this amount of thread sliding and vested interest trolling, it has to be good time to buy more Darkcoin.
Buy the dips on the way up, guys  

Understated and overawed, as it should be 

Must be real elegant and efficient coding because the wallets just keep getting faster and more responsive, its great to watch all the development by the entire team. Thanks everyone

I wanted to test the new '60 times faster' bitcoin 0.10.0 wallet against Darkcoins update times, I have created a dimensionless ratio of the amount of seconds of actual 'real time' it takes to update each hour behind of the wallet measured in (seconds)/(hour of update time behind). [kind of like a 'Q' factor to measure quality in physics]
And my weekend benchmark results are averaging out nicely 

Connection speed 100 megabits/second.
Machine 1 : SSD (500 megabytes/s up+down, SATA 3) 4.4 gigahertz i7 4820k, windows 7 64 bit.
Machine 2 : HDD (3 gigabits, SATA 2), 2.4 gigahertz Intel Duo E4600, Windows 7 64 bit.

Machine 1,SSD: Darkcoin (0.11.1.25)   Best update ratio = 1.346 seconds per hour of update
Machine 1,SSD: Bitcoin (0.10.0) =  Best update ratio = 3.304 seconds per hour of update
Darkcoin is 2.4 times quicker than bitcoin

Machine 2,HDD : Darkcoin (0.11.1.25) = Best update ratio = 3.817 seconds per hour of update
Machine 2,HDD : Bitcoin  (0.10.0) = best update ratio = 26.14 seconds per hour of update
Darkcoin is 6.9 times quicker than bitcoin on traditional 3 gig sata hard drives of average cpu spec.

Observations:
The cpu of the HDD machine maxs out at 100% with bitcoin, indexing goes very slow especially on the first run from cold start and gives spurious update times (Darkcoin is totally stable at 40% CPU)
Darkcoin update times were statistically closer together and more stable especially on the HDD.

Conclusions:
a) Fast modern machines and solid state drives work well with the bitcoin faster hop times but older machines do not like it at all, and use too many resources bottle necking the data transfer.
b) Bitcoin blockchain length is too large for older,slower machines (still most of the world, as not everyone's 'old' machine is a 2012 iMac like Gavin Andresens!)

So does Darkcoin now hold the world coin record for update times? The excellent Dev's have nearly broken the 1 second per hour of update barrier 

Ironically Mr Andresen is campaigning to have a larger blockchain!
“The old code would spend about 600ms CPU time per hop propagating blocks with already-seen transactions, this new code will spend under 10ms.”
--Gavin Andresen--

Something you won't believe is possible.

For laughs  
Most searched for keywords of cost value per state.

Am confused,do breast lifts come before or after breast implants ? And nose and face lift are adjacent, kinda ironic they're in neighbouring states, there appears to be a connective pattern  

trezor is darkcoin enabled,
https://github.com/trezor/trezor-mcu/commit/65d734df58566d11365a3cf0d66f79811ac35381

Gavin Andresen talks about needing a bigger blockchain,
'I'll be on the livestream tomorrow at 10am EDT, explaining why "We're Gonna Need A Bigger Chain" '
'"Looking before the Scaling Up Leap", stating "My goal is to prove that it is safe to raise the maximum block size from 1MB to at least 20MB" along with "I'll argue we should schedule a hard fork."'
--Gavin Andresen--
http://gavintech.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/looking-before-scaling-up-leap.html

MIT Bitcoin Expo 2015 Day 1 ..
http://youtu.be/lIgjogLipvk?t=2h42m52s
''bitcoin has all the merits to become the universal currency''

bigrcanada, MIT dudes say they are approached many times by projects/coins wanting to work with them, and their answer every time is -prove you have 3 customers and we will consider it and never have they had a positive reply, talks about counterparty and ethereum (@ 3hr 37 mins). They don't seem to like alt coins.

kointrend, even my ears can't hear the MIT bitcoin club guys at Expo 2015, talking about Masternodes  

Did I hear theres going to be a party?

Pickled cactus would be a first, do you do peyote specials?
Tasty looking menu, but I dont see much asian style or chilis anywhere 

How cold are we talking here? This place is the coldest in the universe and slows light down to a walking pace by causing a new state of matter called a bose Einstein condensate thats changes all the atoms so they act like a single super conducting giant atom.
To expect more than this would be unreasonable,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RpLOKqTcSk
We put on goggles to protect ourselves from being blinded by infrared light from the laser beams that are used to slow down and thereby cool fast-moving atomic particles. We cross the hall from his sunny office into a dark room with an interconnected jumble of wires, small mirrors, vacuum tubes, laser sources and high-powered computer equipment. "Right here," he says, his voice rising with excitement as he points to a black box that has an aluminum-foil-wrapped tube leading into it. "This is where we made the coldest temperature."

Weekend politics, and this from the Ex Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan,
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/03/05/crazed-washington-drives-world-final-war/
Westerners live in The Matrix, and the presstitutes keep them there. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, and the TV channels perform as agents (as in the Matrix film) actively suppressing any glimmer of factual reality.

Vertoe, that is interesting about an accidental low inflation rate due to reduced subsequent mining yield being dropped onto the market. How ironic that an accident turned out to be beneficial for the distribution and price in the long run.

Btw, is there an easy way of calculating the hop time in the cpu for the darkcoin wallet? Thanks.

It was a retweet, not Gavin Andresens actual words, I didn't mean to confuse, it links to an article by someone else. Anyway all is still not good, I benched marked the new btc wallet, and yes it did 3 days update in 5 minutes on a solid state drive 4.4 gigahertz 8 thread xeon which was impressive but timings on old dual core 1.8 gigahertz with HDD was very very slow, the CPU is at 100% all the time, even verifying the blocks only took 13 minutes!. The block size is too big for HDD drive speeds I think. Try it yourself and compare. Gavin Andresen may have a super fast raided SSD computer with 1 gig connection but the other ?half of the world is still on old HDD computers with slow connections, plus many HDD laptops that are difficult to upgrade.
I am still bench marking ...

Gavin Andresen tweet,
http://junseth.com/post/112626834687/stop-talking-about-confirmation-speeds-start
 Dark Coin was built, originally, to solve the anonymity problem. Now they introduced what they think is a fix to confirmation times. And yet, it has a fraction of the hashing power being pumped into it.

All of bitcoins hashing is from 1 pool so how is petahashs any better than gigahashes of mining in keeping the network stable, and also the decentralized masternode system should keep the network doublely stable as an extra network layer, or am I missing something?

Fell over onto my back laughing and now can't get up     

Glad you're sorted, I have had them 24 hours late before, it was the 'accounting errors' that worried me more.
And please dont keep all your coins on an exchange in case it all goes tits up like many others, use for your masternode instead!

Nothing is out of the box and 100% perfect and tested, especially something this cutting edge,involved and complicated, Darkcoin has been constantly improving since it's creation. Consider that something you may not use today, may become standard in 1 or 2 years time. The Europeon bank has written a report saying that X11 may replace sha256 and scrypt, but only time will tell what will become defacto safe anon as time progresses. There is no other network like the Masternode system and the Dev's are repeatedly finding new uses for Darkcoin's core backbone..

Thanks for the update, took the coins out just in case, am very twitchy after mintpal and bter,
have a great weekend  

WATCH OUT everyone!! This is confirmed, Cryptsy withdrawing highly irregular, withdrew 98 drk, received email for 98, then got only 49, and transfers out showed 98 pending but then it changed down to 49 after being sent.the total balances check out so far, but its enough to make me very nervous-never seen it before. Second one came as stated.