strix I think what thefrog meant by the 'have to age' thing was just that all mined DRK have to 'mature' for a bunch of blocks before they become spendable, it takes a couple of hours, it's no big deal. Centralised pools don't pay you immediately, they wait until you have some set amount (by which time your mined DRK have matured) and then send you it. No difference.

Sorry coins, knew there was something I was forgetting!  

AFAICT they are selling a useless vapourware 'asset' for a useless PAYG platform that doesn't exist yet.

It is sure to be a big hit.

Python does multithreading just fine, but if bits of it need to be optimised in C then that's fine by me.  I think it's something worthwhile, and fundamental, for The Foundation or crowdfunding efforts to tackle, and certainly more important than giving the qt wallet a paintjob, although no reason both can't be accomplished in parallel.

I don't think educating the masses is going to work, given that by and large they are, let's be honest, a bunch of lazy fucks who don't care.

Have Masternodes verify p2pool nodes via privkeys, same as they verify each other, accept blocks from verified p2pool nodes only, and reject everything else. We'd actually have the decentralised currency we've been falsely claiming to have. Another first for Darkcoin: the only usefully decentralised PoW currency.

Might just be some botter put the decimal point in the wrong place before launching them. Hope they aren't house bots, and the owner wakes up to a shitload of fees. 

I'm not against the idea of incentivising p2pool use financially somehow, it would help, but making it mandatory somehow at a protocol level would be better.

Existing centralised pool owners could run p2pool nodes instead, use the same hardware, make the same percentage, just run different software that actually helped secure the blockchain instead of doing the opposite.

Mandatory use of p2pool. Darkcoin is not currently a decentralised currency, neither are most PoW coins.

Pin number or passphrase required before the wallet displays your balance and transaction history to any passing vagabond.

I think it was this, or his guy anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylLaZaZkf2U - you'll have a chartgasm...  

Recent dump down cost TPTB 200000x more paper SLV than physical. Two hundred thousand times more paper than physical. To move the price about 50 cents south.

Has Shanghai run out yet? Don't know how much Chinese industry has stockpiled but this farce can't last forever.  

Usenet.

No idea what you're saying, but karma's a bitch, eh ebolajax, you worthless sack of shit. 

Source for the first pic is basic math

2nd pic is from Evan Duffield's whitepaper on Instant TX: https://www.darkcoin.io/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/InstantTX.pdf

There's an excellent Masternode monitoring (and lots of other stuff) site here: https://drk.mn/masternodes.html

A random small subset of Masternodes is selected from the total number of Masternodes each round, so no it doesn't work like a hashpower attack that scales linearly, it's inherently orders of magnitude more secure than mining.

Darksend attack probabilities:


Instant TX attack probabilities:


You would need a huge majority of Masternodes to have even a small chance of either attack being successful.

Agreed, rare to see some business acumen and an actual realistic market target in an ANN thread.

Haha, excellent stuff mate!

Not sure how many Indians will be running rigs, even with X11, but that's what cloud mining is for eh?

I'll be chucking some hash at this, it has serious potential!  

Nope, for that we have to rely on plain old sanity.

Crash Test Masternode up again on 16.9! 

16.8 crapped out for me right on the 60 minute mark. Maybe it will resurrect itself like Lebubar's?  

16.8 showing more signs of life, at least on drk.mn - active duration 33m and last seen 2m ago. Local wallet offline. Will see what happens in another 30 mins.

Also just started up a fresh MN with 16.8, fingers crossed.