Talking of shakey exchanges and unredeemed balances, Bter's latest, 13 hours ago on twitter ..
''We have decided to rebuild BTER's backend, completely solve the wallets security issue and re-enable all the tradings.''

Completely solve ?  

Enable firewall for wallet on local machine on port 9999 and check all settings(or turn off), and set udp/tcp port forwarding on your router using something like 192.168.0.2 (depends on your local ip assignment if more than 1 machine).
And make sure the 1000 darkcoin have been deposited for 6 transactions.

Good writeup on Darkcoin,
http://bitcoinist.net/market-wrap-223-31-bitcoin-darkcoin-make-bullish-moves/
and Gavin Andreson has increased the hop speed from 600 ms to 10 ms for already seen transactions for the new wallet.
So whats Darkcoin's cpu hop speed for normal and instantX for comparision ?

Edit: Hi Qwizzie, lol.

Excellent trading technique  I like to do the same, i.e. lose a major position then wait-wait-wait, panic-panic and finally crack under the pressure and buy back in only to get 80% of what I had before.

P.S. Otoh sends his love for those extra 10 masternodes 

The nature of bull markets and herd mentality means the majority of people who will not buy at $3 will buy at $100 if they see others doing it and think they can make money. I looked at bitcoin when it was $10 and dismissed it, only to come back and buy some at $400, so go figure!
I will add, that in my humble view, a fundamental mistake amateur investors make is that they are too tight careful with their money to risk a loss on small 'speculative' buys at $3 but paradoxically will consider the investment less risk at $100 because others are doing the same so they think its safe and ok.

No, you should be getting higher, I think around 6.5 megahash, I only own the R9 290 tri OC and thats 7.45 megahash, so you will be slightly under. The rate you're getting suggests you're not using Wolf0's bins, you must substitute your already created bins in the mining folder with Wolf's, by renaming Wolf's to the originals and replacing the appropiate ones-make sure you know which chipset it is (or copy name and do all 4, pitcairn,tahiti,cape verde and hawaii)
http://www.reddit.com/r/DRKCoin/comments/2o1yoz/rewritten_x11_binaries/
and explained in detail by BolehVPN,
https://darkcointalk.org/threads/reubens-guide-to-mining-darkcoin-with-an-amd-gpu-on-windows.4051/

I don't know anything about onion, may you please explain, can a masternode be set up as a static ip? And how many ip's are available, I am thinking there may be a problem if more than 1 masternode trys to use the same onion address?

A fine analysis  I will add for intrigue ..
'I've been a net seller of Bitcoin for the last 12 months, something even bigger (and dare I say more valuable?) in the pipe!'

Meant to say earlier, your writeup is superb, its better english than mine and I only speak english Some empirical real use data tagged on the end in table form might look good, am not sure can do deep analytics, will some shallow ones do instead.
This guy loves his analytical benchmarks, if only I understood half of it, lol
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5835
wallet update times might be quicker but cant see how btc transfer of 10 minutes in the blockchain would speed up?

Edit: Just saw this, I suppose 30 minute delays for a btc block are common, some of the comments appear confused,
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=972425.0
This is going to get worse and worse with more use, can the Chief Scientist sort it out, that is the BIG question.

I have blockchain stats on litecoin, quarkcoin,monero, dogecoin, those will do for starters.
Just wanted a rough guide to for max and min and coin transfer times.
could maybe force myself to buy 1 ripplecoin and install the wallet, feel free to add timer stats or coins if you have any?

Here is a great bunch of software I always use,
https://www.nicehash.com/?p=software

use newer kernel darkcoin-mod,set threadconcurrency, worksize and xintensity in your bat and run separate instances more stable(d=0 is GPU 0), and catalyst is 14.7 RC 3 is quicker than 14.2

color 0A
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
SETX GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
sgminer.exe -k darkcoin-mod -o stratum+tcp://drk.ghash.io:3333 -u misha.1 -p x --xintensity 1000 --thread-concurrency 24500 -w 64 -d 0 -g 2

Tungfa, regarding cryptsy and at least 1 other exchange for comparision, I got an idea, why not stopwatch 7 or 8 of the major coins for deposit and withdrawal times in real time,I could bang em into a spread sheet or something, am not aware anyone else has done this? Hopefully darkcoin will be at or nr the top already, 30 second block times might take it for now-though they are not always as quick as they appear due to bottlenecks ...

wheres cryptocurrency?
Imagine being even a small part of this,
http://www.sovereignman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/LiquidityPyramid.pdf

In the created reality of child_harold, I think this means, presentation of the 'evidence' for all to see  

for those on unignore, in this case 

Bter has some alt coin withdrawals listed but Darkcoin not there yet:-

Atomic ATOMIC
NeoDICE DICE
NXTInspect INSPCT    
MultiGateway MGW    
MRKT FreeMarket    
NxttyCoin NXTTY    
Pangea PANGEA    
SkyNET SKYNET    
SuperNET UNITY

Yer, I deleted comodo but not before it had ruined about 10 working versions of sgminer on the hdd including a load on a backup memory stick!
Thats a good hash rate  btw
For 5850, I had trouble with stability problems on an old mobo, it was fine on its own but when run with R9 290 ,thing would crash, thats why trying the x11mod kernel on pre-release versions instead can help. My best hash speed is about 1.45 meg for that card incidently.

Rux, I don't doubt its clean, what I meant was false positives happen even on totally clean mining software, the anti-virus that did this to all my versions of sgminer was Comodo.

Woke up this morning, one step closer to my first instamine yacht  
have decided to donate my entire winnings to Elbereth for all his hard work  
41dd98ccd977.......

Btw, I was surprised the magic block came in 25 minutes earlier than I'd calculated, the blocktime had reduced from an average of 2.63 minutes on the day before, I suppose it could have gone the other as well and you'd have won then,lol. Looking forward to future bettings at key masternode commission milestones ...

Any specific questions, I am happy to answer, btw watch out for anti virus programs disabling sgminer in such as way as you don't get work from the pool but it looks like its working! Overclocking might get you 5% more, I left some tips for Tungfa's friend, points 3 to 6 ?
https://darkcointalk.org/threads/beginner-mining-question.4091/#post-43624