Ok, I guess I caught up.  Glad it's slow!  LOL

I want to let you know I did see that TanteStefana2 joke back there, it caused me to spill my drink and ruin my keyboard        

Everyone please drive safely (yah, mama talkin here) and have a wonderful time!  ::hugs to you all!:: 

Oh, and please look it up before you leave the house, but AAA in the USA is driving people WITH their cars home FOR FREE tonigh, so please look it up and write down the 1-800 number, call them if you've been drinking, PLEASE!!!  YOU DON'T NEED TO BE A MEMBER!!!!

Without wishing to flood this thread with reams of sentimentality...

Thank you for all of the advice and support that I have received from the Darkcoin community in 2014. 

I wish you and your families a healthy and prosperous new year. 

I look forward to meeting you all on Coins101's yacht on the way to Tungfa's party in Macau in 2016.

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/549708157304700928

Yep. DRK = Killer App.

Charlie Shrem got stuffed for being linked to a series of bitcoin transactions

https://twitter.com/CharlieShrem/status/549639488612605952

He was made an example of.  All the serious exchanges who have investors will now be in fear of going to jail if they don't ban their customers for being linked to potential criminal activity or are in danger of regulatory contraventions.

The only solution is to create a way for exchanges and customers to be legally complaint whilst also being able to stand up in a criminal court and deny knowledge of being connected to wrongdoing. The same way that a $100 can be used to buy drugs, guns, and then nappies and be banked by a store owner who does not then face criminal prosecution for being part of a criminal chain of events.

My guess is that 2015 will be the proper start of privacy focus in crypto.

Those recent GitHub commits are very interesting, good enough to write a new DRK article.

If anyone can submit it to DRKCoin subreddit, that'd be appreciated

Is there a Darkcoin community or hangout  in Second Life?  That's a whole new economy with its own currency and close to 1 million loyal members.

p.s. we could do the birthdays parties there so everybody from Darkcoin community could come while staying anonymous AND Tao can finally show up like a chameleon

Sounds exciting

the 2015 year for darkcoin is bright,
one of the most active thread here.

New Darkcoin Promo Video

Darkcoin, Not Bitcoin!



(The video is uploading, I'm going to sleep now. Hope you guys like it!)

-onetime

I noticed some interesting ideas being kicked around on DarkcoinTalk in regards to marketing for 2015.

Here is a small article about those ideas.

Happy New Year!


EDIT : if anyone feels like posting that article on the DRK subreddit, please do so, as I am currently shadowbanned on Reddit in general

so sexy:

Honestly, get away from using Vultr, Amazon, and DigitalOcean due to how many are on those providers. Any VPS with solid uptime (look for reviews) offering 512mb+ memory and 10gb+ hdd with 300gb+ bandwidth monthly is adequate for running a masternode.

http://cointelegraph.com/news/113207/coinbase-is-tracking-how-users-spend-their-bitcoins

when will the masses(crypto masses) see the light?(DRK )

LoL. Thanks, but I've just done exactly that  

Jeez. There are so many ways of doing this. I'm learning more about Linux than I am about setting up masternodes (which is probably no bad thing).

In the end I just binned that last server and started again doing this:

 - changed the root password to something complicated
 - added a new user with "sudo useradd <myloginName> -s /bin/bash -g sudo -m

So that I had a login user that wasn't the root but that had "sudo" privileges. This time everything's going great - I can do it all with the loginuser and sticking "sudo" in front of everything.

I downloaded darkcoind from wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/darkcoinproject/darkcoin-binaries/master/darkcoin-0.10.17.24-linux.tar.gz

I "cd"d all the way into the expanded directories down to /64 and "mv"d darkcoind into /usr/bin. (Cos I quite like the idea of executables being in the bin directory and anyway, I think Linux looks there first f you just type 'darkcoind' without any leading directory).

Then I created ~/.darkcoin and now I'm going to do the darkcoin.conf and try to 'jiggbyDoThinxomoly' it with my local darkcoin.conf using a masternode genkey that I'll do on the Darkcoin QT on the Mac.

Sorry if this all sounds a bit cringeable to you Linux buffs but there just seem to be so many different ways of doing stuff in Linux and places where you can put stuff that I decided just to arbitrate on a few approaches.

P.S. I of course used Tao's ufw firewall commands to open 9999, limit port 22 to SSH access and close everything else. Also disabled root login according to chaeplin's original guide for EC2.

So my procedure is a kind of hybrid of Tao's and Chaeplin's.