Back when DarkSend was in alpha trials on testnet, people had a meeting to test darksends out. I remember a test got cancelled due to a forked network or something and I also remember darksend nodes (I think evan was hosting the only node then) getting ddosed so that darksends are stuck and not executed. That's like 3 months ago.

LTC 0.0197
DRK 0.02+ after fork issues

LTC is soooo gonna die.

Mintpal on.

(and I just noticed my post has a strange symmetry 30003)

LOL @ poloniex

2014-05-27 01:29:28   Sell   0.0223   5   0.1115

From IRC: [17:26] <@evan82> kaene, someone attacked the network using the masternode fork and destabilized it


Temporary halt of trading is not "delisted". But you know that and want to troll, right?

Is there a chart or something?

Too much inflation. Classic problem with some altcoins, but it's even worse with MRO (right now).


It's like store of value rather than a fast way of transaction. Using altcoins with 2.5m blocks or less is paradise compared to the torture of BTC confirmations. Seems like the telegraph in the age of emails. For individual low-volume transactions 2 confirmations should be adequate - and it's still a long time, especially if variance decides to find a block in 40 minutes.

Keep in mind you'll need a lot of DDOS protection and fault tolerance. Back in Feb-March, the first DRK's nodes were being DDOSed to "halt" anonymous transactions.

You haven't seen anything. DDOS on pools, pools running 51% for extended periods (and price not giving a f***) fake hash-attacks, epic dumps of like 70-100k DRKs with hacked btcs, attacks on the testnet during alpha versions of Darksend, DDOSing of nodes to halt DarkSends, investors panicking at the prospect of a +2mn extra coin airdrop and the price simply going from 0.0014 to 0.0012, FUD and accusations from every possible angle, etc etc.

Some say Bitcoin code has military-grade resilience in terms of functionality. Darkcoin adds epic market resilience in the mix

...and still fork (BTC fork of 0.7 / 0.8 update).


Requiring wallets to be on the latest client or something would be the best solution for an evolving coin. No autoupdating though because that would be dangerous. I hear that Hirocoin has a window that alerts the user of updates, so that would be useful.

The "fucking VB coder" put anonymity on the map of cryptocurrencies and is changing the landscape of crypto. You know why? Because those who can, do. And those who can't => teach. (these are the academics btw). He started a project that was, for all intents and purposes, quite difficult and yet he's pulling ahead on his own, when other coins have 3-10 people "dev teams" who code nothing. I ask these fantastic dev teams on their threads "oh you have a fantastic dev / dev team... right... so what have these fantastic devs coded?" The answer is nothing.

Is Evan the next satoshi? No. Is he the best coder in town? No. Is he the best cryptographer? No. Does he have the paranoia that is REQUIRED to be in this business? No. He's quite aloof in that right, just coding his stuff and not giving a fuck. Does he appear more sloppy than your average coder? Perhaps, but sloppiness is a function of time and stress:

1. Time: People see stuff like version numbers, thread titles or OP not having the right info etc and are rightly upset, but a one-man-show fails due to the constraints of time when trying to handle more than is possible.

2. Stress: I could tell the possibility for an "accident" was quite elevated because my mind's pattern recognition spotted a lot of syntax and context errors in some of his latest messages which would indicate that he was stressed a lot and had fragmented attention. But the error doesn't appear to have come from that, as the code was already running on testnet, so without bugs appearing there the coder doesn't have issues to fix.

The coin got the attention earlier than DarkSend's final launch and hence a lot of pressure to deliver when it's still in development. This has elevated the stress levels due to the press spotlight and contacts, due to pm's, due to emails, due to the coding that must be done for the next phase, due to the monitoring and communication with the community in irc, bitcointalk, darkcointalk, due to the time that it is required to run a pool / answer tickets, and then he also has a personal life that he probably doesn't really enjoy right now due to all the attention. He also has to protect himself from future government invasion, planning contingencies.

Of course he knows that all this is not without a reward (his DRKs value are directly related to his work) so he deals with it but he'll need assistance. If you are slightly paranoid on the project you must select your assistants carefully or you'll have an issue, so "centralization" of responsibilities until you find someone that can assist is of real importance. Hiring extra staff or coders (which he knows and trusts) would probably not be a bad idea, not in coding the main code, but assisting in peripherals or future ideas perhaps. Yet, given that he is "the man" in charge, a lot will still go through him.

All this pressure is actually not necessary if the development time span is spread over a longer duration, but it's all about the fucking pressure due to coinmarketcap #3.

Not likely... it's either in your or their wallet.

I think we are overstating the issue of "panic sellers". I don't see that much action really. People weren't selling at 0.026, why would they sell at 0.016 or 0.013? Only if they've made like 10-50-100x and they are like "ok, let's bank some money". Otherwise there's not much temptation. One, two, three bagholders might dump, but generally? I don't see this happening.

Have any of the fundamentals changed? Not really. This is in active development and things like that can happen and will happen again in the future. It's not "final". I warned about this several times.

Having said that, Dark's resilience is immense. I remember the hacked BTC dumps in Feb and it was going back to 0.002 wave after wave of dumping down to 0.0008, we were all like W T F, this is amazing.

Same yesterday. Price didn't give a f*** despite the forks. There are some buyer whales who seem intent to buy everything. And they will now cost-average their buys (which they did up to 280) with buying dumps at half that. AND they will also future-proof their investment by panic-dumpers while cost-averaging the price.

This is not so worrying for the price, but worrying for the top100 distribution really where the rich will get richer by buying because DRK will be concentrated on the few who act opposite the market trend in dumps. But, as I said earlier, it's not that much of a volume because there is no temptation to sell at 0.016 when you've seen 0.028.

How many BTCs are required to buy daily production at current rates?

Do not transact is the more accurate term.


Yep, don't move them while there are fork issues.

You cannot guarantee that everyone will play nice. They may do it on purpose - as was mentioned a few pages ago to fuckup the system. The code has to predict that possibility (especially if it is a malicious attack vector) and react accordingly.

Why the fuck did he have to mention MAXCOIN and pump it up on the back of Darkcoin's boom. Show some decency Max.

From what I see in the repository there'll be a new wallet to disable masternode payments tomorrow.

https://github.com/darkcoinproject/darkcoin/commit/57d3559c047f4da2988aed4b1c329b23864a6d6b

...so, if I read that correctly, wait a bit for 9.4.10

Note: While the fork issues are ongoing, avoid making transactions / deposits / withdrawals / pool payouts etc.