As I said to get masternodes working you will need a new wallet.
The masternode list, and masternode count do seem to be working on the new wallet, I can see there are 3 masternodes active right now so I guess you fixed it, well done.

This is correct alot of coins just use IRC for peer discovery, the only thing they do is login to IRC announce them selves so other nodes can connect and add other nodes that announce themselves in that channel its just a way for the network to stay connected
If you inspect the code you see that is all that these coins do there is no "backdoor"

I you were worried then you can check the code and compile from source rather than using a binary wallet.

I was trying to help pity the dev did not reply to my messages, actually from what he did say before he stopped replying I just don't think hes competent enough to fix this.

I think you can fix the bug, you need to run your linda on a your own chain, with a couple nodes, debug and the masternode code and get it awarding your nodes rewards on your own separate chain.

Then you need to release the new wallet which unfortunately will fork the coin as there is a bug in the consensus logic that approves the coin input.
You will need to get everyone and the exchanges to update to the new wallet, which will be a fork, I think you might need to do a coinswap etc to pull it off.

Sure it is possible to fix it, but you really should have tested masternodes before releasing this coin.

Why would you make a tutorial when you did not check that it actually worked?

This wont work, 30,000,000 is not valid input, there are bugs in the code.
It will stay it started successfully..
But its not running and its not staking.

You will see this in your debug.log
CActiveMasternode::GetMasterNodeVin - Could not locate specified vin from possible list
CActiveMasternode::ManageStatus() - Could not find suitable coins!
CActiveMasternode::Dseep() - Error: masternode is not in a running status

If you run masternode status, it will say it cannot find the specified vin.

https://github.com/Lindacoin/Linda/blob/master/src/activemasternode.cpp
line 374
"if(out.tx->vout[out.i].nValue == 112*COIN) { //exactly"

This is because the dev cloned 8bit (notice it is the only other coin that has 112 coin mn collateral too) but the dev did not change the code or test it when he cloned it, and now the dev has disappeared.
You will actually get further at creating a masternode if you send yourself exactly 112 Linda coins, however you will encounter other bugs if you do that and you still wont get a working masternode.

Yes I think this coin would need a 'take over' to fix this now, the dev is gone.

Staking does work, you need to set staking=1 in linda.conf and restart your wallet, you should get some rewards after 24 hours, but it does depend on how many coins you have, I don't think it ever tells you its staking you will just notice some new coins coming in in the transaction list.

Yeah sorry but having a masternode in the masternode list and having a masternode count > 0 is exactly how it works, thats how it works for the other 7 coins I have masternodes for...
If your masternode is not on the list then the consensus of nodes does not know to award you masternode rewards, so your masternode is not producing rewards, OR your masternode is "working" but is on a different chain -(also that means your not getting rewards as you can't send your coins to an exchange as they are all running wallets on the main chain).

So sorry you are wrong, it is EXACTLY how it works. And you don't have a working masternode.

AND if you have got masternodes running then why would you not just leave them running to stake, you would have the only masternode, therefore get 100% of the masternode stake rewards.
Actually as there are no masternodes right now so if you know how to get one working why not just turn now, not only would you prove me wrong you would also get 100% of the masternode staking rewards atm, there is no point having 3, just turn one on and you will be swimming in coins?

If im wong you can prove it, just turn on one of the masternodes you supposedly got working then everyone can see it in the masternode list. Its soo easy for you prove me wrong. but you don't, because you can't.

And I think you wont be turning on any masternodes because its not possible until a new wallet code comes out.
 
I don't understand exactly why you would lie about getting masternodes working, I guess as a ruse to push up the price, sorry you should have dumped your coins when I told you the masternodes will not be working on this coin. Yesterday

tl;dr; Masternodes don't work, I doubt they ever will

Anyone that might think this is true, If you open your linda wallet and go to the console  "masternode count" you will see 0, then you can try "masternode list" and you will see an empty list. because currently there are none 0 masternodes and there will be no masternodes for linda as there are bugs in the code that prevent it from being possible to run them, the only way you could run a masternode is if you edited the code then you would have ran an alternative chain with your 'fixed' code.  so you would not be on the main Linda chain.

There wont be any linda masternodes until/unless they do a wallet update and a fork.

This coin is a clone of 8bit, You can tell this as  the devs did not even change the 8bit masternode collateral  from 112 coins.
If you send yourself a transaction of exactly 112 coins you will get valid entry when you run masternode outputs.
If you add 30,000,000 to your wallet as advertised you will not get anything when you run masternode outputs.

However if you try and start a masternode with 112 coin collateral (or if you recompile it as 30,000,000) then I think the mastenode public key is not valid -another bug/oversight in the code- and the network reports your node as misbehaving.

I did bring this up with the dev, and I felt from his answers he actually did not have the competence to fix the masternode issue, Also hes been offline since 18th of July now....

Also I think in order to resolve the masternode issue there would likely need to be a new wallet and a fork (I am a developer but I'm not an coin dev, I could be wrong)

I can say that regular staking does work fine with this coin.

So as the dev said, you should only consider staking and fast transactions when pricing this coin.