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All that matters is a good strong solid anon coin. For me the price isnt important to watch until that is established. In the end people will go where the quality is.
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haha hey look theres internetape  |
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This is great. I bought xc last week knowing it was about to be pumped and now I've just sold and bought a shitload more dark, my timing is perfect for once  |
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I'm not at all trying to jump the fence and become an XC troll, but we really should consider that it's substance is really not that much less than DRK's substance... Most features that really matter are still promises here, too...
I agree with ya but the only difference is Darkcoin's promises have a face and track record |
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Best move would be to try push it to the max and have a successful hardfork way before the 14th But admittedly I dont know shit about what is needed to do such a thing  |
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The only reason its down so much is because the hardfork didnt work out and word spread. Now theyre jumping on a certain other crap coin that promises to be the next big anon coin. But I say there will be interest as soon as this next hardfork works out and dark takes another step.
yawn ooh I bet dark is all so scared. We can read up on xc man, most people left here are intelligent and know how to do that. |
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The only reason its down so much is because the hardfork didnt work out and word spread. Now theyre jumping on a certain other crap coin that promises to be the next big anon coin. But I say there will be interest as soon as this next hardfork works out and dark takes another step.
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Imagine if that hardfork worked out with no problems.  |
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Maybe all the FUD, attacks, etc. in the last month have left me skittish -- but I wonder even in the short term what might happen to the coin if there is an organized effort to hurt DRK based around pools cheating. If Evan does go through with this then I hope I am just worrying over nothing.
If? It is a given that at least half the pools and big farms (a lot of them nowadays) won't be paying. So the 20% will be more like 10% for the masternodes, =what they were expecting anyway. But it will be a disproportionate weight to the "fair" pools. Apparently I have more faith in humanity than anyone else around here  I'll implement the masternode payments via hardfork, who knows, maybe all of you are right. By the way, I'm not talking about the price now or even in a year. It's about the security of the network when it's large enough to support a decent amount of transactions. Giving a higher reward simply doubles or triples the cost of such an attack, 10% was just too low. What great guy you are actually listening. No ego at all. Like the others I also believe a hardfork is the best choice. Lovin' Dark's future |
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lets make it so theres only 100,000 drk thats not held in masternodes |
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Amazon AWS EC2I'm not sure why this is the recommended way to run a masternode, but I can tell you I have enough for 1 MN and I was planning to run one (on the day we had so much problems which stopped my plan). I never considered Amazon EC2 as an option because of security.I have an Amazon EC2 server right now. I'm connected to it. It's my OpenVPN server and also my PPTP server (for tablets/cell phones). I've had at least 1 EC2 instance for over a year so it hasn't been free for me for many months now. I still pay. I like my server. Nothing on it that's worth anything if a hacker hacks it. So why I never considered an EC2 as a masternode? It's because the EC2 has 2 IP addresses. One on the internet (which everyone in the world can see). This IP address is quite secure (oddly enough) per your Security Group definition. The private IP is the problem. It will look something like this 10.2xx-1xx-61. I was able to ssh to the private IP from one EC2 to another (using certificate, of course, don't consider username/password). So other ports are also open. Even if they are not open on the Security Group/Internet IP. This is now a matter of securing your EC2 applications/OS/network-FW. One of the EC2's I was running in the past was an Asterisk VoIP server. Fail2Ban was full of attempted attacks from China, Brazil, etc. Why was it odd? Well my Security Group was defined to only accept connections from Tmobile network and other networks I defined. My Internet IP was not reachable outside of those networks. But the "private" IP shared with everyone on the Amazon cloud (i.e. Netflix, maybe I should hack them, lol) was accessible to these hackers. Think of your home network shared with thousands and thousands of unknown's. Sure, your Windows XP box is secure with a firewall (lol), but against thousands of attackers, it will probably fall. I would not run a Masternode on a VPS and definitely not on an Amazon EC2. I have this as my stratum-server http://goo.gl/cpFXg8 upgraded to 2GB. It's low power. No need for a hard drive. Install Linux on a USB 16GB (around $12). Plug in temporarily to monitor during setup. Afterwards; ssh with byobu-enabled (screens but better). What more you need? This behind my ddwrt router which I have full control, I can trust to run my Masternode with only port 9999 open. I don't think Masternode needs RPC. Just my .02 DRK humble suggestion... This is why Im moving mine to a dedicated server. I just cant settle on where. |
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I think cold storage and ISO's are going to be an evil necessity. It would be nice to have only 100% linux competent people run masternodes but that shit aint gonna happen.
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Wait a second
Ozzie posting he'll set peoples MN's up for 10drk
then all of a sudden "some guys" ridiculously lousy MN gets "hacked"
lol just saying
I have no hacking skills! Also, if I had 1000 darks, why would I bother charging 10 now? LOL I was implying that you set up a lousy MN with someone and broke into it yourself to spread fear. Most likely you didn't but I found it a funny coincidence. Nothing against you setting up masternodes. |
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Wait a second
Ozzie posting he'll set peoples MN's up for 10drk
then all of a sudden "some guys" ridiculously lousy MN gets "hacked"
lol just saying
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Whatever happened to the remote/local cold storage idea? Impossible?
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Yeah thanks, but do you think this is the right workflow? You're pissing off of a lot of people here, I' sure I'm not the only one. As much as I'm a DRK fanboy, this fork was quite a fuckup. About time to introduce some notification method which could even prevent a wallet from launching. Yeah I agree it needs an update notification and would be great if the mac wallet could be updated faster. However I understand this will probably be sorted out down the line. |
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For the benefit of those that are truly new to the coin I am going to try an give some perspective:- Darkcoin has a transparent an professional developer Evan Duffield we know who he is and where he is. Would you feel as comfortable investing on someone hidden behind a nickname that you don't know who he is. I know real investors wouldn't. The Satoshi times are gone, that was the first time something like this was ever done and we took as it came. After all the recent scams people want transparency from the dev team and Darkcoin is as good as it gets.
- You need to expect updates and tweaks! This is ground breaking development, everything on Darkcoin is original work that is solving real needs of the market and that is why it has value. X11 original algorithm, DGW3 original difficulty re-targeting solving issues that no other dev cared to tend to, Darksend first anonymous working system, Masternode Proof of Service, new platform with lots of potential. This is a proven record.
- The dev is full time on the project till at least January 2016, this is huge, no other projects or day jobs.
- Strong community of volunteers and first mover advantage.
- Macro trends on our favor, summer is coming good for x11, Scrypt ASICS hitting the market, media taking notice of Darkcoin, with the opportunity of calling our dev and doing an interview. Do you think that mainstream media would have reported on Darkcoin if Evan was hidden behind a nickname?
- Real world utility and much more than an anonymous coin, we are setting a trend now everybody wants to claim anonymity, but reality is a month ago none of those other coins either existed or cared about anonymity. Darkcoin is anonymous but also is well thought out, it has a great financial model with Masternodes taking coins out of circulation and a smooth deflation curve, low supply, it is an awesome all around coin.
- Don't listen to trolls they either want to see you lose your money by making bad trading decisions or have an agenda about promoting their own coins.
- Finally, have realistic expectations about your investment, this is like crowd-sourcing a start up company. You are investing, because you like the project, the plan, the development team, it has fundamentals! Then expect a return in a few months or a year. If you are not an experienced trader play the markets carefully because people are going to try an manipulate you into selling your coins.
Great post! Basically these little bumps at the beginning are the price we pay to have genuine privacy in a crypto that is the first of its kind. |
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