No hard limit on MNs but my calcs indicate it will level out at 2,000 MNs:
For some reason I really thought Evan said there'd be a hard limit to masternodes, either 400 or 4000, but I can't find the post. He said it, I'm sure. But I think it was a very high number that he did not expect to reach because there would not be easily available coins. The number that comes to my mind is 10000 but I'm not sure at all. If you want a hard limit, there are only 4.3 Million darkcoins out there, implying max MNs of 4300. Yeah but there's an enforced limit independent of coin count. Just don't remember what it is. We want a bunch, but we don't want more than 10k probably.
I was right!  It looks like doctors are wrong, you can soak your brain in alcohol for decades and still remember a thing or two  |
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No hard limit on MNs but my calcs indicate it will level out at 2,000 MNs:
For some reason I really thought Evan said there'd be a hard limit to masternodes, either 400 or 4000, but I can't find the post. He said it, I'm sure. But I think it was a very high number that he did not expect to reach because there would not be easily available coins. The number that comes to my mind is 10000 but I'm not sure at all. If you want a hard limit, there are only 4.3 Million darkcoins out there, implying max MNs of 4300. I know, but I think it was a fixed number hard coded and the number of coins grows, so I believe it was not a function of current supply. |
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No hard limit on MNs but my calcs indicate it will level out at 2,000 MNs:
For some reason I really thought Evan said there'd be a hard limit to masternodes, either 400 or 4000, but I can't find the post. He said it, I'm sure. But I think it was a very high number that he did not expect to reach because there would not be easily available coins. The number that comes to my mind is 10000 but I'm not sure at all. |
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Guys. I want to announce you all that after long periond TODAY at 7:12 for me and for my wife is BORN our first..... 0.7 DRK. LOL!!! so excited  Great feeling. Now I can drink with you JD  Try it if you didn't yet, 1000drk is worth of it. ROLF! I really thought you were going to announce a child I've already been lucky a couple times and man, that feels good! Couple of times on 1 MN or spread out over more? Still waiting for a payment... not being greedy, I just want to know if my MN setup is working or not  Different masternodes, but I have only set up two, so I guess I'm being lucky Be patient, it's still too soon to tell. Have you checked your MN's address in the blockchain? You may not have the payment in your wallet yet because they need a lot of confirmations, but it may be there. yep checked the blockchain. nothing there. I know it's too soon and that I should be patient. I'm just worried that there's no other way (at least that I know of) to check if your MN is working properly besides getting payed... Yeah, waiting for the first one is a bit nerve racking. I wish I could help. If the MN shows with 1 next to it everywhere (darkcoin.io, drk.poolhash.org, darcoind masternode list in MN and masternode list in any local wallet) you should be ok. You can also check in .darcoin/debug.log and see if it is engaging with the network (I don't understand everything in there, but if you read a bit you should see it checking in the network and being part of transactions if you search by IP). |
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There are too many
0.9.4.6 clients when I type getpeerinfo.
Seeing also a bunch of 10.8.8 & 10.8.6 clients, what are those? RC2 version of the wallet, the one with the option to use Darksend. The last one is 0.10.8.8, the other one is outdated. |
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Guys. I want to announce you all that after long periond TODAY at 7:12 for me and for my wife is BORN our first..... 0.7 DRK. LOL!!! so excited Great feeling. Now I can drink with you JD Try it if you didn't yet, 1000drk is worth of it. ROLF! I really thought you were going to announce a child I've already been lucky a couple times and man, that feels good! Couple of times on 1 MN or spread out over more? Still waiting for a payment... not being greedy, I just want to know if my MN setup is working or not Different masternodes, but I have only set up two, so I guess I'm being lucky Be patient, it's still too soon to tell. Have you checked your MN's address in the blockchain? You may not have the payment in your wallet yet because they need a lot of confirmations, but it may be there. |
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Guys. I want to announce you all that after long periond TODAY at 7:12 for me and for my wife is BORN our first..... 0.7 DRK. LOL!!! so excited Great feeling. Now I can drink with you JD Try it if you didn't yet, 1000drk is worth of it. ROLF! I really thought you were going to announce a child I've already been lucky a couple times and man, that feels good! |
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i am reindexing, my wallet is stuck on 74873, the correct block seems to be 74878. I have the correct wallet, any ideas what i am doing wrong?
me too. Well I run several wallets and some of them is stuck and some of them is synced. I think we need some fix. Has the same issue, stopping darkcoind and restarting it without -reindex solved it for me Would that be risking syncing to the wrong fork? shouldn't do right? No, if you have the latest version and reindex you'll always sync with the right fork. |
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Where does darkcoins get paid to for MNs?
MN's wallet. |
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I'm just expressing my concern. I'm not dumping any coins because I believe in DRK long term, but I'm worried that weaker hands will dump tons of coins if expectations aren't met.
Just to give you some perspective on your recent posts: they sound panicked and if anything are contributing to the likelihood of weaker hands dumping coins. Reposting your concerns in various ways doesn't get the problem solved faster, neither does throwing down demands. Just think about what you're actually contributing with your posts. New software often breaks at launch; welcome to the world of software engineering. We'll have to wait around until Evan / InternetApe are awake, as they are best qualified to answer the question of what's going on with masternode payments. It appears to be related to votes not working as expected, so could be related to pool software? In any case, if you aren't able to contribute to the solution, just be patient. I'm not even sure if there is a problem: -The expectation in the graph is an average, with such a small sample and time frame, deviations can be high. -It's only been less than 15 hours since fork and we had some problems in the beginning, so some time was probably lost. -Payments may need 120 confirmations. A masternode may have earned payments that don't show up in balance yet (check blockexplorer or listtransactions in wallet) |
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edit: I think a CD down at the bank would give better returns.?
I have $150,000 invested. I received about $19 in dividends today. I expected 1 coin per masternode. I averaged only .1 DRK per masternode. I understand, its the first day, I'm fine with that, but it should be fixed by tomorrow. If you are invested in DRK for the MasterNode payments then I believe you are looking at this investment wrong. That's not what he said. Dividends (in the form of masternode payments) are an important part of how the coin is structured, and depending on his expectations of future per-coin valuation, dividends may not be a trivial part of the equation. I agree that the dividends should not be the only factor, but it is a factor. I there were no dividends I would still keep my drk because I think it will be worth much more than now, but I would not put them on a server and would not be helping the network. Anyway, maybe some of his payments are still pending. I just got one that was generated a few hours ago because they may need 120 confirmations. The network has been stable only for a few hours after the forks, so that number is probably gonna be much higher for his 10 MNs after 24 hours |
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Thanks, I have just received it but I had not when I posted. |
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If vote is under 6 there is no payment? I have one MN whose address shows a payment in explorer.darkcoin.io that doesn't show up in wallet. That block (74700) has less than 6 votes. Will I get the payment?
If it shows in the block explorer you will get the payment. Its just immature until it has 120 confirmations. Run "darkcoind listtransactions" and also make sure you're up to the current block ("darkcoind getinfo") Thanks, just received it. I guess it was just under 120 confirmations when I posted because now it is at 133. |
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If vote is under 6 there is no payment? I have one MN whose address shows a payment in explorer.darkcoin.io that doesn't show up in wallet. That block (74700) has less than 6 votes. Will I get the payment? |
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So, Darksend is almost upon us - we still need to think about end-to-end privacy and this is something that is mostly up to the end user. Ownership of Darkcoins by the process of mining is still potentially traceable on the blockchain and it is therefore possible for an adversary to identify you at the point of spend. For example; - Registering and mining in a pool could allow an adversary to link your wallet address to your IP address and/or email address to identify you. (Darkcoin pools should implement strong https encryption to help to avoid this - at least 2048-bit or 4096-bit - Self-Signed certs. or even using free certs. like CAcert.org are preferable to having no SSL at all). - When mining in the pool you are identifiable as being in a sub-set of user accounts due to the tcp http pool address and info. being sent in plain text. - P2pool users addresses are shown by 'default' and should at least be obfuscated on a pools static pages. - Changes in a Darkcoin wallet balance at the point of spend could potentially be used to link a transaction to a purchase, given the above. Darksend obviously makes these examples much more difficult for an adversary to establish and is an improvement on Bitcoins blockchain technology in terms of a users privacy and anonymity. What we need next is to implement Dark mining. This can actually be done already by using existing privacy tools and by making all Darkcoin users more aware of what they can do as a community. We also need to develop some new tools to make this as easy as possible for all Darkcoin users. In fact, the more people that adopt these techniques the better: "you can't be anonymous by yourself" ! A good way to go about this would be to build and use P2pool's running as dual stack nodes through Tor network .onion addresses. Setting minerd or sgminer to use this type of pool correctly and efficiently is already possible with existing tools and some know how. The host system should ideally be connected to a VPN with Tor running through it. The user should create a new dedicated wallet. Linux users could use proxychains - http://proxychains.sourceforge.net/ - http://proxychainsgui.sourceforge.net/ to route traffic via the Tor network. Windows and Mac users could use ProxyCap - http://www.proxycap.com/ - or 'Proxifier' - http://www.proxifier.com/Here is an example of minerd running directly through Tor on the localhost machine via 'Proxifier'.  Proxifier > Profile >
Proxy Servers:
Address:Port : Type
Proxification Rules:
Applications: minerd.exe or sgminer.exe
Target Hosts: as P2pool address or .onion address
Target Ports: as P2pool port
Action: Proxy from Proxy Servers i.e. Tor on localhost (127.0.0.1) Socks5 (9150 TBB or 9050)
Name Resolution:
Proxifier DNS Settings: Resolve hostnames through proxy (only i.e. Tor) to avoid DNS leaks.... Paid for solutions are obviously not ideal in terms of a users privacy. If I'm not mistaken the original stand alone Stratum protocol had support for Tor / Proxy connectivity ?? using; --socks PROXY - Use socks5 proxy for upstream Stratum connection, specify as host:port --tor - Configure proxy to mine over Tor (requires Tor running on local machine) However, windows (particularly version 7) is notoriously bad at forwarding and has issues with DNS leaks etc. This is something to implement fully into new (free) darkcoin mining tools across all platforms. ... Initial testing has shown that the any loss of accepted shares / work etc. is in fact almost completely negligible with out-of-the-box settings. However, their are some tricks and configurations, both server side and client side, that can be implemented to increase throughput and connectivity. New P2pool's running on Tor .onion addresses is the first requirement. I'm OK with doing the node hosting and Tor set-up if any experienced Darkcoin P2pool operators want in or to help implement this. Just waiting for Darksend to officially kick-in and for the latest P2pool code to be trusted as stable pending the fork. Anyone else with good knowledge of tcp http address obfuscation and scrubbing ? Posts like this one are the reason why I keep coming back to bitcointalk. I understand it only partially and I barely mine, but I've saved it in my computer. Thanks |
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This thread is getting so depressing. It's been taken over by the ugliest faces of humanity. I really don't want to come here anymore but I do because I want to know if something is happening. Glad to see some of you old timers have the energy, LimLims, coins101 and Alex. I'll come back tomorrow with hopefully a better outlook, LOL. Hope we can have some positive discussions then. I agree. For real discussion I now only go to Darkcointalk, but I fear missing something important here and skim over the thread. We need someone/something to filter and select the unmissable posts and link them somewhere else |
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I'm not sure if I would invest because I'm not sure there is a need for yet another scrypt coin, but I agree that innovation for the sake of innovation is not the only thing. Also, it is nice to see that the promoter of the coin is not a new account but someone with real activity and a complete profile that can be researched. Just for that I'll think about it.
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Used Anon136 as escrow for IPO investment and that saved me from losing it to a failed launch. Really helpful and responsive, will use his services in the future.
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