I can't see why anyone would be worried about something like this.  How on God's green earth is any government going to be able to enforce something like that?  crypto coins were designed so that no government or single entity could ban it, even in China they can't ban it.  They can only make it so that banks and exchanges in China aren't allowed to exchange for fiat, or that trading for fiat requires personal information.  Other than at the exit points, they can't do anything else.

You have got to remember that most of the developers have probably already ordered their ASICs and they have much vested in the hardware.  They're not about to let that go to losses.

And how many masternodes?  10,000?  Still that much?

I think a dedicated windows server could be made safe as well, I'm not an IT person though, so I can only go by reputation.  However, if you went with windows or macs and you don't know how to compile the source code on those platforms, you would probably always be waiting on someone to compile the program for you, whereas, all of these wallets are pretty easy to compile in Linux with about a million how-to's out there.  Plus, using the direct source code, you'll never have to trust anyone's compilation- that it doesn't have malware in it.  So I'd still recommend something like Ubuntu, which is easy to use, well documented, etc... for those reasons.  Right now, Evan has it closed source so people don't copy something that isn't finished and possibly faulty, so those of us that have made a masternode, are trusting that it is free of malware (I trust Evan probably too much, LOL) But for wide adoption, it will be open source, and you'll see helpful compilations everywhere, but some of them will have little nasties in them if the current state of affairs with other coins is of any indication  

Which type of virtual server (amazon) would you recommend for a masternode?  HVM or PV?  HVM being hardware isolated and with more overhead.  Does it matter for what our masternodes do?  I mean, is it better to go PV because it offers better performance?

That would be nice especially since my mining machine bit the dust, LOL.

You do need a static IP address, so if you want to make a masternode, you'd probably want to look into a vpn/vpc to rent?  I don't know if I'd use windows to run one, that os is a bit too easily hacked into.  It's good for other things, like being easy to use for a family desktop and gaming.  I wouldn't even use my home Ubuntu computer because I still surf the web on it.  I think you should have a dedicated server for this.  But that's just my opinion.  a VPC has it's own issues.

It would still be much safer for the coin to have a mechanism to adjust it according to price/number of masternodes/reward amount.  If it's all automatic, then the coin will not have to be messed with at all, once launched.

I'm sorry but voting is a bad idea, we've seen how it messes everything up and causes havoc.  I would say the developers need to make that decision based on facts and how things are going.  If there aren't enough masternodes, they need to lower the amount based on critical thinking.

LOL, who is the little red guy on the top right?

Sounds great, but I don't like using a 3rd party... I'll look into it thought, thanks again

Evan, is there someone you can trust to build Mac wallets for the next release as well?  That would make a lot of people happy

Don't feel too bad, I bought at over 16 over a month ago, two?  When was it 16?  LOL, in fact, I bought 3 times, and sure not a lot, but I don't have much money, so for me it was a lot.  But even to this day, I really don't think much about it, because I see the price being worth so much more.  You can never really hit the bottom, or the top.  Just try to do well, and if you feel like Darkcoin will be useful for you, hold on to some.  I suspect it might actually come in handy when my daughter is away at school again.  Banks charge so much to transfer funds and she always forgets to ask us for funds before rent is due, LOL

it's really there to keep entities with a lot of money from easily grabbing up more than 50% of the network, to make it too expensive. 

Don't forget, if ASICs continue to be successful (sales) then we too will face them eventually.  Evan always considered that as part of the plan.  His intent was simply to give Darkcoin (Xcoin at the time) time to grow first.  But the plan was always to mimic the growth of bitcoin as much as possible.

Can I have some btc?  LOL.  I'm jealous, but I'll get over it

I think everyone is trying to read something into every bit of movement.  I think that with RC1, people started to realize they better buy.  If you look at EVERY day's prices, they ALWAYS drop between the hours of 10AM and 3PM Pacific time (my time, so 18:00 to 24:00 hours GMT)  So after enthusiasm of the "morning" my time, there is a drop in trading, which causes people to drop their prices.  It's like clockwork, seriously.  So sometimes after a big gain, there is a big loss, which makes people think something is going on.  I think it's just that those are the hours, for some reason, that people aren't buying.  And that's all it is.

Just so you know, Coins101 has been one of the communities biggest supporters and active members.  S/he has done a lot for us and I really think your attack was out of line.  Please be nicer, even if you don't agree with an idea, it's just an idea that probably needs fleshing out.  But I can see some great possibilities in what s/he said.

If people cant throw out ideas without being called a troll, then we're never going to grow. 

Is that sarcastic?  I kinda think it's an interesting line of thought?  And you must be mixing coins101 up with someone else, he's been a great help

Just to join in on the griping, I finally got .01 bitcoin mined so I was sent a payment, I opened up Bitcoin wallet, and it decides it has to reindex!  Now I can't get at my puny .01 bitcoin to purchase my dark for...what?  Days?  Ugh!  LOL