rpcport=27331
addnode=76.182.189.115
addnode=107.192.136.116
addnode=99.113.240.148
addnode=108.48.207.233
addnode=128.72.187.239
addnode=2.37.101.67
addnode=186.237.164.195


got me synced in no time

Sent support ticket into C-CEX waiting on response

Although someone else would have to set it up, if you want to get into promoting, I suggest something like setting up a donation fund for whale charities ... Save the Whales is a logical choice.

You can set up a straight donation, or set it up to adopt a whale one at a time (think it's like $25/whale).

Or instead of this food giveaway thingy (literal food), use that for whale related donations... whale t-shirts, whale totebags, etc are on that savethewhales site too. Or instead of food, give away copies of that Blackfish movie.

I'd guess you'd get more promo mileage for a good cause, than giving away food.

Anyone who is synced, can you please post the output of 'getpeerinfo' for the betterment of other FOOD participants.

I was synced fine to block 7971 but now have 0 peers and can't find an open connection.

[
{
"addr" : "[2001:0:5ef5:79fb:3448:3e82:cd5f:e32b]:27332",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1404841901,
"lastrecv" : 1404841901,
"conntime" : 1404841578,
"version" : 60013,
"subver" : "/Plankton:2.0.0/",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 13864,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "[2001:0:9d38:6ab8:60:3432:518a:bb95]:60336",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1404841901,
"lastrecv" : 1404841839,
"conntime" : 1404841586,
"version" : 60013,
"subver" : "/Plankton:2.0.0/",
"inbound" : true,
"startingheight" : 13864,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "[2001:0:5ef5:79fd:3cb8:1cfd:fdda:9abc]:27332",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1404841829,
"lastrecv" : 1404841903,
"conntime" : 1404841588,
"version" : 60013,
"subver" : "/Plankton:2.0.0/",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 13864,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "128.72.187.239:27332",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1404841900,
"lastrecv" : 1404841900,
"conntime" : 1404841595,
"version" : 60013,
"subver" : "/Plankton:2.0.0/",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 13865,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "[2001:0:5ef5:79fd:2c65:30f7:e7bc:e1a7]:54435",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1404841900,
"lastrecv" : 1404841907,
"conntime" : 1404841670,
"version" : 60013,
"subver" : "/Plankton:2.0.0/",
"inbound" : true,
"startingheight" : 13866,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "[2001:0:9d38:90d7:3092:3116:892d:da3e]:51095",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1404841901,
"lastrecv" : 1404841903,
"conntime" : 1404841684,
"version" : 60013,
"subver" : "/Plankton:2.0.0/",
"inbound" : true,
"startingheight" : 13866,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "[2001:0:5ef5:79fd:202f:1a62:46f6:c133]:57845",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1404841903,
"lastrecv" : 1404841902,
"conntime" : 1404841733,
"version" : 60013,
"subver" : "/Plankton:2.0.0/",
"inbound" : true,
"startingheight" : 13872,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "[2001:0:9d38:6ab8:2845:2e3f:b599:b101]:57621",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1404841901,
"lastrecv" : 1404841901,
"conntime" : 1404841816,
"version" : 60013,
"subver" : "/Plankton:2.0.0/",
"inbound" : true,
"startingheight" : 13872,
"banscore" : 0
}
]

They have problems with syncing the wallet

A terrorist comes into your shop and buys a sandwich. OMG you have aided a terrorist, the guvthugs will come for you!

Funny isn't it that nobody is worried about the 'actual' terrorists, but everyone is terrified of being fucked over by their own government.

STOP LIVING IN FEAR AND FIGHT THESE FUCKERS EVERY CHANCE YOU GET

Has anyone come up with the idea of making masternodes into shares? Would it work?

So say i wanted to host a masternode and receive the 20% ROI, but i only have say 10% of required amount of dark to host one (100drk).

Would it be possible to set up a sort of market place to buy shares in a masternode and receive "dividends"? Or some sort of group investment maybe?

Amazing to see Chris, glad to see you enjoyed your FOOD


Another pizza competition will be available again soon! Also, the first person to post a picture of their lunch with their username, I'll buy it! (granted your lunch isn't more than $50). Include the price in BTC and your BTC address

Thanks for dinner Dev!!

Hey, I can't access the windows wallet link says URL is not valid! Please upload it again OP. Thanks.

Wow. Lowest ask on Alcurex is already 7 satoshis?

This thing is going to fly on a bigger exchange with higher volume.

Now this is just amazing! Now we can start to see the fruits of Evan's and his team's work!  Darksend+  

Great write up also, very detailed but easy to follow.

Take some time to read the PDF (will be more useful). Maybe the reporter' point of view is not the best, but the PDF document has some interesting topics. Excellent reference to evaluate the potential risks of any coin, including Bitcoin and darkcoin.

http://www.eba.europa.eu/documents/10180/657547/EBA-Op-2014-08+Opinion+on+Virtual+Currencies.pdf

general reading:
http://www.zdnet.com/eba-investors-should-avoid-bitcoin-identifies-70-risks-7000031287/?s_cid=e539&ttag=e539&ftag=TRE17cfd61

I will be one of these

As a professional software dev of 25 years experience I'd just like to say this about the press release / Evan quiet situation.

The MOST DANGEROUS thing you can do in technology is talk up a feature that isn't in the bag yet.

The way Evan is managing this is BANG ON in my book, for 2 reasons:

[1] - everybody is mistakenly thinking that the price is drifting due to lack of "communications" when in fact it isn't. There's been plenty communications over the last few weeks for any serious investor to know where this project is going and the price is drifting due to a natural consolidation as I've just outlined

[2] - the devs themselves are in no position to do both development AND PR. They just are totally mismatched activities because you can't be in touch with the code and with the market at the same time

The most successful approach is periods of silence from the devs punctuated with clear and unambiguous announcements regarding consolidated progress and future objectives. Although I've said "periods of silence of the devs", it doesn't mean the coin can't be promoted during that time - but this clamour to have them stay in touch and communicate on a continuous basis is ludicrous as anyone who's been involved with any serious software project will know.

I think that even some of the rumourmill murmuring that elito's been doing is almost bordering on danger-zone, but he's probably got the balance about right. He's said there's some" interesting stuff going on" and left it at that (which is where it should be left).

We MUST resist the temptation to talk up expectations without backing up with specifics because people's imaginations are always more powerful than the devs ability to deliver and there's the danger of disappointment when the curtain eventually gets pulled back. Better to keep expectations moderate and let the real thing do the talking.


****** HAVING SAID THAT ********

there are lots of things we *can* do to enhance communications in the meantime.

Whats needed (IMHO) is:

[1] - structure the personnel (done: we've now got someone in a dedicated 'communications role' who's got the devs ear)

[2] - structure the media sources (not quite done: have CLEAR and unambiguous sources for press releases rather than a post in the [ANN] thread that gets buried. That may already be done - I'm not sure - but even I'm not clear where that is, if it's here, darkcointalk.org., the wiki, cryptocoin media organs etc). A news history blog would be good so people can chart progress)

[3] - as part of that, a clear "Where we're at and whats the next milestone" indictor. Something that's been asked for a lot on the thread, but again needs to be consolidated in terms on unambiguous source

[4] - a clear and recognised roadmap reference source. This would probably just be the same website as the news source but it needs to be consolidated, have a high profile and not something you need to "dig" to find

As I say, these sources may already exist but I'm personally not sure what they are. I've found Dev announcements and roadmap information posted all over the place. I wouldn't really know where to go to get the latest updates.

Finally, I realise this involves work and it's easy to make criticisms when your not the guy doing it or paying for it, so I offer this up in the most humble sense, but...

[5] - If Darkcointalk is to be used for any PR, it could do with a bit of a facelift as it's really a "techy" site: small fonts and very...well "dark" colours. Could do with being lighter, more "spacious" and more media oriented rather than "techy"oriented. As I say, I realise many people have done a lot of work on there which has benefited us all, so please take that as constructive input rather than any kind of criticism.

For example, here's a few sites that do a great job simply by being less crammed, more white space around the content and lighter colours:

http://www.screensteps.com

http://www.teamviewer.com/en/index.aspx

http://www.tradebox.uk.com

A fantastic thing to have would be a new Darkcoin media site that consolidated everything. It's not like we'd be short of content:

 - overview section on Darkcoin
 - news & announcements blog
 - roadmap section
 - technical references: e.g. this could host the masternode stats pages etc

(...)
 I also plan to do another pizza giveaway with maybe implementing Pizza Friday or something? I want to expand into giving away all types of food, so if you have any preferences, let me know.

I want to be able to shout you ALL a nice dinner

rpcuser=user
rpcpassword=pass
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcconnect=*
DNSSEED=1
testnet=0
rpcport=4357
port=4358
addnode=96.43.130.251
addnode=175.44.100.250
addnode=93.188.81.208
daemon=1
server=1
listen=1
maxconnections=80
gen=1
logtimestamps=1
genproclimit=-1

listen=1
maxconnections=80
gen=0
rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=password
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=4357 
port=4358
server=1
daemon=1
addnode=96.43.130.251
addnode=175.44.100.250
addnode=93.188.81.208

OK here's a quick way to get a few droplets running on digital ocean:

Currently only the official miner is working, will update when improved version is good to go.

Sign up at https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=09b6de6e0fc8

Create a droplet:

Set the host name
Select the cheapest $5/mo (or most expensive if you like)
Select "Debian 7.0 x64" which is Debian under the Linux Distributions tab
Once created, you will receive an email with the IP address, username, and password.

Download putty from here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Enter the IP address of the server and connect.

Login with the details provided in the email.

Then paste in the following (line by line if you like)


Then edit the file with:


Paste in the following remembering to change the pool (-o), worker or address (-u) and password (-p)


Press control-x and save


This will start the mining. You can then monitor with:


Check everything looks ok, then shutdown the droplet:


This will terminate the putty session.

Go back to the control panel on digitalocean, and create a snapshot.

You can then create 4 more droplets from this image. If you have unique worker names, you'll have to login and change them using the nano command above.

Now you have some hashes.

I'm just emailing Bittrex support. I'm looking to get on bittrex and poloniex, which are in my opinion the best two exchanges for communities. It seems like coins that go to mintpal and cryptsy die.


PS. I have also made contact with some pump groups. We're going to launch with a bang! (Hopefully).

Any hew ideas on how to promote the coin?

Has anyone contacted a few streaming websites like animehere to add a tip button for uploaders or translators?