Hi everyone (waves) missing you all!  LOL


I tried logging in, but it didn't work, then tried changing my password, and it still didn't work.  They could find my email, to send change password message, but tried it twice and I couldn't log on.  I made my account when they first announced, but I just can't get back in


I am not sure where I read it, but I remember Evan saying no, it does not.

There are many bitcoin people who don't like any coin, any competition.  But I ask you, would there be improvements like there has been if there was no competition?  Would we have better coins than Litecoin and Bitcoin if it weren't for alts.  Those two are still simple, no real innovation in a long time - over the hill - coins. 

When you have something, you don't want competition but competition is the healthiest thing in the world.  So too bad.

That goes for Darkcoin as well.  You do get a lot of perks for being the first, but if you don't keep up/and ahead of the competition, you die.  That's why the developer is so important.  Evan is amazing and he won't be stopping with privacy, there is so much more planned, and he has a "we can do it" attitude and has proved he can indeed do it!

1. which version of the wallet do you have?  Beta or regular?
2  Either way, if you didn't "just" download, it might be a slightly older version, which wouldn't sync.  If you get the one that should be linked right now, it should work.  Also, use only addnode= in config, no connect= because that's been causing trouble. 

BTW, fix didn't get a new version number

Remember, you're going to have 1000 coins sitting there, you want it secure.

Yup, there he is, did you miss it?  LOL

Are they using Evan's code and giving it another name?  Is that kosher?

Please re-download the wallet, there has been an update, though the version number wasn't changed (I think)

LOL 

So glad you asked!
https://medium.com/on-banking/a923facddc3c

No no, I mean yes, mistake last weekend asking if people would be happy if we did an airdrop, but it wasn't thought out, and kind of put out there when Evan came up for air (probably deep underwater coding, 'cause Monday was a big beta release with lots of updates)  Then all hell broke loose and Evan killed that thought when he realized it was a bad idea.

But the instamine is true.  There was a mistake in the code that was repaired within a day or so but nobody realized until a block explorer was made, how bad a leak it was.  At that point, it was about a week into mining, and there was no going back.  Turns out, IMO, that it was a good thing.  Big holders have sold off their coin, which made for even better distribution to future users of this coin, as people who don't mine were able to buy Darkcoin cheaply even to this day.  Face it, after the instamine was discovered, nobody wanted to hold on to the coin, they thought it was dead!  But Evan's innovations and constant support for us and the coin kept interest going, then it started to become apparent that he really knew what he was doing, and one-two-three improvements were made so quickly!  Well, first the X-11 algorithm, which turned out to run so cool, then KGW had some loop holes, so Evan wrote a different way to protect against large fluctuations in mining difficulty, from scratch, in less than a day, if I remember correctly.  It was better and he called it Dark Gravity Wave, which was really how it worked, like a wave, smoothing out the bumps.  And finally, he came through, quite quickly, with the anonymity feature he named DarkSend.

He is an amazing thinker and coder.  Last week, when he had that epic conversation with Anonymint, coming up with new ideas and ways to make DarkSend better, he implemented the foundation of the whole thing over the weekend and Monday, we had a new DarkSend!  This guy's not just amazingly good, he is a DO'ER.  Seriously, one in a million.

He's also an honest and I think rather simple person from what I've seen.  Likes to engage the community to a fault, and who else out there puts their name out there for their coin?  I don't think he ever even thought about using a pseudonym.  Probably never occurred to him.

So yes there were hiccups, but those hiccups have turned into assets (great distribution) and the coin is chugging along really well because it's frankly, the best coin out there.  Far better than Bitcoin, however it could never have happened without Bitcoin.  Bitcoin is the Father/Grandfather of all coins.  But soon, Darkcoin will be the coin on everyone's lips    

Is Sauron the guy who started a coin called darkcoin?  When we changed the name, we discovered someone already started a thread for a coined named the same, but the thread went dormant.  Actually, the coin never launched, so we reached out to that community and asked if they would like to join us, they said yes, and that's how things got a little confusing with people finding some of the specifications of the original coin and then reading the specifications of this coin, thinking we changed from something like 1 or 4 billion coins? to 22 million.  But we were happy that being friendly enabled us to use the name without any conflicts

LOL, guess I'm too tired to make sense!  LOL

Yah, I'm slowing down as well, don't have as much time and with the holidays next week, I'll have even less!  Good thing, too, because otherwise that market would get me down!

But I have faith we're at the very beginning of something great, but that it will take a while to really take off.

I sent a couple of wallets, 3 actually so I could fill an order, to my other wallets to try out darksend and I noticed 26.XXXX was suddenly in the unconfirmed spot, removed from my balance.  It kind of freaked me out, but then I realized that it must have something to do with the 3 darksends I did.  3+fees = 26.XXX .  But then I wondered if that meant we could darksend up to 29 coins or something now?

Yah, the market has really crashed, so did the stock market I heard.  When bitcoin are down so low, so is darkcoin as we only trade with and are measured in bitcoin.  But this is a volatile business.  It will be years before cryptos settle down.

Wow, quiet day on the board, eh?

Oh yes, I've discovered much sympathy with Mrs. Robinson as I got older, LOL, and Harold's mom in Harold and Maud.  LOL.  Actually, I think she's kind of cool!  LOL

But my tastes are truly in slightly older men now.  Slightly because much older than that and they're all in wheelchairs, LOL.

But what do you mean it's going to get ugly?

no

I mean the transaction is there, but it says "not yet redeemed".

Also, the faucet isn't functioning, it's been saying "It seems the internet goblins are messing with us, please refresh!" since I made my deposit a few hours ago.  Maybe it's just stuck, can anyone fix this?

I believe that when you retrieve a private key in a wallet, it becomes one with the wallet, and it can get all messed up if you tried to reuse that private key again.  I could be wrong about that, but I happened to ask that very question tonight in the Darkcointalk forum.  Hopefully someone will know the answer.  But I made test paper wallets and retrieved them into my wallet, and I don't see how that can be separated again.  It was as if the paper wallet and my computer wallet were merged.

Maybe it'll be something available in the future?

can I be running a regular darkcoind node and a master node at the same time, or will I be, if I run a Master node?