LOL, I just did, but wow, even other trolls make sense!  LOL

LOL, you are funny!  Cute!  Good bye

yes, there was a mining problem the first day or so
https://www.darkcointalk.org/threads/the-birth-of-darkcoin.162/

However, the reduction in coin won't even take effect until January next year.  It was done because the community wanted to have a more definite limit to how many coins would be minted.

RE the "instamine"  I hold that it isn't an issue because those coins were pretty much all sold off, and the price of dark has remained low since the beginning, which has been the best thing, because everyone has and still can buy darkcoin at a very cheap price, even if they never heard  of Darkcoin until today.  Also, this way, people don't have to be miners to collect coins, so our community is made up of a lot of people who don't mine, which makes for a better distribution of coins in my opinion.  

oh ok, I get it

Seriously?  That's like the rudest I've ever been to someone?  LOL

OMG, what a day to discover us!  I'm ready to pull out the last of the few strands of hair that I have, lol.

I'd read this to get up to date on the early mining issues:
https://www.darkcointalk.org/threads/the-birth-of-darkcoin.162/

And regarding the name, some people feel that using the word "dark" gives bad connotations.  Others feel it just reflects that you can keep others "in the dark" regarding your private account information, that it reflects privacy.  We've gone over this a thousand times and there are a few points brought up.

1.  Changing the name now kills all the past brand recognition, and we'd have to get people to know us by a new name.  It would be confusing and we could loose potential market, setting us way back (3 months of people finding out about us, and knowing us by "Darkcoin")

2. If we don't change the name, we'll always be thought of as a coin for nefarious purposes.

3. We've also spent community coin to pay for designing a new logo, etc.. plus people have bought websites and created content based on the Darkcoin name.

Frankly, my brain hurts right now, LOL, I'm sure there were other issues, but those are what I remember at the moment....

Seriously?  Get a clue.

It's not happening because it would be the absolute wrong thing to do.  You would hurt everybody and help nobody, even those who think they'd be getting something for nothing, because you'd kill the coin.

I have to agree with everyone above, please go away and never come back! (Smeagol voiced)

But the main point, the real reason to make master node expensive is so that an entity, such as a government, or such would find it difficult to gain control of enough of the network to compromise the system, right?  If it were too cheap, it would be too easy for someone with enough resources to get control of the network.

In your last statement, "The other problem is all nodes need to keep a list of all of the masternodes. We want a bunch, but we don't want more than 10k probably. If the requirement is too low we'll end up with a bunch of network traffic from all of the discovery chatter. " does that mean that a person running a master node must register so the nodes can find them?

I seriously am so flabbergasted that people can't grasp the concept that the "instamining" issue is a NON-ISSUE.  Most of those coins have been sold off, which redistributed the coins, often to those who don't own huge mining rigs (like myself)  you actually can't ask for better distribution than what we have gotten BECAUSE OF  the "instamine"  This is truth.  The few large wallets are probably the biggest believers in this coin, possibly Evan, possibly someone else.  If it were Evan that has the largest wallet, then he will be selling them off as time goes by, I'd bet, because he's devoted himself to this coin for the next 2 years and will have to pay for his living expenses.  If it isn't him, if it's just a supporter who believes in this coin, he's not likely to dump, it would be counter productive.

Even at this very moment, if you just discovered Darkcoin, you still get a super price for it and can "get in" on the ground floor.  There is no reason for anyone to feel left out.  I paid a lot more for my darkcoin than it's been going for lately, and I don't have disposable income at all.  I squeezed out whatever from wherever I could to buy some coins, so it can be done.  If not, then you don't want it bad enough or you don't think it's a good risk, good that's fine, but don't cry to us that it's unfair.  It's never been fairer.  3 months of low prices, 3 months to buy, and counting.

I don't think people understand.  These coins mined in the beginning belong to the people who mined them.  We can't up and take them away!  They undoubtedly have been sold off already.  People with so many dark wouldn't have dreamed the coin would amount to much, they're miners and dumpers, they took their profit and ran with it.

And as far as Evan goes, he was buying the coins up 20,000 at a time!  Then he used them up quickly because the early bounties were BIG!

Where did you come up with this ridiculous statement?  LOL, funny!

I'm so GLAD you woke up!!!  I also goofed up today.  We need someone to knock our heads together and you're just the guy to do it!  Good Morning!!

There is no solution, there is no fix.  Human nature has redistributed those coins, and any mucking around will screw everything up.

I'm tired.  If ya'all don't see it, I can't help you.

I'm sure if I just found out about this coin and liked it, I'd want to have more given to me.  I know I would.  But seriously, the coin is inexpensive enough to buy a lot of if you have an income, way cheaper than mining it, pretty much cheaper than mining it for a long time now.  Buy yourself some coins, that's what I did.  I bought them at a way higher price than they're going for right now.  Some I bought at .0016 and bitcoin was over 700.  Not until today was I worried about my choice.

In what way? It would break all trust.  You can't earn trust back as quickly as you lose it.  No, an airdrop would kill the coin.

I'm certain he won't he isn't stupid.  He is impulsive though, very impulsive.  It's what gives him such talent.  But causes this kind of uproar!  LOL.

no he won't do it.  When he wakes up in the morning, he'll go "oh shit what was I thinking?"  He hasn't been here all day, just popped in a moment, thought, oh maybe I can fix this insta-mine problem, lets vote!  LOL, it's what makes him so cute.

That's ridiculous.  The "instamined" coins have done more good for distribution of Darkcoin to more people than a "fair launch" ever could have.  Not everyone can mine, but they can buy, and when the coin remains affordable for such a long time, it allows new people who hear about it to join with us and invest.

Those coins have long been dumped.  They're in the hands of those of us who bought them because we like the coin and because we could.  What you're saying makes no sense and is not at all a real issue whatsoever.  There probably is a little more dumping to be done, but I haven't worried about it so far, and I won't worry about it, because I am certain that in the long run, if silly ideas like an "airdrop" stop happening, Darkcoin will be a major player and worth a lot more than it is going for today.

When Evan reduced the rewards, he did it where it had no effect for a whole year.  Things were kept at the same rate they were already with a % reward decline next year, still that was a big change.  But it increased the perceived value of the coin, so it was OK.

To suddenly flood, or eventually flood coins into the Darkcoin economy, when we had a "covenant" as to what this coin's distribution was going to be, would be breaking a major trust that we can never recover from.  This is a huge no-no.  It can not be allowed to happen.  What's done is done, but increasing the supply after people have "bought" literally into this coin is going to cause such a loss of trust, I don't think Darkcoin will survive.

I agree, but I think Evan went to bed!      

Alexis de Tocqueville, a French Politician and historian at one point said, and I'm paraphrasing, that a democracy can never work, people will always vote themselves money to the ruin of the state.

In this case here, the people will vote for an airdrop to get themselves more coin regardless of the fact that it will kill the coin.

It's why the United States of America is a Republic and not a democracy.  Evan, you need to be presidential and stand by what is right, don't wallow in what went askew, and realize nature actually fixes this stuff in the end.  (the coins were redistributed at the exchanges).

It was a much better outcome than Bitcoin's Satoshi Nakamoto's 400,000 bitcoins still in his wallet. Nobody knowing if or when they might hit the trading floor, which could deliver a knock out blow to bitcoin!