I know a lot of people have stated in many articles that they believe only 5 or 6 coins will ultimately survive.  But the more I think about it, the more I can see many  more coins finding a nitch if more of the population start to use them.  It will be interesting to see where we are 10, 15, 20 years from now.  The press is printing gloom and doom again.  It's so silly, people obviously don't truly understand the value crypto coins bring to the market.  But of course time will tell!

Just want to say one more time, in case I missed saying it, I'm super sad lotterymining pool is closing.    I've enjoyed being there, I even won a lottery.  If any pool were going to be here forever, I honestly thought lotterymining would have been it.  I'll be mining there until April 22, then I may retire my computers from mining and start gaming again  

I hope you, CHAOSiTEC and your wife will soon be able to buy that house, and that you fill it with little ones  And I especially hope you'll still come talk to us here.  I'm glad the dice game and wheel of fortune, etc... are still going to be run by you, that means you're still invested in us  Thanks for all you've done for us, you really were responsible for a lot of the good vibes we have here in this thread!

Oh BTW, Evan must have updated the beta 5 wallet, because it did finally sync 

Did Evan ever update DGW2 in the beta wallet?  I just downloaded it again, but still can't sync.  Maybe it hasn't happened yet??

What, you're the guy who was scamming all of us who were mining at Lottery pool by submitting 0 diff hashes by  the butt load, taking a percentage of everyone's share, contributing nothing, and your angry because CHAOSiTEC, bless him, found out before you could withdraw?  LOL.

And you accuse CHAOSiTEC, one of the biggest Darkcoin supporters ever, of running a scam pool?

You've got some nerve buddy!

Well, we've been without internet all day, finally realized it was the modem.  Just got it replaced, and here I am again, LOL.

anyway, hope nothing but good news out there today?  Gotta go read!  LOL

Hello world!

I totally agree, The Simpsons are a classic.  Would you believe I remember when they first started out on the Tracy Ullman show?  LOL  It pays homage to that and of course Mr. Duffield

Basic answer to your question is yes, we do have a fake test network.  It is called testnet.  We test DarkSend on it before it goes live.

Next time, maybe you can join us if you are available.

Hope that's better!

We do do that all the time  When it's stable enough, we have a beta version that can be used along side the regular version.  This allows people to do transactions with DarkSend, and not have to wait.  Like me, I don't want to send regular, I want my privacy.  So even so DarkSend is being improved upon and even completely reworked, we still have a very good version that we can use while waiting for the next version

But it's not for people that haven't read about the issues (mainly that you have to wait until your payment goes through before you can turn off your computer or close your wallet, otherwise you'll be fined 0.1 dark.  And also, if you don't like using something that hasn't been open sourced yet, it wouldn't be for you.  It's closed until completed.

But yes, everyone is always welcome to join in on testnet when we're testing.  I have a ball giving out large sums of dark to people, something I can't do irl, LOL

Yah, we may all have to work, including those of us in retirement,, LOL

back to a master node misbehaving, there is a problem here.

A human will not know if they are hosting a master node as they shut off their machine for whatever reason, therefore we have a backup slave node to take over.  I would think that the only "punishment" for the master node is that they will not participate in that round's rewards.  Otherwise, we can hurt people who are just running their wallets.

I still haven't seen, but may have missed it, can we password protect our wallet while running the nodes?  Also, can our balances and identity be inferred from running a node?

Clearer, Evan, please.  You lost me.  you say 24/7 is required but then say you'll get percentage your computer is on.  Did you mean to say it's not required to run 24/7, but anything less would give out a proportionately smaller chance of reward?

Are you also saying that several wallets can be run from the same IP address?  As long as there is 1000 dark in each one?  Wallet being a node?

Finally, can we run our wallets with the passphrase on? 

It almost seems like this could be a version of proof of stake?

I don't know, I'm mining because I'm lazy and I don't know what else to mine.  But I'm stupid, not everyone can be stupid like me?  LOL, so who knows?

Also, maybe your settings are not quite right?  Lowering the intensity sometimes increases actual hash rate, you  might want to try that?

Two of the biggest problems Darkcoin faces right now are:

1.  We need to get a working DarkSend completed.
2.  The more layers we stack on DarkSend, the bulkier the blockchain.

Finally, it is impossible to make it 100% anonymous.  What you do is increase the improbability that anything can be traced basically due to the cost involved.

Besides, DarkSend doesn't have to be "Completed" it can evolve, with people being able to use it as it does evolve.  In fact, that's probably the healthiest way for the development of the coin to go.  Trying to make things so complex, with such a reduction in rewards (0.000001% more anonymity) invites bugs that will be super hard to detect.  Lets build on a great foundation.  I think it's the wisest approach.

Well, because it's beta software and there could be problems with it.  I haven't found any actual bugs, but one thing to watch out for, and this will be made better in future versions, is that when making a darksend payment, and this is the default in the beta wallet, you don't really get feedback on your transaction, not until it has been completed.  So if it's stuck waiting for people to conjoin with, you can't see anything.  So if you close your wallet, turn off your computer, etc... , you will be charged 0.1 drk for misbehaving.  Note, normally Evan has a wallet constantly darksending amounts to himself to help push darksends along, but what happened to me is that he didn't notice it had stopped, and I didn't realize I had open transactions to myself, and gave up, closed my computer and thought there was a bug.  But the 0.1 charge I noticed later showed that I had left a transaction before it completed.  In the future, Evan is going to put updates on the transaction so we get feed back.

But that's why this is beta, to see what needs to be done to make it work better, and that's why it's at your own risk

Oh gosh, I just finished my dinner wine, and I'm a total lightweight.  I thought you were asking about the beta wallet, not the nodes, LOL

Thank you so much, I did the killall, and then restarted and this time I got the "darkcoind server starting" which I didn't get the first time, so I'm gonna let that sync now and see how it goes, LOL.  Thank you again!

Ok, so I have darkcoind in my Ubuntu, I started it , it seems ok, but I can't see any feed back.  If I try to start it again, it can't get a lock on the .darkcoin directory so it must be running.  I can't stop it either.  ./darkcoin stop or -stop or --stop doesn't work, says
error: incorrect rpcuser or rpcpassword (authorization failed)

so I try one of those with
./darkcoind stop -rpcuser=name -rpcpassword=pass

I try this with help -help --help as well, but it doesn't do anything.  I also can't getinfo

Can anyone help me?  I'm leaving it for the night, maybe it's downloading the blockchain and can't be disturbed?  I'll see how it is in the morning

Thanks for any help

p.s. I can't find a good readme on this either, no info, so maybe I'm just not finding it?

All I do is run darkcoind?  then give you all the ip?

LOL, don't hold your breath, it'll never happen, LOL

Mine something more profitable and buy dark with it???

LOL, very good!  eduffield obviously has the patience of a saint

I have no idea how this could be done, but it's an amazing idea!  Fits in with my capitalistic sensibilities.