This release includes: - Spork: True masternode payment enforcement and increasing masternode rewards - Masternode Hardening, I've fixed over 10 vulnerabilities in Darksend that could have possibly caused DOS attacks - Changed the way Masternode pinging works, using a timestamp calculated from the average block timestamp instead of the local time. This should fix some cases where nodes went offline after awhile. - Added a simple list that will provide who gets paid on what blocks. - Turned back on collateral transactions - Added collateral to the queuing process (dsa and dsq protocol commands) - Improved collateral strategy: Collateral is now paid in the form of mining fees. This creates a situation where to double spend the inputs, you would need to pay the miners higher fees then 0.1DRK (the collateral fee). This makes it impossible to double spend attack our collateral system. - New command "masternode winners", shows the next 20 payees - New Darksend branding What we need to test: - If anyone gets hit with a collateral charge, please send your debug.log and wallet.dat to evan@darkcoin.io- "masternode winners" must always be in sync across the whole network. We'll need to figure out a way to test this - Make sure the reward adjustment is working - Make sure darksend is working properly - Update pools and make sure the spork goes smoothly What should we name this release? |
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This is fascinating. The little rusty gears in my head are churning at full speed. It's a workable plan, but heavy-handed... It leaves me confused about enforcement... If manipulating the coin reward is treated so flippantly, but actually getting those rewards we treat with kid gloves... We're messing with the fundamentals of coin creation and supply way, way too much here. Sure, it'd probably work, but I think effort should be put into finding a better way. I think that simply decreasing the number of coins needed to run a MN would be a much better way to get more of them. If it only takes 700 DRK instead of 1000, people can still lock away the same amount of DRK that they want into MNs, there's just more of them in a direct and controllable proportion. Why hunt for equilibrium by tampering with the coin supply, when you can very predictably increase MN count by observing current MN count, look at desired MN count, and divide by N. No screwing around with the coin supply needed, nobody can troll about a tax, and you know exactly what you're getting... Both from the dev side and the MN operator side... Predictable, simple, get what you want without dicking around with coin supply... Tell me where I'm wrong? The Masternode network can be thought of as the Darkcoin amount it takes to subvert the network. Decreasing the amount of coins required for a Masternode to operate does increase the number of Masternodes, but it also maintains the same level of security. For example, if you change the rule to 100DRK per Masternode, we'll end up with 5x-10x more masternodes but the cost of a sybil attack will actually remain the same or even decrease. BabyGiraffe has a great post about this here: https://darkcointalk.org/threads/development-update-oct-1-2014.2561/page-4#post-23297 |
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Darkcoin.io not working?
Same here. Maybe updating... Ugh, apparently I was running a spot instance for darkcoin.io. So, it got terminated and I lost a bit of data. I'll have it back to where it was in a bit  |
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lol and the german accent video is on the front page ... why  a) Its vertoe b) highest respect for the man c) community work, not payed d) definitely need a multi-language, "pro", version, without "weird and creepy" linux stuff for the masses How do we make that happen ? What do you need ? Fully agree - the Vertoe's video was great for testers and it is not aimed at general audience. With the Open Source and media campaign there will be lot of newbies coming to the website and the tech stuff will discourage them. The intro video should explain advantage of DRK compared to BTC (stop comparing against $ - our target market knows BTC so no more explanation of 24/7 low-cost decentralised payments), mention the fact that DRK is the only audited anonymous crypto and how to buy it on mintpal / cryptsy. It is investment we need so the material has to reflect it. We're really happy with the new site. Thanks to Raze, Vertoe, Walter, Minotaur, Matt, Fernando and Flare for making it happen! This new site can have content added on the fly, so we should be able to grow it and add videos like that easily. |
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Done  but doubt one random internet user (and obvious darkcoin supporter's) email is going to make much difference  Yeah, it is in our plans, this is going to require a more formal approach, imagine the emails they get from many altcoins, some that are not of the same quality as ours, but how can they know? I think direct contact and maybe a conference call or a meeting will be required at minimum. Response from them: "From: julien (Support staff) Hi xxxxxxxxx, Thank you for providing us with more info on Darkcoin. You are correct in that you are not the first to suggest adding this to our list of accepted crypto. In fact it has probably been the most requested in the past few months. I can tell you that it is on the list of possible integrations that our Dev team is considering. I have no doubt that with continued support from the community and data that this is indeed a healthy coin, it will eventually be added. Thanks for your support! -Julien" That's encouraging, I just emailed them too. |
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To be perfectly clear, ANYTHING but a 20% masternode payment will be rejected by enforcement. So we're only 54% updated so far. https://drk.mn/blocks.html |
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I am going to make some new paintings and fresh Bitcoin releated art. I will remove some paintings on forum,Darkcoin 3 and Darkcoin 4 ,and Peercoin 1 and Peercoin 2 as well. Poor interest in these paintings,unfortunately,and i am not able to keep them all in my atelier. Price is now 220 usd only for Darkcoin 3,and 180 usd for Darkcoin 4,if anyone interesting. Or i will overdraw paintings,so paintings will no longer exist. Let me know if someone interesting Painting Darkcoin 3 is SOLD for 220usd. I still have Darkcoin 4 for only 180 usd. Let me know if someone interesting z.k. Darkcoin4 is still free for 180 usd only. I buy it and donate it to evan. evan are you interested? zoran, dont trash it. If I remember well he already bought one. (so we know that he'll like this present) But really nice idea, can I participate in the buying of this present for Evan? That's appreciated, but I bought the first one, it's hanging on my wall already. |
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Ohh things are moving now. Had never anonymized on mainnet before. It's pretty sexy.
Yeah, mainnet anonymization is on fire. This is the fastest I've ever seen it go. Doing 8 rounds in a hour or two is awesome. |
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Big mailing went out today ! Here only a selection: Wired, BBC, Forexminute ,Bitcoin vox, Extreme Tech, Venturebeat, Cointrader, Le Monde, Bitcoincoach, WSJ BitBeat, China Daily, PC World, Mad Bitcoin, Bitcoin Reporter, Crypto Crimson, Tech in Asia, Bitcoin Warrior, Coin Desk, Coinbrief , Bitcoinist ,Lets talk Bitcoin, Mad Money Machine (Show), CryptoCoinsNews , Bitcoin Magazine , Coin Report, Coin Telegraph, Diana Ngo, Bitbillions, Money & Tech , Altcoinherald , AltCoin Press, Bitscan , China Money Network , China Economic Review , Finance Asia , World Crypto Network ....>> Most of the mailing is done around 45 personalized emails endless tweets Facebook posts (other pages + ours) Here is the 1st taker: http://www.cryptoarticles.com/crypto-news/darkcoin-passes-security-review-prepares-to-open-sourceWell done team !  Wow, great work! It's already getting better results then what a normal press release gets. |
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v15 is just for removing that debugging button. Everything else on the network is looking good. |
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This is the latest draft of the press release, please tell us what you think. Kudos to David & Vertoe for this. /* RC5 Press Release, to be released on Sept/22 */ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Darkcoin Passes Security Review, Prepares to Open SourceSecurity researcher Kristov Atlas has concluded his code review and security audit of Darkcoin. He was solicited by the developers of Darkcoin, based on 4+ years of professionally reviewing C/C++ software, to review the code and suggest any changes which could improve the software. Kristov Atlas concluded that Darkcoin's claims of functional anonymity are well-founded. He did suggest a few concerns, which the Darkcoin team immediately fixed (the fixes will be released Monday as part of the next scheduled update to the Darkcoin client). Mr. Atlas' primary concern was that a bad actor could launch a so-called Sybil attack against the network. Evan Duffield, lead developer of Darkcoin, closed this potential attack vector and in doing so also found a way to increase the overall anonymity of Darkcoin transactions. The new update to Darkcoin, "Release Candidate 5" (RC5), will be made publically available Monday, September 22. It fixes the concerns raised by Mr. Atlas, increases anonymity, fixes bugs, and improves the user experience by implementing a new interface. After eight months of continuous improvement, the developers of Darkcoin are confident that the currency is finally ready to meet the scrutiny of coders world-wide. Duffield has announced that on September 29, the source code of Darkcoin will be opened and published. Darkcoin will become the first open-source, decentralized, anonymous crypto-currency in the industry. Future plans include the adoption of a new Instant Transactions technology which Duffield has described in his whitepaper [https://www.darkcoin.io/downloads/InstantTX.pdf]. This technology will allow Darkcoin to compete with other nearly instantaneous transaction systems such as credit cards. If successful, such an idea could revolutionize crypto-currencies by providing a decentralized payment system usable in retail stores and other face-to-face situations. The delay between sending and confirming transactions would be reduced from one hour (with currencies such as Bitcoin) to as little as twenty seconds. A future press release will describe the system in greater detail. The Darkcoin client and more information can be obtained at their website: http://www.darkcoin.io. About Darkcoin:
Bitcoin works with an unprecedented level of transparency that most people are not used to dealing with. Every transaction that has ever happened is stored permanently in a ledger that is made public for the world to see, forever.
Darkcoin solves this problem by implementing an ahead-of-time CoinJoin implementation called Darksend. A user that wants to be anonymous can use the built-in technology to utilize the Masternode network to make their transaction nearly impossible to track.Contact: evan@darkcoin.ioCommunity: https://darkcointalk.org/threads/rc5-launching-september-22nd.2382/Future Press Releases: http://www.darkcoin.io/media.htmlPerfect! |
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From the Instant(Tx) Whitepaper: 5.2 Transaction Lock Compatibility ModeTo enable backwards compatibility with all existing software (exchanges, pools, etc), clients will
default to showing 24 hours of confirmations of transactions that have been successfully locked.
This will provide all services using Darkcoin to benefit from instant transactions without having to
implement anything specific.
If a client needs the daemon to function in the old way, there will be a flag to disable this mode.Good thinking This section might need some work too. Current raw blockchain (no other transactions) (60m / 2.5m confirmation time) * 156KB per block * days in a year) / mb /gb ((60/2.5)*158*365)/1024/1024 1.31GB per year Even without anything... the blockchain grows pretty fast. In 5 years we're looking at 5-15GB depending on the transaction volume. ((60/20)*158*365)/1024/1024 0.16GB per year That means that we can save over a gig a year by increasing the confirmation time. The idea is we want less bloat and faster transactions, so we should be able to get both without sacrificing anything. Am I missing something? Why aren't hours/day included in the calculations? Shouldn't it be like: (60m / 2.5m confirmation time) * 156(158?)KB per block * hours in a day * days in a year) / MB / GB ((60/2.5)*158*24*365)/1024/1024 = ~31.68 GB? And second calculation: ((60/20)*158*24*365)/1024/1024 = ~3.96 GB? Thus, the move would save 31.68 - 3.96 = 27.72 GB / year? 60 minutes / 2.5 minutes/block * 158 bytes per block (w/o txs) * 24 hours * 365 days / 1024 (bytes/kilobyte)/(1024 kb/megabytes) = 31 megabytes not 31 gigabytes! Ah, yeah. Long day! Thanks |
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From the Instant(Tx) Whitepaper: 5.2 Transaction Lock Compatibility ModeTo enable backwards compatibility with all existing software (exchanges, pools, etc), clients will
default to showing 24 hours of confirmations of transactions that have been successfully locked.
This will provide all services using Darkcoin to benefit from instant transactions without having to
implement anything specific.
If a client needs the daemon to function in the old way, there will be a flag to disable this mode.Good thinking This section might need some work too. Current raw blockchain (no other transactions) (60m / 2.5m confirmation time) * 156KB per block * days in a year) / mb /gb ((60/2.5)*158*365)/1024/1024 1.31GB per year Even without anything... the blockchain grows pretty fast. In 5 years we're looking at 5-15GB depending on the transaction volume. ((60/20)*158*365)/1024/1024 0.16GB per year That means that we can save over a gig a year by increasing the confirmation time. The idea is we want less bloat and faster transactions, so we should be able to get both without sacrificing anything. |
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