Anyone tried syncing from scratch with 175 masternodes? It's impressively fast!  |
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What happens to the drk network when some masternode servers get hacked? If anyone can run them, do we all just trust that the individual's pc's have adequate protection??
I think DDOS attacks on the masternodes will be a big issue. Absolutely! The network relies on masternodes being safe, secure, and online. When these get hacked the dark network could be in lots of trouble  The implementation is fault resistant. If one goes down, it will be quickly discovered and removed from the list and the rest will remain active. |
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Hey guys, IMPORTANT PLEASE HELP!
I have shut down my vms and am unable to stop the masternodes from running. I fire up the wallet on my local machine and initiate masternode stop but all I get is
darkproton@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ ./darkcoind masternode stop "password"
Not implemented yet
Hmmmmmm.. unsure what to do.
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I can provide a list of ips that are no longer valid if it helps
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The code should expire your masternodes when they stop pinging the network. It usually takes about 25-35 minutes. Maybe that's not working though? I'll check on it Thanks man. You need a list of my ips? Got them, thanks |
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Hey guys, IMPORTANT PLEASE HELP!
I have shut down my vms and am unable to stop the masternodes from running. I fire up the wallet on my local machine and initiate masternode stop but all I get is
darkproton@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ ./darkcoind masternode stop "password"
Not implemented yet
Hmmmmmm.. unsure what to do.
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I can provide a list of ips that are no longer valid if it helps
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The code should expire your masternodes when they stop pinging the network. It usually takes about 25-35 minutes. Maybe that's not working though? I'll check on it |
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If you haven't updated to 0.9.3.3 or 0.10.7.3, please do so IMMEDIATELY! Hard fork in a few hours!If you run ANY kind of service for Darkcoin, please join the mailing list here:
http://goo.gl/mSYVhX
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I hope Evan can work in IP obfuscation, as Anonymint suggested. Then it would be hard to challenge DRK in any foreseeable way.
I like this idea, I think we could go open source much sooner while remaining the leading privacy-centric crypto. |
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Does this mean that the blockchain will be completely fogged using the masternodes still starting Wednesday? Or only on the 25th? Thanks Evan. It's actually pretty foggy now. RC3 is the next big improvement to anonymity |
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I noticed also, just as I'm updating my masternodes. I suspect a DDOS attack. Two pools for you to use. p2pool.darkcointalk.org 1% Fee with 10% going to a Darkcoin Foundation mining.darkcointalk.org 0% Fees Plus it's helping support the community by mining there! Cheers, but I run and use my own p2pool. 0.5% fee.  http://x11p2p.com:7903/I'm in no rush to update my masternodes now that the date is 25th. Actually if you don't update you'll be on the wrong fork! |
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12% of all the darkcoins that ever will be was instamined by Evan a couple of his friends on day 1.
What kind of dev launches a coin without a windows wallet?
I got into this coin because of the technology. Maybe you don't understand investments, but what matters about them is how much YOU own, not how much everyone else owns. Thanks for advising is that the coin wasn't launched with a Windows wallet. That is about number 100 of my list of concerns right now but I appreciate it's pretty high up on yours. So here's what I suggest you do - go back to the [ANN] archives and spend a week compiling a list of all the coins that were launched with Windows wallets and then go and plough some BTC into them. Might make you rich  You're missing the point... It's fine that you don't mind, that you are biased and this nasty little FACT doesn't bother you. But how do you think this will play out in the media? This coin is tainted, permanently. I'm glad that Evan is pushing the boundaries on technology, but darksend can not have any real traction until it is open sourced, and the moment that happens, several clones will pop up. They won't have dodgy names and branding like 'dark' coin, and they will have a zero premine, zero instamine, fair launch. And how will they market themselves? As the privacy centric coin that is not a scam like that darkcoin. Will it bother you then? Oh, and one more thing... Do you know that although Evan is a smart, dedicated Dev, his solution to anonymity is NOT the best solution out there? Google 'ring signiture,' google 'monero,' google 'darkwallet,' and you will find that you have put your trust a good solution, but NOT the best solution. You dark loyalist's have a wierd saviour complex about your dev. He is alright, but he has nothing on the dev's of ring signature coins. They are hackers. They are genuine cryptographers. Evan Duffield is an everyday software designer who wanted to have a go at solving the anonymity problem. Good on him! I salute him for trying! But buyer beware...darksend could be smashed by NSA or hackers in a heartbeat. And even if Darkcoin and darksend is well received how will you compete with more marketable clones? Hail Evan the almighty! We don't mind that you instamined 10% of all the coins that ever will be on day 1! We don't mind that your darksend solution is no where near as good as monero's ring signature solution. We have blind faith in you... Don't hang onto those dark coins for too long... Ring signatures are going to be implemented in V2. I will begin development immediately after I opensource V1. How do we compete against clones? Can they clone me? I work on this full time. In fact, I've only been at it four months. So far I've implemented DarkSend + X11 + DGW + Masternode payments. Plus, I've agreed to work on this project till at least Jan 2016 full time. So who on earth would invest in a clone? |
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BUMP for everyone updating... Hey Guys, do you know if when updating an already running masternode, you need to go through the start masternode remotely process again? I just updated and all I did was stop darkcoind in the server, replace it with the new version, start it again, done... and it seems to still be in the masternode list, without having to go through the remote start my masternode, etc. Could anyone confirm this please? I just want to make sure that I dont have to do anything else if my masternode was already running. The masternodes "ping" the network every 30 minutes in order to prove they're still active. So when you shut one down, it actually takes a while to expire from the list. |
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1.) How do you know the key was destroyed? What if they faked it?
Are you thinking of anoncoin? AFAIK cryptonote doesn't have that problem, but I could be wrong. "Other issues include the RSA private key used to initiate the accumulator, which must be trusted to be destroyed by the generating party" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.0They're talking about zerocoin there, right? Section topic is "How does this compare to other anonymous solutions?" Correct, that refers to ZKP-based approaches. CryptoNote uses ring signatures so it doesn't require any such thing. Yeah, I was confusing the two. Actually, awhile back Anonymint was suggesting we use ring signatures for DarkSend. I'll do some research, maybe that can be a V2 feature. |
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1.) How do you know the key was destroyed? What if they faked it?
Are you thinking of anoncoin? AFAIK cryptonote doesn't have that problem, but I could be wrong. "Other issues include the RSA private key used to initiate the accumulator, which must be trusted to be destroyed by the generating party" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.0 |
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is testnet down again ?
I think the connections were maxed out, try again. I see everything hung up 5 hrs behind on block 3562, my MN is also not seeing anyone else on TN: { "version" : 100701, "protocolversion" : 70014, "walletversion" : 60000, "balance" : 9792.50050899, "blocks" : 3562, "timeoffset" : -1, "connections" : 5, "proxy" : "", "difficulty" : 0.08222917, "testnet" : true, "keypoololdest" : 1399582516, "keypoolsize" : 101, "paytxfee" : 0.00000000, "mininput" : 0.00001000, "errors" : "" mn list { "99.173.XX.XXX:19999" : 1 } Apparently I'm the only miner and my rig was frozen! I started it back up. |
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Firstly, this is not intended to be an act of trolling. I was quite heavily invested in Dark, and believed in it's cause. However, I would like you to carefully consider your position. The darksend option of anonymity could be smashed by the NSA quite easily. The anonymity market share you own - on the assumption that darksend works flawlessly - is about to be overtaken by Monero, and similar clones. Their anonymity solution is superior to yours, developed by hackers. A purely trustless solution. Good luck to you all, but buyer beware. https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdfPS. Darkwallet also should not be underestimated, simply because you don't like it... While zeroknowledge proofs are neat just imagine the blockchain sitting there for 10 years accumulating your data, then one of a few things happen: 1.) The key used to start the system was never destroyed and was kept the entire time so a very powerful entity could see everything that goes on 2.) An exploit is found and suddenly the entire blockchain is cleartext Darksend has no such vulnerabilities. The encryption we use could be completely broken and all of the transactions that have happened would still be anonymous. Darksend relies on a collateral system - 1000drks per masternode, randomly selected masternodes, and these nodes sign off on the pooled transactions. Sounds safe...how much money do you think the NSA has? How easy to simply stockpile virtually all the darks out there, and have the majority of masternodes running... Sorry Evan but they are laughing at this solution...they will simply allow your network to grow, allow users to feel safe and protected, yet know the vast majority of transactions. The only real solution to anonymity is encrypted packets of information, that are visible on the network by can only be decrypted by the intended recipient using their private key. You are a smart, well intended dev. You have a loyal team, you have done well. But your solution is flawed. This was solved by using multiple iterations through many masternodes. Users can pick how secure and private they want their transactions to be. To actually know who spent what, you would have to control every masternode from start to end. Plus, I'm implementing I2P into the masternodes. We're going to have our own private network just for DarkSend. Yep, very easy - and not that expensive - to do. Every masternode has access to the transaction info for that iteration. This is NOT anonymity. This is a hack solution, hoping that an adversary does not control the masternodes the network asigns to your solution, on the assumption that it is too expensive for said adversary to own enough masternodes. Read up on Monero (and no i do not own coins...yet). The solutions put forward - although simple in their user implementation - are well though through mathematical solutions. Darksend is, well, quite hack. It relies on the false premise that it will be too expensive for an adversary to exploit... FALSE FALSE FALSE. Buyer beware. Well no....buyer will do ok. User beware, your transactions are not anonymous You keep saying the same thing over and over again without answering my original points. 1.) How do you know the key was destroyed? What if they faked it? 2.) What happens when an exploit is discovered and the entire blockchain is cleartext in 10 years. Good luck... sounds like a honeypot. I'd rather stick with proven technology that's easy to understand. Looking at the market cap, many people agree with me. |
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Firstly, this is not intended to be an act of trolling. I was quite heavily invested in Dark, and believed in it's cause. However, I would like you to carefully consider your position. The darksend option of anonymity could be smashed by the NSA quite easily. The anonymity market share you own - on the assumption that darksend works flawlessly - is about to be overtaken by Monero, and similar clones. Their anonymity solution is superior to yours, developed by hackers. A purely trustless solution. Good luck to you all, but buyer beware. https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdfPS. Darkwallet also should not be underestimated, simply because you don't like it... While zeroknowledge proofs are neat just imagine the blockchain sitting there for 10 years accumulating your data, then one of a few things happen: 1.) The key used to start the system was never destroyed and was kept the entire time so a very powerful entity could see everything that goes on 2.) An exploit is found and suddenly the entire blockchain is cleartext Darksend has no such vulnerabilities. The encryption we use could be completely broken and all of the transactions that have happened would still be anonymous. Darksend relies on a collateral system - 1000drks per masternode, randomly selected masternodes, and these nodes sign off on the pooled transactions. Sounds safe...how much money do you think the NSA has? How easy to simply stockpile virtually all the darks out there, and have the majority of masternodes running... Sorry Evan but they are laughing at this solution...they will simply allow your network to grow, allow users to feel safe and protected, yet know the vast majority of transactions. The only real solution to anonymity is encrypted packets of information, that are visible on the network by can only be decrypted by the intended recipient using their private key. You are a smart, well intended dev. You have a loyal team, you have done well. But your solution is flawed. This was solved by using multiple iterations through many masternodes. Users can pick how secure and private they want their transactions to be. To actually know who spent what, you would have to control every masternode from start to end. Plus, I'm implementing I2P into the masternodes. We're going to have our own private network just for DarkSend. |
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is testnet down again ?
I think the connections were maxed out, try again. |
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Firstly, this is not intended to be an act of trolling. I was quite heavily invested in Dark, and believed in it's cause. However, I would like you to carefully consider your position. The darksend option of anonymity could be smashed by the NSA quite easily. The anonymity market share you own - on the assumption that darksend works flawlessly - is about to be overtaken by Monero, and similar clones. Their anonymity solution is superior to yours, developed by hackers. A purely trustless solution. Good luck to you all, but buyer beware. https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdfPS. Darkwallet also should not be underestimated, simply because you don't like it... While zeroknowledge proofs are neat just imagine the blockchain sitting there for 10 years accumulating your data, then one of a few things happen: 1.) The key used to start the system was never destroyed and was kept the entire time so someone (a government, NSA?) can see everything that goes on. All the while everyone thinks it's anonymous? 2.) An exploit is found and suddenly the entire blockchain is cleartext Darksend has no such vulnerabilities. The encryption we use could be completely broken and all of the transactions that have happened would still be anonymous. |
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