Darkcoin Masternode Consulting services now OPEN!

(Disclaimer, I am user "yidakee" over at Darkcointalk.org/IRC)

 I've done it before 100% success, surely can do it again.

I've set-up at least 1 Masternode from start to finish over IRC. Getting flooded in IRC with help requests, troubleshooting etc - I've done it for free up to now, but unfortunately cannot spend that much time anymore with so many people.

 Minimal tech requisites necessary, just the willingness to actually do it.
 Darkcoin-back if you're not happy with my services.

 Soon I'll add a reputation thread link

 PM me with any doubts, or find me (yidakee) on IRC #Darkcoin

Price is 2 DRK/24h ... be it 1 hour be it 8 hours be it 16h - 1 day is more than enough unless something is terribly wrong your end, but happy to break 24h across multiple days.

So where is it? In my left pocket? 
Stop talking nonsense.

What do you mean? Darksend is working only on masternodes, isn't it? So they are strongly wired together and therefore I meant not DarkSend alone but a bunch of MNs + DS, OK?

Masternodes perform the coin mixing service of DarkSend which anonymizes transactions. Users get rewarded with 20% of the mining output per block (without actually performing any mining themselves) through a "voting mechanism".
Masternodes require 1000 DRK to be set up as a negative incentive that disallows one party running or controlling too many of them.
In the future Masternodes, or the Masternode-payment system, could possibly be utilized for providing other kind of services, like blockchain hosting for thin-client functionality.
http://wiki.darkcoin.eu/wiki/FAQ#What_are_Master_Nodes.3F

Also, excuse me for not being acolite or prophet of darks - that holy mission is yours. Just imagine - not all the lame's questions itt are FUD.

 This...




is starting to look like this...




 notice all the little "whales" underneath gasping for air...

THIS FORK WILL GO SMOOTHLY SO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE'S SCEPTICISM AND BUY NOW!


This fork will go smoothly all the signs are there, I can tell you that last time setting up masternodes was a frustrating experience the ghost masternodes problem wouldn’t let you be sure if your node was up and running the masternode count didn’t make sense and there were a lot of updates and new versions in a very short period of time before the fork.

 This time around things are working great you see your node come online right away, we actually have cold wallet masternodes now, with 0 risk of loosing coins, that is huge as people will be willing to use a larger percentage of theirs stake to set nodes. P2POOL can now be updated since before the fork last time P2POOL was only designed to be updated after the fork introducing a new unknown variable that was not part of the testing environment. This time the network will reject old versions so people that inadvertently or intentionally leave clients running with older versions wont affect the system.  If you are planning to buy coins after the fork you will probably have to outbid everyone else doing the same, it would be way smarter to buy now and take a very controlled risk.

New wall appeared. They keep coming.

Before anyone posts that they are "scratching their heads....", the reason these walls keep appearing is because we are retracing a previously trodden path where lots of people lost a great deal of money. They don't want their fingers burnt again and just want out at all costs regardless of what 'fork' is round the corner (known as "resistance").

It's just standard fare for any asset going back up after a crash. Remember, nearly 200,000 DRK were bought ABOVE 0.021 and all those people are sitting at an aggregate loss of about 4500 BTC.

Although much of that resistance has already come out since the all time high, don't get too excited if it doesn't go sky high from day 1 of RC3.

There's probably still quite a bit of bulldozing to be done.

ahh, cheers for that

So, i keep on asking, but perhaps its not known.. will MN payments end up in the MN "hot" wallet?

At the time of building the MN there was a trick to building the wallet.  Send in .001 then 1000 exactly then backup wallet, drop it on your node and it started up...

If I did anything else it wouldn't work.

Should I chuck a bit more in?

Balance 1000.001 ?? LOL
Check your IP at http://drk.poolhash.org/darksend.html. If it shows active, then it should be fine, dude

Shouldn't be, as long as you don't touch the 1000DRK balance, ie move it / spend it. Far safer though to keep it offline and have another wallet for everyday use.

(Exit the client, rename wallet.dat to masternodewallet.dat or something, fire up the client again and because there is now no wallet.dat in your .darkcoin dir, it will generate a fresh one.)

there isn't a reason why i can't use windows for my local/cold wallet? It's just that the MN setup guides over @ darkcointalk assume both local and remote machines are running linux.

EDIT: Scrap that. There is a win/linux guide @ darkcointalk

Well, sort of. Bitcoin went down a bit against the dollar. If it does that then DRK goes down too.

The DRK / BTC exchange is another question.

As it happens, I don't actually think that US Marshall BTC hitting the market is bad. All they're doing is taking BTC that was in cold storage and getting it out into the community.

Whats the problem with that ?

What's more, it isn't going to be hitting existing markets - it's going to be traded off exchange by auction. So that will be new buyers.

All progress IMO.