Bad luck Ed. And to think that I know of some people running hot masternodes on spot instances. Lets hope they've got backups  Are people still running hot masternodes? Why?  I'll propose a two part answer and you can work out whether its a good idea or not 1) If you really know what you are doing, there is minimal risk to running a hot masternode. 2) Setting up a hot master-node (especially if you are setting up lots via scripts and AMIs) is much simpler than a cold masternode. Can you imagine setting up 50 cold masternodes? It'd be a nightmare. It's not that hard, and with that much money at stake, jeepers, take the damn time! When it all gets stolen, it'll be a PR nightmare for DRK. "masternodes unsafe, millions lost!" Gosh, hire one of our guys for the little they ask, and have them help you set it up or something, but don't leave a hot wallet on a server! Please! Trust me Tante, I'm a cold node man all the way. The fact that I put 10 masternodes on each server is another reason why I like to keep things airgapped  EDIT: You make a very good point. I paid Ghostplayer to walk me through my first few masternodes. Worth every duff. The fact that I do things differently now is just a reflection on my love of experimentation and efficient solutions. |
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Bad luck Ed. And to think that I know of some people running hot masternodes on spot instances. Lets hope they've got backups Are people still running hot masternodes? Why? I'll propose a two part answer and you can work out whether its a good idea or not 1) If you really know what you are doing, there is minimal risk to running a hot masternode. 2) Setting up a hot master-node (especially if you are setting up lots via scripts and AMIs) is much simpler than a cold masternode. Can you imagine setting up 50 cold masternodes? It'd be a nightmare. Agree when you use scripts etc. But, for the users who have a couple of MNs like me it takes ~3-5min x MN and NO risk is better than minimal risk  do you agree? Couldn't agree more. I did briefly consider the hot route recently when setting up a larger batch of masternodes but then I realised that I can't trust myself to get it perfectly right. |
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Bad luck Ed. And to think that I know of some people running hot masternodes on spot instances. Lets hope they've got backups Are people still running hot masternodes? Why? I'll propose a two part answer and you can work out whether its a good idea or not 1) If you really know what you are doing, there is minimal risk to running a hot masternode. 2) Setting up a hot master-node (especially if you are setting up lots via scripts and AMIs) is much simpler than a cold masternode. Can you imagine setting up 50 cold masternodes? It'd be a nightmare. |
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Weird... I would think Amazon would do it all in one go. All my nodes are up. Maybe they're taking slow by phases?
If you didn't get an email, your instances are not affected. Cool, thanks. Maybe this is bash related, maybe not. Since they're just sitting there idle only on TCP port and SSH closed, is there a point in doing apt-get update / dist-update? To be honest I haven't even found the time to read up on the whole bash situation. AWS info here: https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2014-418.htmlEDIT: MY BAD, THIS IS CURRENT https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2014-419.htmlI launched a new Ubuntu instance on Thursday morning and their AMI was already patched. |
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Weird... I would think Amazon would do it all in one go. All my nodes are up. Maybe they're taking slow by phases?
If you didn't get an email, your instances are not affected. |
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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  Bad luck Ed. And to think that I know of some people running hot masternodes on spot instances. Lets hope they've got backups |
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Darkcoin.io not working?
Not working for me either. I've reported it to flare (not sure who else to report it to) |
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With the amount of "anon" coins out there I don't think we have to worry about shitclones. Like at all.
More like adoption and massive dev contribution begins in
3...
2....
1...
I hope you are right mate. Too much work has gone into this for all of the right reasons for it to deserve any resistance from shitcoiners. |
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The Shitcoin Factory starts its operations in...
3...
2...
My clone is going to be called Barkcoin and its going to fronted by a black Shiba Inu called Roge  |
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I'm giggling like a six year old girl again. |
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The big problems of all alts is the cheapness, no liquidity.
How to bring it to market, without throwing exorbitant amounts at the wrong people?
The fuck, Darkcoin. Lets say you want to transfer 10 mil. US $ with Darksend, good idea.
But what happens? You're out there buying DRK for 10 mil ...?
You'll drive the price, exorbitant, unreal, you'll have all the vultures on your back.
Then you Darksend to liquidate at the other end.
You liquidate DRK for 10 mil $ and the price will collapse.
Thats total shit, how you wanna solve this...?
You can't. How you wanna distribute for extended liquidity without distortion?
How you want to make your financial instrument usable?
Impossible in your model, check mate. It can't work like this.
You're out for shit and you know it.
All your shit coins are out for shit, if you trade on your intrinsic value against shit.
You need to make your method valuable, not your bloody fucking shitcoin...
You have a point, ideally we'd have a big enough marketcap to accommodate serious transfers of wealth without that swinging the current market price wildly, but that comes with time and adoption. A few years ago BTC was worth peanuts too, and even now BTC would suffer the same thing if anyone used it for big wealth transfers. Quite apart from the spot price not being particularly meaningful anyway when trading large amounts, what you miss though is that as long as the wealth gets transferred, it doesn't matter to whoever is doing it what the market value of one discrete chunk of the transfer medium is.Exactly... when 1000 USD = 0.0001 DRK, there is more than enough liquidity. Right now, you're spot on. What we need more than anything is merchant acceptance. Then the economy flourishes. And opensource is one giant leap towards merchant acceptance. Or meerkat acceptance as my autocorrect just tried to say. |
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I don't think you need the rpcuser and rpcpassword stuff in the remote MN at all. You should have the rpc port blocked by the firewall anyway.
You can't run darkcoind at all without RPC details. The firewall has no effect because the server is localhost. Thanks for the correction. I've basically never used the daemon, I just run the wallet. No probs. I only know that because if you run the daemon without specifying rpcuser and rpcpassword it won't start and actually gives you an error message with a randomly generated password for you to use! |
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I know in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter, but I am going to be fairly irritated if some coin takes Darksend, rebrands it and uses it for a big pump. Would be cool if the crypto community ostracized any coins who blatantly take and apply Darksend to their coins for the purpose of pumping.
i would cut the dick for every clone with darksend but you cant stop it:( I live in hope that newcomers to altcoins don't get burned and that those with some experience will be a little wiser where they put their faith. There will be clones but I reckon there won't be as many as we fear. Anyway...opensource! Just think about what can be achieved with the world as your dev team? |
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Hi there, in the wake of open sourcing comes a void filler - another of my basic MN security questions: Is there any real danger in someone getting their hands on the remote config file with these values? rpcuser=reallylongusername rpcpassword=veryveryverylongpw masternodeprivkey=7..._Masternode_Private_Key the 1,000 DRKs should be still safe in the local wallet, right? Just want to be sure I don't think you need the rpcuser and rpcpassword stuff in the remote MN at all. You should have the rpc port blocked by the firewall anyway. You can't run darkcoind at all without RPC details. The firewall has no effect because the server is localhost. |
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Hi there, in the wake of open sourcing comes a void filler - another of my basic MN security questions: Is there any real danger in someone getting their hands on the remote config file with these values? rpcuser=reallylongusername rpcpassword=veryveryverylongpw masternodeprivkey=7..._Masternode_Private_Key the 1,000 DRKs should be still safe in the local wallet, right? Just want to be sure You cannot withdraw funds from your cold "wallet" without your wallet pass phrase. Your funds are safe. I personally prefer to treat all configuration files as if they are passwords. The less known the better imho. Its good practice. |
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Oh and roede94105 is correct.
Expect hundreds of shitcoin clones to pop up within hours/days. My personal opinion is that this will prove to be a positive factor for the Darkcoin project but time will tell.
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Sorry guys for the stupid question but what is the advantage of knowing the source code  So millions of shitcoin clones can be created Seriously though, it provides huge confidence since everyone can review the code. I think it is important to point out that the majority of the Darkcoin code has been open source for some time. Today is significant because Darksend is being open sourced (the primary mechanism for handling anonymity). I stand to be corrected but everything else, including masternode code has been open source for months. Today is about gaining the trust of those who could benefit from Darkcoin payment systems by revealing to them how it works. The other significance about today is that today is the day that the dev team are confident to say that Darkcoin and Darksend have been tested and thoroughly bug squashed and are no longer release candidates. After today's announcement, Darkcoin can be considered freely available consumer technology for adoption by those who choose to adopt it |
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Are they going to release source code today?
yes |
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What the holy funk just happened?
THAR BE WHALES IN DEM DARK WATERS!!! What am I missing? Price just rocketed but only 10BTC buy? Strangely massive candle of cryptsy too... |
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What the holy funk just happened?
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