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[bigrcanada]

Can you remote start masternodes?  I'm having to occasionally do this and its annoying as I keep the priv keys on a offline cold wallet.

[kointrend]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_RZnhyMGKU
Throttle up...

...and for my next trick, I'll be pumping Dash.

Bump for those that missed a live showing of IX and the soda machine.

GREAT! <3

[Lukas_Jackson]

Can you remote start masternodes?  I'm having to occasionally do this and its annoying as I keep the priv keys on a offline cold wallet.

If your MN was offline more than an hour you have to start it from your local.
You can use crontab to check if deamon is running.

Copy code below and paste into mn_watch.sh file.
Type nano mn_watch.sh, paste with right click, and control x, y, enter to save. Change dashuser to your user name.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#run with:  screen -dm /mn_watch.sh
#stop with:  screen -ls to find number and screen -X -S 11111 kill
while true; do
if [ -z `pidof dashd` ]; then
echo Dashd is not running trying to start
/home/dashuser/dashd
sleep 600
else
echo Dashd is Running
sleep 600
fi
done

type:
chmod +x mn_watch.sh

apt-get install screen

type:
screen -dm /mn_watch.sh


I'm not sure if dashman is doing that, great tool. Thanks moocowmoo btw

https://dashtalk.org/threads/dashman-linux-masternode-mangement-made-mootastic.6376/

[bigrcanada]

Can you remote start masternodes?  I'm having to occasionally do this and its annoying as I keep the priv keys on a offline cold wallet.

If your MN was offline more than an hour you have to start it from your local.
You can use crontab to check if deamon is running.

Copy code below and paste into mn_watch.sh file.
Type nano mn_watch.sh, paste with right click, and control x, y, enter to save. Change dashuser to your user name.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#run with:  screen -dm /mn_watch.sh
#stop with:  screen -ls to find number and screen -X -S 11111 kill
while true; do
if [ -z `pidof dashd` ]; then
echo Dashd is not running trying to start
/home/dashuser/dashd
sleep 600
else
echo Dashd is Running
sleep 600
fi
done

type:
chmod +x mn_watch.sh

apt-get install screen

type:
screen -dm /mn_watch.sh


I'm not sure if dashman is doing that, great tool. Thanks moocowmoo btw

https://dashtalk.org/threads/dashman-linux-masternode-mangement-made-mootastic.6376/

eek.  So nothing for windows machine?  I'm using Splawik service to manage my mn's.   It would be kind of cool is someone had a tool made that alerted me when one of my MN's went down.  is there such a thing?

[oblox]

Can you remote start masternodes?  I'm having to occasionally do this and its annoying as I keep the priv keys on a offline cold wallet.

If your MN was offline more than an hour you have to start it from your local.
You can use crontab to check if deamon is running.

Copy code below and paste into mn_watch.sh file.
Type nano mn_watch.sh, paste with right click, and control x, y, enter to save. Change dashuser to your user name.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#run with:  screen -dm /mn_watch.sh
#stop with:  screen -ls to find number and screen -X -S 11111 kill
while true; do
if [ -z `pidof dashd` ]; then
echo Dashd is not running trying to start
/home/dashuser/dashd
sleep 600
else
echo Dashd is Running
sleep 600
fi
done

type:
chmod +x mn_watch.sh

apt-get install screen

type:
screen -dm /mn_watch.sh


I'm not sure if dashman is doing that, great tool. Thanks moocowmoo btw

https://dashtalk.org/threads/dashman-linux-masternode-mangement-made-mootastic.6376/

eek.  So nothing for windows machine?  I'm using Splawik service to manage my mn's.   It would be kind of cool is someone had a tool made that alerted me when one of my MN's went down.  is there such a thing?

Use uptimerobot.com to your node address and listen on port 9999. You'll get an email when it goes down and comes back up.

[TanteStefana2]

That makes no sense to me, can you explain?

I am just worrying about what happened to bitcoin happening to dash, but I don't know the details enough to do more than just generally worry about it. I assume if there was a hostile takeover of the foundation they could do some bullshit like fork dash and prevent anyone else from using the trademark. I don't know how the foundation is governed though.

If the foundation really owns the trademark, they won't even have to fork DASH in order to prevent anyone else from using it. However, I think the shareholder concentration of the foundation is probably very high, so that will likely deter a (hostile) takeover. But you can never know for sure. Let's say they offer a huge premium, who knows what might happen.

I think worrying about the coin foundation that has bylaws and who's members are all Dash stakeholders having a trade mark, is a way smaller risk than not having the trade mark at all. Do you understand the risk of someone completely unrelated to the project owning the trademark? It is a way bigger risk.

Look for example at the cases of Monero or Lets Talk Bitcoin, they both have had real trademark issues with owners of other trademarks.

In the case of Monero the now closed down Uruguayan Bitcoin company Moneero https://twitter.com/moneerohq actually filed some claims. Fortunately that company closed down. Lets Talk Bitcoin recently got their Youtube channel closed on trademark related issues.

Do you know who owned the Bitcoin trademark, at least at the time they filed for bankruptcy MtGox did. I am lazy to check who owns it now if it was already sold.

http://phys.org/news/2014-05-mtgox-bitcoin-trademarks.html

So saying that Dash taking control of its own destiny and owning rights to the trademark is a bigger risk is disingenuous. Dash has substantially mitigated the risk of outside sources attacking on a trademark basis.

Not to mention that Dash can support the soon-to-be called Dash Foundation with it's own funding.  There is no risk of some outsider being accepted to take over the foundation, we don't need anyone.

[oaxaca]

It would be kind of cool is someone had a tool made that alerted me when one of my MN's went down.  is there such a thing?

dashwhale.org is your friend.

[Bridgewater]

Can you remote start masternodes?  I'm having to occasionally do this and its annoying as I keep the priv keys on a offline cold wallet.

The hot side does not need a "masternode start," as this happens automatically as long as the dashd is running (see Lucas_Jackson's post above to make sure it is always running).

However, if it was offline too long (say, if the VPS service was down for a couple hours), the auto-start script will not be able to prevent your MN from being kicked off the list and you will need to issua a start from the cold wallet.

Currently in Dash Core there is no way to issue a masternode start without exposing your cold-side 1000Dash private keys to a computer connected to the internet.  Evan has said before that he is working on a way to keep the 1000Dash on a computer that never touches the internet, but I have not heard anything more about it.  We may have to wait until Electrum-Dash adds support for MN so we can use either a hardware wallet or Electum's watch-only+offline transaction signing functionality to offline start MN).

[splawik21]

Can you remote start masternodes?  I'm having to occasionally do this and its annoying as I keep the priv keys on a offline cold wallet.

The hot side does not need a "masternode start," as this happens automatically as long as the dashd is running (see Lucas_Jackson's post above to make sure it is always running).

However, if it was offline too long (say, if the VPS service was down for a couple hours), the auto-start script will not be able to prevent your MN from being kicked off the list and you will need to issua a start from the cold wallet.

Currently in Dash Core there is no way to issue a masternode start without exposing your cold-side 1000Dash private keys to a computer connected to the internet.  Evan has said before that he is working on a way to keep the 1000Dash on a computer that never touches the internet, but I have not heard anything more about it.  We may have to wait until Electrum-Dash adds support for MN so we can use either a hardware wallet or Electum's watch-only+offline transaction signing functionality to offline start MN).

Exactly.
Richard my service has autorestart in all the nodes.
The node which went down was on a provider who had often down time last days.
PMed you with details.

[bluebit25]

I am amazed at how well-done and attention-grabbing the soda machine project is. The best part is that the machine can be reused and so can the Dash:
1) Hand a conference-goer a paper wallet with 0.4 Dash on it
2) Have them scan the funds to their phone
3) They spend the money in our soda machine
4) Use the Dash collected to print more wallets for the next conference

The only thing we'd need to fund on an ongoing basis is the soda! If only we could move the soda machine easily.

When we open our first Dash offices, we need to make sure we have a Lamaseu ATM and a Dash soda machine in the lobby of the building!

The wallets will have .25 dash -- soda's will cost .19 (plus 0.01 ix fee) to make an even .2 per soda. Leaving each person with .05 dash in hand.

--

I'll have to get with Lamassu to help them get InstantX on their ATM's -- another win!

Oooh yah, instant withdrawal of cash for Dash would be very nice (especially for tourists)   And those paper wallet give-aways sound a lot more realistic from the numbers I've heard bandied about.  I wonder how many wallets you're able to make?  And how many people are expected to be there?

I printed about 600 wallets.  (Don't worry about the TSA confiscating, they won't get funded until the day of the show.)  

TheDashMan made a nice backgournd for them too.  Thanks TDM.

600, that's not enough, 1000 is better. Also, make sure to keep count of how much soda is left, so you can get someone to refill it. I'm sure, there will be a lot of people wanting to test it.

Also you should have a large QR code to download the DASH Wallet from the android store on the DASH soda machine with instructions were to buy Dash: Polinex, etc

[bigrcanada]

Can you remote start masternodes?  I'm having to occasionally do this and its annoying as I keep the priv keys on a offline cold wallet.

If your MN was offline more than an hour you have to start it from your local.
You can use crontab to check if deamon is running.

Copy code below and paste into mn_watch.sh file.
Type nano mn_watch.sh, paste with right click, and control x, y, enter to save. Change dashuser to your user name.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#run with:  screen -dm /mn_watch.sh
#stop with:  screen -ls to find number and screen -X -S 11111 kill
while true; do
if [ -z `pidof dashd` ]; then
echo Dashd is not running trying to start
/home/dashuser/dashd
sleep 600
else
echo Dashd is Running
sleep 600
fi
done

type:
chmod +x mn_watch.sh

apt-get install screen

type:
screen -dm /mn_watch.sh


I'm not sure if dashman is doing that, great tool. Thanks moocowmoo btw

https://dashtalk.org/threads/dashman-linux-masternode-mangement-made-mootastic.6376/

eek.  So nothing for windows machine?  I'm using Splawik service to manage my mn's.   It would be kind of cool is someone had a tool made that alerted me when one of my MN's went down.  is there such a thing?

Use uptimerobot.com to your node address and listen on port 9999. You'll get an email when it goes down and comes back up.

Thanks Oblox.  Splawik has that end all dialed in for me as part of his service.  One of the issues is that as a MN owner...I'd love to know when any one of my MN's go down...Splawik is great at letting me know right away...but I'd like to be able to have a tool that sends me a message to say my smartphone to notify me.

this brings me to an interesting though I had the other day...has anyone tried running a Masternode off of a smartphone?  I have a Samsung Note 3 and Note 2 and a couple of high end tablets.... I mean most of these new smartphones/tablets are pretty powerful.  I have them sitting around doing nothing.  thoughts?

[bigrcanada]

Can you remote start masternodes?  I'm having to occasionally do this and its annoying as I keep the priv keys on a offline cold wallet.

If your MN was offline more than an hour you have to start it from your local.
You can use crontab to check if deamon is running.

Copy code below and paste into mn_watch.sh file.
Type nano mn_watch.sh, paste with right click, and control x, y, enter to save. Change dashuser to your user name.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#run with:  screen -dm /mn_watch.sh
#stop with:  screen -ls to find number and screen -X -S 11111 kill
while true; do
if [ -z `pidof dashd` ]; then
echo Dashd is not running trying to start
/home/dashuser/dashd
sleep 600
else
echo Dashd is Running
sleep 600
fi
done

type:
chmod +x mn_watch.sh

apt-get install screen

type:
screen -dm /mn_watch.sh


I'm not sure if dashman is doing that, great tool. Thanks moocowmoo btw

https://dashtalk.org/threads/dashman-linux-masternode-mangement-made-mootastic.6376/

eek.  So nothing for windows machine?  I'm using Splawik service to manage my mn's.   It would be kind of cool is someone had a tool made that alerted me when one of my MN's went down.  is there such a thing?

Use uptimerobot.com to your node address and listen on port 9999. You'll get an email when it goes down and comes back up.

Thanks Oblox.  Splawik has that end all dialed in for me as part of his service.  One of the issues is that as a MN owner...I'd love to know when any one of my MN's go down...Splawik is great at letting me know right away...but I'd like to be able to have a tool that sends me a message to say my smartphone to notify me.  What I was asking to start this....can I remote start-alias a cold wallet, I realize this may seem like a stupid questions, but is there such a thing as a virtual instance of a cold wallet?  The deal is I'm at remote locations often and I'm not carrying my cold wallet with me...for example when I'm travelling.  I've had this happen several times and I'm not able to get to that cold wallet for 2 weeks, missing my payment.

this brings me to an interesting though I had the other day...has anyone tried running a Masternode off of a smartphone?  I have a Samsung Note 3 and Note 2 and a couple of high end tablets.... I mean most of these new smartphones/tablets are pretty powerful.  I have them sitting around doing nothing.  thoughts?

[bigrcanada]

Can you remote start masternodes?  I'm having to occasionally do this and its annoying as I keep the priv keys on a offline cold wallet.

The hot side does not need a "masternode start," as this happens automatically as long as the dashd is running (see Lucas_Jackson's post above to make sure it is always running).

However, if it was offline too long (say, if the VPS service was down for a couple hours), the auto-start script will not be able to prevent your MN from being kicked off the list and you will need to issua a start from the cold wallet.

Currently in Dash Core there is no way to issue a masternode start without exposing your cold-side 1000Dash private keys to a computer connected to the internet.  Evan has said before that he is working on a way to keep the 1000Dash on a computer that never touches the internet, but I have not heard anything more about it.  We may have to wait until Electrum-Dash adds support for MN so we can use either a hardware wallet or Electum's watch-only+offline transaction signing functionality to offline start MN).

thanks...that clarifies things for me....so having a cold-side offline yet starting the MN's may be able to happen....is currently not possible. 

[oblox]

Can you remote start masternodes?  I'm having to occasionally do this and its annoying as I keep the priv keys on a offline cold wallet.

If your MN was offline more than an hour you have to start it from your local.
You can use crontab to check if deamon is running.

Copy code below and paste into mn_watch.sh file.
Type nano mn_watch.sh, paste with right click, and control x, y, enter to save. Change dashuser to your user name.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#run with:  screen -dm /mn_watch.sh
#stop with:  screen -ls to find number and screen -X -S 11111 kill
while true; do
if [ -z `pidof dashd` ]; then
echo Dashd is not running trying to start
/home/dashuser/dashd
sleep 600
else
echo Dashd is Running
sleep 600
fi
done

type:
chmod +x mn_watch.sh

apt-get install screen

type:
screen -dm /mn_watch.sh


I'm not sure if dashman is doing that, great tool. Thanks moocowmoo btw

https://dashtalk.org/threads/dashman-linux-masternode-mangement-made-mootastic.6376/

eek.  So nothing for windows machine?  I'm using Splawik service to manage my mn's.   It would be kind of cool is someone had a tool made that alerted me when one of my MN's went down.  is there such a thing?

Use uptimerobot.com to your node address and listen on port 9999. You'll get an email when it goes down and comes back up.

Thanks Oblox.  Splawik has that end all dialed in for me as part of his service.  One of the issues is that as a MN owner...I'd love to know when any one of my MN's go down...Splawik is great at letting me know right away...but I'd like to be able to have a tool that sends me a message to say my smartphone to notify me.

Uptimerobot will do that for you (via email) and I think Dashwhale does as well.

[noah tall]

...has anyone tried running a Masternode off of a smartphone?  I have a Samsung Note 3 and Note 2 and a couple of high end tablets.... I mean most of these new smartphones/tablets are pretty powerful.  I have them sitting around doing nothing.  thoughts?

Bad idea.

First, masternodes secure the network by having 100% uptime.  While theoretically possible to run the daemon it will hurt the network when it periodically goes offline.  We are building a reliable network that should have nodes in professional data centers, not phones or even home networks.

Second, if your node goes dark for 70 minutes (I think), you will move to the back of the payment queue and start the cycle over again.

[bigrcanada]

...has anyone tried running a Masternode off of a smartphone?  I have a Samsung Note 3 and Note 2 and a couple of high end tablets.... I mean most of these new smartphones/tablets are pretty powerful.  I have them sitting around doing nothing.  thoughts?

Bad idea.

First, masternodes secure the network by having 100% uptime.  While theoretically possible to run the daemon it will hurt the network when it periodically goes offline.  We are building a reliable network that should have nodes in professional data centers, not phones or even home networks.

Second, if your node goes dark for 70 minutes (I think), you will move to the back of the payment queue and start the cycle over again.

What i mean is I would have usb power hub....these "smartphones" would be connected via a secured wifi and the smartphones would be up 24/7 they would be run as a server on a shelf in our IT room.   I've had 2 of my smartphone a note 1 and note 2 up 24/7 for 7 or 8 months now running our streaming music services.  I've never had to reboot the phones or have had them go down...more then I can say for some other hardware I have....

The idea was to use the hardware as a server base....and they would have the sim cards pulled so no mobile network connectivity, which i've done to these 2 here....just a thought. 

[Solarminer]

...has anyone tried running a Masternode off of a smartphone?  I have a Samsung Note 3 and Note 2 and a couple of high end tablets.... I mean most of these new smartphones/tablets are pretty powerful.  I have them sitting around doing nothing.  thoughts?

Bad idea.

First, masternodes secure the network by having 100% uptime.  While theoretically possible to run the daemon it will hurt the network when it periodically goes offline.  We are building a reliable network that should have nodes in professional data centers, not phones or even home networks.

Second, if your node goes dark for 70 minutes (I think), you will move to the back of the payment queue and start the cycle over again.

Smartphones are pretty expensive for a server, even if they were better.  You can run a node on a PI (similar ARM chips as in phones) but the internet service needs to be reliable and a datacenter can do that better and usually with cheaper IP addresses.

I would like to see a backup IP address option.  So when your node goes offline it can fallback to a second IP running a redundant node and stay online.  Similar to websites that link to more than one IP so they can stay online even with high traffic or maintenance.

[wackyD]

...has anyone tried running a Masternode off of a smartphone?  I have a Samsung Note 3 and Note 2 and a couple of high end tablets.... I mean most of these new smartphones/tablets are pretty powerful.  I have them sitting around doing nothing.  thoughts?

Bad idea.

First, masternodes secure the network by having 100% uptime.  While theoretically possible to run the daemon it will hurt the network when it periodically goes offline.  We are building a reliable network that should have nodes in professional data centers, not phones or even home networks.

Second, if your node goes dark for 70 minutes (I think), you will move to the back of the payment queue and start the cycle over again.

Smartphones are pretty expensive for a server, even if they were better.  You can run a node on a PI (similar ARM chips as in phones) but the internet service needs to be reliable and a datacenter can do that better and usually with cheaper IP addresses.

I would like to see a backup IP address option.  So when your node goes offline it can fallback to a second IP running a redundant node and stay online.  Similar to websites that link to more than one IP so they can stay online even with high traffic or maintenance.

You could try one of those Ubuntu smart phones.. I suppose you could install the dash client on that..

[bigrcanada]

...has anyone tried running a Masternode off of a smartphone?  I have a Samsung Note 3 and Note 2 and a couple of high end tablets.... I mean most of these new smartphones/tablets are pretty powerful.  I have them sitting around doing nothing.  thoughts?

Bad idea.

First, masternodes secure the network by having 100% uptime.  While theoretically possible to run the daemon it will hurt the network when it periodically goes offline.  We are building a reliable network that should have nodes in professional data centers, not phones or even home networks.

Second, if your node goes dark for 70 minutes (I think), you will move to the back of the payment queue and start the cycle over again.

Smartphones are pretty expensive for a server, even if they were better.  You can run a node on a PI (similar ARM chips as in phones) but the internet service needs to be reliable and a datacenter can do that better and usually with cheaper IP addresses.

I would like to see a backup IP address option.  So when your node goes offline it can fallback to a second IP running a redundant node and stay online.  Similar to websites that link to more than one IP so they can stay online even with high traffic or maintenance.

I absolutely agree... Smartphones are a quite pricey.... I just go through a lot of them... At least one a year... Currently Note 5 which I may retire for Nexus next go around.  It's not practical to use them for the masses due to cost... But In my case I do have them lying around or streaming music.   I did look into those pi machines and that's super cool.  I could buy a few for the price of my note 5 lol.

[Melech]

Did anyone else notice Dash is missing from the coin update on blog.cryptsy.com?

– Update 2016/01/19 10:08pm –

The following wallets have been opened for withdrawals:

007
42Coin
Acoin
...
CraftCoin
DamaCoin
(no Dash?)
DevCoin
Diamond
Doubloons
Ducknote
...
EZCoin