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[HammerHedd]

I adjusted the colors and altered the design in the center of the logo.

(The subtle blurred separation in the dark diagonal bar across the center is intentional to represent anonymized un-linked transactions.)

-onetime




EDIT:      

This is my fav so far, I like the clean / polish of it, and the dark blue. Nice touch with the blured seperation.  Thanks to all who are helping this coin!

I like it too. The binary word at approximately 8 o' clock is malformed though (7 digits not . Maybe this would be better:

01100100 01100001 01110010 01101011 01100011 01101111 01101001 01101110

(D.A.R.K.C.O.I.N)

+! yeah, have it actually say darkcoin!

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[InternetApe]

any community ami's for amazon ec2 for the rest of the world setup?

I'm having trouble doing it myself.  I don't know putty, having trouble getting minerd loaded properly.

I setup a few with the tuto that send you in previous post..
I can help you but be more specific of your problems or where yo re blocked..
Updated with the version 1.3 of minerd.. It s working on amazon.

If you succeed to connect to your instance via putty just follow those step :

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential m4 libssl-dev libdb++-dev libboost-all-dev libminiupnpc-dev git automake libcurl4-openssl-dev

git clone https://github.com/elmad/darkcoin-cpuminer-1.3-avx-aes

cd darkcoin-cpuminer-1.3-avx-aes

chmod a+x autogen.sh

./autogen.sh

./configure CFLAGS="-O3 -march=native"

make

The one thing that is giving me fits is having a .sh script start right after re/boot. I tried using

#!/bin/bash
cd ~
./wnc.sh

in the user data (kind of a cloud sript, I guess) but it seems to work intermittently. I know there is some way to tie in to init.d, but my attempts have not worked.

use crontab!

crontab -e

then add

@reboot ~/wnc.sh

When host reboots it will start that. Put that in the users crontab, the one you login with.

[HammerHedd]

Network hash rate dropped quite a bit

Except one hell of a jump after alpha tests tonight  

I'm happy it dropped 

More coins for me to mine !!

hehehe Be nice for it to dip below 75 for a while...

"just keep mining, just keep mining" - Dorie

[HammerHedd]

any community ami's for amazon ec2 for the rest of the world setup?

I'm having trouble doing it myself.  I don't know putty, having trouble getting minerd loaded properly.

I setup a few with the tuto that send you in previous post..
I can help you but be more specific of your problems or where yo re blocked..
Updated with the version 1.3 of minerd.. It s working on amazon.

If you succeed to connect to your instance via putty just follow those step :

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential m4 libssl-dev libdb++-dev libboost-all-dev libminiupnpc-dev git automake libcurl4-openssl-dev

git clone https://github.com/elmad/darkcoin-cpuminer-1.3-avx-aes

cd darkcoin-cpuminer-1.3-avx-aes

chmod a+x autogen.sh

./autogen.sh

./configure CFLAGS="-O3 -march=native"

make

The one thing that is giving me fits is having a .sh script start right after re/boot. I tried using

#!/bin/bash
cd ~
./wnc.sh

in the user data (kind of a cloud sript, I guess) but it seems to work intermittently. I know there is some way to tie in to init.d, but my attempts have not worked.

use crontab!

crontab -e

then add

@reboot ~/wnc.sh

When host reboots it will start that. Put that in the users crontab, the one you login with.

OK, cool. I'll give that a shot right now.

EDIT: nope, it still doesn't work. ... Maybe it has something to do with the way amazon initializes their AMIs? I can't believe there is such a simple way to do this in windows and not in Linux... I must be missing something somewhere...

EDIT EDIT: I take that back - it works on some instances and not on others... seems like it might not work as well (or as fast?) on the tiny instances....

Man, I really should get back to work!

[matt608]

I adjusted the colors and altered the design in the center of the logo.

(The subtle blurred separation in the dark diagonal bar across the center is intentional to represent anonymized un-linked transactions.)

-onetime




EDIT:      

This is my fav so far, I like the clean / polish of it, and the dark blue. Nice touch with the blured seperation.  Thanks to all who are helping this coin!

I like it too. The binary word at approximately 8 o' clock is malformed though (7 digits not . Maybe this would be better:

01100100 01100001 01110010 01101011 01100011 01101111 01101001 01101110

(D.A.R.K.C.O.I.N)

+! yeah, have it actually say darkcoin!

Tbh I think the darkcoin coin image looks too much like a tiddlywink lol, it looks like it's made of plastic, which is of low value.  If it could be made more substantial looking, more heavy/sold and made of a precious metal rather than plastic people would find it more desirable.  

[TrollboxChamp]

Network hash rate dropped quite a bit

Everyone is mining the new dumpcoin

Its coming back up  

[Kreativekrypto]

Any bounties for DRK if I could get a big crypto merchant to accept it? I'm asking because A: I like where this currency is going and B: I cant seem to mine fast enough so a bounty would help jumpstart...and I know a few owners.

[luke997]

Time to stock up some darkcoins, looks like it's bouncing back from the dip... I wished I've bought more while it was @ 0.0005... but hey, never too late.

[bigc1984]

I think we all need to keep in mind is although decentralized currency is an awesome start we need to start thinking of ways to decentralize and become more self independent in every aspect. To truly indulge in the essence of what makes cryptocurrency important takes a certain type of intellectual mind set; or philosophy. As a community we need to stress the importance of darkness. We have a right to self-preservation, self-security and independence from intrusion. We don't need to chase the mainstream, we will create a new stream. WWW is cool... but it's not all there is. Main stream merchants? That's cool if they wanna get on board but if not we always can operate through .onion =]

[Queeq]

Time to stock up some darkcoins, looks like it's bouncing back from the dip... I wished I've bought more while it was @ 0.0005... but hey, never too late.

+1
I wonder if it could break walls around 18 this time.

[brother3]

I like the concept very much...Mining this right now since it has a GPU miner

[kuperis]

I like the concept very much...Mining this right now since it has a GPU miner

l
but maybe then price too high at the moment, coz like MTC (now MTS) after when GPU miner released price went  down ~-50% and before that coin was "cpu-only"

[bigc1984]

I like the concept very much...Mining this right now since it has a GPU miner

l
but maybe then price too high at the moment, coz like MTC (now MTS) after when GPU miner released price went  down ~-50% and before that coin was "cpu-only"

Coins are extremely cheap right now. These are some of the cheapest prices you are going to see on this coin, ever again.

[TanteStefana]

I’ve heard some chatter and misconceptions about the difference between Darkcoin vs Zerocoin, so here’s a write up about the pros and cons of each approach and what they do differently.

Darkcoin

First off, most people start by asking is DarkSend actually real and does it work? Yes! Checkout the development progress here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=467857.0

DarkSend is based off of Greg Maxwells original idea called Coinjoin, with some added improvements and decentralization. The decentralized approach is important because the logic is self contained in the client, which is managed by the users themselves. This is a trustless solution.

Darkcoin uses the base transaction layer to sign it’s transactions in much the same way that Bitcoin does. The mathematics are tried and true and have been used for years in computer security and banking.

Transactions will be grouped together and the same cost as sending transactions on the normal network. Both DarkSend and normal transactions will be available to choose from, but at some point we might default to DarkSend (and go Dark).

It’s also worth noting that this approach doesn’t bloat the blockchain at all either. Transactions are the same size as the would have been.

Zerocoin

The approach Zerocoin takes is to use some exotic mathematics to hide the identity with a zero-knowledge proof. This allows a higher quality of anonymity, but also could have some unforeseen hole that will be exploited later.

Checkout this link to see the mathematics I'm talking about: https://github.com/Zerocoin/libzerocoin/blob/master/AccumulatorProofOfKnowledge.cpp

Zerocoin's proof of work is in the 2kb range, which was reduced from 1024kb in Mathew Green’s original work. These proofs must be stored in the blockchain for each transaction that goes through the network for confirmation purposes and the ledger history, so this will cause a lot of bloat. There is also a need for these proofs to be processed by the networks nodes, being larger will cause more intense CPU usage with smaller transaction rates. 

The spec for Zerocoin also requires a 100% premine. I believe mining is what gives cryptocurrency their base value, so this could be a problem for the currency in the long haul.

With the high CPU usage, how will the network deal with DDOS attacks? I could send bad proofs that must be processed. It’s much harder with the Bitcoin protocol because the math is pretty fast and you would be banned quickly.

Imagine if Zerocoin had to deal with 20 transactions a minute, that would be 58.98MB/day that will be added to the blockchain. After a year, that would add up to 21.5GB. Now god forbid you have to reindex this, you’ll have to process all of the proofs on your computer? That might take another year to complete.

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I think the Darkcoin approach has the best mix of features, with the least risk and it’s decentralized. So we definitely have our place in the market.


References:

Coinjoin spec: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=279249.0;all

and

And what is the difference between Darkcoin and DarkWallet's Coinjoin implementation?

It's not in the native client, it's a browser extension and it's not decentralized. In the world of crypto decentralized solutions will always win, we need all of this technology to be trustless.

I've posted these quotes in the reddit page, DRKCoin, is that the right one now?

[hamiltino]

darkcoin logo needs to look more solid. It just does not look high quality.

[brother3]

I like the concept very much...Mining this right now since it has a GPU miner

l
but maybe then price too high at the moment, coz like MTC (now MTS) after when GPU miner released price went  down ~-50% and before that coin was "cpu-only"

How long ago was the GPU miner released?

[elmad]

CPU MINER* IMPROVEMENT +8%**

*AVX-AES VERSION
** 8% on a i7 3d generation, need testing for other cpus

I need testing before to release in stable. Anyone that uses a AVX-AES cpu and linux can test it and report me how it works, what cpu uses and how much improvement achieved?

[TanteStefana]

Here they are together for a quick comparison.

Don't forget this one.  I like that it's not so shiny so it looks better at smaller sizes.  And  I don't think anything will beat the D with a keyhole, it says it all.

[TanteStefana]

Here's a quick n dirty concept for a minimalist logo I did for a bit of fun. Boring colours, I know.

This one

[kuperis]

I like the concept very much...Mining this right now since it has a GPU miner

l
but maybe then price too high at the moment, coz like MTC (now MTS) after when GPU miner released price went  down ~-50% and before that coin was "cpu-only"

How long ago was the GPU miner released?

two weeks ago