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[coins101]

Quoted from the other thread:
"DarkSend is in Beta V6 and will be moving to RC1."

What is RC1?

Thx!

Its a term used by NASA. It means strap in. Check engines. Check fuel. Start the countdown clock.

Or in computing, Release Candidate #1 :-P I know you're cool coins101 so I'll assume you were making a Doge joke, but I don't want to confuse the poor fellow.

The great silver
Great miners
Come on
We are the greatest

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[Conduit256]

My darkcoin-qt wallet is stuck on a block 3 days ago and is refusing to update past there. I have tried deleting the blockchain and re-downloading it but it didn't work. I believe I have the latest wallet 0.9.1.2

Any help is much appreciated, thanks.

[lethagized]

sorry, wrong thread

[TanteStefana]

Where I can find DRK coin calculator which working fine?

Price calculator here:
http://www.darkcoinprice.com/

Mining calculator bot is on IRC at Freenode => #darkcoin
do !help to get options
!calc #  Where # is your hash rate to get coins/hr or day

[naxin]

The price of bitcoin may get a little hairy soon.

The closer we get to 15 April when China exchanges are rumoured to be prevented from using their own corporate bank accounts for BTC and alt-coin to fiat conversions, the wilder things will get.

Official confirmation to the contrary may stop the run on Bitcoin and Litecoin. And it is feasible that the bulk of selling has largely taken place.

If anyone gets the urge to sell some DRK for fiat if bitcoin takes a nose dive. PM me. I might be interested, at the right price.

There is an old adage in investing that goes something like "Buy the rumor, sell the news".

What it means is that when a major rumor about something comes out, buy then (or rather sell if it is negative news), and when the actual news actually comes out, sell (or buy if negative), because when the news actually does come out, it's too late, all of the big players and those in the know would have traded weeks ago, so the bump in price from the rumor is only a fraction of what the big news actually would have caused.

tl;dr, even with bad news on the 15th, BTC still won't drop below 400, it's priced in.

[eduffield]

As it is, if one node is compromised or malicious, what stops it from hosing up darksend? Sure, that TX will fall out of the memory pool and eventually be not a sent transaction according to my client, but how about something that actively avoids the incident? Why shouldn't all clients hosting the full chain also be darksend nodes? For that matter, why is darksend optional? Why aren't all sends done in that manner automatically? Input volume, yes...

The idea of masternodes is to create a very expensive network similar to mining, where users invest money to make money. If you decide to be malicious, the only power you have is to not allow transactions for that 2.5 minutes, in which case you forfeit the money the network will pay you.

If all nodes were able to do it, the network would be vulnerable to sybil attacks. See my conversation with Anonymint.

Really the concept sounds great -- I guess what I am really worried about is DOS attacks on the Master nodes.  Some people will do due diligence, but I am betting that most won't (don't know how) and the result will be that DRK suffers a black eye because one person brings down Darksend for a time.  

What protections are there against this other than urging master nodes owners to read up on net security?

It's the same thing pools must deal with and we don't have many problems with attacks on that front. I think it's even slightly better than the situation with pools. With pools you can DDOS bad work that must be processed. With DarkSend we can lock it down while it's the masternode so it only will accept new inputs with a new collateral transaction, otherwise it will disconnect you and you'd lose the collateral.

[anonymousxx1503]

Man we are having a hard time on the markets. Hey Evan have you seen the latest Darkwallet news, what did you think about it ? http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/227lne/darkwallet_update/

[Scriptiee]

My darkcoin-qt wallet is stuck on a block 3 days ago and is refusing to update past there. I have tried deleting the blockchain and re-downloading it but it didn't work. I believe I have the latest wallet 0.9.1.2

Any help is much appreciated, thanks.

download the latest wallet and install again, remember to backup your wallet.dat

[dime]

darksend.it now includes support for QR codes in the terminal. I'm too busy (or lazy) to implement this into the webpage, so for now, it's something the command line people get first.

[hyeoam]

Charts here: http://crypto-prices.com/DRK

[coins101]

Man we are having a hard time on the markets. Hey Evan have you seen the latest Darkwallet news, what did you think about it ? http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/227lne/darkwallet_update/

looked at a few days ago

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg6119570#msg6119570

[TanteStefana]

I know I already asked this before but I didn't have a chance to investigate further. I am trying to get my old wallet (xcoin) to sync so I can transfer my balance to new DarkCoin wallet

all you *should*  have to do is drop your old wallet.dat file into the new Darkcoin wallet's .darkcoin folder (normally hidden in /home file in Ubuntu) or it's the darkcoin folder in /User/yourusername/AppData/Roaming/darkcoin in windows Vista, 7 and 8

*remove the old (newer) wallet.dat file first, don't merge. Just in case.*

If that doesn't work, something might be wrong with your old xcoin wallet.dat (which should be completely interchangeable with a darkcoind wallet.dat)

Interchangeable?

yes, your wallet.dat is the heart of your account.  It is all you need to recreate your wallet.  Just get a working wallet up and running, then go into the darkcoin folder (not the one where your executable is, but the one that holds the blockchain etc...)  Delete the wallet.dat file in there (unless it's important, then save it somewhere else) and put in your old xcoin wallet.dat file.  Do this without the wallet running, it must be closed.  Then restart your wallet and your old xcoin/darkcoin should appear.

Note: if you used the File > Backup Wallet function, you may have named your wallet.dat something like Xcoin.dat.  You will need to rename it wallet.dat if that is the case.

Also, never try to save/backup your wallet.dat file by copying it from the darkcoin folder while the wallet is running.  It will be corrupted (but won't show anything)  If you want to save while the wallet is running, always use the File>Backup Wallet function.

[TanteStefana]

Quoted from the other thread:
"DarkSend is in Beta V6 and will be moving to RC1."

What is RC1?

Thx!

Release Candidate, but it will still be closed source.  It will be the main wallet though, yet it will be tested for stability and any other issues.  It should be safe to use, though, at that point.

[coins101]

Quoted from the other thread:
"DarkSend is in Beta V6 and will be moving to RC1."

What is RC1?

Thx!

Release Candidate, but it will still be closed source.  It will be the main wallet though, yet it will be tested for stability and any other issues.  It should be safe to use, though, at that point.

I like my response better. 

[TanteStefana]

I also hope is a great silver



A great future to us

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but this is no silver to bitcoin's gold.  no.  It's Platinum and a bit of fine diamonds in there.

[TanteStefana]

The price of bitcoin may get a little hairy soon.

The closer we get to 15 April when China exchanges are rumoured to be prevented from using their own corporate bank accounts for BTC and alt-coin to fiat conversions, the wilder things will get.

Official confirmation to the contrary may stop the run on Bitcoin and Litecoin. And it is feasible that the bulk of selling has largely taken place.

If anyone gets the urge to sell some DRK for fiat if bitcoin takes a nose dive. PM me. I might be interested, at the right price.

On the other hand, if nothing changes, Bitcoin should do well

[TanteStefana]

I like my response better.  

I'm sure it was better, but I'm doing my morning spamming, LOL

Wow, all caught up!!!

[anonymousxx1503]

Man we are having a hard time on the markets. Hey Evan have you seen the latest Darkwallet news, what did you think about it ? http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/227lne/darkwallet_update/

looked at a few days ago

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg6119570#msg6119570

Man I'm having trouble reading every post in here and on darkcointalk too! I'll tweet about this response @darkcoinnews ! Thanks coins

[coins101]

Man we are having a hard time on the markets. Hey Evan have you seen the latest Darkwallet news, what did you think about it ? http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/227lne/darkwallet_update/

looked at a few days ago

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg6119570#msg6119570

Man I'm having trouble reading every post in here and on darkcointalk too! I'll tweet about this response @darkcoinnews ! Thanks coins

You can tweet this too:

Dogecoin considering x11

http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/22llsb/scrypt_is_outdated_x11_is_the_current_best/

Next it will be merge mine with Darkcoin and Dogecoin.

That would really create a black doge.

[mattmct]

As it is, if one node is compromised or malicious, what stops it from hosing up darksend? Sure, that TX will fall out of the memory pool and eventually be not a sent transaction according to my client, but how about something that actively avoids the incident? Why shouldn't all clients hosting the full chain also be darksend nodes? For that matter, why is darksend optional? Why aren't all sends done in that manner automatically? Input volume, yes...

The idea of masternodes is to create a very expensive network similar to mining, where users invest money to make money. If you decide to be malicious, the only power you have is to not allow transactions for that 2.5 minutes, in which case you forfeit the money the network will pay you.

If all nodes were able to do it, the network would be vulnerable to sybil attacks. See my conversation with Anonymint.

The network is still vulnerable to sybil attacks with expensive nodes, but only by wealthy entities, and they would have to invest heavily in darkcoin to be able to do so, which would have the effect of strengthening the coin. I crunched some of the numbers, and you'd need a LOT of sybil nodes (50%+) to be able to snoop on a significant number of DS transactions where multiple mixing stages are employed. Which might be potentially feasible for a very motivated large organisation, but can be mitigated by specifying a high number of mixing stages (5-20).

Also, as the above poster pointed out, DOS on master nodes may be a problem. E.g. if an attacker DOS'd all the genuine master nodes successfully (which is unlikely, but this is hypothetical), only their own sybil nodes would remain, meaning anonymity is gone for that period. One way to mitigate this might be to have some network health indicators in the client. E.g. monitor the number of alive master nodes over time, and if it drops dramatically, have a little amber warning light on the send page to communicate that darksend transactions may be less secure. Or a graph of alive master nodes over time might be even better.

I'm some what worried about the potential of DDOS attacks on the master nodes.  DarkSend would be some what of a joke if no coins were being sent or huge delays, or interpuptions from DDOS attacks.

I wrote this yesterday, but it seemed to get looked over.

Should there be some kind of Masternode basic requirements?  One for sure being DDOS protection.

I'm worried that people could just forward the port on their home router, direct to their windows laptop and run a master node.  I'm tempted to do so....  But feel I should do it "right" purchase a new server, with DDOS protection, firewall it, and secure it as much as I can.

I'm worried many will take the easy option, which could lead to a number of DDOS vulnerable masternodes, or they could turn the laptop off lol.

My unix rig is on 24/7, and could be a master node, but my home DSL certainly isn't DDOS protected, I have WRT custom firmware, firewall etc, but feel a master node deserves a proper VPS / server with DDOS protection etc.

Thoughts?