[ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency

[eltito]

Please post all official news to twitter, im tired of scrolling through so many pages of non relevant stuff.

yup, this is what im talking about

+1, any improvement in the coordination of official communication towards all stakeholders would be highly appreciated and can fairly easily be addressed.
>> Trading: Exchanges (should be informed beforehand about risk - was this done?)
>> Masternode operations: masternode owners (perhaps go to the specific #irc channel for updates from Evan?)
>> Mining operations: DRK pool owners & miners (let no-one forget how important the miners & pools are to DRK ! )
>> End users of the wallet (customers) who need to update

Waiting for an update on darkcointalk.org, scrolling through btct, the #irc channels is not efficient nor effective.
We need a "who is who" in the DARK "crowd sourced company" and a well defined communication process.
This is especially important during transition phases, as clearly shown.

Contingency planning when something goes wrong when the software is deployed was also missing.

Nonetheless, community pulled together and got things done once more! Quite amazing and didn't take much time imho.

Let's improve this process however for anyone involved.

Thanks,

Agreed, my points, for what they are worth:

1) Twitter CAN be the best "official" place to go.  There needs to be an official Darkcoin feed that has multiple Contributors.  Evan obviously being one.  Several other trusted individuals as well.
2) Wallet releases need to be numbered correctly, updated in this thread, on the main site, and in any other critical locations IMMEDIATELY.  EVERY time.  If there is something holding up one of the critical release locations, the release should be delayed everywhere, until the update is linkable everywhere.
3) Wallet update information needs to be pushed within the wallet.
4) Building a Twitter feed notification panel into the wallet would be great.  In the spirit of decentralization, it could be disabled or the feed address(es) could be changed.  It could be configured to read any RSS feed from anywhere, but default points to the Darkcoin Twitter feed.
5) Darkcoin is special because there are going to be multiple known hard forks, by design.  This isn't like most coins where the coin is released and all work on it stops, and hard forks are only a dreaded consequence of a big flaw.  Given this crucial feature, which IMO makes Darkcoin what it is more than anything else, it makes sense IMO to build some kind of "centralized" service that will alert users to problems, updates, etc. without them having to rely on searching forum threads and the like.
6) Communication with Important Community Members (exchanges, pool operators, known Masternode operators, etc.) is CRUCIAL and should be done WELL IN ADVANCE (like, a week at minimum).  If a large and important entity cannot be reached (e.g. Cryptsy, Mintpal) then any planned changes should be delayed until they are brought on board.  Exchanges and pool operators in particular will have to deal with angry customers, and they will point the finger straight at the Darkcoin development team.  Really the exchanges should have halted all deposits and withdrawals for a period until they made sure that the fork didn't cause any problems.  This is the kind of stuff that can bring down exchanges -- people depositing DRK knowing that the exchange is on the wrong fork, trading them for BTC, then withdrawing the BTC, then the exchange is out the BTC and the attacker kept the DRK because it was never sent on the right fork.

Darkcoin screwed up, big time.  It gets a free pass on this one -- chalk it up to a rookie mistake -- but next time, faith will have been lost.

Thank you all very much for your comments.  I have added these to the thread I created on this subject over on the darkcointalk Community Team sub-forum, naming each of you.  Please let me know if anyone has any objections to that.

https://darkcointalk.org/threads/todays-issues-and-future-handling-of-crises.893/#post-5475

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[Ozziecoin]

Buy Low
Sell High
and... Cash Out.

I took my eye off the ball and lost 18% of my trading assets. It shan't happen again. DarkCoin is not fit to be an investment vehicle... and it won't so long as the developers keep using it as an experimental platform.

DRK is an experimental platform.

Did someone just turn on the lights? heheh.

[Terzo]

Great fast actions from the Dev ! Hats down !

[Sleepyx]

Them walls



officially resurrected

[Rux]

What a morning, last night i was to bed with 0.016... wife was like YOU IDIOT YOU IDIOT YOU LOST MONEY...blablablalblablalblabalblblaba

this morning i showed her and i got my share of wealth hahaha 

[lohveh]

3rd Place, We are Back !!!

[aclass]

I bet now you are thinking ... You idiot, you should have bought more... At least that's what I'm thinking... But I run out of BTC

What a morning, last night i was to bed with 0.016... wife was like YOU IDIOT YOU IDIOT YOU LOST MONEY...blablablalblablalblabalblblaba

this morning i showed her and i got my share of wealth hahaha 

[rezurect]

Fork To Stop Masternode Payments

https://darkcointalk.org/threads/fork-to-stop-masternode-payments.883/

Kindly, Update version number.
I dint download it for a few hours thinking it was the old client.

[eltito]

Buy Low
Sell High
and... Cash Out.

I took my eye off the ball and lost 18% of my trading assets. It shan't happen again. DarkCoin is not fit to be an investment vehicle... and it won't so long as the developers keep using it as an experimental platform.

Darkcoin is in Release Candidate status.  Here is a definition of "Release Candidate" - I hope it helps .

http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/50384/release-candidate

[Rux]

I bet now you are thinking ... You idiot, you should have bought more... At least that's what I'm thinking... But I run out of BTC

What a morning, last night i was to bed with 0.016... wife was like YOU IDIOT YOU IDIOT YOU LOST MONEY...blablablalblablalblabalblblaba

this morning i showed her and i got my share of wealth hahaha 

same here i dont have any BTC i spent all @ 0.0168

now i will not sell until 0.03

[stealth923]

I bet now you are thinking ... You idiot, you should have bought more... At least that's what I'm thinking... But I run out of BTC

What a morning, last night i was to bed with 0.016... wife was like YOU IDIOT YOU IDIOT YOU LOST MONEY...blablablalblablalblabalblblaba

this morning i showed her and i got my share of wealth hahaha 

same here i dont have any BTC i spent all @ 0.0168

now i will not sell until 0.03

0.03 - is that all - Im waiting for 0.4-0.5

Think big

[eltito]

Community Team members please check in here when you have a moment.

[aclass]

By the time it goes that big it will no longer be related to BTC. Most likely to fiat.

I bet now you are thinking ... You idiot, you should have bought more... At least that's what I'm thinking... But I run out of BTC

What a morning, last night i was to bed with 0.016... wife was like YOU IDIOT YOU IDIOT YOU LOST MONEY...blablablalblablalblabalblblaba

this morning i showed her and i got my share of wealth hahaha 

same here i dont have any BTC i spent all @ 0.0168

now i will not sell until 0.03

0.03 - is that all - Im waiting for 0.4-0.5

Think big

[Sm00kew]

Can anyone please alert coinmarketcap to add DRK/CNY pair from BTER. It has already 500.000$ volume.

[Jackin Jill]

Them walls



officially resurrected

lulz

[anonymousxx1503]

Can anyone please alert coinmarketcap to add DRK/CNY pair from BTER. It has already 500.000$ volume.

https://twitter.com/darkcoinnews/status/471170777279397888

Just did, last two times I asked them to fix the new logo and add BTER DRK/BTC and they did it within hours.

[panlok]

Hello,

Where can I find the .11 version wallet for windows?
Can't found it in darkcoin.io

Thanks!

[lohveh]

Hello,

Where can I find the .11 version wallet for windows?
Can't found it in darkcoin.io

Thanks!

good version on darkcoin.io don't worry 

[HiddenDark]

Hello,

Where can I find the .11 version wallet for windows?
Can't found it in darkcoin.io

Thanks!

It's here https://www.darkcoin.io/getstarted.html

Ignore the "*** PLEASE UPDATE TO 0.4.8 OR 10.8.8 ***", it's wrong.

[qwizzie]

Untill a communication manager has been appointed or even discussed i suggest we use post 2 (Instacash's post)
to provide us with up to date information about whats happening with forks and provide links to all updated
wallet (Windows & MAC & Linux) downloads with mention of version numbers of these wallets, dates and pref direct
download links circumventing the download section where we are still confronted with old version numbers.
Post 1 is too out of date, its causing more questions then answers these days. We can ask Eddufield to link post 1 to post 2
for download information and actual news.  

Basicly this means delegating the wallet download part from developer to Instacash so the developer can focus solely on
fixing the masternode problems.

I have no idea if Instacash is willing to do this or if even someone was considering it .. but something needs to be done quickly
to provide actual up to date information about current status and which wallet version to download.


Thoughts ? suggestions ?


qwizzie