I am fine with affiliate links... when I have them ready we can start using them in tutorials or on the forum,
just never spam people, only use it when it makes sense to offer the service.

(Using affiliate links about servers in a tutorial that explains setup of spreadcoin nodes makes sense.)

I will research this over the next few weeks and start official affiliate partnerships with allkinds of service providers (in Europe and US)
I can then make monthly reports about the devfund.

This sounds like a good first step to start a devfund by having a source of income thru affiliate partnerships.


I'd rather we repeat what Darkcoin did with Kristov Atlas. (when they raised 1000 DRK for his review),
instead of "employing" someone.

Interested people should approach us on their own (because they like our project, not because we are going to pay them),
and if they are going to make extensive technical reviews, we should start a donation based crowd funding as happened with Kristov Atlas.
(plus what will come out of the devfund).

Just one small observation if I may.  I'm sure many people spotted it from outside the community but nobody within the DRK community voiced concerns about this at the time.

I think it is important that if we raise donations for somebody to do technical/code/security reviews then MUST make sure that we don't donate to them in Spreadcoins.  BTC or FIAT should be the only options.

I have total trust in Kristov's integrity and acknowledge that he devoted a lot of time for not very much recompense to his Darkcoin review but the fact he was receiving donations in DRK left him open to challenges on his impartiality.  Credit where credit is due, he picked enough holes in Darkcoin at the time that this was never seen as an issue 

i have also slowly but surely increased my spr holdings.. especially at the current level.

on a side note, i think its time to debate on upgrading our sources to core.. the question is should we base it on bitcoin core, litecoin core or darkcoin core, that is the question... i will start the process when we have figured out which path to walk...

CHAOSiTEC

My gut feeling (as a non developer) is that Bitcoin core is the only way to go for now.

Big thanks to Xojex for his help with a full node user guide.  It will shortly be published (with screenshots) on the SPR forum and also in the new Github when it arrives.

Step-By-Step: Creating a Spreadcoin Node

http://spreadcointalk.org/index.php?topic=710.0

Perfect!  Thank you

If you didn't mind having a the QT open I assume its as easy as just creating the conf file and running the QT!  Not sure about running the daemon under windows, have never tried with any coin before.

Very well done contribution!

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