How could anyone do a fair assessment and conclude that DRK is a scam? You'd have to be brain damaged.

Also, you can just tell that these morons are the type to favor taxing the successful so as to subsidize their failure.

yep..

424 nodes and climbing.

Bitcoin is asking people to make donations to node operators, nothing wrong with that, but having nodes paid gives a strong incentive to get one and keep it active.

Does this reduce the payout to miners? Yes. That's a stupid question.

The question is about value. Does this reduce the value miners get? Well, no. Nodes are part of the anonymity layer. They can also do other things and get paid for their trouble.  All this gives value to Darkcoin, which keeps mining profitable over the longer-term.

Miners and Master Nodes are symbiotic. They create a self-reinforcing decentralised ecosystem.

They are being taken into consideration. The Spork is how we keep them from destroying the network. It becomes idiot-tolerant. I already explained this a few posts up and it makes perfect sense.

If you want to hand an idiot a tool as complex as this, it needs to be able to survive them having it. RC3's failures-to-launch are a direct result of it. The concept of merging two block issuance metrics was only half solved by the pre-existing PoW verification system. The MN Vote metric isn't idiot-proofed yet. The Spork gives us a way to monitor the idiots and thus create a resistance to them. Once that method of verification exists, there won't be wild forking anymore. No different than the PoW need to verify blocks or else anyone could publish any block they felt like... The MN Vote stack currently does allow many exploits, that's why it kept forking... It's never been done before. Watching the bad actors in the wild is the only way to see what verifications need to be done and how to prevent the bad actors. Most bad actors are not malicious "hackers" but merely stupid people. Thus, we return to the original point; if you're going to hand a tool to a stupid person, you have to make sure it can survive the things the stupid person will do to it. It's impossible for a smart person to predict everything a stupid person will do. Watching them do stupid things in the wild is often the only real tool a developer has. It's why I "people watch." I just plain do not understand the extreme mass stupidity of the human race. I have to go out and watch them destroy themselves from time to time just to see what the hell is going on... I have a brain, use it, and I jsut plain do not act the way so-called "normal" people do... So is the developer of software...

Being closed-source, for now, limits the potential for these bad actors during development. If it were already open-source, my gawd... It'd never get done.

OMGzzz the RC3 has fail, DRK is teh sucks!!! An odd dochotomy of non-reason... Without the volume of adoption DRK currently has, it would be impossible to figure out how this new block verification system would need to be crafted... These RC3 failures were not only inevitable, they were REQUIRED by entropy and fate. It's the only way a clear understanding of the problem would be seen. The problem could then be fixed. You can't create a verification system if you have no idea what you need to verify...

This isn't the end of DRK, it is the beginning. Only a "normal" person loses faith in the very moment when everything finally has a chance to go right... It's like wanting to drive your car to an island, and giving up the moment someone builds the bridge...

People selling post-spork are the dumbest people on Earth.

The price its going down a lot, why it´s that?

EDIT (6/28/2014)
New clients have been released and more changes have been made. Current versions are v9.11.5 and v10.11.5. It is important that all solo-miners and pool operators update to the correct clients! Miners make the network work, and as such you need to use the right client versions, stay up to date and keep our blockchain healthy and stable!

You can find the new client software on the official downloads page of www.Darkcoin.io.

https://www.darkcoin.io/getstarted.html

*** PLEASE UPDATE TO 9.11.5 OR 10.11.5 ***

Windows Users:
v9.11.5
v10.11.5

Linux Users:
Ubuntu v10.11.5 GUI Wallet/Client
Ubuntu v10.11.5 Darkcoind Daemon

Mac Users:
v9.11.5 Wallet/Client

https://darkcointalk.org/threads/please-update-your-darkcoin-clients.1602/

What's the difference between that and mining pools?  Some pools are larger than others.  In this case, with multiple mixings, the threat of anyone getting all the information of a mix requires far more than 51% of the network.  But with i2p, or whatever that's called, even that won't matter.

So you're afraid that so many people are using Amazon's services compromises the integrity of the network?  I honestly can't see the problem.  If the US Government moved to shut down all amazon services running masternodes tomorrow, it would take me exactly 10 minutes to put my masternode back up on my home computer with noip handling my dynamic ip address, or just use my dynamic ip address and change it when my service provider changes it, why not?

That's a false dichotomy or non sequitur or at the minimum false logic.

Just give me a better body and blond hair...better teeth and voice... um... yah, nicer hands would be nice. 
I'd be all for it then!  Stick my brain in one of 'em and enslave the rest, no problem!  LOL

Just give me a better body and blond hair...better teeth and voice... um... yah, nicer hands would be nice.  
I'd be all for it then!  Stick my brain in one of 'em and enslave the rest, no problem!  LOL