I'm not sure if anyone has already reposted this here, but it's Flare responding to Stonehenge's question on how MN payments work in RC3 on the RC4 issues thread on Darkcointalk. What's of interest is his suggestion that maybe a solution to the issues being experienced around payment is for MNs to get their payments via Proof of Service (PoSVC) mining on the held DRK rather than getting the 20% from the miners. Miners would continue on with PoW of course.
stonehedge said: ↑
I have a question. I ask here because it isn't easy to find the answer elsewhere.
How does the RC3 payment system work? How are masternodes being paid now? Totally randomly?
RC3 payment system was live for 1.5 month and was working 95% good all the time - and beside some network propagation problems, where in rare occasions the masternode list was different on certain miner nodes, we saw a good random distribution of payments.
Evan hoped to fix the network propagation issue by switching the payment system to a "Top 20 rank approach", but it seems this introduced more flaws, which led to
http://jira.darkcoin.qa/browse/DRK-33 and
http://jira.darkcoin.qa/browse/DRK-24So the rollback to RC3 payment system is very logical for me, as it worked most of the time.
As for me, i am still searching for a new approach to make the payments more network intrinsic - MNs should actually mine their coins by proof of service, not rely on good acting miners to share their mined coins.
If we can somehow create a model where miners (PoW) and masternodes (PoSVC) mine independently from eachother, we will even have a solution for further payments for "DarkTor" relays and exit nodes. The current approach (divide PoW reward) seems not flexible enough to achieve this.
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http://jira.darkcoin.qaflare, Yesterday at 10:35 PM Report#257LikeReply
Perhaps this is a better solution towards fixing all the angst around enforcement? Yes, no?