Is this a surprise?

As suspected.

As suspected.


All common sense... It worries me that a rote list is being handed out. These are things a person should know if they're going to support the network...

If a person doesn't know this much already, they have no business running any server on the internet, much less a masternode. Following some rote guide line by line will only give them a false sense of security and no ability to handle the future.

Frankly, I'd prefer all ports but 9999 and TOR Listen be secured by port knocking. Re-direct all externally accessible services through TOR so that they only listen to localhost and no known .onion exists for those services to anyone but yourself. Since TOR uses renzdezvous points, the TOR port being open grants them access to none of the services passing through it, and no idea what the traffic is, where it goes, what it's for, etc... They can't protscan a port that doesn't exist. SOCKS5 stream for the win. Using TOR for this has massive advantages completely removed from it's anonymity/encryption/obfuscation functions.

I re-route all my SSH through TOR. SSHD doesn't even listen to the NIC, localhost only. Also, the entire SSHD service is port knocked to trigger "service sshd start" on top of not even listening to the NIC... Run knock sequence then ssh through socat .onion... Nobody even knows it's there... Nobody knows the address but me. Logs can't even give me away since I'm coming in through tor... If only DPR had used his head... ;-)


Pain is an excellent teacher. A smart man learns from his mistakes. A wise man learns from the mistakes of others. If you don't know what you're doing; don't!

It's sad and all, but I'm not sending him any welfare. I want him to learn. Let it hurt... Call me a meany poopie face if you want, but this was super extreme stupid. No excuse at all. If you don't know what youo're doing; don't. There is no guide that can teach you common sense. You MUST understand. There is no substitute.

You read my guide? I didn't know you were a dummy...

and then write a 5 sentence guide of my own... ;-)

I've been reading your and Tao's guides over and over again for days... I have not figured out even one damn thing for setting up a masternode. I cannot understand even one sentence from either of your guides, and I've been using Linux since before there was Gentoo...

I'm glad it helps some people get nodes up, but it hasn't spread any understanding, and I won't be running any MNs blindly without an explanation. I do not just follow steps. Ever. Period. Not a snowball's chance in hell.

Looking forward to 16.10.1 and a masternode.conf explanation...

I'm sorry, it's also a bit old now.  GhostPlayer does a great job as I understand it, explaining.  Maybe he should walk ya through it?  I'm just using amazon, so it's super easy to protect, as the iptables are automatic.  Just try to do basic ddos, and that's it.  But I'd do that, why shouldn't you put your coins to work?  

"Don't be an idiot and you'll be just fine"

It's not a matter of risk. I can't understand them. The guides make no sense. Not a single sentence is comprehensible. I've re-read them all dozens of times and I know nothing more than I did before I heard the word "masternode."

I'm not wasting any more time on it. I've got shit to do.

VULTR instances destroyed. Maybe I'll revisit this when there is some documentation I can read. For now, it's just chaotic and blind copy/paste with no explanations. I don't do that.

I might give this one a try tomorrow. I wish I could find one that just gets to the point and explains it... Tante's has been the most useful, so far, but I'm just going to have to set aside all other projects and sift them for the facts and remove all the jibber jabber. So much blah blah blah, zero explanation, occasional blind "copy this command" with nothing at all about why or what it does... I get the feeling the people writing the guides don't understand it themselves, which is why there is no explanation. No hostility intended, I do feel it's irresponsible to run a web-connected server having no clue how it works... But greed drives people to copy/paste and really all I'm seeing is a very, very verbose copy/paste outline... I don't do that. I understand, then I don't need to know any "steps" at all. I just do it because it makes sense.

One thing that I seem to be learning... It doesn't matter if the "masternode genkey" is run from the local or the remote, so long as the same key is in both .conf files... flare says do it remote, tante says do it local... I still haven't figured out what tao says, it's like his guide is written in Japanese, I almost never have any idea what he's talking about...

Maybe it's stupid question but.. why some blocks still have "tx_0_vout_1" instead of mn payment? This one for ex.: http://explorer.darkcoin.io/block/000000000018e7b526906ff3ec8780ffc9875d1ec3b27f7a3ba2481719877968. I thought such blocks must be completely invalid after previous enforcement. Surely we have more than 51% on RC5 or higher.