Each protocol bump should kick everything else off the network, and thus be a fresh start.

This enforcement thing has been holding back development since May. The current mining architecture just isn't a good fit for what Darkcoin is trying to achieve.

I have proposed making mining via Masternodes mandatory many times, and just get called a 'Nazi' and a 'retarded fucking Jew' (by the same people... ) - the nearest I've had to a sensible argument against it is that pools need beefier hardware than Masternodes, but why not require pools to obtain compliance tokens from Masternodes first that are required for a block to be accepted?

There are lots of ways it could be done but nobody seems interested.

I am more and more coming to believe that PoW is a dead end. Centralised pools do not secure the network, they are a security liability. Nobody wants to talk about it. Mining costs do not translate into coin value. Nobody wants to admit it. For the last six months PoW has just held back development, it has done nothing whatsoever to add value.

Shifting block reward in favour of Proof of Service is a good move, but the timeframe is too long and it's meaningless if PoW can still fuck things up.

PoW has been a spanner in the works for half a year now, my fear is that it is also going to make InstanTX unworkable as well

Back in WIRED !!!

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/darkcoin-and-online-drug-dealers/

 

whow
now that is a conspiracy !!!

Back in WIRED !!!

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/darkcoin-and-online-drug-dealers/

 

...but why not require pools to obtain compliance tokens from Masternodes first that are required for a block to be accepted?

DRK 2.0 with clearinghouse is radical. with InstantTX as well - you could run anonymous corporations, anonymous poker, anonymous whatever asset you like. Link them up to OpenBazaar and you change the definitions of e-commerce. Proof of Service becomes proof that MN holders are billionaires in the making.

why not to use only the exchanges which are bot free?
bitfinex is one of them am I right?

Where's that beast Camosoul hiding these days ? I miss the hate, the cynicism and the intensity of his posts. I need my daily dose of australopithecus-like violence.

Twitter is blowing up on this WIRED darkcoin article. Amazing PR for darkcoin. Expecting this to create upward price pressure.