Any idea what could be crowdfunded next?
Mandatory use of p2pool. Darkcoin is not currently a decentralised currency, neither are most PoW coins.
Pin number or passphrase required before the wallet displays your balance and transaction history to any passing vagabond.
I like that idea. here was my proposal back in April, didnt get much attention though... trolljaxs can choke on this.
https://darkcointalk.org/threads/masternode-donation-to-p2pool.326/I'm not against the idea of incentivising p2pool use financially somehow, it would help, but making it mandatory somehow at a protocol level would be better.
Existing centralised pool owners could run p2pool nodes instead, use the same hardware, make the same percentage, just run different software that actually helped secure the blockchain instead of doing the opposite.
Not sure if it should be mandatory to use p2pool, more a case of educating the masses. I have only ever used p2pool with my crypto mining, if the coin isn't p2pool friendly, I won't mine it. Unfortunately, p2pool has outgrown python & it's crying out to be written in a faster, multithreaded code (C/++?) - the p2pool dev hasn't done much to it for the last year tbh - but hopefully it will just be a matter of time before someone has the time/incentive to do it.
Truly decentralized mining is imperative for a truly decentralised currency - p2pool is the
only software that can achieve this - they are, literally, made for each other.....
Python does multithreading just fine, but if bits of it need to be optimised in C then that's fine by me.
I think it's something worthwhile, and fundamental, for The Foundation or crowdfunding efforts to tackle, and certainly more important than giving the qt wallet a paintjob, although no reason both can't be accomplished in parallel.
I don't think educating the masses is going to work, given that by and large they are, let's be honest, a bunch of lazy fucks who don't care.
Have Masternodes verify p2pool nodes via privkeys, same as they verify each other, accept blocks from verified p2pool nodes only, and reject everything else. We'd actually have the decentralised currency we've been falsely claiming to have. Another first for Darkcoin: the only usefully decentralised PoW currency.
