With enforcement enabled, it doesn't matter at all where your Masternode is located. All nodes get equal payments, no node is paid twice before all are paid once.

So take off the vultr reference from your guide for dummies to kill a possible FUD vector. There are plenties of good vps providers out there.

Yep, first time to use BTer since April last year, sent 100 BTC there yesterday, sold to CNY and put wall on DRKCNY, at least my funds aren't in BTC & that's all that I had on there, putting walls up on exchanges doesn't come risk free



In other news 2,341 DRK got bought from my wall on Finex DRKUSD @ $2.50 & the wall was neither pulled nor lowered, same as all the other ones, so the couple of people apparently so sure that they would be have been are proved wrong, thanks for the coins!

Well, first of all it says "active" not "full". Now look at that:

DRK	2272 Darkcoin active nodes.	https://bitinfocharts.com/darkcoin/nodes-active/
LTC	1343 Litecoin active nodes.	https://bitinfocharts.com/litecoin/nodes-active/
NMC	301 Namecoin active nodes.	https://bitinfocharts.com/namecoin/nodes-active/
PPC	255 PPcoin active nodes.	https://bitinfocharts.com/ppcoin/nodes-active/

Not too bad hah? 

Litecoin use checkpoints as well...there's nothing wrong with that, it's just an additional securing mechanism.
The network does not break with or without them.

Hope you're ok , Otoh, and are lucky to have changed to Yuan. I have a few darkcoin there but no btc at all.

Glorious to see, UdjinM6, am thinking how the network topology is described, as there are 2 types of network so this is a hybrid system, are the masternode's a fully connected mesh topology hybridized with a peer to peer partly connected mesh networking system of the standard blockchain type. A hybrid system supersedes a single networking layer,best of both worlds I would have thought. Am I seeing the networking layers correctly?

Masternode (MN) network is not fully connected if you mean by that that each MN should be connected to each another one. It's not like that and there is no reason for that actually as it wouldn't let MN network to scale. MN network is a huge group of the most stable peers on the network and that serves well for the purposes they were made for.

That's ok, it's a French word, we don't have to spell them correctly   LOL