Gentleman, one of the creators of Bitcoin has just tripped up and shined his very bright PR light in Darkcoin's direction.
@eduffield: you must respond!

DRK drops again   no buy wall

It was a retweet, not Gavin Andresens actual words, I didn't mean to confuse, it links to an article by someone else. Anyway all is still not good, I benched marked the new btc wallet, and yes it did 3 days update in 5 minutes on a solid state drive 4.4 gigahertz 8 thread xeon which was impressive but timings on old dual core 1.8 gigahertz with HDD was very very slow, the CPU is at 100% all the time, even verifying the blocks only took 13 minutes!. The block size is too big for HDD drive speeds I think. Try it yourself and compare. Gavin Andresen may have a super fast raided SSD computer with 1 gig connection but the other ?half of the world is still on old HDD computers with slow connections, plus many HDD laptops that are difficult to upgrade.
I am still bench marking ...

20k at .012222? *shrug*

I can't see any significant dumping.  Weird.

No, you never import your private key containing the 1000 drk onto the vps. In doing so, you're running a hotnode. You can safely manage a hotnode, but you better make sure your passphrase is solid and security is appropriate to prevent unwanted users from gaining access to your wallet file on breach. You could use bash variables for importing keys if you so desired to go that route and also were cognoscente on clearing bash history to further be on the safe side.

Personally, I'll stick with the cold-remote setup.

If you're using tao's guide you have nothing to worry about on the vps side. Even if someone was able to see your input it doesn't reveal anything that can be used to get at your coins.

That 'tweet' (ugh, I feel my IQ slipping 50 points just typing that word) was hilarious. The idiot was actually boasting about how many terawatts of wasted energy goes into confirming BTC's 'quasi-optimal'   - I assume he means, 'glacially fucking slow' - transactions as BTC miners all thrash away on the same few pools. Not that Darkcoin is any better in that respect, but hey, Darkcoin's mempool IX's courtesy of Masternodes are already far more secure than BTC's centralised ASIC PoW will ever be.

All that's needed for Darkcoin to be taken seriously security-wise is moving to pure Proof of Service.  

Imagine blockchain security being wholly the preserve of a random 20 blinded Masternodes each block... as secure from meddling as Darksend is going to be secure from transaction snooping.

New on DarkBlogs:

Getting under their skin... (by Tao Of Satoshi)

https://www.rebelmouse.com/Get_Into_The_Dark/getting-under-their-skin-1027412685.html

Cheers,

Tao

Thanks! Fixed.