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Quote from: Jazz4u on July 03, 2017, 07:38:48 AM

Dev's, I have read that PIVX broadcasts user ips and masternodes also retain a log of all users ip addresses. is this true ?

no

it is not true

Sorry but I think it's wrong. The Wallet broadcasts your ips to others to find peers. How otherwise would they find you? It's kept in the peers.dat file.

To mitigate this you can use tor. you just need to download torbrowser from www.torproject.org and go to your pivx wallet in the network tab and select Connect through SOCKS5 and change the port to 9150.

For your masternode you can create a tor hidden service (.onion address). There are many guides.

Quote from: Its About Sharing on July 05, 2017, 06:29:17 PM

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Quote from: SweetHodler on June 28, 2017, 02:21:17 PM

Hello fellow pivians,

I hold 370 pivx for quiet some time and I am wondering, can i stake my pivx in any way for some pivx rewards? I am pretty newb about this so go easy on me. Grin

I stake with 400 coins and get about 3 blocks per month.

The staking calculator shows that I should get one block per month, but because not everyone is staking their PIVX and therefore with a lower difficulty you can find blocks more often Wink

It sounds more like mining the way you describe it. Is that really what staking involves, "getting blocks"? I thought it was more a mathematical (not chance) based reward system.
Can someone jump in here?

afaik there is also some luck involved with staking. but i'm just a noder, maybe a stake pro can give a better answer Wink

LOL, and for some reason, your "I'm just a noder" went through my head as "I'm a hip hop soldier". (LL Cool J! lol)
Anyway, I find it interesting how regular the payouts are (as long as I have a good connection). I won't crap on other coins, but another privacy stake coin I played with had so many false "stakes", most of them actually. A bit frustrating.

I'm curious to see how Pivx pans out. I know we all look at our coins in that way, quite often anyway, but PIVX is like a better Dash, in many many ways. More so than Litecoin is to Bitcoin. But speaking of which, BTC's price of 2590 vs. LTC's price of 50, is a 52:1 ratio (More psychological imo). Their market caps are 42.7 Bill vs 2.7 Bill respectively, a 16 to 1 ratio. (Yeah, different supplies, ages, float, etc. but a nice comparison for comparisons sake. Go further taking supply into account if you wish). Dash's price is 200 vs PIVX's 2.60, a 77:1 ratio (Big difference). But their market caps are 1.5 Billion to 140 Mill, respectively, which is a an 11:1 ratio (Much closer). 7.5 million vs 53 million supply though! (Dash being lower)

Thanks for the analysis! it's a yuge difference as you explained.

Concerning staking you should read both whitepapers in the OP https://www.dropbox.com/s/jojqo5rmaxy45ex/Blackcoin%20POS%203.pdf and http://blackcoin.co/blackcoin-pos-protocol-v2-whitepaper.pdf to better understand it.

In short it's this :

proofhash < coins ·target

proofhash being awared the block PoS reward.

Quote from: resinball on July 09, 2017, 12:37:05 PM

so i got a cool 1000 PIVX and i've been staking and haven't received a stake. i'm keeping my PIVX. but what i find kinda unfair is that those bigger bags that get rewarded and after 100 confirms jump right back into even playing field with my 1000 attempting to catch my first stake. coinage used to actually give smaller bags a chance to stake but now i feel even more out of the squeeze to stake... any insight? there maybe more to this technology that give me a better possibility to stake with my smaller bag?

From the white papers :

The Block Reward in most Proof of Stake systems is unfortunately based on Coin Age. In
theory, this is to distribute interest fairly by allowing nodes to receive latent payments
due. It is an attempt to keep a common APR. However, this system does not work
because nodes can stay disconnected and with many split inputs, reconnect to the network
and game the reward system. Also, it does not give nodes any incentive to stay connected.
In a decentralized system, the more nodes connected the better the security since it shifts
trust from a single entity to the network itself.

You can always check http://cryptocoin.cc/table.php?cryptocoin=Pivx to have an idea about your staking. However like a previous poster said, not everyone is staking... so it's highly realistic to expect improved odds.

But with 1k you aren't that bad, it's true there are big stakers like someone with over 36k however there are smaller stakes that get blocks. I saw a 10 pivx stakes got a block recently ! Furthermore the average is a little over 2500 pivx. Tell us how it goes. But as you say the most important is reliability of your system.

Quote from: Master mind on July 09, 2017, 08:12:27 AM

Any news from dev?
Thanks

Try to check the forum or the slack were most of the action happens. There is the github too to see it "live". Btw did you know the Zerocoin Protocol has been tested a few weeks back...

you can check https://pivx.org/news/ or follow jackyman on twitter.

Quote from: pwpwpw on July 08, 2017, 02:11:37 AM

Linux wallet closes about twice a day, asked in slack chat and it seems to be a known bug, hope devs know it too. Is there any way to ask pivx-cli to prompt for a password (when unlocking for staking) instead of typing it into the terminal without censoring (***) ?

What distro and kernel are you using? May I guess a linuxmint flavor with GUI? Since switching to debian and command line (pivxd and cli), it has been constant uptime. Btw I guess that some devs use debian...

Then for your command line history : https://www.ostechnix.com/how-to-clear-command-line-history-in-linux/

or you erase it all : history -c (total erase) or simply but a space before the command you typed to remove this one only.

Quote from: DRPD on July 07, 2017, 02:29:37 PM

i guess we are near (or allready over) ath for mnodes

2212 atm

go pivx go & happy noding/staking all

Thanks, same to you !