Weekly Ann : 13/09/2020
It's been a pretty good week for MASC with no errors reported, but sadly one of the new coins seems to have exited (Thanks to Bullau for catching this). There may be a takeover and the coin could keep running, but we will have to see what happens. Sadly it does mean that 60+ nodes have been taken down.
I figure this bit of information may be useful to you all going forward so here's the income for MASC this week:
22300 PRX /  $6.91 (US).
As you can see, MASC isn't making a ton of money and it's not absorbing PRX from the marketplace as much as we need it to.
If you host masternodes with other providers and they're costing you cash/btc/ltc etc, please talk to me and we'll organise a move over.
If you're not happy with the service, talk to me and we'll make it better.
In addition to this, PRX has 818 MNs online at the moment and I've today decided to ping them all for fun!
563 of these IPs don't reply to pings (Including the ipv6 nodes at MASC) and this got me thinking......
Perhaps the best way to stop phantoms is to enforce the listen switch on masternodes. If a MN doesn't listen, we could then flag it as a phantom and then send out a "Ban" command. This would get the phantoms cut off and hopefully bring nodes back to MASC and promote paid MNs again (or take these nodes offline so that only people investing in PRX will get the rewards and benefits).
Feel free to discuss in <#511669038657568779> but I think this will be a workable solution going forward, just need some preparation and announcements before it happens to give everyone a few days to migrate any phantoms to real nodes.
On top of that, I'm going to make a list of the wallet addresses of each of the IP's that don't ping and if needs be, we can ban these addresses.
Been an intereing day to theorise solutions!
Have a great weekend @everyone !
#WeBuildToSucceed
SizzlePhizzle