Re: [ANN][DRK] DarkCoin | First Anonymous Coin | No Premine | Hard Fork At 34140 (DGW)
I'd just like to know what they are, what they do, who hosts them? Are these ip's from wallets? Is that why I'm confused?
How are the 'addnode' s created? I don't get that part, LOL 
But I do see what you mean above, and understand, just still curious about the other
But I do see what you mean above, and understand, just still curious about the other Can you clarify what you mean?
Oh you know, those addnodes we put in our darkcoin folder?
addnode=54.80.16.112
addnode=23.23.186.131
addnode=50.16.206.102
addnode=50.19.116.123
addnode=98.165.130.67
addnode=54.242.50.205
addnode=50.17.98.53
addnode=54.225.43.37
Where do they come from? What do they actually do? Are they running some kind of software? Are they websites?
Sorry I didn't know what you meant, it seems obvious in hindsight. Right now those are centralized DarkSend master nodes. They are static and never change, pretty much the same as Blockchain.info's CoinJoin mixer. The code Evan is working on will not need those. That's where the hash of the previous block comes in to play.
To summarize: hash(block) -> some kind of mapping -> IP address. Every client will simultaneously run this computation and know that that particular client is the master node. It will be seamless to the end user. You won't have to add any nodes to your config.
Evan(definitely) and InternetApe(assumption) are hosting them.
I guess I still want to know how they are created/function and presumably what software they run
We host a few full nodes, there's just normal darkcoind.