Where is XC now !??
Who cares let's get back to talking about DRK..
So we all update our clients, masternode payments start, once everything is rock solid we update again with full voting rules? Am I understanding correctly?
ie. Masternode payments will start soon without the danger of a failed fork?
Correct. Mastenodes will be paid. However this time rather than have the network actually reject blocks, all blocks will be accepted and the blocks that the network thinks should be rejected will be recorded in the debug log. By checking the log over the course of some time, the devs can determine if any blocks are being inappropriately rejected (this was the cause of all the forking issues) and these bugs can be fixed without stopping payments.
Once all is well in the debug log DRK can then be safely hardforked to allow bad blocks to actually be rejected.