This has caused something of stir that I wasn't expecting. I've quite a few PMs asking when this will be put in place

But thinking about it, the issue of the Darkcoin foundation and the Master Nodes is worth considering, IMO.

There were several people who, quite rightly, raised some concerns about DRK the currency, vs. DRK the platform for making money off other services.

Lets face it, platform or no platform Master Nodes are now central to DRK's future success. Their operations can't be impacted too much by a foundation - they are supposed to be the unknown and independent agents of DRK (there is a film there somewhere). They can't join the foundation on mass and declare they have Master Nodes.

The Bitcoin foundation has caused some rifts within the Bitcoin community. But so what? Bitcoin is code. Bitcoin Foundation is talk. Talk is cheap, Bitcoin code isn't.

The real value of a foundation is to put out the correct information, engage to correct any misinformation and to be an advocate.

Master Nodes are now a union. If they do or don't like something they can vote by switching off or increasing in number; that is an indication of whether policies are right or not.

This goes for DRK as a currency too.  

A few thousand pages back there was a discussion about launching a clone of DRK to reduce the impact of other clones. The price of DRK went down, the idea was quickly scrapped (since then we've had every man and his dog launching an anon coin).

This is a lengthy way of saying - I was joking. I am not starting a MN foundation.

But, I still think we should launch a Web 3.0 service for MNs and have all adult content on it. The media and governments would love it. No more accidental images for children to see. Access controls for adult content. Search engines forced to pay MNs to crawl the network and a percentage of revenue to put up their adWords (fuck me we could make a killing just off that bit).

MN operators would become millionaires overnight from the domain name sales, the hosting by adult content providers, the cut on revenue from those that would promote on the network. It would be a free service to users, but not free to those that make money on it.

I think the media would get behind this and they would force politicians to draft laws to force content providers to move to Web 3.0 - the over 18s internet.

The Make Master Nodes Rich Act 2015

This time next year, we'll be rich, I tell you, rich, rich, rich.