I recently used some MN earnings to throw some coin at the Lisk IPO, which I would classify as a special situation. I'm a hodler and normally don't look for opportunities to sell. I agree the volume is still low compared to peers, but it has always been historically low. Something like a Bitfinex announcement could do wonders for improving Dash's volume.

When I said there weren't many places you could invest your holdings and get a return on them I was referring more to asset classes. But it's true you can always lend them out and get a return.

******** Massive Opportunity for Operators of Pooled Masternode Services *********

I've lost track of who's running polled masternode services, but I think a huge window has just opened for them.

There is now a whole new generation of bitcoin whales, sitting on big profits from the Ethereum revaluation. Those profits are not doing anything at all. They are earning zip return. Nada.

Dash has a reserve currency market that pays a return. It seems an open goal to me since there isn't anywhere else they can put their funds that gets them such a high a return - no banks, no money markets, no bonds. (There are some POS coins - but quite high risk. Dash is getting a lower risk investment with every year that passes, especially at the current price).

It's no different from what hedge funds do - they put some of their holdings in risk assets and some in fixed income. Even in the fixed income sector they diversify - some $US treasuries, some corporate bonds, a small amount of junk bonds, some Swiss bonds, whatever.

The Dash reserve market is one of those (fixed income) destinations in crypto - currently just about the only one. The fact that the 'pooled masternode' services allow people to invest any amount at all is immense.

I'd say it may be perfect timing for a massive promo campaign.

I wouldn't market it as a masternode service. In fact I wouldn't even bother mentioning the word 'masternnode' other than in the contract text declaring where the funds are invested. (Think of it like a pension fund that invests in fixed income bonds of different types. They don't bother their clients with the specifics of the actual assets, just with what the guaranteed return is).

 I'd market it simply as a financial product for cryptocurrencies. You could even do a bitcoin one if you can find a way to hedge the exchange risk.

It's hosted in the US, which proxy do you use ? You can also just use the Dwarfproxy and point it to the eth-apac node.

You're welcome.  Don't worry about paying me anything, though I appreciate the sentiment [unless you have 1000 gpus ] 

No you don't need it

Check out my post here   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1163395.msg13839592#msg13839592

Also your bat needs to look like this
ethminer -G -F http://127.0.0.1:8546/miner/Hashrate/RigName --parameter --parameter

You're forgetting the stuff after the port

Sorry what do you mean "mining behind a proxy"?  What happens when you type 127.0.0.1:8080 into your browser?  Try different browsers, some don't like that.

You're not using the proxy, you're going straight to the pool.  Since your miner is located on the same machine as the proxy it should be

ethminer --cl-local-work 256 --cl-global-work 8192 -G --opencl-platform 1 -F http://127.0.0.1:8546

Don't use the farm recheck

We can't tell if you're using the proxy or not unless you post your ethminer bat. 

According to this http://karldiab.com/EthereumMiningCalculator/ you're getting paid for 70-83 mh/s like the pool says.  Maybe try another one of suprnova's pools.  Ping them all to find the lowest latency.

You have configured a backup upstream server in your proxy config which you need to disable if you don't have "geth" running on your local machine (127.0.0.1)

Hi !

Sorry I just noticed there was an error on the Port 80, you can use

http://eth-us.suprnova.cc:80 for now, fix for the old 80-eth is underway and should be okay in a few hours.

@dygus:
I've asked rigs.online if you can use the proxy.. Did you try it already ?