I know that this post has been dormant for a long time but I keep seeing references to the Wiki List of Prefixes but I can't find anywhere that actually spells out why "b1" = {0x13,0x25}.  From the table on that page I can see that 'b' corresponds to a decimal value of 84 or 85 and '1' has a decimal value of 0.  How does that become {0x13,0x25}?

Crown, for example, start with CRW and uses (0x01)(0x75)(0x07) in their chainparams to describe this I just can't figure out why the following is true:

C = (0x01)
R = (0x75)
W = (0x07)

I am very happy to see our announcement.  Lots of work went into getting it ready for public consumption and we are eager to receive feedback about your experience with it.

If you are a developer for one of our currently supported coins,  Helium, Audax, MUE, Phore, or PIVX, please let us know and we'd be happy to provide you with a demo key so you can take our deployment service for a test drive.  One of our biggest considerations when developing this was to simplify masternode setup and installation so your community members could run their masternodes without having to turn over control of their coins to a third party.

If you are a developer of another masternode coin and you would like to see your coin supported, please contact us and we can see if we can make it happen for you.

It was good of you to notice that, because you're right, the port does need to be opened for the masternode to work.  If you are using AKcryptoGUY's Vultr guide on Youtube then Nodemaster's VPS script will take care of setting up the firewall rules for you.  That's why you don't see it manually opened during the UFW setup step.  After you run the VPS script, you can check it with 'sudo ufw status' and you'll see that the appropriate port has been opened.  There's also a very active community on Discord that can help you if you run into any troubles.

This makes it look like you sent more than the 1000 required HLM.  For a masternode you must send exactly 1000 HLM, not more, not less.  I'd recommend that you create a new masternode alias and send exactly 1000 to the new address.  Then check your masternode outputs again and you should see the transaction ID.

To your other question, there's usually a lot of very helpful people hanging around the support and masternode channels on Slack who would help you get it going.

In that case it might seem weird but be worth trying.  I did encounter a can not parse error the first time I set up my masternode.conf file on a Mac because the default text editor had introduced some weird formatting which caused it to not read the file correctly.  I had to clean up the text with a text cleaner and then paste it back into the file to clear the error.  I used http://www.textcleanr.com/ this site to do it and it solved my problem.  It might be worth a try.

Actually these links are for updated installation guides that I just released this evening.  Hopefully this sorts out a lot of your questions.  I already posted it in the new ANN thread but I wanted to get it here in case some of you aren't watching the other one yet.

I am very pleased to release a new start-to-finish masternode installation guide for Vultr.  This installation method allows you to install multiple Helium masternodes on the same VPS by using IPv6.  The written guides are very helpful for a lot of people, but for others they find it easiest to watch someone else go through the steps so if you happen to be one of the latter, I believe you'll find this very helpful.

You can watch the video on Youtube at https://youtu.be/mj1FyN6Wauk

There is also a written guide which you can review on Medium that contains some more pictures and allows you to copy and paste some of the scripts and commands that are used in the video.  https://medium.com/@AKcryptoGUY/securely-install-multiple-helium-masternodes-3ee2e995a5e0

I wanted to get this posted here because I already posted it in the Slack.

I am very pleased to release a new start-to-finish masternode installation guide for Vultr.  This installation method allows you to install multiple Helium masternodes on the same VPS by using IPv6.  The written guides are very helpful for a lot of people, but for others they find it easiest to watch someone else go through the steps so if you happen to be one of the latter, I believe you'll find this very helpful.

You can watch the video on Youtube at  https://youtu.be/mj1FyN6Wauk

There is also a written guide which you can review on Medium that contains some more pictures and allows you to copy and paste some of the scripts and commands that are used in the video.  https://medium.com/@AKcryptoGUY/securely-install-multiple-helium-masternodes-3ee2e995a5e0

Yeah that's probably the problem.  You can't just skip steps.  You need to use getaccountaddress in the debug console.

I show you how to do it all right here: https://youtu.be/XOgi2Fkrn08

When you create your masternode, you enter a command "getaccountaddress MN1" (or you replace MN1 with anything you want, call yours DERP1 if you want to).  That getaccountaddress command gives you the address you send your collateral to, but it also tells your wallet the name of your masternode.  That is how you name your masternode.  Then the masternode.conf file references that same name.  Your masternode.conf file will then have a line that says "MN1 129.125.72.152:9009 YOURPRIVATEKEY MASTERNODEOUTPUT TXID" only those last three variables are replaced by whatever your values are.  That's it.  You might be making it harder than it actually needs to be.

No, that's an entirely different project.  The official website that this ANN refers to is https://heliumchain.org/

There are lots of good guides on Helium's web site about how to setup masternodes and I made several videos of the setup process as well. 

Installing Masternodes with Nodemaster
https://www.heliumlabs.org/v1.0/docs/installing-masternodes-with-nodemaster

How to be your own VPS provider
https://www.heliumlabs.org/v1.0/docs/how-to-be-your-own-vps-provider

Masternode setup guide (VPS)
https://www.heliumlabs.org/v1.0/docs/masternode-setup-guide

Has anyone put together a guide on how to get an XP masternode up and running?  Is it the same process as setting up a Dash masternode?  50M XP to get started?

It looks like 58% off but when I crunched numbers it plays out to about a 16% annualized return for 5 years.  That's still a good return for the time frame but I, too, am curious about how to physically take delivery of gold and what kind of security would be involved.  A nice thing about trustless transactions in blockchain is that you don't typically have to trust who you're doing business with, but when dealing with a physical commodity, and particularly a high value one, like gold, paying attention to chain of custody, physical security, and insurance are no longer luxuries but become essential.

Hey folks; any new developments for Spectre or is it still about the same?  Looks like it was a busy week for Spectre in the market.

I mean no disrespect...but be a little bit more patient and you'll find out.  A lot of people want to get rich quick, but if you stake your coins and wait 24 hours, you will know how many coins you get for staking them for 24 hours.

I think I started what was the 33rd MN a few days ago and so far, the return has been about US $40 per day. 

The date will be public, and is anticipated to be announced this week.

Holding my breath, waiting for announcements, subscribing to this thread.  Knuckles white with anticipation, and ready to start a masternode when the time comes.