is testnet down again ?

I tend to agree... Looks sad, but not necessarrily broken.

Whats going on with the P2Pool network.  the entire network is hung on block 46219
http://explorer.darkcoin.io/block/00000000007e63430208031529ced1226cfeb3223060939267449ce3e655a05b

i have updated darkcoind, and git pulled p2pool and restarted everything but something still looks messed up.

the p2pool node wallet is on the correct block but the entire network seems hung ?

.darkcoin$ darkcoind getinfo
{
    "version" : 90102,
    "protocolversion" : 70002,
    "walletversion" : 60000,
    "balance" : 0.10251933,
    "blocks" : 46353,
    "timeoffset" : 0,
    "connections" : 19,
    "proxy" : "",
    "difficulty" : 305.64136197,
    "testnet" : false,
    "keypoololdest" : 1394938162,
    "keypoolsize" : 101,
    "paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
    "mininput" : 0.00001000,
    "errors" : ""
}

something very wrong here?  http://drk.poolhash.org/

look at the last block found... this is for the entire P2Pool network. See my data above

Important: Please take time to read this!

I see a lot of excitement from people looking to run masternodes, but ensure you know what you are doing. Among them, is NOT putting a masternode on ANY VPS provider.

Here is a checklist of things that could go wrong. Remember it's your 1000 drk sitting in a hotwallet.
1. Remember you did not do the install, you launched an image that was prepared. This is analogous to putting your key into someone else's computer. There is no way of knowing the image is not rootkitted because you are INSIDE the image.

2. VMs are still rather new and there are plenty of host privilege escalation exploits. This means security of your vm is not 100% yours. You are multiplying your risk by the number of other VMs on your VM host, and the network it is connected to.

3. VPS storage is rather primitive and NOT designed for security. Your root storage is NOT encrypted at all. Encrypting a container inside your vm will not do any good because it must be decrypted for your process to run it. Then the VM host has access to it.

4. (offtopic) If you don't have the resources to set up your own machine and are just looking to use a VPS, you may not have general knowledge of hardening your image against vulnerabilities. A few topics to be knowledgeable about include selinux, PaX, iptables, auditd if you run anything else what so ever on the VM.

5. Trusting your provider: those of you who have been in this game long enough will remember countless heists, but the one that rings out in my memory is the one where someone lost a wallet of 25k btc when btc was at $20 USD. He cried over $500k of btc, what was he thinking when 25k btc meant the loss of $30million+? I haven't looked it back up, but as I recall, he NEVER found out how he lost it, and that was the worst part. The only suspicion was that he uploaded a backup of his wallet onto dropbox. Who took it? A dropbox employee? Was dropbox compromised? As far as I know, no one ever found out. No amount of security audits can help find the culprit when the number of doors and windows are an unknown variable.

If you're into darkcoin because privacy is your thing but you don't think twice about online security, I have a VM to sell you.



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