Official Developer Thread

Dash Core & Platform Team Sprint Reviews

invalid@example.com (kot) — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:08:48 +0000

Dear Dash Community,

Join us tomorrow, 8th of February at 04:00 PM UTC (08:00 AM PT) for the next Dash Platform live Product Review!
We are happy about many views of our previous event and because of valuable discussion in the comments so we will make this a new practice. As Sam explained previously, this will be a raw look into the work the Platform Team has completed for the last two weeks. We will consider all relevant areas, meaning: Platform Protocol, Consensus(Tenderdash)...

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DashPay v5.2 for Android is now on Testnet

invalid@example.com (Marine) — Tue, 03 May 2022 21:34:12 +0000

Hey everybody!

DashPay v5.2 for Android is now available on Testnet!

For those who already signed up, be sure to check your spam folder for the last update from last Friday (be sure to add the dash.org to your spam filter).
Feel free to share your feedback and questions here!

Cheers!

Deploy tool thread

invalid@example.com (strophy) — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 01:24:10 +0000

Hello Dash Community!

I recently did a spontaneous live stream on Discord demonstrating how we go about deploying an updated version of Dash Platform to 150 masternodes on testnet. I received some good feedback on this, so I thought I'd write up our ongoing plans for the deployment tool some of you saw demonstrated on the stream.

DCG spends US$5-10k per month, primarily on AWS EC2 compute infrastructure, to operate 150+ testnet nodes and a varying number of devnet nodes, depending on...

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v0.16 Support - FAQ and Known Issues

invalid@example.com (Pasta) — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 22:02:30 +0000

Known Issues

"Dash-Qt has a QT Crash when I try to launch it!"

Segmentation fault

Code:

std::terminate() called due to unhandled exceptionException: type=std::runtime_error, what="operator(): Failed to open file: :css/light-hires"
No debug information available for stacktrace. You should add debug information and then run:
dash-qt...

Masternode Payment Variance

invalid@example.com (eduffield) — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:31:25 +0000

Some masternode operators have been concerned about the lack of or over payment of specific nodes on the network so I wrote a script to show how a random system such as masternode payments will look over time.

If curious, here's the script I used to generate these numbers: http://pastebin.com/rUgV69Fr

----- ONE DAY OF MASTERNODE PAYMENTS ----
107 masternodes were paid 0 times
151 masternodes were paid 1 times
87 masternodes were paid 2 times
39 masternodes were paid 3 times
11...

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Darkcoin Fork in The Road

invalid@example.com (eduffield) — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 14:19:19 +0000

I wanted to put this out there to get the communities take on what Darkcoin should be in the future. I think there's a fork is the road for Darkcoin. I have a few different ideas for what masternodes could do. A few months ago when I came up with the idea of paying Masternodes I was thinking they could pretty much decentralize everything on the internet. That being said, it looks like other coins are already focusing on this.

As a result I don't believe we should do what others are doing...

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Sentinel v1.3.0 release

invalid@example.com (nmarley) — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 09:17:20 +0000

Sentinel v1.3.0 is now released! Please update your MNs per the usual method (cd /path/to/sentinel && git pull).

edit: To clarify, all mainnet and testnet should be updated to this version.

edit2: Link to Sentinel on GitHub: https://github.com/dashpay/sentinel

This release includes optimizations to how governance objects are represented in memory and handled in Sentinel, and (along with changes released in DashCore v12.3) allows for a newer, simpler JSON format...

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Darkcoin Update / Masternode requirements / Masternode Payments

invalid@example.com (eduffield) — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 11:52:42 +0000

From this point forward, we are locking all core fundamentals of the coin (Name, coin supply, etc.). This will improve the stability of the coin and create better environment for growth. I want to personally focus on the technology and keep doing what has made us successful up to this point, great technology and innovation.

Masternode Requirements

These nodes are the foundation of DarkSend, all transactions will be routed through these nodes. Each masternode requires that 1000DRK be...

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Enhanced Darkcoin Wallet UI

invalid@example.com (DRKLord) — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 09:05:48 +0000

As my first major undertaking for the Darkcoin Project, I'm going to work on a UI over-haul with a number of new features, enhancements and improved visuals. As the "new guy" on the dev team, I'm still familiarizing myself with the source and learning to work with the team and new technologies. If I start trying to mess with Darksend and the more critical sub-systems of the Darkcoin software, I would probably get in the way and mess a lot of things up. So by starting at the top with the UI...

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Travis integration

invalid@example.com (crowning) — Wed, 02 May 2018 21:57:16 +0000

I've just created a pull-request for Bitcoin (I know, I know...but I couldn't resist ) and like the way the changes are immediately tested/build over at https://travis-ci.org/.

I'd like to have this for Dash as well...and it's free. Thoughts?
eduffield , flare ? Shall I do it?

Details:

12.2 Translations

invalid@example.com (UdjinM6) — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 06:01:43 +0000

We are approaching final stages of testing 12.2, so vast majority of text strings is most likely not going to change a lot. Which means we can safely start translations without worrying about doing the same work twice, so I welcome all translators registered on transifex to jump in and bump translation progress for their language to 100%

Few notes:
- please keep all special symbols in place - %n and %1 etc are placeholders and MUST be kept ("Copy source string" button is your friend);
-...

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Masternode Payment Testing - Now vs Later?

invalid@example.com (eduffield) — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 05:42:51 +0000

Despite the forking issues with enforcing masternode payments, the code and strategy that we're using now is looking really good. The problem was simply blocks coming in out of order, which are now properly ordered before being checked for the correct payment. I reviewed many different logs and this was the only issue I found, which caused all problems we had.

The question to the community:

It's pretty much impossible to test mastenode payments on testnet and some users/mining pools are...

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RC4 issues, bugs & feature requests

invalid@example.com (flare) — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:32:38 +0000

Dear community,

RC4 is live. I therefore created a new thread to discuss issues, bugs & feature requests with RC4 in mainnet.

If you think you found a bug, feel free to use our bugtracker to report it --> http://jira.darkcoin.qa

If you are not sure if it's a bug or you want to discuss your feature requests, feel free to discuss them here.

============================================================================

These are the latest CI-builds

CI-builds for...

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Reply to Kristov's paper

invalid@example.com (eduffield) — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 06:54:29 +0000

In the spirit of transparency we contacted Kristov Atlas to ask him to do a review of our technology, Darksend. Shortly after, our community happily crowd funded it and Kristov got to work.

Darksend+ is an iterative improvement on the previous version of Darksend and offers greatly improved anonymity. This functionality is directly built into the reference client for ease of use. Kristov reviewed the technology from every angle to give a thorough rundown of everything we needed to focus on...

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darkcoind-ncurses-0.23: Terminal front-end for darkcoin daemon.

invalid@example.com (vertoe) — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 16:53:59 +0000

I just sat down and ported the bitcoind-ncurses tool for darkcoin. It's basically working but I still have to add a masternode monitor. This is great to monitor darkcoin on headless environments, for example on your masternode host. Have fun:
https://github.com/vertoe/darkcoind-ncurses

Forked from bitcoind-ncurses by azeteki:...

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python-darkcoinrpc: JSON RPC library for darkcoin daemon.

invalid@example.com (vertoe) — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 05:54:07 +0000

Just ported bitcoinrpc for darkcoin, if anyone needs it.

python-darkcoinrpc (Python) - done
JSON RPC library to talk with darkcoin daemon.
https://github.com/vertoe/python-darkcoinrpc (ported by vertoe)

DARKCOIL-0.9.18.13: Lightweight Darkcoin Wallet

invalid@example.com (vertoe) — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 06:13:51 +0000

Good morning,

I've created a darkcoin wallet (Qt and Daemon) based on the old Darkcoin core wallet v0.9.13.x and aligned it back with the current onyx v2 development and thus created a fully working v0.9.18.x client which allows sending, storing and recieving coins like a basic bitcoin/litecoin core v0.8.x wallet used to do.

This is intended to be an alternative wallet to the official core wallet for users who just wish to recieve, store and...

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Darkcoin-0.12: Porting the Bitcoin-0.10 tree ...

invalid@example.com (vertoe) — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 14:21:01 +0000

After 0.9 was a great succes, I am now trying to port the latest bitcoin 0.10-tree to be compatible with the Darkcoin network:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/0.10

The bitcoin 0.10.x core wallet is currently in release candidate status (rc, to be released soon) and we should start porting its feature rather sooner than later. I can't promise anything yet, will do it step by step and document any progress in this thread.

First step is compiling a list of things which need to...

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Darkcoin-0.11: Porting the Bitcoin-0.9 tree ...

invalid@example.com (vertoe) — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 17:49:23 +0000

I am trying to port the latest bitcoin 0.9-tree to be compatible with the Darkcoin network:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/0.9

The bitcoin 0.9.x core wallet is a state of the art reference implementatoin and we should start porting its feature rather sooner than later. I can't promise anything, will do it step by step and document any progress in this thread.

~~First step is compiling a list of things which need to be done...~~

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RC4 Development and Path Going Forward

invalid@example.com (eduffield) — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:03:50 +0000

Last night, we implemented code that ‘soft-forked’ the Darkcoin network and successfully launched RC3. At this time, Masternode payments are live using a non-enforced payment protocol. Roughly half the network has updated and Masternode payments are going out about 12 times an hour!

Testing of non-enforcement mode

With this launch, we introduced a new soft-fork method, which some users have affectionately dubbed the “spork”. As clients update, new features - Masternode payments, in...

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