Does using it trigger a warning to the user/operator? Anything like this should cause a big impossible-to-miss equivalent of hands coming out of the screen to shake you awake and make sure you know what you're doing because you're stepping off the path and into the scary dark forest to get lost...
Chuck Norris. All Chuck Norris jokes originate from a film where Chuck will play Evan in a 2016 film about DRK taking over the world, and the masternodes have evolved the ability to send jokes back through time.
(Yes, this was posted from 2016 too. Shojayxt's family if you're reading this...
Do they do it on the ask side too? If so, you could keep adding asks (a small one at first to test it) 2 duffs above the highest bid, then when the bot immediately puts an ask one below it, you buy it. Continue till you have all the dark you need. :cool:
Better if it was something that screams the reasons why it's not really centralization, that it only affects masternode payments and is in no way in possession of special powers that control the user's transactions themselves.
FFS can we at least not call them ubernodes! They need to sound as insignificant, non-threatening and non-central-powerish as possible, not like Death Stars orbiting a giant Eye of Sauron.
Although the solution is good technically, it would be a public relations disaster. Trolls & dummies already scream about "CENTRALIZED masternodes", now the majority will join them, only the already converted who have bothered to understand everything properly would defend us. The perception of...
This totally needs to happen right now, at least temporarily. It's beyond "Just be patient" at this point. I used to love mintpal and I hope they'll turn it around, but for the time being pointing our new users in their direction can only hurt darkcoin. As RenegadeMan put it:
That's exactly what I wasn't saying.
It does sound nice on the surface, like something a smart, level-headed, loyal supporter would say, that everyone should nod their heads and agree with to sound wise and a team player. But there's the way life ought to be, then there's the way life actually...