Guide to help people setup a start-many capable wallet

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+#start-many Setup Guide
+
+## Two Options for Setting up your Wallet
+There are many ways to setup a wallet to support start-many. This guide will walk through two of them.
+
+1. Importing an existing wallet (recommended if you are consolidating wallets).
+2. Sending 1,000 DRK to new wallet addresses.
+
+## Option 1. Importing an existing wallet
+
+This is the way to go if you are consolidating multiple wallets into one that supports start-many. 
+
+### From your single-instance MasterNode Wallet
+
+Open your QT Wallet and go to console (from the menu select Tools => Debug Console)
+
+Dump the private key from your MasterNode's pulic key.
+
+```
+walletpassphrase [your_wallet_passphrase] 600
+dumpprivkey [mn_public_key]
+```
+
+Copy the resulting priviate key. You'll use it in the next step.
+
+### From your multi-instance MasterNode Wallet
+
+Open your QT Wallet and go to console (from the menu select Tools => Debug Console)
+
+Import the private key from the step above.
+
+```
+walletpassphrase [your_wallet_passphrase] 600
+importprivkey [single_instance_private_key]
+```
+
+The wallet will re-scan and you will see your available balance increase by the amount that was in the imported wallet.
+
+Skip Option 2. and go to Create masternode.conf file
+
+## Option 2. Starting with a new wallet
+
+If you used Option 1 above, then you can skip down to Create masternode.conf file.
+
+### Create New Wallet Addresses
+
+1. Open the QT Wallet.
+2. Click the Receive tab.
+3. Fill in the form to request a payment.
+    * Label: mn01
+    * Amount: 1000 (optional)
+    * Click *Request payment*
+5. Click the *Copy Address* button
+
+Create a new wallet address for each MasterNode.
+
+Close your QT Wallet.
+
+### Send 1,000 DRK to New Addresses
+
+Just like setting up a standard MN. Send exactly 1,000 DRK to each new address created above.
+
+### Create New Keys
+
+Open your QT Wallet and go to console (from the menu select Tools => Debug Console)
+
+Issue the following:
+
+```masternode genkey```
+
+Close your QT Wallet.
+
+## Create masternode.conf file
+
+Remember... this is local. Make sure your QT is not running.
+
+Create the masternode.conf file in the same directory as your wallet.dat.
+
+Copy the private key and correspondig collateral output transaction that holds the 1K DRK.
+
+The private key may be an existing key from Option 1, or a newly generated key from Option 2. 
+
+### Get the collateral output
+
+Open your QT Wallet and go to console (from the menu select Tools => Debug Console)
+
+Issue the following:
+
+```masternode outputs```
+
+Make note of the hash (which is your collaterla_output) and index.
+
+### Enter your MasterNode details into your masternode.conf file
+[From the darkcoin github repo](https://github.com/darkcoin/darkcoin/blob/master/doc/masternode_conf.md)
+
+The new masternode.conf format consists of a space seperated text file. Each line consisting of an alias, IP address followed by port, masternode private key, collateral output transaction id and collateral output index.
+
+```
+alias ipaddress:port masternode_private_key collateral_output collateral_output_index
+```
+
+Example:
+
+```
+mn01 127.0.0.1:9999 93HaYBVUCYjEMeeH1Y4sBGLALQZE1Yc1K64xiqgX37tGBDQL8Xg 2bcd3c84c84f87eaa86e4e56834c92927a07f9e18718810b92e0d0324456a67c 0
+mn02 127.0.0.2:9999 93WaAb3htPJEV8E9aQcN23Jt97bPex7YvWfgMDTUdWJvzmrMqey aa9f1034d973377a5e733272c3d0eced1de22555ad45d6b24abadff8087948d4 0
+```
+
+## What about the darkcoin.conf file?
+
+If you are using a masternode.conf file you no longer need the darkcoin.conf file. The exception is if you need custom settings (thanks oblox). 
+
+## Update darkcoin.conf on server
+
+If you generated a new private key, you will need to update the remote darkcoin.conf files.
+
+Shut down the daemon and then edit the file.
+
+```sudo nano .darkcoin/darkcoin.conf```
+
+### Edit the masternodeprivkey
+If you generated a new private key, you will need to update the masternodeprivkey value in your remote darkcoin.conf file.
+
+## Start your MasterNodes
+
+### Remote
+
+If your remote server is not running, start your remote daemon as you normally would. 
+
+I usually confirm that remote is on the correct block by issuing:
+
+```darkcoind getinfo```
+
+And compare with the official explorer at http://explorer.darkcoin.io/chain/Darkcoin
+
+### Local
+
+Finally... time to start from local.
+
+#### Open up your QT Wallet
+
+From the menu select Tools => Debug Console
+
+If you want to review your masternode.conf setting before starting the MasterNodes, issue the following in the Debug Console:
+
+```masternode list-conf```
+
+Give it the eye-ball test. If satisfied, you can start your nodes one of two ways.
+
+1. masternode start-alias [alias_from_masternode.conf]. Example ```masternode start-alias mn01```
+2. masternode start-many