Threats
* Darkcoin technology is or will be open source. Clones can therefore spend more of their time focusing on marketing and eating into Darkcoin market share.
* Excessively used by bad actors for illegal purposes may create negative brand association over the medium term which may put off consumer focused merchants
* Launch of new anonymity protocols which offer better anonymity features
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Development team remains small and unable to scale the project* Early success causing distractions and loss of focus for core team from technical and project development
* Development of Bitcoin sidechains which, when eventually made available, could link anonymity features to bitcoin transactions
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=579976.0Lets set-up a group of 5 and call ourselves team mass adoption

He has intimate knowledge of DASH, is an excellent developer, and is really angry with Evan. Those three variables make them a huge threat to DASH in my opinion.