Anyone who is looking for me to come up with a gimmick to get speculators to pile into a pump, has the wrong developer. There are many other developers who will target that business model.

I am going for serious user adoption and to take on Bitcoin in markets that it is not adept at fulfilling.

I will not be targeting investors nor speculators. If I succeed, they will come around later once they see the adoption and then we have a serious phenomenon and not just another one year fad. Those speculators who take the risk of coming in early when I am not promoting to investors, will either lose everything because my plan is shit or they will end up being early scavengers of the next Bitcoin phenom.

P.S. I was fully aware of the model of DarkCoin, because I helped Evan do it. I was the one who challenged him on using CoinJoin because I reminded him that I had shot down CoinJoin as jammable in Gregory Maxwell's thread when I refuted Greg's claim that adversaries could be blacklisted (which I ponder has to lead to the subsequent ego battle for Greg et al w.r.t. to me). In any case, that interaction between Evan and I and some of my suggestions as to what was technically feasible, lead to masternodes. I quickly realized that this was about a meme, more than a long-term viable technology. Rather than make myself an enemy of all those naive fanboiz, I just agreed that it would work well enough for the time being. And it did! (for the purpose which was to drive speculative investment).

That is all fine and dandy, except it doesn't float my boat. At this stage of my life, I want to do something serious.

The currency names I have chosen are fun for the users. The users are the ones I love. I am not in a particularly love fest with speculators, but I also welcome them but I am not going to just create a product for them and forsake the users.