Quote from: TaoOfSaatoshi on May 15, 2016, 08:38:54 AM

Pity. I guess you won't be joining our highly successful community, then? Dash Nation is on a serious roll right now, thanks in part to our marketing department and blue dalmatians...

I'm aware of why all this occurred. The Duffler wanted to de-criminalize the image of the coin, but the new image is blah. If Satoshi launched with block reward set to 500 and later changed it to 50, then reduced coin supply to 5.25 million on top of that, Bitcoin would never of had any adoption due to being seen as a pyramid scheme on steroids, so there is that problem too. I'm tired of people thinking they can get away with things that Bitcoin itself could not get away with. Things like premines. Anything over 0% premine used to be considered a scam, now we have people like Vitalik premining the entire coin.

Bitcoin would be worth 0 if it was premined. The things that Bitcoin could not get away with that Darkcoin thinks it can will likely also cause Darkcoin to be worth 0 in the long term. Why do people think the standards are more lax post-Bitcoin? Yes, you're going to claim it was an "error", but things like GPUCoin had the same problem and relaunched after it was discovered. Then changing the money supply after already having this "error" makes the whole thing insane. You cannot present this coin to people with a straight face while saying it's an "honest money" solution to their current fiat problem.

All you can honestly tell them is that worst case it was a scam, and best case it was an incompetently run financial product. As a non-biased 3rd party of Darkcoin vs Monero, it is very hard to get behind Darkcoin because Monero is superior in technical form, while also not having all the questionable intent to be an orchestrated scam.

I have also thought about the whole passive mixing of Monero and Zcash vs the active mixing by design of Darkcoin. It seems kind of obvious that governments would be far more likely to consider active mixing as an act of laundering, while if anonymity is part of the protocol itself, it's just a shortcoming of government auditing. Both Monero and Zcash are safer legal-wise, although you would likely have to enforce a fixed mix count instead of variable if you really wanted to be safe in Monero. I'm not super read up on all the workings of Zcash, but it might be the safest of the three in legality. Zcash does have big drawbacks where I'm not sure if it actually is an improvement or not on what's available in other areas.