I must be frank about the technology because we really need innovation that help us reach the goals of crypto and not just half-assed tech from guys who design schemes to siphon off the capital of crypto into their pockets. And again I have studied the SEC regulations and all these marketing to speculators is clearly a violation of the Howey test for being an unregistered illegal investment security. It doesn't matter how you've obfuscated it by pretending the masternodes are in control, the Supreme Court has consistently said that the test overlooks any attempts to obfuscate the economic reality of the situation. Then on top of that is the evidence of deception with the premine and the advertised money supply protocol being altered ex post facto, etc.
And afaik you are a USA citizen, so thus you incur the maximum culpability.

no wonder vertoe left
darkcoin is not decentralized as it still relies on a single person. and this reaches deep into the code base.
the things going on here are fishy, intransparent and rely on a single entity.
i will get out and and will contribute to something decentralized and anonymous. i always hoped darkcoin could fill that void. i cant blame anyone to stay with this project. you are probably investors trying to win a gold donkey. or you are simply trying to exploit every possible vector of profit in the coins space. whatever. you are not here because darkcoin is something it claims to be.
Evan's speculator mining operation hit a rich vein of new bagholders this week.
Evan is mining Ver's million-ounce deposit of anti-Core butthurt, and perhaps a few gullible first world anarchists as well.

This is a pretty good update on the story.
I must remark that the ability to manipulate the FOMO ignorance of speculators with irrelevant hype is the hallmark of a system where the insiders have worked out some "I'll scratch your back, if you scratch mine" deal. Such deals are possible because the system is not decentralized, but in actuality the private fiat system of those who are profiting off the ability to offer special deals because of the insider control over the money supply and ongoing issue of the money supply.
In short, "Evan Inc" in all likelihood made a deal with Roger Ver and Casey Research. Everybody gets paid off with your money. More dumb "greater fools" money is drawn in, rinse, repeat, and everybody is happy.
What they've done is brought the pink sheets mining stocks corruption (which Casey Research is intimately involved with) into our ecosystem.
Speculation markets are ruled top-down. The only way to move away from "mining the speculators" is to trump them in the adoption market.