Quote from: coins101 on March 10, 2014, 09:28:43 AM

Sent 50 DRK.

Sent without condition, but it would be great if we can try to use messages to keep the bad actors away and point people to using DarkCoin for personal privacy reasons - legitimate reasons to use DarkCoin = mainstream which is where the growth potential is.

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Wow, I can't disagree with this more. Do you really think DRK takes off if you start marketing it and trying to "keep bad actors" away? I'm assuming you think this will take off as a regular currency?

Again, i'm going to say it.

1. This succeeds if it's provably anonymous transactions (tested by outside legit hackers)
2. It gets adopted by all with privacy concerns, desire anonymous transactions.

Whether you believe it or not, this will ONLY take off and become acceptable if those "bad actors" use this coin to buy their weed or whatever.

Anytime someone brings up trying to brand this coin as mainstream and/or figure out how to brand it as not a drug coin. You are being foolish if you think it will become something like other secondary coins (maybe VERT is a good example since you can actually buy stuff with it).

Tell me, WHY on earth would i care about anonymous transactions if i wanted to buy Amazon Gift Cards?

BTC is still struggling with mainstream adoption (I think acceptance is mostly there, at least people relate BTC to money in some fashion, whether a currency or a scam at least they know what it is).

To those who are pushing this marketing thing, I suggest you take a look at the multitude of coins that on some level can be used for transactions and really be honest about how DRK competes with them. Because the main point of the coin DOESN'T MATTER when it comes to mainstream transactions.

Market the coin as transaction neutral, skirt around drug transactions by saying its for those who want truly anonymous transactions, but you absolutely should NOT come out against these types of transactions. In all honesty, this coin ONLY succeeds if various subcultures adopt it first.

Currencies should be neutral, not political.