Quote from: TanteStefana on March 23, 2014, 10:10:57 PM

Quote from: luke997 on March 23, 2014, 07:27:09 PM

Here's an interesting Darkcoin experiment.

2 days ago, I've mentioned cryptocurrency idea in general to 4 people with different backgrounds, job types and relation to me.
I've suggested sites and places to read, and also mentioned main types and several coins (bitcoin, litecoin, vertcoin, darkcoin, nxt).

Yesterday, the following happened:

Person 1 invested into ~3000 Darkcoins
Person 2 initially wanted to start mining, but instead invested into ~1500 Darkcoins and ~1.5 BTC
Person 3 invested into ~2000 Darkcoins
Person 4 was not interested in the concept at all (I wasn't surprised, this person always fails to look more than week ahead).

These people were not interested in trading or daily rate watching. Long term investment.

I was very surprised how quickly people acknowledged powerful idea of cryptocurrencies. Darkcoin choice didn't surprised me.
Only natural - with solid team/plan/community this is one of the safest bet (not to mention price fluctuations compared to other coins), and with the anonymity implemented the run for darks is going to get real.

In each case there was however one complain - about unnecessary difficulty of having to buy BTC first.
I'm sure if we there was DRK-fiat exchange, this would brought a lot more people in, also helped the coin to uncouple from BTC rate.

BTW - I would suggest adding "First X-11", "Real dev team" or something similar to the topic.

This is really awesome to hear. I have no idea if it has anything to do with it, but my friends are 50+ years old, and are not so easily swayed to something new. I've gotten polite "that's interesting" to "yah but..." etc... My kids get whatever we have, so I'm more interested in giving my nephews, who have currently no interest in finances, paper wallets of darkcoin, so that when they're older, and finished with school, etc... they'll at least be invested enough to take an interest. I hope it will be something good for them in the long run future, to be ahead of the crowd??

Person 1-3 are 35-40 age group, person 4 is 30.

Quote from: poweru on March 24, 2014, 04:59:34 AM

Quote from: luke997 on March 23, 2014, 07:27:09 PM

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Nice!
I think the topic rewrite to " [ANN][DRK] DarkCoin | First Anonymous Coin | First X-11 | First DGW | ASIC Resistant" will more attraction to me if i was Newbie or Investor

Precisely!