Quote from: superresistant on May 06, 2014, 08:51:19 PM

Quote from: -Greed- on May 06, 2014, 08:41:38 PM

Quote from: superresistant on May 06, 2014, 08:06:46 PM

In this case I agree that MRO is underpriced.

You must be kidding Grin

No.

I agree with superresistant (but again, remember I am part of the team and so I am biased)

DRK showed us what people are ready to pay for more anonymous coin.
Now, MRO vs DRK.
DRK has three things: X11, DGW, Darksend.
- MRO's CryptoNight is IMHO better (X11 is not CPU-only anymore but more than that, the requirements of CryptoNight are such than the very physical architecture of GPU should be changed - read the Cryptonote's white paper or at least their website.
- DGW. Again, CryptoNight scores better. On this one, I can only trust better tech than I am, so takes this one with an extra pinch of salt.
- Darksend. Ring signature is much stronger, even Evan recognised it
So, everything DRK does, MRO (and other CN) does it better. What is needed now is building up a community. For a coin without GUI, pool or exchange and only three weeks old, MRO is performing very well.

Plus, DRK suffers from the "instamine incident" in January, as well as a curve favouring early adopters more.

For more on this, eizh made a fantastic job on the OP. Look for "How does this compare to other anonymous solutions?"

Finally, what is the most marketable coin? monero (people's money) or Darkcoin (l33t haX0r's coin). On this one, I would tend to say the former, monero (of course) but OTOH, lack of tracability may not be a good thing for public spending - althoug we have a very, very, very long way to this kind of mainstream adoption (public bodies using cryptos) - even major NGO seldom if ever accept BTC - let alone others.

On top of this, add the "boundless setting" ("no fixed-value" as they say) nature of CryptoNote.

Of course, history is full of technological breakthroughs which lost for less technically powerful alternatives. VHS, HTML, Flash, SDRAM... all were technically inferior to the competition. What they had, though, is widespread adoption. This is fairness of distribution (which brings widespread adoption) that will matter. Here, Darkcoin may succeed or not. Here will be the difference between various CN coins.

Quote from: -Greed- on May 06, 2014, 10:04:42 PM

Monero will never become popular without plain wallet/GUI that can be used by any typical user. It will stay forever a toy for geeks.

Yep, like Bitcoin.
Lesson is: GUI is necessary to pass a certain treshold of adoption. But not at the beginning (of course, to have it from day 1 is better).

BTW: I updated the monero trading sheet with the avg24 and med24: med24 is 125 000 sat