Firstly, this is not intended to be an act of trolling. I was quite heavily invested in Dark, and believed in it's cause.
However, I would like you to carefully consider your position.
The darksend option of anonymity could be smashed by the NSA quite easily.
The anonymity market share you own - on the assumption that darksend works flawlessly - is about to be overtaken by Monero, and similar clones.
Their anonymity solution is superior to yours, developed by hackers. A purely trustless solution.
Good luck to you all, but buyer beware.
https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdfPS. Darkwallet also should not be underestimated, simply because you don't like it...
While zeroknowledge proofs are neat just imagine the blockchain sitting there for 10 years accumulating your data, then one of a few things happen:
1.) The key used to start the system was never destroyed and was kept the entire time so someone (a government, NSA?) can see everything that goes on. All the while everyone thinks it's anonymous?
2.) An exploit is found and suddenly the entire blockchain is cleartext
Darksend has no such vulnerabilities. The encryption we use could be completely broken and all of the transactions that have happened would still be anonymous.