Quote from: camosoul on May 12, 2014, 12:29:40 PM

Quote from: ac2 on May 12, 2014, 12:11:25 PM

Quote from: ac2 on May 12, 2014, 11:59:54 AM

Quote from: toknormal on May 12, 2014, 11:53:01 AM

Quote from: ac2 on May 12, 2014, 11:43:28 AM

12% of all the darkcoins that ever will be was instamined by Evan a couple of his friends on day 1.

What kind of dev launches a coin without a windows wallet?

I got into this coin because of the technology. Maybe you don't understand investments, but what matters about them is how much YOU own, not how much everyone else owns.

Thanks for advising is that the coin wasn't launched with a Windows wallet. That is about number 100 of my list of concerns right now but I appreciate it's pretty high up on yours.

So here's what I suggest you do - go back to the [ANN] archives and spend a week compiling a list of all the coins that were launched with Windows wallets and then go and plough some BTC into them. Might make you rich Wink

You're missing the point...
It's fine that you don't mind, that you are biased and this nasty little FACT doesn't bother you.

But how do you think this will play out in the media?

This coin is tainted, permanently. I'm glad that Evan is pushing the boundaries on technology, but darksend can not have any real traction until it is open sourced, and the moment that happens, several clones will pop up. They won't have dodgy names and branding like 'dark' coin, and they will have a zero premine, zero instamine, fair launch.

And how will they market themselves? As the privacy centric coin that is not a scam like that darkcoin.

Will it bother you then?

Oh, and one more thing...

Do you know that although Evan is a smart, dedicated Dev, his solution to anonymity is NOT the best solution out there?

Google 'ring signiture,' google 'monero,' google 'darkwallet,' and you will find that you have put your trust a good solution, but NOT the best solution.

You dark loyalist's have a wierd saviour complex about your dev. He is alright, but he has nothing on the dev's of ring signature coins. They are hackers. They are genuine cryptographers. Evan Duffield is an everyday software designer who wanted to have a go at solving the anonymity problem.

Good on him! I salute him for trying! But buyer beware...darksend could be smashed by NSA or hackers in a heartbeat. And even if Darkcoin and darksend is well received how will you compete with more marketable clones?

Hail Evan the almighty! We don't mind that you instamined 10% of all the coins that ever will be on day 1! We don't mind that your darksend solution is no where near as good as monero's ring signature solution. We have blind faith in you...

Don't hang onto those dark coins for too long...

I ask this troll to think a little more. DRK's privacy solution is the best solution because it creates a real-world paradoxical ruleset and forces Proof of Service, not Proof of Stake. Then, combines it with Proof of Work, which allows for some very awesome future things that have not been mentioned, but if you have half a brain, you can figure out what they are... If you understand cryptocurrencies, not just a pump and dump kiddie troll, you know where this is heading already... I mention the future possibilities as suggestions, but I know they're already being considered and at the root of why masternodes were created. I understand what is going on so I can see what Evan has planned. He's got a plan and it's pretty damn cool. It's an extension of the same paradoxical rulesets that exist in BitCoin, it just goes further in fixing some of the flaws that the BitCoin experiment has shown us.

I saw it back in February. I'm not even holding BTC anymore. I've spent my life 15 years ahead of the curve, this is no different. If you can't figure it out, apply yourself instead of troll, it only makes you look stupid.

If you don't understand how to read the writing on the wall, then ac2's arguments make sense. That's why they make sense to him; he doesn't understand.

My only concern is that DGW3 goes too far. Besides that, DRK is BitCoin 2.0 in my mind. Other coins pushing the same sales pitch don't have the real world checks and balances in their "perfect" technological solutions. Being a bit "hackish" is the whole damn point of why the DRK way is the bast way. It's not just mining that gets an incentive... a long-term viable cryptocoin needs to provide incentive for other services. Hosting of full blockchain and anonymity are just two...

You can't even fit the BTC blockchain onto most mobile devices. You have to have a trusted node... Where's the motivation? Why should someone do it? Where's the proof of trust in that node? Nodes are dropping like flies on the BTC network. The huge blockchain is centralizing among those willing to do it for free...

I seem to remember this troll was a Darkcoin supporter not that long ago.

I guess he bought some, thought he could day trade and lost money when shorts didn't go so well. It happens. Best thing to do is not dwell on the loss and just minimise the loss - get back in and over the next few weeks the loss will become a profit.

I do like how some of these trolls spend so much of their time here. If they really thought DRK had no future, they wouldn't spend so much of the precious time on this planet trying to pull it down.