I hope Evan can work in IP obfuscation, as Anonymint suggested. Then it would be hard to challenge DRK in any foreseeable way.
I like this idea, I think we could go open source much sooner while remaining the leading privacy-centric crypto.
All in due time. This will give people the option to make copies of DRK though.
Step 1: DRK opensources DarkSend etc.
Step 2: A clone of DRK appears.
Step 3: First remarks from posters on that thread: "So you are just a DRK clone... another shitcoin".
Step 4: Another clone of DRK appears.
Step 5: First remarks from posters on that thread: "Yet another DRK clone / yet another shitcoin".
Step 6: Another 20 clones of DRK appear
Step 7: Posters on their respective threads express their discomfort at the saturation of the shitcoin market with DRK clones, observing that if one wants to do it right, they should go with the original.
...something like that.
I think we are past the point in which shitcoins were launched every day and their value actually increased due to people buying in. Too much money was thrown away in shitcoins and many people started reconsidering their investment strategies. The point is that if you don't have something good you are dead on arrival. Fundamentals are starting to prevail on the market and people don't pay much attention to clone coins, country coins, meme coins, animal coins etc etc. PoS coins were on the rise after Blackcoin and this trend is also being curbed as the excitement factor is declining. The multiple fiascos of Whitecoin didn't help either.