Re: [ANN][DRK] DarkCoin | First Anonymous Coin | First X11 | First DGW

implementing ring signatures will take considerable change to the codebase and it hasnt been implemented on a protocol other than cryptonote yet, so its questionable

Not in the least bit questionable, if you've been around long enough to know Evan. He's amazingly fast coding, and the infrastructure of Darkcoin is incredibly useful. Evan doesn't care if he has to throw code away and rewrite it a thousand times to get it perfect.

Pity he wasn't such a perfectionist at the launch.

Doing real work takes priority over pretty. Some people can't function without pretty. They need crutches and hand-holding. Sucks for them.

But can one be successful that way? Cutting out the majority of the population? And when DarkSend is improved beyond Cryptonote, and all cryptonote coins are still so far behind, what then?

I'm not saying the work of those coins isn't worthwhile, it is. Each alt coin has shown things of value. Things that work and things that don't. One of the biggest things dogecoin has shown us is that community is #1 bar nothing. Cutting out those "stupid" people who need to be "babied" with a functional graphic user interface style wallet will kill any coin. Sorry.

My response was specific tot he comment above it, regarding launch. Make it pretty later. Make it work first.

It's software version 0.N.N.N-BUILDN for a reason... One cannot enter into a project worrying about the biggest idiots first. It's a surefire way to end up with nothing at all.

Of course pretty stuff can wait, but the comment was about the gigantic instamine. That one mistake will haunt the coin forever. If the day comes that Darkcoin becomes the #1 crypto and worth a trillion dollar market cap they'll still be beating us with that stick on the TV news.