I don't know how a 210x can already be considered to have factored-in that a lot of transactions will be conducted anonymously / privately
I do.
It's because 5 years of technical evolution, promotion, being battered to death in the media spotlight and surviving, having ETF's being applied for and slowly making their 2 year journey through the regulators and being seen to have "the end in sight", has umpteen GH/s of hashing power on it and a huge worldwide infrastructure supporting merchants.....(on and on)... trumps a 4 month old piece of code that's reproducible and made by a couple of guys in their spare time by about 200%.
Yes, ok, that's obvious that Bitcoin > DRK (trumps, as you say), but I'm asking something different.
Say, 10% of the people engaged in crypto want anonymous coins / balances / transactions etc. That's 700mn market cap right there from the total crypto pie. Anonymous coin prices would reflect that by revaluing upwards.
I agree a lot of the price talk is delusional at present. I could see it going up 3x or 4x in the next couple of months, but 1000% again would be unlikely (it would put DRK bigger than Litecoin).
1000% would take us on par with LTC. People forget that LTC has something like 28-29 mn coins out there while DRK has only 4.5. Coin numbers are mighty important. Coin price is irrelevant without coin numbers.