DarkSend will be enabled by default in the final release if it is not already in the release candidates (I am running the stable version for now). So this is a non-issue.
Quote from: toknormal on Today at 12:13:51 PM
BTC has gone through a 5 month consolidation, during which it compressed down to less than half it's peak value.DRK on the other hand has inflated by about 1000% in the space of about 2-3 weeks.
On the other hand DRK's price was stagnant for months. This is not a MRO type pump where the coin has been on exchanges for a couple days and it has already done 5x or 6x. I see DRK's price growth as excitement over an ever closer DarkSend release and more public recognition via articles like the one in Wired today. That's the thing about technical(market) analysis in a market this illiquid. You get a nice article that no one knows about in advance other than the author and we are on the rise again. Way too much is unknown to do more than guess based on pass experiences from other coins which may or may not apply. If DRK was just another coin it would have been dumped in a few days like BlackCoin. Yet is has been nearly a month on the rise.
Thanks for posting that.
I like the idea that Darksend is going to be the default mode for the network eventually because I've been telling people that thats the big difference between DRK and Dark Wallet - i.e. that income remains private.
re. guessing on the future, yes, I accept your point. We are all guessing and I'm happy to "let people have their fun". But at the same time there's a balance to strike because price hysteria can come at the price of turning the thread into a cult sideshow. It just gets overrun by pumpers and dumpers waiting on their rise and the thread ceases to be informative for investors which IMO should be its main purpose. (As I say, I've done my fair share of it, so no fingers pointed in any direction that isn't also my own).
Having said all that, the points you've made about the long term future of a currency like this are basically ones that I agree with. Whatever Bitcoin's future as a store of value, there's bound to be a massive part of the economy that just doesn't want to be transacting on a blockchain as transparent as Bitcoin's full stop.
It's a no brainer.