Quote from: Peter R on May 25, 2014, 02:09:07 AM

Quote from: AlexGR on May 25, 2014, 01:41:39 AM

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The obsession with protocol-enforced privacy is the new narrative. You've drunk the koolaid and now you "want to believe."

Even ignoring all its flaws, Darkcoin will not see widespread adoption simply based on the fact that its "darkness" was not designed to appeal to the masses. It was designed to appeal to you. Monero will very likely not see widespread adoption either, but after the collapse of Darkcoin, it could be the logical and more legitimate continuation of the "privacy-enhanced coin" line of thought. Although I am no fan of alt coins, if someone held a gun to my head and made me buy one, I'd pick Monero. And when that gun is pointing the other way and people start talking about Monero's long-term potential for mass appeal, I'd trade everything I have back for bitcoin.

I purchase a wise 10 btc of MRO yesterday off exchange for .00575. I also think "privacy" will always (or for a long time) be an attractive narrative. And MRO beats DRK hands down when it comes to privacy. DRK is also a bitcoin alt, which has several disadvantages long term - although short term makes it 100xs easier to pump and dump.

I wish I could short DRK right now. Of course, I wish I would have scooped up 100k+ of it before it went to exchanges, but I just don't have time to research and monitor every fracking altcoin that gets born, to find the ones with the most potential to pump.