May/June: Now we're hitting anonymity as the next thing. The problem with this is regulatory as well as the fact this feature is untested in the medium-long term, for the most part closed source if it is groundbreaking, or it is centralized and requires a somewhat trusted middleman if it's been rushed out this week to jump on the latest hype train. These criticisms are more and more coming to light. I think there is a lot of value in anonymity, but a feature like this needs
much more than a month or two to be tried and tested as well as vetted for weaknesses. This cannot happen while it is in beta, is closed source, or relies on a central actor acting as an intermediary for anonymity. People simply won't trust it in the long term.
This is just my humble opinion. I do see value in PoS
alongside PoW to some degrees, and I think anonymity so far is the best real winner of these specs., but it's a niche now owned by DRK that we shouldn't try to compete with. I believe our niche and what NOBL best represents is staying true to cryptocurrency, merchants, long-term perspectives, acting noble (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noblesse_oblige), charity/philanthropy, Steps and from a purely economic advantage perspective the Marketplace and where we want to take it. These have been applied to us and I believe they've stuck so they need to become our strongest point.
We have anonymity since Bitcoin started. Anonymity in the context of being nameless. Basically we see addresses in the blockchain but we have no idea who the real person is. However law enforcement, using warrants, can find out who the real person is on the basis that there are criminals activities going on. Anonymity already exist, that one thing very clear.
DRK isn't creating anonymity as that has been done by Bitcoin dev SN. DRK is creating a means to circumvent the law enforcement. However it will not last long as there is no way the law enforcement in any advance countries is going to sit by and do nothing. I have no doubt the FBI, Scotland Yard, etc, computer experts are going to find a way of breaking DRK so-called anonymity.
POS doesn't work as intended as it 'fiat-cryptocurrency', money created out of thin air and backed by nothing. POW is backed by cost of electricity. POS was done in an attempt to get miners to hold their coins but no one cared as they want to dump their coins for BTC.
Noblecoin just need to create demand by creating services and links to outside companies. The other coins are simply scamcoins. Ever since many got burnt in the IPO scam, all of the sudden, loads of coins are popping out. More scammers and i bet many are the original victims who are trying to get back their BTC back by scamming others.
One must simply ignore the P&D hype. I no longer bother reading any new coins.