Markets don't work like that.
No coin in crypto has a high value because of technical superiority. If that were so, you'd see a whole different league table than what we see today.
The properties that support most of DRK's valuation at the moment are:
- it's considered an "original" by many in this market sector. That always appears to sustain the asset for a long time (see Peercoin for example)
- it just moved into a new development phase recently (i.e. Darksend going live) so there's been a flurry of news
However, in crypto, the market prices things in way in advance of them actually happening. So over the last few weeks the market's been anticipating Darksend, anticipating masternode payments, anticipating the new exchange etc. Now there's nothing left to anticipate so it's going to take profits for a while in a kind of orgasmic gush which will flood people's wallets with actual BTC that was only theoretical up till now.
Don't worry. I agree with you that DRK ultimately has a good chance of replacing Litecoin as the number 2 crypto and so I'm still long (just not as long as I was before). But it isn't going to get there in a straight line that's all.
The two critical things you need in crypto in my view are:
1. The blockchain (which everyone has)
2. Transaction privacy, which darkcoin has
Litecoin was just like a defense mechanism against ASIC centralisation in bitcoin. I have only ever invested in Btc, Ltc, Vtc and Drk. I diversified to Ltc because of ASIC centralisation. I diversified to Vtc because they promised ASIC resistance plus zerocoin protocol but they dropped the ball on that. So, I diversified into Darkcoin because, to me, it appeared the perfect technical solution to the crypto puzzle. The only issue I had with Darkcoin was the name.
I have never sold a single Darkcoin in my life.