Yeah i don't get the need for Anon coins. Surely creating something that promotes or enables criminal behavior puts a negative spin on the coin and hinder it's real world acceptance by merchants. Bitcoin has been trying for ages to shake it's dodgy roots. I think once people realise that an Anon coin is nothing more than a 'cool' thing and has no real use to 95% of people it will disappear.
come on people, it's not because you support fluttercoin that you should spit on darkcoin (or other anon coins)....
World black market > 10*Bitcoin Marketcap, and it's certainly much more than 10 times. Having a real use for 5% of the population is soooooooooo terrific as altcurrencies aren't even used by 0.01% of the world population...
+ don't forget that a big part of the crypto population are libertarians, anarchists or just liberals that care about the anonymity side of cryptocurrencies. For them, more anonymity means higher value.
So no, the anon trend IS NOT like the country trend...
That being said, I'm happy that fluttercoin doesn't take this path. We want to be legal and accepted by millions of merchants !