If the dumpage and fear spreads it could also affect DRK... who knows maybe it is already, in other conditions we might be >.01 in advance of RC4 at this point.
This is all a necessary form of financial natural selection. The strong will survive; darkcoin has many evolutionary advantages supporting it. It may be a few tough days or weeks right here but when we come out on the other side, things will look much brighter as we wipe our eyes and the sun shines again... on the DRK side!
i doubt it will effect drk much , to many coins in nodes is what prevented the twitter whale anti drk fud campagin. i think fud will calm down here big time and people will notice on charts today blood everywhere except drk ;-)