Quote from: RenegadeMan on August 20, 2014, 09:22:37 AM

Quote from: aleix on August 20, 2014, 09:00:20 AM

I think RenegadeMan lack of global vision. We are not talking about US service or EU service, we are talking about something can help people all around the world.

China, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, some african countries, most of arab countries like Siria, Egipt, etc.. there are a lot of countries which are not regular democracies like US and EU. Every day journalists, freedom fighters are killed all around the world.

I fully understand what DRK's going to do for the millions of people in the world for who privacy isn't just something nice to have, their very life depends on it.

Contrary to some of the comments on here (which are hardly a surprise, so many people aren't able to think through counterpoint issues, they just return to a default position of rejecting even constructive criticism) I'm not misunderstanding the enormity of what DRK's potentially going to bring to the wider world. I'm talking about the risk to DRK of government and big business facilitating a whipping up of extreme public negative sentiment towards it resulting in a witch-hunt style of attack on anyone involved in running DRK MNs and/or DRK related businesses/services.

It's the risk to DRK of it becoming publicly associated first and foremost as a "criminals' network" that I'm highlighting, not whether DRK has validity, everyone here knows it does. The level of anonymity and privacy offered is a fundamental right that we all should be upholding.

I'm talking about the risk DRK faces and whether we can mitigate that risk to some extent.

Thought provoking post there RenegadeMan. When I think about terrorists and pedophiles using darkcoin and darktor it makes me very queasy. I haven't figured out a way to rectify this against my belief in the beneficial uses of dark or anonymous services. So I usually think about something else instead Undecided

You mentioned marketing, and I agree on the importance of spinning darkcoin in a positive light.

On a related note: more services are coming online that allow simple analysis of the blockchain and related metadata. Take a look at https://www.blocktrail.com/. There are a few articles on it that mention their intention to

"look at the movement of bitcoin, such as assessing whether some bitcoin addresses have been involved in mining or perhaps gambling"
and it also "has a social component that links wallet addresses to websites that mention them, such as forums like Bitcoin Talk"

Once the average bitcoin user realizes how transparent the blockchain is and how easy it is to link their meta data and even personal identity to their transactions, they will understand the importance of anonymity (I think the average bitcoin user does not see this yet). They will soon realize that their wives can look up their accounts because they once posted a wallet address on their facebook profile and now she can see all the porn and gambling sites where hubby spent money.

Darkcoin can leverage this growing awareness to its advantage by continuously reminding people that darkcoin prevents this type of personal infringement.