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Evan was very clear on Jira about avoiding any other references to the technology. Our brand is Darksend. If you could check it out and edit your posts it woild be nice.
Satoshi was very clear, no central authority
Actually, this has brought up something that pissed me off when Kristov talked about Darkcoin recently.
He called it an implementation of CoinJoin as proposed by gmaxwell. Really?
gmaxwell has previously gone out of his way to say he didn't want Darkcoin implementation to be associated with his concept. Actually, I agree. It's nothing like it. It's a pre-mix. Much, much, order of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000x better - because it works.
gmaxwell did not come up with the idea of hiding amongst others. That concept was considered in the 80s. It led to the development of Tor: You can't hide alone, but you can hide if you mix with lots of others.
DarkMix, a random pre-mix with many peers, is its own definition of mixing
Sorry coins101 got to disagree here.
Nobody is saying that Evan is the central authority who gets to decide all... we are saying that those who want to keep the name are the majority (the devs are part of this majority) and that some people calling it by another name is confusing and counterproductive. There have already been people wondering if darkmix refers to some new feature.
There can be only ONE name. Now, if the current name is going to change then it should be done properly by first getting the majority to agree and then getting the devs onboard. Somehow I doubt you will gather a majority that want to change the name, but regardless, anything other method, especially one that has people randomly calling it whatever they want, only hurts the coin and hurts the brand.