I took a look at dark markets, fascinating stuff of course, I strongly oppose drug usage, but you can't stop the progress.
What I've noticed though that no anon coins are used there. It's just Bitcoin (and sometimes Litecoin). No Dark XC Cloak Monero and so on.
It proves my belief that all anon coins are more or less marketing gimmicks with no real world usage, and very unclear perspectives.
Also they are fragmented in many different projects, which undermines their whole ecosystem, because obviously the only chance to succeed for them would be some unification of efforts.
Don't invest in anon coins
This is my opinion I might be missing something. Please share yours.
What I've noticed though that no anon coins are used there. It's just Bitcoin (and sometimes Litecoin). No Dark XC Cloak Monero and so on.
It proves my belief that all anon coins are more or less marketing gimmicks with no real world usage, and very unclear perspectives.
Also they are fragmented in many different projects, which undermines their whole ecosystem, because obviously the only chance to succeed for them would be some unification of efforts.
Don't invest in anon coins
This is my opinion I might be missing something. Please share yours.
Current darkmarkets are based on webservers running Tor. Bitcoin is much more
convenient to acquire than any altcoin and is more trusted. It is probable that
before too long an anon altcoin will succesfully integrate darkmarket into the wallet
and if it is easier to use and acquire than btc (this last one is quite a feat though)
it will become the killer app in this sector.