Quote from: Come-In-Behind on November 09, 2014, 02:32:20 AM

Also, the recent seizure of underground markets, primarily Silk Road 2, and the arrest of several vendors using those markets, should increase adoption with anonymity coins i.e Monero.

DRK is up about 50% in the past few days. It got some coverage in the mass media after the seizures. Whether that leads to attention or use in underground markets or just attention or use by people interested in privacy, or just attention, it is a lot of free exposure.

XMR is up about 10%. We don't get that kind of exposure, though occasionally we do get some (NewLiberty's appearance on a LTBTC show was a very nice bit of exposure for us).

This is why I'm convinced it is important that we not fall to far into obscurity, and ~~size~~ price does matter.

Success brings more success, and coins out of the top 20 or so by market cap have almost no chance to ever get any exposure, unless they are very new and "up and coming" (which we're not).

In the privacy segment we are clearly #2 right now, which is not terrible. Certainly not as good as #1 when even being #1 in the segment means living in the distant shadow of #1 (Bitcoin) which in turn is in the distant shadow of #0 (fiat).

We have to not lose that position. It's about all we have.

BanditryAndLoot: it looks like Tor was compromised. Explicit details will likely not be forthcoming for some time, if ever.