@ theonewhowaskazu:

Sorry I've been away from the forums. I had to move to a new apartment and get everything set up and get back online. Just now getting settled in.

I'll be making some withdrawals from Mintpal and Cryptsy and sending you a payment quite soon. Haven't caught up on my emails and pm's and stuff yet, so my apologies to you (and anyone else) if I failed to respond!

Regards,

The DRK Lord

For some reason my posts keep getting deleted... so I'm gonna try this again... 

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Good evening, BitcoinTalk...

I currently have about 0.40 BTC for sale... Looking for a Western Union, MoneyGram or Walmart-to-Walmart money transfer. I currently cannot accept MoneyPak because my card got frozen for trading BTC and loading lots of codes. But I can consider other options if you have another payment method. No Paypal though, sorry!

I have excellent trust and reputation here and have traded many, many thousands of USD worth of coin and goods. Escrow always accepted. But I will not send first unless you have a higher trust score and more positive feedback than I do. No exceptions!

If you're interested or have any questions or proposals please send me or pm or simply reply below...

Thanks,

The DRK Lord

-- P.S. --
Extending my special offer: If you can get USD to me quickly (before 8pm CST) I will sell at a discount!

I suggest asking one of these guys:

• turtlehurricane
• LouReed
• cooldgamer

... and there are a few others. I've done business with these guys before and would trust any of them with up to $10K+ USD, without hesitation. I've done the most business with turtlehurricane, and we've traded many, many thousands of USD worth of coins and talk on the phone often. He doesn't have a lot of ratings on these forums but he is well known on reddit and owns a legitimate business.

I haven't done as much trading with LouReed and cooldgamer, but both of them are old and highly respected members here with long trading histories -- in fact, they often escrow other users' transactions because they are so highly trusted here. So I suggest you start by talking to them. You can also look at my feedback/trust page and talk to some of the other guys I've traded with and given positive ratings.

If you find another seller but you're afraid to trust them with your money you definitely want to use escrow. I always go to TomatoCage, escrow.ms, DannyHamilton or LouReed for BitcoinTalk.org escrow. And I use vertoe for DarkcoinTalk.org escrow. And be VERY careful about sending cash in the mail. AFAIK, cash cannot be insured and if it comes up missing you're screwed. So money orders and checks are the way to go.

If all else fails and you still cannot find the BTC you need just send me a pm or let me know. I can try to help you find what you need. And if worst comes to worst, I can middle-man a purchase for you and help you get the BTC, even though I generally avoid being liable for 3rd party funds.

Regards,

The DRK Lord

The fact is, the IRS and SEC can disapprove all they want but they cannot stop it. The snake has many heads -- cut one off and 3 more grow out to replace it.  

Anonymous, decentralized exchanges are an inevitability. Just like a toddler who can't get what he wants, western governments will kick, scream and throw tantrums about this. But they will lose, and make fools of themselves. This is the age in which government will begin to lose its grasp on the power to control our lives and our behaviors from cradle to grave. And Darkcoin is going to be a powerful, driving force in this global revolution.

I'm sorry, I don't currently have enough BTC to fulfill your request. I could acquire that much BTC with your money, but I generally don't make those kinds of deals. I may be able to help you find someone else who can better serve your needs though, if you like.

Also, I would advise you do NOT send that much money in the mail in cash form. Use a cashier's check or money orders and insure it!

Regards,

The DRK Lord

 

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

 

What allegations? 

I simply commented on the fact that you have a lot of negative trust ratings and all of the trust/feedback you've given to other people are negative... that IS true. Proof? Click on "Trust" below your username...

Oh, wow!!! Wonder why his Trust score is showing as zero with all those red marks? It should be in the red/negative.

Also note that every single trust rating/feedback he's ever given to someone is negative... tells you a lot about his personality...

Dude, no... you're embarrassing yourself here...



If that was even possible, you could create infinite Darkcoins by setting up two masternodes, getting this 500 DRK block you're talking about twice, and setting up more masternodes. Then the currency would be effectively worthless == no profit for anyone. 

Anyone can set up a masternode. All you need is 1,000 DRK which is currently only about $5,940.00 USD. That's a very LOW entry cost that a lot of individuals can easily afford.

Just stop...

Excellent! I'm glad you were able to listen to reason before doing more financial harm to yourself and having more regrets and bitterness. IMO, that is the best decision you've yet made. Sometimes NOT reacting to changes in the market is the smart move.

I do not think you're "stupid" or an "idiot", I just think you're new to this and needed some wisdom and guidance to put things in perspective. When I was a newbie learning to trade stocks and futures I used to kill myself making absolutely retarded and illogical trade decisions, so you're not alone, young brother... almost everyone makes mistakes like these when they first start learning to trade and invest! :-)

I have a few more trading/investment tips for you and all the other newbie traders following this thread. I can routinely earn anywhere from 2.50 to 15.00 DRK per day on as little as 100.00 DRK using this knowledge and these strategies...

Ever heard the old saying "Buy low, sell high"? Almost everyone has... yet over 90% of traders and investors fail to master this very elementary thing. The reason is because people make irrational decisions based on emotions. They see the price of something start rising quickly and they think "OMG I want in!!!" and they buy it right away without thinking. The price may continue to rise a bit longer, but soon the "smart money" traders (the people who bought in before you ever thought about it) are going to start selling and pocketing their profits. This will start pushing the price back down, and the laggards will start selling in the wake of this and locking in their profits, pushing it down even more. At this point, the other 90% of the market thinks "Oh nooooo! It's crashing! We're doomed!" and they start hitting the PANIC PANIC PANIC button like crazy and dumping their shares/coins. This massive influx of sell orders pushes the price down drastically, causing a market correction after the big rally. And while 90% of the market is panic selling, do you know what they smart money is doing? They're BUYING into the panic, and getting all their shares and coins back again way cheaper than they just sold them. And this is what distinguishes the "smart money" from the "dumb money", and how the "dumb money" continually flows into the pockets of the smart money. It's not a "rigged game" and there's no trickery or deceit going on here... most people are just lousy money managers and throw their money down the drain, trade after trade.

Have you ever watched "Mad Money" on CNBC with Jim Cramer? He's a bit crazy, but he's an ex-hedge fund manager who became famous for earning his investors returns of 20-60% year after year. One thing I like about Cramer's show is that he can break down seemingly complicated Wall Street jargon and investment/trading strategies into easily understood statements that make sense to the "Average Joe" learning to manage their own money. You should start watching his show, and learn to apply many of his lessons to your own crypto-trading strategies. One of my favorite Jim Cramer quotes is "Buy the fear, sell the greed!" <-- That is the perfect way to look at the "Buy low, sell high" proverb. This means that when the market is in a panic and everyone is selling YOU should be BUYING... and when everyone is greedily buying, buying and buying, chasing gains higher and higher, YOU should be lightening the load and SELLING into the rally. You can have great success just by doing the OPPOSITE of what they market is doing, because 90% or more of the people out there are making the WRONG decision time and time again.

The final tip I'm going to give you is the manage the SIZE of your positions wisely, and never spend all of your cash in one buy order NOR sell all of your shares/coins in one sell order. You have to learn to balance out your asset allocation. Hold a certain % of your total funds in DRK, and BTC. This gives you a safety net and room to correct errors. For example, I have 4 different trading accounts at different exchanges, and I try to hold a balance of 100-200 DRK in each. I avoid being positioned 100% long or short for/against DRK. I also buy and sell in a "pyramid-like structure". If I have 1.0 BTC to buy DRK with, I do NOT put in one huge order to buy 1.0 BTC worth of DRK. If the price is currently 0.01150 BTC per DRK I will place the following orders:

BUY 10.00 DRK @ 0.01150
BUY 15.00 DRK @ 0.01140
BUY 15.00 DRK @ 0.01132
BUY 20.00 DRK @ 0.01121
BUY 25.00 DRK @ 0.01110

... and so on ...

If you visualize my order structure, it would look like a pyramid. When you're selling, you do the same thing and create an upside-down or inverted pyramid of orders which gradually sells more and more as the prices rises. When you do this properly, you no longer need to predict exactly where the price will go and hope a single order gets hit at the perfect price point. You let the momentum of the market do all the work for you. And, for example, when your upside-down pyramid of sell orders is 62% completed and the price begins falling, you take the BTC proceeds from that market move and set up a pyramid of buy orders at prices lower than your average sale price. As the market falls/corrects, you're gradually buying back all that DRK cheaper and cheaper. The end result is that you're constantly gaining more DRK and BTC and profiting from your trading rather than losing! 

Learn to separate your emotions from all your trading decisions. Trade like a machine or robot whose only goal is to acquire, acquire, acquire and gain larger amounts of BTC and/or DRK. If you're about to make a trade based on feeling angry, afraid, greedy or happy then STOP! You're doing it wrong! ;-)

Hope this is helpful to you and all other aspiring crypto-traders!

-- The DRK Lord --

I'm working really, really hard to complete this wallet overhaul in time for the big RC4 release and trying to coordinate my work with Evan so we can make it happen. We still don't have any concrete release date, and I'd be lying if I tried to give you one. But if I had to make an educated guess, I would say that seeing RC4 within another 2-4 weeks is possible. Again, that's just a guess based on where I'm currently at and where Evan, flare and the other devs are at with their workload. It could, with any luck, come sooner... and if things get delayed it could be later. So please take my guess for what it is and don't bet any money on it! 

Also worth mentioning is that the new wallet software will indeed include a feature to automatically convert payment amounts from DRK, BTC, fiat, etc. Need to quick-send your friend $50? No longer will it be necessary to minimize your wallet, open a calculator, check prices on exchanges, do the math yourself then copy+paste the correct amount of DRK into your payment form. You can simply select "USD" from the combo-box, enter a value of 50.00 and the wallet software will calculate the correct amount of DRK for you. When you click the "Send" button a small confirmation window will pop up and say something like "You are attempting to send 7.14 DRK ($50.00 USD) to [recipient]. Is this correct?" and there will be a "Confirm" and "Cancel" button. That way it will help you avoid any mistakes you may have made if you, for example, forgot to select the right thing or entered the wrong amount.

I'm doing everything I can think of to make the new Darkcoin wallet a self-sufficient piece of software. Current crypto wallet designs require too much switching to other applications and tools to check things, convert prices/currencies, copy+paste addresses and data, etc. I'm trying to eliminate all those extra complications so that you can figure out everything directly from your wallet without switching apps to improve your personal workflow and reduce the amount of mistakes you make with transactions.



I also wanted to "bump" this for those who didn't get a chance to see it...

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Thanks everyone for your continued support and generosity! :-)

-- The DRK Lord --

Your first major newbie mistake was investing your ENTIRE $3,000 all at once... you never looked for a good entry price, never did any dollar cost-averaging or did anything sensible here... I doubt you've ever traded a stock or any financial security in your life, and probably did about as much research as a 3rd grade book report.

My friend and I have invested about $8,500.00 USD into DRK since before the last hard fork failure (past 2 months). We started buying DRK above 0.02 BTC. But you know what? Our losses so far are completely manageable and we're not worried one bit. We only purchased small amounts at 0.02+ BTC, and as the price has fallen we've progressively purchased larger and larger amounts, continually averaging down our average unit cost per DRK. And I'm buying every last DRK I can get my hands on near the 0.01 BTC level... this price point feels like the bargain of the century on the eve of RC4.

Your second newbie mistake was investing $3,000 into ANY crypto-currency, especially since this is a lot of money to you and you say you're "poor". If you're poor you never should've bought ANY coin, much less $3K worth. You never invest what you cannot afford to lose in crypto-currencies... that's just completely asinine, especially if you have no clue what you're doing and zero trading/financial experience...

Your third newbie mistake is ignoring the fundamentals and the huge, market-shaking changes coming to DRK with RC4. Have you paid attention to Evan's posts about Darksend+? The code audit by Kristov Atlas? The huge wallet/UI overhaul that I am working on? Or any of the other dev updates? Obviously not.

Your fourth newbie mistake is going to be panic selling your DRK now around 0.01 BTC just before it whip-saws up to 0.05+ BTC after RC4... that 260-ish DRK you bought for $3k would probably rake in over $7,800.00 for you if you just held it. But you're going to be regretting panic selling every day of your life as DRK rises to $30.00, $50.00, $90.00, $125.00, $200.00, and on and on and on... eventually it'll be trading at 1.5x to 3.0x the value of 1 BTC...

Your fifth (but probably not your last) newbie mistake is NOT BUYING MORE DRK NOW and averaging down your avg. unit cost per coin!!! 

Sorry your first brush with crypto trading has been rough, but you need to learn how to manage your money and think things through...

-- The DRK Lord --

Hey there,

Thank you for pointing this out. Your suggestion makes perfect sense, and is actually more consistent with the other graphics/icons than the way we presented it in the mock-up. I will see to it that we flip the arrows as you suggested.

Thanks for making Darkcoin a little bit better today! :-)

Regards,

The DRK Lord

Yeah, I'm considering trying out Vanilla. I've bought BTC with Vanilla reloads from other people before, and a lot of people say it's better than GDMP.

Walmart/Mastercard has frozen my account/services for loading a lot of MoneyPaks during the past week. So I currently cannot accept more MoneyPaks. However, I'm willing to try other payment methods.

Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions!

Thanks,

The DRK Lord

I don't think DRK will outright "replace" BTC, but I think they'll be looking at each other eye-to-eye in the near future...

I think Bitcoin is going to remain a very popular and sort of "mainstream" crypto-currency. Whereas Darkcoin is going to provide a global financial system for anonymous, private transactions -- the world's first global "dark currency market". Bitcoin and Darkcoin will co-exist for quite some time and have a symbiotic relationship. And I think you'll see people in the future swapping large amounts of BTC for DRK and back into BTC after using Darksend to anonymize their Bitcoin activity... essentially making DRK an anonymous on-ramp/off-ramp for Bitcoin. You'll probably also see anonymous banking, anonymous stock/futures/FOREX brokerages, dark exchanges and all sorts of awesome privacy centric financial infrastructure spring up around Darkcoin.

With Darkcoin being a bit more "exotic" than Bitcoin, a lower coin supply (for now) and high demand, I think 1 DRK might trade at 1.5x to 3x the value of 1 BTC but Bitcoin may retain a higher total market cap for some time...

-- The DRK Lord --

Got em now...

Here are all of our wallet addresses if you'd like to send a tip to those of us working on the wallet/client overhaul:

raze: Xtrdw361DvoyDhxL5XoeAvTxTPvM4dXuLW
Minotaur: Xu2shU9MsYboEipSgGJTnyrNfkyRKEaB7y
DRKLord: XvWrvpERfUN8r1LB9JDMZS3Yu2rSfEYrHk

Thanks for your support and care. 

-- The DRK Lord --

Minotaur: Xu2shU9MsYboEipSgGJTnyrNfkyRKEaB7y

I will have to ask raze to supply his, because I don't see it posted.

I'd also like to mention that raze and Minotaur volunteered to do this work for the project and community. They took time out of their own lives to do it, and they aren't being paid for it. They've put a lot of time and effort into it, and deserve our appreciation and thanks! If you enjoy using Darkcoin software and like the progress and work you're seeing, it would be very kind and encouraging to tip these gentlemen a little DRK for their hard work and dedication!

I generally don't solicit tips for myself, but I do accept them:

XvWrvpERfUN8r1LB9JDMZS3Yu2rSfEYrHk

 

-- The DRK Lord --