Quote from: salmion on September 03, 2014, 08:14:17 PM

Quote from: blockjoe on September 03, 2014, 08:06:45 PM

Quote from: LaudaM on September 03, 2014, 07:24:57 PM

Quote from: johnray on September 03, 2014, 06:20:19 PM

You are right; Darkcoin is only the most successful alternate 2014 scam: This thread summary well what developers and others have done: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=754521.0 and this article: http://www.cryptobang.com/2014/08/27/investigation-of-darkcoin/ There are too many issues with this coin to be only a 'novice' developer mistake; All the issues were set on purpose, and added from a fork of the proper, non faulty and well designed 'litecoin' source code.

These pump and dump, and other better structured scam coins, only kill the trust of investors and miners; We may just hope that the trust will be back one day. But anyway the trust will never come back if these scam coins are still around. 'Ejecting' these bad coins is a goal by itself for the sake of alternates.

No. This is wrong. Darksend is not "only a CoinJoin" implementation. It's not like he copied it and put it there.
It's Evans personal CoinJoin implementation. What does this mean exactly? If I modify my OS (win7) you can't oh it's only Windows 7. The anonymity works now, so that point is also wrong.
Moving on in the article it keeps getting worse. Some of these points are not even really related to Darkcoin nor the developer.
Blockchain forks are bad? Unexpected price drops? Roll Eyes

I was there the week when the coin was launched, I've checked the code. And that's right, some strange 'bugs' are there. This is quite bizarre for a 2014 coin stated as an innovative one; If you are looking for a 'trusty' 2014 coin; this is definitely not the right one.The facts given in the other thread can be checked, the instamine issue is there and can't be denied. And these issues have consequences. Can we really trust a faulty coin?

8 months on? Yes you can trust it.

Because any "scam" would have been actualised by now. Whereas the devs are hard at work every day. Which they wouldn't need to be if it were a scam.

That cryptobang article is written by a pay per article troll.

http://wiki.darkcoin.eu/wiki/FAQ#Was_Darkcoin_Instamined.3F

Do have an idea why most alternates have decreased in value? A lot of investors have lost a lot of money with these 2014 coins. And even the fair and good coins are impacted.

Do you really think that good and honest information is available on the official Darkcoin thread? There are a lot of hype messages without any real value. I'm not a detractor, but when you look closely at what happened at the beginning, the source code, I have not followed the following stage.And what happens now; I recognized that using the word 'scam' like a post before is fair with darkcoin.

Anyway 'darkcoin' doesn't have what bitcoin, and litecoin have, trusty and honest developers who have a higher goal than filling their pockets with hype marketing and software 'tricks'.

Can you really prove that there is no instamine, no strange bugs, and that the cryptocurrency concepts like POW is well implemented without strange pass-through... Really?

Before investing in any coin some rules: Check everything by yourself; the trust comes later. In the darkcoin case a lot of money is at stake, a lot of people are really doing wishful thinking; But the reality is there.

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