Damn it, I sold 15K of Silk for cheap about 3 days ago.... hmmm wasn't one of my brightest idea's
Anyway currently the hype in Cryptoland is for sure Anon; Darkcoin, XC, Vericoin, etc
I do see why they are "gaining" interest but why invest a lot of "dev's" effort into something that can be a simple "add-on" to a coin. I mean to say, there are several solutions which all still have issue's and are not flawless, in my opinion all the solution are overdoing it and solving a question that does not really exist (maybe I misunderstand it all). When I want to be Anon, why I don't just create a new wallet address and put my coins there? Who would be able to find out to which wallet address the coins belong, when I have more than 10 addresses nobody can see who I am and how much coins I really have..... or am I not getting it?
This all changes when we start to use the Eco-system, if I understand that correctly. We will all have a nickname which allows us to simply transfer coins from one and another using our nicknames. So when I borrow money I can simply ask their nickname and transfer to that address instead to the long address that is generated normally. THEN the Anon feature will nice to have, but it should simply be an addition to the wallet. So my family / friends won't be able to find out how much money I have, however why invest so much effort into something that is currently created as an opensource add-on to the protocol?
This is just how I see it, hopefully I am not talking crap here and do have some understanding of it all....?
In my honest opinion, all anonymous currencies now available are just riding on the DarkCoin anonymous hype train. The only reason all these coins have popped up is because of the hype that DarkCoin created when it shot up to a $60M market cap. DarkCoin has one thing going for them, and that's their marketing. Considering the fact that DarkSend is not fully operational at the moment, most if not all their success can be attributed to their marketing. They've managed to create a hype around DarkCoin by marketing their features, such as DarkSend, DrakGravityWave and the X11 algorithm.
DarkSend is a
slightly improved decentralized implementation of CoinJoin, DarkGavityWave is just KGW with a fix for the time-exploit. Their only real true innovation is the X11 algorithm. Source :
http://bitcoinist.net/darkcoin-and-darksend-why-you-should-care/The only reason other coins have succeeded, is becuase traders who missed out on DarkCoin naturally moved to the next best thing, which ended up being XC which has been hyped up, pumped and then dumped. The same thing happened with WhiteCoin after they cloned BlackCoin, and it also goes for SpainCoin which hopped aboard the "country coin" hype train started by Auroracoin.
When a coin has no infrastructure or solid foundation (features, community etc) , if it gets pumped, it will not be able to recover from the inevitable dump. SilkCoin already has a solid foundation in terms of features and community. SilkCoin already has a multitude of features, so when we do add anonymity it will not be our sole feature but merely an extension to all the other features that we currently have. All these anonymous coins, which only have a
sole anonymous feature, are purely speculative and have little to no foundation. Since their only feature is anonymity, then to establish infrastructure they need merchant adoption, which due to their anonymous nature, is very hard to accomplish. If I look three months down the line I only see DarkCoin as the remaining "anonymous" coin.