So yes there is ideology behind this coin : privacy, liberty, freedom, try to make the world less directed by "power" and more with the heart...
I hope that changing the name will not make the ideology behind it change too, otherwhise it will failed.
There's no ideology in something that nobody uses. The ideology's in the design, not the name. Vertoe is justified in leaving over not being consulted but less so over 'ideology'.
It's not a rock song that's being built here it's electronic money.
The name can easily be compromised without any loss of principle but the functionality can't. So Evan has got his priorities right in that regard.
no.
i left because i disagree darkcoin or however it will be called next year is not a decentralized entity. it never was but i ignored it as long as darkcoin was following the same path i was following. the path to total financial privacy. and thats why i am so upset about how this currency is lead by a single person. darkcoin is like an old conservative company with strong hierarchical comamnd structures and a single person on the top of the pyramid. evan duffield. the rebranding using a detergent name was just a step forward in creating something like apple or paypal. fuck this i tell you. what we need is a trustless, decentralized and anonymous currency. darkcoin is not decentralized as it still relies on a single person. and this reaches deep into the code base.
the core devs were just a bunch of volunteers exploited for the big thing. the extended darkcoin team was the same with even a lower place to sit on that pyramid. and what was the darkcoin foundation again? right, something to reserve some rights on some names and collect money. who nominated and voted for the foundation board? who does even know who are these guys? how did we learn about the foundation? from local news papers! the team listings kept counting names of people nobody ever noticed before. and they never committed anything visible to the community or the repository. and i was spending 25 hours a day monitory everything that happened in the darkcoin community for more than a year. the things going on here are fishy, intransparent and rely on a single entity.
i will get out and and will contribute to something decentralized and anonymous. i always hoped darkcoin could fill that void. i cant blame anyone to stay with this project. you are probably investors trying to win a gold donkey. or you are simply trying to exploit every possible vector of profit in the coins space. whatever. you are not here because darkcoin is something it claims to be.
if you disagree with my statement above, i dont care, but answer that simple question: what if evan duffield suddenly announces he quits the project tomorrow morning?
good luck
Hi vertoe. It's good to hear from you, albeit in an adversarial capacity.
This move, first of all, did not originate from Evan. There has been discussion in the community for a long time about changing the name. It all culminated into a thread by Strix on DT that was a long debate pro and con about it, and Evan apparently began to see the reason in the movement to give the coin a more marketable name. DASH was the leading suggestion (Once again not originating from Evan) and it also makes sense due to what we are about, Digital Cash.
He then took our suggestions and set in a plan to accomplish it. It had to be kept private so as not to have squatters on domain names, etc., not because it was a unilateral decision.
As far as decentralization, Evan only wields the power to create sporks, and the reason for that is obvious. When our development is past a certain point, this will no longer be needed, and will be built into the code. While it would hurt to have Evan leave, it could be continued as it is an open-sourced code. It would hurt, but there are other devs out there.
As for the tech, we ARE still on the same page, empowering people with a Trustless digital currency outside of government control. But with a more marketable name, we stand a greater chance of accomplishing our goal.
I will respectfully ask you to consider rejoining us to continue what we have started here. You are a smart man, and you know what we could be capable of accomplishing here.
Once again, thanks for reaching out.
Tao.
