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Wow! You nailed it... months ago.
Yeah I'm starting to become an expert at anticipating failures
My DRK predictions:
I believe there will be issues with future functionality as some of the things are totally new and have the potential for quite a few bugs to resolve, like the 10% payment, in a proof of stake/proof of service way, towards the masternodes. We might even see fork failures. Bleeding edge, is bleeding edge - so one must be ready for everything... Personally I'd take bleeding edge any day over a shitcoin - and so far it's paying out handsomely despite whatever issues have appeared and been resolved so far.
Darkcoin is not Bitcoin. It's in active development. Its code is changing every day and there have been two hard forks in like 10 days. Something can go wrong with a bug, people can flash-crash it in an instant and a candle might appear at 6$. Why bet* on something like that? The masternode hack in particular can be tricky for it requires changes in stratum + p2pools. It got delayed 2 weeks and it'll still have bugs I believe, that might require extra hard fork.
(btw the candle at 6$ and the flash crash, actually happened due to the fork fail
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In my opinion, RC4 is going to be a game changer if it launches without any issues.
I think it's highly unlikely it won't have any issues and be 100% ready. After all it's not called "final".
It'll probably need tens of bugfixes post-release. The rate of bug-squashing is significant, which means that mainnet functionality will surely uncover more bugs that weren't discovered in test-net scenarios. But unlike network forking issues with MN payments, these bugs do not carry the same weight. Forking is a game-stopper. Darksend bugs aren't. You patch them and move on.
The only one I failed to anticipate was the second RC3 fork (IIRC), where I was "cautiously optimistic" due to all the testing done... And as it turned out, the network was working half-decently by realigning correctly after forking but it just took longer than the confirmation window (>15m or 6x2.5m blocks) so it had to be rolled back. So, in terms of prediction, it wasn't entirely a fail but it wasn't entirely a success either.
The game here is to bypass hype and try to understand what you are dealing with in terms of technology, whether we are talking about Darkcoin, Monero or something else.
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