Topic: [ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency - page 4164. (Read 9723776 times)

And its even better than cash because its fully anonymous unlike cash and more safe. Why is cash not anonymous? Because you have to give it to the seller. Because with cash you actually have to physically go somewhere to buy something from somebody. A lot of things can happen on the way there or once there.... With Darkcoin, the buyer doesn't even need to move anymore to buy things anonymously and the seller doesn't have to move anywhere except to the phone to call fed-ex. (its going to get even better if they ever mainstream delivery drones, it makes sense delivery drones are just robots for deliveries and robots are already popping up everywhere because they save on labour costs)

Darkcoin: More private than cash.

Darkcoin: Safer than cash.

When MN payments were first introduced, forking occurred as the network propagation process could take longer than the blocktime. Since then the inter-MN comms are *much* faster.

If I see 850 active MNs, you and Joe also see 850, any change is propagated within seconds at most. There will always be fringe cases, but that's what the voting system across multiple blocks is is for.

It's critical for future services that MN's maintain comms discrete from the slow blocktime.

Can anyone explain to me what has happened to about 10 pages of this thread? I went to bed last night with this post #59600 from MangledBlue on page 2980 (in response to masternode's overview of his background and crypto involvement):


...and this morning I've hit refresh on that page only to have it go back to page 2970 and #59381 and I can't find that previous post of Mangled. What's appearing on this page is all new (i.e. I'm not reading the previous posts I've already read) but what happened to the numbering?

confused!

Monero has today passed DarkCoin in Price/Coin for the first time.

Crikey, I bought a few gazillion at 0.00000000000000000000000000005 or something, if I sold now I'd be nearly £50 up! 

I'm hoping we can upstage Apple



RC5, same day? 

How's everybody's Ducknote hedge doing ?

DARKCOIN: E-cash at your discretion

I read this thread, and liked the idea of the poster who suggested we move away from the "anonymous" aspect and promote DRK as the "privacy" coin.

The logo with the slogan "DARKCOIN: Privately Accepted Here" was excellent.

Eltito said this is the way that the language will be heading and I support that 100%.

Tao

cash over the internet

How about this one: (not a researched statistic by the way...   )

3429 credit cards get defrauded every minute. For the rest of us, there is DARKCOIN.

Darkcoin: Be safe, why risk a bank run?

Darkcoin: Be private, why compromise personal information for potential hackers?

Darkcoin: Be secure, why risk carrying cash around?

Darkcoin: Shop online. Be protected. Be free.

Darkcoin: Just be free.


Could be cool to eventually have these kinds of affirmations on posters with some awesome graphic designs like these ones by Enzwell, his work is awesome and I really think posters with this kind of design should be everywhere in malls and subways and bus stations, magazines like the economist, business week, macleans, etc. :

https://darkcointalk.org/threads/branding-discussion.616/page-11#post-11593

Great work Enzwell thank you!

+101

Thanks.

I do like this approach. At some point the cat will be out of the bag, so the starting point frames the conversation around the service, not the currency - not an issue, IMO

Re: Branding of DarkTor and usage of Darkcoin (bumped)


****************OPEN LETTER TO DARKCOIN COMMUNITY: PLEASE READ***********************

Intro:

Picture USDLand. How about EURMart. Oh, maybe JPY Motors?

If these company names seem silly to you, it's because they should.



I've been thinking long and hard about this issue, and agree with the posters who have a problem with Darkcoin (DRK) being lumped in
with a business venture, albeit one with massive potential such as the Masternode Network (MasterNet).

Before we proceed with development, it is imperative that we agree to seperate the two permanently.

DARKCOIN - (DRK, .DRK)

I have seen some posters refer to .DRK for some uses such as e-mail, poker sites, or de-centralized exchanges. In my view, this
is a mistake. We do not want new customers (if TOR is any indication, they could number in the millions) to have the first thing they
see for these services to be Darkcoin.

New Custome (NC)r: Hey, I heard that there is a new network that is better than TOR in every way, it's called DRKNET.
Dark Community Member (DCM): Ya, it's great, and it's powered by a fully anonymous digital currency called Darkcoin!
NC: So I need to get Darkcoins, to use this service?
DCM: Ya, it doesn't accept anything else.

The new customer gets the impression that this is the only use for these coins, which may not be true, and he will learn later that
he can use them in other places, but first impressions are strong, and he may use Bitcoin for other transactions.

Conclusion: We MUST not use .DRK (Darkcoin) or anything related to Darkcoin in promoting the Masternode Network (MasterNet, Web 3.0)

THE MASTERNODE NETWORK (MasterNet, Web 3.0)

This is where we need to concentrate our efforts to separate Darkcoin the currency from the Masternode Network.

PokerStars.MN, Webmail.MN, DRKBTC.MN, etc....

Make no mention of Darkcoin at all until the customer decides to try the product.

NC: Hey, I just heard of this great network that is better than TOR in everyway, it's called MasterNet.
DCM: Yeah, buddy, they are offering a free trial to get you started, but after that, you better stock up on Darkcoins, because that is
the only currency they accept!
NC: Really? What are Darkcoins?
DCM: I'm glad you asked! Darkcoins are a fully anonymous digital currency which are accepted worldwide at many locations online and in person,
and are the currency of choice for MasterNet. If you want to use MasterNet, you better create a Darkcoin wallet!
NC: Thanks! *Downloads wallet, thinks of all the places he will spend his coins*

Option 2 is clearly better than Option 1. Eliminate DRK completely from the business aspect of the project.

.DRK (No thanks)
.MN (Now you are talking)

Thank you for taking the time to read this, a lot of thought went into it, and please bump if you like it.

Tao

    

Sorry to bring this back up here, but you should really get your facts straight. The XMR team did NOT launch XMR (Bitmonero at the time), thankful_for_today did. And he was absolutely a member of the BCN team. The project was taken over by the community (the "team", if you will), but they absolutely did not "clean up the code and relaunch", they went with what they had (dropped the BMR name and went with MRO, then XMR, but it's all the same coin).

To Macno, I'd argue this is neither positive nor negative. It's just Dave blogging about history.

I just thought about one of those fears for sentimentality... fear of inflation, now why didn't I think about that before 

Yes, I believe you are correct. It just wasn't appealing to my OCD I guess (that it appears the initialization commands could be left "hanging" with no closure as it were; the closure would just be nodes not seeing it as valid anymore, which should be fine).

Elegant and simple. Good talk.

transactions on the bitcoin network are near instant....  only the confirmations take time...  for small goods you do not have to wait for a confirmation..  is anyone seriously going to try and double spend for a couple of packs of smokes at 7-eleven?

I usually agree that effective marketing should focus on a target audience, but in my opinion if you try to limit Darkcoin or ''Darktor'' use to a specific target market this is a mistake. The target here is without limit, so market it using the things that all people have in common. Maybe think the basic marketing ideas: humour, sentimentality or sexuality... and then think about what it solves for everyone without limiting the product itself to the marketing technique used to sell it.

 Humour can be used to sell Darkcoin...but its not a joke.   Sentimentality can be used to sell Darkcoin, fear of getting tracked- eliminate that fear, freedom and all those that have died for it in the past (you understand, sentimentality...) keep fighting for that freedom, for your brothers and sisters.
 Sexuality can be used to sell Darkcoin, but lets not limit it to sex stuff please, why not create a platform that benefits society as a whole and every level of society, and instead of telling people what the Darktor network should be used for, do like the internet today but better and see where it goes....

 Just thinking here, but instead of limiting the marketing of Darktor to specific uses, define and tune the different marketing techniques used to sell it to the audiences they seek to convince. I also suggest maintaining a synergy between the coin and the node services, if you try to limit the services it might predictably limit the uses of the coin itself to industries related to the services (thinking about the pornography orientation idea that was suggested which seems a little short sighted if a valid idea) I could also be wrong about this... Thanks and have a great day!

DRK was a CPU coin when it was first launched now there are GPU miners and likely FPGA's .

Monero was a CPU coin when it was first launched now there are GPU miners.

Both DRK and Monero likely have had a portion of the coins mined by botnets at some time.  Both coins now have a majority of mining being done by GPU's.