Topic: [ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency - page 4403. (Read 9723733 times)

I agree...I think with time people can get over the Darkcoin name...wouldn't have been my first choice for a world anon currency, but it is unique and it is a statement.  I have this with my own winery name...I picked something completely out of the ordinary- Misconduct Wine Co.  and we now have a growing cult following in high end restuarants and select stores.  In the snoddy world of wine...it took alot of time.  But everyone remembers it and gets what we are about.  There is still 50% of the old guard wine consumers that flip their nose up...but today we had one of the top private wine collectors come in and rant and wave about our wines!  Time....friends time.  Evan knows what he is doing...

Yes...we need to get the word out...to those 1% that are looking to shed the shackles, we need to educate those that want this, need this.  Even at a fraction of a percent...this is HUGE...for us that is.  We would still be a blip on the radar.  Who knows...so many things can change this in a heart beat.  The time is here for us to harden the dark code and polish the wallets, the steps for all those that want anonymity can gain it.  

On the other hand there are lots of smart people staying away from darkcoin who normally love privacy and anonymity. People like Andreas Antonop, Taaki even Gmaxwell. Personally, I think the darkcoin code works and is bloody brilliant but the closed source nature is driving talent away. Also, you guys are going to hate me for saying this but the name divides. Maybe that's what you guys want and I'm not bothered by it but uninformed people will tend to assume sinister motives simply because of the word dark. Ok, some of you will say we don't care; let Evan finish coding and we'll stick with the name. In that case, we can't complain about the current price. And I know many of you don't care about price. But it all adds up.

Excellent train of thought... Good one 

Hi Gang...can anyone provide the currant update on the total Master Nodes out there?

We actually don't need the masses. Even 1% of fiat marketcap is enough. And if 1% of that 1% is private, that's enough for DRK too.

Total money supply (M3) for EU and USA should be more >25 trillion USD. If we add the rest of the planet, that's ...a lot.

Anyway 1% of that is 250 billion USD.

1% of that 1% is 2.5bn USD for the anon marketcap.

And 99% can enjoy fiat

Same goes for gold/silver/platinum/palladium investors who generally dislike or hedge fiat. The marketcap of the physical should be around 10 trillion USD easy (gold is upwards of 7 trillion in itself). If you go to the marketcap of physical+paper, that's even more...

The cryptomarket is still too small.

With v29 can anybody who couldn't get more than one round of Darksend now get multiple rounds? Or has that not been fixed yet?

+1

And with darkcoin it's the exact opposite.
Evan's identity is known and he creates a coin to make all users transactions anonymous.

The only problem I see is, what will happen to Evan's private life should darkcoin go to the "center of the galaxy" ?
(that's where it belongs, not "to the moon"... the US empire belongs to the moon)

I actually think you should add prostitution in there.

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21611063-internet-making-buying-and-selling-sex-easier-and-safer-governments-should-stop

yeah true....the masses will never completely or even remotely embrace crypto....maybe in a couple generations it may become common place.  I for one will be proud that I had a very small part in it and was here to witness the beginning!  

Silk Road was like Christmas for the Rozzers.

In fairness, Warren did quite a lot in terms of fixing up LTC and saving it from almost certain technical death....some of his work found its way into BTC and also into DRK.

Bitcoin.....

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

Last change 11hrs ago. It still looks like RC as well  

I don't think any of the long-term believers are thrilled with DRK trading lower, but at the same time are focused on the larger picture. RC4 is released, it works. Yes there were a few new versions to fix some issues, but it's on mainnet with multiple wallets denominated with others. Testnet had a bunch of fixes but testnet only goes so far for replicating the network that mainnet is. As issues creep up (and they will), Evan and team will have a better idea of how to fix them appropriately and move forward with the next RC revision.

While I wasn't apart of the testing on testnet, I did follow the thread. I was a bit concerned when Evan gave the initial Monday or Tuesday launch as there were still issues creeping up but overall, even with the multiple new wallets released yesterday, we have something that didn't "break" the coin. It's an easy enough upgrade now that 97% of the pools have complied with masternode payouts--it's just a matter of a simple upgrade vs additional coding to figure out paying MNs.

I believe exciting things are ahead and as more and more analysis is done on the BTC blockchain, the more desirable having a solution that doesn't allow analysis will be. It hasn't been a great market for altcoins in general the past few months, let alone BTC's downward move also contributing. The constant P&D's sucking even more BTC out of the system while leaving plenty holding the bag. DRK sure had its fair share of problems, dating all the way back to the initial launch, to the recent RC releases with forking issues.

...but, with all those growing panes, the DRK we have as of yesterday is completely different than the one 4 months ago, certainly different than Xcoin in the beginning. If you really believe the privacy/anonymous altcoin market really deserves to have valuations at just fractions of what BTC's market cap is, you should take a step back and re-evaluate. I was never one to believe that bitcoin was going to be replaced or that magically, crypto was going to replace fiat currency as we know it today (at least in the next 10 years or so), but maintaining a form of privacy after transacting in BTC or just in general is something many will desire. I'm sure there are still people that believe BTC is anonymous...

Uh, that's existed for quite some time now has it not?

Plenty of talk but no actual development... and there has never been such a thing as a LTC developer worthy of the title - fork BTC, rename it, use a different algo, job done eh? Sit on your arse for over a year and then shoot yourself and your fellow bagholders in the head with ASICs. Genius!

I'm in the UK. We have people tripping all over each other because its so full. I'll take a closer look  

I sympathize for his job, as he is not reviewing static code but rather something that is constantly changing / evolving / reprogrammed to new functionality. You can't really rubber stamp if you have to face this (otherwise positive) problem.


Crypto-traders, buyers, etc do not usually understand technical concepts, not necessarily because they are stupid, but because they might lack the knowledge to properly evaluate stuff.

1. We've seen that in "complex" coins: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/is-counterparty-xcp-severely-undervalued-637645 (read post #2 and post #9 by me)

2. We've seen that in the anonymous market: a lot of people were unable to properly evaluate the worthiness of certain coins in the marketplace. People were getting excited by vapor, believing FUD as truth, claiming scummy P&Ds are innovative anonymous coins, equating DRK being trustless and decentralized with other trusted and centralized solutions, not understanding the difference between actual coins that can be used versus proof-of-concept coins etc etc.

Err, that's almost ~40% slippage.

Happy to report after updating to 10.12.29 (RC) I noticed all my coins that appeared "stuck" on the previous release happily moved over to my total balance and they are all appearing anonymized. Earlier in the day they were all stuck in "unconfirmed" and I had 0 balance.

I'm not too sure what happened or what the actual cause was, but maybe I just needed to be more patient 

Cheers!!

Is there anything I sell that's NOT interesting?

Sorry, had to fix it...