I don't usually talk much about price, because honestly I don't really care. I'm mostly concerned with functionality and building something with real utility.
However, that's what the forums have been consumed with so here's my take on this. Darkcoin is six months old, last month we went from $0.77 to $15.00. It was literally four weeks long, and what goes up must come down. Crypto currencies grow in this way, it's actually normal. Next we'll form a base somewhere about here and things will get quiet before we make our next move to the upside.
I don't post all of the time because, I work insane amounts of time on Darkcoin. This is my job and when I'm posting I'm not coding. Plus, I'm an introvert and I really like putting on headphones and cranking out some code. It's what I do.
What's next?
Things will relax and I'll start perfecting the hard fork for the masternode payments, then RC3. When we're happy with that, I have contacts now all over the media that would love to do another article and update our progress.
Speaking of things coming down, that goes for X11Coin too. From the looks of it, you trust your money to the decentralized mixer by the way. They're pretty secretive about how it works, but that's what I gather from it. I'd love to get a response. DarkSend is trustless for a reason, you don't want the "XNodes" running off with the money.
Well, as I stated before I literally just returned from 2 week long vacation. Needless to say I was blown away by the attention DRK has received as of late, and to be honest it's well deserved. The amount the price increased was pretty insane just looking at the charts, so as you stated, it's not a surprise it's coming back down.
With regards to the hard fork for resolving master node payments. Take your time and perfect it. Cryptocurrency investors are incredibly skittish and have a short attention span. I've been trading bitcoin for a couple years and have heard it all. People saying bitcoin was dead after it dropped from the $30 range back down to the $1 range. It was declared dead thousands of times by thousands of different people. You wouldn't know it by taking a look around today.
The DRK price will fluctuate for sure, as it has with BTC. People catch a whiff of something and they react either way. Keep plugging away and do what you do best, I'm sure the end result will be something useful and unique.