Hi, can you explain about 4 million coins, it says 22 million and 7% decrease in the number of coins generated per year, on page 1.
Thanks
Yes, I was just trying to explain why the price was going up right now. Demand should easily outpace mining the next 50 years or more. In fact, because of the variable rewards, it looks like the final number of coins will be more like 19 million rather than 22.
The price is mainly due to increased interest in the coin, more people are discovering it's quality and ANONYMITY feature, network effects are taking place. The fact that it also has a limited supply is a critical factor.
As interest grows the price will grow.
To think of it another way If there was only one forum troll in the world it would still be worthless, it's scarcity doesn't make it valuable by itself.
If people find DRK more useful for them to USE than e.g. LTC or BTC, then in time DRK's price will be over $75 or $2000 (4mil DRK vs 29mil LTC/13mil BTC) respectively.
Network effects will make this happen over time.Someone pointed out, a few hundred pages back somewhere, that the code base for Darkcoin is not a million miles away from Bitcoin. That means that Darkcoin could, with a bit / a lot of effort, be added to any existing merchant, payment processor, ATM, etc where Bitcoin already exists.
So if Bitcoin becomes mainly about the block chain analysis, and people get the lack of anonymity in Bitcoin, then there is an outside chance that Darkcoin could be bundled in as an alternative for specific outlets, points of purchase and distribution points.
If this rate of interest and popularity continues, Darkcoin could be the obvious choice over any other potential solution that could achieve the same thing. Who knows where this might go (other than to the moon
)