There's a reason why BTC and LTC is more user friendly in a sense of early adopters and rewards and people arriving later to mine. Sure you need more hashing power as difficulty goes up, but the reward is the same for years.
Eh? One can make more BTC or LTC mining DRK.
Short term gains are possible, but the initial holders/whales will dump and crash the coin. It's inevitable.
Can't the same argument be used for BTC? Whale buyers bought at <10$ and can crash BTC if they cash out at like 50-100x. Not to mention Satoshi's wallet.
I only use 1000 BTC to buy up early Darkcoin and hold them. As more people start to see the coin becoming lucrative, they start trading and mining. As the price gets to my predetermined price point I start to cash out and then eventually dump. Sure it's possible for a coin to recover but not likely for a while and screwing over a lot of people and killing development. You could easily double your initial investment after half year to a year.
You've just described the process of every coin. Everyone buys low, expects a high that they will sell at and cash out a portion, or all.
Thing is, DRK is better due to the reward formula, not worse, because it has a lower inflation formula.
Lower inflation = less money required to buy daily production to keep price steady = more money (not less) available to purchase "old" coins.
Coins with higher inflation than DRK will have a far bigger problem dealing with dumping of investors when price hit predetermined levels.
You missed my point, I don't care if someone buy low that's how the markets work.
What I have an issue is when the mining reward system is so SKEWED towards initial adopters. This is a sure way for the developers of a coin to RAKE in huge PROFITS without the dreaded word PREMINE
It's really the same thing.
If you want to risk mining Darkcoin for short term gains then have at it. DON'T plan to hold Long term, you will get screwed.
I'm moving on now, looking at Hirocoin currently and am neutral about it right now. I need to see how the reward system and difficulty is setup.