There's no way this coin is like the other coins. This coin is different and will keep going up, this is awesome!
This growth rate can't be sustained. The price has almost doubled in 24 hours.
And block reward halved in the same period... with the new nvidia miners round the corner making big gains in hashing power, it seems we go from 7000 coins per day to just 2880 (contrast that to 28.800 litecoins which require 288.000$ daily to be purchased off the market).
Btw, I don't think people realize that Darkcoin is actually ...3$ cheaper than DOGE (if DOGE's monetary supply was adjusted to 4.3mn coins).
I like your perspective AGR. Can you outline the effect of 1% of Bitcoin market going to an anonymous coin? I know you've done it before - it's an eye opener!
The transparent market is a monopoly. We used to have just one choice up to now: Transparent coins all of which coexist in the 7bn transparent market.
Now a new choice is presented: Anonymity. Anonymity begins at 0% marketshare of the 7bn cryptocurrency market.
A monopoly has 100% marketshare. When a monopoly breaks, by the introduction of a new choice, the new choice is usually explosive in its growth. The marketshare of the transparent coins will fall from 100% to 99% and lower while the marketshare of anonymous coins will go from 0% to 1% to higher.
If just 1% of the transparent money goes to anonymous coins, we are talking about 70mn market cap. If it goes up to 10%, we are talking about 700mn market cap for anonymous coins. The effect could be exaggerated further due to the small price of the anonymous market which will spike violently upwards as it struggles to keep up with the money inflow (ie small amounts of money can sweep the orderbook for fun).
That slice of the whole market that can be claimed by the anonymous market is too large. It can fit in there a booming Darkcoin, many clones, additional anonymous coins and existing coins that opt for anonymity features in the future. However first mover has the advantage and the original has the advantage over the clones.
I remember when making the argument in the past, the total anonymous market was like 3mn usd. Now it's >20mn usd and rising, heh.
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Sorry for not participating a lot these last 2 days, but I'm creating a FAQ for Darkcoin - which has escalated to something like 5000 words:
http://wiki.darkcoin.eu/wiki/FAQI think I can take it to 100 Q&As and then perform a context organization per topic.
Send me questions, Q&As, corrections, suggestions, feedback etc. If you feel like it, you can also send some tips for encouragement
Thank you in advance.