I think there is good long term aspect of this coin being dark.
What is Darkcoin's advantage over BTC's darkwallet?
You have to rely on THEIR servers to mix the coins. Do we really know who they are and if they wont just take the coins that goto THEIR server. I'm not saying that they would or planning to, but its an option. With Darksend this is not possible, if someone tried to take the coins sent with darksend the transactions would not be confirmed.
They are sent through their own servers? I see, that's bad indeed, thanks for your answer. And if you'll forgive the noobish question, how is darkcoin better? I couldn't find an article that describe how it is different.
With Darksend we are implementing masternodes that do the mixing, which are just wallets running on someones server that would do the mixing. Not just ANYBODY can run a masternode, you have to have at least 1000DRK in the wallet to run one. Which masternode that does the mixing is selected by a vote from the blockchain automatically. This provides a NEW source of income for Darkcoin supporters, people who run masternodes get 10% of the blockreward when they are the selected masternode. The person running the masternode cant steal the coins because the transfer would not be confirmed.
At last check there were more than 40 masternodes running by people that want to support darkcoin AND make extra coins, and they arent being paid until the next fork scheduled for May 14th, so there is alot of support for it. So thats >=40,000DRK being held just to run masternodes, which will also cause less coins to be available to buy, there for driving the prices up. Its a feedback loop. More DRK is worth the more people will want to host masternodes, the less thats available to buy, driving price up, REPEAT.
For more information visit:
http://darkcointalk.org the white papers are there and instructions about running masternodes.
Please don't hurt him too much, we need him 
Make sure he's not stressing too much either! 
