anyone here heard about the instamine of 2m darkcoin ? i didn't understand it well, if some of the dev of this coin could explain this stupid story
i am holding about 10k dark and i hope this story isn't true ....
The 2 million I think you are referring to was a misunderstanding. The dev proposed that what if hypothetically, at some point in the future, there would be a 2 million DRK block mined to his wallet, which he would then distribute to people. Then someone who apparently couldn't read English properly, thought that the dev wrote that he already had (pre)mined 2 million, and started spreading his interpretation as the truth. The proposition was quickly rejected by the community btw.
No no, I mean yes, mistake last weekend asking if people would be happy if we did an airdrop, but it wasn't thought out, and kind of put out there when Evan came up for air (probably deep underwater coding, 'cause Monday was a big beta release with lots of updates) Then all hell broke loose and Evan killed that thought when he realized it was a bad idea.
But the
instamine is true. There was a mistake in the code that was repaired within a day or so but nobody realized until a block explorer was made, how bad a leak it was. At that point, it was about a week into mining, and there was no going back. Turns out, IMO, that it was a good thing. Big holders have sold off their coin, which made for even better distribution to future users of this coin, as people who don't mine were able to buy Darkcoin cheaply even to this day. Face it, after the instamine was discovered, nobody wanted to hold on to the coin, they thought it was dead! But Evan's innovations and constant support for us and the coin kept interest going, then it started to become apparent that he really knew what he was doing, and one-two-three improvements were made so quickly! Well, first the X-11 algorithm, which turned out to run so cool, then KGW had some loop holes, so Evan wrote a different way to protect against large fluctuations in mining difficulty, from scratch, in less than a day, if I remember correctly. It was better and he called it Dark Gravity Wave, which was really how it worked, like a wave, smoothing out the bumps. And finally, he came through, quite quickly, with the anonymity feature he named DarkSend.
He is an amazing thinker and coder. Last week, when he had that epic conversation with Anonymint, coming up with new ideas and ways to make DarkSend better, he implemented the foundation of the whole thing over the weekend and Monday, we had a new DarkSend! This guy's not just amazingly good, he is a DO'ER. Seriously, one in a million.
He's also an honest and I think rather simple person from what I've seen. Likes to engage the community to a fault, and who else out there puts their name out there for their coin? I don't think he ever even thought about using a pseudonym. Probably never occurred to him.
So yes there were hiccups, but those hiccups have turned into assets (great distribution) and the coin is chugging along really well because it's frankly, the best coin out there. Far better than Bitcoin, however it could never have happened without Bitcoin. Bitcoin is the Father/Grandfather of all coins. But soon, Darkcoin will be the coin on everyone's lips
