Topic: [ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency - page 6429. (Read 9723858 times)

Seriously impressed with this - I especially like the way the circular 'd' shows kinda how DarkSend works (in a very loose manner, but still cool) :-D

I have read a few of the replies.  All good.

The sea of red on coinmarketcap is down to rumours that China is banning banks from interacting with exchanges. That's causing panic selling. The rumours might be true, but they are still not confirmed. The question is: how important is China to bitcoin?

The other important question for the long-term is - can bitcoin find a place in the financial space? VCs are spending hundreds of millions because they think it can. Their time horizon is not a few months. Its takes a minimum of 12 months for anything straightforward to go from start to launch.

Western Union and the other money transfer businesses, plus many consumer FX firms, are probably the ones who are at risk initially. WU charges $5-$10 on a $100 transfer. Once people get used to $0.05 per transfer with bitcoin then their day is done. WU has reinvented itself many times over, so expect them to be working on a bitcoin project. All they need is regulatory clarity and they could be the biggest players in a few years with all their bitcoin <> fiat outlets.

My brother was involved in a start-up. He had a very, very small stake. The ones that founded the business did so with $10,000. Seven years later they sold out for $50m. My brother got $500k after  taxes. The point is that throughout those seven years nothing was certain and it cost him lost opportunities elsewhere, so he probably came out net +$300k.

Problems? There are many.  All these pump and dump coins are making newbies punch drunk and nursing loses. ASICs are killing the mass supporters - the miners. The miners are the ones that help spread the word, so these ASICs are counter productive on a number of fronts. The current market prices are probably forcing people to turn off their rigs. There are systemic risks at the moment.

Bitcoin is at the point where VC money and regulatory interest is converging. It has a bright future and as we can see just about every other alt-coins is currently tied to the success of bitcoin. Because bitcoin has a bright future, a few alt-coins will do well.

The thing that keeps me up at night is - Is darkcoin potentially better than bitcoin because of DarkSend? From a technical feature point of view, anonymity from the blockchain, potentially yes. Currently, the devlopers support at bitcoin is significant. Can darkcoin overtake bitcoin? probably not. What we are really gambling is that DarkSend stands up to the mass testing that will hit it and that if it passes, then darkcoin will overtake everything else in the short-term apart from bitcoin. That should see more developer support.

This is a start-up project, nothing is certain. But darkcoin has some features that have a place in the market.

I would like to tell you that people aren't really cashing out and this is just an illusion. Those people you believe are cashing out is just holding Fiat on the exchanges. They will jump the train again once they see a BTC stable uptrend or relativlty stable side trend. We didn't come here to cash out at the lowest point did we? Well and you are in DRK so you know you are in for the longer run. Also latest dump was based on false rumours. I won't make your mind for you, but here's some candy

Cheers

Very creepy. Imagine walking into that for the first time. Really one of the only reasons I felt confident enough to ask if it was a real person is that I've seen it happen in a couple different forums. Literally entire threads with nothing but bot converstions and poor bastards that chime in only to be ignored and not know why.

What a creepy story 

thanks for the link!

I think these are awesome, Schwede. You have some great skills with graphic design.

One thing -- do you think the 'd' could be emphasised a bit more?

Also if you want to be in the running for the logo competition payout, you'll have to submit your design on designcrowd: http://jobs.designcrowd.com/job.aspx?id=469921

FWIW that emotional response to get out when it seems to be crashing (and vice versa) is exactly how the majority of people lose money to the profitable traders. Most people who day trade lose money. To become a profitable trader, a large part of it is mental training so that you resist those emotions and urges, and in many cases do the opposite of what the majority of people are doing. It takes time & practice, and you can expect to make costly mistakes initially, that's how you learn. So yeah, not trying to discourage, more saying that based on what you're describing, that's very normal for investors/traders who are new to the game.

here is my suggestion for the drk-logo(s)



have a closer look at the logo-discussion:

https://www.darkcointalk.org/threads/logo-discussion.105/

I gotta say, once in a while, I tell myself I need to go "out there" and see what's happening, and I just spent an hour looking at the announcement forum.  It's nothing short of hilarious and frightening at the same time!  Ugh!  My husband says I should find a more profitable coin to mine so I can buy drk, but frankly I don't see one I'd trust to be around when I'm ready to sell, LOL.

Nah, I stay here.  If nothing else, I support the hash.

Got it. I must have half-realized this before because this is the first time I've actually paid attention and feel like 99% sure I've read the comment before.

Thanks for confirming me for not crazy . . looks like bitcointalk needs captchas now . . the post bots are for real.

Something is going on in general with weird messages, broken english, three sentences that are repeated by multiple user ids that say the same etc. It reminds me of the carbon/copy comments on chinese online shops in which the products are rated by "clients", all saying the same, in the same broken way.

Soo . . I'm a little confused. That guy was trolling a long time ago. I thought it would be wierd that you'd respond now and not even requote . . so I looked at your posts bc someone already said this in this thread.

Are you a real person? It looks like you just copy and paste other peoples comments . .

Or am I going crazy? Just seems wierd b/c you have like one post in every coins thread and it's usually a one liner.

Go and read his threads... He is the DEV for BUNNYCOIN. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go to page 45 of his posts. When he released it he quit his job! People were making fun of him, and the rest of his threads became angry. He is just a little boy who got rejected, and now he`s lashing out. Fucking hilarious! GO AND READ THE THREADS!

So then my 2x290x rig must make up 1/30 of the whole network speed right?

Lawl. Nub.

haha yeah, and I definitely don't have the nerve to day trade so I suppose I'm in it for the long haul too (and probably need to stop fixating on these boards and the charts 24/7) haha! 

Work in progress: http://wiki.darkcoin.eu/

Oh yah, it's a major roller coaster for certain.  A day trader's dream I suppose, LOL.  I suspect when people get more used to cryptos it will settle down.  But even the stock market jumps at bits of news all the time as well, yet then it bounces back again.  I'm a long-term kind of person, so I don't even look too hard at the current prices.  It would probably drive me nuts, LOL.

That's what is hard for me, being totally new. This is the first major dip I've seen/been a part of, whereas people who've been around for a while may feel more comfortable that it'll probably go back up. My first instinct is to cash out (I don't have a lot invested so it's not money, just get the maybe irrational panicky feeling of seeing the red) but I'm hanging on. 

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