What panic are you speaking of? It has happened many times before. Deepbit had close to 50% ( I think it even had over 50% before) of the bitcoin network in 2011. There is no economic incentive to do a 51% attack and as I have argued in the DGC thread on the topic, I do not think this is a good chance to promote DGC for obvious reasons.
I'm not sure what obvious reasons your referring to?
Theres alot of stuff in the media about it at the moment and more people now than in the past trading,mining or interested in Bitcoin. Dgc has had numerous unsuccessful forking attempts already unlike other coins suchs as WDC and FTC. Dgc has inbuilt safeguards which Baritus has discussed before.
I don't see why given these reasons and the current big scare talk about a potential 51% attack on Bitcoin its not a perfect time to promote dgc as a strong, safe and promising coin that any wise person should look to invest in for the future??
I may indeed be wrong. Please educate me a bit on these safeguards, and tell if they are anything beyond mere checkpoints? The obvious reasons I'm hinting to are the rather small hashrate that DGC still has. DGC's hashrate was in the hundreds of Mhash/s compared to 114.000 of Mhash/s ltc is protected by. And these hundreds (instead of 100ks!) was just weeks ago, any midsize or even small LTC pool could attempt a 51% attack at any time, unless I am wrong of course. In any case, for a young coin like DGC it would be foolish to go around advertising security in contrast to Bitcoin. If at all, it would promote litecoin first of all. But litecoin is far too manipulated for my taste (extremely!), and profit margins and difficulty are not high enough to attract new time miners/investors. This is where DGC's actual strength lie, next to speed and its awesome community, of course.
Yeah probably better to ask Baritus about those in via PM however I doubt he will go into all the details though. I agree though better to not try and invite people to try and attack your coin but it has survived numerous fork attempts and has a good track record so far. Add to that the slow, steady, solid growth, great upcoming services and the other stuff you mentioned as well
