well basically it is network effects which gives the one on the superior technology a higher utility when he uses the inferior technology, in the case that all others use them as well. even if drk has more users/investors/speculators at this moment of time the inferior technology will in this case not win against the superior, for the reason that the the elasticity between somewhat half-baked private and full private regarding utility is very high. this is not watching a movie on a vhs which is inferior to betamax, but offers almost the same utility - this is a very sensitive issue: the differences in utility between the better and the worse will be massive.
But Monero's advantage is too muddled to trounce DarkCoin, because while DRK's masternodes could potentially be compromised, XMR's I2P connections could potentially be compromised.
Good luck trying to explain the distinction to a wide audience. You'll never scale that dissemination of marketing.
You see this is where I kick your butt, because I've done million user products before and I understand what matters.
You guys in armchairs. Have. No. Fscking. Clue.
You will get off my lawn kiddies.
I think the only area where this is true is privacy factors. Other distinctions rooted in technology may be important for usability factors, but these are essentially linear terms. Privacy is extremely non-linear; in the extreme case, it is nearly a kronecker delta. Network effects follow power laws, so they generally dominate over usability factors, but are in turn, ceteris paribus, dominated by the privacy factor.
In a fantasy world where 'privacy' isn't a lie that you can't market against. Most people think they have privacy already.
Privacy was never a sufficient feature alone to win this market on. I knew that!
Btw, the anonymity trend was to some significant extent pushed along by me since early 2013 and my voluminous posts on the matter. And you think you can be pissingly disrespectful to me and gain community!
I never did anything to any of you to justify you treating me with such disdain. An apology from you would go a long way towards some hope of mutual respect. But I don't expect it will be forthcoming.
I'm looking at the XMR and BBR charts. It's pretty obvious that the market is reacting in radically different ways to the two coins. Essentially, for the past month, BBR is only sold, not bought. I have behaved this way myself, yet I do not know exactly why it is so. Perhaps it is the cbuchner miner which destroyed BBR.
Because there is a perception (and perhaps a reality) that confidence is moving towards Monero. Humans are herding creatures. This is the network effects point as well. The main features these investors (speculators) think is important are the ring signatures and the I2P integration. They don't see what BBR has that is important. BBR is trying to sell a faster hash and some fractional reduction in blockchain bloat, but neither of those features addresses any real perceived dire need (although the faster hash is important long-term for decentralization, but nobody cares right now).
