pretty dissapointing performance of the cryptonote-coins lately...
i would have expected them to do a lot better in the shadow of drk and the drk problems lately.
but no all of them are down monero, quazar, bytecoin, etc.....
I don't know if it's a stretch to say that investors seem to trust the bitcoin-blockchain tech rather than the bcn-blockchain tech. Perhaps the fact that anyone can install a client or that exchanges are quickly adding bitcoin-based coins (compared to bcn) is also playing a role.
XC is walking in the same steps of DRK. Admittedly it's many months behind, somewhere around Feb-March levels both in terms of price per coin (although it has more coins) and technology. Although parts of DarkSend were rewritten to become better back in April.
Here's a post talking about the differences between Darkcoin and XC: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=600706.msg6979796#msg6979796
Claims of being vastly superior to Darkcoin implementation.
The fact that it is based, more or less, on the same principle of DRK is interesting because the dev there seems to know his stuff. It's, in a way, a vote of confidence for DRK's model. The branding changes from masternodes to supernodes... they also see the potential for hosting services over the nodes. Apparently they cannot pay with mining output (as there is no mining after POW phase) so they'll use fees instead. They also add encryption (which is already planned for DRK as I remember Evan saying it back in March or April). So more or less the same. So we'll get more or less a similar system with different code.
Supernodes or Masternodes are a central banker structure. That model is a lame duck. It is either a bad implementation or a way to sell 1000 coin lots of your premine.
The world is moving away from centralization. Build on that foundation at your peril.
Are bitcoin nodes centralization? Are seeds in a p2p network centralization?
