Interesting thread. I do wonder when a better dark spinoff will come around.
I'm looking at Monero and Qazar. Any thoughts?
Haha.. didn't expect that kind of question. I seriously doubt the coin to be is present at this exact moment but who knows.
I looked briefly at monero for the first time and it did not offer any significant upgrade to dark as far as I could see. My prediction = busto.
Qazar either you misspelled or something because a search query ended up dry.
I think DRK's quasi pow/pos hybrid (masternodes) is good, but I think a more inclusive hybrid would be better. 10% of mining fees going just to masternodes doesn't seem sufficient imo. More to masternodes and something to normal users running nodes based on their holdings.
I think the ultimate coin on today's scale would be something like dark while taking a look at the benefits of all the top coins and including what is possible. Add in some of peercoin's allure. Add in a scientific basis like primecoin if that is possible to put some of the work to good use. ETC. And above all, innovate and be the first to market with the coin with infrastructure in place to prevent competition from insta alt-coining you.
Unfortunately I know zero about programming so I don't know what is possible and what isn't. I do know that I am serious about privacy so I'm glad that dark is getting attention regardless.