Umm,
You can have BOTH
CN coins have potential, and Neos has more of an old school approach to anon, with a twist. The fact is, I don't think either will be ever put it's users and the transactions they make becoming public.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket, and these are two really good baskets I happen to be using.
It's not a battle between the two
BUY BOTH!!
THAT WAS EASY!!!
BUY Monero!!
BUY Neos!!The two top dogs!!!
Darkcoin is your dads anon. Many improvements have been made since then. And Darkcoin peaked a long long time ago!!
It's 2014!!!! Invest accordingly
Given that we are late in 2014 and BTC is still falling, and given your rationale about darkcoin, the only logical conclusion is to wait to see what occurs in January 2015 because by then Neos and Monero will be the 'old school' has-beens entering retirement to make room for the new spring line of dark cryptos.
[I'll be erasing this soon, just had to get that off my 'old-school' chest]
Darkcoin is OK, don't get me wrong, it just wont ever hit it's ATH again.
And NEOS and Monero will keep improving, NEOS even more, they have the hardest working dev in crypto, except Jl777, hes just not human.
But Monero has 7 devs, and Syntaks from NEOS says there will be V3,4,5,6,7 etc.
It will never end.
Both will continue to rise over time month after month, they are never gonna stop.
I still hold some Darkcoin tbh, but I keep the large majority of my anon holdings in Neos, and then Monero