Why do you think he's doing this in the hard way ?
There are particular signs that DRK is preparing for the next surge after months of equilibrium.
We'll see soon for sure.
I admire Evan Duffield and the team for their loyalty to the project, but if i had be honest, i would say that DRK is way overpriced right now. It's worth 730k satoshi because a goofy boy put some big walls and now is slowly selling above them. The community, except for a few guys, is performing a non-stop act of ass kissing, similar to what you see on pumped and dumped shitcoins whose bagholders are trying to get naive people into investing.
Not to mention that some of the naive traders in there are saying that, although Bitcoin was dumped to abyss, their coins kept their value because the price is still 700k satoshi lol. From what i see, people are having a hard time giving a shit about Bitcoin, so you expect that they would invest in a coin that says "Illegal, Shady, Porn, Drugs, Anonymity with its brand ?
A lot of delusion on the market.