You guys are totally missing the point. I don't care whether the current XC code is original or not. Writing a centralized mixer is so easy that the Fedoracoin guys did it. The point is the difference in difficulty between coding a centralized mixing service and coding a decentralized mixing service is enormous. Being able to do the former is NOT evidence that one can do the latter.
DRK hasn't been able to code that themselves (hint: check the last weeks activity in DRK).
But yes they have. The first version of it has been operational in RC versions for ages now. It's called "DarkSend".
The DRK dev is still trying to determine a solution that doesn't cause forking, security issues and other such matters. And even then it will still not be truly decentralised.
The change that required hard forking was assigning a percentage of mining rewards to masternodes, not the decentralized trustless anonymizer.
You throw phrases like "security issues" around as if you knew what you were talking about. Wanna elaborate on that? Also please tell me more about those "such matters".
As for being "truly decentralized", if you are referring to the decentralized masternode network, I don't get what is better in having people run nodes on their personal computers running on crappy cable modems than having dedicated servers running on gigabit connections when you are going to need dedicated nodes in your network anyway! So they might as well do the anonymizing as well. There will be thousands of dedicated masternodes with 100% uptime 24/7, compare that to at most few hundred personal computers with their wallets open while they play some call of duty or whatever behind their cable modems.
XC also has encrypted transactions.
Has or will have? Darkcoin will have ring signature level solution without the bloat of ring signatures. See:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.6864666In a way XC is actually SUPERIOR to DRK.
Which way is that?
The only advantage DRK has right now is the dodgy masternodes that offer more decentralisation... cling onto that whilst you can because by this time next month we'll be past it.
I would think a masternode running on a dedicated server with a gigabit network connection provides far less dodgy service than average Joe's laptop behind a wi-fi.
