What I'm wondering is what Evan has reserved for V2 of Darkcoin. Ring Signatures have been announced but what I'm wondering is how they integrate into the Masternode concept. It's gonna be interesting to see. I don't think anoncoin is any competition right now, the runners are Darkcoin, Monero and Zerocash whenever it comes out. Let's see!
I know Evan said that but two problems jump out right away when I read that.
1. Switching to a non masternode concept would incentivize a significant percentage of those who bought 1000 hoping for passive income to dump their holdings.
2. I'm not sure it could really even be done as a standard fork while piggy backing on a coin that is based of BTC algorithm. The only way I can see it really working is if he creates a whole new cryptonote coin, names it Dark (2 or something) and then offers an exchange like 1 old dark for 1 new dark to the holders, similar to what CaiShen just did.
I don't really see a problem with him implementing it, but it would definitely put a damper on the price for a while and in that case why not just be in Monero. It's already here, already uses CryptoNote and has more Hero members sniffing its ass than any Alt I've seen in a while.
That's not to write Evan and Dark off completely. I'd like an eduffield CryptoNote coin as the man is clearly extremely innovative, works his ass off and it would be really neat to see what he does with it. I'd love to see some healthy competition in the exciting new sphere of CryptoNote coins.
Though we still need a nice GUI and pools.
