DeBeers controls 60% of the diamond market and the more they control the more Diamond prices go up.  Why?

Because people want diamonds and DeBeers controls supply.  And people want Darkcoin because of Decentralised Privacy.  I couldn't care less that 20% of coins are owned by 7 addresses.  

To dump or not to dump I don't think there is someone that can actually know the future prices. He wouldn't be sitting in front of his PC right now, if he was that good. Maybe at Fiji islands:p
It's the first time this concept is taking place, it is hard to guess a price. But whatever it's price range is going to be, i think it is going to hold pretty good.

Haha, someone saw the nearly 10 btc sell order and thought "not this shit again" and just bought the whole thing. Would be even funnier if a huge buy wall popped up right afterwards.

Inquisitiveness has overtaken me here, and I can't let it go anymore. My curiosity stems from the consistent interjections of how we don't seem to be doing enough to get this coin to "take off", or what makes "us" think that this coin is going to be worth something above 12 sats, and, we "seriously" need to do something to breathe some life into this coin.

I honestly don't know what's driving these "thoughts", but the leading indicator, in my opinion, that Mint is something special and different, that it is destined to rise above other alts, is the fact that in the three months that is has been in existence, it hasn't gone into single digits. (At least I don't think it has - someone correct me if I'm wrong.) If it were going to die, it wouldn't have taken this long, and it would have fallen lower than it has by now. It hasn't been the victim of any pump & dumps, it has held it's ground despite active attempts to kill it, and, outside of a very few other alts, it has the strongest, most helpful, good-willed, genuinely nice community I have witnessed in the very short time I have been involved in cryptos.

I'm not a financial genius or anything, but I'm no gambler. I'm frugal, and I don't waste anything - especially money. I can always use any money I came across, and will even stop to pick up those annoyingly "useless" pennies you find laying everywhere these days. If I thought there was no future (read "profit") to be had from this coin, I would have cashed out long ago, added it to my btc balance, and been done with it. But quite the opposite, I have been cashing out of other alts, and converting them to Mint. Precisely because I honestly see this coin increasing in value. I don't expect to get filthy rich from it, but I DO expect that I will make a healthy profit, when all is said and done.

If one is "overly" concerned with where the price is right now, it seems that this must be because they are not happy with the pace of increasing the value of their portfolio, or they are looking for a much quicker profit return. That's great, but I think if that is where you are, so to speak, then this probably isn't the crypto for you.

Concerning the amount of time building the "base" - merchants, to be specific - any business that is going to be successful needs to have a broad foundation. The larger, and more stable the foundation, the better. You can't build a house on a pole. Looking to spike a price without a substantial investment in establishing this foundation is futile in the long run. And for those who think the foundation is large enough, I would say that it can never be large enough. The bigger the foundation, the taller and grander your building can be, with the assurance (more or less) that it will take quite a large storm to shake the structure.

I want to see the price rise as much as the next person, but, as long as it isn't falling, I am happy with where it is right now. I don't think that any of the merchants are meaningless, because in the long run, they will introduce a few more people to Mint, and this can only be a good thing. I also think that this is one of the most sure ways to build Mint into a large and stable exchange medium. Spread it's base as far and wide as possible, and eventually it will organically begin to rise on it's own. If you get 10,000 people using Mint, you will get, well, not much of anything. Get 10,000,000 people using it, and you will have a situation that almost HAS TO become something huge, because it's quick, because it's easy... because it's green (environmentally), and therefore, "smart".

Anywho - I guess all I wanted to say really, is that Mint IS going places. It's going to take a while, but I'm good with that. I'd like to "Get Rich Quick!" too, but outside of winning the Powerball Lottery, that's probably not happening. And actually, since I don't waste my money, I don't play the lottery... so it's not going to happen anyway. (No disrespect to those who choose to play the lotteries.  )

...Oh - and with the Mintcoin Fund - a worldwide, environmentally oriented organization using cryptocurrency as it's main form of exchange, I don't see how it couldn't succeed. Really. Unless the ball is dropped completely. And I really don't see us letting that happen. It's too good of an idea. And it's an idea that all of us believe in, or this community wouldn't be nearly as strong as it is.

I'm just rambling out loud now - so I'll stop.

Yes, but some other coins have some legitimate innovation and talented devs.  Something to get excited about or interested in.  And don't have a laundry list of red flag scam warnings from the beginning.

Unless the pumpers decide to throw up some of them 30 BTC buy walls again, this coin will continue to sink.

I have seen a few large sell walls being thrown up periodically and then being taken down, which leads me to believe this is very possibly a shakeout by those running this sham.  It is quite likely the pump resumes once they are satisfied.

But anyone buying at this point needs to be aware they are just gambling on the whims of a whale.

This is the worst kept secret of alt coins, no one is actually investing in this trash, it's all miners and gamblers trying to scam each other.

I just prefer my scams to be a little less obvious.

That's true, but there is also some truth in what sixteen digits is saying.

The problem with a massive pump like that is that the dump has left a hell of a lot of resistance to work through at the upper levels. This is the other side of the "volume" coin. The volumes that went in were massive and all those people are at a loss right now, desperate to get out, stuck up at places like 31, and even 34.

CINNI went from 1200 to 38000 Sats in 24 hours.

Some coins never recover from this. Blackcoin didn't, it never again got near it's high and has since traded at about 30% of it. Doesn't mean it won't happen but it's going to take a lot more than a new wallet feature to make it so and probably quite a bit of time (like weeks or months). You never know in the crypto-world though I wrote Blackcoin off at 8000 Sats and then my post came back to haunt me a couple of weeks later So maybe this one will as well.

Just going on current theory and experience.

Nope, not spreading FUD, just truth.  Anyone who has been paying attention knows this is trash and the price rise is pure pump and dump manipulation.

It was a hell of a pump and dump though.  Hats off CINNI!  Please slowly die and fade into obscurity as is the destiny of all alts.

It takes a lot of time to dig though all the - mostly inane - posts. Threaded format is tough for newcomers.

I appreciate the time you took to respond, and I agree with your statement that Cinni @ 30k satoshi =/= BC at 30k Satoshi.

What I can't seem to understand is how Cinni =/= BC (15M Cap, 3.5%)?

All the responses I get take the form: "Well, Cinni has 15M coins, and a 3.5% stake. Also, Cinni has a good dev team, and strong community."

All the answers provided don't address my fundamental issue. BC and Cinni both have good dev teams. They both have good communities. Sure some major players in BC are acting like children right now. Maybe that will pass. Maybe BC will die because of it. I don't know. But is that the most fundamental difference there is right now?

BC is about to drop $30k+ on advertising. I'm a speculator. People buy on news.

However, as we stated: Cinni @ 30k satoshi =/= BC at 30k Satoshi. But that assumes Cinni == BC.

They're both good options but what I'm trying to ascertain is:

Is there any fundamental reason to believe in one coin over the other? Is there any technology/ innovation in Cinni that I don't know about?  

I didn't ask you to question my trading habits. Just asked some simple questions, some simple answers would be nice.