I closed my Masternode and sold / am selling all of my coins. I spread this sale over several exchanges not to influence the price drop / change. Now I will step back and see how this would develop.

IMHO - Evan has caved to the political pressure coming from a more conservative members of the Foundation. Compromises never excite me, for the key point of attack to Darkcoin would always be its main feature - almost perfect anonymity. As such Darkcoin is on a forefront of fight for our freedom and our right to privacy in this surveillance culture we have to endure.

Compromising a well established brand that could've been a real instrument of change with several merchants that "might" with "no guarantees" adopt Dashcoin or whatever the "brand" will be is a sign of intrinsic weakness I dislike.

Are they really as important as anonymity? (I'd rather call it privacy) I think you wish them to be "as important" in order to justify standing behind a decision (for it does feel like a decision) that has not been thought through.

What is being attacked regarding our human rights, on a scale never before seen in human history? PayPal transactions that are as instant as IX or our right to privacy, a feature that Darkcoin is protecting by making our transaction anonymous? And pray, if the product currently known as Darkcoin features, InstantX, obfuscation, DarkSend, anonymity and X, Y and Z features in the future, what brand would represent ALL of them?

Changing Darkcoin name would be a half-baked decision based on caving in to several services that "might" include the coin if it would be called differently. It reeks to heavens.

ELM4ever on Darkcointalk (dashtalk, give me a break) said something important, worth posting here:

"Darkcoin was based and designed to enable anonymity, if required. That was the value proposition of Darkcoin - why change it?
If you think that it can't be a worldwide issue without consequences, listen between minute 26 and minute 28 of Andreas' address to MIT students last month

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8y_GypCWf4

Regarding anonymity: listen to other value propositions at minute 25 of the above video.
"Anonymity is a vital human right! - You cannot have freedom of expression and freedom of association without anonymity" - Andreas Antonopoulos"

I am in Darkcoin BECAUSE of its anonymity (despite publicly revealing my real name at Darkcoin Ambassadors Group etc., twitter etc.) and if it is perfected it would draw attention and maybe adversary actions even if it would be called SAINT COIN.

We either fight to change / improve the world or start compromising with its (perceived) stronger players and lose.

This little storm has now, I would guess:

-- stopped the video production initiative after the community has given the money of it (for a Darkcoin video);
-- Darkcoin Ambassadors initiative would have to wait, presentations to be on hold;
-- merchants and exchanges already accepting Darkcoin would have to change their setups and some might even drop us if they were drawn by the message that is now being "re-branded"
-- websites, like Darkcointalk.org would have to change / redirect;
-- caused the price to drop significantly as the people are re-assessing re-branding so the question is "WHY?"

This is what you wrote on Darkcointalk: "About adoption you are wrong, Evan wouldn't do this in a vacuum just because it is a theorized problem. We have received direct comments from potential partners (existing crypto services, merchants, exchanges, etc) were they liked the technology, but would consider adding DRK only if the name is changed. So basically changing the name does not guarantee we will be added on several places but it does open the possibility," so I wonder, aren't we thinking in a vacuum indeed?

All we see is the CURRENT landscape in an ever changing world whose crypto scene is budding and INSTEAD OF SHAPING it (which Darkcoin has been doing so far) we are bowing to several "mights" that "do not guarantee anything." A big, big mistake, revealing a weakness.

Thank you for the initiative, @tungfa, a gazillion thanks to Evan who, it seems, is not only the Core Developer but the angel investor as well, and one big thank you to every single one that donated.

It certainly does!! This community makes me happy! (and proud to be a part of it)

Great!!

Something strange has happened: https://chainz.cryptoid.info/drk/address.dws?XkiQaaqbGTJ5WBQHomB7qMyEMULTfXDRP4.htm

It shows 751.05652907 DRK or fully funded innitiative!?? @tungfa, could you check it out?

Thanks splawik21!!
7.88852352 DRK matched

Transaction ID: 77efce57f4f84a1c605aaa7cb0ccdc31655239ed87f31c15e72e418b0a5a3dbf-000
We're now at 439.05652907 DRK or $1,523.52 at the moment, or over the 60% mark!! (60.94%)

At this price we need only 720.46 DRK total or only 281.40347093 DRK for the balance and we'll embark on making a professional promo video for Darkcoin. This is much more fun than dealing with the trolls, don't you agree?

Come on guys, let us do it!!

Soon, I hope. This kindergarten-like, endless quarrel with unsubstantiated nonsense used up well too much space on the forum already. We have an ongoing fund raising initiative:


We are at 423.27948203 DRK or $1,447.62 thus far. (based on https://coinmarketcap.com/#USD current DRK price) This means we're at 57.90% at the moment, or, we're only 307 DRK short from the goal.

Let us do it and use our energy on something productive.

As soon as someone donates up to 10 DRK I will, as my 2nd donation, match it, just let me know.

With a current price of $3.45 (per https://coinmarketcap.com/#USD) our 423.27948203 DRK donated thus far are worth $1,460.31 i.e. 58.41% of the $2,500.00 needed, and as of now, only 724 DRK total is needed, or only 301.35 more from what we already have.

We will do it

And with a current DRK price of $3.40, these 421.27948203 DRK donated thus far are worth $1,432.35 or 57.29% of the monies needed. Good progress. I will add more to what I've donated already, once we reach 80%

I am traveling (on an extended stay in Europe) and I started to feel like I was feeling in Argentina / Brazil as they respective currencies were plummeting...

So, all one needs is to chatter incessantly for a while and she or he is a "hero"  

** just kidding, @toknormal, your posts are among the most intelligent here. You are, indeed, my hero   **

I loved and traded margin on Bitfinex until they messed up margin balance and cost me money. They also never replied to my question(s) and / or to my math formulas proving them wrong; perhaps it was just a glitch, but I never went back to trading on their plaftorm.

The point you make made me re-think my stance; every bit of action that might help Darkcoin, and I am in...

The bottom line, Darkcoin is barely a year old and is already #5 in marketcap (https://coinmarketcap.com/#USD) with these funny BitShares and withering down Litecoin in front of it.

The market forces will do their magic and if BTC-e would not add Darkcoin, someone else that might not even exist today, would and they will end up losing. It's fun speculating about all that, but all that matters is the best development team and the great community supporting their work...

If this is true, than they'll go down together with LTC for I can't see a single reason why this trend would not continue:
http://www.ltc-charts.com/period-charts.php?period=6-months&resolution=day&pair=ltc-usd&market=btc-e

You're not wrong. They are bilingual and clearly cater to Russian markets...

I opened a ticket there asking them about future plans. It's simple: I have active Cryptsy and Bitfinex accounts but I dislike them both. I have an account with them, but it is not active. I would gladly move all my coins to them, if they would add Darkcoin.

And NO, I did not post my question in any sort of demanding way. I am indeed curios and it is kind of obvious that they have a bunch of nonsensical coins there, but not the most exciting one...

Maybe? I was annoyed when Counterparty and / or Dogecoin and / or some other thingies had had bigger market cap than Darkcoin but than...