Is it really?
It seems alot of new coins are going over to POS, i just think it seems a waste of electricity and computing power for that matter to keep something like bitcoin running, have you seen that video on youtube of a bitcoin mining farm in the States?
Its unbelievable that so much processing power is required to keep it secure, surley there is a better way around this?
POS may not be the answer necessarily either, but it seems the best option available at present.

Sorry if i come across as a troll, I do hold DRK.
What annoys me is reading here all the posts about it getting to $300 or even $1000 like some are saying, I think it has the potential to reach $100 possibly, but i have a realistic approach.
Im not trying to spread FUD, but i feel its wrong to give newbies false hopes and have people dig deep into their pockets into such a risky investment, which goes for all cryptos, and DRK is still dropping, which i was expecting, so what if it goes back to $2? It still has the potential to get up to $100 if it is indeed a solid coin.

I intend to invest in more DRK, as well as NXT, MEC and other coins, its wise to not keep all your eggs in one basket and anyone with their head screwed on should agree.
But im not going to panic buy DRK like what is happening at the moment.

And yes, the "instamine" is a concern to me and it would be appreciated if i can get an explanation why the windows QT wallet was not released on launch. Again i still think this coin is a strong contender in the market for the short to mid term and it will easily topple litecoin sometime this year, but people like me need solid faith in this coin. Its silly to invest in something just because its going up in value.

No, just one of the few people that instamined them

The way im seeing it is that people are trying to make a quick buck.
Thats not the way it goes unfortunately.

Darkcoin is a good coin, but its really only the privacy part that makes it special, and X11 gives GPU miners incentive to keep mining instead of scrypt. Wont be long before all the news coins are X11.

People will wake up to the fact that POS is the only way to go.
NXT will surpass litecoin eventually and DRK will easily topple litecoin.

Correct!

My saying is this...

When something gets pumped... It must be DUMPED!
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eU2INYe4gk 

I think i will wait for it to get back to $2 before buying more!
Its going back down to a more normal price

its price looks like its returning to normal now

Very true, I think we both know what coins will win!

If it gets to $100 i dont know what ill do.

I never bothered mining it, because my videocards gave such a poor hashrate compared to scrypt and the difficulty seemed to rise pretty quickly. I may buy a few just in case, but there are so many coins i cant invest in them all.

I was reading that the developers had bascially used a huge mining farm to cash in at the start and then they dumped them all?

OK, i thought the latest RC had been released as the main version.

Just one question:
When is "Darksend" going to be implemented?
Ive updated my wallet but i dont see any option to use darksend?

Im not aware of this, most people had to invest in it with their own BTC.
I think some developers got some for free, which is fair enough, alot of time and money has gone into creating NXT.
Marketing, websites, etc.

Its fair right now, the price they are currently valued at is fair, is Darkcoin anymore fair? Is it any less fair than any other crypto currency?
If its easily affordable by the majority of people, i think thats fair.

Compared to Doge or Blackcoin, which have a limitless supply of coins, i would say its not an inflating currency, its got 1 billion coins, so yeah, in the short to medium term, it should reach the same marketcap of bitcoin, which is 5.7 billion, Bitcoins marketcap 6 months ago was around double that, so i dont think its impossible in the long term to reach that, give it 10 years and i reckon it will have achieved that.
Also remember that alot of coins will not survive and their current marketcap will drop right off.

Up to $20
$1 in the next 24 months perhaps

I guess that can be said for any crypto currency then?
BTC was not fair either, how many people on the planet actually hold BTC, let alone know about it?
I meet tons of people who have never heard of Bitcoin or any crypto currency, we are really pioneers at the end of the day and the majority of people investing in these coins are trying to make a quick buck, it doesnt work that way, you have to be in it for the longhaul.
Its going to take a whole decade before the crypto currency market becomes accepted commonplace like a credit card.

I may invest in NEM, it is just a NXT clone at the end of the day though, but ive only got so much money to throw at it, if only i had a time machine!
I do agree its good not to put all your eggs in one basket,  there sure is tons of competition, the more research i do however, keeps bringing me back to NXT, I would like to know what other coins i should look at, ethereum will be something i look at for sure.
I dont know much about ripple, it doesnt appear to be a currency as such, but more of a trading platform, much in the same way as the NXT asset exchange.

And yes i was one of them, instead i wasted $$$ on some 7970's and electricity mining shitcoins that never went up in value.
The best thing i ever did was mine on the multipool for NXT and sell my rig.
Ive used the money i got back to buy NXT and could not feel any more positive about things.

I also cashed out my shitcoins that are still dropping in price and exchanged them for NXT.
Im also holding a few Megacoin, but i think there is only a handful of coins that will survive the next 12 months.
NXT is so cheap right now its not funny and its doubled in value this month, i still think its undervalued, whoever says distribution is unfair is not thinking straight, its so cheap right now, its silly not to just dump crapcoins while the going is good and get a decent amount of something that has a real future, everyone has the opportunity to grab NXT, do it now!

Im thinking of getting rid of my DRK while the goings good too, and with Zero Coin coming out, i dont think there is anything unique about DRK or any other "private" coin for that matter. NXT has had plans for privacy from the start anyway.

Thats my 0.02 worth anyway, and i dont see NXT being a threat to BTC at this point either, they both serve their purpose.