Although I agree, when ASICs are made, and they will be made, we need to go with the flow.  However, just to relieve your fears a bit, no governmental institution is going to be faster than the market.  It takes too long to get approval for the idea, requisition the funds, and by then someone will already have come out with the product.

I doubt anyone of power in the government even knows about Darkcoin, they are fixated on Darkwallet, which will fall due to infiltration of the browser before they realize we exist.  By then it will be too late.

Was this kid really so stupid as to say this?

"Wilson described his intentions for Dark Wallet more directly: “It’s just money laundering software.”" about dark wallet?

Do people really not understand privacy?  We have given up so much of our privacy that nobody values what it gives us anymore!  My family posts pictures of me on the internet and then tags them with my name, and sees nothing wrong with that!  My old work took a picture of me without my permission, in fact I told them not to, and still stuck a picture of me on the internet.

There is no respect for personal privacy anymore!  It just amazes me!

By "ready to deploy" I thought it was implicit that they're "mining with customer's pre-orders"

In a world of trustless finance, pre-order mining investors are the biggest trusting dumb-asses in history.

Is there any way we can "invest" in DarkMarket? I'd like to think there will be a big boom in value off the start until people figure out its drawbacks.

It won't work. They made the error of listing Darkcoin as an scrypt coin, which is not.

IMO Darkcoin will need a large number of privately-held ASICs to secure it. We, miners, tend to lose focus of the important thing which is network security, caring only about how our GPU should still mine the X or Y coin.

Darkcoin is not a meme coin, an animal coin, a country shitcoin or whatever the hell coin that nobody cares to attack it. It has a target painted on its back because it threatens the establishment's ability to conduct surveillance on money flows. As such we can bet that the NSA has already X11 ASICs ordered to be ahead of the game. It would be highly unlikely that with their multi-billion $$$ budget they would not have taken such a step.

The question is this: Do we want only NSA to have X11 asics and be able to 51% attack it at any time (or get the bulk of the issued new coins to use them for Darksend nodes), or is it more desirable to have a level playing field?

You can't have a bitcoin-killer that isn't secure or that has a potential security threat due to mismatched level of mining equipment between the adopters and some agency that has orders to destroy the currency, or cast shadows of doubt in its usability.

Ok, I like to mine DRK too with my GPUs but I'd take an ASIC-secured network anyday over me having my GPU to get my 1 DRK vs knowing the NSA has ASICs ready to make my GPU-mined DRKs worthless, along with the entire network.

99% of the coins out there pose no threat to the establishment and as such can toy around with cpus and gpus, knowing that nobody will attack them. Darkcoin doesn't have that kind of luxury. It will need all the hashpower it can get.

Are you sure???
Can I get a confirmation on this - that sender receiver CAN SEE the transaction details (i.e. from what address it originated)?
If so, imho it has HUGE implications on privacy breach...

Dumb question if someone can help: How can one verify that they sent money to someone if its anonymous?  Is there a way of overcoming this or are there various sending methods?  Anon payments are great but tracked payments have their place as well.

Ok, I tried my hand at a flow chart again.  I'm not sure this is accurate, but I think it works this way ??  

Need to get smart on this I guess - I've never heard of it :p.  Is that something that will be built into the client or is it a separate protocol (like tor) that will need to be set up?

If separate, that's something that needs to be made clear with like a flashing neon sign...

The fundamental flaw I see is that it would get a lot easier to anonymously buy and sell the votes

Both interesting ideas to explore.

Like I keep saying though, first you'd need to make darkcoin something that my grandmother could use.  Want to see it explode in a way BTC only ever dreamed of?  Figure out how to do that .

Man... that is one of the most PROFOUND statements I've read in a while... let me just tweak it a little.


 If your vote was worth anything, it would be taxed.

Let me just float this one in the air and see if it has some merit.

Imagine if Darkcoin could be used by governments for local, regional and eventually national voting in political elections.

Stick with me for a bit.

Voting costs a lot of money. There is a lot of administration.

Voting has to be fair, anonymous and foolproof.

Which bit of the above, so far, doesn't fit DarkSend?.

The hashing algo can provide a proof of voting. The administrators to an election can buy enough Darkcoins and sub-divided them into Duffs and issue them to registered voters. Registration includes setting up an online wallet, app., etc. for voters. There are some security issues that need to be fleshed out, but that's detail.

Over a specified period, voters can send their duffs to the candidate of their choice. Those candidates would have addresses that can be counted up in minutes not hours or days. The voting process is known only to the administrators and the voters - but crucially, the administrators don't know who the voters voted for, just that their Duffs were spent (they can even spend them on booze and not vote).

The process would be so cheap to run by comparison to existing elections, you could have regional votes every month on this or that issue.

And Darkcoin investors? Well, we would be laughing all the way to the DarkBank  

I think I'm going to put this one to a vote as a possible future roadmap suggestion, after we see if there are any flaws.

I don't have any idea how to read that, what is this implying? Thanks !

Hey guys, I'm new. I invested in darkcoin the other day and already made a nice loss. See my username. (although I haven't panic sold this one yet! I still have faith in the coin. )


My two cents about the site design:
Make the logo a bit bigger, perhaps, and make it be vertically centered in that area. The area itself can be a bit smaller (lower height). Make it so that the top and bottom of the text aligns with the top and bottom of the logo.

I would put a bit less vertical space between 'THE FIRST' and 'ANONYMOUS DIGITAL CURRENCY'. The way it's styled now makes it seem, on first glance, that 'THE FIRST' is a title, and the line below it is the subtitle. Of course, when you read it you understand that that's not the way it is, but general webdesign conventions make you think that at first sight. Also, the logo+text only take up a small percentage of the space in the middle (horizontally), and it's not centered or otherwise in line with the rest of the design. That probably sounds overly perfectionistic, but clever use of white space/negative space can make a design look better. See this link for a cool example http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/negative-space-in-webpage-layouts-a-guide/

I agree that the dark darkcoin logo doesn't look good on the dark background. Or rather, it almost disappears.

The hash rate seems to come and go at different times of the day. I think people get home from school, work, prison day release, etc, and switch their machines on until its time to leave the next day.

Jugga-Whaaa-who?!  look... gotta go see that one. But seriously, where do you get your info?

Also, please someone please name a coins that is more profitable than DRK!? At half the electric cost I can't find any

Crazy, not sure why so many are mining it right now when you can easily double your mining profits by mining other stuff and just buying DRK. Maybe everyone is totally confident in another upwards price correction, or maybe they are just lazy miners lol.