You're actually surprised by profit-taking? If DRK was widely expected to soar, that would've been built into the price already. That's how any financial asset works. There's no free lunch: returns always come with risk.

Feel free to move on to your pump-and-dump coins and country coins, since those are the ones that 'soared' (however briefly). Just one brief piece of advice for gambling out there in shitcoin-land: if everyone's talking about it, you're already too late.

Yet apparently worth your time to troll.

Of course, perhaps your time is just worth very little. The hardcore facts suggest so.

Wait a while and type refresh in your simplewallet terminal. It should show up unless it was an orphaned block.

MintPal is just an orderbook. Current going rate for BTC/DRK on MintPal is 0.00167. At 5 BTC for 3192 DRK, you're asking for a price of .0015664. Unless the price of DRK goes lower, your order won't be fulfilled because sellers will sell to people offering more money than you for the same amount of DRK.

Actually, looking at it right now, MintPal doesn't have the volume to fulfill 3000 DRK without going to very high prices (over 0.002). You're better off on Cryptsy for such a larger order. At the current buy/sell depths, you can buy 5 BTC worth without going over 0.0018.

I've been following this development. Short answer: no one knows yet. The blockchain explorer for BCN ("Bytecoin") only just came online because its been hidden in the darknet for 2 years (it's basically 80% pre-mined during that time). They have the same functionality: CryptoNote's ring signatures mix transactions so that it only proves you were part of a group, not precisely who sent what to whom. DarkSend accomplishes the same thing using masternodes and pools, and it seems their degree of anonymity is similar (i.e. much more than BTC, but less than zero-knowledge proofs).

I think which one is more successful depends on which ones develops faster and gains the network effect. Ring signatures, unless they have a cryptographic weakness that we don't know of, seem pretty elegant but the size of the blockchain grows linearly with the number of peers you mix your send with. I prefer either one to ZeroCoin / ZeroCash and its well-known weaknesses (a totally blind blockchain that doesn't permit monitoring, initial RSA key that has total power over the network, unvetted cryptography of zero-knowledge proofs, etc.).

I don't have this issue (mining on Windows 7). It starts low and ramps up over a few minutes. Is 3.4 your stable hash rate or just the initial?

QuebecCoin dev seems to be one of the more reasonable ones around. Whether a country coin is a viable concept remains to be seen, though.

I suppose this can still work if the emissions curve is flat-ish like BTC (i.e. not as much advantage to early mining). And maybe if I hear the name often enough, I'll get over it. :\

Is there anyone with the skill to implement a GUI?

Technology testing goes alpha -> beta -> release candidate (RC) -> public release. DRK moved from beta to RC today.

Privacy is broader than that. Why would you want to announce your purchases and wallet balance to the world?

And as far as illegal goes, most of the things that governments outlaw have no good reason to be so. It's just government being government (always looking for something to meddle in). I fully welcome enabling individuals.

Hey, I was making an observation. I never sold or intended to.

Let this be a warning to all ye of wavering faith. Only true believers will be rewarded.

Jeez, earlier today I was whining that DRK was trending downwards and we need a release candidate. 2 posts later Evan posts the release candidate. And now we're up 50% before I got to transfer in my last BTC and buy.

Ah crap, I just realized I have to be awake at 5 AM for this launch.

This thread's official estimate is $250, as prophecized by coins101.

I think the most important change is the emissions schedule, but yes, this is rushed. The name alone may doom it.

This coin had no discussion behind it. It was pointed that the block time is too fast beyond the solo mining phase. It was kept without offering reasons. It was pointed out that the name should be voted on. Nope, and a bizarre name resulted.

Perhaps the biggest reason to fork is that it was mined for 2 years without making itself available to the other 99.9999999% of the internet on the clearweb. Yet, we wouldn't be much better if we did a launch without a GUI client and a website. Instead, we were 1 hour from launch without a Windows client, which is actually a step backwards from BCN itself (they released an easy-to-use package with a batch file for nontechnical users).

We need (1) an accessible release with (2) proper marketing (including a different name). Right now this fork doesn't have much of a reason to exist, IMO. There's no reason to release it now and work on these things later, either. All we'd be doing is unfairly mining it ahead of everyone else.

WC is common in many parts of the world. It comes from British English.

So yeah, pretty terrible choice of name.

Wait, you won't have Windows available? A launch is basically a premine without a Windows client available. BCN has one, so what's the issue?

Seems DRK's price is no longer as stable with respect to BTC as it once was. Steady decline due to lack of demand. Hope we have a release candidate soon.

DRK-DRK? I'll trade you guys 100 DRK for 120 DRK. Deal of a lifetime!