So, a new chapter in darkcoin history starts.
I salute you, darkcoin community.

Sorry, I am so excited about open source, I get all cocky.

Also, I vote for #1

Thought we were limiting ourselves to people who are alive (so, not sure about your left nut, haaaaaaaaaaaa, just kidding....).
Anyway, we should "get a life"... or "get some darkcoins".... looking forward to xpool payment and open source today.  

Also:

I'd say put people on your list who are famous tax protestors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_protester_history_in_the_United_States


My favourites:

• Larken Rose
• Wesley Snipes
• Irwin Schiff (father of Peter Schiff)

Those are people who are not afraid to go to prison (!) for their conviction.

I can make translations to german on a pretty professional level.

I agree wholeheartedly.

The word "dark" (as in "dark market" or "black market") comes from the government declaring something illegal (your privacy, your freedom), and in such an environement we are forced to operate in "darkness" to counteract the ill effects that come from government insanity.

If we now start using government legislation to regulate darkcoin (licensing, patents, etc...) we are in fact turning into "light" coin, as in being "government approved".

We wouldn't want that!!! 

If you lay down with dogs (lawyers), you will wake up with fleas.  

The good thing about darkcoin is that it came into existence without asking anyone for permission.
If we now turn this around and expect everyone who wants to use darkcoin (in any way they like) to ask for permission first, then we break about all principles we started with.

If the darkcoin foundation wants to register its corporate identity, sure why not.
But the darkcoin protocol HAS to stay absolutely open source and free, or else this will be the biggest obstacle for further adoption.

I am sure evan duffield absolutely agrees with all of this.

I don't know if this can even work, since large parts of darkcoin are based on bitcoin which is completely open source AND free.

So you can't take an open source base, change it a little bit and add new stuff and then say, from now on it's proprietary. (I could be wrong though)

Also, we are talking about the new kind of "principled money" here. So to make this ethical money proprietary would go against all principles that satoshi tried to implement with bitcoin.
(Yes, in my eyes all cryptocurrencies are ethical, since they directly compete with devilish concepts like fiat debt money)

It would be FED all over again, if evan duffield were to become the proprietary owner of darkcoin.
If this were to happen, I would sell all my DRK in an instant.

I understand, and I agree with you that this is important.
Allcoin, the first exchange in the list, has a volume of ZERO, so it is completely ridiculous to list it as first exchange, lol.
https://www.allcoin.com/api1/pair/drk_btc
Wait, even the second exchange has a volume of zero. This list is seriously messed up and should be fixed immediately.

So I will keep updating my original post with all the API links I figure out, and what variable has to be read, maybe this will make the job easier for the darkcoin.io webmaster.
Then he can't really have any excuses anymore why he won't implement this...

Doesn't take much longer to make the API calls with PHP, then process the data and use it to sort the table.

Mintpal:
https://api.mintpal.com/v1/market/stats/DRK/BTC
gives back a JSON object and you simply have to read out the 24hvol variable. It gives you back the volume in BTC.

Cryptsy:
http://pubapi.cryptsy.com/api.php?method=singlemarketdata&marketid=155
DRK Market is nr.155
Read the variable "volume". It's in amount of DRK, so you have to multiply it with the variable "lasttradeprice" to get the volume in BTC.

Bittrex:
https://bittrex.com/api/v1.1/public/getmarketsummary?market=btc-drk
JSON Variable "BaseVolume" for volume in BTC.

Bter:
http://data.bter.com/api/1/ticker/drk_btc
Variable "vol_btc"

Allcoin:
https://www.allcoin.com/api1/pair/drk_btc
Read out variable "volume_24h_BTC"

etc for the rest of the exchanges.

Agreed. The exchanges should be sorted based on volume (that means a script should read out the APIs of all mentioned exchanges regularly, e.g. once per day).
Like coinmarketcap does on their darkcoin overwiew site.... (hm, coinmarketcap is down for me ATM)

hey, when did the darkcoin.io design change?

I only just realized it's new:

http://www.darkcoin.io/

I like it.

Yeah, what's with mintpal, they are definitely down.
Good thing I get most of my DRK thru mining, not thru exchanges.

... and again here's the medicine for all the damaged eyes:

Damn, you are right,... so why did it pop up today in my youtube feed... I hate it when they do that... 

Sorry everybody.  

You can't blame him for not exploiting every opportunity he gets to promote darkcoin, I think he has a more general philosophical agenda.

It's positive enough for darkcoin that Kristov Atlas challenges the negativity associated with words like "dark" and "darkness". I like that.

Watch Kristov Atlas's newest speech interesting speech he made back in june.
He talks about darkness and the dark market.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhVpPs-Cp_8

Awesome dialog there... someone should make this into a cartoon...

if an exchange allows a trader to trade with 0% fee, and gives him a fast access API, then even with only 1000$ in coins, such a trader could ping pong sell/buy between his two accounts and create millions of volume every day.

I even think they restrain themselves, because couldn't they even easily fake volumes in the billions?  But than it would be crystal clear theater.

So it's all a make believe game at this point, until some form of decentralized exchange revolutionizes trading.

But at this point no one can distinct between real volume and fake volume.

I've got some wishful thinking for you: