i think we are slowly entering a phase where Darkcoin will be a lot more discussed in the media and by other groups .. our little innercircle will be getting wider and wider.

edit : also a lot more discussion and attention for Darknet in general and Bazaar, even the European Union is starting up a group focussed on Darknet.

Dear Mr. Ötting. uhm, Ötinger, Are you for the "right to forget" on the internetz?
Including
- that you held a speech where you tried to paint a Nazi-judge as a hero?
- your attempt to ban motorcycles?
- (german related story / "stuttgart21 -> Einkaufszentrum")
- your famous speech: "it is a bad thing that there isnt any war at the moment"
- that you had to dispence your driver's licence becouse you where cought with 1.4°%
....

If you have an extra 15 minutes you might want to listen to this: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/08/13/339827662/episode-560-hunting-for-the-hundreds

Some real nice quotes for those who don't know what the real currency of choice is for criminals.

Strix

"Keep the dog(e), I'll take the dragon" - Awesome quote

So what's the difference between untrusted and trustless?

Sent, Thanks man

That's some mad graphic chops! Would u mind if I used it as a background on my comp?

Edit: you should add put DRK address for donations. I know I for one appreciate the kickass artwork you put up. Definetly would kick some DRK your way to be able to use it. I'm sure some others that appreciate it would too.

+1

Just out of curiosity what did you do that with?  I remember my raytracing days of Truespace and PovRay.

Hey guys, i say it again. What do you expect from a really new coin.
Remember, whole cryptos is in a ugly downtrend since beginning of 2014.
DRK does not exsits at the time the downtrend started.
Look at all other coins were born in 2014. They are all dead !!!!!

DRK is the gamechanger but as long as no fresh money and no new user enter crypto market
no coin expect BTC will survive.
There is a big pressure on DRK as it is on of the last minable coin that is worth mining with CPU
Because there are buyers. Have a look at VTC. Very good devteam, good concept and ... Dead .

So took the big picture together and you will see DRK did well !

I think you've all got the wrong end of the stick.

People have become obsessed with the DRK/BTC ratio when in fact it's Bitcoin value against the dollar that's going to make or break this entire industry. What's the point of DRK going to 4 times its DRK/BTC ratio if Bitcoin's USD marketcap collapses to a quarter ?

We are not independent of Bitcoin. Dark IS Bitcoin - just another flavour of it and without BTC, we ain't goin nowhere.

At the start of this year I'd have had a much more open mind about this. It wasn't at all clear if Bitcoin was going to survive the barrage of competition it was starting to face from Alts. Litecoin was expected by many to go to a quarter to a third of Bitcoin's price (parity in marketcap terms). Alt coins (including DRK) were seen as competing currencies, not complimentary.

As it happened, things turned out a whole lot differently and even I was amazed.

Despite all kinds of advanced tech and every type of alternative thought out monetary policy being thrown at it, no coin even made a dent in Bitcoin's marketcap. I suspect we've now reached game over stage in terms of looking for a competitor. Bitcoin is too far down the line in terms of infrastructure, retail adoption, legislative support financial services support and other "network effect" aspects.

We need to now see ourselves as complimentary rather then competitive and ride the Bitcoin wave. Bitcoin's marketcap is our marketcap - according to the DRK / BTC ratio. Right now 0.005 may not seem much, but if Bitcoin hits even $10.000 (which it must do to satisfy projected liquidity requirements if it's going anywhere other than history) then a 0.005 BTC ratio for a 5 million coin supply corresponds to a dollar cap of a cool half a billion. ($500,000,000).

Put another way, a single masternode holding would be worth around $55,000. In that case, a DRK / BTC ratio change of a mere 0.0001 (say from 0.005 to 0.0051) would amount to a thousand dollar gain.

We've got to stop naval gazing and see the big picture: either Bitcoin's going somewhere or it isn't. If you decide it isn't then fair enough - but don't think any other alt is either. If you decide that it is then hang onto your DRK for dear life cos the ride's going to get wild once we hit the next big wave.

Thinking about a meme using "dark matter"...
Maybe we could take the periodic table of chemical elements and put the word "DARK" in front of every element, starting with Hydrogen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table

so

Dark Hydrogen (would be the first name to use)
then
Dark Helium
then
Dark Lithium
then
Dark Beryllium

etc...

the good thing about this is we will not run out of consistent names for a while, to name all the following versions.  
Also we could create a sub logo for every version that consists of an atomic model with changing numbers of protons/neutrons and electrons.

EDIT: Here is what it might look like:



When we reach Version Dark Gold in 10 years, how awesome will that be?