We found a pretty bad vulnerability in Bitcoin, we'll see what happens:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/5698

Pues si, parece que la ballena amiga va subiendo posiciones según la gente compra y sube el precio, puede ser una estrategia para inflar el precio y hacer un buen volcado después.

Anyone gotten money out of Mintpal? I have a friend who's DRK is stuck in there.

 

After seeing the effort that went into the Bitcoin Rush video and reading people's reactions here, I wanted to share my feelings on the  aspect of promoting Darkcoin's anonymity/privacy.

I don't think the "window curtains" angle is the proper way to distinguish DRK.  That still comes across as another way of saying DRK can be used for nefarious purposes. While the concept itself is definitely valid (and appreciated), we must remember that we are promoting a CURRENCY, not a method of concealing identity.

Given the current state of society, I can understand the reason most would instinctively look at this from the perspective of "taking back our financial privacy," but really the strongest way to argue this is not to acknowledge that it can be taken away at all.  Currency is one of those sacred things that every person should be able to use freely and confidently no matter what.  By arguing from the defensive angle, you are granting that "money trail" type of law enforcement detective work is acceptable in the first place. It is not.

This issue is not dissimilar to the one of mass surveillance.  When people are constantly worrying about saying the wrong thing and getting "targeted," their productivity, creativity and freedom suffers.  Free speech is a right, and an assumption of privacy should always exist.  How did they catch bad guys before telephones and computers? Oh yeah, they had to do real work.  The exact same thing goes for currency.

So my vote for Darkcoin promotion is to stick with the economic fundamentals. Bitcoin is an almost perfect world currency but it lacks privacy. Why is that important? Because it affects FUNGIBILITY. When people are afraid to spend or accept it, it doesn't get used freely and productivity suffers.

What image does a duffel bag full of hundred dollar bills conjure?  It probably looks like "drug money" or "blood money" or something BAD to most people.  Do shop keepers question your credit card as much as they do your hundred dollar bill? 

What about those bitcoins Coinbase identified as being connected to gambling, or those identified as part of SR or some other negatively portrayed activity.  I is theoretically possible that governments could coerce the mining pools into making sure those particular coins are not spendable.  In the meantime, how can normal honest people be fully confident in accepting a currency which could potentially get confiscated, devalued, or even implicate them in the future as suspects in crimes which they are in no way connected to? 

A truly fungible currency means that everybody will confidently accept it without hesitation.  When every single coin is anonymous, they are equal. That's the real potential of Darkcoin, as I see it.

While Bitcoin gives us nothing to doubt about the coin's validity (cannot be faked, decentralized, value comes from powerful mining effort, no charge-backs, no double-spends, etc.), Darkcoin goes one step further and gives us nothing to fear.

TL;DR --
Promoting DRK's anonymity feature as closed doors/windows/etc to keep things private still invites the falicious "you should have nothing to hide" argument.
Privacy is an inherant component of any truly fungible currency. Promote the fungibility and people will simply use it, no questions asked--and none needed!

(sorry for the long first post. I've been lurking here since page 1000 and finally just registered so I can contribute)
 

Tenéis idea de cuando tienen previsto sacar la funcionalidad de transacciones instantáneas, leí hace tiempo que hicieron una prueba que funcionó pero no he vuelto a saber nada mas.

Por cierto ahora mismo DRK tiene buen muro de compra en los 0.0062

That's what people were saying about DRK when I was buying them for $0.01 before selling a few thousand for $15.  

Keep bumping the thread, bitch. You're working for free.

The moment we've all been waiting for:

Bitcoin Rush | Darkcoin Anniversary Special

Cheers,

Tao

Hoy es el cumpleaños de darkcoin, para celebrarlo, un usuario-ballena conocido por Otoh ha puesto un muro de compra en cryptsy de casi 150 BTC a 0.006

                                                                         Darkcoin Rising

good update here all the things the new investors can be interested :

http://www.multifaucet.tk/index.php?blockexplorer=VTR&currency_info

A ver si por fin puedo ir a una! Espero que si!

There is also nubits, pegged to usd.

Si, aún así la pagina sigue vigente, muchos bitcoins pagados, y muchos usuarios inscritos, como siempre somos buenos para criticar, y cuando nos equivocamos no somos buenos para aceptarlo, sigo ganando bitcoins, muchos me agradecen haberlos metido a la web, y la web sigue vigente y paga puntual, en fin. Seguiré reportandoles los éxitos de la web.

Buenas compañeros, es curioso volver por aqui y desempolvar este post, y ver las vueltas que ha dado todo.

Tendre que pasarme un tiempo leyendo todas las respuestas durante este verano que estuve ausente.

Bueno pues finalmente como sabreis mi predicción no se cumplio este 2014, esperaba un rally despues de verano el cual nunca llego a suceder. Litecoin cotizando a 100$ tendrá que esperar...

Esperaba que despues de suceder un rally en bitcoin, como en años anteriores, se trasladase a Litecoin. Y esta es mi gran pregunta, ¿Sucederá?

Nunca me imaginaria tocariamos estos valores, estamos en 1,67 dolares al escribir, cuando lo escribia estabamos hablando que el precio era 4-5 veces superior al actual. Esta semana el precio ha caido alrededor de un 17-18%. Las noticias no acompañan tampoco.

Litecoin no ha conseguido la aceptación que deberia haber tenido.

En definitiva , no se que pensar ya de una de mis queridas monedas

Un saludo

Una pregunta directa para ahorrar tiempo, ¿hay algún participante sin especificar quien que tenga mucho dinero disponible (por encima de 50k) para trabajar en algún proyecto interesante en Barcelona?

En caso afirmativo me plantearía acudir a alguna de las quedadas con el fin de concretar ideas para desarrollar en la ciudad, entre ellas por ejemplo se podría hablar de crear un showroom sobre la moneda y sobre minería donde se expongan los diferentes modelos de mineros que podrían suministrar a modo de muestra los fabricantes o los últimos cajeros atm, algo así como una apple store de Bitcoin, pero ya sabemos que aquí es todo bastante caro y se necesitan inversores potentes.