It is fairly easy to see what happened here. Some law enforcement agency in some unknown country was tracking transactions to Bitcoin address they know was used for illegal activity. It could be a seized address, sting operation honeypot etc. They then went to blockchain.info, looked up the transaction and also the IP address that relayed the transaction to blockchain.info and then unleashed a raid on the OP's home. They did this even though blockchain.info has a clear disclaimer that the relaying IP address is not necessarily the originating IP address. It is very unfortunate that the OP did not identify the name of the law enforcement agency and its jurisdiction.

The safeguard suggested by smooth of denying the data in the first place of course solves the problem and is a case to for the use of Monero over Bitcoin.

Monero

This is very true. The precedent being set here is far reaching.

I posted the details in the Dashcoin thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=678232.msg10777298#msg10777298 The trademark being opposed by the Darkcoin Foundation is USPTO application number 86377359. Here are some USPTO links. http://tsdr.uspto.gov/caseviewer/pdf?caseId=86377359&docIndex=1#docIndex=1 and http://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn86377359&docId=APP20140829072944#docIndex=9&page=1.

I understand that you are doing your utmost to avoid conflict and confrontation both here and in the Darkcoin thread, as evidenced by the following post. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg10767687#msg10767687 and this is of course very commendable and appreciated. Unfortunately I wish I could say the same thing for other members of the Darkcoin community. from https://darkcointalk.org/threads/official-statement-on-rebranding-to-dash.4297/page-3. This gets further complicated by the legal situation. The Darkcoin Foundation is contemplating filing a Notice of Opposition to an application for a Trademark on "Dash" by a third party http://tsdr.uspto.gov/caseviewer/pdf?caseId=86377359&docIndex=1#docIndex=1. One way to do this is to show prior use. So if the Darkcoin Foundation can acquire the rights to "Dashcoin" and since the use of Dashcoin in commerce precedes that application date of the of the mark being opposed http://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn86377359&docId=APP20140829072944#docIndex=9&page=1 The Darkcoin Foundation has a good chance to oppose the third party application and claim the name "Dash" for its self. This of course hinges on one thing obtaining the rights to the name Dashcoin, It is here where the situation gets really messy and a very dangerous precedent is being set.  

The issue comes down to the ownership of the name "Dashcoin" Does the developer actually own the name or is he merely acting as a trustee on behalf of the broader community. In the latter case he has no right to sell the name to a third party.  The issue here is the same regardless of whether the market capitalization of the coin is 6000 USD or 4,000,000,000 USD. It is a critical principle that affects every decentralized crypto currency. Developers do not control or "own" the coin.  Of course if Dashcoin as a coin dies as a result the issue becomes moot, which of course is the simple solution for the Darkcoin Foundation. But what if the Dashcoin community takes over control of the coin as is apparently becoming the case away from the developer and continues using what is rightfully theirs, namely the name Dashcoin? There is already a precedent where this kind of community takeover of a coin from a developer has occurred namely with Monero. Then the result becomes that the Dashcoin developer simply scammed the Darkcoin Foundation by selling them something he had no rights to. This of course undermines the entire legal plan to trademark "Dash".

There is more: By the way Adam White is considered a troll in the DRK thread.

I believe killing Dashcoin was the idea.

The solution to the large memory requirements is the database. This has been stable for some time, but not yet merged into master.

I would not be surprised if we see some action in the market. Here is what I see:
1) A falling wedge in the hourly XMR/XBT chart
2) DRK being propped up by a series of walls at 0.01. A fair amount of these walls are hidden and are being gradually eaten.
Given the negative correlation between XMR/XBT and DRK/XBT I see a significant chance of an upward breakout in XMR/XBT combined with a crash in DRK/XBT. I may be completely wrong of course.

Edit: I find that analyzing DRK at the same time as XMR does provide additional insight given that I find a significant negative correlation between the price of DRK and XMR.

Maybe it is because the Darkcoin/DASH guys put on quite a show with the re-branding and in the process drove up the price of XMR from 0.0017 to 0.0028 over two days.

There is a hidden wall at 0.01001 that is been eaten and furthermore all of this has nothing to do with XMR. Check the charts.

I for one will be very interested in what he has to say and I am not at this point a DRK holder.

Even if any of this were true which is not the case, the simple reality is that the current technical picture for DRK/XBT is not pretty at all. My take is that there there is a significant chance that DRK can break 0.01 on the downside, and could go as low as 0.005. If this were to happen then this alone can cause XMR to reach 0.04 or higher. Please make an honest assessment of the charts on your own, and do not trust anything I say.

This has nothing to do with my personal XMR holdings or the XMR devs. It is all about DRK. There were many in the XMR community who were caught of guard while waiting to pick up cheap XMR only to get side-swiped by the market action that followed the DRK re-branding. Their mistake was to ignore what is happening over here.

I do not buy the argument that Bytecoin existed when DRK was launched in January 2014. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=740112.0. While it is very legitimate to question that actual effectiveness of DRK's anonymity it fair to say that it is perceived, to a significant degree, in marketplace to be an "anonymous" coin.

Very good find.

He is dead wrong on the 20 MB blocksize limit in XBT. The 1 MB blocksize limit is a very serious flaw in XBT that has concerned me for a very long time, since it limits the number of transactions to a point that makes any scaling of XBT impossible. It is to the best of my knowledge a very serious flaw that DRK has also inherited from XBT. By the way I have an unlimited data plan with my Internet provider that allows me to host a full XBT node, a full NMC node and a full XMR node.


Well here is the critical advantage that XMR has over both XBT and DRK. XMR does not have a fixed blocksize limit! It is the reason I found out about XMR in the first place and the primary reason why I invested in XMR and why I am a very strong supporter of XMR.

The irony of it all. This is after all a DRK thread.

Edit: I have been concerned about the 1 MB blocksize limit in XBT long before XMR or DRK even existed.

There is little doubt that there is a concerted effort by one or a small number of DRK whales to support the price at 0.01. The question that comes to mind is why? The support for DRK is actually in the 0.005 to 0.006 range. This is apparent from the charts, particularly the daily chart. So the question then becomes will DRK get hurt badly if it drops to 0.005 - 0.006 where it has been for over three months? A drop to this range world put DRK at about a 7-8 Million USD capitalization. It is here where XMR, and in particular the emission rate of XMR, comes into the picture. If XMR were to reach a level of say twice its current price, say 0.0044, this would put the capitalization of XMR above 8 million USD and more importantly above that of DRK effectively negating the one advantage that DRK currently has over XMR, namely the first mover advantage. There are many scenarios where this can happen particularly if DRK were to continue on its bear market.

My take is that a crossover between the capitalizations of DRK and XMR would likely accelerate the drop of DRK and the rise of XMR and this is the fear of many a DRK holder that leads them to attempt to support DRK at 0.01. This should also be of concern to a anyone looking at acquiring a significant position in XMR. The situation is very different from last summer because of the XMR emission.

A port to GNU/Linux will certainly be very valuable and well received.

The last upward move had a 24 hour period, with over 200,000 XMR in volume. 4000 XMR is nothing. By the way DRK/XBT has just hit 0.01 on Bitfinex. All I can say is that if you are short XMR in any way ignore DRK at you peril. I do not normally focus so much on another coin, but the situation in DRK is such that it can easily set off a buying panic in XMR.  

The DRK/XBT market is certainly worth watching. There is a concerted attempt to support the price at 0.01 with a sizable hidden wall at 0.010001 on Bitfinex which I estimate to be at least 50 - 100 XBT at one point. This is "protecting" the visible wall of over 50 XBT. at 0.01. We have seen over 20000 DRK sold into this support in the last 24 hours. Here is my take: Eventually this will give way (no one will support a coin that wants to go down for ever) and DRK/XBT will break 0.01 sharply on the downside. If this happens watch out for a sudden and sharp upward movement in XMR/XBT.

This assumes the developer actually owns what he is "selling". If the Dashcoin community simply forks the coin and continues using the name all the Darkcoin developers have purchased in the end may simply turn out to be a lawsuit.