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[qwizzie]

Anonymous and untraceable transactions are already being implemented by Bitcoin (like Coin Scrambler). So, are there any reason to still invest in Darkcoin? Why shouldn't I sell all my Darkcoins for Bitcoins now?

please re-read your post, are you still wondering why people think yr trolling ? there are good ways of asking questions and there
are really really badddd ways of asking questions...

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[Severinian]

Lol, I have no idea who Shojayxt is mate. Honestly. Take my posts as a layman person's concerns, and integrate that knowledge for Darkcoin's potential future. Nice lyrics though, lol.

[Artoodeetoo]

Lol, I have no idea who Shojayxt is mate. Honestly. Take my posts as a layman person's concerns, and integrate that knowledge for Darkcoin's potential future.

You have imparted some knowledge?

[toknormal]

Anonymous and untraceable transactions are already being implemented by Bitcoin (like Coin Scrambler). So, are there any reason to still invest in Darkcoin? Why shouldn't I sell all my Darkcoins for Bitcoins now?

All you can do with these services is anonymise individual transactions in realtime. They aren't remotely suitable for supporting a commercial privacy model that a business could run on.

For example if you're a retailer moving money around and you'd like to keep your sales revenue private, you'd need to funnel everything through one of these pinhole 3rd party laundering devices.

Only, it wouldn't be enough because your customers wouldn't be doing the same - they'd just be sending you money through the usual route, unmixed. So if I was one of your competitors and wanted to investigate your finances I'd have quite a few options.

With Darkcoin, there's nothing like that. The coin supply is anonymised in the background so that when you actually transact there are no additional 'hoops'.

Secondly, the approach is consistent throughought the coin supply. It's an anonymous currency, not just an anonymous transaction so you are not exposed to risks arising from diverse quality standards of 3rd party technology or hacks. It's a single, universally implemented layer.

Thirdly, your are operating in a 2-tier network as opposed to a single tier one. This future proofs it against a lot of technology challenges by supporting a 'fast lane' for new functionality (such as instantX) without impacting on the core API. Bitcoin does not have this option.

Hopefully that's enough to get you started. I'm sure I could think of a few more if pushed (e.g. from a market perspective - such as DRK's trading profile over the last year where it has shown a healthy revaluation and consolidation pattern that is now as solid as Bitcoin's if not more so).

[Severinian]

Thanks Toknormal. That's indeed some nice information to get my interest renewed.

[aleix]

Anonymous and untraceable transactions are already being implemented by Bitcoin (like Coin Scrambler). So, are there any reason to still invest in Darkcoin? Why shouldn't I sell all my Darkcoins for Bitcoins now?

1.- You have 3891 pages to read (almost one year of development and community grow), or

2.- You can go to darkcointalk and do your own research (and ask the proper questions, not the arrogant ones there).

welcome 

[toknormal]

Has anybody read this ? (The interesting stuff starts in section 2).

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/bail-in-powers-implementation-including-draft-secondary-legislation/bail-in-powers-implementation

TRANSLATION

If your bank starts to look like it might be insolvent, they'll just convert your depositor balances to bank shares mandatorily.

[g4q34g4qg47ww]

v11 changelog: https://github.com/vertoe/darkcoil/blob/devel-0.9/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.11.0.md

Darkcoin Core 0.11.0 is forked off the Bitcoin Core 0.9.3. The old darkcoin versions 0.10.x were forked from the Litecoin 0.8 tree. The following changes are introduced in this major release. This list is compiled from the release notes of Bitcoin Core 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.2.1, 0.9.3 and was completed with the introduced changes to the Darkcoin Core 0.11.0.

Darkcoin Core:

    Rebrand to Darkcoin Core
    Version bumped to 0.11 to indicate a new major release
    Renamed client to identify with network from Satoshi to Core
    Bump protocol version to 70052
    Changed p2sh-address versions to start with 7 (instead of 3, this affects public keys only, old scripts remain valid and usable!)
    Changed testnet address versions to start with x or y (instead of m or n, this affects public keys only, old wallets remain valid and usable!)
    Defined BIP32 (HD) address versions to start with drkp/drkv (DRKP/DRKV for testnet)
    Added new units: duffs (1 / 100.000.000 DRK)
    Added units for testnet: tDRK, mtDRK, utDRK, tduffs
    Added new DNS seed from masternode.io
    Fixed wallet locking after sending coins
    Consider generated coins mature at 101 instead of 120 blocks
    Add -regtest mode, similar to testnet but private with instant block generation with setgenerate RPC.
    Add separate darkcoin-cli client

Masternodes:

    Improve support for start-many with multi masternode config
    New masternode rpc commands: stop-many, start-alias, stop-alias, list-conf
    Fixed possible masternode payments exploit
    Better support for non-specific masternode payments
    Added masternode support for regtest
    Randomly sort masternodes before picking next winner
    Show number of masternodes in debug window

Darksend:

    Reduced lower darksend limit to 1.5 DRK
    Fixed progress bar calculation for low amounts
    Improved support for adding DRK after anon has completed
    Added denomination information to Overview tab
    Added more detailed Darksend status information to Overview tab
    Added Darksend high precision matching engine

RPC:

    Add getwalletinfo, getblockchaininfo and getnetworkinfo calls (will replace hodge-podge getinfo at some point)
    Add a relayfee field to getnetworkinfo
    Always show syncnode in getpeerinfo
    sendrawtransaction: report the reject code and reason, and make it possible to re-send transactions that are already in the mempool
    getmininginfo show right genproclimit
    New notion of 'conflicted' transactions, reported as confirmations: -1
    'listreceivedbyaddress' now provides tx ids
    Add raw transaction hex to 'gettransaction' output
    Updated help and tests for 'getreceivedby(account|address)'
    In 'getblock', accept 2nd 'verbose' parameter, similar to getrawtransaction, but defaulting to 1 for backward compatibility
    Add 'verifychain', to verify chain database at runtime
    Add 'dumpwallet' and 'importwallet' RPCs
    'keypoolrefill' gains optional size parameter
    Add 'getbestblockhash', to return tip of best chain
    Add 'chainwork' (the total work done by all blocks since the genesis block) to 'getblock' output
    Make RPC password resistant to timing attacks
    Clarify help messages and add examples
    Add 'getrawchangeaddress' call for raw transaction change destinations
    Reject insanely high fees by default in 'sendrawtransaction'
    Add RPC call 'decodescript' to decode a hex-encoded transaction script
    Make 'validateaddress' provide redeemScript
    Add 'getnetworkhashps' to get the calculated network hashrate
    New RPC 'ping' command to request ping, new 'pingtime' and 'pingwait' fields in 'getpeerinfo' output
    Adding new 'addrlocal' field to 'getpeerinfo' output
    Add verbose boolean to 'getrawmempool'
    Add rpc command 'getunconfirmedbalance' to obtain total unconfirmed balance
    Explicitly ensure that wallet is unlocked in importprivkey
    Add check for valid keys in importprivkey

Command-line options:

    Fix -printblocktree output
    Show error message if ReadConfigFile fails
    New option: -nospendzeroconfchange to never spend unconfirmed change outputs
    New option: -zapwallettxes to rebuild the wallet's transaction information
    Rename option '-tor' to '-onion' to better reflect what it does
    Add '-disablewallet' mode to let darkcoind run entirely without wallet (when built with wallet)
    Update default '-rpcsslciphers' to include TLSv1.2
    make '-logtimestamps' default on and rework help-message
    RPC client option: '-rpcwait', to wait for server start
    Remove '-logtodebugger'
    Allow -noserver with darkcoind

Block-chain handling and storage:

    Upgrade leveldb to 1.17
    Check for correct genesis (prevent cases where a datadir from the wrong network is accidentally loaded)
    Allow txindex to be removed and add a reindex dialog
    Log aborted block database rebuilds
    Store orphan blocks in serialized form, to save memory
    Limit the number of orphan blocks in memory to 750
    Fix non-standard disconnected transactions causing mempool orphans

Protocol and network code:

    Don't poll showmyip.com, it doesn't exist anymore
    Add a way to limit deserialized string lengths and use it
    Increase IsStandard() scriptSig length
    Avoid querying DNS seeds, if we have open connections
    Remove a useless millisleep in socket handler
    Stricter memory limits on CNode
    Better orphan transaction handling
    Add -maxorphantx=<n> and -maxorphanblocks=<n> options for control over the maximum orphan transactions and blocks
    Per-peer block download tracking and stalled download detection
    Prevent socket leak in ThreadSocketHandler and correct some proxy related socket leaks
    Use pnode->nLastRecv as sync score (was the wrong way around)
    Drop the fee required to relay a transaction to 0.01mDRK per kilobyte
    Send tx relay flag with version
    New 'reject' P2P message (BIP 0061, see https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/7079034 for draft)
    Dump addresses every 15 minutes instead of 10 seconds
    Relay OP_RETURN data TxOut as standard transaction type
    Remove CENT-output free transaction rule when relaying
    Lower maximum size for free transaction creation
    Send multiple inv messages if mempool.size > MAX_INV_SZ
    Split MIN_PROTO_VERSION into INIT_PROTO_VERSION and MIN_PEER_PROTO_VERSION
    Do not treat fFromMe transaction differently when broadcasting
    Process received messages one at a time without sleeping between messages
    Improve logging of failed connections
    Add some additional logging to give extra network insight

Wallet:

    Check redeemScript size does not exceed 520 byte limit
    Ignore (and warn about) too-long redeemScripts while loading wallet
    Make GetAvailableCredit run GetHash() only once per transaction (performance improvement)
    Lower paytxfee warning threshold
    Fix importwallet nTimeFirstKey (trigger necessary rescans)
    Log BerkeleyDB version at startup
    CWallet init fix
    Bug fixes and new regression tests to correctly compute the balance of wallets containing double-spent (or mutated) transactions
    Store key creation time. Calculate whole-wallet birthday.
    Optimize rescan to skip blocks prior to birthday
    Let user select wallet file with -wallet=foo.dat
    Don't count txins for priority to encourage sweeping
    Don't create empty transactions when reading a corrupted wallet
    Fix rescan to start from beginning after importprivkey

Mining:

    Increase default -blockmaxsize/prioritysize to 750K/50K
    'getblocktemplate' does not require a key to create a block template
    Mining code fee policy now matches relay fee policy

GUI:

    fix 'opens in testnet mode when presented with a BIP-72 link with no fallback'
    AvailableCoins: acquire cs_main mutex
    Fix unicode character display on MacOSX
    Fix various coin control visual issues
    Show number of in/out connections in debug console
    Show weeks as well as years behind for long timespans behind
    Enable and disable the Show and Remove buttons for requested payments history based on whether any entry is selected.
    Show also value for options overridden on command line in options dialog
    Fill in label from address book also for URIs
    Fixes feel when resizing the last column on tables
    Fix ESC in disablewallet mode
    Add expert section to wallet tab in optionsdialog
    Do proper boost::path conversion (fixes unicode in datadir)
    Only override -datadir if different from the default (fixes -datadir in config file)
    Show rescan progress at start-up
    Show importwallet progress
    Get required locks upfront in polling functions (avoids hanging on locks)
    Catch Windows shutdown events while client is running
    Optionally add third party links to transaction context menu
    Check for !pixmap() before trying to export QR code (avoids crashes when no QR code could be generated)
    Fix "Start darkcoin on system login"
    Switch to Qt 5.2.0 for Windows build
    Add payment request (BIP 0070) support
    Improve options dialog
    Show transaction fee in new send confirmation dialog
    Add total balance in overview page
    Allow user to choose data directory on first start, when data directory is missing, or when the -choosedatadir option is passed
    Save and restore window positions
    Add vout index to transaction id in transactions details dialog
    Add network traffic graph in debug window
    Add open URI dialog
    Improve receive coins workflow: make the 'Receive' tab into a form to request payments, and move historical address list functionality to File menu.
    Move initialization/shutdown to a thread. This prevents "Not responding" messages during startup. Also show a window during shutdown.
    Don't regenerate autostart link on every client startup
    Show and store message of normal darkcoin:URI
    Fix richtext detection hang issue on very old Qt versions
    OS X: Make use of the 10.8+ user notification center to display Growl-like notifications
    OS X: Added NSHighResolutionCapable flag to Info.plist for better font rendering on Retina displays.
    OS X: Fix darkcoin-qt startup crash when clicking dock icon
    Linux: Fix Gnome darkcoin: URI handler

Validation:

    Log reason for non-standard transaction rejection
    Prune provably-unspendable outputs, and adapt consistency check for it.
    Detect any sufficiently long fork and add a warning
    Call the -alertnotify script when we see a long or invalid fork
    Fix multi-block reorg transaction resurrection
    Reject non-canonically-encoded serialization sizes
    Reject dust amounts during validation
    Accept nLockTime transactions that finalize in the next block

Build system:

    Add OSX build descriptors to gitian
    Fix explicit --disable-qt-dbus
    Don't require db_cxx.h when compiling with wallet disabled and GUI enabled
    Improve missing boost error reporting
    gitian-linux: --enable-glibc-back-compat for binary compatibility with old distributions
    gitian: don't export any symbols from executable
    gitian: build against Qt 4.6
    devtools: add script to check symbols from Linux gitian executables
    Remove build-time no-IPv6 setting
    Add statically built executables to Linux build
    Switch to autotools-based build system
    Build without wallet by passing --disable-wallet to configure, this removes the BerkeleyDB dependency
    Upgrade gitian dependencies (libpng, libz, libupnpc, boost, openssl) to more recent versions
    Windows 64-bit build support
    Solaris compatibility fixes
    Check integrity of gitian input source tarballs
    Enable full GCC Stack-smashing protection for all OSes

Miscellaneous:

    key.cpp: fail with a friendlier message on missing ssl EC support
    Remove bignum dependency for scripts
    Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1i, includes CVE-2014-0224, CVE-2014-0160 and CVE-2014-0076 (see https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140806.txt)
    Upgrade miniupnpc to 1.9.20140701
    Fix boost detection in build system on some platforms
    Replace non-threadsafe C functions (gmtime, strerror and setlocale)
    Add missing cs_main and wallet locks
    Avoid exception at startup when system locale not recognized
    devtools: add a script to fetch and postprocess translations

[Minotaur26]

Thanks Toknormal. That's indeed some nice information to get my interest renewed.

Just to add some emphasis to this, InstantX is a new Darkcoin technology that allows for Darkcoin transactions to be confirmed and secure in around 20 seconds. This will make Darkcoin suitable for point of sale situations, and face to face business transactions.

Even if you wait just 1 Bitcoin confirmation that is already 10 minutes, imagine a cashier at a store having to wait 10 minutes for each customer payment to come through it just wouldn't work. Now you can say, well payment processors like Bitpay can allow businesses to take Bitcoin payments with 0 confirmations and they take the risk for the customer so that things on the store are quick. While this is true, it introduces a trusted third party, retail businesses can't take crypto securely on their own without the use of one of these payment processors so we are replacing Visa with Bitpay but nothing really changed it is still a trusted centralized model. Plus they will only serve businesses that comply with their terms of service and will deny service to others.

 With Darkcoin any business or individual could take payments independently in seconds allowing for a myriad of new possibilities. For example, traffic light vendors in developing countries could take a DRK payment in 20 seconds, foundations that collect donations  on traffic lights could take crypto. Crypto vending machines at the subway, anything where time is a constraint, and the vending machine can be independently own you don't need the service and fees from a payment processor to allow for instant transactions.

It is very exciting technology and in combination with privacy it really opens up new possibilities.
 
Also there are more features on the plans, like 2FA for the Darkcoin wallet to allow for better security, so to spend coins a thief would need not only the wallet and passphrase from the victim which he can get from his computer using keyboard readers and the like, but also the 2FA PIN that changes all the time and would come from a separate device like a cellphone. This is of huge importance for me, I  have a constant preoccupation about loosing my coins, as I think most people on crypto do too and it could really help non techy people feel more secure and willing to try crypto.

[dazbarlby]

Anonymous and untraceable transactions are already being implemented by Bitcoin (like Coin Scrambler). So, are there any reason to still invest in Darkcoin? Why shouldn't I sell all my Darkcoins for Bitcoins now?

Here are a few reasons I posted a while ago...

 1) Unlike Bitcoin, Darkcoin transactions are anonymous/private (off block-chain anonymity and quantum computing proof)

 2) Darkcoins anonymity feature "DarkSend" has been carefully designed to ensure user’s anonymity isn't uncovered through known attack vectors. This cannot be said for other on block-chain anonymous coins

 3) Darksend is far more advanced than the CoinJoin system it was originally based on. Mixing coins through Darksend is Safe, Secure, Decentralised and nobody can steal your money because the coins never leave their wallet.

 4) Darkcoin Transaction Confirmations Are Lightening Fast* (20 - 30 seconds instead of Bitcoins 60 minutes)

 5) Merchants don't have to worry about the double spend 0 confirmation risk that Bitcoin has*

 6) Darkcoins are secure at the Protocol level**. This means even if somebody steals your wallet or your private keys, they still can't access your money.

 7) Expansion proof... Unlike Bitcoin, Darkcoin's development and innovation won't slow down as the network grows due to the fear of the network failing. Darkcoin's revolutionary SPORK upgrade process ensures any problems can be quickly and safely fixed no matter how big the network gets.

 8) Dual Network Protection - The masternode network enables the developers to innovate without fear as the standard network is always there to fall back on should the masternode network fail (which is unlikely)

 9) Dual Network Protection - Should the Masternode network ever fail (even for a few minutes) transactions will still go through and they will still be anonymous because the coins will already have been through the Darksend process.

 10) The X11 algorithm ensures Darkcoins miners are more environmentally friendly than Bitcoin miners.

 11) The Dark gravity Wave difficulty Algorithm ensures mining is always fair

 12) The Darkcoin Network Provides 2 forms of income generation - Mining and Masternode Hosting. You can invest and gain interest from the network while at the same time making the network stronger.

 13) Because Darkcoin is based on the Bitcoin code and uses the same API it will be very easy for merchants that are currently accepting Bitcoin to also accept Darkcoin.

 14) The Darkcoin team is growing weekly. Highly Skilled Developers, Security Experts and Economic Experts are giving up their spare time to be part of a project that will truly change the financial landscape

 15) Darkcoin is the eCash people have been dreaming of for decades and it takes cryptocurrencies to the next level

 16) Darkcoin has massive potential for innovation. We have only taken the first steps!

 17) If you Wish you had invested in Bitcoin when it was worth $2.50, take a look at Darkcoin, It's what Bitcoin was supposed to be!


 * When InstantX is released (estimated January/February 2015)

 ** When Protocol level 2-Factor Authentication is released (estimated March/April 2015)

[thelonecrouton]

Only, it wouldn't be enough because your customers wouldn't be doing the same - they'd just be sending you money through the usual route, unmixed. So if I was one of your competitors and wanted to investigate your finances I'd have quite a few options.

I wonder how many people are already profiling targets by crypto injection mapping? BTC dust as financial radar...  

[onetime]

I'm asking for arguments for why I should keep my Darkcoins at this moment.

thank you strix and others for your ideas and suggestions. I'll make new changes soon.

-onetime

[TsuyokuNaritai]

Hey everyone...



...Sorry I've had little time to keep up for a while. What's the progress towards InstantX now? I see the team has been busy making lots of other awesome things happen...

[Severinian]

Thanks for the answers guys, Darkcoin is indeed very promising.

Aleix, I don't see how my questions came off as arrogant, anyway, that was not my intention, I'm simply curious as to whether they're still a good investment, and I think they are. I've got like 50-something of them

[tungfa]

i am looking for an DRK Coin Image,
it is a rendering from Rapture (he seems to be on holidays)

single DRK Coin
standing
white background

any pointers where I can find that
even in low res would work for now

tx
 

[onetime]

i am looking for an DRK Coin Image, white background

-onetime

[tungfa]

i am looking for an DRK Coin Image, white background

-onetime

Hahaaaa
brother one !
very cool
that is the one i am looking for !!
(# 2)
where can i get a high res ?!?!

[spatula]

i am looking for an DRK Coin Image, white background

-onetime

Hahaaaa
brother one !
very cool
that is the one i am looking for !!
(# 2)
where can i get a high res ?!?!

https://www.darkcoin.io/resources/promotional-graphics/

[tungfa]

i am looking for an DRK Coin Image, white background

-onetime

Hahaaaa
brother one !
very cool
that is the one i am looking for !!
(# 2)
where can i get a high res ?!?!

https://www.darkcoin.io/resources/promotional-graphics/

tx man

[onetime]

where can i get a high res ?!?!

sorry, that's the best I've got. 

-onetime