Anyone care to expand on blackcoin and darkcoin more? I put a little into blackcoin already and also am thinking about darkcoin.
I'm impressed with blackcoin's price resiliency to the hack/stolen coins today (and the fact that hackers would think it valuable enough to steal, I suppose).
I'm interested in darkcoin's privacy aspect.
Thoughts on how serious to take these two?
I honestly don't know enough about Blackcoin, must look into it, but here is a bit of info on Darkcoin:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.0Darkcoin has a full time developer named Evan Duffield (eduffield) who has already put so many innovations in the coin, it's far above and beyond any other coin.
1. new algorithm to keep ASICs at bay, X-11. other coins have already copied this algorithm, as soon as 1 day after Darkcoin's launch!
2. New way to calculate rewards based on difficulty, a version of Moore's law 2222222/(((Difficulty+2600)/9)^2)
3. When KGW was found to have an Achilles heel with a time warp exploit, Evan came up with his own Difficulty Retargeting solution and called it Dark Gravity Wave, DGW, and it follows the difficulty changes like glove, it's amazing.
4. And the real reason for Darkcoin's existence is DarkSend. DarkSend is the technology behind Darkcoin's anonymous transaction features. They are implemented inside the wallet in a decentralized, trustless solution. We are currently in Beta 5 (actually skipped Beta 4) and it's running on the main net. You can find the white paper at the above link.
What is really great is that Darkcoin is way undervalued still, we have no idea why? But it's currently been slowly creeping up in value, so it's a great time to purchase Darkcoin as part of your portfolio. We have practically no history of pumping and dumping (except for a rather long story in the beginning where someone got ahold of bitcoin that didn't belong to them on C-CEX, bought up all the Darkcoin they could with it, then transferred it to Cryptsie where they sold all the dark coin off in a huge dump. This is where you'll see a very strange peak and valley in, I think it was, early February)
This is a serious coin, we know we have a good thing, but we have not been good at getting the word out. I feel awkward writing all this, but I've decided that I have to do my part to spread the word. Even a brilliant coin is nothing without a community, and we've been a quiet bunch who don't seem to want to stick our heads outside the forum just to have it chopped off by Blue Meanies! LOL.
I myself have bought a bunch of this coin about 2 weeks ago at above 0.0016 btc a couple of weeks ago, it's currently trading around 0.00142 or so, so I can tell you it's still an excellent time to invest. DarkSend will soon be out of beta and when it is, we expect things will quickly change.
There you have it. I only want to deliver information, maybe with a little of my own opinion. I honestly believe in this coin, and hope I come across as a person delivering information and not hype. If you've read this, I thank you for doing so, and hope you will join us
I forgot one fact, Evan has added over 10,000 lines of code to the 'ol bitcoin wallet/system. When Darksend is released, it will be open source but people will not be able to easily just implement the code in their coin, it will take someone with a lot of skill to do so .
