I have to say this from my observations:
Hmmm... I do see your point of view.
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The BTC community appears to be very cult like, they dont seem to tolerate the slightest amount of FUD on their projects either... When real identities or companies get FUD'ed, legal action can be taken against FUDsters. Its technically called "defamation".
DRK does not react well to FUD on their thread ?? Are you serious ?? Well of course not, you ding-dong! Do you know what FUD even means? What if I were to FUD your mother, how would you react? (I know that sounds phonetically totally wrong, I promise its wasn't on purpose)
DRK has always embraced a challenge! In fact, certain challenges ended up in coders becoming official devs! It has happened so often that highly talented guys saw the code and hopped aboard. About your "highly-coordinated attacks" yadda yadda... I have absolutely no clue I very rarely snoop around other threads. The internet is free. What goes on with DRK as a community, either on our thread here or our forum, and open and private IRC channels, I can guarantee I've never ever ever heard of any "plots of this or that". We are far too busy developing either code or the community. But I'm sure my guarantee won't be worth much here. Trolls will be trolls and do not represent DRK, or anyone for that matter, unless you can actually provide proof of such.
One of the first official devs for DRK got kicked out just for talking crap on #darkcoin, for example. We have VERY VERY high ethics going (talking about the core community guys). Trolls are fed on ignorance.
Heck, recently we had Spreadcoin blatantly fork our entire project, give it a twist, call it "entirely original masternode concept and code" ... and many of "us" got into helping "them" develop and set-up their ideas (even from our dev team), others just went fully retard 1 on 1 being silly.
Trolls are trolls, and if they come in barking DRK, its not DRK's responsibility. And no, self-respecting human would tolerate FUD passively. Maybe Gandhi... but you get what I mean right...?
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BTC worship Satoshi like he is god. I dont worship Evan. I have the highest admiration. I got "attracted" to him (and I do, again, guarantee my heterosexuality) because when I discovered Darkcoin... the dude had a name and a face. I checked up to sniff out scam, but its real. He is real, Evan Duffield is not Satoshi. I checked up on his professional background and was highly impressed. We know him, his address, his phone number, etc etc etc... Why? Because he is about to pull a heist? Or because he is legit and the community evolved?
He is not our "leader" ... he's just the head coder! He doesnt proclaim, he asks for the community opinion and takes it! It has happened time and time again.
If it had been a scammy coin I would have gone after him for life until I found him.... But thats not all. I, and all who care to actually do some homework, have seen a highly talented, dedicated workaholic, working day in day out, its quite impressive I tell you. Even now he has lots of help, still works tirelessly, Monday through Monday, pushing update after update. Never took a week off, never ever ever seen him not "log in" either on forum, github etc for more that 1 or 2 days in a row...
THAT I call respect. I have loads of it for him, and admiration, yes, because he is completely innovative with total dedication, promising and delivering, not running away when shit hits the fan. So as an investor, hell yes I support this strong warrior!!
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I totally disagree here. Anonymity is not a fad, as part of privacy, its a human right. People keep missing the point. Its not about going on the Darkmarkets and buy drugs ... which WAS, by the way, how BTC got off the ground in case you didn't know... but DRK is NOT about that. Its about defending against the blatant war our governments have declared on our individual right to privacy. In decentralised finances, that necessarily means anonymity. Plus, people are also not seeing how Darkcoin is much much MUCH more than just an anonymity coin.
Now please, say "instamine", pleeeease, someone pleeeease say "instamine" !!
