Spoetnik, I really don't think this coin is profitable to mine if you want immediate rewards.  I think the reason so many people are mining, which is terrific, is because they believe the coin will be very valuable once DarkSend is completed, and many of us are excited to see what Evan comes up with next.  We see a lot of future development in this coin happening, Evan has dedicated himself to it, and we've seen how fast he can come up with solutions.  The beta versions of DarkSend are working really well, but he wants to improve it, make it better, so it's taking longer than it absolutely had to I'm sure, but then again, I know he's making it really awesome.

So that's probably the reason people are mining it even so the prices aren't reflecting the difficulty. I absolutely love the idea of having my wallet be as private as possible.  Personal finances are something that I feel we have a right to keep private.

Gosh, see? we're still missing the Gpu miner links on the front page, the guys are so busy!  But there is a link to mining hardware for Darkcoin, which is all about Gpu's so it isn't hare to figure out there must be a GPU miner for the coin.  In fact, people ask about it all the time, and they get a link pretty fast usually.  I'll ask Ape again to put it on page one...

Oh one more thing, a page or so back, eduffield (Evan) said they'd start posting announcements on our forum;

https://www.darkcointalk.org/forums/official-developer-thread.15/

And they've begun to do so!  I think we're slowly trying to migrate to that forum 

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ya i figured that and i will prob mine it a bit..i have a few idle cpu's i can use the fastest being my desktop Intel core i7 4770k
although i don't see too much of a future for the coin to be honest.. any so called new features here are not enough for an impact i think.
and i highly suggest the OP put a link to GPU miners on page one for credibility reasons alone.
Otherwise it looks like the coin is being pushed as a cpu only coin when it's not like on that CPU only coins list topic.

and i don't pay for electricity so whether it uses less or not i couldn't care less lol
watching my CPU cores i see only partial usage too so that may explain the lower usage..
on average they are using 80% of my cores threads i am testing 6 threads out of 8 leaving two idle for support for cgminer
and i am seeing between 65 and 87% fluctuating.. so maybe scrypt miners are simply coded to be more efficient ? accident ? lol

my msi 270x use this conf got too much hw,why?

My current cpu usage mining DRK. Looks like you're not running the miner optimized for your cpu. I had the same problem.

So no not an accident just lack of research.

This coin runs better on lower intensity.  Try -I 14 and work your way up.  I doubt you'll go over 16 before you start getting HW errors

i am and know lots about it i have experimented with GCC/MingW flags etc for almost a year compiling cpu miners for QRKSRC etc (as lots of people know)
and darkCoin-cpuminer-1.3 came with 5 optimized builds so no excuse..

The reason for all the algos is to make it as asic resistant as possible.  It's trying to buy time for a smoother growth transition.  If we were to have started off with script, we would have been 6 months old before ASICs hit the scene, and it would have just been a huge dump of mining power all of a sudden.

The idea is the more algorithms, the harder, more involved it is to make the ASIC.  That plus having a new algorithm also slows down the adaption.  There needs to be a critical mass of users before making an ASIC is profitable.

You ask good questions.  It's hard to see why Evan has done all the things he has done from first glance but he did have his reasons, though I'm sure not all of them turned out the way he had hoped

I do agree with you on finding the most profitable coin to mine.  Being that I just mine here due to laziness and to support the network, I really don't know how we hold up against other coins.  However, I do understand our hash rate is about 2.5 x higher with X11 and the difficulty is also about 2.5 times as high as script, so these numbers according to what other people say, make mining darkcoin comparable to script.  But like  I said, I don't know.

RE: First anonymous coin?  Where is there another, actually functioning anonymous coin?  Ours is still in closed source beta but it's working, you can download it and use it right now.  I know of no other coin that has a decentralized trustless solution like DarkSend.  Not that isn't still in the planning stages, and certainly not one that is as practical, lightweight and effective.

This coin has over 10,000 lines of new code.  Even when Darksend is open sourced, it's so interwoven into the wallet, it will take someone of skill to extract it and implement it into their own wallet.

You should take a little time to read the white paper linked on the first page.

Obviously they weren't fully optimized then, guess I was one of the lucky ones who get's full cpu usage.