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The press only want to write about something controversial. If we give them dark themes they will write about the negative side. This keeps adoption low and the price low.



Those that want anonymity for nefarious reasons will still use the coin. They will give a price boost to darkcoin when darksend is ready. But they are not the target audience, IMO.

The articles in the press when darksend is out will have an illegal usage bias. We should be aiming for greater debate about anonymity from the blockchain. That way we get compared to bitcoin and an alternative to bitcoin from the word go.

Without question - this comparison will boost the price of darkcoin.

On that front, zerocash will be out in May. We don't want to let them be written about as the default alternative to bitcoin for those that want anonymity. Especially if we give it to them cheaply by holding back our brand message.

It may be uncool, but banks and financial services is supposed to be BORING. You don't want exotic people and organisations looking after your money.  Slick, elegant, upstanding, dependable, safe, trusted. These are the sort of brand messages we want to convey.

In an effort to appeal to our greed, a sensible approach can make you rich.

You want people to able to talk freely about darkcoin at dinner table conversation without having to preface their words by saying, "I know it's mainly used for buying guns and drugs, but I like using it because......'

Since your port is not 7903, your node is not listed in http://drk.poolhash.org/ .
Backend crawler has no way to find out worker port of your node.

LOL, I'll go for LimLims' eye too

I have a problem.  I just sent 5 darksend payments and none of them seem to be going through.  The last time I did this, i gave up on it and got charged 0.1 drk for each misbehaving send when I finally closed my computer.  Several blocks have gone through since I started and yet, my darksends are still stuck at state 2.

I'm wondering if they will ever go through?  Is there something wrong?  I am using the latest (as in I just downloaded it fresh this evening in case it was updated) beta.  I really don't want to lose half a dark again, so I'll leave my computer on all night but I'm reporting this in case there is a problem that someone might look into??

Thanks

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He's talking about FPGA with chips ("6 Spartan 6 LX150") that are on the market, not ASICs. ASICs are a different issue.

Perhaps. But if FPGAs do the job cheaply (2k per board as he calculates it), then there is not much incentive for ASIC manufacturers unless they can offer much better price for performance. If the FPGA costs 2k (and is sold 3k on retail) and the ASIC goes for 1gh at 10k retail price, it cant be sold. People would rather buy multiple FPGAs. It'll have no serious cost/hash advantage over the FPGA and FPGAs are reprogrammable/reusable as far as I know, which allow them to be resold when they are obsolete as x11 miners (something that can't happen with ASICs, limiting their life).


I have no idea how they perform really, but I'll say this which is somewhat "weird": Three days ago I saw a dream that FPGAs could go 52x over GPUs on X11 (that would indicate ~150Mh). I do not know if its prophetic or subconscious junk, but it was too specific to ignore - which usually indicates that it's not subconscious junk. Last time I saw something about cryptocurrencies, it was about Litecoin going from 16$ to 25$ (and it happened within the next 2 days).

I'm not too bothered about Darkcoin as a name. The logo for Darkcoin just needs to look like it fits into the financial landscape.

DarkSend is the feature that people will be using. That is what I think we should be looking at in terms of the bigger picture.

Anyone tried using the datadir option with darkcoin-qt?  I think there's a bug in this wallet (v0.10.0)

Can you invert colors on the word darkcoin?
Dark black....coin blue... Logo blue...

Thnx....

If you don't see how darksend can benefit the general public, you won't have any problems posting a history of all transactions from your current bank account, or all bank accounts you have ever had for that matter. Sure, bitcoin addresses do not necessarily have a direct link to any individual or organisation, but in many cases it would be easy enough to establish the owner of the wallet, especially if the information is posted in a public forum. If somebody has your address they can see all transfers in the blockchain and may be able to establish who you have done business with. If legitimate businesses accept bitcoin a lot of them would probably want to keep the same address, so payments aren't sent to the wrong address, causing problems with their clients. In many cases it might not be important but many people are not such exhibitionists that they wish for their finances to be public information.