Yea, actually if you would just mine other thing and DRK you will actually be helping DRK by increasing value by buying.

Mining it makes no sense 

Someone is selling hard right now !

You could mine LTC or VTC with half your rigs or reduce intensity and get the same power consumption and heat as if you were mining X11 and still have more profit...

Price is dropping a bit (which is not good for my current holdings) but I plan to buy a bunch more this weekend so it is ok on the other hand.

Why does the hash rate follow the price of darkcoin so closely?

As a miner, that is just plain stupid.

There must be multipools working the network.

If I use 0.4$ kwh in coinwarz (which is slightly lower to what I get right now in my tiered power bill - at almost 0.34 euro kwh) DRK tops the lists as the most profitable coin. Actually the least unprofitable coin as I'd be mining at a loss if I continued - as they are all mined at a loss.

For 320kh scrypt 1MH x11 160kh scrypt-n, it's DRK first -1.07$, HIRO second -1.08$, EXE/VTC -2.23$ and it goes up to -4.5$ for the least profitables.

A perfect assessment. But, these are the general population and they will impact any altcoin. Don't let them throw you off.

True, people plug in the hash rates for different algos and moan that DRK is unprofitable. When you manually enter half the hashrate for scrypt/scrypt-n (because X11 uses half the power, at least in my case) DRK is right up there at or near the top. Alternatively, double your X11 hashrate in the calculators for the same power consumption when comparing to scrypt/scrypt-n and you get a more accurate picture of profitability.

You forget that most people are fantastically stupid and far too lazy to learn enough to realize what a terrible idea it is... Widespread adoption is all the devs are concerned with, and they'll get it. Cost to the users for being ignorant doesn't matter.

As with all the IT stuff I grew up with... Getting something to just barely work is all that matters. Getting to to work correctly and securely, well, that's way too much trouble so why bother since most people won't notice the difference until it's too late. Look how these same people vote...

Tehre are only two unlimited resources that reach planet Earth. Sunlight and Stupidity. Look at the empire Jobs and Gates built on taking advantage of the stupid...