I remember a time when people were saying
a) Darkcoin? That's a sketchy name, it'll go nowhere (and went to the moon

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b) Anonymity? Who needs that? It's for illegal activities. Yeah, good luck with that.
c) It'll be pulled from the exchanges for being illegal
d) 0.0005 per BTC? No, no... way too expensive.
e) I'm tired of 0.0012-0.002, I'm dumping.
f) Trolls @t 0.003 0.005 0.007 0.01 0.014 (stopped after that due to zero credibility): "Expect the dump, yes we can see it round the corner".
Now everybody is scrambling for anonymity...