well seems like i have to chime in here, as an early adopter, believing in this coin, i have earned a nice load of coin, but i have also given away aproximatly 40% of it, either as part of lotterymining.com, as competition for designing a logo for my pool, and also the faucet, so to say that the early adopters are just going to dump the horded load, is bullshit, some will, thats human nature, but some do believe in it, and have worked hard to help everyone else that came and wanted to mine, i look at what i have left as "payment for the unaccounted hours" ive used to help others. so please refrain from putting everyone into the same box!
Apologies if you took offense at that but you can only speak for yourself not the other early adopters.
You describe the early adopters as "hoarders" but think about why many of us got into Darkcoin - we like the coin, and want to actually use it as currency for things. Right now, there are very few "things" we can get with darkcoin. I'm not a huge fan of speculating personally, because I don't like to see the commoditization of ... well anything, really. I'm holding on to many of the coins that I have so that I can actually USE them when more vendors, sites, etc. start accepting it.
Speaking of that, I'm going to >try< to set up a us-based p2p node that is funded entirely by crypto. With the exception of electricity, I think I can pull it off. I have a domain that I got with namecoin (pickaxe.bit), a server that I bought with BTC, etc. I'd definitely appreciate any help with getting the pool set up. I'll be messing with that this weekend...