Also take into account that a lot of DRK has been being dumped by multipools in the last few days with Darkcoin being the more profitable X11 coin.   That doesn't last forever.

Multipools push the price down, when the coin isn't being gang mined by multi poolers, the price comes back up.

Well in the teams defense:
one, the price drop mostly has occurred on the weekend which is when Evan has recently been more quiet -- let's see what happens over the next few days
  
two, I am not sure if we want to brag about non-enforced MNs payments anyway -- especially since 50% of the pools are still non-compliant

and three, given all the problems to date with enforcement -- coming out now and setting dates beyond that is risky (might lead to delays which alway play poorly in the market).

My advice... ignore the price and sit tight.

Care to explain why?

moving from drk to btc makes obviously sense in case of a drk downtrend, btc moving up cannot be the reason. It would mean if BTC is on uptrend your loosing money being invested in dark, but thats not the case

With regard to the market, I think one has to consider the following:

1) MN payments are working, but I don't think that was ever really in doubt. After all, they were working properly at the last attempt at a hard fork (June 20) so there isn't any reason to expect that they wouldn't work now. So working MN payments are already priced in.

2) In the near term, the market is waiting for enforcement to go off without a hitch. The spork method is still new and is so far untried, so there is a lot of waiting to see how well that goes.

2a) Too many non-complying pools and bad actors is likely throwing a monkey wrench in planning. People are worried about what will happen without a supermajority consensus. How do we get pools to comply? How do we pull off the actual fork (since that's what enforcement is, essentially) without a very strong consensus? Will checkpointing (and the centralization that it implies) be necessary to pull this off? These questions aren't insoluble, they're just on everybody's mind.

3) Darksend is awesome but as a practical matter isn't particularly useful to anybody due to the 10 DRK limit. Once this is raised or abolished (RC4 presumably), DRK will suddenly become a lot more functional.

4) People are waiting for an announcement of the anonymity enhancements that are coming in RC4.

5) People are waiting for RC5, open source, and beyond.

I think the next steps are: a) get enough pools on board to form a supermajority of good actors, b) turn on enforcement, c) release details on RC4 anonymity enhancements, d) set a tentative date for RC4 testing to begin.

I expect this week we'll see some of those steps coming to pass. It's just a matter of HODLING.

by now drk is mainly traded with btc, usd markets are far to small to define the price..
in your example btc moved up and drk went down, as long as drk went down it makes sense moving to btc. the btc rise is non relevant

the prices on cmc are based on BTC/USD rate

If other coin can dump drk using their multipool why shouldn't we do the same?
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Price is a reflection of the risk involved in forking a coin.

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