Enjoy bagholding this crap, in the meantime I'll be stocking up on some real winners like btc and claok.

This crap darkcoin has been around for 8 months, 4 of witch have been really bad for any holders who got in during those 4 months.

Darkcoin has been slowly going down because although its an amazing solution to a problem it is not open sourced. The people who want to use an anonymous crypto currency also want to be 100% sure that they can trust the services. Once all the features of Darkcoin are open sourced then they will be trusted and used. In my opinion it won't go up as much with Rc4 as it will when it becomes open source and everyone wanting a truly anonymous crypto solution will be able to use it trustingly.

This is a point in time where:

* Investors and active supporters are holding
* Potential investors are sitting on the sideline waiting for code release
* Traders are sitting waiting for announcement of RC4 date
* Sellers have sold
* Price pressure is mainly from multi-pools

So, IMO, this is a moment in history where you can't complain about the entry point for Master Nodes.

One to two months ago people were saying Master Nodes were too expensive. Well, there is right this moment a temporary fix for that complaint. When people start saying that again in 2-3 weeks time, I will re-post this:

In the third week in July 2014, right before the unique DRK anon code was released to the world and DRKs were affordable, you should have bought in.  Instead, you decided to wait a little longer. That was your choice. You didn't want to take the risk on the uncertainty. Plenty of others were.

So now, stop fucking complaining about the high price of Darkcoins. There is no advantage to early investors, they were just prepared to use Google for a few hours to take a look at the anon options in the market and the issues around privacy and the lack of it in Bitcoin, Litecoin and many other coins.

These guys looked at the close relationship Darkcoin has with Bitcoin and Litecoin, and how these established coins could be at a disadvantage in some circumstances from their lack of privacy and how easily Darkcoin could be added alongside them to fix privacy issues for those that wanted that reassurance.

Yes there are other anon options, but which can be slotted next to Bitcoin and Litecoin without too much work, that is the question you must ask yourself as the price continues to steadily increase.

What is more than certain is that the high price you are complaining about now will simply continue to increase. If it hurts you to buy now, it will be completely out of your reach next month.

The only person you can blame for the high price of Darkcoin and your inability to afford a MN is you.

It's pretty simple: If DarkCoin becomes the long term preferred coin for illicites trades (Drugs, Guns, CP) on the Dark Web. It will be 50x till 300x of the value today.

If it wont, DRK will be worthless, like other failed coins. The project most likely dies or finds  small niche, were it can survive with its own small scene/use cases then.

The project would die, as everybody would be turning to supporting the preffered Dark Web coin. Who knows which coin that will be.

This is not DRK-specific, all anon coins would die or be semi-dead (without the winning one) by then. As it is pretty obvious that there is only room, for one privacy crypto-currency to establish an healthy community and eco-system, so the coin can survive mid-term/long-term.

The #1 coin for illegale trade, will 100% also be the #1 coin for legitimate private crypto-currency usage. Because of network effects for eg.

I wouldn't say worthless. With the amount of scrutiny, tracking, etc going into bitcoin I think every day legitimate users are going to start looking elsewhere. To solutions like DRK. Either way cheap DRK at the moment.

Difficult. I wouldn't post a question on that link.. it would seem like a very cheap plug.

But if you can reach out without posting a sooooo... darkcoin? Go for it..

but why do you think satoshi would use darkcoin before is completely opensource? this would clearly only work after satoshi could have read the code... you cannot ask him to use (promote) a blackbox?

I think there is no room, for an illegal coin and an "legit privacy" coin.
And experience   shows in IT, when its about privacy/security, there is no split between "legit" and "illlegal" users or services.
E-Mail-Encryption e.g is to 99% done with PGP, by legit and illegal users, there no two solutions.
Disk-Encryption e.g. TrueCrypt is the leading standard software, with 90% market share and its used legit and illegal users, there no two solutions.
There is only dominanting "Dark Net"/"Dark Web" (with an active scene) on the internet, with TOR and not two big ones, one for legit users and one for criminals.

Or just look at IT-security: good guys (IT-Sec consultants) and bad guys (hackers) use the same pen-testing/hacking-tools.
Another example: are Bitcoin-Mixers, which are used users from both "sides".

So for me it's obvious: there will be only one big active privacy coin, with enough users, eco-system and developers.