I'm kidding. I just bought 50 more for my stash 

Well it is a good opportunity for the people you say? Exactly who do you mean?
Instead of arguing why the price is falling you should either: A) Invest more
B) Get investors to invest.

Sorry guys I was teasing as seen in the next post. I'm happy to get cheap DRK!

I just don't understand it. Back when Darksend was practically useless, the price was over $15 (.028 was the all-time-high I believe). Now that we have a fully functioning, fully anonymizing product, it's practically worthless.

Put another way, the price (based on a promise) was over $15 at one point. Now that the promise has been realized, the price is down 80%. In what other industry can a company produce a successful, revolutionary product and have their stock price totally collapse as a result.

I honestly don't get it.

I must say that I'm reminded of the saying "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

P.S. I also don't understand why the Darkcoin team flatly refuses to do any actual marketing. Evan or eltito (don't recall which) promised a massive marketing blitz when the problems were worked out of RC4...and still nothing. I'm not suggesting hype; I'm suggesting telling people about what you actually have working. I realize that many of you will say "wait to do the marketing until open source" and that's great, except that when you wait too long, there comes a point when the world pretty much forgets about you. Anybody remember emunie? Eighteen months after the intended release date and they are now "nearing a 1.0 release." Does anybody really think the world will care anymore if and when they finally do release the damn thing?

ive been watching btcd recently and i see the same patterns as before, xc,vrc,clk etc all trying to be like drk but all where exposed by people here as scams or not working as advertised. Now why hasnt this happened with btcd? its value is 3x drk and its market cap is getting close to drk.
I know btcd is a clone wanabe drk and the pump wont last. It will dump just as hard as all the previous drk compettion and alot of noobs will be burnt again.

Let me help.

In the crypto-economy, everything is speculation because there is no market for actually *using* the money (except possibly Bitcoin if you're buying something from Overstock or Dell).

When a new coin looks like it has the makings of "the next great thing", it creates a massive speculative bubble - not because it has strong fundamentals but because there's a good chance of a huge number of traders targeting it for a "pump". In some cases, that drives the price to an all time high which is many times its regular tradable value.

Once the "pump" is over, the market won't touch it to any large extent because it is now seen as a "post-pump" phase coin. There's far too much risk in investing in such coins because it's never likely to see its all-time high again, having priced everything in that could possibly happen the first time around. If the so called "fundamentals" ever do kick in again to such an extent that it becomes a long term success, there's all the time in the world to grab a handful (which is all you need for "insurance purposes"). But as a short term BTC earner in another "pump" style accumulation phase it's seen as useless, having already been raped of its value the first time around.

The only coin I've seen defy this pattern is NXT. It has - on at least 2 occasions since its first all time high breached it after having been dumped the first time. The last one was because of a "perfect storm" confluence of a technical milestone being reached (asset exchange) plus the prospect of a new retail gateway. Both of these things would have actually promoteg widespread utilisation of the currency as opposed to just holding for holding's sake, so the revaluation was merited.

DRK's price is currently reflects that it is seen as a white elephant asset. i.e.

 - not used for anything
 - limited speculative value

So called "fundamentals" are unlikely to change that unless they look like causing a major change in adoption. Obviously, we all hope that that will eventually happen, but it's not looking like exactly "round the corner" which is why the markets are not showing any urgency.

Dark will live, there is so much investors and miners, and depends of a lot of people. So future is bright, maybe not so much but it is.

Oh ya.  This totally sounds safe for the seller.  What could possibly go wrong for the sellers sending you all the DRK first THEN you pay.

Thx tok, very interesting!  Watched entire interview to catch Dark comments...  Well worth it! 

Hmmm