So, I'm officially outed.

My strategy has been:

1. Keep the conversation bumping until the project is where it is, out of pre-production and into production
2. Keep the thread on page 1
3. Trying to get people thinking about the various possibilities
4. Provide some level of balance to the people who would assume this is all about using a currency for illegal use
5. Do research for lazy people
6. Broadening the conversation with external content, where possible
7. Random amusement - you need to have a little light fun when creating something big
8. Bumping the thread off mostly  trolled pages
9. Keep those thread update notification emails going out
10. Troll and FUD watch

I'll be glad to leave this forum once the thread is locked. Most of the useful and valuable conversations are now taking place on the darkcointalk forum.

Now we are in production, my post count will likely drop.

Well done everyone - the project is nearly live. So many projects fail to see themselves past the alpha - beta stage.

We are ready for adoption. Our business in now north, to the moon 

Because there is no logic to shittraders. They don't even read. They just chase waves. The coin is irrelevant.

How do you chase waves if you don't keep your finger on the coin's pulse. You kinda have to follow the threads in order to know whats going on. I don't think traders are that stupid to neglect information the may have an impact on price.  

This is the latest draft of the press release, please tell us what you think. Kudos to David & Vertoe for this.

/* RC5 Press Release, to be released on Sept/22 */

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Darkcoin Passes Security Review, Prepares to Open Source

Security researcher Kristov Atlas has concluded his code review and security audit of Darkcoin. He was solicited by the developers of Darkcoin, based on 4+ years of professionally reviewing C/C++ software, to review the code and suggest any changes which could improve the software. Kristov Atlas concluded that Darkcoin's claims of functional anonymity are well-founded. He did suggest a few concerns, which the Darkcoin team immediately fixed (the fixes will be released Monday as part of the next scheduled update to the Darkcoin client). Mr. Atlas' primary concern was that a bad actor could launch a so-called Sybil attack against the network. Evan Duffield, lead developer of Darkcoin, closed this potential attack vector and in doing so also found a way to increase the overall anonymity of Darkcoin transactions.

The new update to Darkcoin, "Release Candidate 5" (RC5), will be made publically available Monday, September 22. It fixes the concerns raised by Mr. Atlas, increases anonymity, fixes bugs, and improves the user experience by implementing a new interface. After eight months of continuous improvement, the developers of Darkcoin are confident that the currency is finally ready to meet the scrutiny of coders world-wide. Duffield has announced that on September 29, the source code of Darkcoin will be opened and published. Darkcoin will become the first open-source, decentralized, anonymous crypto-currency in the industry.

Future plans include the adoption of a new Instant Transactions technology which Duffield has described in his whitepaper [https://www.darkcoin.io/downloads/InstantTX.pdf]. This technology will allow Darkcoin to compete with other nearly instantaneous transaction systems such as credit cards. If successful, such an idea could revolutionize crypto-currencies by providing a decentralized payment system usable in retail stores and other face-to-face situations. The delay between sending and confirming transactions would be reduced from one hour (with currencies such as Bitcoin) to as little as twenty seconds. A future press release will describe the system in greater detail.

The Darkcoin client and more information can be obtained at their website: http://www.darkcoin.io.

About Darkcoin:

Bitcoin works with an unprecedented level of transparency that most people are not used to dealing with. Every transaction that has ever happened is stored permanently in a ledger that is made public for the world to see, forever.

Darkcoin solves this problem by implementing an ahead-of-time CoinJoin implementation called Darksend. A user that wants to be anonymous can use the built-in technology to utilize the Masternode network to make their transaction nearly impossible to track.

Contact: evan@darkcoin.io
Community: https://darkcointalk.org/threads/rc5-launching-september-22nd.2382/
Future Press Releases: http://www.darkcoin.io/media.html

I'm rooting for DRK myself but let's be realistic here. Nobody overtakes BTC in years to come, especially anons.