I meant that SR, while it facilitated many things for many people (some of them pretty sophisticated, as no doubt your use of it was Camosoul), it would also attract a relative high level of dumb-ass wannabe crooks who're just not going to understand how the Internet works and what sort of tools/techniques law enforce has (like those idiots in chat rooms who get arrested in a sting for attempting to procure an under age person for sex when their dream 13 year old cutie they've been grooming turns out to be a 45 year big hairy gorilla cop ready to bus their balls).

The jeniuses love to give advice to those who manage to be even dumber... Makes them feel important.

My use of SR was pretty much that; just used them, to mix/tumble. More peripheral than sophisticated. Useful idiots. High volume, obviously single-wallet using the built-in account system. You could do it with Mintpal, too. SR just made it easier to create a bunch of random burner accounts really fast with no email verification and no IP. I suppose you could use any dark market that way. Would at least throw tracking efforts a bit awry as not all traffic could be assumed to be illicit. I think ever BTC I ever held had a link to SR. Never bought or sold anything there tho... The mess they think they know...

Published the press release on our site too :

http://www.cryptoarticles.com/crypto-news/darkcoin-solves-bitcoin-privacy-challenges-releases-open-source-code

So, a new chapter in darkcoin history starts.
I salute you, darkcoin community.

Too much fanboying going on there imo. Some people attach way too many emotions to this, I understand they are passionate about the coin but should still keep a cool head when trying to explain the inner working to outsiders.

I thought the conversation was quite civil. In fact I had one poster thank me for carrying on a mature and respectful conversation. Although when people post facts that are just wrong they need to be corrected. Don't ya think?

Edit: My self included

Dark Market scene seems pretty negative now, from this reddit-thread. But like I always said, it will take 3/4 till one year, till fist major market will accept an anon coin. Be it Dark or another.

Three things to notice:

a) how cares what the major DM scene things about coin XY, the owner(s) of a market dedice what coin(s) are accepted and they can always be bribed (and they will be bribed)

b) there is alot of non-sense in the thread, like "it would involve a relatively large amount of coding work", which is untrue, DarkCoin is Bitcoin-based, the adaptation is pretty minimal and can be done be every coder in very short time (as from API view DRK and BTC are basically the same)

c) the biggest problem for Dark to be accepted is not even mentioned in the thread, its that Dark doesnt allow Multi-Sig-Escrow and as you may know or at least can research eg. at www.deepdotweb.com ALL major dark markets today secure customer funds via Multi-Sig
to make it short:
No Multi-Sig-Escrow (in DarkCoin) -> no DarkCoin @ Dark Markets
or the other away
once there is Multi-Sig-Escrow (in DarkCoin) -> big chance of getting DarkCoin @ Dark Markets

As Darkcoin is a Bitcoin/Litecoin clone, it also supports/allows Multi-Sig-Escrow. thelonecrouton even built a GUI to support multi-sig payments.

--> https://darkcointalk.org/threads/quick-and-very-dirty-multisig-ui-in-python-qt.2197

I thought Dark is an Litecoin 0.6 fork, which has no full MS-support, as in all the MS-features we know from Bitcoin today. The ones introduced with Bitcoin 0.8.

I dont know. Maybe I am wrong, maybe not (in the sense that Dark only have this broken/minor MS-support from Litecoin 0.6.), maybe something in the middle.
Doesnt matter. What I am trying to say, DarkCoin needs major, sophisticated and easy-to-use Multi-Sig-Escrow support, then its ready to go for the DarkNet future.