What you are basically talking is a Proof of Stake, leaving wallets online and offer coins for mixing.
I thought that the point of having MNs with 1000 DRK 'locked' was mixing and anonymizing.
And that is what they get payed for (20% and rising).

Dark Friday (or whatever) would be a good start - and it also might get more people into the habit generally.

Or a couple of scripted wallets managed by The Foundation, constantly anonymising.

If dark markets start accepting DRK then problem solved, people will have more reason to use DS. I'm a bit disappointed that Anonymisation isn't on by default, I think that would have mostly solved the problem too.

Darkcoin has been criticized for its potential to become the favorite cryptocurrency of criminals, terrorists, and even child pornographers. Aren’t you afraid that the association of X-Children with Darkcoin might be a PR suicide for your humanitarian project? Why did you choose the Darkcoin framework instead of something else?

X-Children has nothing to do with Darkcoin besides technical similarities. Sorry, but this question is misleading because associating X-Children to Darkcoin is a serious conceptual and technical mistake, like comparing two cars with the same chassis but entirely different engines. We started with the Darkcoin framework but, for example, the CHILD reward scheme is derived from Fractal. If you download the X-Children wallet, you will see that we don’t use Darksend or similar.

We chose the Darkcoin framework because it’s a solid and reliable X-11 and one of the most mined cryptocoins. Darkcoin permits dramatic energy efficiency improvements compared to the same rigs running on Scrypt – with Darkcoin, the vast majority of GPU miners abandoned Scrypt before ASICs made it obsolete a few months later. X-Children is totally transparent due to the technology of the blockchain, which permits precisely tracing all information recorded in it. That is shown by the fact that the monetary value of this mathematical coin (Bitcoin) is much higher than the US dollar.

So I'm trying to understand the issue with the darksend. Is the problem basically that people aren't anonymizing the coins in their open wallets?  I am not doing that now, but I could be if it would help. I always have at least 1 wallet with less than 1k in it because it I don't have enough for another masternode yet, and I know i cant be alone in this.

Is there any downside for me leaving my wallet running with anonymization on?

Well it takes fees and most consider compulsory taking of fees as stealing. On by default would have been off-putting to most people. That said, we do need to do SOMETHING.  Basically a Darksend adoption bootstrapping phase of some sort is required.  At this rate we will never get adoption if the main feature of the coin requires you to wait 4 days to see it work.  

My suggestion is a "bounty" mixing fund that Evan (or the foundation) maintains and is filled ever so often by the community. That can then be split into several wallets and left mixing.

He can't use a wallet.  

It would probably only cost a few DRK a month to have some Foundation mixing wallets going, we should ask The Founders what they think.

Miningpoolhub is about to update!

edit.... My mistake...they have already done it

R u ready for enforcment guys???

Friendly Pool Reminders don't sleep

I contacted xhash.net a coupple hours ago.

Waiting for response or found block confirmation.

And ready for enforcement