As an investor in Darkcoin, I have invested in Evan first and foremost. As I always say, "You invest in the developer, not the coin".
With that said, I must admit, I lightened my position quite a few times as enforcement issues and some other problems arose. It's not a matter of not believing in Evan, I did believe he would fix the issues at some point, but I also understood that the probability the value of DRK would suffer in the meantime was rather high.
As Evan worked to fix these issues, other changes were made, such as the gradual increase of DRK payouts to masternodes which makes masternodes that much more valuable. Those increases are coded as such:
if(nHeight > 158000) ret += blockValue 20; //25.0% - 2014-10-23
if(nHeight > 158000+((576*30)*1)) ret += blockValue 20; //30.0% - 2014-11-23
if(nHeight > 158000+((576*30)*2)) ret += blockValue 20; //35.0% - 2014-12-23
if(nHeight > 158000+((576*30)*3)) ret += blockValue 40; //37.5% - 2015-01-23
if(nHeight > 158000+((576*30)*4)) ret += blockValue 40; //40.0% - 2015-02-23
if(nHeight > 158000+((576*30)*5)) ret += blockValue 40; //42.5% - 2015-03-23
if(nHeight > 158000+((576*30)*6)) ret += blockValue 40; //45.0% - 2015-04-23
if(nHeight > 158000+((576*30)*7)) ret += blockValue 40; //47.5% - 2015-05-23
if(nHeight > 158000+((576*30)*9)) ret += blockValue 40; //50.0% - 2015-07-23
if(nHeight > 158000+((576*30)*11)) ret += blockValue 40;/52.5% - 2015-09-23
if(nHeight > 158000+((576*30)*13)) ret += blockValue 40;/55.0% - 2015-11-23
if(nHeight > 158000+((576*30)*15)) ret += blockValue 40;/57.5% - 2016-01-23
if(nHeight > 158000+((576*30)*17)) ret += blockValue 40;/60.0% - 2016-03-23
There was a time when DRK had a marketcap of over $60,000,000. This was prior to Darksend being open source and audited by a security expert, prior to the very recent successful masternode payment enforcement, prior to the new payout schedule for masternodes, and prior to what is likely to be a successful rollout of InstantX. This was also prior to the hacking of very popular BTC mixers and other recent events that have caused people to begin to think about DRK as a payment method and the resulting publicity.
There was good cause for DRK to have a marketcap of $60,000,000 and there was good cause for it to drop back down. The good cause for the drop is no longer an issue yet there are a host of new, positive fundamentals at play. All of these new fundamentals are slowly being priced into the coin. In my opinion, once they are properly priced into the coin, we will be at a new all time high.
