I guess because it's really user friendly (both cosmetically and as a market).
The only thing what really freaks me out is the depth of the swap market. It requires some faith to believe USD depositors lend out a sum of 22M USD at 0.06-0.07 average daily interest rate on a market like this (current numbers at this moment). I can think of many possible reasons (they park their money there in case BTC starts a big crash or rally, so they might as well lend it out until they want to trade themselfs ; some rich BTC whales want to support the Bitcoin market by fueling trades with money, etc, etc) but after Mt.Gox and all the sh|t it's hard not to think about other possibilities (aka a "fractional reserve" system).

Off topic-ish, sorry, but good for shits and giggles

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11220577/Man-embeds-computer-chips-in-hands-to-store-Bitcoin.html

I think we should be easy on our assured 'predictions'. I would hate it if some noobs actually fell for it and got burned We all know that Evan is gonna patch the security hole as fast as he can and it will most probably require a hard fork but not sure if price will stay stable during this time. So if you are noob and reading this, use your head. That's all i can say. 

My laugh-o-the-day is GAW Miners CEO confirms the GAWCoin will be, at least in part, "borrowing" the concept of DRK master nodes:

https://hashtalk.org/topic/17657/prime-controllers-masternodes-drk/7

In case you don't know who GAW is, they launched a virtual cloud mining thing in August, parts of it were going to be the "most profitable always"... subsequently has tanked in part do to ridiculous fees... so instead of focusing on miners, they are inexplicably turning their focus to launching an alt-coin... which frankly, is more suited to the "CEO's" personality.

[1] - Intuit have added support for Bitcoin payments to Quickbooks.

[2] - Understanding the Bitcoin ETF. nasdaq.com

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/understanding-the-proposed-bitcoin-etf-5-key-questions-cm412799

After trying for many hours trying to get the Darkcoin-QT wallet executable to work on windows 7 64bit, trying every different tip mentioned on this thread and some - I finally gave up & uninstalled it.

For a laugh, I thought I'd give the binary a go. Guess what, it works perfectly.

For anyone else who's finding the QT executable unresponsive, not syncing or generally unusable on Win7 64bit - uninstall it - use the binary & all will be fine & dandy again.

Sorry to clutter up the buy/sell/fud with a bit of tech talk, but I believe that if Darkcoin is ever to be adopted more, it is important to have a windows wallet that actually works & is usable 

Too true.

Need more rational posts like yours instead of all the prediction and chart nonsense posts.  The only thing those charts are good for is historical data.  You can't use the same methodology used for real stocks to predict altcoin market trends.  

Sometimes this thread looks more like a playground for kids than for serious investors and lacks a sense of professionalism.  It has gotten better however without that one raving lunatic constantly having a mental breakdown in public.

Anyway, as you were.

Go DRK!

I can't agree more...

About the forgive not forget.. None of this I'll never speak to this dickheadyxt

I run over 15 other wallets from this PC & all work flawlessly, Darkcoin was the only wallet I have not been able to use until switching to the binary version. If it is a permissions problem (which I'm sure it isn't), then it should be fixed so that any new user can install it & run it like every other wallet. It is not an isolated case, others have commented about it also - which is why I included their quotes about it. A wallet should be user friendly if it is going to flourish.

Please don't think I'm knocking DRK - quite the opposite, I'm a big fan & have been for some time