Proud member of the Darkcoin Foundation.

1325 - this is growing fast!

I totally agree! Once Darkcoin and it's main features are 100% solid we can start looking at the design and marketing.

New coins know a good design fools noobs into thinking there is a solid product underneath, when in fact there is only fluff.

If we get the fundamentals right, everything else will follow.

Edit: First impressions are everything and if we start pushing it now with a new slick design when we still have problems with the main features, we will lose thousands of people and it will be very hand to get them back.

Edit: Bad news spreads faster than good so I think it's best for the product that it still looks half finished as it's not giving false hope.

Don't forget to register and donate with the Darkcoin Foundation, there is a lot of things that will need to be done this upcoming year, attend conferences and expos, press releases, advertising, partnerships, etc. We all need to invest in promoting DRK if we want to see our investment grow.  We have to spend money to make money, this is all done with the utmost transparency but the support is needed. What kind of a budget we want Evan to have for 2015?

I am thinking about 50K USD would be a good starting point but we all need to contribute.  Go to www.darkcoinfoundation.org and get a lifetime membership or make a donation, this is the best way to see your investment grow.

We're looking at circa 2000 people giving 11 DRK each.

I think it would be great if there was some kind Target and Running total on the foundation site so we know where we are with the fundraising efforts and how hard we need to push to reach our target.

I think getting companies to sponsor us is a great idea.

Blackphone will be launching a privacy centric app store in January 2015 and darkcoin would be an ideal currency for them to accept and also sponsor.

Also here's a list of privacy centric companies we could approach -> https://blog.spideroak.com/20131128115746-list-privacy-focused-companies-tools-technologies

I don't think it really matters since I doubt the foundation would dump heavily into bids, more or less controlled selling as need be. Further, I'd personally love to see funds be turned into masternodes for income generation and be self sustaining.

Total Masternodes: 1358 = 1358 actives + 0 inactives (Last refresh: Tue Dec 09 2014 19:12:37)
Estimated daily payout for an active node (blocks with MN payments last 24h: 100%): 0.58 DRK/day (Last Refreshed: Tue Dec 09 2014 19:12:42)

OMG what is going on? Are the top 10 wallets moving funds to masternodes?

https://twitter.com/taoofsatoshi/status/542389109638328321

I issued a PSA to my followers, I encourage others to do the same...

I follow various Darkcoin related statistics data for my fun and this is the ONLY one I do not like. (aside the price that I don't get why is still as low as $2.25 or something). I raised the question, of coins being locked in the Masternode, wondering (hypothetically) what would happen if ALL the coins are locked out? Many a member told me it is too early to worry about it, and that pure economics would not allow any problems with it but I wonder worry about LIQUIDITY!

Again, hypothetically, if only us - Darkcoin supporters - would buy the coins and at the end have ALL of them locked in MN, the value of one DRK could be a one million dollars for all I care, but who would buy the coin for a million? No one, I guarantee you. So, I might sell that one coin for a $1.00 (one dollar) in order to find a greedy buyer outside the community. And voila!, all the coins just lost 99.999999% of their value.

I don't buy an argument that scarcity would increase the price for the price itself is NOT, could NOT and SHOULD not be the only consideration.

I am currently at 28% loss with my Darkcoin investment. But I've also made 350% - in the last 30 days - on shorting Russian ruble on FOREX. (I'm sorry, our Russian friends, I hate to see how the Financial Crime Cartel is destroying your economy, but I could not let free money go away)  So, if I cared ONLY about the price profit, I'd convert all my coins into a more profitable investment (at least on the short run) and forget about freedom, privacy, anonymity, cheap remittance of currency that is currently at 12% for fiat garbage, according to the World Bank (a $540 Billion market) and all sort of incredible benefits e-Cash (Darkcoin) could provide to the people all over the world. But if this cash sits in my MN or in my wallet and does nothing else but provide me, and only me, with a coin or two "reward", and the Network with some security, damn... something indeed might be wrong.

Ponder this: as of today, 27.57% of ALL Darkcoins in circulation are already locked in Masternodes. On November 12th, less than a month ago, that percentage was 24.57% so the # of locked in coins outpaces the overall coins supply quite rapidly. [3% or for 40% on an annual basis] With the price as it is and the pace of MN growth we could see 50% off ALL coins being locked in Masternodes in less than six, perhaps four months.

This simply CAN'T be good! I defy anyone to explain me how the currency out the circulation is going to be beneficial for our future users?