Causing the price to inflate by requiring ownership of X amount of coins is exactly the genius idea that Evan came up with first though to keep nefarious actors like the NSA from gobbling up the vast majority of coins and completely de-anonymizing transactions. Evan's idea of a static requirement (1,000 DRK) though is too arbitrary when it could very well be a dynamic 'moving target' like this 'Mr. Spread' has come up with and might very well lead to more price appreciation than what DRK initially saw early last year.

More maintenance? Perhaps. I wouldn't count on it though. This Mr. Spread has some pretty ingenious solutions going so far. And even so, I don't think slightly more maintenance for masternode owners should be a deterrent to maximizing network anonymization.

JL

Hello. Thanks for your interest.

I, personally, don't make the products. I don't have access to the products at all. CafePress has the products and they apply the designs (pictures I submit) when someone clicks the buy button on a particular item.

If you know of someone who has products, (shirts, mugs, posters, bumper stickers, etc) that will apply my designs and also take DRK, let me know.

A couple of us are trying to convince Cafe Press to accept crypto payments, but no progress so far.

A New Darkcoin Charity

I have the great pleasure of announcing the creation of a new charity: The Rava World Conservation.

I would like to thank the Darkcoin development team for making this possible by creating such a wonderful coin. I would also like to thank the people involved in areas other than core development. I see their true passion and commitment every day.

The Rava World Conservation will operate Darkcoin masternodes. The charity will assign and distribute proceeds of these nodes to every child that is born.

Y nodes will assign Darkcoin (DRK) to each child. This coin will then be placed into X nodes which serve to increase the original allocated amount over time, ensuring that each person will have a reliable and sustainable source of Darkcoin to use during the course of their life.

Z nodes will serve to protect the habitats we live in as well as the life that shares them with us.

One day every single person on Earth will own Darkcoin, that is simple math.

The white paper can be found in the details section of the website. Individual percentages are variable to allow for increased allocation to specific growth areas (classes of nodes) if this is ever deemed necessary for sustainable development.

Please let me know if you find any mistakes and I will strive to correct them promptly. If you have any questions you can email me at raphael@ravawc.org or send a letter to my attention at the charity mailing address. We welcome your support and it will be a pleasure to answer you in kind.

Thank you to all who have made this possible. I would also like to send a special thanks to the private member from the Darkcoin community who helped with the website. Sometimes the silent heroes make as great a mark as those who howl.

Let there be Darkcoin!



Raphael McEwen-Lachance
Rava World Conservation
www.ravawc.org

I agree with you tok, but I suppose good luck to them. I guess we'll find out how it goes.

Either way I'll still buy some for now.

Darkcoin.cm is a good source 

You make a strong argument but I believe you are incorrect.  I own both Darkcoin and Spreadcoin and understand what you are saying about fierce competition for masternodes with Spreadcoin but I love it and here's why.

I am going to support my Spreadcoin masternode, "Competitors" like there's no tomorrow.  Why?  Because I am a huge supported or decentralization of currency and the free market. If the cost for a Spread Masternode goes from 100 to 500 over the course of the week, that's great because it means the price SPR has gone up as well because of that competition.  If it goes from 500 to 2000?  You're going to see some people selling a lot of SPR to buy a house.  And what will that do?  Reduce the price of masternodes and SPR because people will be cashing out.  The unit cost for a masternode then goes down to 600.  People buy because hey, it's a bargain.  Rinse, repeat, through natural cycles creating liquidity along the way.  At some point in the distant future, I believe this will lead to much greater long term price stability as it is a price the market has determined through quantification of countless variables.

Evan choosing 1,000 is like the Federal Reserve setting interest rates.  In my opinion, the market should decide.

Coins required  for a Masternodes should not be treated as a dynamic market priced asset, like shares etc....they are a service providing component which provides core functionality and stability to the asset, that being the coin. You want decentralisation through a strong network and community(Darkcoin), not through competition and dynamic market manipulation (Spreadcoin)

Its not going to work - you sound like a die hard spread supporter when the majority of people are just investors looking to make money....you are the minority.

So this scam coin hasnt died yet?

It won't die from your overly constructive comments thats for sure.
Any reason to your DRK discomfort you would like to share or are you just chasing the dragon here?

seems like you....can't stand the light of dark?  

3-Com sells routers. I buy a router for $100 and put it online. Someone 3000 miles away decides to pay $110 for their router and immediately takes mine offline.

There's nothing 'self regulating' about that it's just destructive.

Darkcoin nodes are already traded and valued on the open market. That valuation is constantly changing. All your doing by making the coin threshold dynamic is creating product ambiguity from a market perspective and network volatility from a technical perspective.