We are not interested in discussing stealth addresses, it is mildly interesting in some specific use cases, not a priority.  If you feel that is where the value of your coin lies you are probably uninformed.  You can see eduffield comments here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/DRKCoin/comments/2lnauo/can_we_get_stealth_addresses_implemented_in_drk/clyea3j

We might consider it in the future but please dont spam our thread.

+1

The answer is that if you run a business and advertise a particular address for receiving money, then clearly that address is not anonymous (because you advertised it).

So, the convention for serious retailers like Dish and Overstock who use payment processors is to supply a unique address to each new sale.

Presumably the receipts can then be anonymised by the Darkcoin network and consolidated at holding addresses, so there's no way of your customers (or more importantly, your commercial competitors) following the trail from a payment address to your main "deposit accounts".

Conversely, it goes without saying that with bitcoin, that is altogether completely possible. (In fact it might be an instructive exercise for someone to make a purchase from one of the big retailers who accept bitcoin and attempt to discover their main holding addresses. Some of them do hold bitcoin).

P.S. XPY dumping continuing. It's now becoming established in the 3rd decimal place.

 What do you mean "stirring the pot"...? Coming onto a public forum and making a noob question? I didn't see any provocation there. Maybe I'm missing something.

 Oh, ok... though I still dont see any discredit to DS at all... But I will add, I'm backing you on this, as I'm not so informed it seems.
Plus, if you need that level of privacy, you wouldn't come to a forum thread to find these sort of answers. Kinda fishy really.

Everything has pros and cons.

Ideally you do NOT want the transaction from the customer to the retailer to be anonymous.

From a business point of view, that should be transparent because the block explorer can then serve as an arbitrator of any dispute over remittance of payment. Nor is there any need for it to be anonymous because only the customer and the retailer know the remittence address anyway.

It's what the retailer does with the funds after that that needs to be (and is) anonymous.

It's just like a banking system - if I make a purchase from amazon, I can see the transaction in my bank statement and so can they see it in their statement. But what I can't see is all the other transactions in their account or follow it when they move it.

So Darkcoin has the architecture right for optimally supporting commercial privacy IMO.

...unless of course the business is illegal.

OMG! start-many just kicking  
perfect if you have more than 1 MN

Didn't Tante say that you don't need to start the local wallet for upgrading from 11.9 to 11.10 ?

(I assumed she meant you don't need to call "start masternode" form the local wallet after restarting darkcoind masternode daemon).

Don't you have any crypto reserves like bitcoin that you can use while you're waiting on your fiat ?

Bitcoin's fairly stable at the moment.

Naa... thats the whole point. Otherwise I'd buy DRK with that and replenish BTC.