Hi Tokenormal... Just trying to understand this better... So I'm certainly not calling anything against what you are saying,  how is it that it would be inadvisable to have instant x on DRK transactions at my brick in mortar business? In other words... How would this feature effect me negatively in selling our wine at our tasting room?

If I were flippant I would say it came from the same place as the bold type in the quote above. (Consider: http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/rick-newman/2013/03/18/the-new-underground-economy)

But I am not, and you are correct to assume I pulled it out of my arse--so yes, I too was generalizing. My point was that I don't foresee being able to use DRK at the local McD's, Walmart, or paying my electric bill. But again, the folks doing payment processing for BTC are doing it off the blockchain, and the same will probably be done for DRK... if you are correct and there is a demand for such a thing. (No doubt there will be; I just don't see it being significant--especially with the current name.)

Peace to you my friend... and continue to keep us on our toes.

Ask me that again when your customers are wanting to pay with DRK.

Much of this discussion is to do with the concept of currency vs money. There is a good case to be made that currency and money are very different things. For example, currency can come and go in an instant. It represents an underlying value by proxy.

For example the Dutch Guilder: When it was a currency, it could be exchanged for things. When it wasn't, it couldn't.

With Gold, it has always been money, not currency. You don't pay for your cornflakes with gold, but it's kind of there, in the background. If everything collapsed it would still be there and would still be able to function as a monetary medium.

Similarly, Darkcoin's job is not to facilitate fast cornflakes packet reversal. It is much more fundamental. It is to function as a monetary medium which means that it doesn't give a sh*t about how fast anyone can transact in DRK.

Ask yourself this:

How fast can you get an ounce of gold delivered to your door ? Does it's speed of delivery impact on it's value favourably adversely ? (i.e. if it had arrived a day earlier would have paid more for it ? If so, how much more ?)

DRK has do decide if it is a private monetary base or a payment platform. It cannot be both. A payments platform (like Visa) transacts with numbers which are denominated in a monetary base but it is not that money. It's just incrementing numbers in one account and decrementing them in another. Visa is nothing. It's just an observer that can count, but it can count faster than Darkcoin or Bitcoin can move gold.

Let Bitcoin Darkcoin be the gold and Visa be the counter, thats all I'm saying.

Stick with slow confirmation times because they are far more valuable to the general public than fast ones. Let Visa take care of Mrs Jones cornflakes.

P.S. This is a good discussion the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyV0OfU3-FU

Edit: just reading your response... Thanks so much for helping me on this...

This is the dumbest thing I've read from you tok. Why don't you go have a smoke break.

Tok has a point.

However in crypto payment processing is very much linked to payment accounting (blockchain). And the blockchain is linked to the currency, at least it is for most crypto now. So as long as we have proprietary blockchains linked to coins, fast blockchain validation is important.
There is one major benefit that Darkcoin has over all other coins which you did not list Tok, the master node network. The master node network is more than only privacy, it renders Darkcoin able to provide services other crypto (including ethereum etc) cannot. InstantX is one of those services. Because Darkcoin has a mature master node network it can provide trusted fast transactions. That is not a toy, it is a breakthrough in cryptocurrency. And more importantly the master node network cannot be easily cloned. That makes Darkcoin unique and quite undervalued at the moment.

more info needed...