This is brilliant - DASH (Digital Cash); this extends use to everyone, without any sinister (albeit false) connotations that would otherwise isolate the coin to only certain applications

This has been debated over and over again. I doubt the name will ever be changed.

And now, something completely different...

Well even if a name change has not been greenlighted it is still a very valid point and lots of us still think it is prevening mass adoption of the coin. Dark is good for video games and metal bands, not for a solid confident respectable currency. It did help adoption with the nerdy crowd at one point but it will be a liability for the coin's growth

Yes, you did say it, some 15 million times <== just kidding.

No one knows is adoption in the cards at all. And what is the "mass adoption," pray, 10% of the world population or 0.01% of the world citizenry? Even the latest number, 1 out of 10,000 people would represent 722,560 people all over the world using Darkcoin.

So, now think of 2,395 members on https://darkcointalk.org/ or 2,180 masternodes in total vs. 722,560 people if only 1 out 10,000 people would "adopt" Darkcoin, or even just 72,256 people if only 1 out of 100,000 in the whole wide world adopts it. Still a way to go, no? We are at the lunatic fringe of a new era. Even the BTC, with about 64,000 businesses accepting bitcoins (as of October 7, 2014, per CoinDesk, 2014, The state of Bitcoin Q2 2014) has a paltry number of coins actually used for purchasing goods and services. 1 out of 40,000 transactions made in the world were made using bitcoin. (from the Study I am referring to below)

More than half of the bitcoins in circulation have not been used in transactions the past three months and about a third have not been used in the past year. (from the Federal Reserve Study, no less, titled "Bitcoin: Technical Background and Data Analysis"). While I have no clue how many Darkcoins are being used for real transactions, I know that, as of yesterday, 42% of all available Darkcoins are "locked in" the Mastenodes, so, all this is a highly speculative game for everyone that is NOT directly involved like the developers and or several big investors. (also speculating)

When I read the study (Bitcoin: Technical Background and Data Analysis) I find one thing very encouraging: BTC is NOT widely used because it does NOT solve the problem need for the users. Credit cards are faster and it, BTC, does not provide anonymity, does not secure anyone's privacy etc.

Herein comes Darkcoin to fulfill these needs.

But, how many people would really value their privacy and anonymity, given the billions idiots sharing their lives, for free on flashbooks of today's world, thusly enriching the owners of their content? I have no clue. Perhaps 1%, perhaps 0.1%?

And for these the name - DARKCOIN - will not represent a problem.

What does this bode for your mythical online anonymity ? hmmm ?

Story #2 --> http://youtu.be/L8eO5BYHop8
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-16/moscow-based-security-firm-reveals-what-may-be-biggest-nsa-backdoor-exploit-ever

EDIT

This deserves it's own thread.

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/961982.0#new

EDIT II

Enjoy your little 55 BTC per instamined x-shitcoin block, nooblets.

 

Because Darksend creates many new adresses for changes, do we have to backup Darkcoin wallet after completion of darksend premix or after sending coin with darksend?

+1. Get through an unlimited number of these a week in the absence of 'austerity measures'.

Here the magnet link for to download the Inside Man on Bitcoin

https://blockchain.info/tx/13ceeece8fe5762552ac41c4b4222556911306e7a70922a1319201c167f3ab49[/url]

Or Mega

https://mega.co.nz/#!kVBVwBrY!C4_Z8Ejz0djnDHdZ17ZHVhmILLjkeY-C2zY6_oDFBfc

Or Steaming

http://movreel.com/330vyiyoy4d3

There is a keypool of 1000 keys in a wallet so you have a gap of 1000 sending operations (one mixing round takes few 10s of them). Mixing 100 DRK for 2 rounds can take ~150-170 addresses, for example.

How keypool works: Darkcoin wallet generates 1000 keys on initialization (originally it's 100 for Bitcoin btw). Keys are used one by one but every time you use one address new address added at the end of a list. So at any given time you have 1000 addresses that are already known to you but yet unused. 1000 addresses should be enough in most cases and even after mixing you can open your backup wallet and still will be able to see/move all your coins.

If you feel you that you need more safety you can create new wallet with larger keepool by adding -keepool command line option. If you already have wallet.dat you can move it somewhere else or use -wallet cmd-line option to create another one. So it should be smth like this:
This will generate new wallet "walletwithlargekeypool.dat" in your data folder and this wallet will always have 10000 pre-generated keys. Keep in mind that this however can take quite a long time to generate (depends on your environment).