wozzek have you gone to any businesses that aren't online casinos or porn sites (or some other purely 'online' realm where you'd be hard pressed to find a real-world person) and talked to them about "Darkcoin"?
I have. It is disastrous. There is just no way we will get anywhere even close to adoption by mainstream businesses with this name (and I'm not talking about supermarkets and other regular retail situations....even Richard in Canada with his winery is finding it difficult to explain to people about Darkcoin). It's impossible....period. The name is associated purely with nefarious online activities. And you're expecting Evan, who has never hidden his identity (unlike most on here and dozens of other altcoin devs) to go forward and withstand the alarm, censure, judgement and default criminal association suggestions that are virtually guaranteed by him being the lead developer of, what you might as well call, IllegalDrugSupplyChainCoin because that's what society in general sees "Darkcoin" as.
I have. Several reputable therapists, addiction counselors and psychiatrists were ready to enable secure chat and Darkcoin transactions on their websites, in order to protect their clients' privacy.
I am aware about the pressure Evan might expect in the future. I suspect he does not like too much noise and (
wrongful) association with nefarious activities today, but google for "bitcoin enables criminal activity" and you will see that even the saintly name of a non-anonymous cash-like invention does not bode well with the overlords and their sycophant serfs. Future SAINT coin will always have the same features as the current Darkcoin has and as such, it would be attacked.
And Evan would be attacked if the Darkcoin grows. And they will call the Saint Coin a fraud that is being used for illegal drug supply chain crimes and will attack it anyway. So the name "Darkcoin" is an excuse for someone to pretend to be helping Even avoid the stigma. As far as the "society in general," please, do not let your beliefs blind you - the "society in general" has absolutely no clue what Bitcoin is and could not care less about some obscure "coin," be it Saintcoin, Darkcoin or Dash, a project whose market cap is akin to that of a several new Apple watches price.
Do not get me wrong - Evan seems to be the nicest person ever, for sure the nicest genius ever, and I do not want him to put his life in any sort of danger or nuisance coming from all sort of "associations." He might be a tech revolutionary and for sure does not have to be a real world revolutionary. In my case, and I speak only for myself, what I've experienced with this "caving in compromise" is a betrayal of my own expectations, my own illusions and my own outlook. No one has forced me to have them (expectations) or to invest or to sold my coins, no one asked me to work on it, to recruit "my own genius" to (thinks slack and first real DRK presentation in the real world) work on it, to promote it, to work with me on a Darkcoin based project(s).
If this is going to be "just" an investment, this compromise has shown a real intrinsic weakness that now I have to evaluate, re-evaluate and decide do I want to be invested in something that does not want to change the world but wants to be "accepted" before it is crushed by the same enemy this compromise tries to appease. Without an emotional investment in the message I hoped to help create, I see no purpose of working with it, I have no clue. I sold all my crypto and while the fiat money is endlessly traveling toward my bank account, I will take the time to evaluate.
The tech behind Darkcoin is great and it will stay great or even better. Now I see the weaknesses in and out and will re-assess my outlook on it as an investment, but am not sure I would be involved in a "message" that is lukewarm.
The time will tell.
