There is nothing mutually exclusive for people to both make money and coin adoption to take place. It's not binary 0 or 1.

There is a reason why "dark has been a good payer". It's called fundamentals.

There are two ways to make money here (excluding scams).

You can either trade the waves of low and high as a daytrader, or you can invest in the long-term.

Now if you are a daytrader, you treat everything like P&D... If you are a hammer, you treat everything as a nail.

But DRK came to fill a vacuum on privacy and fungibility - needs that do have a market. 13-14 months ago I foretold that the anonymous market will get at least 1% of the transparent coins marketcap, which back then was close to 8bn USD while DRK+ANC (the only two anon coins) were something like 2-3mn combined.

By May 2014 it had already occured (market cap for anonymous coins exceeding 1%), and we are still hitting the >1% of BTC's marketcap right now for anonymous coins (DRK+others).

When a market (anonymity privacy) goes from zero % of the pie to even 1% of the pie, it has explosive growth potential (long-term). That's why 365 days ago DRK was 0.001 and now it's 0.017. Is it being adopted? Yes it is. It is #2 after BTC in some cryptocurrency betting sites and precious metal dealers. Can it go beyond that? Well... do bears shit in the woods?

Check this out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPAP

This is the Greek, ex-state owned (now privatized) monopoly on gambling.

The important stuff:

Revenue   €6.140 billion
Operating income €1.122 billion
Profit €1.021 billion

So just one gambling monopoly, of a small bankrupt country like Greece (10mn people), and it does in revenue twice the marketcap of ...BTC (!).

In order to ensure that money flows to this monopoly, the state is even banning IPs and DNSes of foreign sites, while also imposing severe financial penalties on players who play abroad. Penalties are also enforced against web pages for displaying promotional banners of foreign gambling companies. Players are also choked at the bank (when they will have to get their money back, after winning on a foreign gambling company). So money transmission of winnings is highly problematic when the bank must report to the state and the state has to fine you, say, 5000 euros.

Can you fathom what it means for cryptocurrencies when people start breaking free of these artificial restrictions? Crypto is the only available medium to do that right now. And gambling is just an example - it's just one market. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand the adoption potential and market cap implications.

Why thanks otoh ? Don't put every market move on otoh

 We as a community need to raise above this level of silliness and move in with the business at hand.   We have a great Dev team that is extremely talented and quite deep.  We need to be confident in that knowledge raise above the buffoonary that is trolled here.

We need to educate our community in proper etiquette and how to ignore Nah sayers.  

Sorry sir.  I'm seeing posts flying around by members of the community  quoting trolls. Your correct,  it was my mistake, please accept my apologies,  as you had not quoted them.  Cheers.

You're a dashtard

Your English sucks

It's interesting how most of these dashtards can barely speak. I wonder if it's a brain defect or just a lack of intelligence.

Jesus guys, I have been trying to benchmark some Monero times so I could update the Tao ratio in my signature for over a week.
I have been using the MoneroGui.Net-v0.41.1-x64 client, I waited 20 minutes today for it to find 1 single node and still nothing!
This has got to be the most icky and tedious client I have ever used and tested.

I did squeeze some results from the start of Monero blockchain download yesterday and they were.

seconds in real time= 4205 seconds =(1 hour 10 minutes 5 seconds)
Hours behind to update in wallet = 624 hours = (26 days)
Monero Tao ratio =  4205 624 = 6.739  seconds hour behind

Consider this is at the start of the Monero blockchain and should be quick, later on will get worse with added bloat.
So the update speed difference = ( Monero tao ratio ) ( Dash tao ratio )= 6.739 0.5434= 12.40

Conclusions so far :- Monero is 12.4 times slower at the start of its blockchain update than Dash's blockchain update at it's end.

Reservations :- Dash takes 42 minutes to download and synch the entire blockchain, Monero takes over 1 hour to merely update the first 26 days, there are over 303 more days to go !!