Darkcoin's name is a liability. Corporate America is all about political correctness and building the right image. Inclusive, clean, trustworthy, family friendly, etc.
"Darkcoin" is not a name that sounds like it would be associated with those qualities.

Darkcoin's two current advantages compared to Monero are:

1) Ease of use, for both users and developers. DRK developers can easily clone bitcoin tools. Exchanges and other services can easily add DRK whereas XMR needs much more effort.
This is also a disadvantage because DRK has also inherited bitcoin's issues such as a non-adapting block size.

2) Superior Liquidity

My take is that buy and hold is the best strategy with Monero. So yes. Of course we are talking of a very speculative purchase. It is very possible to see a significant drop in price. No guarantees.

Why are you comparing DRK to POS, the collateral for masternodes simply serves as a means of proof of service... there is no staking involved. DRK is and always will be, a POW coin.

I am comparing DRK to POS because the economic incentives of running a DRK masternode are essentially the same as staking a POS coin. This means both the security "cost of buying up enough DRK" to attack the privacy of the coin by controlling a large number percentage of the masternodes and the possible attack by "borrowing the DRK to set up malicious masternodes" are essentially identical to the economic incentives in a POS coin. The compensation is also the same since a portion of the mining rewards are diverted to the masternodes. This in effect makes DRK a hybrid POW/POS coin with transactions secured by POW and privacy by POS.

Edit: The key difference with a POS coin is the minimum "stake" required to set up a masternode. This of course creates centralization and vulnerability to a possible regulatory attack.


The tail emission of XMR is capped at 1% not compounding placing the XMR inflation rate below the historical inflation rate of gold. The potential return in holding XMR at this point over a period of time will come from a significant uptake in its use over the emission rate and would most likely occur well ahead of XMR reaching tail emission. Seriously if XMR stays at these prices for the next seven years I doubt it will go anywhere.

Bitcoin was a great name because there was no original "Shitcoin" from which Bitcoin copied its name. Every coin that has ripped of some variation of "-coin" since then has been a copy cat joke in terms of branding, which is why you never see any of the big budget projects/ventures doing it (Ethereum, Ripple, Stellar, Bitshares, etc.)

Too many flaws? Since we are going off topic, come post them on the Darkcoin thread. Most likely they will be rebutled.

Naw, you brought it on yourself. Might have to stick around for awhile. ^_^

This is nonsense.

1. Bitcoin has far more merchants than DRK but the actual volume of non-speculative activity is relatively negligible, no more than a few percent. DRK is at least an order of magnitude behind BTC. XMR has a few outside merchants too, but I still consider them all negligible.

2. $10 million market cap with a huge portion of that locked up in masternodes does not constitute significant "liquidity." Again it is negligible.

We'll see how this all plays out but everything important will happen in the future. Both of these coins are clearly nothing but toys/prototypes at the moment.

regarding market cap - drk is designed to (artificially) store due to the masternode concept. the number of masternodes will even grow over the next year due to the incentive system. the free floating supply is (artificially) scarce as well. therefore it started to appreciate and will likely do over some period of time.

when you compare this to the 7,x million moneroj flying around which at this point of time with little exception have no other purpose than hodling or trading + the high level of inflation it is clear why monero is suffering compared to drk.

all that said the drk economic model will probably implode when they realize that there is no real world purpose for this coin. bitcoin will be there for real world transaction which can be transparent or semi private. for real private transfer there will be monero or a not-now existent sufficient private coin.

the debate that a not-technical sufficient private will succeed was put in lenghts on this thread. this will probably not be the case since the utility of privacy is non-elastic. it is not comparable to watching a movie.

as I said I can be wrong and therefore hedged (a long time ago) monero with some darks.