I had no trouble on polo but have heard this twice recently. Have you tried a different browser or added any new plugins? Try disabling ll your plugin/addons and see if that helps. Especially Flash/Shockwave. that causes all kinds of slow downs not to mention the security holes that come with it. Polo was zipping along fine the last few days I was watching. Funny I haven't watched the price in months and just happened to start watching right before the big push. Nice Timing. That was alot of fun to watch.

There is little doubt that there is a concerted effort by one or a small number of DRK whales to support the price at 0.01. The question that comes to mind is why? The support for DRK is actually in the 0.005 to 0.006 range. This is apparent from the charts, particularly the daily chart. So the question then becomes will DRK get hurt badly if it drops to 0.005 - 0.006 where it has been for over three months? A drop to this range world put DRK at about a 7-8 Million USD capitalization. It is here where XMR, and in particular the emission rate of XMR, comes into the picture. If XMR were to reach a level of say twice its current price, say 0.0044, this would put the capitalization of XMR above 8 million USD and more importantly above that of DRK effectively negating the one advantage that DRK currently has over XMR, namely the first mover advantage. There are many scenarios where this can happen particularly if DRK were to continue on its bear market.

My take is that a crossover between the capitalizations of DRK and XMR would likely accelerate the drop of DRK and the rise of XMR and this is the fear of many a DRK holder that leads them to attempt to support DRK at 0.01. This should also be of concern to a anyone looking at acquiring a significant position in XMR. The situation is very different from last summer because of the XMR emission.

I don't really know the history but how much of DRK's functionality was present when it launched in January 2014?

Bytecoin was probably in development in January 2014 but not finished (even to the extent they ever finished it, which they didn't, but at least the got the core ring sig+stealth functions working).

Darkcoin is easy to pump and dump, simply put. For each Masternode that's made, theres 1,000 drk taken from the markets. That takes away liquidity and makes it much easier to pump/dump the price with decent buys/sells. It goes against entirely what a currency is, even Bitcoin has issues with volatility, but Darkcoin takes it to the extreme via it's instamine and masternode concept(Which again means it's just an "investment" and not a currency). Most people involved with Darkcoin don't take it as a serious currency with longterm values(Because it has none;instamine, masternodes, bitcoin codebase), it's just a pump/dump game.

So I just lost a bunch of monero in the cryptocoins-dice.com website. It was doing well in terms of having a good APR being apart of the house and taking a cut of the houses' edge, but then today the entire website up and vanished. There was at a bare minimum of 50,000 XMR there from investors funds (plus whatever gamblers kept there) that the owner ran off with. He may have been selling them over the past few days before he ran off which could explain the recent selling activity on Poloneix.

We can either expect a dump incoming soon or a price increase soon depending on when he will dump his XMR or if he has already dumped his xmr. That is my speculation anyways.

He wont return anything.  He set this up to be a scam from day one opening the site up with a brand new noob BCT account.

I have a thread going about this scam, if you have an info please post.

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/988226.msg10765725#msg10765725

I would not be surprised if we see some action in the market. Here is what I see:
1) A falling wedge in the hourly XMR/XBT chart
2) DRK being propped up by a series of walls at 0.01. A fair amount of these walls are hidden and are being gradually eaten.
Given the negative correlation between XMR/XBT and DRK/XBT I see a significant chance of an upward breakout in XMR/XBT combined with a crash in DRK/XBT. I may be completely wrong of course.

Edit: I find that analyzing DRK at the same time as XMR does provide additional insight given that I find a significant negative correlation between the price of DRK and XMR.

Oh great. There go 1500 XMR of mine, as well. That's great news to wake up to.

Fucking sleazebag scammer, may Karma take a big bloody bite out of his ass.

Sorry for OT.

That will be impossible. Which is a good thing for XMR. Probably already dumped anyway.

Pulling this scam for only a little over 100 BTC is such a joke.