I have been following Andreas Antonopoulos since the moment I joined the cryptocurrency world. I'm quite a big fan of him and eat up every word coming out of his visionary mind. I have watched all his presentations. This is a person of higher intelligence with massive knowledge on any facet of cryptocurrency and beyond, but he is also a true leader (teacher). I've learned so much from Andreas. If he would only mention Darkcoin in one of his interviews or presentations, this would be a gift to all of us. If anyone knows this person, or knows someone who could get in contact with him, please do, provided the Darkcoin team thinks it's not too soon to reach out to him.
To be honest, I cannot imagine Andreas not being aware of 'Darkcoin' already. He has spoken about other entirely trivial altcoins and although he initially was sceptic about altcoins, he surely changed his mind on that. Don't get me wrong, he's still long on Bitcoin and wants Bitcoin to succeed very much so, but imho his philosophy does not (entirely) match anymore with the direction Bitcoin is taking in certain regards. He is a very strong supporter of anonimity improvements for cryptocurrency and has mentioned the lack of anonimity as one of the biggest problems with Bitcoin.
An objective, but positive statement by Andreas on 'Darkcoin' would surely go viral in the crypto world. Even if he would see major issues with Darkcoin, his constructive criticism would also help us a lot.