Darkcoin and public expectation of privacy

[snogcel]

I was talking with my girlfriend today about privacy (in particular the Facebook Messenger app, which I took the position of defending). Afterwards I was thinking about privacy in today's society and realized that we've subtly shifted over the last few years in really a very profound way.

Today, privacy is "Opt-In". Nearly everything in our day to day lives is shared on same level through technology to Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and ahem *NSA*. Collectively we take that as the way things are. It's a trade-off, and to an extent I'm okay with it because it makes the end user experience better and more personalized.

What's really interesting about this paradigm shift is the fact that it's created value in anonymity. What was previously a given now can be used to differentiate products. As this awareness grows I think that more and more often people will make a conscious decision to mask or veil certain areas of their life, knowing that the remainder is public domain.

This bodes quite well for anonymous currency - I feel quite fortunate to have discovered Darkcoin earlier this year. The light bulb hasn't turned on for most folks beyond this forum, those reading this message are the lucky few. The question is.... how long until this resonates with the public at large?

 

[fernando]

I'm not sure when this will happen for the general population, but I'm pretty sure that it's already happening for the Bitcoin crowd. Coinbase has made a huge service to our cause with their account closings for sending bitcoins to gambling sites.

 

[thelonecrouton]

We need to target the rich, not Jo Public or Jo Bitcoin.

Trouble is we're too cheap - the rich are used to paying lots of money to expensive sharks to hide their wealth, when we tell them we only charge 0.0025% they're not going to take us seriously.

If I turn up for a meeting in my fancy suit and a rented SLK I just name my own price and nobody bats an eyelid, if I turned up in my usual Hawaian shirt and pickup truck, they'd just call security... :tongue:

 

[snogcel]

We need to target the rich, not Jo Public or Jo Bitcoin.

Trouble is we're too cheap - the rich are used to paying lots of money to expensive sharks to hide their wealth, when we tell them we only charge 0.0025% they're not going to take us seriously.

If I turn up for a meeting in my fancy suit and a rented SLK I just name my own price and nobody bats an eyelid, if I turned up in my usual Hawaian shirt and pickup truck, they'd just call security... :tongue:

hahaha very good point there - perhaps dark send is the equivalent of the Hawaiian shirt and master nodes are the SLK ? Best of both worlds!

the only thing I wonder about sometimes is how fiat will find it's way into the DRK marketplace. Once it's within the ecosystem it's absolutely private, however it's tougher to get it in and out without leaving footprints.