biolizard89 wrote:
Keep in mind that Darkcoin has, to my knowledge, not been audited by academics nearly as much as Zerocoin has. Zerocash is also likely to receive a lot of peer review because it's developed by academics.
I have no specific objection to considering Darkcoin's algorithms for Namecoin, but it's not the only option.
I have also nothing against Zerocoin/Zerocash. I even like them and consider a very promising technology.
But it is not about Darkcoin or Zerocoin but about a simple, understandable(not only by academics) and used technology vs. a more complicated one which is still not working.
At least this is my opinion.
CoinJoin is already used not only by Darkcoin.
Zerocash is not used and is still not usable. To implement it in Namecoin would be also impossible alone because the (reduced) transaction size is 1k which doesn't fit in our 0.5 k limit.
But I am speaking only about the actual situation. This could be completely different in 1 year.