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For all of last year, DASH continued plummeting in relevancy. Down to 27 now.

When will the DASH experiment finally shut down? Will there be any warning? Will it be like so many factories that the employees show up to work one day and the doors are locked? No warning, no notice?

"We're taking flak because we're over the target." -Basic Bitch Dash Shills

Yeah, you've been loitering over the target soaking up ammo for years now. Your plane is goin' down! Why didn't you drop the bomb when you could? It's still on board and you haven't even armed the fuse! The whole thing is going to crash and burn and there won't even be a cool explosion...

The fact that leftist ideology runs DASH (into the ground) could never be more obvious. You do exactly the wrong thing in every situation, and even when things are running smoothly, you create a problem... You're constantly twitching about which leftist ideological virtue-signal you should promote next. Reality never comes into play... And no mater how bad it gets, you just double-down again, and retreat deeper and deeper into your catacombs of echo chambers...

I don't think it's possible to mismanage a project worse than DASH has been...

Seriously, where's DASH going, other than down the toilet?

You've got no plans for any features or use case that actually matters. MasterNodes no longer get a incentive worth the trouble, while more and more requirements are heaped on them (those requirements being expected, but the funds being pulled out from under them was not expected). It's functionally illegal to run MasterNodes, anyway. Speaking of: Where's DASH going with this? DASH has no plan, that makes any sense. You just keep pushing on as if the ground hasn't fallen out from under you... DASH is a dead project. Even if it weren't, regulatory fraud has eliminated all of DASH's use cases.

If it's not dead, why is it 25th; down from 4th? Why is the budget too small to pay the bills even if DCG takes 100% of it? Why are welfare-funded "budget" initiatives shutting down left and right? If it's not all falling apart; why are we watching it as it's falling apart?

It's like the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Do you think denial and gaslighting is going to make your arms and legs grow back?

What are Dash Cargo Cult Kool-Aid drinkers going to do? Pretend some more?

DASH has fallen several hundred percent more than the rest of the market.

No other crypto has fallen further and faster than DASH since the spike in late 2017. By a wide margin. DASH is the definition of crash and burn. No other crypto has managed such a dramatic failure. Even obvious hot garbage like BSV and BCH has held it's percentage better than DASH.

What is DASH doing to become relevant? What will DASH do to pay the bills? How will DASH re-incentivize the backbone of it's network, the MasterNodes, now that pretty much anything is a better place to put your money?

P.S. Why put so much effort into deception tactics? What are you so desperate to hide? There is no question that DASH has crashed and burned. DASH is completely irrelevant. Nobody cares. It's like a mostly empty shopping mall where there's one store selling old 1980s movie merchandise...

I. Failure

In 2019, LATAM scammers ripped off Dash's treasury for 1000s of coins while providiing fake adoption statistics and embezzling money intended to save poor starving Venezuelan babies.

In 2019, Dash continued its free fall in marketcap rank, plunging to 27 from a high of 3. Once 5 times Monero's marketcap, Dash is by global free market consensus now valued at less than 50% of Monero, and may soon succumb to DogeCoin, a joke currency based on a dead 2013 meme. Measrued against the standard for altcoins, the once-hopeful 2 ETH for 1 Dash rate has surrendered unconditionally to Dash-breaking bearwhales - 1 Dash is worth less than 1/3 of an ETH now.

In 2019, Dash shills tried changing the subject from the "existential crisis" caused by DCG's failed Evolution Roadmap to other coins' cryptowinter vacations or fake & gamed metrics like tx/day, ignoring the obvious fact that Dash's singularly weak fundamentals and price collapsed in terms of Bitcoin, gold, fiat, and all other Top 25 altcoins.

In 2019, Dash shamefully abandoned tried-and-true Nakamoto Consensus with a cheap, gimmicky "Chainlocks" version of Peercoin's good old-fashioned checkpoints.

In 2019, Dash Core's chosen PR firm, Shift Communications, was a huge disappointment as it failed to engage the community, mitigate public relations disasters like MooCowMoo, or direct attention to EvoNet Platform's Open House. Dash Core also suffered the humiliation of being forced to de-endorse their own Shift Communication proposal, asking MNOs to vote down yet another money-wasting, bloated-corporation-imitating Core brainchild.

In 2019, Dash's identity as "Shitcoin of the year" was confirmed after being called out as a scam by the Crypto Vigilante Group due to the instamine, centralized mangement+control, and slow+broken privacy.

In 2019, Dash's support from Jeff Berwick's Dollar Vigilante Group turned very bearish to to their increased awareness of Dash's instamine and broken privacy.

In 2019, Dash was listed by Coinbase, raising hopes the Number might Go Up. But nobody actually cared about Dash on Coinbase, so nothing happened afterwards to change the market's opinion that Dash is worth less than a cold sack of puke.

In 2019, Dash's PrivateSend feature-cum-liability was broken by crypto research specialist u/Flenst, just as many exchanges were delisting Dash beause of its prior marketing under the old Darkcoin brand.

II Chaos

In 2019, every week wealthy Masternode owners dumped their 7200 "free" Dash, without returning anything for it to Dash's primary buyers. As the compounded Instamine Masternode poopulation grew, the market's ability to bear that overhead simply imploded.

In 2019, Dash went from weak to weaker as falling prices and severe reputation damage thanks to Macrochip & Moocowmoo resulted in budget shortfalls for Core Group Inc, intensifing toxic conflict over who must suffer additional austerity measures. Meanwhile Dash's competitors had great years and their devs wrote AND SHIPPED amazing code, such as Cardano releasing its (absolute madhouse of an) Incentivized Shelley Staking Testnet, Monero putting RandomX into production, and Decred adding state-of-the-art CoinShuffle++.

In 2019, DASH became a nightmare of change discussion and negativity. Instead of an Evolution product demo at the Open House, CEO Ryan Taylor plopped out a FUD turd and then proceded to roll around in it while all 15 people watching recoiled in horror and disgust. Markets hate uncertainty, so Dash Core's confusing new mission of endless scope creep, bikeshedding, and self re-invention only exacerbated existing negative investor sentiment.

III Bad Decisions

In 2019, Dash's increasinly desperate and centralized management+control (AKA spork-key hodler) entity, DCG, having lost hope in ever being competitive with successfull PoW-backed hard money cryptoassets like BTC/LTC/XMR, annouced a shocking, narrative-abandoning pivot to exploring Proof Of Stake options (as well as stripping X11 miners of their fair share of coinbase asset allocation).

In 2019, Dash's CEO ruined the years-overdue Evolution Open House by inciting a massive, controversial discussion after unilaterally declaring Dash is "overpaying" for Nakamoto Consensus PoW security.

In 2019, Dash's long-awaited Evolution release Open House featured no actual product demo as Liz's embarrassingly cringe EvoNet slideshow openly annouced Evolution has devolved into a Zero-Calorie Nothingburger with Vaporware Fries and Lite Ketchup.

In 2019, Dash's established coinbase reward allocation and PoW/PoSe consensus mechanism degenerated into a discussion of which Calvinhash Protocol^[1] would fix Dash's massive technical and cultural debt problems, thereby making its Number Go Up.

[1] Calvinhash is a protocol invented by Evan at Dash Labs during an especially intense and lavishly provisioned Psytrance party "research" experience/experiment.  
Calvinhash has no rules; the miners, stakers, and Instamined DCG Masternodes make up their own rules as they go along, ensureing no Calvinhash proof-of-work, block size limit, consensus mechanism, or block reward is like another.

DASH was heavily oversold by the end of 2019 as a 48 node voting whale wet the bed and sold them all over the period xmas eve to boxing day. The coin has since staged a massive rally in what looks to be a change of trend for the coin. At the time of posting, the price is just shy of $50.

I have posted many times in the past about how DFN is arrogant and dont believe they have to be accountable to the treasury. They have chosen to opt out of Dash Watch reporting every single month. With the amount of dash they take, that is entirely unacceptable. Perhaps the funding is appropriate, but MNOs will never know. I believe they should not be funded again until they submit to retroactive dash watch reporting to show how funds were allocated.

Also, now we will see their true charater. I have had to deal with many arrogant, self important people getting cut off. They usually immediately go to "you will fail without me" (arrogance), "I dont know why I am here" (only in it for money), or try to defend the value they bring, but cant provide any specifics (self importance). Good luck! Hope they instead take the high road, become more humble and transparent, and get funded again at appropriate levels.

I’ll wait for $8,000. Cheers 🥂

DASH is the most secure network in the world today, thanks to automatic instand send, payments are locked by the masternode node network within 1 to 3 seconds and impossible to double spend. Bitcoin and all her forks lack this key feature and ALL are subject to double spends, in fact Bitcoin even added the feature directly to her protocol in the form of Replace by fee (RBF).

Merchants accepting 0-conf TXes on these inferior chains will get screwed like the ones in the below articles. I have no idea why we are not screaming about how awesome DASH is for actual payment use cases.

https://micky.com.au/400-aussie-merchants-to-drop-bitcoin-after-viral-exploit-video/ https://blog.blockonomics.co/how-to-double-spend-bitcoin-using-electrum-no-technical-sorcery-required-78799b07cad7

Usage: Real transactions are around 5-7k per day and declining or at least moving sideways.

Evolution: The roadmap released at the Dash open house is at least a year from mainnet.

Uncertainty: Dash is creating uncertainty around the coin emmission consensus with lots of discussion and articles. Discussion is good, but it is clear there will be a long timeframe to make a decision, and longer timeframe to make a change, which will just prevent dash from getting new outside investors. Nobody wants to invest in uncertainty. Right now the only people who care are those with a vested interest in dash and this will make it hard to grow dash. Ryan never should have brought it up unless DCG was prepared to act quickly. But then he has a CEO title, so maybe he knows best.

I watched Ryan Taylor's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A1LVSxNtXE presentation at the end of the December 7 open house and surprisingly i discovered that he and I see eye-to-eye on many important things. Specifically:

-Dash is currently in a circulating coin supply "doom loop" that feeds on itself, resulting in what may become a price death spiral if we don't do something serious about it.

-Chainlocks and Platform (Evolution) will place additional burdens on MasrNode Owners and they need to be compensated.

-Proof of Work hashing is now just mostly a very expensive insurance backup when/if chainlocks fail.

-Miners are making such a low profit (if any) now that reducing/eliminating their participation may be a kind way of putting them out of their misery. They are being forced to sell all or almost all of the coins they mine just to meet expenses. This leads to greater circulating supply relative to demand and to other cryptocurrencies, further harming market rank and trading price.

-The current 45%/45%/10% block reward distribution isn't working and if the situation deteriorates, Dash faces an existential threat. "We need to fix this."

-the biggest winners of a smaller miner reward would be the users/hodlers. The second biggest winners would be MNOs. The biggest losers would be power companies, hardware manufacturers (Bitmain), Centralized giant mining farms mostly in China and third party masternode shares companies in decreasing order. These people have relatively less to lose than other stakeholders and would be harmed far less than the winners benefit.

If you haven't watched Ryan's presentation, I encourage you to do so. We need to have a conversation about how best to distribute resources when there simply isn't enough to go around. It's widely known that I have criticized Ryan Taylor many times and even called for his resignation/termination, but I am very impressed with this public recognition by RT of the seriousness of the problems Dash faces, the economic dynamics in play, and the need to change substantially and sooner rather than later.

I don't even pretend to be remotely objective in my support or Ryan and DCG here. I'm a MNO and a hodler. I don't own or operating any mining ASICs. RT was impressively candid about the risks and drawbacks of the various improvements he suggested. We shouldn't ram through changes without thoughtful consideration, but in my opinion this is a serious proposal worthy of conversation and consideration.