The bitcoin blocksize debate is really heartening me when it comes to Dash's long-term prospects. That bunch of clowns will still be arguing when their network grinds to a halt. We have privacy built in, InstantX, decentralized governance, scalability improvements likely coming soon (blockchain pruning for clients/hosting on MNs, etc.)
Tell me more about scalability improvements, blockchain pruning, and hosting on MN's. Those three topics sound interesting.
Sorry for the delay in posting! Evan has proposed a system where only "current" balances are held on the pruned blockchain. Masternodes will still hold the full blockchain since they are financially incentivized enough to pay the costs of hosting such a large file.
Evan suggests that if A sends to B, and B sends to C, and C sends to D, the only relevant thing is A had it and now D does. So the B and C history can be "pruned." The whole blockchain will still be available on masternodes, but won't be directly relevant to day-to-day usage.
Evan said he has an idea for scalability improvements that could help our TPS rival Visa's. He's playing them close-to-the-vest at the moment. However, he recently demonstrated how a new command to be implemented in V12 can send 100 transactions every 10 seconds using InstantX. What's more: InstantX only requires a small subset of masternodes to send, so theoretically several hundred (at least) TPS might be possible using the full 2900 masternodes in the network.
EDIT: We really must be approaching the Singularity, because 10% of the words I typed above were flagged by spell check! (Dictionary can't keep up with technology anymore!)