Why Dash’s Greatest Innovation Is Its Biggest Weak Spot
Several friends at conferences recently have echoed a sentiment that I’ve held myself for a while, that the Dash community tends to hesitate on pushing mass adoption. This is because of the upcoming Evolution platform all the ease of use that it promises to deliver. At the risk of upsetting some people who may have espoused this approach, I feel strongly that the greatest innovation of Dash’s to date may have ended up being its biggest barrier to taking over the cryptoverse.From speaking personally to people who were caught up in this event I’m very confident that, had Dash pushed aggressively to be the top payments cryptocurrency two years ago, we would be on top by now.
I doubt that very much. Bitcoin would still have fractured through multiple hard forks (each fork attracting a lot of attention / speculation), ICO mania would still have happened and also the market cycles that drive each cryptocurrency into a bear or a bull market would still have had its effect.
Besides, two years ago there were a lot of budget proposals from Dash Core-Team focussing on making Dash a top payment provider by enabling FIAT gateways and OTC markets (World of Coins for example), getting Dash pairs on new exchanges (Kraken and numerous other exchanges)
and forming strategic partnerships that helps Dash to strengthen its role as payment provider (Blockcypher for example). Frankly i dont see what the Dash Core-Team could have done differently at that time and with the resources back then at its disposal.
Other cryptoprojects like to hype their project to attract more speculation, Dash is not such a project. Hype a project too much and it becomes damaging to both the project and its community.