Wow, I'm honestly amazed at how Monero is holding on to it's market cap after such a damning academic paper. I also hear that they have "instant payments" but there is no locking, nothing behind it, just a change in the wallet I guess, where it says "paid" when the merchant's wallet receives the propagated message. No locks, no protection against double spending. Which is funny since an anemic, unpaid network will be too slow to compete with Dash anyway, LOL.
Seriously though. I'm the most shocked at how Dash can remain #4 or 5 in this ecosystem all these years when we've been the best currency since, at LEAST the end of 2014. Dash did it right, there is no doubt. There is no substitution for hard work and pure unadulterated brilliance. It just shows how incompetent crypto "investors" are. They're not investors, just gamblers. And that's why you can't judge the coins in this space by "market cap".
Sure, anyone can clone Dash, but they won't have the brilliant software developers, business developers, marketers, legal minds that Dash has. Though I hope someone will because Dash needs competition to keep it from becoming lackadaisical. I just don't see any competition for digital currency at the moment (looking, looking, looking) nope. Not a one.
Yah, it's been about a week? But must be a small patch or something, because I don't recall it being announced?