Just out of interest, as you seem to be pretty neutral, but still very critical towards Dash. Do you consider Dash to be a Scam as well and if "yes", why? The Instamine? To me all that stuff has been rebutted many many times. Once again here, in the Q&A:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EG2km7GAmMI have a very very hard time believing anyone to have honest motives who keeps harping about the "Instamine". To me it's at least "in dubio contra reo" to assume any intentional wrongdoing by Evan and nobody denies it was a clusterfuck and every "Dashtard" is absolutely transparent about that.
Okay, first it was a bug that caused the “issue”, and then there was a “vote” for Evan to keep his coins but they’re “really not his” because he’s “going to give them away” (oh, and BTW, what he declares is only 1/8th of the instamine), and then there are those folks who’ve done their own “due diligence” and come away saying that, whatever, alright, it’s no big deal, and it doesn’t matter to them. And then there is the clincher when Evan asks what the issue is with him mining after compiling and then publishing [with nobody else mining]. (Kind of that childish 'finders keepers' argument, or 'I was there first before you knew, nanny, nanny, nanny'.)
That’s not all taken from the video, but it’s a good compilation of the same old regurgitated spiel that’s published in the FAQs, repeated here, and so on, so there’s nothing much that's new here.
What’s new is that with Dash going to $100, there are a lot more people who are asking questions. That’s normal, wouldn’t you agree?
Now, does the fact that this issue has been supposedly dealt with a “zillion times” as someone else has said and is often expressed in similar words like you did with “many, many times” somehow make the facts disappear? You have made your decision, and it’s okay with you. Ryan Taylor has made his decision, and it’s okay with him. That's great. I respect your decisions.
However, the impression I get is that you all want to impose your decisions on everyone else. It seems like you don’t want anyone else to be able to make their own informed decision. The general attitude of the community is hostile to every and any question in this regard. It’s as though you don’t want to be bothered and you want the issue to ‘go away’.
If Ryan Taylor had the right to do his “due diligence”, why shouldn’t everyone else have that same right? Or do only those on the inside who agree have that right?
People who are new to Dash are only asking for the facts and reasonable explanations and answers so they can make up their own minds, and the people the "community" attacks as trolls are, by and large, the only people providing honest and reliable information with which to make informed decisions. To use Even Duffield’s words, “Like, what is the issue with that?” I asked you if you consider it "scam", that's a serious accusation, not a question of taste but you don't have substantiated your critique. You just seem to somehow not be happy the way the DASH community has handled/handles "the issue". Well, that's fine. I would care much more if you actually had some skin in the game, for instance via Masternodes. Otherwise, well, just stay away or simply trade the Coin?
Of course you are entitled to your opinion, I just asked for clarification how "serious" the "issue" is for you. I don't know how long you have been following the project, but I completely understand the lack of patience of pretty much everyone in the DASH community, especially here in the forum, because hardly anyone does asks genuine questions and tries to understand what actually happenend at launch and shortly thereafter, and instead comes up with mobbing and trolling.