If Dash did that then it would probably get as much mainstream attention as bitcoin. Can you imagine the negative press around the instamine?
I've often said I've been bullish on Dash because of the limited supply, but I'm not sure how it will go if an adversarial media scrutinises it
I don't think people making market prices in crypto really care about that. In fact, it might even reassure them, because in as much as people superficially shout "decentralization", most crypto traders (of exchange IOU) prefer in fact centralized systems. There is much less chance of a few rich, centralized entities "crashing their own market", than the chance of a panic movement of a large crowd. In fact, in the "greater-fool" game that most crypto is, low liquidity and centralized whales are much more reassuring for smart traders than genuine usage and genuine fluid markets. There are "people you can make deals with" and pre-knowledge has market significance ; while a true, liquid and efficient market is fair and unpredictable and hence has no advantage for a trader over another one.
So I wouldn't count DASH out. This is going to go extremely high. And the instamine and PoS which makes Evan a whale that has full control, and probably half of the stash, while superficially "bad", is a dream for smart money. This is the best honey pot for greater fools that has ever been made.
This is why I hope it will overtake bitcoin one day, with DASH's fake market cap. Duffield is a true genius. He perfectly understood how to pump money out of greater fools, way before others. The only other guy of similar insight is probably Vitalik, but he came too late with his PoS scheme in order to "lock in" ethereum at his will. Where Duffield succeeded in being the total central master of a succesful crypto, Vitalik failed bitterly.
Great 2 posts.
"while a true, liquid and efficient market is fair and unpredictable and hence has no advantage for a trader over another one"
It's not so much "efficient" markets that have killed NYSE day trading...
It is "random" markets where nothing has a "fair value" after 8 years of ZIRP.
Crypto markets are not even remotely "efficient" because you are trading "speculative bubbles"...
A successful approach to trading "speculative bubbles" is radically different from trading assets with actual revenue or real world value.
Also, DASH cap is 1.5% of Bitcoin... so lets not get carried away.
Also, I'd love to fail so "bitterly" that ETH market cap is 6x DASH...
And in 2017 ETH price in USD just spiked by 160% in terms of USD ($7.25 to $19.30 in 2017).
So ETH is pretty much the #1 alt of 2017... just like 2016...
And there are more Devs working on Ethereum ecosystem projects than all other crypto combined...
Because for a 2nd year college course in Computer Science ETH is perfect... while Bitcoin in C++ is black magic for 20 high priests.