What can I say? I'm a Dash Cheerleader, so know that now... but...
The instamine means nothing. Not only were most of those coins sold off, and bought and sold multiple times, it really doesn't matter. Anyone who is a part of the crypto-currency ecosystem is basically part of an "instamine" in the eyes of the public. Those who bought Apple stock early on, same thing. Only a very few held on to their original "instamined" coins, and I think even the most central had hot heads and sold them off. Evan's friend left, selling all his coins as well. And what if Evan has a lot of coins? He's been using them to live off of these past 2+ years, and has been working his butt off. This enabled him to gather an amazing team around him as well. This is worse than a non-issue, especially when you look at the funding plans of other coins, it's just plain stupid.
Like Tao said, the team Dash has gathered is amazing. They're nice enough to let me hang around and watch what's going on, and I gotta tell you, it's hard to keep up with their brilliant ideas. Evan just posted this:
You're on the right track! Imagine instead of just proposals and contracts, we also have category, group, user, company, project, project-report and project-milestone. Then the governance system (what was previously the budget system) will explicitly have a system for tracking what's happening in our economy that we're funding. Imagine the system knows when reports are due, if companies are behind on their milestones...etc. It's the autonomous part of our decentralized autonomous organization. Next we fund other DAOs into existence. I think we'll be able to manage thousands.
This whole structure I'm building is done using a self-referencing tree, so we'll have companies, that can own companies, that have people working for them. These are also the same users for evo, parts of this tree can be flagged to be stored in DashDrive instead of our governance mempool.
This is a huge upgrade by the way. If I'm going to touch the budget system, I'm going to make it as perfect as possible before we continue on. This is a vastly important part of our system.
Now if that doesn't send shivers down your spine, well.... you must not understand.
Dash, the project, isn't thinking niche market, they're thinking domination. It'll be the first time domination means freedom.
One thing I can promise you, the more Dash is attacked, the more you can be sure Dash is winning