Topic: Is Dash a better alternative to Bitcoin? (Read 23689 times)

At the moment, I believe there are better alternatives to Bitcoin: Peercoin, Dash, Litecoin, and even Vertcoin.


About Dash:
It looks like the thing is very serious, just realized it a few days ago. It is on my watch list. I liked its slogan: "Dash is digital cash".

Owh man this is great just for beginning when you don't know what to do with coin and you creating self depending economy. But later masternodes hurts liquidity and when someone sell master-node he crash market. At some point also masternode is so expensive that noone give ot it a fuck when price falls dumping masternodes just multiple dump effect.

Masternode are great for EARLY adopters but later is something that makes me avoid token/coin i do't like too much such token creation.

POW is much more fair by all time for all people all have same chance to be on top with POS/POI/DPOS those who were 1st are winners rest are loosers

I think it's still an interesting question posed in this very old thread. The masternode system incentivises investors to hold long term. It's brilliant. That is why I think people will eventually be looking at dash forks like EXCL.

I really do understand all the fuss about Dash, in my opinion is just another Altcoin but know how to differentiate their project better than others in the anonymous category. How many people have actually use Dash for transaction if no for trading and speculations

I dont think so that Dash is better alternative to bitcoin.
We could not tell whats next to bitcoin. As we notice
Dash is having a quite moment  in the market. But,
for sure I'll watch and observe the movement of this
altcoin.

Evan, He is talented and someone who is different from others out there in this field. Such people in the projects make the project
trustable and success oriented. 

Early adopters are the people who gets to reap the full reward. I have missed out on Dash and I don't regret much about it. And it is also a blessing to have people like Evan.

Hard to say which will be the better alternative as we go XMR, DASH and now ZCash. The coming years will be very interesting to watch out for. The developments and adoptions that is going to happen in each of these coins will define which one of these will be a better alternative. For now I will say Dash and XMR is tied and Zcash is trying to catch up with them.

my bitcoin higher than the lower dash ... but I keep a little dash do not know why, I believe in miracles

What the hell, I'm going to cross post here why Dash is not a scam.


So with that in mind, one would have to first ask who is being swindled, cheated, etc... Anyone that spent their time mining Dash in the beginning or who bought in the beginning of Dash at the time of highest risk, if they held on to those Xcoins-Darkcoins-Dash, would have made tons of money - as in fiat, real guv money. Anyone who has bought Dash, as in after the name change, and is down a bit (because it's gone up to $15 or so, now only at $9) knew, or should have known: 1. the history of the beginnings of this coin - as it's written right there on the Dash forum pinned to the top. 2. If such a person bought Dash in the last year, they would have also been given the vision that Dash is still pursuing, that is Evolution.

Everything about Dash has been open and honest. If no one was mislead or forced to make bad financial decisions, then Dash is not a scam. Even with mistakes made at the beginning, they were exposed and the community decided to carry on, there was no harm done to people due to that. Sure, it changed the originally intended parameters of the launch, but If someone cries because they "missed out", well, you snooze you lose, sorry baby. There were at least 25 people who were actually mining, probably more, but I counted 25 posters at the beginning. So even the developer, Evan, only could have gotten about 1/25 of the "spillage" those first 24/48 hours. And as it turned out, those "easy coins" inspired a lot of people to give them away for promotions, etc... Especially Evan Duffield, the developer.

If you read his account, and heck, if you just see him in videos talking to people, you can see, he is like a boy with a toy. Dash gets him so excited that he can't stop thinking of all the things it is possible to do, and he isn't guarded or prudent with what he talks about. Sometimes his ideas don't work out exactly as he thought they would or he is talking, on camera, as new ideas are popping into his head! What kind of CEO does that? No, that's just not done! LOL He is brilliant, but he is also a person that just dives in and takes off running. He's not particularly careful, and thank God for that, because when you're too careful, you don't DO anything. I was struck, those first days, how ADHD Evan seemed. How excited and gung-ho and restless. THAT is exactly why I immediately fell in love with this young man. I knew he was above all else, a doer! And he had to be pretty smart as he was rebuilding Bitcoin his way with different parameters with no help from one of those "build your own coin" shops. So when he says it was a mistake, I believe him. If he did it on purpose, I still ask, who did it hurt?

And if this project excited him so, and he had such a passion for it, why would he have done this on purpose? why would he purposely sabotage it like that? Instead of working like a workaholic on Dash these past two Three! years, if he were a scammer, he would have sold the Dash he collected and moved on. Also, why would he put his name and face out there for you all to see?

Now go forth and LEARN about Dash, or don't come crying to me that you had the chance to be a part of the biggest thing since the Federal Reserve was created, but closed your eyes and stuck your nose in the air because it wasn't perfect.  I have no more time for fools.

LOL, to me the price shows how silly this space is.  By the end of 2017, and more 2018 everyone will be eating Dash's dust.  But beware, I'm a Dash Cheerleader.  I'll try to be straight, Dash will own the "crypto cash" world, but there will be plenty other projects that will excel in other unrelated and very interesting innovative ways. 

In case anyone here is actually interested in learning about Dash and team, yesterday's interview of Ryan Tayler really hit the heart of what Dash is all about.  Check out the first half of The Crypto Show

Regarding Dash being centralized, this is actually completely false.  Dash is far less centralized on many fronts than Bitcoin.  If you really are interested in how Dash is decentralized (nearly as many full nodes as Bitcoin) and why instant send is as safe as 5 confirmations, please ask on the DashNation slack or on the Dash forum   You really should not listen to trolls, if your serious about learning about or entering crypto-currency.  Many people have a light understanding of how Dash works, so if you don't get an answer that feels right, keep digging.  Someone will join in.  In fact, I just decided to make a thread at the Dash forum to answer questions, here it is: https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/ask-a-question-about-dash-thread.12051/

From what I hear Dash has some pretty cool technology with several features that we won't find in any of the other cryptos. Its price is proof of its real value and what the community thinks about it

"You’re entitled to your own opinions. You’re not entitled to your own facts."

 ― Daniel Patrick Moynihan

yeah, i thought maybe some preaching will convert them 

Lol quoting Joel Osteen

You're paying to control a node, a node which rewards you with voting power and the resources to buy more nodes. It saddens me that you can't see how this creates centralization, but niggling over the semantics of paynodes versus collateralnodes wont change the fact that it creates centralization. Sometimes, when dealing with dashers who play semantical games, I feel like I'm talking to my four year old nephew who corrects me when I call R2D2 a robot, "no, it's a droid." My retort, "Well, kid, sorry to tell you that your nomenclature doesn't invalidate standard English, and by that measure, all robots are droids--so Qwizno, you are PAYING to control a node, therefore when I write paynode, I mean you are paying to control a node--dashisms don't trump the English language, nor will semantical cat and mouse games hide the fact that your chosen currency-developers cannot verify its distribution, but your chosen design and blockchain CAN verify that it creates an easy path to centralization and created 2 million coins in two days, which further exasperates the design failure (when I say design failure, I mean if you were trying to create a decentralized coin as advertised and used this design, you would create the opportunity for the exact opposite effect).

Did I spell that out enough for you to follow?

thanks Tailor05, i voted yes for this budget proposal as i think covering basic needs for the Dash project is essential.
for those interested, you can track the voting progress here : http://dashvotetracker.com/

Lets face it if i were to counterpost every post that trolls make in this thread, i would be having no free time at all. Besides his points were kinda pointless anyways or to put it in his words : his points have major weaknesses ..


Masternodes are servers that can be rented (some $5 per month) or run from your home. The 1000 Dash is just collateral thats sitting on some cold wallet under your own control.
You are not buying or selling paid nodes, you are buying or selling Dash tokens, it really is that simple and has nothing to do with centralisation or with selling or buying paid nodes.

The major flaw is thinking this is a major flaw while in fact it is strenghtening the Dash network and is a keyfactor why the masternode network is growing so fast and why it will continue to grow years to come.
Rewarding masternodes for services they provide to the network (mixing, instantx, network security) is just good economics and will make Dash a much stronger full nodes network over time.
Again this has nothing to do with centralisation currently as enough party's have been buying and selling Dash on the open market over these last years and the block rewards are scheduled to deminish over time anyways, making it even more decentralised over time.

Honestly it sometime feels like i'm listening to parrots who accidentally picked up some words  (instamine & centralised) and just keep repeating them over and over without understanding their meaning.