Topic: Is Dash a better alternative to Bitcoin? - page 3. (Read 23691 times)

Is SpectroCoin another alt coin, why it so compatible with Dash? sorry, I am losing track of so many different coins.

Thanks,That's a good news, I have found the progress about the Dash,now, i find it here.
I have keep Dash,i almost lose faith in the coin.
now,i will keep again for your message.

SpectroCoin is proud to announce that by the mid-August SpectroCoin will fully support Dash cryptocurrency. That means that we will offer Dash wallet, Dash exchange, Dash debit card and Dash to fiat payment gateway for merchants.
https://blog.spectrocoin.com/2016/06/spectrocoin-to-support-dash-cryptocurrency/#more-258

DASH is a shitty altcoin just waiting to be hacked, resulting in Masternodes being drained, de-anonymization, or both, or both and more!

DASH takes a cavalier attitude to security.  Duffiled has said (and yes, I will be digging up quotes) he's more concerned with shipping stuff ASAP than getting the code/crypto perfect.

After the DAO/ETH scandal and collapse, that crap will no longer fly.

Here's the issue in a nutshell:

https://twitter.com/danWilcz/status/743736668901908480

"#DAO vulnr validates that there is merit in having a security-first approach of #Bitcoin development"

In stark contrast to Monero, DASH does accept the merit of having a security-first approach.

Back in 2014, when DASH was still called Darkcoin and before it had a bunch of feature bloat added, Kristov Atlas did a security review.

Where is the security review of all the new DGBB stuff, which is EXACTLY LIKE THE STUFF THAT RUINED DAO?

in my opinion DASH is the best altcoin. Bitcoin is very slow to process transactions, and do not provide privacy like the dash system. DASH (aka Darkcoin) has everything that one cryptocurrency needs to have. The fundamental purpose of the cryptocurrency technology has been to offer privacy and independence from the traditional financial services. In this context, DASH is the best option.

And more, DASH will be fully integrated with SpectroCoin by August, says SpectroCoin CEO and co-founder:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/spectrocoin-adding-dash-exchange-e-wallet-1565767

SpectroCoin, announced on Monday (13 June) that Dash will be its first non-bitcoin cryptocurrency added to its services. "Dash was chosen to be a first, because we consider it to be one of the top cryptocurrencies by usage for actual payments," said Karalevičius.

This is because of the "Dash community and technological implementations such as Instant[Send] for nearly real-time transactions confirmation", Karalevičius said.

According to head of finance at Dash, Ryan Taylor, the limit on InstantSend, which is the rebranded moniker of Dash's InstantX capability that allows for near-instant transactions, is 2,000 dash, or about $17,000.

Taylor added, "You could enjoy the speed of InstantSend on all but the largest transactions... and the rare few that might exceed that threshold would still be four times faster than Bitcoin."

I am not gonna feed a troll.

IMHO: I feel DASH has it all, but user-friendliness is the worst part of it now. Plus DASH has decentralized governance and that is a part which makes it fat better than bitcoin in these times of full blocks.

A real alternative needs to have :

Focus on user-friendly usage (this means having solutions into place for Android, iPhone, Linux, Mac and Windows users or it will never get mainstraim usage)
Scalable with its transactions / users
Speedy transactions
Private transactions
Fungable as cryptocurrency
Focus on Reseach and Development

And frankly it needs to have them all in order to form a real alternative to Bitcoin.



  

Dash no, but XMR and SDC are real alternatives to BTC

I lost fate in Litecoin a long time ago, it just became a pump and dump cryptocurrency lately in my eyes
with little to no technical advances and the Chinese traders nowadays seem not that interested in
it anymore. They just seem to be focussing on Bitcoin for now.

STFU spamming shill.

If i wanted your opinion i would give it to you.

and.. Dash will turn your cash to Ash !

..there you have it, my opinion (the correct one)

Exactly this...

Dark/Dash has too many haters do to the shady launch. Pre/insta does not matter either is bad.
XMR is fun to speculate, but I am surprised how little market action it gets...not catching on very well.
LTC is the obvious choice because of market cap and it makes a great trading pair with Bitcoin. China loves some LTC and that makes a huge difference.
The "others" no one really cares about.

Just my 2 cents about it.

Interesting read, but in the end Zerocoin is :

A : operating and depending on the Bitcoin network through a set of extensions to the existing Bitcoin protocol
B : only focussed on providing anonymity

http://zerocoin.org/


While Dash is trying to fix all problems with Bitcoin so it can be used as digital cash by addressing :

A : Speed of transactions
B : Fungability
C : Decentralised Funding
D : Decentralised Governance
E : Infrastructure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jw5Gk-iuy0    
Check link to get a full explanation on how exactly Dash adresses those 5 points

So i see Bitcoin, Zerocoin and Dash as follows :

Bitcoin : Electronic equivalent of gold
Zerocoin : Electronic equivalent of (if necessary) anonymous gold
Dash : Digital Cash with all the properties of cash (speed, anonymity, fungability etc) implemented in its protocol  


 

I was reading an article about Zerocoin earlier http://www.wired.com/2015/11/zerocoin-startup-revives-the-dream-of-truly-anonymous-money which mentioned Roger Ver as an investor which I found interesting as he's always been vocally opposed to altcoins.

Whatever that means??

Yes, agreed. Dash is exactly the type to pull this kind of stunts 

 We dont need an alternative coin because bitcoin is not much enough widespread in the world. But if someday many of people use bitcoin then we can talk about an alternative.

The only thing the airdrop would have done is diluted the instamine by another 2 million coins. So it would be about 25% of the current supply instead of 33%. And then it would have added questions about who actually got those airdrop coins and how they got them. In the case of the Stellar airdrop for example, there are published allegations of massive fraud by insiders.

Yes, they are not the same. However, i prefer an honest Premine over a captive instamine of the magnitude xcoin/dark/dash pulled.

Really?

Sounds like the DASH crew to me. Hoping people that didn't mine up the coins at super warp speed captive instamine speeds are going to now buy these coins for millions of dollars?

I think Evan is a reasonable dev in terms of coding skill and actually regrets the start and cutting the minting, however it's too late, what is done is done. Dash will forever be held back by these things and i see no real future for the coin. That's not to say it will vanish but if you are looking for return on a $ investment at this point there are way better options. All Dash's competition will always bring up the start and cutting of the minting and this will always hold this coin back.




The huge amount of dash spam on the  main forum is an organised attempt at pumping pre release of some other gimmick.

Doge just pushed back ahead of dash i expect to see a lot of other alts start climbing above it soon also.

If the airdrop had taken place I think Dash would have been way ahead of where it is now in terms of marketcap and support from the community in general.

pls learn the difference between premine and instamine

a small clue : they are not the same...