Topic: Is Dash a better alternative to Bitcoin? - page 6. (Read 23689 times)

Thanks for your reply. Its good to know people's opinion...

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, you know my opinion about this matter and i now know your opinion about this matter.
I guess time will tell who's opinion is considered more valuable...

edit : by the way, number of active masternodes went up from 3278 (date 25th of ocober 2015) to 3320 (31st of october 2015).
I think thats actually a new all-time high record.
 
source: https://dashninja.pl/masternodes.html

You're an idiot if you think having masternodes spread over servers over a few companies is decentralized--you're a bigger idiot if you think who owns these masternodes doesn't figure into the centralization of masternodes; because i could own 80% of those nodes and your map is just a world with my smiling face all over it.  

The Dashtalk forum is a totally different type of forum in comparison with the Bitcoin forum. Its more organised with regards to topics, replies to topics and traceability of topics.
Its also our very own Dash forum and not part of a competitor's forum and as such a lot more members of our dev-team hang out there, making it easier to get into contact with them.

We always point to the Dashtalk forum for those people interesting in specific information about Dash (a lot of good guides are available there about how to setup masternodes, how InstanX works, what this Decentralised Budget system exactly means .. etc). This Bitcoin forum tend to get overrun with posts and people generally have a hard time finding information they are looking for about Dash.

 

    

Dash is quite good & new crypto, but BTC is much more popular, BTC is Nr. 1 worldwide 

Another bump for visibility. I understand why there's so much controversy around Dash. you don't answer questions you don't like the answers to.

Masternode Geographic Loactions Worldwide : http://dashnodes.com/index/masternodes_map/
Date 25th of October 2015



I would call the masternode network pretty decentralised... unless we should consider the masternodes being stuck on one planet
a point for centralisation.

Agree here. DASH is better for day to day payments.

BTC will be for buying yachts/houses/islands or just storing and holding for value.

Those dash masternodes are very centralized and for that reason can form a security risk, cryptonote, zerocash (eventually quantum money) coins offer a safe decentralized solution.

Glass houses, my friend, glass houses.

Dash cannot be trusted. The tough questions never get answered.. its just spam post after spam post until its forgotten.. rince and repeat... rebrand after rebrand

Those Bitcoin mixers are very centralised and for that reason can form a security risk, Dash offers a safe decentralised solution.
 

yes

Dash did at least three things better than Monero.

1. It arrived first.

2. The marketing was simple enough for n00bs to understand.

3. Evan was much more amiable and less snobbish and didn't go around posting in other coin's thread.

I was just joking with qwizzie because of the gaffs he committed. Wasn't really intending to attack Dash with the joke. I don't really need to pick sides. Any way, I am not going after Dash's market (altcoin investors). I am targeting users. I won't even be distributing my coin to investors. They will have to go get some from users (if my plan works).

I don't think it's coinshuffle, I think it's blinded masternodes and DarkSend.  But until it's revealed, I don't know either so no point in arguing.

Hey man, I know you're a genius.  But being a genius and being wise are two different things.  And believe it or not, I envy your ability to analyze game theory.  I studied it a bit, and frankly fell asleep.  It's not something my brain can deal with.

And you're right, all the smartest folks have left this forum.  They can't stand it here anymore, and only come to make announcements.  I don't know why I bother.   Maybe because I don't want to let trolls push me out. 

My point is those privacy features alone don't make it a general alternative to Bitcoin. It makes it a necessity for a microcosm of use cases that Bitcoin can do which Dash can not. I am just being realistic about the relative size of the ecosystems.

The claimed speed of Evolution is vaporware. Existing Dash transactions are not very fast.


Actually if I had told the complete truth last year then Dash would have never become what it did. But rather than pick a fight with the community, I just shut my mouth about the fact that the masternodes could break your anonymity.

But you challenge me to not lie, so now I will tell the complete truth. Now Evan is proposing to fix that hole, because CoinShuffle was invented in the meantime but Evan doesn't even admit it is CoinShuffle, thus not giving credit to the authors of that technology. And CoinShuffle is off chain anonymity which means it has a simultaneity requirement (violates the end-to-end principle) and thus can't scale. He is delusional if he thinks off chain anonymity will scale to rate of transactions he is proposing with Evolution. I am just waiting for him to get to testnet and start scratching his head. Believe me, I know a lot more about the technology than Evan ever did or ever will. Heck I invented on chain Zero Knowledge Transactions before Blockstream and Monero's cryptographer did. Monero and others are busy implementing this now and it will blow away the off chain anonymity of Dash.


I will and it will blow away Evolution in every metric, but unfortunately you investors won't be able to buy it easily.

Dash will likely make it to market before I do though. Good luck.

Hey I don't want to fight you guys. I have always held my tongue about Dash (until now). I was just being humorous with my prior post, because the recent Dash threads have become a comedy. It is as if all the smartest folk have disappeared from Dash. Someone explained me their forums are nearly dead. The market cap and volume is probably the insiders buying from themselves. The entire thing is I believe a phoney house of cards, but I can't prove it and I am really not interested at all in researching it. Evan has always been cordial with me, and I have no reason to pick a fight with him. He likely has bigger problems to worry about on the horizon (namely the SEC and jail). I pity him in terms of he sort of seems like a very amiable guy. Any way, I don't really know and I don't want to know.

Apologies I was just making a joke and you challenged me. Be careful with challenging me, because there is a lot more substance up my sleeve than I reveal.

Peace and good luck with Evolution.

Bitcoin is losing full nodes, their nodes are not compensated, and often of low quality.
Dash has been gaining nodes, and at 1/100 of Bitcoin's market cap, Dash has 3/5 as many nodes.  A huge difference in security.

Bitcoin takes 10 minutes to secure a transaction with 1 confirmation.
Dash takes 4 seconds average to secure 5, and soon we will have all transactions fully confirmed with instantX.  This has been proven to work completely securely.

Bitcoin's network is continuously threatened by a 51% attack due to mining pools having enough hash power to possibly attacking the blockchain with double spends or other corrupted information.
When Dash is 100% IX, the hashing power will no longer matter if it's concentrated in a single pool.  Dash will be immune to 50% attacks.

Oh, the list is so much longer, but I want to go to bed now.  Your point of view is extremely limited and blind, frankly.  Bitcoin, is, however, the coin that has made the inroads to the establishment.  It will be the entry point from fiat for a long long time.  But it's usefulness is extremely limited.  Dash can be used like cash, face to face and instant.  When crypto-currencies start to be used by the general population, it won't be Bitcoin that they're using.  Bitcoin will be a tool that interfaces with the Banking industry, nothing more.  It's simply not flexible enough to act as a real currency.


If I may suggest, that is if you really want to know, watch the video series Evan put out describing Dash, you can find them here:
https://www.dashpay.io/dash-video-series/

and for the new stuff, you can watch his presentation at Bitcoin Wednesday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jw5Gk-iuy0

and the Q&A section here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5sNx7SMTP8

No, the how was not revealed.  Like when working on DarkSend, Evan is holding the cards close to the vest to keep first mover advantage because in the end Dash is a Distributed Autonomous Virtual Corporation, and we do some things to protect our technology, even so it'll eventually be open sourced

Good when it come to paying online without exposing one identity. but bitcoin mixers already done the job so there is no need for dash.

The only way you can tell me Dash isn't a huge improvement over Bitcoin, in speed and privacy alone, is if you're lying or so full of jealousy you can't see straight.  I don't think you'd lie though.  But I do think you don't see straight because you're too tunnel visioned and you don't want to see the whole package.

I definitely think you won't like Evolution, which is really too bad, because we'd love to see you as part of the team.  Unfortunately, I don't think you have the vision to compete.  I would love to see you make an amazing coin, but fear it'll have the same shortfalls every other coin has due to a stubborn loyalty some philosophical ideals you have.  I don't agree with most of those, I think they're wrong.  But who am I?  I wish you well

 Hehehe. How do we know DASH is the best? Coz All Monero trolls here DASH thread Monero's legendary dogs and their alt dogs barking all time. Why? because they are jealous of DASH(and also Evan) very much. They dont have a good coin to talk about so they are talking about DASH

Hey guys Monero can be perfect coin but it ll die soon because of trolling and DASH will live forever. Please put a collar on @icebreaker and @smoothie dogs

Is Dash even an alternative to Bitcoin?

The title of the thread seems presumptuous. Last time I checked, I can't use Dash on localbitcoins to get cash out into my local bank account, etc.. Dash isn't even close to being any generally applicable alternative to Bitcoin. Of the merchants who accept Bitcoin, my guess is less than 1/10 of 1% of them accept Dash.

If the thread was titled "Will Dash Evolution offer some technical advantages over Bitcoin?" or specified some limited scope within which Dash might be a useful alternative to Bitcoin, then at least you wouldn't look like such a dufus for titling a thread with a non-sequitur.