Reasons is, 15th rank of coinmarketcap. And It is listed more than 200+ pairs. People using Das for trading and investing a lot of. So I think it can be good near future.
It’s only advisable to invest in this type of coin that has lots of uncertainties if it’s for a very LONG TERM investment, there are so many coin like DASH too that I have but I don’t see them as a get rich quick cash as it may take a very long time to double even the investment if it will ever happen, the highest they can go is 150% ROI in years.
Dash price behaviour over the years :
1-1-2015 : $1.94
1-1-2016 : $3.33
1-1-2017 : $11.21
1-1-2018 : $1060.74
1-1-2019 : $70.61
Dash price can easily reach x3 (300%) ROI and can grow even more in fiat value, once Bitcoin hits a bullrun.
I believe we will see two kind of bullruns :
* first a selective Altcoins bullrun to those crypto projects that kept developing and integrating throughout the current bearmarket (the healthy crypto projects, which Dash certainly belongs to)
* later in 2019 / early 2020 a Bitcoin bullrun mostly because of institutional investors and the halving of their blockrewards in 2020
You are correct that Dash is more of a longterm investment project, more than 58% of Dash circulating supply of 8,6 million Dash is in hands of longterm investors (masternode owners).
Link : https://stats.masternode.me/network-report/215512