The only people still proclaiming Dash is not a scam are people (heavily) invested in it...
Presumably, those are the very same people who have been 'scammed'
The reality is that Dash is probably the single single biggest contender for real-world adoption after bitcoin and that is why it attracts so much troll-attention from butthurt thumb-twiddlers with nothing better to do such as those found in this thread.
The reason for its success has nothing to do with its beginnings and everything to do with the fact that it puts the
implementation of all the properties of cash at forefront of its development priorities.
Then there's the fact that it is uniquely able to lever so much of the bitcoin technology stack while at the same time deploying its
3000-and-counting string masternode network to universally support fungibility across the whole coin supply (as opposed to bitcoin's boilerplated solutions). That means user-oriented assets such as the newly completed
Dash electrum wallet,
payment processors,
mobile solutions and
quality independent blockchain services.
Say what you like about the masternode approach -
it's delivering, and doing so without all the comprimises that are plaguing mono-layer cryptos right now. Privacy without recourse to obscurity or sidechains, scaleability without recourse to messing with blocksize, confirmation time without recourse to blocktime. That's aside from supporting a decentralised governance strategy that's in place, delivering results and totally consistent with a trust-free peer-to-peer philosophy.
Also, while you folk are rattling around in your troll-cans, remember not to talk about the fact that Dash has established a
front-loading strategy for adoption which has its roots in solid industrial sectors such as energy.
Meanwhile, the subject of your 'scam' accusations - far from swaning off to the Caribbean two weeks after launch - has probably turned out to be one of the most hard working and innovative devs in cryptocurrency because unlike other devs he understands the nature of MONEY. That dedication has now delivered a
roadmap for the next 18 months worthy of the one that has just been delivered upon.
So in conclusion, if you see yourselves as butthurt Dash-haters and are desperate to further your agenda - keep chewing on that "instamine" bone. If there's any meat left on it your sure gonna need it