I like evan, he has the "might is right" philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6L-aFitDUw i would like to know how much money he made of this shit, it would not surprise me if he ended up owning a very nice house and not having to work for the rest of his life.
I almost fell for the dash scam and i have a iq of 140, they are very skilled at marketing. The instamine is only one of the problems , we also have the issue that most coins will be bined by special hardware(ASIC) which will results in coins in the future also being distributed very uneven.
DASH's snake oil marketing uses your own high iq against you.
All the techobabble about "second tier Masternodes" and "X11" only serve to bamboozle bright-but-naive noobs.
Once a victim of the Evan's Gate cult starts to see visions of their Masternode shitting out money like a golden donkey, the brainwashing has taken effect and it's hard to deprogram.
Many of Dash's cult enforcers where there watching the instamine as it happened, yet have drunk so deeply of the greed-flavored Kool Aid they say (and perhaps believe) ridiculous things like "Evan is greater than Satoshi."
High iq is not enough, you also need to do a lot of research before investing in alternative currencies. Sadly i think many just want quick profits and do not care if it is 100% ponzi scheme as long as they make money. To be honest i would have done the same thing as evan if it had made me into a multi millionare, money/resourses is needed for true freedom. I have listened to Evan Duffield and he appears to be good and honest man, he is very convinsing but you have to use logics and not emotions when investing.
The only real advantage with DASH is fast transaction time, the rest is just pointlesd bells and whistles. Dash is a ugly crypto, not the simplicity and elegance i want to have, i never understood how the block reward is calculated, i only understood that it is a ugly mess.
Whats the point of X11, how does it make the coin any better?
Having a strong and simple social contract is important, you need to find a good and simple formula for how the block reward(emission curve) will be and stick with it. I dislike bitcoin but at least it us simple and clean. In dash how the coins is distributed has been changed more than once.