Blockafett, I think what you may forget is that monero is not a bitcoin clone - therefore, there's a lot more under the hood development that is not as blatantly "oh look my transaction is shiny fast"
If you are saying that Monero doesn't have instant transactions, you might want to address that before trying to change the world. Most people in the world expect instant payment using cash or credit card, i'm not sure how you expect people to adopt a delayed payments system but good luck.
same way they've been accepting bitcoin payments IRL currently. (?)
Yeah, i get yah - instant transactions wooh. At some point someone may craft a truly decentralized way to have instant private transactions, and hopefully the monero codebase can be useful to this development.
IMO, what Monero is currently fighting is the battle of entrenchment / lock-in, as detailed here, page 8.
http://r-u-ins.org/resource/pdfs/YouAreNotAGadget-A_Manifesto.pdfBut here's a quote,
One day in the early 1980s, a music synthesizer designer named Dave Smith casually
made up a way to represent musical notes. It was called MIDI. His approach conceived of music
from a keyboard player‟s point of view. MIDI was made of digital patterns that represented
keyboard events like “key-down” and “key-up.”
That meant it could not describe the curvy, transient expressions a singer or a saxophone
player can produce. It could only describe the tile mosaic world of the keyboardist, not the
watercolor world of the violin. But there was no reason for MIDI to be concerned with the whole
of musical expression, since Dave only wanted to connect some synthesizers together so that he
could have a larger palette of sounds while playing a single keyboard.
In spite of its limitations, MIDI became the standard scheme to represent music in
software. Music programs and synthesizers were designed to work with it, and it quickly proved
impractical to change or dispose of all that software and hardware. MIDI became entrenched,
and despite Herculean efforts to reform it on many occasions by a multi-decade-long parade of
powerful international commercial, academic, and professional organizations, it remains so.
Standards and their inevitable lack of prescience posed a nuisance before computers, of
course. Railroad gauges—the dimensions of the tracks—are one example. The London Tube was
designed with narrow tracks and matching tunnels that, on several of the lines, cannot
accommodate air-conditioning, because there is no room to ventilate the hot air from the trains.
Thus, tens of thousands of modern-day residents in one of the world‟s richest cities must suffer a
stifling commute because of an inflexible design decision made more than one hundred years
ago.
But software is worse than railroads, because it must always adhere with absolute
perfection to a boundlessly particular, arbitrary, tangled, intractable messiness. The engineering
requirements are so stringent and perverse that adapting to shifting standards can be an endless
struggle. So while lock-in may be a gangster in the world of railroads, it is an absolute tyrant in
the digital world.
Dash (as a technology, ignoring the instamine) has ignored the threat of lock-in, and instead is trying to make the best of a locked-in situation.
Monero is breaking out of the lock-in.
Now, here I lack information, and correct me if I'm wrong - does DASH use stealth addressing? Or is this rich list really a rich list?
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/dash/#!rich
If I can find an address and look up its account information on the blockchain, WTF?
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