Quote from: ddink7 on October 08, 2015, 07:30:34 PM

Just another example of how lousy Bitcoin's development/developers have been. Malleability has been a known issue for four years, and they still have done nothing to fix it. It almost boggles the mind.

I must say, I've never even contemplated bitcoin not being "the one", but for the first time Im starting to entertain the idea.

Its high marketcap has ironically lead to an atrophying maintenance paradigm combined with an impoverished solutions pool for tackling future challenges.

The central problem is that there's been a consensus emerging that bitcoin should "not be touched". Scaling, functional diversity, governance and privacy must all be dealt with through external 'boilerplating' because everyone's sh*t scared to adversely impact its marketcap.

But maybe its marketcap is about to be compromised anyway. That consensus could be wrong.

The roadmap that Dash has just unveiled raises the opportunity cost of that consenus by an order of magnitude because we are talking here about very fundamental protocol level inhibitors to adoption which are endemic to Bitcoin, now being addressed in Dash. The reason that's significant is that Dash is a compatible clone which can plug straight into the Bitcoin commercial ecosystem. I wrote a bit a while back about the sociological need for money to be seen to function effectively as cash before it can form a sustainable basis for credit. (In bitcoin, for 'credit' read every type of off-blockchain secondary manifestation from sidechains to ETF's to the Lightning network).

Well the Evolution roadmap puts all those requirements squarely in its sights. It represents an unambigious prescription for cash - not for credit, nor a settlement layer, nor any boiler-plated hybrid. Maximum openness, maximum fungibility (giving rise to maximum anonymity), instant transfer and universal accessibility at the base monetary layer are what characterise the medium known to the general public as 'cash'.

If it reaches a successful implementation, you can forget about trolls because the value won't be speculative anymore. It will be driven by a completely different type of market that's more far more interested in immediate commercial priorities than any squabble-threaded exchange on bitcointalk.

IMO, last night's roadmap staked out a territory that's concerned with commercial adoption, not popularity contests. It also drove a fleet of tanks straight onto the lawn that bitcoin's devs vacated in fear - protocol level specialisation.

Say what you like about the risks, but there comes a point in the risk-reward seesaw when the latter end of it just gets too big to ignore. If Dash pulls off what was on that slide, it will have turned the see-saw into a catapault.