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gmax and peter todd don't see monero as a threat to bitcoin so that's why they hate on and fear DASH but push monero.
Dash is not a threat to any alt-coin let alone Bitcoin ever since the Evolution announcement. I mean 12- 18 months for a stable prototype with estimates in the 3-5 year range for a "gold" release. This is an eternity in crypto currency.
We will be writing the software for this project in stages, the first stage will take about 2 months to have a very early prototype for Dash Evolution that includes a basic implementation of DashDrive, Primitives, DAPI and a simple T3 wallet. In six to eight months, we should be entering testnet phase with most basic functionality. In 12-18 months, we plan for the first release version (a stable prototype).
https://www.dash.org/evolution/