Dash appears to have more attack holes than Swiss cheese. For example, InstantX makes a Finney double-spend attack trivially easy else unlimited forking[1]. We are enumerating some of the flaws over in my thread for anyone who is interested in the gory details. I will be making more posts analyzing this with monsterer.
Any one who thought someone of Evan's meager intellect (the guy isn't dumb but he does not appear to be a cryptographer nor have the necessary background and he is reaching over his head in terms of the experience and skills needed to pull off a change to Satoshi's design) without any peer review and help from experts could create a system that isn't flawed, must be smoking some really good weed or is just not very informed about the technologies involved.
I am not taking sides on Monero vs. Dash issue. But I am evaluating the technologies. I have been frank about issues with anonymity in Cryptonote and I am also being frank about block chain consensus design as it applies to Dash and Evolution. Please don't accuse me of being biased. Anyone is free to correct me on the facts in my thread. But please do know what you are talking about and don't just start a war of silly words.
Anyone who goes on claiming any advantage of InstantX without admitting it can be trivially double spent or lead to unlimited forking seems to be intellectually dishonest. Arguments along the lines of "if that is true, why didn't happen yet" are refuted with:
1. Perhaps only I am the one who realized how to attack it. And I just described it today.
2. There isn't much incentive to do that attack, because (from what I've heard about most of the trading volume on altcoins being fake) there isn't any way to extract any significant value from Dash via shorting.
I will not discuss the premine issue. I don't care. That is up to you all to decide about. I understand the arguments. I understand perhaps it matters. In my mind none of that matters. None of these coins any where close to serving the masses. Any coin that is serving the masses won't have to answer to anyone's allegations because anyone who invents a coin with millions of users has already won.