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My ears heard the word Dash a couple times... Good to hear (insert longest name ever) give Dash a shoutout

He's done a great job of maintaining his neutrallity over the diversity of offerings and not getting bogged down in politics I think. At the same time he's been able to highlight lots of advantages in the various camps.

Not an easy balancing act considering he must get lobbied to death by all the competing factions for him to plant his flag with some alt or other.

True, I have heard AA talk for days about bitcoin and the technical details, but don't recall him mentioning altcoins at all before now.

Not that I was keeping count, but I heard him say the word Dash at least twice, and Monero zero times...

Well, he also tweeted this -> https://twitter.com/aantonop/status/690558193731244032

To me it seems like he sees most altcoins negatively, because in his view they could be added as sidechains anyway. I know eduffield said DASH won't become a sidechain itself, but that won't stop anyone from integrating it as a sidechain.

lol because it can / will be integrated so easily /s

From what I can tell, the infrastructure of elements (the first sidechain) is completely being ran by blockstream. Doesn't that make the whole sidechain centralized and prone to regulation? I'm curious, I haven't really heard anyone talk about it from that angle. I suppose anyone can run nodes voluntarily, but then that brings us back to the same model that is broken in Bitcoin (higher bandwidth == lower full nodes == more centralization). Maybe they could use the fees from transactions on the network, to pay for the infrastructure as well? That seems unlikely because it would make their company less profitable.

Agreed. And it would be a monumental effort to get this working as a sidechain..