Evan - you're thinking like a bank manager not like a monetary token developer.

"God" created gold.

He left it lying there to be discovered and people endowed it with value. "He" did not endow them with value.

It got acquired in all different ways - some people lost their lives mining it, others just tripped over it during a hillwalk. There was no rhyme or reason for its ascension to acceptance as a monetary medium other than its core monetary properties which were consistent throughout all of its incarnations - whether monetary, decorative or industrial.

Thats the difference between Ethereum and Bitcoin. Ethereum needs development funds (because it isn't money) and Bitcoin doesn't (because it is).

Bitcoin is currently a metric by which all other trades are measured in the cryptocurrency economy and thats enough. Dash had a chance at that with the Proof of Labour proposal and blew it out. (Hopefully it will get it back again   ).

Turning the blockchain funding mechanism into the equivalent of my local bank manager who wants to see "returns" and asks people to fill in a 7-level form is about as appealing as eating the trimmings off a coffin. Nobody will ever apply (at least nobody that has a semblance of creativity about them).

If you put the same effort into developing Dash's monetary properties as you are proposing to put into its "business properties" you'd have arrived.

 • Darksend working fast.
 • Decentralised API for 3rd party creativity and accessibility

Just to get the decentralised API would be awsome. It would unleash a massive potential in 3rd party production that could never be matched by the core protocol. For example those guys could get their "negative balances" without even touching the core protocol.

It's all there in the Evolution document. I suggest you go back and read your own script