And btw there is no "first taker of X letters ticker has exclusive rights forever" rule in crypto imo.
There is no
exclusive rights forever rule for anything anywhere, but there are issues with trademark law, which does recognize that the first and continuous user of a distinctive mark (whether registered or not) has enforceable rights. Now btc-e is basically a rogue exchange that operates on the gray web and does whatever the hell it wants, so I expect nothing different.
But if another exchange -- say one that is going out of its way to try to be legally-compliant -- wants to pick up Dash, they will probably want to avoid behaving in a similarly rogue manner.
lol, we own the trademarks. weak FUD smooth.
plus we own the
original dashcoin git.
Official Statement On Rebranding To Dash:
"Months ago the community organically came up with the name Dash as a possible rebranding idea of Darkcoin, I took notice of this and the good deal of support it had in the forums. This lead to us researching the Dash brand for a few months. In the process of doing some investigation, we found that there was another company in the financial space that was filing a trademark.
This resulted in me buying another coin Dashcoin and challenging their trademark application."
"we were in control of the Dashcoin project. Acquiring Dashcoin is no different than getting a previously existing domain name,
the acquired project itself will not continue only the DRK project will move forward under a new name."
https://dashtalk.org/threads/official-statement-on-rebranding-to-dash.4297/Dash Birthday / Trademark Resolution / Blocksize Limitation:
"We are also happy to announce the legal procedures have concluded and we and our service providers can safely use the brand Dash in everything that relates to virtual currencies. With this Dash becomes one of the few cryptocurrency projects with well-defined trademark rights."
https://dashtalk.org/threads/dash-birthday-trademark-resolution-blocksize-limitation.7696/#post-79144Dash Cryptocurrency Secures Trademark Rights, Moves to Increase Block Size to 2 MB
http://allcoinsnews.com/2016/01/19/dash-cryptocurrency-secures-trademark-rights-moves-to-increase-block-size-to-2-mb/