Quote from: toknormal on January 02, 2017, 12:21:05 PM

Quote from: generalizethis on January 02, 2017, 12:06:33 PM

Before you get too self-congratulatory, there are at least 19 coins that outperformed dash in 2016--most more than doubled dash's performance and moved up the marketcap ratings, not down

Depends how you measure "performance".

I've often made the case that loads of coins surpassed Dash's cap in the past - including the likes of NEM, FCT etc.

The problem is they didn't sustain it because most are subject to speculative pumps. So ending the year on the price it's at is amazing performance for a 3 year old coin. (In fact just still "being around' is good performance).

Another good example is Monero. It got the a*ss pumped out of it recently, not because it was a great long term investment but because some opportunists saw major competition on the horizon and decided to use a couple of "news items" to launch a market feeding frenzy on its only significant exchange. Problem there is that the last of that "news feed" is about to run out in a few days and get sold off. O'm sure it will be milked for all it's worth before then though and as much BTC fleeced from willing noobs as humanly poss Wink

Quoted for posterity. Hope it goes right along with, "cryptography isn't a major part of cryptocurrency." (paraphrasing, feel free to add the direct quotation or attempt to downplay the comment with a bunch of hand-wavy rationalizations).