Re: Monero exchanges include Poloniex, Bitfinex, and Kraken (Coinbase Soon^TM)
The end game is to create a fully fungible digital cash
I think you're mistaking "fungibility" for "obscurity". They are not the same thing.
Fungibility doesn't come at the expense of transparency (unless you're talking about fungibility of 'transaction IDs'
)Fungibility and privacy are inexorably bound. As Adam Back succinctly stated, "fungibility provides privacy as a side effect."
A coin cannot be partially fungible. It's a binary property, and Dash cannot be half fungible any more than a woman can be half pregnant.
While Bitcoin certainly has important uses (super-money for institutional settlements, central bank forex reserve), its radical transparency is exactly what prevents it from being fungible/private.
Dash is a fork of Bitcoin, so it inherits that limitation.
Even worse, Dash has far fewer users and much less transaction volume so its smaller anonymity set is vastly more susceptible to blockchain analysis.
Worst of all, Dash's relative lack of devs makes it impossible for it to keep up with Bitcoin advancements such as RBF, CPFP, SEGWIT, tree signatures, Rootstock, side chains, Confidential Transactions, mimblewimble, tumblebit, and Lightning Network.
Dash is a shitty instamined scam coin. That's why it was banned from Apple and will never be on Kraken, much less Coinbase.