Quote from: Solarminer on January 26, 2017, 06:46:20 AM

Quote from: TanteStefana2 on January 26, 2017, 05:59:18 AM

Quote from: Solarminer on January 26, 2017, 02:23:54 AM

Quote from: MasterMined710 on January 26, 2017, 01:49:34 AM

Quote from: volyova on January 26, 2017, 12:26:38 AM

DASH governance system

Dash's governance is way way way more fair and decentralized than BTC, which is controlled by only a handful of centralized miners in china.

Nope. Dash does not have a governance system. Governance implies that you can force a change. The only thing the budget system can do is pay out a project that is submitted.

Proof: Budget passed to increase block size to 2MB. Result is still 1MB blocksize. Of course, this proposal is used over an over to say Dash can increase the blocksize in 24 hours....um. right....1 year and still no change.

The only ones that can control changes are those with access to github. And even then, the code needs to be created and tested before it can be approved.

Charlie was spot on with the "Marketing over Tech".

To get you started on that blocksize increase, here is a start.
https://github.com/dashpay/dash/blob/master/src/primitives/block.h
/** The maximum allowed size for a serialized block, in bytes (network rule) */
static const unsigned int MAX_BLOCK_SIZE = 1000000;
change to
static const unsigned int MAX_BLOCK_SIZE = 2000000;

You do realize that Dash currently has 4 times the block capacity of Bitcoin, right? And a fraction of the need! I don't know what happened to you Solar, but if you really can only troll now, it might be healthier for you to turn and walk away completely and dig into another project. I'm sorry to see you go, but seeing you act like this is just sad.

So my reply might have seemed harsh, but I am truly disappointed with Dash. The proposal last year was a great idea. Ideas are easy, implementing them takes work. All the Dash marketing about increasing blocksize or made the decision to, is now false advertising. And since I trusted developers to follow through, I have also been part of the problem spread false information.

Dash is different than Bitcoin. If blocks do get full, InstantX transactions will start to be unlocked. This is huge problem for such a key feature. And the attitude of no need to worry about it we are fine, is poor. Dash should be moving to variable blocks. Vcash had that figured out last year. Dash looks more and more like they are promising features just to get investors regardless if they will actually finish them.

Isn't the elephant in the room Evan's inability to independently emulate the combined efforts of Bitcoin Core?

It's easy to press the fork button on Bitcoin (or was it from Litecoin that Xcoin was forked?) but much harder to keep up with the original project feature wise.

Evan used Gavinista FUD about RBF/CPFP as an excuse to avoid putting in that great feature, but (hilariously) the popular-on-reddit '2MB RITE MEOW' meme has now put him on the spot.

It doesn't help that tante and the other cheerleaders pumped him up to be the next Satoshi, and thus unmanaged expectations have grown completely out of control.

"The premium office costs $2,000 per month"

^^^That is the epitome of of "Marketing over Tech."