The ridiculous DASH hype, unjustified to my knowledge, has been finished.
No. I don't like DASH at all, but the party is far from over.
It's like Coca-Cola. Everybody knows it's not healthy, everybody tells that they should drink more water or fresh juice, but the advertising works, people like that taste, so everybody is buying it and the business goes on.
Yes, Dash is not as fair and anonymous as it was first thought. But as long as people can get some bucks from it, they'll play their part in the "party".
Indeed, and DASH has everything to be mega-pumpable. Evan's a true genius, and he will get insanely rich (or go to prison). He knows perfectly well how to mimick a distributed, private, crypto currency with high liquidity with a centralized, low-liquidity system entirely under his control. The perfect greater-fool pump, and as you say, people don't care because they think (most probably correctly) that they will find even greater fools to dump on, in sync with the master of the game. And they are probably right (in the beginning).
This is how empires are made. The only problem is that when Evan's fortune is going to get too big, it will be on the radar of the SEC.