Imagine if you are a journalist (or even worse a regulator) and you learn that Evan told people he would not start mining and then instamined it. Imagine on top of that if the journalist then also learns that Evan the reduced the number of coins?
Nah, journalists are too stupid to even understand what that means. They even sell bitcoin as an anonymous coin. DASH is a centralized coin with low liquidity in the hands of a single guy, mimicking as a great distributed crypto currency, improved over bitcoin (not difficult), and know what ? That propaganda works as hell. People love to fall for this kind of stuff. What is even greater, is that DASH can pose as a coin that used to be criminal, and now has seen the light and is on the side of the nice guys ; redemption. Only a small and insignificant number of smart people know how fake it is, but they don't matter.
The BIG problem for DASH is something totally different: it is an illegal security that doesn't pass the Howey test.
If I were Evan, I would cash out before, flee to an exotic place, change name and live a rich-man's life in anonymity.
(hence, not use DASH, with its fake anonymity
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