Dash is waiting to pick up where bitcoin left off.
With an instamined, insecure anonymous transaction network that extracts rewards from miners to fill the pockets of early adopters? no thank you
Dash will continue onwards with or without your endorsement.
Dash was fastmined in the beginning, no one tries to hide that. I would say that is small compared to ICOs and initial distribution of new coins. Dash has been available very cheap for a long time on free market in as much quantity as later adopters would have wanted. You didn't buy because you thought it was a scam. Your loss.
Dash extracts rewards from miners to fund the masternode network and treasury. Masternode network comprises incentivesed nodes, this forms a strong network. Treasury funds core developers, enhancements to the ecosystem, marketing and much more.
Dash has just upgraded to 2M blocks without controversy, its latest hard fork, like all the previous hard forks, passed without a rival blockchain being spawned. Dash has low fees and is integrated in more and more places.
You write it off you miss out.
I'm not endorsing it, you are the one shilling it in a thread about S2x
I did own Darkcoin back in the day, and it was a great project until the dev team took a totalitarian stance on it and basically told everyone what to do.
It doesn't surprise me that there aren't any controversies, as it's a completely centralized development team with nobody else having a say in it, I doubt very much rebranding and many years of climbing the CMC ladder have stopped that, there are simply a lot better alternatives out there for anonymous transactions, notably Dash's only strength. With zkSnarks and CT Ring tech advancing, it's only a matter of time before people wake up to the newer models of anonymous transactions (isn't Dash still based on CoinJoin technology?), but that's only my take. To each their own and if you are happy with Dash then by all means stay with them, I'm not to fight you, just trying to enlighten people about your shills and what they are actually getting themselves into before they spend money on the product.
I'm glad I sold when I did, even if I made a loss, it was worth not contributing to centralization at that time and I would do it again, even if Dash were number 1
Dash is relevant to this topic. Many people looked to S2X in hope bitcoin might increase blocksize and in doing so perhaps help bitcoin reduce fees and speed up confirmations. The failure of S2X means you have to look at Bitcoin cash or Dash for onchain scaling. S2X option is gone.
Replying to your FUD about Dash does not make me a 'shill'. You imply I am paid or a plant or stooge or something. That is not the case and I don't appreciate the accusation. I happen to like Dash and seemingly know a lot more about it than you with your ignorant dismissal. When I invested in Dash it was because it was the only coin with a tier of incentivised nodes, not because it had privacy features, although the privacy features do work very well.
For the record I also like bitcoin cash. Onchain scaling is not without its problems but the same goes for offchain scaling. The lightning network is not the solution I want. Imposing a banking layer on top of the blockchain sounds worse than blockchain growing at quicker rate. Dash has a clear roadmap looking to push scaling as far as it can on chain.