Dash is winning the popularity contest. Ethereum is similar. If cryptocurrencies are speculative ponzis, whichever project can attract the greatest number of greater fools will be the short-term winner.
If cryptocurrencies are the future of sound money and censorship resistant value transfer, then the weighing machine should strongly favor Monero. Either way - Dash dies. It's a guaranteed failure by either criteria. The verdict is out on Bitcoin and Monero.
I don't even think that Dash is winning the popularity contest, even outside of the Monero community there is a pretty wide awareness of Dash's (at least semi) scammy nature. There are also rumours that the price is manipulated so you don't know if the price actually reflects the popularity. I feel that the Dash community is the typical telemarketing crowd, they don't really care about the tech as long as the price goes up.
If they would open their eyes, the case against Dash is pretty strong:
https://medium.com/@omiros23/evans-and-dash-s-scam-story-add1f16528aehttps://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/3s2uyf/dash_is_a_planned_instamine_it_wasnt_an_accident/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=999886.0Evan doesn't even deny the Instamine:
https://dashdot.io/alpha/?page_id=118Sorry, if this is too much OT. Feel free to delete.