Its a wild leap of speculation to equate 'merge mined' to the
masternodes implementation which only came years later, back then there could have been any number of directions Dash could go in.. The detailed plans you highlight could have been about almost anything, eg the X11 algorithm for mining which was the big feature then. Its an interesting theory but you'll need a lot more evidence to convince anyone.
Point A: X11 is an imitation of quarkcoin's X6..just like todays x17, not so big now eh?

..how about masternodes are not DASH originals? but that's another topic..
Point B: merge-mining is two or more ways to mint coins...not a coin mining algorithm..
Point C: we are not talking about implementation, we are talking about the MOTIVE..(masternodes inside evan's head)
launch date was January 19, 2014
I reduced your "years" to "1 month" haha

and there is an accumulation phase...within that 1 month.. why is he hoarding coins like the instamine wasn't enough? because he will mint coins using masternodes.(merge mining POW and masternodes)...brilliant

isn't it?
wut.. no premine but you have 5k to throw?

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