Think of it this way. If you invest in Visa you're not actually buying units of a monetary asset. You're buying equity in a company. Where does Visa's value lie ? In its merchant subscriber base. Visa sells access to markets. The 3% fee the merchant pays is a marketing cost not a transaction cost so it's a brokering system, nothing to do with money really. Meanwhile gold sits in a vault and does nothing all day long. They are very different and we do not want to model Dash on Visa because it's not designed for that. It's a bitcoin clone who's core mission is to store value like gold. What it has over bitcoin is the decoupling of the service layer so we can have on-chain services VERY CHEAPLY without much loss of mined capital. But if we overpay for that service layer we'll just kill the store of value role.
Exact: The "CUSTOMERS". Splendid point if we also connect it with a previous quote from another member ridiculing a tweet from Antonopoulos (and it is that the practical and real position of DASH is as fallacious and hypocritical as his).
The thing is, VISA is a private, centralized initiative ... that is, the opposite of what crypto would aspire to be. But that DASH starts from that basic concept while deceiving and manipulating that legion of users as if they were members of the project, which is what it has been doing for years, is pathetic. And neither crypto, nor centralized ... or well, as much as VISA. That is the measure of DASH in the crypto industry.
But in crypto, people will find other projects, even if they are less technologically gifted ... and will integrate into them. Although Rtaylor puts the word "community" demagogically in his mouth another million times (the answer of the sector, although some take it as scandalous undeserved, has long been clear: DASH is a centralized scam that nobody wants to approach).