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Re: [ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency
by
afbitcoins
on 28/12/2020, 21:19:11 UTC
With a fork, it can be done : a fork of DASH to save DASH ... and resources can be created to influence DASH FROM WITHIN. Mnodes without huge accumulation of devices are the first interested, because they are the ones who will lose the most. Either we all come together ... or this gang fucks EVERYTHING. (of course, I repeat that I hope the collaboration of @afbitcoins on this - ... in fact, that of any well-intentioned DASH fan -)

A dash fork would intrigue me a lot I can't deny. But not sure what I can offer in terms of supporting that end. I have invested a lot of myself in dash and even now as someone barely invested anymore can't help but stay interested in the dialog.  At the current time I have lost interest in investing in dash masternodes or any other masternodes for that matter.
 
If there was to be a fork I would like to see a 'hard money' version of dash, more in line with what I thought I was signing up to when I first invested, something a bit more bitcoin like. Dash and all dash clones that I am aware of tend towards soft money, proof of stake, the supply is viewed as free money to dish out generously to masternodes, budgets, even charities in some cases, in fact almost anyone but miners.

The problem for me is that I have reached a crisis in confidence in the entire masternode concept, I'm not sure a fork will fix any of it. I have been very vocal in my disagreement with the change to the reward allocations. Birdonthewire paints some colourful imagery about corruption and centralisation that I also sympathise with. I strongly suspect that the nature of masternode governance will always pull in that direction, drinking too much from the fountain of free money minted by the blockchain. Too much temptation to vote themselves more power. To the eventual demise or irrelevance of the project.  

I can illustrate my doubts by comparison with the book Animal Farm. In the book the pigs overthrow the humans who are acting unjustly towards all the animals. Maybe akin to a new Dash fork with new rules to get rid of the unjust actors who are causing the ruin of dash. But before long the new regime of pigs start making their own new rules to benefit themselves at the expense of the rest of the animals. In the end the rule of the pigs has become indistinguishable from the humans they replaced.