The predictions I made, or Toknormal, have come true, and that would simply be reason enough to stop and listen next time.
In particular, this asymmetry in Dash's market dynamics compared with fully mined POW has had a devastating impact on marketcap.
When Ryan was attempting to justify the last protocol change he was only analysing secondary markets and excluded primary. This meant he could only come to the wrong conclusion - in fact the complete reverse of reality. Masternodes and the DAO are the only entities in Dash that exert a net sell pressure on the markets so we have this huge hole in primary demand invoked by the core protocol which other POWs do not.
Fix this and set it to a more optimal non-mining reward level and we might have a chance to recover marketcap buoyancy, turn around sentiment, attract new talent and re-fuel the innovation aspects of the asset. (...and with it, investability).
