dash is alive of course, what i like about it in the beginning was it tried to be as cheap as possible traded at a otc thread and a sub satoshi exchange.
mined with nvdia and amd gpu, cpu, windows and linux....released when miners are optimized..no question about fairness.
right now it is still very cheap, at less than 2 btc you can have a billion dsh.
in time maybe dash will be independent from bytecoin development..might change to POS after all coins are mined like XDN..who knows, i'm keeping a few millions long term.
edit: and there are active devs
I bought several mil at subtoshi, and yes it is still very cheap!