I suspect we won't see another bull run until investors are convinced that coins have a real use-case. The ICO craziness burnt all the speculation on 'promises'. I think 2019 will be the year of "Use case" and Dash is quietly leading the way: In Venezuala they are literally saving lives and over 3000? merchants already accept Dash there enabling people to buy food. To see what Dash has Achieved up to now in terms of 'use-case': http://www.dashroadmap.org/dash-now/   

- Dash was the first crypto with protocol level privacy
- Dash invented masternodes
- Dash invented the treasury system
- Dash invented the much needed decentralized governance system
- Dash invented sporks
- Dash invented X11
- Dash invented Dark Gravity Wave
- Dash was the first PoW coin with instantly confirmed transactions
- Dash is the first DAO
- Dash invented Chainlocks which prevent 51% attacks

You can get more info here: http://www.dashroadmap.org/dash-roadmap-now/ 

Thanx DRPD
Got the road map from the home page - very impressive, but the proposal link only led to a submission page. Might be a good idea to add a link to c/budget-proposals. I would also like to see progress reports - did I miss them?

Hi, I invested some months ago, but it's the 1st time I popped in to have a look. Forum very quiet. Slack is cooking: over 3,000 members - impressive BUT one thing that surprised me is the lack of proposals. Why? - just because PIVX is still very new? Mostly young and not business oriented members?
Anything being done about that?  What is your budget like? I would think you need some marketing proposals.

I still think these trolls are employed by Dash. Controversy is an incredible marketing tool. Just look: as soon as there is a cluster of trolls here the price shoots up. Time and time again. Just admit it.
Great work fellow Dashers – keep up the trolling!!  

He has been here for ages. Enough time to do his homework. I suspect he's a paid troll or a disgruntled proposal reject? Nothing else makes sense. Doesn't seem that stupid, but he uses the same old arguments over and over and over. All of them answered and disproved over and over. Gave up on him and Ignored him a long time ago. Weird though. If he's 'disgruntled' he's got a serious problem, but if he's paid - what an incredible shitty job - being negative day in and day out. I nearly feel sorry for him, but it's his choice. Shame 

I've got 4 (I think?) on 'Ignore' - Just added the last potty mouth kid.  Makes the forum quite fun: from the replies you can deduce the level of stupidity coming from the troll, but you are spared actually reading it 

OMG - There's nothing there - How does that coin survive?

That made me think....

Day in and day out sit and troll something. It must be the most negative existence. I can't imagine any job on earth that can be more depressing. You can never tell your friends or family what you do - they will think you are mad. ...Lonely ....sad....mad?

Unless of course they are a brilliant DASH marketing initiative. New user stumbles on to this thread - sees their posts and wonders what is this all about. Starts reading - looks at DASH - gets the whole story - looks at the graphs and thinks: "Oh - this actually looks quite good" and buys!

No such thing as bad publicity? That might help to explain the constant DASH price increases. DASH thinking out of the box again. Very devious guys!  

Where's Volyova! My hero lucky charm! - I knew he could do it!   100! Come on V - bring the troll's - Next target 200!

V- Our Good luck troll. Hi V whenever you post the price of Dash goes up LOL.  Please keep on posting - keep it coming!! Try 3 or 4 posts a day, please. I want to be a millionaire before the end of the year

Read somewhere that Bitfinex owners can not be found on their website and the journalist could not find out anything about them. They also got hacked last year. Any info on this? I'm looking for 4 exchanges where I can do split my coins (BTC/DASH/ETH) safely and also do lending.

Hi Macro, I'm a noob here. I have 67% Dash coins. I appreciate that you feel that you have to defend DASH and the information you post is informative, BUT I find your language embarrassing, since you are speaking for me. It comes over as angry teenager flames. Consider using a more fact based, calm and mature approach and you will destroy the troll far more effectively. You have the facts use it. The image you are creating does harmand overshadows the facts you are presenting. BUT PLEASE - keep up the good fight! I don't have the facts so it's up to you.

Thanx Bigr - could not see it before, because I was not logged in ... Duh Noob

I don't know anything about wave theories. I looked at bitcoin about 2? years ago, but it was flat for a long time and I got bored and forgot about it. Luckily a friend told me in December it's taking off and I quickly took +- 20% of my savings and bought BTC. Followed the 2 reddits for a month and realized that... well... enough said. Started looking at the shitcoins as they call it on their reddits, and liked DASH and Ether. on the 27th of Feb I moved +- 80%+ over to the 2 "shitcoins". Nearly perfect timing and today, 10+ weeks later I have doubled my investment. Thanx mostly to DASH  YAHOO!! "Shitcoins" rule! Can't thank r/btc and r/bitcoin enough for pointing me in the right direction LOL. Still have 14% in BTC, hoping they will get their act together.

Now, I notice there is a couple of trolls here. Wonder how they can spend so much time ***ting on one coin. Nothing else to do? Paid to do it? Weird. Anyway, someone mentioned that you can "Ignore" them, making it sound like a switch/setting. Looked through the help, but can't find a way to auto 'get rid' of them, but cannot find it. Is there a way or must I literally ignore them? Would love to switch them off?