I would have expected to see more fiat coming into BTC from the Europe Zone at sites like this http://fiatleak.com/

Perhaps the Greeks aren't using the exchanges covered on that site.

The consequences of such a technology are vast and certainly controversial. The ability to do mass monitoring of Bitcoin transactions — and automatically alert companies, regulators and law enforcement as to which coins are associated with illegal goods — is basically the definition of surveillance. In this case, blockchain surveillance.

“Hence my view,” says Vays, “that if bitcoin becomes legal and controlled, there will be an anoncoin that will rise to the top and be 30 to 40% of Bitcoin market cap, and many useless jobs in the government will be added to endlessly fight against it."

LTC is having a bit of a pump, perhaps market manipulators?

Has anybody actually got a cleared account?

My guess is everyone's shares will be declared fake.

yelling at me from the deck of the Titanic

Correct 

The Trolling
It's just a question of statistics that an unmoderated thread is going to draw posts from a small number of demented nutcases who want to gorge on the available attention at other people's expense.

However there is also another reason. Dash is a controversial project in more ways than one.

The Differences from 'Last Year'
In particular, around this time last year, Dash's unique approach to anonymity (functional diversification of the network) started to emerge as just one of many new innovations going on across the altcoin market of the time. It wasn't particularly notable other than the fact that it supported the 'anonymity' features and it kind of passed under the radar on most other counts.

Over the last year, however, some major evolutions have occurred in the market which people probably did not predict:

[1] - the functional diversification approach that Dash took back then has worked. It's proven to be a generalised solution which immediately delivered 2 further breakthroughs over bitcoin: confirmation time and scaleability

[2] - Dash has emerged from the background in terms of marketcap to establish itself in the top 3 'pure currency' rankings

[3] - Bitcoin itself has prevailed over the flotilla of alts that came it's way. There is now very little, if any, prospect of any alt overturning bitcoin's transparent blockchain classic approach, starting again and gaining mainstream traction. In that respect Dash's remaining competitors in the market (at least in the anonymity sector) have walked straight into a huge cowpat by attempting to do exactly that


The 'Real controversy'
Note that Dash’s functional diversification approach is the one common denominator behind all these breakthroughs:

 - anonymity
 - confirmation time
 - transaction scaleability
 - legacy compliance with the bitcoin architecture

This is the “real” controversy - not the instamine.

'The Decoy'
However, it *is* why the ‘instamine’ has taken on such a huge importance from the perspective of adversaries. They cannot afford for attention to be directed at Dash’s unique technical approach and its benefits because ALL other networks (bar Dash clones and Bitcoin 2.0’s) are still mono-functional. It would suddenly widen the official playing field to a point where they are so far away from the goalposts that many would probably have to throw in the towel.

The only way to keep the spotlight off the “real” controversy is therefore to keep the ‘instamine’ alive and keep throwing it in everybody’s faces to the exclusion of everything else. In fact its impact is of course academic. A market depth chart is a V-shape and will always be a V-shape. What that means is that for every trader that values as asset using a given set of criteria, there is always another trader who prioritises those same criteria differently. It was an unconventional birth but the value could have gone to zero.

It didn’t, and the reason it didn’t is what adversaries would prefer not to discuss.

LOL...you are adorable yourself.   LOL....  82 votes...in a forum called BCT(which no one in the real world knows or cares about) that its whole investment pool is worth less then half my equipment inventory.  To those individuals like Otoh, I and others, it is you and your ilk that are the ones that are adorable...

If it even mattered remotely to Otoh, myself or others on here to crush your coin world, it would be a mere sneeze to do so.  But since those in our position care little for your meaningless drivel...we'll let you play in your meaningless sand box.  

PS ...for the record, Evan, if he had pocketed 600,000 DASH, 16 months ago...which most certainly he did not since it ended up in my associates and my hands and others...he would have deserved EVERY bit of the money. Its an embarrassment to the idea of a global currency that you think a million dollars is a sizable reward for creating such a robust coin technology.  You need to climb out of your minimum wage job my friend and socialistic utopia you envision....its effecting your ability to see the big picture.

Thanks for your opinion.  I think it's quite obvious that we see DASH coins history and future in 2 very completely different lights.   It would also seem most out there  agree with my thoughts on Dash and more importantly  it's underlying technology.  Our current sustained position on coin market value,  backs me up.  Cheers.