Calling someone "sad little boy" and claiming to possess integrity fits very well.
You lost all your credibility by posting something "stupid" like that.

That seems somehow to be a character trait for those coin gurus with self called integrity.

Remember the time the bitcoin devs declared dash's instant send snake oil and scam?
You know that instant send worked flawless all this years?

It is mind blowing to me how eager this high intelligent people destroy their reputation by behaving and posting entierly stupid things. And it is worrying at the same time.

For what it's worth....

After being a long time holder I am out of DASH too.
With the price deciline and Evolution never comming I gradualy reduced my positions over the last years.

After V19 and when DASH fell out of the TOP 100 it was the signal for me to leave completly.
So over the last months and weeks I slowly reduced my Dash positions with the aim to have them all gone by end of this years.
Due to an unforseen event I am ahead of this shedule and I am already sold out now.

I never thought DASH for me will end like this. But sorry to say this but you can not talk about Evolution for years and years and never bring it out. If you bring this now it is too late. Nothing will change anymore.

Really loved the speed in transactions and the privacy feature which I really used. For legal things only. But I value my privacy.
And whenever I have to do a Bitcoin transactions this days..I so hate it! Really hate it.
Cryptocoins had been so much better with DASH.

About the reward debate. I analysed this myself once from an other angle and tok is somewhat correct when saying it devaluates the coin price but not for the reason he gives. And it is also not a strong effect and could have easily be countered with new developments in time  and selling/marketing. Anything that had indicated progression in the market.

Things are as they are.
I feel sad to had to give DASH up after so long but I can not allow emotions to fog financial decitions.

A reminder: Bitcoinhalfing is next spring/summer.

So for those newer ppl ... in the past Bitcoinhalfing always triggered a price rise for the months after the halfing.
The reason is simple.. the earnings in Bitcoin is halfed but the mining costs (dominated by the price of electricity) stays the same. This inbalance tends to equalize. So that is still a good bet/chance in cryptocurrency. But you know just because it always did that in the past this doesn't mean it will do this too this time.
Never invest more than you can affort to lose.

So long.
All the best to those that stay with DASH.

It was a nice ride and an experience!

A warning about the V19 update.. you might have to resynch the Blockchain which takes hours (9 hours) and pose bans your masternode!

I don't know if it is just me but every single Update fails and often leads to a poseban of my nodes because I can't fix it within less than half a day!

And I even use Masternode-Zeus which is awesome but still it goes all down to trash for me.

Some helpful things/steps.


1) Putty login as Dashadmin


2) 50 Gbyte SSD is at the very limit now (recommended is 60) so you will have to check if you have still enough diskspace:
check for used up diskspace


3) You most likely have to update Masternode-Zeus the old didn't want to update to v19

To do so I first remove the Masternode-Zeus folder.. I haven't found a better way..  Linux is a strange world to me:
(Note you might have it in a different folder or place)

and say yes to every /.git/objects delete request !!!
if fails try again and if still fails try with

Once that is gone you fcan get it fresh from github


4) Start Masternode-Zeus


5) best to do first
is select 4.Reclaim free disk space
select r to reboot
and then you have to Putty login as Dashadmin admin again and start Masternode-Zeus again

6) select 3. Manage the nodes (DO NOT select install new Dash bin..happend to me on one node )
there select 1. Update the dash bins and check if it worked
then select 2. Update sentinel.

DO not do that! I believe that is a troubeling step..likely dash is still synchroniceing.. but I useually at that point want to reboot the whole server

7) check status of the masternode with Masternode-Zeus

if dashd isn't working then check the dash logfile for errors with Masternode-Zeus
Note that viewing the log file also seems critical.. it hung my whole node twice already!! But you have to do it if dashd isn't working.

for me forexample it said: I have to resynch the blockchain. You can do that in Masternode-Zeus
Really that Tool is gold! So good.

Befor you do the resynch you have to check if you have an automatic reboot installed (I have a daily reboot on my systems)
You have to go to root first:
then

to see if you have something there.. if so you might have to deactivate it before you do a 10 hours resynch

Anyway my resynch hung after 7 hours anyway.... yeah morphy ..I manage to nothing works smooth ever in linux.

If you had to resynch (takes ours) have fun reactivating your nodes out of Poseban!!

At that point it is strongly recommended to wait for right after you got a payment else be prepared to lose a whole week of payment!

Hope that helps others to have a less stressfull update.

cheers

I see a V19.0.0 on https://www.dashninja.pl/

Something exciting in the works that will see the light soon? Evo maybe? 
Would be the first time I gladly upgrade the client and the masternodes lol...

Not only Dash.

After beeing a long time on Bitcoin Wallet Version 20 I downloaded the latest Wallet and I was faced with Address type choose. I mean I knew about segwit but now beeing faced to have to choose one of those cryptic for normal user nothing saying address types... I had to google them and read what they are doing.

They really destryed Bitcoin with their Segwit thing. Things should become simple and easy to understand for users not more cryptic and more confusing.

I don't like what is happening. If you think about it out of all this 1000 of coins there is hardly anyone usefull today. How could we hit a wall so hard!?
No wonder Crypto isn't attractive for anyone else than some investors that hope to gain some money through speculations.

How is Evo come along? Any news?

I had to do a critical fast transaction lately (time limited) and figured out that the destination supports all sorts of altcoins but Dash coin. So sad Dash had been perfect for that.
So I tired litecoin and the transaction failed to make it in time. Value lost. No drama it wasn't a big amount. I ended up using a converter to doge coin and sending doge just to be sure it makes it in time although I never possesed any doge coins.

Also I used CoinJoin.. it is a long time since I used that and I figured that there is a problem for a user like me that after a time forgets certain restrictions.

Despite haveing a lot more in mixed coins it refused to send with autocalculated transaction fees.
So no biggy I switched to manual..but then it failed because it said it can't match the value with the mixed coins.

Took me a time to remember that in that case I will have to create a new internal address and send a mixed value that works to it and then send from that address.

So maybe this could be improved (automated?) for the user because honestly this can only be done by someone that has a better base knowledege in crypto and wallets.

Will Evolutions really come out this year after beeing anounced for years and years?  And don't you think that it is too late for that already? Dash is gone from various coin accepting shops. So how should it happen that it becomes listed and used again? Just my thoughts. Not blameing anyone.
cheers

It is not possible to recover a password from a wallet. Or at least it shouldn't be possible.

If you have a mobile Wallet and want to crack the pin... that is easy do able with a brute froce bot/script.
I don't understand why they made the pin mandatory for the mobile wallet. All this does is that ppl will forget it and have to crack it after and because you can crack it it is entierly pointless to force user to have it. Who had this stupid idea!? 

I am useing Zeus. I let it update the binary and restarted the Server. One Node had a Pose of about 2000 at that time.
Checked today .. it got banned.
Ninja still had listed it with v17 although Zeus logged the update with bins v18.

Seems with every update I run into ban trouble. That is frustrating.
Somehow I never see when the Version changes.

No I have no issues anymore in between the updates. Remember I posted here with you a time back and I activated an automatic daily MN reset. You helped me with that. That works very well.

For upgrade to v 18.0.1

Is the Sentinel upgrade required or will the payment be ok with just updateing dash core/bin without a Sentinel upgrade?

Second is it possible to implement a better PoseBan System...
The issue I have is.. I check each day once on Dash ninja if my mn's are still running.
The Pose jumps form 0 to 2500 in an instant and if it was some hours ago changes are big that in the morning after when I check it accumulated to over 4000 and result into a MN ban.

So it seems a daily Dash Ninja check is not helpfull at all. Would be nice to have a system wher you have at least 48 hourse before a ban or an idication sooner or anything.

I don't read the forum frequent anymore so I will not detect when there is a new version and relay a bit on an early Pose warning system.

Thanks I think I will check the next time I open my command and collection wallet about the voeting.

Actually when the new registration system came out it is what I tried to do..proper separating and isolating the collateral from all the rest.

So the MN's all do payouts to the one command and collection wallet which I tempoary put online every maybe 2 or 3 month to empty it out.
It's also the wallet I send the registrations and restarts commandos from and likely also will have the voteing addresses although like said on registration it wasn't possible to have an independent voteing address. That means one of those addresses hopefully in the command and collection wallet is also my voteing address. Therefore I guess it should work to vote with it. I will see then.
Anyway I really only will vote when there is something important but i might miss it because I only read this forum.

I am missing something. How does voteing NO to the DCG_Compo proposal equals a step down of the CEO Ryan?
Wouldn't a NO more simple mean all devlopment is halted because no one gets payed anymore for doing anything?

I never really saw Ryan as a fit for DASH's CEO and I sure had preffered another one more like Evan has been but also say Ryan steps down and a new one comes in how do you expect that to change anything? Usually when a CEO replacement cycles begins in a company it is the very end of said company. Experienced this enough already. The company will be bought by some one and trashed and left as a shadow of what it was before puped controlled or die in complete.
Sure if you find the "right" one ... but that ever happening would be a novoum to me.

I never voted and I guess a lot do not vote because it is not so easy. Whenever I tried it it didn't work and then there was never a reason for me to really vote with exception of maybe the miner reward ratio to really bother enough to get it working. Last I know is that I couldn't generate an explicite voteing address for the MN because it was not supported. So shrug. Had enough to do to get those MNs working again after moocowmoo left them for dieing.

You see I am a potential sleeping voter like probabily others and could be activated if triggered correctly when there is something really important. However I guess I stay out because I do not see how a NO vote leads to anything improveing the current situation.

It is not a capital flow analysis and that was also not my intention. My intention was to figure out if the NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners can influence the CoinPrice. Because you tell us the last 1000 pages lowering the ratio means the price will drop.

To do so we have to analyse the motivation for Miners and Masternode owners. That Ratio is relevant for those only.

If you check my last formula in the DOH post it is in essential a very scary miner invested miner capital to price relation:

let's free it from the balast and make the formula simpler:


-> (MinerCount * MinerCost) / CoinPrice = MinerAmotisationTime = aprox const

aprox const or meant to be it is target to keep that value the same because that isgiven through the alternatives of Mineing other more profitable Coins.
Byway I ignored the energy cost here which you would never do in a miner profitability calculation but it is irrelevant for us here. Just add it in your mind to the MinerCost .

And because you are interested in Capital flow MinerCount*MinerCost is nothing else than the total invested capital of ALL miners of the full network of this coin

So it is just:

  TotalMoneyInAllMiners / CoinPrice = const
 
so here is your in miner invested capital and it is in a fixed scary relation with the CoinPrice.

You know there is the disussion if the Total-Hashrate correlates to the a CoinPrice.

I would say replace the total HashRate with the total Money put into Mining Equipment (and energy) and you come close to something that might correlate seen over a longer time periode.

Now if you ask Miners they will say that the CoinPrice dictates the Hashrate (MinerCount for me) and not the other way around.

This is certainly true.. for medium and maybe long term but at the end it will have to balance out to get to the same average MinerAmotisationTime for all existing pow coins and that's my doh post. An imbalance of the MinerCount over a longer time will essentially lead to the CoinPrice adapting. They can sell cheaper compared to the other coins and it will lower the price.

It is a very frightening thing and actually confirms what you pryed the last 1000 pages just not over the way you do it with capital flow consideration that
be not made to me sounds gibberish to me.. likely the same gibberish you get from my analysis! lol

Anyway conclusion is by lowering the NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners a lower CoinPrice is to be expect and it is not a one time thing  but a trendset driven through the psychological factor of my DOH post.

That is not fix however if for any reason you can give people a good incidence to buy DASH..it will drive the price up again and minercount will follow.
But without anything new put into the system a down trend is most likely according to my doh post.

cheers

DOH!

I just see how toknormal's CoinPrice fall can happen through leaving Miners!

MinerAmotisationTime = (MinerCount * MinerCost) / (CoinPrice * NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners * NetworkCoinsFlow [Coins/sec])

true..longer time stability will be this:  lower NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners -> lower MinerCount, no CoinPrice change

But let's say Miners are p**** of the unfair Ratio enough that they also do not get into the game if MinerAmotisationTime is significant smaller than all other coins due to too less Miners.

If no additional Miners get back into it...the  CoinPrice will lower over time till MinerAmotisationTime rises to equal level like the other coins.

So in effect yes if you make Miners dislikeing a Coin it will backfire in lower CoinPrices over an even longer time periode.
And if you make Miners attracted to a Coin then well...price could go heigher.

I can somewhat follow toknormals argumentation now. Given Miners do not look on their profit numbers only but also act psychological mineing coins they like and avoid those they dislike despite lesser profit.

Well I wanted to stay out of toknormal's discution of CoinPrice and NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners dependency butI took the time to formluate the whole thing for myself.

I print it here. It's  a lot. I wouldn't read it myself!

But in conclution:

 MinerAmotisationTime = (MinerCount * MinerCost) / (CoinPrice * NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners * NetworkCoinsFlow [Coins/sec])


Miners incentive is to have a low MinerAmotisationTime. As lower as better and more profit later.

 MinerAmotisationTime is in concurence to ALL other mineable Coins. The Miners will mine the Coins with the lowest MinerAmotisationTime. Or in other words all Coins tend to get equal MinerAmotisationTime or MinerAmotisationTime will stay const.

 MinerAmotisationTime = const!

Now if MinerAmotisationTime is constant then we have 3 values that have to keep the equation in balance:

MinerCount, CoinPrice and NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners
where as MinerCount : Total count of standard Miners on the Network

if we lower the NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners like we did then the CoinPrice has to be HEIGHER to keep this equation constant.
The Miners are stimulated to sell Coins at a Heigher price..
However we know that this will not happen.
Instead they will leave.

-> So the MinerCount lowers! The lower NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners is compensated with a lower MinerCount over long and NOT the CoinPrice!

There is however no incentive in this equiation for a lower the Price. The price isn't affected by the Miners. If at all they would tend to sell heigher.

And for Masternode owners it's an increase that theoretical attracs more investors and rise the price through that. But that is not how it will play out.

There are other reason why lowering NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners is bad. Psychological reason. And THAT is what influences the CoinPrice the most.
And like we have seen to the lower side.

I can not follow  toknormal why lowering NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners should have any impact let alone lowering on the CoinPrice. 
But I can also not grasp why anyone thought lowering NetworkDistributionRatioToMiner will help to rise the price of this Coin.

You ppl just don't make any sense. Ask yourself what is the value of a Coin? How does it get value? Certainly not through such Ratio manipulations.

Anyway...for those interested..here is my full blabla... I wrote it down for myself and it might be a bit messy and maybe even have flaws.


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*** General:

 CoinPrice(t) : CoinPrice at time t in [$/Coin]
 NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners : fraction of the generated Network coins that goes to the miners (i.e. 0.4)


*** Miners:

 Miner Investor incentive: low MinerAmotisationTime
 Miner Investor worries: never get the Investment back (MinerAmotisationTime rise to infinite)

 Note as lower the MinerAmotisationTime as more profit is generated later. The CoinPrice isn't really relevant for this mechanics

 MinerCount : Total Standard Miners on the Network (we simplify here and say all have the same MineingPowerHashrate and same MinerCost)
 MinerCoinsPower(t) : Coins mined per time in per Miner [Coins / sec]
 MinerCost : Cost of a Miner [$]
 MinerAmotisationTime : Time till a Miner investment is fully payed off [sec]

 MinerCashFlow(t) =  CoinPrice(t)  * MinerCoinsPower(t); in [$/sec]
 MinerCost = MinerAmotisationTime * MinerCashFlow(t)

 -> MinerAmotisationTime = MinerCost / MinerCashFlow(t)  lesser MinerAmotisationTime is better

 MinerAmotisationTime = MinerCost / (CoinPrice(t)  * MinerCoinsPower(t))


 MinerCoinsPower(t) = NetworkCoinsFlow [Coins/sec] * NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners/ MinerCount


 MinerAmotisationTime = MinerCost / (CoinPrice(t)  * NetworkCoinsFlow [Coins/sec] * NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners/ MinerCount)

 MinerAmotisationTime = (MinerCount * MinerCost) / (CoinPrice(t)  * NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners * NetworkCoinsFlow [Coins/sec])
 

*** Masternode:
 
 MasterNode Investros incentive: Height YearlyInterest, stable or rising CoinPrice
 MasterNode Investros worries: falling CoinPrices


 MasterNodeCoinReward(t) : Coins rewarded per time [Coins / sec]
 MasterNodeCoinReward(t) = NetworkCoinsFlow [Coins/sec] * (0.9 - NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners)/ MasterNodeCount
 
 MasterNodePrice(t) : Collateral MasterNode in [$]
 MasterNodePrice(t) = CoinPrice(t) * MasterNodeCostCoins

 MasterNodeErnings(t) : Cash flow for MasterNodeOwners [$/sec]
 MasterNodeErnings(t) = MasterNodeCoinReward(t)*CoinPrice(t) [$/sec]
 MasterNodeErnings(t) = CoinPrice(t) * NetworkCoinsFlow [Coins/sec] * (0.9 - NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners)/ MasterNodeCount

 MasterNodeCostCoins : MasterNode Price in coins [Coins]
 MasterNodePrice(t) : Price of a Masternode in [$]
 MasterNodePrice(t) : CoinPrice(t) * MasterNodeCostCoins

 Not: NetworkDistributionRatioToMasterNodes = 0.9 - NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners  (with 10% gov cost) but lets stick with just one value and the same value for Masternode too

 InterestPerTime(t) = MasterNodeErnings(t) / MasterNodePrice(t) [1/sec]
 InterestPerTime(t) = CoinPrice(t) * NetworkCoinsFlow [Coins/sec] * (0.9 - NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners)/ (MasterNodeCount  * CoinPrice(t) * MasterNodeCostCoins)
 InterestPerTime(t) =  NetworkCoinsFlow [Coins/sec] * (0.9 - NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners)/ (MasterNodeCount * MasterNodeCostCoins)

 OneYearTime : total Seconds in a year [sec]
 YearlyInterest(t) =  InterestPerTime(t) * OneYearTime
 YearlyInterestInPercent(t) =  100 * InterestPerTime(t) * OneYearTimeInSeconds

 YearlyInterestInPercent(t) = 100 * OneYearTimeInSeconds * NetworkCoinsFlow [Coins/sec] * (0.9 - NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners)/ (MasterNodeCount * MasterNodeCostCoins)
 -> Note Not CoinPrice dependent


 or if we want to express in a sort of amotisation time analog  to the Miners:

 MasternodeAmotisationTime = MasterNodePrice(t) / MasterNodeErnings(t)  lesser MasternnodeAmotisationTime is better
 MasternodeAmotisationTime = CoinPrice(t) * MasterNodeCostCoins / (CoinPrice(t) * NetworkCoinsFlow [Coins/sec] * (0.9 - NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners)/ MasterNodeCount)
 MasternodeAmotisationTime = CoinPrice(t) * MasterNodeCostCoins * MasterNodeCount / (CoinPrice(t) * NetworkCoinsFlow [Coins/sec] * (0.9 - NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners))
 MasternodeAmotisationTime = MasterNodeCostCoins * MasterNodeCount / (NetworkCoinsFlow [Coins/sec] * (0.9 - NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners))
 -> Not CoinPrice dependent BUT..as lesser the Price as lesser worse the investment  so interested in CoinPrice stable or rise


*** Comperation:

 MinerAmotisationTime    = (MinerCount * MinerCost) / (CoinPrice  * NetworkDistributionRatioToMinerso * NetworkCoinsFlow)
 YearlyInterestInPercent = 100 * OneYearTimeInSeconds * NetworkCoinsFlow * (0.9 - NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners) / (MasterNodeCount * MasterNodeCostCoins)


- Masternode owners perspective:

 CoinPrice is irrellevant for (new) MasterNodeOwners! CoinPrice is NOT part of the MasterNodes incentive YearlyInterest
 However if price rises they will get more money for old MasterNodeOwners with same YearlyInterestInPercent
 
 -> Lowering the NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners rises YearlyInterestInPercent and is in the interest of old and NEW MasterNode owners.


- Miners perspective:
  As heigher the CoinPrice as smaller the MinerAmotisationTime when the total MinerCount of the Network doesn't change!
  However it becomes negleted because more Miners become attracted which will rises MinerAmotisationTime back to what it was.
  MinerAmotisationTime is in concurrence with other coins. Miners will mine the Coins with the lowest MinerAmotisationTime.

  Now if the price falls the same thing happens in reverse:  Miners will flee. MinerAmotisationTime goes back to coin miners market average values.
  there fore over a longer time the price isn't relevant for miners too! It will just lead to more or less Miners/Hashrate

  -> Lowering the NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners rises the MasternodeAmotisationTime. if the price does not change the Miners will flee and the MinerAmotisationTime goes back to coin miners market average values.
 
 Now in short time when the NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners got lowered it is an incentive for miners to rise the CoinPrice and selling the less Coins for more!
 Theoretical that will rise the price for a short time. Practical it will be negible. Miners just sell and don't try to make best market prices. So it will not affect the price.


*** Conclution:

 Changing NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners can not have an impact on the CoinPrice seen over a longer time. There is no mechanic for that.

 However psychological it will push miners away since it is seen as really unjustified. Why mining a coin where the most part goes to some greedy MasterNode owners? Would you do that?
 You only do that if MinerAmotisationTime is significant lower than the average mining market or you simple do not care of what others get. That the get more than you.

 The low NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners looks bad/unfair for anyone interested in the Coin itself. -> Coin loses attraction.
 And THAT at the end will drive the CoinPrice down: Less interested, less used less value.

 For Masternode investors the NetworkDistributionRatioToMiners looks good because it rises the YearlyInterestInPercent however there is a catch and this is that
 the CoinPrice has to at least keep its Value to not lose money at the end.

 So yes more Masternode incentive = more user buying Coins for this = CoinPrice should rise theoretical. Practical the user will not buy Masternodes because we
 are at a low position in the Coinmarket cap signaling significant value loss and unsafe investment.
 So the the psychological bad looks likely will have more impact on the CoinPrice.


 I too say it was a bad decition but because of a completly different reason.

 What you should get away from here is that the CoinPrice is NOT determined by anything mechanical you do here! But by Human psychologie and Coin usability.
 So doing something that is taken as bad is not a good idea.
 
 Like I always say ..create a product where the Coin is needed and can't be bought with anything else. A Coin needed for something increases its value.
 You have to generate an incentive without worries of losing values.

That is interesting.
Virus Total delivers different results if you drop the downloaded file onto it (virus warnings) or if you provide the URL link like you have done (no virus warning).
I had them both reanalysed with same result.

I do not really understand what  dashd.exe has to do with TorTool  (Kaspersky Not-a-virus:UDS:NetTool.Win32.TorTool) but  I am not concerned about that.

What buffles me are 2 other things and I don't expect an answer just want to put it here as an info about what I struggle with:

1. DASH Webpage does not provide a link to the zip file anymore. Makes it troublesome to find the link to the non installer zip. I avoid installers. Still don't understand how anyone trust installers but yeah that's me.

2. The zip file (https://github.com/dashpay/dash/releases/download/v0.17.0.3/dashcore-0.17.0.3-win64.zip) can not be extracted with windows default zip extraction. If you do you end up with one single extracted file only. It can however be extracted with 7-Zip with no problems at all.

That is my view too and it hurts to see Dash dying more and more.
I really liked the simplicity of the wallet and hosting a full node is no issue with some HD/SDD space and startup speed etc and transaction are done fast and easy with low fee. What could be better?

Have you ever tryed to host a full ETH node? I did and I learned not to do that ever anymore.
Same but a bit better is BTC. You can still host a full node but you will see that it is unusable for short and sweet payments.

In fact a few years ago I have abandoned both BTC and ETH and have hoped I can do all transaction with DASH in the future.
Turns out that was a mistake.

Had to go back to BTC and ETH because it became obvious that this will gain in values and DASH is on the way down. So I did when I found a solution other than hosting a node by myself.

The only way out for DASH is to make it to be needed for something.

There seems to be no other incentive anymore to have DASH than hopeing for value gain and MN interests. The first is questionable and the later is fine as long as DASH can hold values which is questionable since there are no other incentives to have DASH.

Not a good base for giveing something value.

In order to give it value you have to have a market you can buy things with DASH only. That's a bit my view.

I agree that Dash lost a lot and a year ago I was considering to disolve all my dashes. I didn't.
There is one good reason that keeps me in and that is the self doe able masternode staking reward which gives a significant 5.5% to 6% interest a year.
There aren't that many self managable assets you can set up yourself giveing you that.

ETH's reward is dropped below 6% now and with that one of what I see a significant source of dash drains gone. And the other alternatives like cardano and others are also below 6%.

ETH is a pain when you try to host a full node itself. In fact 2 years ago I gave up on ETH because I coudln't hold the blockchain anymore. The blockchain increase is beyond sane in in my opinion a killer. It's too much. The only option you hav eleft is to hold ETH on a thrid party.

And Bitcoin ... honestly lightning I never used. I read up on this in the past and I can only shake head on that this should be a solution.
Nevertheless Bitcoin undenyable made it and setablishe ditself even as a legal currency in a country now so there is no way around it but it is not usable as a payment in my opinion.

Dash is or would be.. but yeah it was not sold. Just saw a video today ..the rise and fall of htc.. guess what their "quality speaks for it self" or quietly brilliant didn't work. If you don't bring a solution into the minds of the people it will vanish.

It's a bit sad to see that somehow ppl think how much reward of a block goes to the masternode is relevant is significant for the price. That's not what gives something value or not. The useability and that it is present and used in ppls daily lifes is. There has to be a reason to use DASH.

If you can buy specifics things ppl want with dash only that for example is incentive to get dash and will rise the price.
As I pointed out the masternode interest is one such reason but it is a bit shadowed with worries if dash will keep it's price over long. Doesn't helps if you get interest on something when your asset loses value at the same time.

What I still love most about dash is that it's blockchain size is in a very healthy range and not bloated and is fast downloaded and processed through the network. You can still run full core nodes private easy and simple. In fact all my dash clients are full nodes. And transfers are easy fast and painless and do not need strange additional systems that do not fit the crypto mentality at all.

Well I have news but no good ones.
This morning on dashninja I saw that one of my MNs got 3800 Pose.
So I asumed by chance such a collision happened and checked the last pay-out block and when it was not within a sheduled Server-Reset. Some hours away.

In fact I did a calculation lately and came to a number of mayb 1 collision in 10 years a MN for a daly reset but then I am no more that strong in mathe as I was once and my calculation can be off. Still would be carefully and go with maybe 1 collision a year.

Anyway vultur showed CPU 100% and strange enough I saw a significant Disk I/O increase 11 hours bevor the cpu spike that keept stable on a high level but NO CPU load increase (still 10%) and NO networktraffic increase.

The Daily-Server-Reset was due intwo hours so I waited.
Dash-Ninja showed a decrasing POSe.. which is strange given the CPU was 100% load equals the node is not responding anymore.

Now even before the Server-Reset happened the Node became delisted from Dash-Ninja which useually indicates it became POSe banned (thought that's happening when it gets closer to the server count of 4800)

I waited 2 hours but the CPU stayed 100% and what's killing me is the Server-Reset did not happen!
I am 100% sure that the daily-resets are and were executed every day since I checked about them. But it did not happen while the CPU was on 100% load.

That's a killer because I have hopped that it autorecovers in such a case due to the daily-reset.
Also I checked with a dash-client and yes the node is pose banned with a score of 4800+ and it happened within 3 to 4 hours!!!

My previous experience is that you have at least 1 day time to do a reset before getting banned.

I asked vultr very specific about if there was a maintenance or something causeing this server go down and they said no.

This is frustrating.
I do not understand how the whole system can go down that not even that system contrab thing works anymore. Isn't that a system always work thingy?

Ah yes vultr gave my commands for postmortem analysis but I guess at that point it is better if I resolve and recreate the node with completly new collateral, BLS, IP and everything.

Ah to break the silence... here just a quick update from my server auto-reset experience. 

That works perfect!!! No runaway CPU usage anymore.
CPU usage stays at around 10% on all nodes.
Instead weekly I choose to go more agressive with a daily reset.

The reason for daily: That way I don't have to check daily because it will reset anyway before any Pose can ever accumulate till up to a kick out.
 
Yes with that frequency it might hit 1 or 2 server reset quorum/pose collition a year a node..(guesswork. it could be caclulated) but that's nothing to worry about.
Pose is only a problem if your node does stay off for a few hours.
Observed no Pose till now or missed it in case there was already a collition.

I am very happy with that solution.