Yep, Dash took a lot of steps and formed a lot of partnerships to function more and more as currency, for example  :

https://www.dashforcenews.com/dash-funds-festy-contactless-payment-wristbands-global-expansion-festivals-pubs/
https://wirexapp.com/dash-wallet-integration/
https://www.dash.org/2017/10/15/alt36.html
 

Thank you Maren, for providing a lot of fud nicely bundled into one post.
I appreciate it.

I'm sure that Dash bagholders will cry tears pretty soon now, thanks to that post of yours  
In my experience those who shout scam the loudest, are often the scammers themself.

The future of currency is directly connected to the amount of fees one has to pay to use it as currency and the speed of its transactions.

With Bitcoin fees are simply too high to use as currency, and transaction confirmations take too long (sometimes a hour), therefore Bitcoin is currently moving towards becoming just a store of value (digital gold)
Ethereum is not intended to be used as currency, it is intended to be used as a platform, where developers can run decentralized apps / smart contracts / ICO's .
Dash is fully focussed on being used primarily as a currency by keeping its fees ultra-low, enabling instant transactions (without double spending risk) and increasement of its blocksize.  

Dash started to evolve when it decided to split their blockrewards, first into a split between just miners and masternodes. This split had a roadmap in place where in the end, the split would be more in favor for masternodes
(miners 40% / masternodes 60%). However it became quickly clear that Dash was facing problems with raising funds for further development of the project. The decision was then made to split the blockreward as follows :

Miners : 45%
Masternodes : 45%
Decentralized Budget : 10%

This means the masternode owners let go of receiving higher blockrewards (60%) in favor of establishing a decentralized budget system. This budget system became highly successfull at expanding the Dash development
and establishing all kind of partnerships. In a way the decentralized budget system boosted Dash development by several factors.

It is true that masternodes play a large role on the network (they validate blocks and determine if mined blocks should be included into the blockchain or not) but miners play an equal large role in the network, its their increased
hash rate through ASIC miners that provide increased security for the network.

I think with the current split Dash has a well-balanced distribution of power between miners, masternodes and available budget.
  
    

That is indeed unfortunately. I guess for those early starters into Dash it is also about having (and keeping) faith in the project and trust in its development team, despite efforts from competing crypto projects to directly undermine that
faith and trust with false accussations and spread of fud.

Those are most likely users that listened to trolls like cryptohunter, without doing their own homework about Dash.

Dash makes automatic backups and stores them under the folder "backups". Just make a backup of your current wallet.dat (to be on the safe side)
and copy one of those automatic backups into your Dash directory* and then rename that file to wallet.dat (this will overwrite your current wallet.dat that you backed up earlier)

Download latest Dash wallet version from here : https://www.dash.org/wallets/#wallets

Then do a re-index. If you are on a windows pc then go to your Dash wallet shortcut, rightclick, properties, and put in the target at the very end the following commandline option : -reindex
for example (it could look different on your pc) -> C:\Users\Svoa\AppData\Roaming\Dashcore\dash-qt.exe -reindex

Then restart your wallet, after the re-index your balance should be restored.

* Linux -> /home/username/.dashcore
  Windows -> C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Dashcore
  Mac -> /home/username/Library/Application Support\Dashcore   

I hear good things about ShapeShift (https://shapeshift.io) for a simple conversion from Altcoin to Bitcoin.
Then you can sent that Bitcoin to a local Bitcoin wallet that you fully control.

Or you can take a look here : https://dashpay.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOC/pages/48693298/Exchanges

Darkcoin = Dash (name-change). That is why it is pointless to bump such an old thread with a (by now) incorrect name in the title.
If people want to compare Dash to Monero just make a new thread.

This thread will only confuse new people.
  

Yep, it repeats Bitcoin movements but also at an increased rate (meaning Dash is expanding much faster then Bitcoin did in its early years).
And Dash can go beyond what Bitcoin currently can, Dash does not have to slow down because of high fees, slow confirmation times and a slow decision making proces.
Instead Dash can fully focus on implementing its core task, which is being used as a pure peer-to-peer digital cash system as Satoshi once visioned for Bitcoin.

I think we are witnessing exponential growth here for Dash, exponential growth which started early 2017 and which will continue the coming years. Of course Dash will still be bound to uptrends and downtrends,
pumps and corrections just like any cryptocurrency but for longterm investors this cryptocurrency is getting more and more attractive to look into.  
 

Amanda will be back !

Link : https://www.dashcentral.org/p/ScalingUpPublicityWithAmandaPMBC

Down, Not Out? Dash Price Likely to Defend $600
https://www.coindesk.com/not-dash-price-likely-defend-600/

Looks like Coindesk just remembered there is an altcoin named Dash out there  
At this rate we get exactly four more articles about Dash from Coindesk (as Dash moves from 5th to 1st rank on coinmarketcap)

Sorry time traveler, but everything i do is so i can move to Mars in the year 2024.
At that point i dont really care what happens on Earth.

Edit : and we are taking Dash with us ! 

In a sea of red today, the answer is pretty obvious.
One crypto currency in the top 15 is showing a strong green on coinmarketcap.

Guess which crypto currency....

oh darn, they found out about our secret master plan  

Dash is currently undergoing a correction, after which i fully exspect to see a rise to $900

THE MADNESS ON THE CRYPTOCURRENCY MARKET CONTINUES! BITCOIN, ETHEREUM, DASH, LITECOIN, MONERO AND IOTA ALL WITH NEW ATHS

https://dowbit.com/the-madness-on-the-cryptocurrency-market-continues-bitcoin-ethereum-dash-litecoin-monero-and-iota-all-with-new-aths/

Edit : and congratz to the winners of the Dash Force MPV Contest for November : Reddit Edition.