Talking about trying turning into not trying at all, in just one post  
To try or not to try, that is the question.  

Edit : oh no, toknormal removed the trying part. I guess he decided on not to try after all  

Good luck with it, maybe i will be one of the end users one day, who knows.

Oh my, time travel huh ? Can't wait till you develop a Dapp for Dash that allows time travel  

Seriously though : thank you for the update about building early smart contract functionality with Dash.
That is exactly what Dash needs.

I guess you need InstantSend supported exchanges to close that arbitrage gap between exchanges, or can it work through any exchange ?
Would be interesting to experiment with a Dapp arbitrage-focused trading bot.  

Always nice to see a newbie come in and read our dash ANN thread from the start. Since you are now reading posts from 2017 and are on page 6243,
you only have 625 pages to go.

If you are a bot : bad bot !

I am sorry, but if the sender is a website and its support department indicates they can't help you (the receiver) with the transactions they are themselves responsible for,
then the only thing left for you is to try to see if they have a social channel, where you can share your bad experience with their own customers.
Maybe that will create enough pressure for them to look into it again.

If you have already paid, and just want the whole deal cancelled then try to look for their refund policy. Webshops are bound by law to provide refunds to a customer if that customer
did not receive the product / service. Threaten with a lawyer if necessary.
Out of curiosity, what website were you using and how did you pay ? If you paid with a creditcard or Paypal, then there are refund options there too.
 
  

If Ethereum reaches 10,000$ to 12,000$ at the end of 2020, i wonder how high its gas fees would be and how congested its network  
Remember the gas fees are already rather high today and network utilization is already at 95% thanks to DeFi (Tether transactions on ETH network).

Some people just don't have the stomach for long term investing in cryptocurrency i guess. They get obsessed over other cryptocurrencies outperforming
the cryptocurrency they are (over)invested in and fail to take into account that each cryptocurrency has it own cycle of long term up trends and long term down trends.

You will see them create irrational posts about coins like Dogecoin temporary outperforming Dash (due to a TikTok pump no less), in order to try to convince other people that Dash is failing them too.
And if Dogecoin a few weeks later is processing its dump, they switch to other coins like Ethereum Classic in a desperate move to still prove their point. Or they come up with Dash falling out of
top 10 mined cryptocurrencies as a complete disaster, pulling out their doomsday predictions again.

It is pointless to debate with such people, and frankly they come across as a bit pathetic.

  

You are literally the only one who cares about that. The rest simply looks at how Dash is performing currently :

Date                 Dash Marketcap        Dash Price down from ATH

14th of July 2020    $685,105,981         95,67%
31st of July 2020    $775,480,260         95,10%
2nd of Aug  2020     $843,770,844        94,70%
5th of Aug   2020     $854.978.860        94,60%

and have expectations on how Dash will perform in the upcoming bull market.

Broken clock = Broken clock.
Sorry mate.

This is a classic case of short term anxiety versus long term rational expectations. Guess which one lasts ?

*** Be very carefull with Ledger hardware wallets right now ***

Link :

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/i3j5xo/ledger_app_isolation_bypass/
https://monokh.com/posts/ledger-app-isolation-bypass


Ledger response : https://donjon.ledger.com/lsb/014/

It is a vulnerability that could also affect Bitcoin clone to Bitcoin clone (for example you think you are sending out Dogecoin, but in reality a malicious wallet is sending out Dash).
Just be careful with ledger hardware wallets and third party software right now, until this gets fixed by Ledger in a few days. The fix will apply to all Ledger hardware products at the same time.

These are the coins affected so far (there are a few cut off from the screenshot, but it does cover most) :  


Source : https://donjon.ledger.com/lsb/014/

Then how do you personally analyze coin wealth distribution and base your centralization view on it, if not through addresses ?
An analysis that should be objective and supported with data / statistics.

That statement of yours just sounds very subjective, without any support of data or statistics. Which is why i made my original post in the first place.

Please explain why you think Dash coin wealth distribution is centralized, when addresses (where the coins are in) in fact show the opposite for Dash. Sure exchanges will have
large cold / hot wallets, but that counts for all crypto projects and is not a reason to dismiss coin wealth distribution through addresses for open blockchains.
Not to mention the fact that 68,5% of Dash coin wealth distribution is located outside top 10, top 100 and top 1000 addresses (with Litecoin that is only 35%).

I suspect you dismiss addresses as a means to analyze coin wealth distribution out of hand, because it clashes with your subjective view of Dash. Someone most likely stated on a forum somewhere
that Dash was centralized, which you read, agreed upon without questioning and from that point you started to associate Dash with centralization.

Please show us the evidence that Dash coin wealth distribution is centralized.

With regards to Ethereum investors : what do you think those investors will do with their investments, when they notice Ethereum's netwerk getting increasingly more congested, its gas fees getting increasingly
more expensive and its dapps getting negatively affected by all that ? Ethereum's network is already at 95% utilization thanks to DeFi (mainly due to massive Tether ERC-20 transactions traffic) and there is no short term
solution in sight.

Link : https://cryptoslate.com/vc-ethereum-has-negative-network-effects-needs-scaling-solutions-now/

ETH 2.0 update is launched in phases and its first phase (phase 0) will offer no scaling solution (it just focus on setting up a PoS sidechain and initializing validators). Phase 1 & 2 which focus on
sharding as scaling solution, are years away (ETH 2.0 is a multi-year 2020-2022 update). Even launch date end of 2020 for phase 0 in the ETH 2.0 update, is just a soft target launch date.

So why are you a masternode operator, when you see so little value in the whole concept of masternode rewards ?
It just comes across as hypocritical to constantly attack Dash masternodes blockrewards (labeling them as free money, without having any value), while being a masternode operator yourself for all this time.
Most people dream of one day having enough Dash to start a masternode, and here are you having one (or more) masternodes and constantly trashing the whole masternodes blockreward concept.
It is just strange to observe.

 

toknormal, i have been wondering about something. Some time ago i read on Discord with regards to you making a remark here on this forum about forking Dash
that toknormal should just vote with his node.

When i first read that i thought how one could possibly vote with his node, but then it occurred to me that this could be a reference to a masternode.
Which does seem pretty unlike you, with your thoughts about 'free money' and masternode blockrewards having no value and all.

I have only ever seen one masternode operator advocate increasing mining rewards instead of masternode rewards on Dash Central, and that comment was posted inside
Ryan's Blockreward Reallocation proposal. That masternode operator pretty much came out of the blue, with no prior governance discussion history (never discussed any budget proposals on
Dash Central before, so far i can recall). So that indicates to me that person either votes without ever discussing a proposal (except Ryan's blockreward proposal) or that person is most of the time
not really interested in the governance part.

So i just have to ask you, are you in fact a masternode operator ? A masternode operator with little interest in Dash governance system and more in it for the blockrewards ?
A masternode operator that at the same time is also voicing some very strong negative beliefs on the value of masternode rewards, labeling it as 'free money' ?

Lets talk about Dash Dapps for a moment, what would you all like to see developed that could really benefit Dash users and maybe make it a
'Killer Dapp' for Dash ?

When newly generated supply cease to be a factor, miners and masternode operators will indeed need to rely on the transaction fees.
I think at that point another kind of change is needed in Dash Proof of Work model. But that is still many many many years away (i doubt we will see it in our current lifetime) and not a pressing matter.

Masternode operators will also benefit from additional revenue streams that will come from the Dash Platform. The fees from the Dash Platform (which is basically a side chain) will go to masternode operators,
which is therefore already one additional revenue stream. Maybe more revenue streams for masternode operators will come from future Dapps, running on the Dash Platform.

Maybe Dash will introduce at some point a form of Dash Savings / Staking that will be much more accessible to users (not limited to a collateral of 1000 Dash). This does not necessarily need to come
from Dash Core Group. Additional dev teams / developers could be funded in the future to specifically handle something that is currently not on the roadmap, or has a low priority for Dash Core Group.
  

No need to reply to a broken clock, broken clock will just keep on rambling about 'free money' and will never ever accept
any argument against it. Best to just let broken clock be.

If only broken clock could find a forum where he could be happy, discussing broken clock things with other broken clocks.
Here is a song for all the broken clocks out there : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Exxu8lsGYE

One specific government, with a specific history of having and trying to keep absolute control over its citizens.



This will just mean cryptocurrency as means of payment in Russia will either go underground or flow towards more regulation-friendly countries.
Also this affects all cryptocurrency in Russia, as all cryptocurrency have both a means of payment and a store of value.

Time will tell if Russia will directly undermine their own competitiveness with this very controlling crypto policy, or ultimately benefit from it when they introduce their digital state-controlled ruble.
This is something that i never see happening in the USA or in Europe though, the governments are just too democratic for that and clearly see the advantages of
cryptocurrency being both a means of payment and a store of value.
 
What are your thoughts on this aleix ? You are from Russia, right ?

ouch, that customer really wanted his glasses  

To toknormal : please tell me when you can clearly read my name, so i can order you the correct glasses

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And would this be a good model for you ?



Edit : thank you, glad we got that solved.

There was a MA cross printed on Dash weekly chart on the 20th of July 2020 (two weeks ago), a MA cross classified as a 'golden cross'


Source : tradingview

What is a golden cross ?


Source : https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/goldencross.asp

Like jdmcg said before, it looks like all the bullish signs were there (and are still there) for a potentially major Dash price rally.
Maybe the other Altcoins that experienced strong price growth (XRP - Stellar - Zcash - NEO), also recently had a golden cross printed on their weekly chart ?

Is it me or is toknormal starting to sound like a broken clock ?  



The horse is clearly dead, please stop beating it.
And no, that horse is not Dash as Dash is pretty much dashing forward these days, which most of us foresaw ages ago.

Date                 Dash Marketcap        Dash Price down from ATH

14th of July 2020    $685,105,981         95,67%
31st of July 2020    $775,480,260         95,10%
2nd of Aug  2020    $843,770,844         94,70%

There goes all those doomsday predictions, right out the window. It is a bit ironic that certain people that claim to know this market so well, get to be proven wrong so very badly.