Dash is current 5th cryptocurrency with regards to highest positive change in price percentage over the last 7 days, of all cryptocurrencies actively monitored on coinmarketcap* !!
Meaning Dash is really outperforming most other monitored cryptocurrencies on coinmarketcap.

* Looking at coinmarketcap, it currently ranks 200 cryptocurrencies of which it shows details about changes in price percentage per 1h / 24h / 7d.

Take a look at both Bitcoin and Altcoins and see who performs better over the 7d : https://coinmarketcap.com/all/views/all/
There are certain Altcoins that outperform Bitcoin by a wide margin already.

There are sites like this one --> https://messari.io/screener that let you compare ROI of both Bitcoin and Altcoins over the years.
I suggest you do some comparison.

In general during bear markets most Altcoins perform worse then Bitcoin, while during bull markets most Altcoins outperform Bitcoin.

Interesting, (centralized) Dash staking is becoming a bit of a hot topic these days.

Long-Awaited Dash Evolution Platform Released on Testnet with Developer Documentation Hub
https://dashnews.org/long-awaited-dash-evolution-platform-released-on-testnet-with-developer-documentation-hub/


If you have any developer skills or know anyone that does, then please join or have them join Dash Evonet (public testnet) and test Dash new upcoming Dash Platform features.  
Dash Evonet Demonstration / Review : https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=Vs3cjw51o4w&feature=emb_logo



Also i don't rule out that Dash simply bottomed out in this bear market and is now correcting long term upwards. If enough altcoins bottomed out as well, then we may see Bitcoin's marketcap dominance
diminish over time. Its way too soon to be calling this Altcoin Season, but several large altcoin cryptoprojects bottoming out at the same time could be creating the conditions for another Altcoin Season later on.

Since my last chart showed Dash price 0.006255, i think it is time for a little chart update :

https://cryptowat.ch/markets/hitbtc/dash/btc/30m


https://coinmarketcap.com/

The one that is pumping hard right now

The phoenix is rising, i repeat : the phoenix is rising.

Interesting distribution of the block reward. Good luck with your project.

I just don't see much point in shifting value away from masternodes and towards miners, when those miners are centralized through large miningpools already and producing a mining hashrate at ATH level for some time now without any effect on price. This indicates to me that miners can and need to be restricted more and that is therefore where our focus should be. With ChainLocks we are now one of the few PoW projects that can actually make an important change within its PoW model, because we now don't need to give to miners almost half of the block reward to secure the network.

Our governance model already is hampered when we need miners approval, making our updating a very slow months-taking process. With an even more centralized miningpool outlook, just one or two miningpools could actually take our updating proces to a stand still. Not because of malicious intend, but just because its inconvenient in their updating schedule.

In the end i feel this is also about who do we want to have control over Dash ? Centralized mining pools who don't really care about Dash ? Or masternodes who invested long term into Dash and follow its project much more closely ?

In my opinion our PoW needs adjusting to restrict the miners value over time and make sure they do not become more centralized then they already are.
Toknormal assumption about market focus on restricting masternodes value over time and shifting more value to miners.

These are two opposite and clashing views.

A lot of people are only guessing and making assumptions about the market .. including you, me, toknormal and Ryan.
Lets face it, thats what toknormal posts are : personal assumptions about the market.

In this case i put more value to Ryan's assumptions / assessment about the market, and put much less value on toknormal assumptions about the market.

Patience matter most in crypto currency

We are indeed on opposite sides here. By the way, those are not my proposed solutions but Ryan Taylor's proposed solutions during his Evolution Open House speech.
Lets just say i put a lot more value in Ryan Taylor's arguments then in any of toknormal's arguments that i read so far.

Link : https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/consensus-mechanisms.49135/page-2

I feel our proof of work at one point needs to change (which has been on the long term agenda for Dash awhile now, i think even Evan Duffield referred to it as future PoW 2.0) and this is
a good time to analyze the possible ways of how we can slowly and gradually change PoW over time, as our current PoW model already created miningpool centralization for Dash.

I also think by implementing either Masternode Shares or Deterministic Holding Lists as a solution, we can attract a lot of new Dash investors, new Dash users and improve Dash store of value.
Something i don't see happening with removing value from masternode owners (which will be against the direct interest of those masternode owners anyways) and giving that to miners.
You seem to see our budget spending largely as a failure, i see it as instrumental for surviving this bearmarket, keeping our developers involved and working on Dash Platform and supporting community-driven projects.
Some failed, some succeeded. C'est la vie.

I don't agree with your assessment that the market has judged that masternodes and treasury are not worth as much as proof of work, nor do i see any evidence of that.  
Currently Dash (in my opinion) is signaling a still very strong long term investors engagement to the market (58,8% of Dash Circulating Supply is in the hands of masternodes).
Once this bear market has been fully processed and is behind us, i think we can expect a new market evaluation of Dash. A market evaluation that to many outside of this Dash community will come as a shock.

That is indeed not bad at all. Dash price is currently in a little pump phase it seems :



Lets see where this leads...

Most Altcoins are of course down 90% or more from ATH, something trolls like podpod conveniently leave out with their trollish focus on just Dash :

General Network Service Provider ?

I think both miners and masternode owners are currently dumping coins :

Masternode owners are dumping their masternode rewards, but (most) keep their collateral intact.
Lately the number of active masternodes is on the decline, maybe some owners are also selling their collateral to survive this bear market ?
Masternode capitulation is still ongoing (as the decline is still occurring).

Link : http://178.254.23.111/~pub/masternode_count.png

Miners are also dumping their miner rewards, to pay for their hardware or electricity.
Miners capitulation seems much less an issue though, looking at the hash ribbons indicator :

Link : https://imgur.com/uhP0phA

It explains why Dash still has such high hashrate. The big miners pushed out the smaller miners some time ago and are with current price still making a profit or can hold out in current bear market much better.
That is why improving Dash store of value should be done (gradually) at the expense of miners, who are only getting more centralized over time
(currently a few mining pools already hold the majority of Dash hashing power) and who keep hitting ATH's with their hashing power.

Dash Network Hashing Power : https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/dash-hashrate.html
Dash Miners Concentration : https://chainz.cryptoid.info/dash/#!extraction



I am surprised some people apparently feel a need to defend or feel a need to actually strengthen the role of Dash miners, when those same miners are already operating at ATH level and are
showing dangerous signs of centralization.

Possible solutions to improve Dash store of value :

* Masternode Shares : we decentralize and further incentivize our masternode network, while taking some power away from miners (making them less of a centralized factor for Dash in the future).
   Dash will still have PoW, but it will be a diminished PoW.

* Deterministic Holders Lists : We focus more on providing a staking option for regular users, while taking some power away from miners (making them less of a centralized factor for Dash in the future).
   Dash will still have PoW, but it will be a diminished PoW.

* Going with some kind of ChainLocks / BLS Proof of Stake without any miners on our network : this is currently not possible as BLS signatures can fail during stress / updating and therefore need a backup solution
  (one we don't have).

Faber est suae quisque fortunae

I blame 2019