I too feel like DMD never did die, but as pointed out earlier it did decline very massively in price.
So massively that I just accumulated more master-nodes rather than living off of the rewards during that period.
But I am thinking ahead too to the possibility that some might imagine DMDv3 to have "died" once DMDv4 comes out, and pointing out that like various classic coins before it that possibility of having been thought by some to have died is where the
Galactic Milieu comes in, since if you look at money as IOUs the prospect that a "civilisation" whose coin it "is" could at last "redeem" massive numbers of its "IOUs" ought to be regarded as a good thing.
DMDv3 still continuing to exist after one has claimed one's corresponding v4 coins is a great opportunity for the game, a time when it can adopt a coin wholesale to be henceforth a game coin for use in the game.
Maybe if DASH was a whole lot cheaper, and had already been of use in the game, it "dying" would be nice too, but DASH is not one of the coins lucky enough to have become part of the Milieu so unless a whole bunch of its holders see fit to raise a good "treasury" for it in the Milieu it seems very unlikely that it will be similarly adopted.
It is true that there was a time when the Milieu was quite active in adopting classic antique coins but DASH never made the cut really once the total number of coins "out there" flew past 3000 onward to 30000 and beyond it became clear that there are just too too many dying and even designed from the outset to die coins "out there" that the small window of time to think about salvaging some of them is pretty much long gone by now.
DMD will be a platform for tokens too though so among its merits is also the possibility of using it as a platform in addition to the
HORIZON and
Stellar platforms we already use.
Already too though it is being realised that long term we are going to need to be supporting Stellar itself too, I doubt one can really rely upon the token platforms to magically support themselves, over the decades I do expect tokens relying upon them are ultimately going to need to be building the various buy-sides on the various venues where the platform coin itself is traded to prevent long term decay of the values of all their tokens as the platform's native token decays in value over the decades.
To that end I some time back started working on the BTC/XLM pair the same way I work on other pairs, and have already been seeing that it works just like the other pairs I apply the strategy too, meaning accumulating an ever-growing hoard of in this case XLM with which to build the XLM buy-sides of my various XLM/token pairs on Stellar...
This of course means it all ultimately rests upon bitcoin, but we all already know that anyway, right?
-MarkM-
