[ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency

Quote from: toknormal on January 17, 2016, 01:23:02 PM

Quote from: Minotaur26 on January 17, 2016, 01:14:37 PM

Just to clarify, Classic does not exist yet so these miners are not really running it. This is all politics really

Yeah. I noticed that.

What I'm really looking for is a chart that shows actual adoption as opposed to pledges. There was one for XT a while back.

All the same, it looks like the sands are really shifting now for the bitcoin core stranglehold and maybe this will open it right back up again. Although many Dash fans can get gleeful at Bitcoin's misfortunes, I don't really think it's healthy in the long run for bitcoin to be anything other than successful. If it implodes then the whole of the Bitcoin 1.0 (pure currency) field may go with it IMO and the market just goes straight to Bitcoin 2.0 where currency becomes a tier 2 blockchain application (like floating on top of Ethereum) rather than a native blockchain in its own right. (Not conclusive of course - just my opinion of the moment, other perspectives welcome).

I only got here a little over 2 years ago, and at that time, it already started to become clear that Bitcoin was going to be a tool, not for regular folk, but rather banks and large institutions. I would think, that when they transfer huge sums of money, the fees will be nothing to them, virtually free. It's a nice little tool that has the best marketcap to adopt and I already suspect the full nodes being run are actually run by the banks, etc... I was upset at the idea at the time, but now I see that nature creates infrastructure that is needed, and that infrastructure will be and has been what allows people to move from fiat to crypto and their adoption legitimizes Bitcoin in a way no other adoption can. Sure, money drives it (they bought out the main developers) but they can't stop the revolution. The banks are stuck between a rock and a hard place, they have to adapt or die, and their adoption of Bitcoin simply loosens their grip on control.

Side chains and second tier funds are likely to come of this, but people will have a choice. And that's what is important. I realized a month or so ago that there simply are always going to be people who want to be babied, to be coddled by their government/society, to live within arbitrary rules because they "keep the order" or some such reason. And there will always be people who feel they've been put into a straitjacket by the government and society. I started wondering if somehow society can create an opt-in nanny world, and a more independent world, but realized it can never happen. The nanny world needs the money from the independents and always will. So we simply have to keep fighting for our right to live independently. Oh well, at least you old cryptographers and young programmers who think outside the box finally cracked the nut, and you will get that pendulum swinging back to a more sane direction, God willing. And it has the potential to be a revolution of the most significance in the history of mankind, yet peaceful.

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend (birthday was last Friday, Holiday is tomorrow) I can't help but see the parallels Cheesy