I find it odd that you make assumptions of things like all masternode users using cold wallets instead of hot wallets, and that all masternode owners encrypt their wallets. My acquaintances that even use Bitcoin, do not encrypt or set a password for their wallets.

If you're going to say things that are optional and misrepresent them as fact, then there's no point responding to you.

So you told me that I was making assumptions(When I was stating facts, reread), now you're making the assumption that all masternode owners set a password and put their coins in a cold wallet?

Are you trying to troll now? What don't you understand when those things that you intentionally misrepresent as mandatory, are Optional.

This is going behind logic.
Setting up a MN requires some basic understanding of linux/commands lines/vps/ssh/whatever and also, time.
Even If you blind-follow , having no idea what you are doing, any tutorial present on the internets on setting up a MN it will make you take some security measure.
Anyway this is a reason why there is a collateral of 1000DRK, it makes you take care of your security otherwise you lose 5000$ at the actual rate.

Since you are trolling now I am trolling back by selfquoting myself.
This is going behind logic.
Setting up a MN requires some basic understanding of linux/commands lines/vps/ssh/whatever and also, time.
Even If you blind-follow , having no idea what you are doing, any tutorial present on the internets on setting up a MNwill make you take some security measure.
Anyway this is a reason why there is a collateral of 1000DRK, it makes you take care of your security otherwise you lose 5000$ at the actual rate.

Thats why I didn't invest in XMR. Because it's run by a couple of trainspotters who don't understand money.

If you're communicating nuclear secrets then you want your message encrypted for sure.

On the other hand if your exchanging money then you want your transaction as *transparent as possible* while using a monetary medium that's as *fungible* as possible.

Historically, gold worked as money, not because it was easy to hide transactions, but rather because it was ultimately fungible due to its low melting point. That meant that for the most part gold coins represented the currency of the day but had an additional insurance policy that they could be melted down to create a new monetary medium when required that retained none of its historical baggage. (Because governments just stole all the gold cons, melted them down and made new ones. What made gold "money" wasn't the fact that it could be hidden, it was the fact it could be ultimately melted down and used for a new purpose).

 Darkcoin Dash's evolution has been characterised by monetary priorities - not cryptographical ones - which is why it is starting to emerge as a "useable" monetary medium rather than an interesting lab experiment. Dash is an electronic monetary medium which inherits gold's exact properties of "optional fungibility". In addition, it has 2 enhancements over gold:

[1] - 'the physical" can travel through wires

[2] - you don't need a 'smithy'. You can "melt" it yourself right in your wallet by passing it through up to 16 rounds of optional, pre-emptive darksend (or you can keep it in coins !)

To have implemented - on an electronic platform - a form of money that inherits the "Satoshi" principles in every respect while adding the insurance of "meltdown and recreate" IMO is pretty amazing.

I've spend two years on these forums and a lot more learning how science works. These are my conclusions (which are no different from what most people have drawn):


[1] - smooth & fluffypony: A couple of trainspotting charlatans who can't decide if they want to sell furniture for mining rigs, marketing hype for Vertcoin or recycled cryptonote fodder

[2] - Evan Duffield: A person who will go down in history as having changed the world of finance.

Dash's masternodes take liquidity out of the equation

Joshuar - you seem very passionate but you do not understand "liquidity".

Currently, Dash is the third most liquid currency in all of crypto after BTC and LTC.