To whom it may concern.

 Where is your talk about the horrible monster called "reference node" ? Why the sudden silence?

 Dash development is always under constant and strict scrutiny. Since basically forever, detractors have constantly been trying to defame Dash, desperately pointing out it's "flaws".

 Not that Dash is perfect, heck, with every problem numerous features flourished! It´s been a constant thing with Dash... always improving and getting rid of such "flaws" in order to stay true to the crypto ethos set in place by Satoshi.

 From the closed-source days, to risky-hot-Masternodes, to the dreaded monster of the reference node, and copious amounts of other examples... The development roadmap has been basically spot on since the beginning.

 Fear tactics are amongst the lowest of the low in term of efficacy when there is github to look at and a fully fledged community/forum packed with resources over at dashtalk.org.

 Where

 - Masternode blinding is on the list, certainly not forgotten.
 - There are no 3rd party Masternodes. Masternodes are fully fledged full nodes, like any Bitcoin full node, except they are incentivized by the network itself for their service.
 - The launch was not perfect, nothing was hidden, Evan wanted a relaunch but the community said no. Why don't you complain about the Satoshi mega addresses in Bitcoin? Far far faaar worse scenario.
 - I2P is certainly not forgotten. It is just not priority at the moment. There are some problems with I2P to start with, and you're absolutely welcome to dig into the code and submit the project. Heck, you could even apply for blockchain funding in v.12 and get payed for such an effort.

 Conclusion: Dash delivers. The code is there. It works. You can look at it. You can join testnet and try everything risk free.

 I fail to see any valid argument except obsessive compulsive fear tactical trolling ad nauseum

 

Well said, GhostPlayer!

After v12 release, anyone can be a dev and get paid for introducing code changes as part of a voted-for project. I would vote for masternode blinding or I2P integration in a heartbeat, then trolls will need to put up or shut up.

But as we know, the FUD is all part of a very cynical game, so we'll probably get more of the same from the troll-factory.

 OMG !! I hadn't thought of that !! Woooow... if that is technically correct, Dash has eliminated one of the major problems with blockchain technology.

 Pinging our devs and will report back.

EDIT: hold on... that is possibly only true for InstantX tx'es, but will inquire anyway

Pretty sure double-spending is only one of the concerns of controlling 50% of the network hashrate....

51% HASHRATE COINMINE.PL !!!
https://www2.coinmine.pl/dash/index.php?page=statistics&action=pool

The big step of this update
 
Go dash!!!

Yeah, but according to Coinmine's website, they have 45GH out of a total network hashrate of 68GH-- that is well over 50%.

Malicious pool or not, this is not great, regardless of how the network would recover if a fork were to occur....

 Absolutely agree. But it's not a major problem.

 For those who where there in the early RC days (and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 loool) when mainnet forked, it's no big deal... but boy was that freaky scary to live through!!  

 We didn't have a forum and IRC was the only hub for communication!

I remember sending 1.5k to an exchange down the wrong fork ...  crypto noob as I was, barely could read an explorer... pissed my pants, almost literally! I knew I'd get my coins back safe and sound, even still those were quite some stressful few hours...

 After that, no fork could possibly scare me.

 Now that I think better back on it, it was more poop in the pants, than wee-wee  

Can Suchpool lower DASH fee to .25% or .5%, and maybe temporarily 0%??.