Tok, I'm truncating your othwervise (like always) great post for it is just a post or two above. I wasn't clear. "Market cap is irrelevant" meant in conjunction with the pathetic trading volume i.e. so small that is not relevant in the bigger picture (market cap of almost any other asset in the world is multiple of that of DASH)

Let me share something - as a young man I was a chess player, a bit later I was a political columnist - and in both fields I had an advantage of seeing a move or more further down the road than the others. I simple have that talent. I saw Darkcoin potential among the first outside the pure crypto field (I was late to BTC for I simply did not understand the technology at that time, among all the noise) and had my own expectations, based on that potential.

As soon as it was re-branded, the cracks started to show up, in my mind. So, now, is 6 months really that short time to seriously evaluate the progress on the other levels than its underlying genius? Most like is - BUT now, my own expectations are not grounded in anything but my own ideas I can't push. I wonder, if the MAIN advantage, for an AVERAGE user (say an online retailer, say a bar owner) of this thingy are:

- its minuscule fee for a transaction;
- the speed of the transaction (IX);

why don't we push toward the obvious?

A BitPay Coinbase credit cards QR hybrid that would serve DASH exclusively?

Evan is talking about "decentralized corporation" anyway; there's a not-for-profit Foundation established already so the first steps toward establishing a legal framework, for such an entity -- that is a needed first step toward DASH (or any other crypto) autonomy (wide adoption) -- are already in place.

How can anyone hope for any kind of "mass adoption" if you have Bitcoin - that wast majority of people do not get at all - acting, out of necessity, for the lack of our own BitPay Coinbase infrastructure as intermediary. Try to explain a retailer the chain of events he or she would have to face if they want to accept DASH.

"You get DASH, than you have your wallet (which can be "cold" or "hot"), where your DASH goes, than you have to send it to an exchange, a crypto exchange at that, where you have to buy Bitcoin and than your Bitcoin can be exchanged for fiat etc., etc., etc." - and think of a blank expression on the face of such a person.

The beauty of EVERY SUCCESSFUL project ("mass adopted", that is) is that they are aimed at the end user being an idiot. Think iPhone. Think Netflix. Think Google. How many people have ANY idea how any of these really work? People do not give a fuck. They are dumb. (just take a glance at the idiots they have been voting, for ages, in the respective offices of power all over the world and you'll see how kind I am toward that bunch of feeble-minded, brain-washed idiots I lovingly called "dumb") They want their things services to work.

So our retailer or a bar owner needs to KNOW that the phantom thingy, a.k.a. DASH, would PAY for her or his service product (think BitPay) and would, magically, transform into a fiat of their choice (think Coinbase, automatic exchange transfer) and appear on their account instantaneously (think credit cards, think PayPal) FIRST. Only after this works, he or she will need to be educated about gazillion other possibilities in the wondrous realm they entered.

So, IMHO - this project needs to focus on this and that other think, Masternode usability - i.e. figure out how that wast network of computing power can be used for something useful for the world and the humanity, instead of just spending energy into creating something out of nothing)

If we'd have these two goals clearly outlined I'd see a direction this project is going and will have go back to my insane days of having 90% of ALL my investments poured into it. Like this we, obviously, depend on the others to develop the same but if they don't...

Opportunities in a few weeks ago

I've been thinking a bit about that famous, elusive 'mass adoption' based on what I wrote in my previous post. IX etc., are deemed to be safe. The infrastructure I am proposing can go that far to completely remove a need for a wallet (DASH or BTC) from the equation.

-- a DASH CASH platform;
-- an user, a retailer gets assigned its unique # something they understand in a very easy, safe and secure, streamlined process. It can be associated with their e-mail, Tax ID, name, who cares (and on the back-end of D-C platform) it is identifiable as a simple, unique Dash address;
-- their own website or a physical place of business would have the same stuff like PP button or QR code and accept the payment;
-- the payment goes, via its DASH CASH platform, using DashPay, Dashbase etc., to the retailer's fiat account.

And voila!, these advantages - like the credit cards but instead for a 3% fee, only a 0.03% fee - get even to the most dense, crypto-averse in particular or novelty averse in general people and we can approach them with a clear message without all the voodoo. Let them study the voodoo if they wish. If not we have enough geeks and upcoming generations that will be happy with the crypto world, crypto anarchy, blockchain based governance, blockchain based corporations, passports, nations...

That would be amazing.

Listen to this elderly lady who got scammed and her computer held ransom for BTC. The thing she found most frustrating about the whole ordeal was when she had to try and get bitcoins, within a short time frame. Skip to 6 mins in for BTC talk.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/darkode/
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/radiolab_podcast/radiolab_podcast15darkode.mp3

It seems now, that you can propose anything and win it due to lack of voting. There should be a rule, as for the proposal to pass, at least 30-40% of MN votes are needed.

It's not completly true, as already one budget proposal was refused by MN votes.

it would be nice if Evan could add the liquidity provider budget voting hash on that first page as well.
(see page 6 of above link : #liquidity-providers : mnbudget vote-many 74d557df5d62ea9e3ef1b26a2cbab3b4e71032d7f9480ea773aa9d87d1aecb5e yes)

The fact that BTC hasn't gained widespread adoption by now is not a concern at all, if you look at a larger timeframe. Bitcoin, from a Dash perspective, is not very adoptable, due to its lack of fungibility and slow transaction speeds, not to mention a clear lack of direction.

Dash, given its intense organization and direction, coupled with a superior product, given a large enough timeframe, will refine and get the word out. It will overtake Bitcoin the rudderless ship at some point. Then it will just be a case of fine-tuning and maintaining.

It's really laughable the problems and infighting that Bitcoin has, that Dash, after only 1.5 years in existence, has solved already. We have the means to succeed where Bitcoin failed. We just need time, and I for one, consider this a long-term effort with lots of expected and unexpected ups and downs.

We will succeed.

For a start we need more sites like these :

https://www.litebit.eu/home/dash/nl/?page=landing&coin=drk&lang=nl

To be honest i havent tried that specific site out yet (i will do that soon, for now i'm using it pure as example) but appearently it has several fiat currencies
 (EUR, USD, Pounds, New Turkish Lira, Swiss Franc, Polish Zloty) that can be exchanged for Dash directly (they seem to have 14K Dash available to buy) and visa versa.

Now if they can somehow implement InstantX for Dash, traders users could be in and out of Dash FIAT very fast.

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OK, now that's grabbing the bull by the horns! Well done, sir...