I was thinking this morning about the differences between Satoshi's work and Evan's. Satoshi built on the work of HashCash and others, while Evan obviously built on the work of Satoshi. Both are brilliant and made (are making) extremely important contributions to the field:
Satoshi had the idea to use blockchains and proof of work to solve the Byzantine General's Problem. This made double-spends (the bane of all prior attempts at digital currency) impossible without the collusion of a majority of miners.
Evan built on this idea but went further, creating a two-tier network. He used this two-tier structure to solve the problem of sharding. Proof of work blockchains are necessarily slow and can only process relatively few transactions per second, because every node on the network has to process every transaction. Sharding solves this inefficiency by using quorums of masternodes to "lock" transactions while they wait to be put into a block. Evan has done it with InstantX, and is now working on making all transactions essentially InstantX by default.
To quote Peter Todd, InstantX is "
a copy of GreenAddress in the same way a cargo cult's bamboo runway is a copy."
A "two-tier network" is a step backwards from Bitcoin's trust-free P2P system.
Why? Because trusted third parties (aka masternodes) are security holes, not features.
http://szabo.best.vwh.net/ttps.htmlAlso, artificially raising the cost of full node creation by 1000 DASH is an absolute disaster for decentralization.
http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/measuring-decentralization/