You've come a long way...
Yes we have.
A couple of years ago, the idea of supporting supremely reliable levels of privacy in a public, transparently auditable blockchain, while retaining compatibility with the bitcoin commercial ecosystem looked like a far off dream.
It is now a reality.
Not only that, the articulated architecture deployed to address those twin objectives has been so successful that it's now opening up a whole range of services to be natively supported using this same approach - i.e. addressing complex problems by decoupling conflicting priorities and addressing them independently. This is what has given the network its real value (as opposed to speculatively engineered pump & dump value).
Take a look at this chart for example:
http://178.254.23.111/~pub/masternode_count.pngThe 4000-node network has taken all of 2 years to grow. Unique and multi-faceted, it is resource that cannot be reproduced overnight. It's not just some technical "feature" anymore, but a monetary, social and technical asset in its own right that is as powerful as it is ubiquitous.
It will also be serving as the basis for the next wave of solution delivery soon to appear over the horizon - decentralised API's, high performance anonymity and a service oriented architecture that addresses the needs of industrial users, not bedroom hoarders.
Another thing I'm pleased about is that Dash did not follow the herd blindly up the cul-de sac of obfuscation-based privacy. Coins that did are now starting to pay a heavy price for that folly since obfuscatoin-based tech is now coming free with cornflakes packets and popping up like mushrooms after a rainshower. Good for a bit of temporary money laundering and useless for everything else while having to resort to toxifying market pumps to retain attention.
Prob'ly why you don't find Dash amongst them.
