The difference this time is that we have a fully populated masternode network. Dash's "bear" market started instantaneously once we hit saturation at around 4800 nodes because you've then got a tsunami of "free money" being poured into wallets. (Also I imagine we hit a fragmentation phenomenon where the smallest marginal investment required to attain a node is too large. i.e. everybody who was within affordable distance of 1000 Dash now has one and everyone else is hundreds of Dash away from it).

MN rewards at this level amount to around 6500 coins per week which at present value is $500,000. Doesn't matter if the bulk of these get held or not because ANY of it hitting the market extinguishes bullishness since we still have the mining cost to collect from the market which is barely impacted by the reward disparity.

If, at 100% mining reward we would have dumped lets say $500,000 worth of Dash on the market per week before to cover mining costs, at 40% mining reward we STILL have to dump $500,000 (coz hashrate barely changes - if anything it keeps going up) but ADDITIONALLY another $100,000 to $500,000 of masternode rewards.

The huge dampening effect is there for anyone to see. The split reward theory ("sending less mining supply to markets") says we should be the more buoyant of the two in pumps. But we're not - we're the less buoyant. Why is that ? It's because we're not collecting less mining cost from markets - we're collecting the same (in terms of dollar cost of mining). Possibly even the same as we would have with a 100% mining reward. But ADDITIONALLY we're continually dumping a pile of masternode supply which Litecoin isn't.

The entire altcoin market entered the bear market relatively at the same time so.... most of them don't have masternodes... so it's kind of like saying "in a forest fire, the oak tree burned down with the rest of the trees because it's made of a harder wood and produces acorns."

DASH is down about 95% from ATH, LTC is down about 85% from ATH. Uhm, ok, so let's pretend that we have definitively proven that the 10% difference is because DASH doesn't allocate 100% of the rewards to miners. But the real test is during this next year. Will DASH not recover and LTC recover because of miner reward allocation?

Personally, I think that they will both do better than just recover.

Now maybe we can wait until then to bring this topic up again so not as to continually beat this dead horse?

We need trust-less masternode shares to end this bear market 

Kindly elaborate, why did you come to that conclusion?

He is doing a good job of maintaining that wallet for Dash.

Interesting...


Source : https://cryptowat.ch/charts/HITBTC:DASH-BTC?period=30m


Source : messari.io

Maybe Dash price will break out even further and turns resistance into support at 0.008160 in the next few days

Dash - XRP - Stellar - Zcash - NEO : all pretty much pumped at the same time.
Something tells me this pump group is not that concerned with Dash strategic ranking position right now.

I am calling this a sign of whales diversifying into Altcoins.
Bitcoin Dominance currently at 61,9%. Once it gets below 60%, i think we will start to see a lot more FOMO towards Altcoins.

Will Digital Currency Laboratories be active on Dash Platform, developing Dapps for Dash and utilizing our decentralized API ?

Link : https://www.dash.org/developers/ (see Dash Developer Portal)

Because that would be awesome.