I am all open for advocating changes where necessary but using your car analogy what I see is Dash is driving along as best as it can with a competent Dash Core Group behind the wheel and it is you that is trying to put the handbrakes on which will result in huge problems.
In case you hadn't noticed we already have those "huge problems", at least in terms of attracting investment away from our competitors.
The reason is that DCG's measures to address this are not having any effect. In fact they're having the
opposite effect and making us less competitive instead of more. They needed to apply the change the other way around - increase the part of supply that's competed for instead the part that's given away. That would have put less supply "out there" at an opening price of zero dollars. Everyone's too focused on exchanges. Exchanges are not the market. Mining AND exchanges are the market and as far as the primary supply goes, mining is the ONLY market.
The other jaw dropping oversight was to dismiss the role of hashrate altogether once chainlocks were implemented. Sure, hashrate has a role in securing the network from hacks but it also has an economic role which is to mediate demand for the primary supply (the "emission" continuously emerging from the chain). Further, it's not simply a question of how much hashrate you have, but how much of the supply is
subjected to that hashrate (/competition) instead of given away. Dash protocol does worse than mitigate incentives for hashrate, it actually firewalls off more than half the supply from it.
Fix that and we can become competitive again. It's more important that any feature development.
Ignore it and look forward to life in the bottom 50 and beyond.
