Proposal “2026-05-MakeDashASafeStoreOfValue“ (Active)Back
| Title: | Make Dash A Safe Store Of Value |
| Owner: | forro68 |
| One-time payment: | 1 DASH (42 USD) |
| Completed payments: | no payments occurred yet (1 month remaining) |
| Payment start/end: | 2026-10-03 / 2026-11-02 (added on 2026-05-13) |
| Final voting deadline: | in 6 months |
| Votes: | 33 Yes / 336 No / 24 Abstain |
| Will be funded: | No. This proposal needs additional 615 Yes votes to become funded. |
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Proposal description
And here we are yet again. Another pump and dump, another reversion to the mean. A steady decline into oblivion due to bad tokenomics and broken trust.
We have broken out of many triangles only to form even bigger and longer ones, and we will continue to do so. It is completely under our control to stop this slide by making just one small and simple adjustment to the rewards allocation.
Follow this pure, simple, powerful logic:
1. We are in a long term downtrend. Due to this, dash is not safe to hold. We can deny it, but the market knows it, so few people hold it. Regular people cannot afford the losses. All the marketing in the world will not change this until the price stops falling.
2. The best possible marketing is a rising, high price and market cap.
3. The treasury is an inherently weak hand that dumps dash on the market, lowering the price.
4. The masternodes are inherently strong hands that lock up millions of dash, increasing the price. Currently about 3.5 million dash are held as collateral.
5. Funding marketing efforts are a waste of value while the price is falling.
6. The value is put to better use by raising the APY of Masternodes.
7. If we return the treasury from the current 20% to the original 10%, and move it to the masternodes, increasing their share from 60 to 70%, a 16.67% increase, the masternode apy will increase by 16.67%.
8. The increase will attract more investors, and an additional 16.67% more masternodes will be stood up, at a minimum. That means an additional 16.67% collateral increase from the current 3.5 million. This will take another 580,000 dash off of the market, at a minimum. A massive increase in demand.
9. The reduction of the treasury will reduce selling pressure by 50% month after month forever. A large decrease in supply.
10. The combined results of both the reduced selling pressure and increased demand for collateral will stop the downward slide in price. It will start to rise.
11. Once the price and market cap rises, it will attract more attention from the market. This is the most powerful marketing.
12. As the price rises, the treasury will be worth far more more in USD than it was before. 20% of $40 is $8. 10% of $400 is $40. $40 is far greater than $8.
13. Our developers, marketers, and everyone else will have more USD than before.
14. Dash becomes a safe and trusted Store Of Value on par with Bitcoin.
15. Masternodes will be among the greatest investments on Earth.
16. Everyone in the dash community wins, as do all the people on Earth. Humanity will finally have a decentralized monetary system that is both a safe Store Of Value and a fast and reliable Medium Of Exchange.
Please support my proposal on dashcentral and voice your support. We must and can encourage others to vote for it. Stop the downtrend. Break the triangles. Make Dash a safe Store of Value.
**Special note to the entity with 170 masternodes, and anyone else who has voted against this improvement:
What is it that you do not understand about this?
Do you not want Dash to function as a safe store of value?
Do you not want to make Dash a better investment?
Do you not want to the price to break it's long term downtrend?
What makes you think that continuing as we have, funding small and ineffective marketing proposals, as we have for the last 10 years, is better than supporting my proposal?
Do you really think those efforts will overcome the lack of trust and demand?
We have broken out of many triangles only to form even bigger and longer ones, and we will continue to do so. It is completely under our control to stop this slide by making just one small and simple adjustment to the rewards allocation.
Follow this pure, simple, powerful logic:
1. We are in a long term downtrend. Due to this, dash is not safe to hold. We can deny it, but the market knows it, so few people hold it. Regular people cannot afford the losses. All the marketing in the world will not change this until the price stops falling.
2. The best possible marketing is a rising, high price and market cap.
3. The treasury is an inherently weak hand that dumps dash on the market, lowering the price.
4. The masternodes are inherently strong hands that lock up millions of dash, increasing the price. Currently about 3.5 million dash are held as collateral.
5. Funding marketing efforts are a waste of value while the price is falling.
6. The value is put to better use by raising the APY of Masternodes.
7. If we return the treasury from the current 20% to the original 10%, and move it to the masternodes, increasing their share from 60 to 70%, a 16.67% increase, the masternode apy will increase by 16.67%.
8. The increase will attract more investors, and an additional 16.67% more masternodes will be stood up, at a minimum. That means an additional 16.67% collateral increase from the current 3.5 million. This will take another 580,000 dash off of the market, at a minimum. A massive increase in demand.
9. The reduction of the treasury will reduce selling pressure by 50% month after month forever. A large decrease in supply.
10. The combined results of both the reduced selling pressure and increased demand for collateral will stop the downward slide in price. It will start to rise.
11. Once the price and market cap rises, it will attract more attention from the market. This is the most powerful marketing.
12. As the price rises, the treasury will be worth far more more in USD than it was before. 20% of $40 is $8. 10% of $400 is $40. $40 is far greater than $8.
13. Our developers, marketers, and everyone else will have more USD than before.
14. Dash becomes a safe and trusted Store Of Value on par with Bitcoin.
15. Masternodes will be among the greatest investments on Earth.
16. Everyone in the dash community wins, as do all the people on Earth. Humanity will finally have a decentralized monetary system that is both a safe Store Of Value and a fast and reliable Medium Of Exchange.
Please support my proposal on dashcentral and voice your support. We must and can encourage others to vote for it. Stop the downtrend. Break the triangles. Make Dash a safe Store of Value.
**Special note to the entity with 170 masternodes, and anyone else who has voted against this improvement:
What is it that you do not understand about this?
Do you not want Dash to function as a safe store of value?
Do you not want to make Dash a better investment?
Do you not want to the price to break it's long term downtrend?
What makes you think that continuing as we have, funding small and ineffective marketing proposals, as we have for the last 10 years, is better than supporting my proposal?
Do you really think those efforts will overcome the lack of trust and demand?
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Hi. It seems you post this idea a lot. The problem is your fundamental premise is based on false arguments with faulty premises that cause you to loudly make wrong conclusions and bad advice.
Unfortunately, this post is probably going to be long, I apologize for that, but it is necessary to correct the errors in your thinking and rationale that are surprisingly common in our community, as such, I thank you for giving me an opportunity to set the record straight.
This premise is fundamentally flawed in a couple places. Firstly, Dash is NOT in a long-term downtrend. NANO is in a longterm down trend. A longterm down trend doesn't have bumps and pumps of several hundred percent.
Secondly, this downtrend is NOT our fault and thus there is NO CORRECTIVE ACTION that we could take by tinkering with the protocol/numbers that would reverse this trend. Finally, your argument FALSELY presumes that DASH IS AN UNATTRACTIVE ASSET.
More on why this is wrong later, let's get to the numbered list first:
1. This is false. As mentioned, long-term downtrends do not have strong spikes that push it up multiple factors of value like Dash has. If Dash weren't safe to hold, then why are thousands of masternodes holding 1000 Dash? That alone is proof this is wrong
2. This is mostly false. Its GOOD marketing, but not the best. The best possible marketing would be having the fastest, most (optionally) private, best governed, most scalable and most technologically usefully advanced protocol. Oh wait! That's exactly what Dash has! Which means this point of yours must be false too
3. This is false. Buying AND selling are part of market dynamics. You can't get mad at people who create velocity for your coin. Every sale is a buy, which means someone is buying somewhere, making this false
4. This is true, but this being true contradicts your entire argument. If your argument were correct, then why don't we see a similar "price decline" in other assets with far fewer and less rich holders? Go on their subs, look at their blockchains, most people don't hold more than 1-10 coins of BCH, LTC, XMR, ZEC etc.
Yet their price floors are much stronger and last much longer than Dash's do, this invalidates your entire argument, as, if what you are saying were true, this would be a general trend among cryptocurrencies. We see its not, so this idea must be false, and your own statement proves this to be the case
5. This is false. Value is not determined by price, they are separate but related metrics. DashHelp is just as valuable as a service whether Dash is $100 or $10, value and price are not directly related, especially in "components" like marketing, R&D, etc. etc.
6. This is false. Masternodes already get paid enough. The point of Masternodes is not to make people rich, that helps, but its to incentivize people to run the servers the network needs to perform the services that other chains cannot. You can't "take value" from one area of the network, i.e. marketing, and plop it in another, masternodes, as there is no direct correlation between price and value. I.e. the money you pay for marketing is completely irrelevant to the value of having masternodes, they're just not related at all
7. As such, increasing MN APY is a red-herring and waste of time
8. Dash doesn't need to attract more investors. Dash has MORE INVESTORS than any other blockchain. There are more people that hold 1000 Dash than hold 1000 BTC! More people hold 4000 Dash than hold 4000 BTC!!! Its the same for every other chain, so its obvious that you are not correct here. Investors is not the problem
9. Again, buying AND SELLING are natural parts of market dynamics, arbitrarily 'reducing one' to benefit the other is just rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic and won't solve anything. We've already seen these arguments be made before, and the price never followed like you guys claimed it would, making you not just wrong but stubbornly so (which is bad)
10. This is not proven by you and is likely to be false. How can such a small change affect the price when Dash has the most investors of any coin? Its nonsense
11. Dash already has the most attraction of coins of its class and later than most other coins. I mean I almost never hear any integration news, investment news or anything like that for any other coin. When was the last time BCH got adopted anywhere? You can't even use it on bitrefill. Yet its price is super high compared to ours. Same with ZEC. Its clear that "investors" and "attention" are NOT the problems
12. This is suppositional and while it might happen, it likely won't for reasons I'll explain below
13. Irrelevant. You're trying to get people on-board by flashing dollar signs in their faces, in order to likely take advantage of the emotional pain of having such a low price, but the facts remain that your premise is unproven and not likely to work (it hasn't worked before)
14. Dash is safer and MORE trusted than Bitcoin. Coinbase accepts Dash far faster than it accepts BTC, so this talking point has already happened. Which begs the question of why the price is so low, again more on that below
15. They already are the greatest investment on the planet. You get a house basically without any of the upkeep, weekly ROI without having to take a loan out against your asset, that also grows with market adoption. There is literally no other asset on the planet as powerful and great as a Dash masternode, repeating the query from #14
16. This is clearly just you proselytizing. Selling your "bag" which is "the price decline is all your fault! You need to destroy your chain further before you can have any price relief!!! Hrmph!!"
Okay, so if what I'm saying is true, then what's the *actual* problem? The problem is simply that Dash's price is being manipulated downwards. In order to prove this we have to examine what causes price movements in the first place? You vaguely hint at "investors" and "attraction", but the truth is price movements, up and down, come from **liquidity events**.
Exchanges do not make their trades on the chains they price, so their prices are actually PROXIES for liquidity events. So, for example, there's a huge buy one day. The price shoots up, say 200%. That's a liquidity event. I.e. *someone is buying Dash hand over fist* which causes the price to rise wherever Dash is sold, which causes the avg price to rise and all the sugar and rainbows you're trying to attract us with happens.
But why does the price decline??? Again, the same thing LIQUIDITY EVENTS. So. We now know what causes prices to rise and decline, then the question becomes, why does Dash's price RISE but then fall back down afterward? The answer is simple. There are always TWO LIQUIDITY EVENTS when Dash pumps. First, the initial pump, then **someone starts selling to compensate**. They asked this on the Zec sub the other day, "Why does Zec constantly go up but Dash doesn't?"
That's the right question. Because Zec and Dash BOTH GOT THE SAME LIQUIDITY EVENT UP, **but only Dash got the subsequent liquidity events down**. That insight makes my little simple explanation have merit, because before it wasn't obvious but now it is: Dash is under price suppression from outside third parties.
BCH hasn't had a liquidity event up IN YEARS. Not like Dash. Dash pumped from $20 to $140 in Oct 2025-Dec 2025. That's a 7x/800% gain. So that alone disproves your claim that "we're in a longterm downward trend". That wouldn't be possible if you were correct. What is happening is we have a LONG TERM NEGATIVE LIQUIDITY EVENT whenever we pump.
In other words, someone is deliberately selling Dash in order to stifle its price appreciation and prevent it from coming into its own. They are NOT doing this to Zec, BCH, LTC, or XMR, basically any other coin. Others coins have a liquidity event up, but then they STAY THERE. Why? Because NOBODY IS SELLING THEM aggressively like they do for Dash.
This means YOUR PLAN WILL NEVER WORK. Your plan doesn't have any solution for this problem. BCH doesn't have people that hold 1000 BCH. Yet they never have the negative liquidity events that we do. Nearly 1/3rd of Dash's supply is LOCKED UP TIGHT, which would normally provide a strong price floor, yet this doesn't happen.
The evidence is plain when you look at things from this lense. I also postulated the truth, Dash's price started jumping late last year WHEN THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. Dash's price REMAINED HIGH until the government reopened. That STRONGLY SUGGESTS that the source of the negative liquidity events that cause Dash's price to fall every time it pumps, and to not pump hard like ZEC did even though they had THE SAME LIQUIDITY EVENT UP, the source of this CYNICAL MANIPULATION is the U.S. GOVERNMENT.
They have had a years-long standing order to suppress the price of Dash in order to manipulate Dash into cynical, self-destructive behavior just like your proposal and many proposals in the past have been. It has to be OUR CHOICE, we have to destroy ourselves so they can laugh at us and pretend like they had nothing to do with it, so they can then act like:
"XMR won! BCH won! I guess MNs are a stupid idea eh? You shouldn'tve wasted all your time on that 'decentralization' CRAP! You should've taken bribes and backdoor dealings like WE DID so you could have a nice cushy price (like BCH and XMR have had for YEARS) and pretend like you're great just like us!"
This is called cynical suggestioning and its the ONLY WAY to defeat Dash. Refusing to acknowledge that Dash is superior is part of this. Its why they ignore Dash, suppress the price, etc. its to give them a leg to stand on and make it seem like they're right, when **they're really just trying to TRICK US INTO GIVING UP** so that they don't receive the backlash for destroying Satoshi's dream. Just like they infiltrated BTC and pretend like "BTC was always meant to be this way" even though current BTC goes against Satoshi's wishes.
1 - >"Exchanges do not make their trades on the chains they price, so their prices are actually PROXIES for liquidity events."
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2 - >"Others coins have a liquidity event up, but then they STAY THERE. Why? Because NOBODY IS SELLING THEM aggressively like they do for Dash."
3 -> This was inaccurate:
"> Nearly 1/3rd of Dash's supply is LOCKED UP TIGHT"
In fact its actually ***~60%*** of the supply is locked up in masternodes (using 2048 regular and 358 evo nodes to calculate)!
#1 is important because there is a LOT of room to manipulate exchange price while hiding the true fair value. In the stock market, these techniques are ILLEGAL for this very reason, and that's why valuations are much more trustworthy in traditional financial markets than the cryptocurrency market.
I wrote a lot more about these techniques on reddit, just search google for "thethrowaccount21 price manipulation" or some such, you'll get posts like this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoMarkets/comments/d983o5/the_real_reason_for_the_price_decline_or_the/
or this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DashUncensored/comments/cznedq/the_price_of_dash_is_declining_because_dashs/
Read these for more arguments on the nature of price manipulation across exchanges, and why fair value is a solution. Fair value determines price by using **on-chain metrics** that can't be faked to come to a conclusion on what price **actual coin holders** are letting their coins go for. Unlike exchange data, when done the right way, this cannot be faked and manipulated (which is why coinfairvalue was forced to shutdown, it exposed this price manipulation reality).
Price manipulation of cryptocurrencies probably falls in a legal grey area that ... less scrupulous government agencies can exploit to manipulate things in favor of USD and fiat.
What is the greatest attack strategy therefore? Prevent cryptocurrencies from scaling, and they wither and die. Dash is THE ONLY CHAIN that scales on-chain in a decentralized and actually viable way (Lightning is a failure and there's nothing else out there, DPOW, POS, all of these things are a joke comparatively for lacking proper incentives). This means that **Dash is the coin to beat**. Which is why the main goal of this manipulation is to prop up BTC, Monero and BCH which don't work, while constantly browbeating Dash's price down.
Most coins that have a high price only have 1-3 liquidity events up. What they don't have that Dash does, is 1-3 subsequent liquidity events BACK DOWN. If it weren't for this price suppression, Dash's price would be in the thousands of dollars already, like Ethereum's is.
When a liquidity event up happens *the price stays there until negative liquidity events happen*. For other coins, these are just profit taking, but for Dash a significant portion of the available exchange supply is deliberately being sold EVERY TIME. Cyclically which means they are also buying Dash when its low while trying to avoid spiking the price. This is the extended explanation for #2 above. Dash has a very unusual history of strong negative liquidity events.
But, wait a minute...60% of the supply is locked up in masternodes, so...who is doing all this selling? Obviously not the majority of the network, so how is it that the price is always declining then? And how are these sellers having an outsized effect compared to masternode owners? I mean, if 60% of the supply is being BOUGHT AND HELD, then that means the price should be really high. **60% of the supply was bought by someone!!! That means the MAJORITY OF THE FLOATING SUPPLY HAS BEEN PURCHASED!!! SO WHY DOES THE PRICE DECLINE EVERY TIME IT PUMPS?!?***
That is a NONSENSICAL PROPOSITION. It doesn't make sense for Dash to both be so highly valued by the market that 60% of its supply is bought and held for years (i.e. several strong liquidity events upwards that should've pushed the price high, like Ethereum, but each time its been pushed back down), but also for the "market to not value Dash" so its price is really low.
Something is AMISS HERE! There are counterfactual happenings going on in the market, and they happen EXCLUSIVELY TO DASH! THAT MEANS THIS IS AN ATTACK!!! ITS NOT NORMAL MARKET BEHAVIOR!! It is VERY IMPORTANT to recognize this fact. Someone is DELIBERATELY sniping Dash's price EVERY TIME IT HAS any liquidity events upwards.
Ethereum only needed roughly 2-3 liquidity events up to reach its current price. Dash has had WAY MORE THAN THAT! Proven by the fact that 60% of the supply is bought AND HELD! Look at the evonode adoption chart: https://mnowatch.org/evonodes/ IT ONLY GOES UP!
That means people have either been consolidating held Dash into evonodes OR BUYING 4000 DASH ON THE MARKET! Those are the only two options, SO WHERE IS ALL THIS SELLING COMING FROM???
Exchanges are just PROXIES for price because they don't do their trades on the chains that they trade. So there's lots of room for "slippage" between EXCHANGE PRICE and **FAIR** value! That's why its called that, because EXCHANGE PRICE IS NOT NECESSARILY FAIR! Its not objective, its SUBJECTIVE! That subjectivity allows for manipulation, and as we can see that manipulation is targeted EXCLUSIVELY ON DASH! **The End**
P.S. And as always, I never have and never will use AI to write, edit, format or have any input on any of my posts. All of this comes from my beautiful brain as a gift of love to the Dash network. Thank you Dash!
And how this works is likely when they're buying they buy on as many exchanges as possible, as slowly as possible. This avoids the upward liquidity event as it done as broadly as possible. Its like the expression that "a bullet has about as much energy as a very powerful human punch" (See: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/comparing-force-and-power-of-punch-vs-bullet.225988/ for a discussion on the validity of that sentiment).
But bullets are more deadly because that same energy is concentrated into a much smaller surface area. So getting shot is a much higher "liquidity event" than getting punched is. Its the same concept here.
By spreading their buys out across exchanges and time, they buy up a large portion of the supply without producing a strong "liquidity shock" which is normally seen in liquidity events. A liquidity shock which is what causes the price explodes either up or down, a concentrated and centralized and quick selling event, not necessarily the large scale mass selling people think of, but whales splashing.
So their strategy appears to be thusly: do the above to buy up the floating supply on exchanges without pumping the price, so that when **an actual liquidity event occurs** they can SHARPLY COUNTER IT DOWNWARDS.
By rinsing and repeating this strategy, they can CONTINUOUSLY keep manipulating Dash's price INDEFINITELY. This strategy is effective **NO MATTER THE TOKENOMICS OF THE CHAIN**, so I wasn't being flippant before when I said your strategy will never work. It literally is impossible for it to work. The only way to fight this is to lobby the government to STOP DOING IT. MANIPULATING FINANCIAL MARKETS IN THIS WAY IS A CRIME AND AN ACT OF AGGRESSION!!
And you can easily tell who's a shill, infiltrator, traitor, outsider pretending to be one of us by how STRONGLY THEY ARE AGAINST recognizing this. For example, read the vitriol I took for exposing the primary means of judging privacy coins is their anonymity set size. Or that fair value is superior to exchange price. They cursed me to hell and back for those two (and others, hehe)!
Notice when you see the same reaction here and you'll be able to spot the shills and liars as easily as I do, vote against them and render them ineffective.
Of course, the proponents of this course of action NEVER admit they were wrong or even could've been wrong. They just keep on coming back with more and more crazy ideas to 'drive up the price', and they always require removing our features (someone made a proposal to remove PrivateSend back in the day because "Dash will soon be massively delisted by exchanges!!!" That never happened. Not to us anyway, it happened to Monero though), changing the protocol drastically and basically always "looking over there" instead of finding the true problem.
So that's the evidence this line of thinking is wrong and doesn't work. The evidence that I am correct and the price is being manipulated is manifold but easy to prove none-the-less.
1. Dash's price started pumping **the exact same day** as the government shutdown last year, and was in the 80-110$ range **until the shutdown ended and the government resumed full function.**
2. The price of NO OTHER COIN goes through this obvious emotional torture, despite their ham-fisted attempts to "steal our thunder" and PRETEND like their prices are being manipulated. Monero enthusiasts moan and cry, but their price has been sky-high for LITERALLY YEARS as a LARP, you know this is true because NOBODY USES MONERO NOR ACCEPTS IT ANYWHERE.
And nobody holds lots of Monero either (except the beneficiaries of the cripplemine scam, but they should be very few in number, less than a dozen people or so). Both facts can be easily verified on their subreddits, r/monero, r/xmrtrader (before it became defunct), r/moneromeansmoney, etc.
In contrast to this, Dash has literally THOUSANDS of holders of 1000 Dash and hundreds of holders of 4000 Dash. Also Dash is widely adopted as a means of payment (I've been living on Dash FOR REAL since 2017) and has several large communities with Dash liquidity events spreading Dash to local holders, providing a continuous economy. Dash has constant upgrades, updates and smooth functionality that no other coin can even dream of talking about let alone implementing because they don't have decentralized governance.
And yet, despite these obvious objective facts, Dash's price is not only much lower than XMRs, but when it **does pump** there is always STRONG AND AGGRESSIVE SELLING near immediately to "return it to baseline". This is clearly not market forces at work, else why is Dash the only one this happens too? Most coins that are dead **don't pump anymore**, they just barely trade or decline. The reason for this is LOW LIQUIDITY EVENTS. Nobody buys so the price stays dead.
But Dash doesn't have this. Dash's problem isn't low liquidity events, its EXCESSIVE SELLING liquidity events WHENEVER A POSITIVE LIQUIDITY EVENT OCCURS. This indicates DELIBERATE AND PLANNED, METHODICAL ACTION designed to further an AGENDA, rather than pure market forces. As conspiratorial as this used to sound, I don't think its that much of a stretch anymore. Its actually really obvious in fact.
Dash and Monero's market caps used to MARCH IN LOCK STEP (look in bitinfocharts to see). Whenever Dash would pump, Monero would "pump more" to stay ahead. And when Dash dumped Monero did too but only to a certain amount, ensuring that Dash never pumped higher than Monero's price. This is the hallmark of CYNICAL SUGGESTIONING. The same forces that promoted the proposal owner to post this nonsense over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again are the SAME FORCES that are manipulating Dash's price, Monero's price and BTC's price.
All to the end goal of making Dash holders give up. Making them think its not worth it, there will never be any adoption (even though there already has been more than any other coin in Dash) and you just better sell now so you don't have continual losses. This is the same tactic that **the Israelis use to abuse Palestinians and force them to give up their land** in violation of international law and common decency.
These tactics are illegal, immoral and secretive/hidden, just like Israel likes to behave (illegal assassination strikes, aka murder, making deals and not keeping them like violating ceasefires). These tactics are "power moves" designed to gain power over others so that their decision making is negatively affected to the benefit of the aggressor, in other words these are the tactics of PIRATES AND THIEVES.
Which means that the solution cannot be any form of capitulation, giving up, giving in, compromising etc. This is why 'you can't negotiate with terrorists', because they don't negotiate in good faith. Remember Israel's pager-bomb attack? In clear violation of international law they rigged hezbollah pagers with explosives through consumer chain INFILTRATION and EXPLOITATION. Sound familiar?
This is the fight we're fighting. But again, there are solutions.
The first solution is TO NEVER GIVE UP. NEVER SELL. Doing so means that no matter how bad things get **the enemy can never win**. Just like Flenst and George Donnelly, their tactics **REQUIRE YOUR CAPITULATION** in order for them to succeed. If you never give up, they can never win. Which is why Monero has gotten so quiet these days, because if you don't give up **then THEY HAVE TO!**
So that's the first thing. Practically, just never give up never sell and victory is assured. But secondly, you have to EASE the pain. If you have a MN that's what you shouldn't sell. But you keep your non-invested balance in STABLE COINS so you can buy at the bottoms and sell at the tops. This is not "selling" as capitulation, this is SELLING AS RETALIATION. You manage your portfolio so that you're always going up, meaning you can buy more and more Dash at bargain bin values, and use the fact that they're manipulating the price against them.
Every liquidity event is going to come back down, you already know what they're going to do. So ride it up till the top, sell, and wait for the bottom to kick in and rinse and repeat. All of the sudden, **you have more dash than before**. That's how you turn their weapon against them,
If we do this for long enough, the government is likely to shut down again eventually as the fiscal situation in the U.S. is ... precarious at best. When that happens permanently, Dash will trade at its natural market level.
Thirdly, with step 2 in your pocket, you can understand and appreciate step 3 which guarantees victory. **Understand that the premise of cryptoinvesting, i.e. number always go up with adoption, IS COMPLETELY FALSE!!!**
There are plenty of widely held, used and adopted assets and commodities that are DIRT CHEAP. Oil is very inexpensive per barrel. Houses used to be very cheap too. In Japan, houses STILL ARE very cheap. Despite oil and housing being extremely well-adopted.
The point is, they're not just manipulating Dash and Monero's price but BTC'S AS WELL. So you will be TRICKED into this LINEAR THINKING and thus herded around the market, losing money trying to chase the next BTC that never comes. They are trying to trick you into not knowing that it is SUPPLY AND DEMAND that determines price. That's why they flooded the market with shitcoins, tokens and other worthless things, TO HIDE the real value and make YOU THINK that "anything could go up" and waste your money.
The goal is to eventually get you to "bottom out" and come crawling back to fiat. Its a cynical strategy as I've mentioned, but its fatal flaw is it REQUIRES YOUR PARTICIPATION TO WORK. This means that fundamentally, **it is an ineffective war strategy**. Imagine going to war and every time you went to shoot the enemy, a popup appeared in front of them saying: "Press yes to get shot by this bullet, No to avoid it". Obviously everyone would press no. That's the same level of flaw this technique has, and defeating it is that easy too.
We can't listen to guys like OP who are trying to GASLIGHT AND TORTURE US into not valuing our chain, our code, our tech and our community/governance. THEY DO NOT WANT YOU OR ANYONE ELSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT DASH IS THE BEST, because then Satoshi's dream comes true and their scam system dies for being a ponzi. They are willing to go to HELL AND BACK to prevent you from getting out from under their thumb, so you have to be willing to do the same to leave their control, or they will always be sucking your blood like the vampires they are.
So I know its painful, I know it sucks, the price is low and everyone wants free money. So make it the way I advised, hold out and hold on, and eventually the market will correct. Even on twitter people are noticing that Dash is extremely undervalued and are saying so. I mean, if Zec has a reason to be 500$ then that means Dash should be 5000$. Have you ever tried to use Zec? IT SUCKS! Its not very good at all. Their community is basically dead, their wallets have/had all kinds of problems, their tech is super complicated and potential bugs lurk around every corner (this is their 3rd privacy implementation).
Yet Dash is barely 1/10th the price? Cynicism. Don't fall for it. Dash is superior to every cryptocurrency in existence, has been for years and there's no doubt about it. So hold on, because soon the world will be forced to acknowledge this fact and the market will reprice, despite the U.S. government's attempts to the contrary.
It is not we but YOU who does not understand the market dynamics at play here
>Do you not want Dash to function as a safe store of value?
It already does, manipulation is not true market sentiment. The market clearly values Dash as we have maintained a strong price level INSPITE of the low points (Dash started off below 1$)
>Do you not want to make Dash a better investment?
Gaslighting. Everyone does, but that doesn't mean that your solution is the way to do it. You can't fix a leaky faucet by messing around with the water heater. You have to figure out the problem first, not stab in the dark and pray it works
>Do you not want to the price to break it's long term downtrend?
Gaslighting again. Of course everyone wants this, but whenever it happens (the fact that it DOES happen disproves your whole rationale, btw) the price gets pushed back down again. You are IGNORING THIS and pretending like "Dash only declines" likely so you don't have to answer the question of why does Dash always decline AFTER pumping, while no other coins do that?
>What makes you think that continuing as we have, funding small and ineffective marketing proposals, as we have for the last 10 years, is better than supporting my proposal?
Anything is better than supporting your proposal. Your proposal is "rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic" its not a real change that will have a positive effect.
>Do you really think those efforts will overcome the lack of trust and demand?
I know that yours won't. Dash has high demand and high trust, you are basically just trying to emotionally torture us into self-destructive action, likely because you are an infiltrator sent to destroy our coin.
What is it that you do not understand about this?
Do you not want Dash to function as a safe store of value?
Do you not want to make Dash a better investment?
Do you not want to the price to break it's long term downtrend?
What makes you think that continuing as we have, funding small and ineffective marketing proposals, as we have for the last 10 years, is better than supporting my proposal?
Do you really think those efforts will overcome the lack of trust and demand?
Once again, thank you for another burned Dash!
Voting NO with prejudice!