You can start with 25 Dash instead of 1000. It's a bit like leasing waves but not built into the wallet and they do take a small portion of your masternode income as fees. That's $5000 for Dash and 1000 XEM for harvesting is about $3000
The thing is Dash dev team is not a charity. They are paid from the Dash network. 10% of all mined coins are allocated to development and stuff like this :https://www.dashforcenews.com/dash-aerosports-scott-farnsworth-business-adoption-strategies/
The dev team has heavy incentives and very good focus. They are practically a decentralized coperation. That's what appeals to me the most. They MEAN Business.
BTW I am betting that Bitcoin Cash will go up and hopefully take over Buttcoin in few years. So I've got some money on it. Hopefully people will realize the value of Bitcoin Cash soon.
I have Dash. I think there are some interesting aspects to it. I think right now, with the recent fork, the big money is in Bitcoin Cash. Bitcoin Core chain is going to go through more controversy with the segwit/segwit2x split and miners are going to switch to Bitcoin Cash. When that happens, Core Bitcoin will become worthless when they can't mine blocks fast enough to get to next difficulty adjustment. If you want to 10x your money, Bitcoin Cash is your best bet.
Fully agree with you. The current block time for BCH is already down to 40mins. I saw a reddit post which said there was a 4MB block. BCH has much lower Tx fees (though super high compared to Dash or NEM.
Only reason BTC is holding is the dumb zealots keeping it that way.
https://www.dashforcenews.com/greg-maxwell-wrong-altcoins-several-different-angles/