Pablo, like nmarley says, it's pretty much impossible for Bitcoin to catch up let alone surpass any altcoin with innovation. They'll be lucky to deal with the block size issue in the upcoming year, we have it solved already. If nothing else, our masternode network is healthy and large, and can be paid to store terabytes of information to serve up electrum style (which I think is the plan, or something like that). Er.. , that's the name of the light wallet, right? LOL.



So the blockchain size isn't even a problem. Right now, my server has 1.5 TB of bandwidth and 65GB of storage. I can use this baby for quite some time yet. And it's not expensive. I get paid plenty to keep it going and earn a little interest on my investment (or however you want to look at it).



Bitcoin developers would also have to be super-human coders to implement something without all kinds of hiccups which will probably anger some users. So, yah. I'm not afraid of Bitcoin becoming as good as Dash. Hell, our MN network grew naturally from the begining, and thus each has a substantial % of the available Dash 'coins' locked up in them, thus giving Dash 2 huge advantages:



1. nobody can come in and buy up a bunch of Dash and overwhelm the Dash network enough to hope to influence data. It's almost impossible today for anyone to gain information on mixing (unless they're very lucky, and the coins are only mixed 1 or 2 times)

2. It's impossible for Bitcoin to implement such a system and expect enough variety of individuals to be able to buy themselves a "special BTC node" that locks up 1/2 of the coins supply. They would end up with only a few varied BTC "special node" holders and never lock up as large a percentage of coins.



This sounds centralized wealth, that is, a few will be rich and others just users, but frankly those coins can't really be liquidated like that. They're doing a job, an extremely important job, and I suspect those coins, or others when swapped out / exchanging hands, will be locked up forever. They become, as Evan said, small businesses unto themselves. I suspect that in the future, MN owners will have to implement services, or not get paid, and they'll have to keep their nodes running and spend time making sure things are working. So they'll be like small businesses all over the world.



Nah, what Evan has done is so intricate, so much a well greased machine, it's impossible for Bitcoin to simply take Dash code and merge it, as they missed that window of opportunity. It can never be so secure. What they need and can do, is solve the blocksize problem, solve the blockchain size issue (via trimming?) and pay nodes for running (but not securing) the network (not sure this can be done without gaming the system)



Any more, they may need to use "side chains" which I feel are completely new coins, and thus, haven't even been started, and would have to build from the ground up. Thus, No way BTC can catch up.