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Dash's proven history:
1. The founders of Dash could hold up to 25% of all current Dash in existence <sup>[[1]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBxbiH_Mg44) [[2]](https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/3s2uyf/dash_is_a_planned_instamine_it_wasnt_an_accident/) [[3]](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1740313.0)</sup>
2. The founders decreased the max circulation to give them a larger % hold on the network<sup>[[1]](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1043923.0) [[2]](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=754521.0)</sup>
3. Masternodes were created to allow the founders to reek profits from their instamine <sup>[[1]](https://www.dash.org/masternodes2/) [[2]](https://medium.com/@omiros23/evans-and-dash-s-scam-story-add1f16528ae)</sup>


For a decentralized cryptocoin, the [Team Page](https://www.dash.org/team/) shows over **50 Employees** on the payroll, and to make matters worse they [even have a day office](https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/dash-offices-at-skysong.12701/) in Arizona.  Two of the employees at Dash are designated to marketing,  and anyone in that field knows how easy it is to [pay shills on Reddit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxNvUWN3vYk). So is Dash trying to make a comeback?


It would come to no surprise if I told you that Dash at one point had paid shills - Afterall, they have billions of dollars worth of their own coin. Amanda B Johnson, for example, was on the dash payroll caught shilling Dash since the back when it was a "personal project" coin<sup>[[1]](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1740313.0)</sup>. In another case, Apple had to remove an official Dash wallet from appstore due to vote manipulation<sup>[[1]](https://blog.kapeli.com/apple-removed-dash-from-the-app-store)</sup>. 


Restarting their campaign, known shill [thethrowaccount21](https://archive.fo/MsWR4) on Reddit has recently just re-embarked on his long and entertaining journey to discredit any Dash competitors - scrolling through his comments suggests he is quite knowledgeable on the subject.  Unfortunately, [an archive of his post history](https://archive.fo/gQXxF) shows him posting 24 hours a day. When does this individual sleep?

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**Tl;dr**: It is possible the long shilled coin Dash is trying to become relevant again. In times of pumping and shilling it's difficult to get truth out, so take precaution and watch for early flags.

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