The community can matter more than the technology. When the product isn't good enough, the community could improve it. Look at all sorts of projects running on STEEM. Steemit Inc is responsible for only few of them. But when a community is full of anger ad even fighting among themselves, even great technology won't be able to save them.

BTW Dash now holds the record for 5th highest max daily transaction with 3,030,402 Tx thanks o a stress test they did.
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