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Three things: First: What an awesome documentary!

r/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PbciVl3nYU&feature=youtu.be

Second, the YES votes demonstrates that the Masternode community really want to pursue action in Venezuela, but the budget is too small at the moment to fund it directly. Once again we need to step up with donations to keep this rolling. Here is their donations address:

Xj6u9bcjegcro6ycFeEn8HTg4sBRCQ6ZpZ

You can confirm that address in this thread:

r/https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/pre-proposal-dash-conference-venezuela.15285/page-12#post-193703

And third, to "complete the loop" in Venezuela, we need a way for them to earn Dash directly. As awesome as it is to have 100's and 100's of merchants that accept Dash, without substantial ongoing income in Dash, it will never take off to the scale we want and need. One direct way to attack this is with a freelance service. This is a far more sustainable solution that just dropping a big pile of money in an air drop. As wonderful as charity is, it is not a long term solution to support the economy in Venezuela. More details to follow.

Carry on, have fun, win!

solarguy

Hey Basilpop,

I can confirm the funds are in control of Ryan and Glenn. They will be posting confirmation over on the Dash forums (https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/prepoposal-dash-debit-card-ready-by-mid-april.13864/page-15#post-184913)

Thanks.

The petty-minded idiocy Reuben from BolehVPN had to face back then is really shameful. Good for them someone had the guts to apologize for that disgusting behaviour on the trolls behalf. Doesn't make it any better, though.

As for the recent attack: Yawn. Same saltiness we've been seeing ever since Dash exploded in early March. It's like Democrats bitching about Trump's victory. You could turn on CNN and leave it running all day while reading these comments and you'd notice no difference.

The usage of the word "scam" is so ridiculously inflationary it's hard to take anyone serious using it in regards to crypto. There's some simple questions any reasonable person needs to ask themself: If Dash is a scam, why is it still being developed? Why does it work as advertised? Why is there a huge team behind it, working hard, most of them fully identifiable by full name and face? There are a ton of other questions you could ask to instantly expose how full of BS that whole "scam" narrative is (The most obvious one being "Who was actually scammed?" No victims=no scam).

Watch the presentations, read the announcements, listen to the interviews and if you're capable read the code from anyone really that works for the Core Team. If after that you still come to the conclusion this is all a great scam because some Dash-hater told you so, then hold on to your naïveté, because I have a bridge to sell ya!

Meanwhile I enjoy being "scammed" into wealth. Please: "Scam" me some more, evil Core Team!

Ryan Taylor is the CEO of Dash Core Group which serves the community by developing the codebase that Dash runs on. Any news article that says he is the CEO of Dash is wrong and should be corrected. You can see the proper hierarchy at https://www.dash.org/team/.

Download DashDirect for android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.craypay.dash

Download DashDirect for iOS:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dashdirect/id1557176204

It is recommended that iOS update Dash wallet to version 5.7.0 or above.

• PrivateSend is unwieldy and unfit for effective usage at current token value -> Complete overhaul in Evolution
• Dash Governance System requires more oversight and a better structure for accountability -> https://www.dashcentral.org/p/Dash-Watch
• Dash Marketing isn't unified, many grass roots efforts, no clear common vision -> https://www.dash.org/2017/09/21/Ogilvy&Mather.html
• Sporking keys for non-critical Dash-specific features are distributed among few individuals within the Core Team -> Complete decentralization of said keys via network AI
• Dash Core Inc. notoriously lacks communication over extended periods -> We'll just keep pestering them ;)

>But DASH was always very quiet in the background without much coverage

It's funny you should say that. Our haters and trolls never get tired of repeating that Dash is all marketing and nothing else.

Here's our "marketing and nothing else"-team for reference by the way ;)

best bet is do your own research and don't totally rely on reddit comments ;-)
https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/addressing-the-premine-issue-for-good.7330/

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/activating-masternode-via-spork.17598/#post-144246

as starting points

"I just bought this sweet D3 and I'll be able to pay it off in less than a month!!"

One month later...

"Only 5 more years until I break even on that D3 I bought"

Proof of Work will always be superior to staking when it comes to ultimate security. Nothing trumps raw hardware power. One CPU is always less powerful than two times that CPU.

Dash requires entropy from PoW-mining to secure the quorum selection process. This cannot be emulated with a flawed and attack-vector ridden PoS-scheme, it needs real world investment in form of unpredictable silicon doing random unpredictable calculations.

This does not mean power consumption and investment must go ad-infinitum. You can constrain what many people perceive as "waste". Dash has already done this by cutting down the mining reward by 55%. The net result is less hashrate at only marginally less security. The second step is to apply the same scheme we have put on full nodes to the mining network as well. We call it collateralized mining. You can read details on that here

• TREZOR - Leger - KeepKey are all supported - guides for MN are on Wiki

• Mobile Wallets:

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/dash-mobile-apps.8400/

• Faster Transactions / Lower Fees (elevator pitch)

• Private Enough ! it has never been broken, never mind the FUD

• T Shirts are available from different community members, there is a shop launching soon (wait a bit)

DashDrive is an integral part of Evolution and does not offer any user-facing features. It's not a storage solution for end users like Storj/Sia/Maid. Its purpose is to store account information for network hosted wallets and similar backend information required to run Evolution. Or in other words: It's a tool for the network to store non-blockchain related data.

Since it's an unfinished feature no concrete documentation has been released yet.

The Whitepaper text on DashDrive can be found on page 13 and following of this document

Good question. Here's the quasi-"announcement": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7T-a2xm5c0&feature=youtu.be&t=2560

Evan was a little over his head with the "definitely"-statement. Notice that Holger's statement was about January 1st being "more realistic" not a "definite release date".

I just got word from the team and the plan is to coincide the release with the end of the last budget cycle of the old Treasury system to make the transition to Evolution as smooth as possible (This is the first Evolution module after all). That superblock is scheduled for ~~January 5th, 2017.~~ EDIT Evan's announcement fixed Feb 5th, 2017

I explicitly state "plan" for release because unforseen bugs might be discovered anytime. I am feverishly waiting for that release just like you, but we also have to accept that this release is critical for the future of Dash Evolution and thus has to be as stable as possible.

Checkout my presentation at the Latin American Bitcoin Conference, it covers the self-funding and self-governing nature of Dash pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqWjAGfegIQ&feature=youtu.be

Also, here's a video series about how all of the tech works: https://www.dash.org/dash-video-series/

Sounds cool, I don't think reddit is the best place to get the attention of devs though. If you don't get useful feedback here try the the forum in the development tech subforum or maybe just start a pre-proposal discussion.

https://www.dash.org/forum/

That was Otoh who bought all his coins on the open market. At his (publicly known) peak he had 625 nodes. Liquidated down to ~~300-400~~ 76 by selling OTC.

Cryptoid has a feature that is declared to be "experimental" but it's pretty accurate from what I've seen myself. Now there is no reason to believe one person holds just one wallet but this list pretty much refutes the claim that there is one gigantic uber-whale menacingly holding any majority of the nodes. Maybe that's his wallet at #1.

Edit: Let me emphasize that these are wallets, not individual addresses and therefore much more insightful than a standard address rich-list!

Edit 2: Otoh says he owns only 76 Masternodes today

https://blockchair.com/dash/charts/median-transaction-fee-usd?interval=1m
So uphold was overpaying unless the transaction size was ~40x bigger than the median transaction.

It has been over 2 hours since the last block appeared on the Bitcoin network. That means waiting even for 1 confirmation would so far have taken you 2 hours. The Bitcoin network does not support instant send and is not on the Fast Pass network, so there is no hope for Bitcoiners, but to suffer lengthy delays and a horrible fee market.

I'm always most interested in Bob's updates (26:30 - 41:12). In my opinion it is one of the most important things to watch, since he is talking about the technical foundations of the project.

In order to evaluate the technical merit of a project, you have to listen to the technical people and read the technical documents. That's why it's so important to hear from codablock, darrentapp, et al. about technical blogs/interviews/etc...

** So one of the biggest news here is the release of the Evolution design document:

https://www.dash.org/wp-content/uploads/Dash-Evolution-Initial-Design-Document.pdf **

This should basically be one of the most important things anyone interested in DASH should be looking at. I'm surprised there isn't more news or excitement about this.

Also, where does the community of developers hang out/chat/exchange ideas?

What about future app developers that will build on evolution? Do they exist yet? How will they be attracted?

What you perceive as fluctuation is the optimization you're asking for.

How DASH is resistant to retargeting issues

copied from https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/masternode-shares-and-voting-rights.13760/#post-121439

Part of the reason I don't offer votes for shares, apart from the complexity involved in doing it properly, is the ratio of shared to full nodes is democratically insignificant.

Shared masternodes currently comprise less than 1% of the network.

I'm hoping to design something on-chain and auditable, but there may be large data sets that make that impractical. (For instance, 300 nodes with 40 users each voting on 17 proposals is 204,000 data points to manage.) There are techniques to minimize the on-chain storage requirements, but there's still a lot of data to keep intact and available for auditing. Less of an issue as evolution's data paths mature, but an open question in the interim.

It's a complicated problem.

Well for one they just had the Q3 call yesterday. It was two hours and had tons of details regarding development, future business integrations, etc. The recording will be posted soon.

In the meantime please see this thread to find recent monthly reports.

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/project-portfolio-report.17424/

No. In the proposal he said he would remove Ether, Doge and Litecoin and add Dash instead. This was done. But they were added back in later without notice. However, the proposal doesn't say it would permanently remove other altcoins in favor of Dash.

He was supposed to supply weekly updates........there has not been a single update.

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/pre-proposal-dashpaycard-dash-branded-debit-card-fiat-dash-integration.13655/

In his original post he says he would provide weekly updates.

https://www.dashcentral.org/p/DASHPAYCARD-DEBIT-CARD

There has been discussion about this before – there was an Open Bazaar integration - pre-proposal. I did a bit of work on it myself but eventually dropped it due to lack of a Dash port of btcd. Towards the bottom of that thread there are some links to Go Dash projects that you might find relevant.

Hello +/u/Technologov

This is a story who brings many people over DASH, me included. Happy to have you here. Regarding your question the timing is aproximetly:

• paying to full nodes? - may/june 2014
• paying to employees? - 2015-09-09
• voting by Master-nodes/governance? 2015-08-27 - first proposal
• instantSend? - whitepaper https://www.dash.org/instantx/ - march 2015 I think - check the dash chart price, there was a price bump up to 0.025btc/coin

Regarding the electrum-dash you might ask the dev team.

Thanks to /u/Basilpop's reply to question I just posted I found a relevant snippet in the Evolution DAPI Overview:

>3.3 Third Tier ­ Light Devices > > … snip … > > The third tier network will have a fee structure based on the amount of processing time used, in order to deter spam attacks. These fees will always be low even when the network is transacting millions/billions of transactions a day. Even micropayments will be allowed on the T3 network. Users will be allowed a certain amount of free usage on the network per­day, per­month, and per­year. As users utilize the network’s services, they will sign messages with their private key, proving who they are, which will in turn update their profile with the amount of processing time they have used. After using up their allocated amount of free processing, users can purchase more for a small fee. Merchants will often have to do this due to the amount of payments they process.

So /u/TaoOfSatoshi is right, Evolution is going to be very useful indeed :)

I will just talk about incentivised full nodes.

The worry that increasing the block size will drive out full nodes is a major issue in the bitcoin scaling debate. Dash masternodes are full nodes and they receive part of the block rewards, and t get that reward they have to keep up with the rest of the network. We can scale fast because masternodes have the incentive and funding to obtain good hardware and internet connections.

Heres what scaling will look like under Evolution.

https://i.imgur.com/k9fchH9.jpg

Note that "network actions per second" is not just transactions. Masternodes will be doing more than just relaying transactions under Evolution.

Some further context from the OP.

>Hello Qtum community! We are looking to get some feedback before we begin our marketing campaign. ABEE rideshare is looking to use Qtum-based smart contracts for the following: Riders will receive ABEE tokens by interacting with ABEE's focused attention advertisement platform by writing a brief description of the ad. The smart contract will immediately send ABEE tokens to the rider which they can use or save them for discounts on future rides. Sending drivers ABEE tokens for bonuses. When drivers complete a certain amount of rides everyday, week, or month ABEE rewards them by giving bonuses in either DASH or ABEE tokens. Why would a driver choose the tokens over DASH? Drivers who obtain $750 worth of ABEE tokens will earn Super Driver status. This means they can give a total of 50 discounts at 17% to their riders every month for a year, while the driver keeps the full fare. This is important to drivers as giving a discount will give the rider a reason to favorite that driver. This gives the driver the chance to add to their client base building trust through familiarity and community. The current version of the ABEE application can be downloaded on the Apple and Google Play Stores. Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/abee/id1319311951?mt=8 Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abee.app&hl=et If you have any questions please feel free to email us at [email protected]

Just to expand on what some others have written, our development team has consistently made large strides in improving the core functionality of cryptocurrency, from the advent of Masternodes to the leveraging of that technology to make secure instant transactions a reality, make Dash 51% attack proof, and allow for a trustless implementation of usernames (which is just the tip of the Iceberg of what Dash Platform is capable of).

Dash is also a pioneer in the culture of cryptocurrency. To my knowledge we are the only blockchain network that owns our development team and we have our treasury that anyone can apply for funding to. There is no gatekeeper allowing any team that thinks they can contribute to attempt to convince the network to fund their projects, this has yielded some great projects from Dash Core Group and Dash Incubator on the development side, to things like Dash Text and Dash Mall Parking in the adoption sector.

Finally, I want to touch on the Dash Investment Fund (DIF) that addresses one of the weaknesses of the treasury. The treasury essentially gives out grants which might legally binding contracts but they would have to be fought in court which would be very expensive due to the complexity of contract law and the murkiness of a DAO. The DIF solves this problem by having a board of people elected by the Masternodes direct funds to buy interest in companies and enter into contracts on behalf of the network. So far they have bought into a gaming competition company (ReadyRaider) and a company that makes proprietary apps for buying giftcards at the point of sale (CrayPay).

These are just a few of the things going on in the Dash ecosystem. The day to day of the markets are sometimes unkind to Dash, but I know in a long enough view, no other cryptocurrency comes close to the long term potential of Dash.

The latest word I've heard on Evolution is alpha will not be released until at least the end of this year. Finishing that 5 months early is practically impossible.

I agree, coinbase or similar and Bitpay or similar would be fantastic.

Most of these proposals are set to be finished in weeks or months. They can't be rushed through.

I don't think there are many crypto insiders that don't understand Dash can handle lots of transactions. It works like Litecoin and everyone knows Litecoin can handle 4x Bitcoin. There are other coins with equal or even cheaper tx fees than the current Dash fees, but Dash is still way cheaper than Bitcoin and is the only coin with instant transactions.

I don't know many of these people but apparently Trace Mayer likes to spread FUD.

I think the impact of Amanda's adoption plan could be huge, much larger than anything else we've seen. Imagine if everyone that uses Dash just got one person per week to learn a little about Dash. Sure, other coins will use it against us but they're just jealous because they aren't even able to do the same thing as Dash. Who cares what crypto insiders think if we're spreading Dash to outsiders? Also, this referral-like technique has done well for Paypal, Uber, and even Coinbase.

I don't think we can get much done before your deadline, but even today, Dash is the most obvious replacement for Bitcoin and is the hands down the best choice for those who want digital cash.

Well their costs are based on NiceHash prices. Not sure how NiceHash does their pricing, but my guess is that if you tried to buy that 27% it says they have it would probably drive the price up. Then your left with figuring out how to get the rest, and doing so in a timely manner. If you want to attack for an hour you need all that hardware working for you in the same hour. Even with 51% you need a decent amount of luck to get several blocks in a row on your first shot. The other thing you need is someone to scam who is willing to take your coins for something worth the cost and risk that they can't take back and get them to give it to you with very few confirmations.

The other issue here is do you actually get control of hardware you lease on NiceHash? Can you choose to fork that way? I could be wrong but I don't think that's how it works.

Looking at the cheaper listings for D3 miners on ebay you can get a 19.3gh/s miner for $179, that would be $18.5 Million to equal the current hashrate, assuming you could somehow buy 103k of them. Yeah, pretty questionable.

We also have the masternodes to counter this threat. Any transaction your worried about can be done via instant send. I believe that would protect you, someone correct me if I am mistaken. Hopefully someone else here could offer some insight into what masternodes could do to mitigate such an attack.

That said I do tend to favor the POS model. Not sure if there is any support here for that.
edit: Silly me I completely forgot about the collateralized mining we have on the roadmap for 14.0. https://www.dash.org/2017/06/27/roadmap.html

You're trying a little too hard to portray everything being the team's fault. How about doing some research first before throwing out accusations like that, because the info is out there: https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/mycelium-integration.10541/#post-107601

Its hard not to respond really negatively to the barage of shitposts lately. I give you all props.

As for this one... Turn it into cash if someone doesnt accept it. I highly doubt you didnt think about this if you actually have ever purchased any cryptocurrency. As it was with Bitcoin, the merchant adoption takes a lot longer as you should know. Its still hard to find places that accept let alone know about Bitcoin. Also, no one cares if your investing in Dash or not. Why even post? If you were really concerned and looking for an answer you could post a question like most people do.

Here let me google it for you...

Top post when googling "accepts dash crypto": https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/merchant-directory-listing.3445/

Maybe try using google if you have questions. Second maybe try searching this subreddit. Or maybe go to dash.org.

This is why i think this is just more anti dash spam. If this is a legit post then sorry... But you have to try harder than that if your going to be "investing".

> It already increased its blocksize

We haven't increased the blocksize yet because there is no need. We merely agreed to do it when the need arises, thus settling the debate to show BTC how governance is done.

>But DASH still has the fundamental issue that companies are less likely to accept it because its creators purposely designed it with anonymity in mind

Actually Dash has partnered with Coinfirm for full compliance and zero effect on its anonymity features: https://www.dash.org/news/dash-adds-full-support-for-amlkyc-compliance-with-coinfirm/

>We already saw how Apple was banning DASH apps while accepting BTC ones

Apple did not remove Dash for its anonymity as evidenced by accepting Monero (even though the integration ultimately failed, but that's not Apple's fault). By now Apple has already accepted Dash as an "approved currency", we're only waiting on Decentral/Jaxx to re-activate it.

>and how Coinbase sells ETH but not DASH.

From what I hear that's likely to change by the end of this month. Either there or Kraken. That remains to be seen

I can't believe all the replies I'm reading here. Has no one read the evolution whitepaper? On page 24 it clearly shows scaling and required Dash per masternode decreasing as price increases. 1000 at $10US, 500 at $100US and 250 at $1000US. Admittedly this isn't much better lol, but there you have it.

https://www.dash.org/binaries/evo/DashPaper-v13-v1.pdf

Any post which claims to inform about the instamine yet does not even mention the existence of the longest official and unofficial thread on the topic, much less post a link, is of questionable value.

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/the-birth-of-darkcoin.162/

As for your conserns about "fairness". Grow up.

Basically, an InstantSend locks the input(s) used to send a transaction so that it can only be used in the first transaction an InstantSend is requested. This effectively makes a transaction that is received in 1 second double spend proof with the same security as 5 blocks(waiting 12.5 minutes).

Here are all the details. https://www.dash.org/instantx/

Dash's major advantage over Monero is that we don't have the pathetic urge to compare ourselves with it constantly. A feeling that is not mutual.

We're not competing with Monero in any way. We have surpassed it by light years.

• Governance by Blockchain

• Incentivized full nodes

• Instantly confirmed doublespend-proof transactions

• Self-funded sustainable development with a virituous cycle of price appreciation->higher dev budget->better technology->even higher price

• Tons of other ground-breaking and pioneering features in the pipeline. Codename Evolution

How does any shitcoin of choice compare to that?

>Is Dash just hype right now?

Yeah, just hype right now. Not solid and proven fundamentals as shown above. Just hype.

>I thought other currencies did better what Dash does.

Well you thought wrong.

PS: Can't comment on ZCash because: duh: it's vaporware as of now.

Edit: You can downvote me all you want Monero stalkers. I will continue to call your one-trick pony out whenever someone prompts me to.

Hello 0 day account. You make valid points, so your real account would've actually sufficed.

InstantSend as well as PrivateSend will lose their respective monikers with the advent of Dash Evolution because they will become default features and integral parts of the protocol. The check boxes will disappear in the Qt-clients and the entire network will be permanently mixing coins. The whitepaper detailing this hasn't been published yet (Chapter 8 refers to a seperate paper), but Evan made similar statements numerous times in the past.

As for the name: People still call Bitcoin digital cash as well and we all know it doesn't really apply. The name "Dash" represents what it strives to become, not necessarily what it already is. After all, cryptocurrencies are without exception experimental software in development. No amount of billion USD invested can change that atm.

To summarize all 4 incidents:

There is no logical reason to be concerned. Bitmain flooded the market with ASICs. The hashrate explosion went hand in hand with the price explosion. But the entire crypto market has been correcting heavily for this entire year now. At current prices no sane miner would keep their rig running because it's wildly unprofitable to mine Dash right now. So the market does what it always does and finds equilibrium again. It would be concerning to not see that happen.

Edit:

Here's a graph to be actually concerned about. If you wanna talk blockchain health, that's not what it looks like.

Edit2: Ah, nvm, they've switched PoW algo. My bad. But even there you can see the hashrate going down along with the price after April. Market's gonna adjust, that's what it does.

Here is a quick run down of Dash to some of its competitors (sorry, XLM and NANO aren't listed but it should give you an idea of what Dash can do): https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErZb1mcVcAE3NnN.jpg

Out of all the coins looking to focus on the payments market, I believe Dash and Nano are the two that have the most potential but I personally prefer Dash as they are about to release Hierarchical Deterministic Usernames in the next release and will essentially have become a decentralized Venmo: https://www.dash.org/dashpay/

Without HD Usernames, I do not believe we will ever achieve mass adoption and as of now, it looks like Dash will be first to market with this feature.

“Exchanges and services receiving the accolade include Coinbase (and Pro), Liquid, KuCoin, HitBTC, Hummingbot, Quadency, Bibox, WhiteBIT, and Indodax among others. Trading bots will play a large role in the network as with Dash’s near instant transactions, human action becomes the slowest part of the trading process. Hummingbot’s liquidity mining bots and Quadency’s robust set of trading bots will automate traders’ strategies.”

Full list of FastPass Accredited Partners available at: https://www.dash.org/fastpass-participants/

Finally someone is using their big brain to market a specific use case for Dash.

You're using the old Dash logo and you called it Dash coin. I'd advise you to use the correct Logo (The logo was changed over a year ago) and use the correct name, Dash is called Dash, not Dash coin.

https://www.dash.org/brand-assets/

> Then you should have it scientifically peer reviewed

We did, it was reviewed by Kristov Atlas absolutely ages ago -https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/reply-to-kristovs-paper.2325/

We've also had bug bounties for anyone who can de-anonymise a PrivateSend transaction. No-one has been able to.

Shouldn't that info be on DashWatch at least, or somewhere else?

Ok I found some info:

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/pre-proposal-let-millions-of-chinese-investors-on-huobi-invest-dash.17812/page-4#post-145974

The above link is on that DashWatch card buried in the notes, and I found the following update from Huobi on page 5 of that post:

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/dash-on-huobi-pro-performance-report.36816/

Would be nice to add their update to the DashWatch card too, maybe under "Events and Milestones" but I don't see anywhere how to contact DashWatch from the website. Any ideas?

There is actually a professional rebrand in the works: https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/proposal-marketing-communication-october.16913/

Dash is decentralised - put the idea out there and potentially make an official proposal. You should get a pre-proposal going.

Here is where you need to be: Pre + Budget Proposal Discussions https://www.dash.org/forum/topic/pre-budget-proposal-discussions.93/

From the Dash whitepaper,

>"Darksend is an improved and extended version of the CoinJoin. In addition to the core concept of CoinJoin, we employ a series of improvements such as decentralization, strong anonymity by using a chaining approach , denominations and passive ahead­of­time mixing."

These 4 things greatly improve the effectiveness of Dash's coin mixing when compared to coinjoin. Feel free to ask questions, or read the whitepaper pdf for full details. The whitepaper analyzes coinjoin and its faults and explains how the improvements made to PrivateSend actually provide privacy.

Note that this pdf is older but it should be pretty accurate on PrivateSend.

Executive Summary

Dash gambling sites can make a profit offering 0% house edge gambling by using part of the players’ deposits as masternode collateral. The sites would break even on the betting and make a profit from the masternode rewards. This can be done with little effort and no additional risk.

This is a chance for Dash to leverage the rewards in the masternode system to offer a unique and attractive service that would give a lot of people a compelling reason to acquire and hold dash. Therefore driving dash price and adoption.

I wrote up the idea here https://bitedge.com/blog/0-house-edge-gambling-is-easy-with-dash/

Forum discussion here https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/0-house-edge-gambling-is-easy-with-dash.15776/

What do yall think?

It was.

>Trademark Resolution

>We are also happy to announce the legal procedures have concluded and we and our service providers can safely use the brand Dash in everything that relates to virtual currencies. With this Dash becomes one of the few cryptocurrency projects with well-defined trademark rights.

>This was the first big win for the Foundation, and we would like to thank them for their hard work over the past year on all of these legal matters.. Their work has been been invaluable to our currency and will undoubtedly continue to serve us well. Also, we need to thank the Foundation members for their financial support. Without their fees we would not have been able to afford the necessary legal work, since it began long before we had the blockchain governance system in place. As a side note, the resolution of the trademark issue means we can officially rename the foundation from the Darkcoin Foundation to the Dash Foundation.

This specific product doesn't look like a virtual currency to me, though. We'll see how the Foundation's lawyers feel about that.

There is some talk about Private Send mixing liquidity providers on the forum: https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/proposal-infrastructure-liquidity-providers-oct.10675/

The problem nowadays is that there is zero incentive for me (a Masternode owner, sitting on a bunch of Dash coins) to provide liquidity for Dash mixing. I don't get any money for that service. In fact I must pay a mining fees for every mixing transaction. So I get penalized. So I don't.

Dash is #2 for me. Network effects are king but litecoin is basically the same thing as bitcoin. If bitcoin fails litecoin will probably go with it. I have some litecoin because its shorter block time might allow it enough time to implement a version of bip101 or whatever if the bitcoin blocksize issue isn't resolved well. That's just covering my ass though. I don't really see anything interesting about litecoin in and of itself.

Etherium is interesting, but I think that in order to be a successful currency you need to be trying to be a currency. Etherium is trying to be a decentralized computing platform and I kind of doubt that it will succeed at even that. Though I don't even know wtf gas is supposed to be in etherium so I am probably not the best person to be commenting on it.

And that brings us to Dash on coinmarketcap(fuck ripple). Dash is actually trying to be a currency and already has a good solution for scaling, governance and instant transactions and is working on dramatically improving it. That's fucking amazing compared to whats going on in bitcoin these days. The story bitcoiners are telling themselves is that if an altcoin comes up with something amazing they can just merge it into bitcoin and win easily with network effects. Given the current blocksize debacle I am doubting that they can pull it off. Can you imagine the debate over making bitcoin a 2 tier network?

No one. IOHK initiated this review on their own volition after being engaged by Dash community members who reached out to Charles Hoskinson. This was sparked by him doing a presentation on Governance in cryptocurrencies in which he basically described Dash without ever mentioning it. He wasn't aware of our Governance system and after we explained it to him he decided to investigate it further.

The Core Team has yet to respond because this final report has just been released.

Using the mining calculator you'd have ROI in about 2 and a half years... what's the point? Something else will supersede it anyway so you may never get ROI...

https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/dash?HashingPower=540&HashingUnit=GH%2Fs&PowerConsumption=4400&CostPerkWh=0.12&MiningPoolFee=1

Escrow is almost standard for every larger proposal otherwise they don't have a chance to pass, especially if the prop owner is a newcomer. Which leads to the next point: Most proposals approved are from people with an established track record of delivering and are well known within the community, so reputation is another safeguard.

Other than that, I recommend reading this: https://www.dashforcenews.com/dash-core-releases-details-of-legal-trust-structure-allowing-masternode-network-to-own-property/

The Dash DAO can enter legal contracts with other entities by proxy. The Trust will have a board of elected representatives and they will be able to sign contracts with proposal owners on behalf of the network. Details on the elections are part of this post

LOL. Dash core doesn't rent all that space.

here is a quote from the proposal when it was voted on.

>A “premium office” in a LEED Silver Certification (class A) building which can accommodate up to three workstations or two workstations and a visitor meeting table

2-3 workstations, that's it. Plus everyone was probably out for lunch.

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Not likely. All the roadmaps place it in version 15 of evolution, with a release date of TBD. Unless re-prioritized, I'd guess more like Q4 2019.

https://github.com/dashpay/dash-roadmap#150---evolution-v3-tbd https://www.dash.org/2017/06/27/roadmap.html

If you look at the evolution road map thier is a plan for trustless masternode shares with voting. It is slated for dash v15 evolution v3. Dash has some bigger items to worry about then everyone having a master nodes at the moment.

https://www.dash.org/2017/06/27/roadmap.html

Wall of Coins is working with a few wallet developers to add buy support to some of the apps. I can only say that my wallet app -- Dash Wallet -- is one such wallet app.

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/pre-proposal-buy-sell-from-within-all-dash-wallets.13959/page-2#post-131672

Most probably your "wallet.dat" is from Dash Core wallet. Download and install it. Dash Core wallet needs whole Dash blockchain. To speed up blockchain download use bootstrap.dat (follow Usage notes here). Copy your wallet.dat to the Dash Core folder (the same as where you copy bootstrap.dat). Start wallet and wait for full sync (up to 2-3 hours). Now you can send your Dash to preferred exchange.

I've submitted an alternative preproposal to create an open-source gateway that won't require KYC. See more at https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/pre-proposal-open-source-dash-gateway-on-ripple.14765/

1. ~~The 11 algorithms in X11 are blake, bmw, groestl, jh, keccak, skein, luffa, cubehash, shavite, simd & echo. I'm far from an expert but having to break 11 locks sounds more secure than having to break 1 lock (SHA256) even for Quantum intruders. I could be dead wrong and they might be just as easy to crack simultaneously~~, but that's an issue that the entire field of cryptography has to deal with. I doubt Dash alone will solve that problem. See Edit

2. DDoS Report from an attack by unethical wannabe hackers ;) Plus Dash has been peer reviewed by Kristov Atlas as well as Charles Hoskinson's team from IOHK.

3. Collateralized mining is an(other) idea from Evan on how to tackle miner centralization. Basically you'll have to prove ownership of a certain amount of Dash to be able to mine a certain amount of hashes per second. This is a very long term goal and far from implementation, but the benefits are huge if you think about it for a moment.

4. Again not a Dash specific issue. In the long run every cryptocurrency will have to face regulation, big or small. Governments might be slow but they'll catch up with the technology eventually. Here is the result of several months of research into Dash's legality in specific.

Edit regarding point 1:

I have to excuse myself for a blunder here, because I wasn't paying attention: The mining algorithms remain secure with Quantum computing because they use symmetric encryption which even Quantum computers can't break. They "only" lower the security of the key-length by an order of magnitude (A 512bit key becomes as secure as 256bit key). The real problem is Public/Private key cryptography which means all cryptocurrencies will face that problem and must find a way to upgrade. So in essence still what I said in the last sentence there before the edit.

Moo is, as you might have noticed, also a Core dev for Dash. He's usually swamped with tons of work and we hope to see that mitigated in the near future with the newly to be hired developers. If he doesn't reply -even for a while- it's almost always due to his other duties but he always replies eventually and has a rock solid reputation in our community. Not a single user ever reported loss of funds with him.

Here's a little resume that might help you understand his delayed response time.

Hi, Anthony. I wish you all the best with your upgrading process. And in case you didn't already see, a new version of Dash -- that includes some bug fixes -- was relased earlier today. It's 12.1.4, here: https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/dash-core-0-12-1-4-release.13836/. Cheers and thanks.

Sure there is. That's why additionally to her current weekly Wednesday show she plans to do an extra episode every Friday.

Totally leaving Dash. LOL

Since this isn't a Dash specific problem I suspected it has been discussed elsewhere. Unfortunately the most recent discussion I could find on this is pretty old by now. According to Mike Hearn the solution is to not use the Qt-wallet at all if the environment is too risky to begin with. Technologically though it's actually not too hard of a problem, because Electrum supports 2FA easily.

Personally, however I don't think it will ever be implemented into our Core wallet. IMO the traditional Qt-wallet is a relic from early times with fewer and fewer use cases that can't be performed through a combination of a strong network + light clients.

With Dash Evolution all you will need in the future is our incentivized full node network doing the heavy lifting behind the curtains and light clients utilizing said network pervasively. It goes without saying these future clients will all be equipped with modern security capabilities.

As for a solution today: Electrum Dash

> many people

So PuffyPony and his sock puppets are "many people" now? Or do you count in his lardass neckbeard following as "many people"? Only salty butthurt Manuro trolls like you call this a P'n'D.

If you hate Dash so much, why do you spent so much time in here? You must be pretty damn insecure about your doomed investment. How much Dash do you own by now? Bought at 60 or 61 Dollars?

I knew you would try this again. This is why I unbanned you from this subreddit, so we can show everyone how you deceive us. Nice FUD, bro. You bought back in and now the price is too high so you try to FUD it down below 0.0145, because that's where you sold. Still got your video, you know?

Oh, and the internet doesn't forget: http://archive.is/EaUL8 So stop lying.

>This is the 4th time I've been accused of being Bill Cassidy

Don't you mean Cassidy Summers? It's not "DOX'ing" when you post it yourself -> https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@fkn/i-am-bill-cassidy

I operate a trello board with current tasks backlog at https://trello.com/b/fcoZOZOm/electrum-dash It has public voting enabled, so I can see what is considered more important.

Just added "create linux mint package" card. Feel free to vote on it.

I assume it's the same mechanism as what Counterparty used in their Bitcoin burn back in 2014, an address without a private key:
https://counterparty.io/news/why-proof-of-burn/

Relevant parts:

"sent bitcoin to the address 1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr during the one-time burn period ...

The reason the bitcoins used in Counterparty’s proof-of burn are now gone forever is that the burn address is demonstrably a made up bitcoin address, instead of being created together with the corresponding private key that would be required to spend the burnt coins.

A standard Bitcoin addresses consists of a random string of characters that is simply generated together with its matching private key. It is also not too hard (with enough computing power) to create a so-called “vanity address” with a short chosen part (say the first 5 or 6 characters) and leave the remaining characters to chance. However, the difficulty of finding a fully-functioning address with a matching private key increases exponentially for every other character you want to choose.

The first 28 characters of the Counterparty burn address, 1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, are so perfectly ordered as to be obviously specifically chosen. (The remaining characters, UWLpVr, like the last 6 characters of any Bitcoin address, are automatically calculated and serve as a safety check feature to make sure that the address is indeed a valid Bitcoin address"

I find it difficult to feel positive or certain about the Q4 2021 mainnet release target, when Bob previously had a Q1 2021 mainnet release target.

He explained the reason for delay here : https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/dash-core-group-q1-quarterly-call-22-04-2021.51513/page-2#post-226378

I think i will go with the 'first see, then believe' saying with regards to a targetdate of Q4, 2021.

Then that's your answer.

Not a member: https://www.dash.org/fastpass-participants/

Every Platform on that list understands InstantSend or at least Chainlocks and thus allow you to trade after 1 confirmation, sometimes even instantly.

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/consensus-mechanisms.49135/

i suggest you read all the three pages. Polling proposals from Dash Core Group should emerge on the network soon that should contain more information about this.

I doubt we will be making a switch to a proof of stake model (delegated or not), but i suspect there will an option towards implementing masternode shares, and an option towards implementing deterministic holders list and maybe some other options as well.

Masternode owners will then vote on these polling proposals, which will directly influence the direction that Dash will take.

Monero will more likely crash and burn due to having only one selling point that is retroactively broken as soon as Quantum Computing comes along.

Dash has several selling points. And I'm not talking just about software features. It has acceptance, integration, adoption, partnerships etc. Can't copy any of that without real world effort.

Key paragraph from an article that I would like to recommend:

The answer is that segwit uses what is, in my professional opinion, an unthinkably nasty hack: according to the Bitcoin protocol, all segwit transactions can be spent by anybody with no proof of authorization. That means that literally anyone can make a transaction that spends the bitcoins in a segwit address. The "witness data" (which is the rules for who's allowed to claim the outputs, and the proof that the rules were followed on the inputs that claim the outputs) is moved out of the main block and replaced with a simple "anyone can spend me, there are no rules and no proofs," and it's up to miners to know what the rules really are, ignore the "anyone can spend me" instruction, and instead apply the rules from the witness data.

https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@modprobe/i-looked-into-segwit-and-here-s-what-i-saw

I wrote a post about this: https://steemit.com/uk/@syntheist/buying-cryptocurrency-in-the-uk

Basically to get the best prices you need to register with an exchange, I use kraken.com.

The best currency to use is the Euro because SEPA transfers are so cheap, both to and from kraken.

You'll need to open a (free) Euro current account with Barclay's or HSBC.

I then use transferwise to move funds between GBP and Euro.

UK banks don't give exchanges accounts, the first one that does will make a fortune in the short term, but they see the long game: cryptocurrency will bury the banking industry.

Maybe they just ran out. Sometimes Dash isn't offered on Shapeshift when I go to swap another coin for Dash in my Coinomi wallet. Dash is listed as a "supported currency" here https://changelly.com/supported-currencies.

Also, it depends where you are. If you are in the Willamette Valley (Portland, Oregon thru Eugene, Oregon), you can go to a mall and buy (or sell) it with cash directly. See http://www.bitcoinnw.com/

But, most people will do coinbase as the first step. Next step, could be to use https://changelly.com/

Coinomi is the oldest and biggest multicoin wallet where you have full control over your private keys, supporting 61 blockchains and 4 tokens, with 7 more blockchains coming in the next few days. Get your free copy today at: https://coinomi.com/

Haha! I literally just emailed them yesterday about this.

Your Uphold member support request (#99771) has been updated.

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Hello,

Thank you for your interest. No official statement on the matter has been released yet. Please check our blog at https://uphold.com/en/blog within the coming days for more details. We look forward to continuing to make Uphold a success!

Regards, Sam and the Uphold Team

Dec 4, 11:42 AM PST

Hi,

I have an Coinbase account.

I recently came across Uphold because I was interested in buying BAT.

I don't trust the exchanges, but there are not many viable options for purchasing altcoins directly with USD.

What are the chances you will be adding DASH?

Thanks, Michael

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dash/

Currently 7,119,797 DASH mined.

According to yesterday's Dash Detailed, there are 4,463 masternodes. @ 1000 DASH/mn, that means 4,463,000 / 7,119,797 = ~62% of mined DASH are currently held in masternodes.

Pretty good. Better than Coinbase for sure, and may coins can be traded directly. https://www.kraken.com/en-us/help/fees

Just be prepared for a slow experience, so after buying, i'd suggest to move the coins off Kraken to some place else that works more reliable.

I would not call it largest by any stretch of imagination, the real largest bitcoin exchange in Russia is localbitcoins (or maybe BTC-E which already supports Dash for a long time). The MaRSe looks like a company which sells KeepKey hardware wallet and does a bit of off-line exchange on the side (in a very small office).

https://yandex.com/maps/org/marse_bitcoin_center_moscow/211264975525

Hello everyone! Thank you all for your support this far! We look forward to continuously improving as we go forward and look forward to your feedback!

In addition to the linked video, supplemental PDF of our findings here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bcx28zWxp-yoUR8ievdb7LuTMgI0Ostx/view?usp=sharing and a Bitchute link is also available here: https://www.bitchute.com/video/OHjxZVRQmMHO/ (currently still processing as I post this, but should be good shortly thereafter!)

Also - There were several proposals posted after our video was completed that aren't included. We'll be posting a supplemental video and information on these proposals on 11/28/17.

If computing capacity (which can't scale infinitely) manages to lower the calculations needed to check all possible DarkSend variations from several trillion to several billion years I still doubt we'd be in trouble.

Complexity increases exponentially so the step from 5 digit passwords to 8 is a huge leap in terms of required calculations. This site says 5 digits will be cracked in 23 seconds. Increase it to 8 digits and we already have 2 years. Add just one more digit and you get 433 years! Now imagine stepping up from 500 to 800 digits (which is basically the area of cryptographic functions) and tell me whether computing can keep up with that.

My point is: DarkSend right now is secure enough and will be secure enough for the forseeable future. Your house may not survive the explosion of the sun, but for now and the next few billion years it's a pretty good bet against the elements, wouldn't you agree?

Great to hear how you received this video.

Yes, I suspect (and hope!) we'll see Evolution, that is, v1.0, out in 2019. The devs (and their quality assurance colleagues and others involved) have, as of late, been doing a damn fine job keeping to the current roadmap (https://www.dash.org/roadmap/).

Great question about other subreddits to which this video has been posted. Yesterday, in addition to this subreddit (r/dashpay) and r/dashcrypto, I posted it to r/litecoin. I just shared it to r/cryptocurrency and r/ltc as well.

Curious that r/ltc has just a fraction of the members of r/litecoin (3k vs 200k) but has three times as many online in that subreddit at this moment (1.5k vs 500).

I like hitting some pages immediately when the content is first published, then sprinkling it about elsewhere as not all users will be online at the same moment. If you have ideas for other subreddits to consider I'm all ears. I will, in the coming days, target additional crypto- & blockchain-related subreddits.

Yes, r/cryptocurrency does have a lot of traffic and I have shared past DashCrypto videos there, as well as other Dash-related content, as I know others in the Dash community tend to do.

Take care!

Convenient link:

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/pre-proposal-dash-be-business-evaluation.41859/#post-202865

TL/DR: They propose to do professional grade analysis of Treasury Proposals. It would complement DashWatch nicely and dramatically reduce the workload of Masternodes, while improving outcomes. At the same time, it would give those making proposals a more structured framework and tools to produce good proposals.

In the "mile high" perspective, it has been my experience that bad things tend to happen episodically. Things are cruising along nicely, and then you get kicked in the gut 8 times in a row.

But likewise, good things tend to happen episodically as well. Life sucks, and the crypto market sucks, and then 8 awesome things happen in quick succession. In the next 6 months, it is not unrealistic that these things happen:

Crypto starts the next big recovery

10 Billion dollars of institutional money flows into the crypto sector now that we have real custody solutions: https://news.bitcoin.com/fidelity-crypto-custody-trading/

SEC finally approves some crypto ETF's

Various Dash teams in S. American figure out how to facilitate people to earn Dash directly

We get enough infrastructure and publicity out there that the remittance market to Venzuela takes off

The "No Action" letter comes through from the SEC

The Bitcoin Cash hash war gets settled and the crypto world doesn't end.

Dash Nexus gives us more and better tools to make the Treasury system work more effectively.

As Dash value recovers, we can afford to hire some experts to better evaluate and quantify proposals (I am particularly excited about the Dash Business Evaluation pre-proposal conversation: https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/pre-proposal-dash-be-business-evaluation.41859/#post-202260)

Alt-36 starts to get real traction and we see a significant and measurable increase in transaction volume.

Dash Evolution comes out.

Andy comes out with some killer Dapps (Decentralized Applications) that run on top of Dash. Dash Dapps offer many of the same benefits as Ethereum smart contracts, but with far far less complexity. The developer community jumps on the bandwagon because it's so easy now.

And maybe half a dozen other things that we are totally unaware of right now.

Greetings friend, we have not submitted a proposal to the treasury for not taking the risk of losing the fee, we have preferred to dedicate the resources we have to develop the community and to have a job to show the MNOS when we can collect the fee for our proposal.

I show you a list of events that we have developed from the month of January.

https://www.eventbrite.es/o/joney-castellanos-16490323858

We have had the support of dashforce for one of the first events and DashVenezuela for the month of June, we have received funds for this month from Dash Venezuela thanks to the proposal of 19 allied communities, which received support for a crowfunding.

In the Dash forum you can see our past event, in which we share with a freelance community in your coworking, event made with our funds and the support of a couple of collaborators who donated to us.

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/dash-maracaibo-does-not-stop-and-remains-committed.39879/#post-195063

We have prepared a pre-proposal and we are close to sharing it, we appreciate your interest and we hope to have your support.

Hello my name and Edwar vidarte I belong to the community DASHPLC one of the 19 communities integrated to this proposal. I thank you very much to everyone who has participated in this fundraiser so that our activities can be completed. These funds will participate in the growth of the adoption of Dash in Venezuela and also the growth of the communities.

You can see our work : https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/we-have-reached-260-new-wallet-dashplc-venezuela-plan-to-go-for-more.39610/

Hi. We're Eugenia Alcalá of Dash Venezuela, Rodrigo Ambrissi of Dash Brasil, Ángel Arri of Dash Argentina and George Donnelly of Dash Colombia.

We want to issue a declaration of independence for Dash this July 4th.

• Price and brand independence from other cryptocurrencies for Dash.
• Independence from corrupt money for the people of Latin America.

More info: https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/dash-latams-declaration-of-independence-for-dash.39218/

~~Original was deleted and reposted under another username. Read that same text weeks ago but now I can't find it anymore. Curious.~~ Original was posted 10 days ago on the Dash forum. Why repost it here now? Looks like you didn't like the lack of attention it received there?

Edit: Self-admitted troll as proven by this ultra-ignorant comment.

Looks like this is your question:

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/sent-dash-to-address-i-have-no-idea-what-is.36854/

And it's your last post:

> Thank you!! Problem is now solved. Checked my email which I never use and it was there I used changelly

???

Dash webpage has more visits/time spent from the US than the next 9 countries combined.

Source: https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/webpage-stats-feb-2018-good-info-for-mnos.28888/

Crypto is a land-grab right now. Dash needs to raise its profile in the US/Silicon Valley.

And via CEX.io too. There are bunch of debit cards available too. I meant direct fiat access for business, not for individuals. Like you have in Austria ATMs in every major city and even stores accepting Dash, those retailers require easier way to convert Dash into fiat and wise versa.

I'm going to put in a proposal to do a shared masternode service using any amount (with voting rights), but it will be a little while down the line... https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/dash-masternode-collective-pre-proposal.20275/

Go with Moo's or Splawik's service. Pro, and they've been around forever, masternode.me dashmasternode.org

Alt36 is integrating Dash in legal cannabis markets. First phase should be completed at the end of this year or early January. https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/pre-proposal-alt36-dash-payment-platform.14517/

It seems likely that we'll be getting added to Huobi, which was one of the biggest exchanges in China (now in Singapore).

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/pre-proposal-let-millions-of-chinese-investors-on-huobi-invest-dash.17812/