Alex, would you please remind me (give me links) of your own videos? Just as a reminder. You seem as a great, modest guy whose work is really beneficial to the DASH and its ever widening community. I'd start like this: 2. Russian, Chinese and Spanish versions on this "Dash faces" video. This is your own video, correct? And you have others I guess you have English video transcript. If not, for the budget purposes: Step 1: https://www.speechpad.com/ get the quote based on the minutes and you have your budget for the video transcript. (I use them, they are good); Step 2: http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/default.asp you find -- Russian; -- Chinese; -- Spanish translators. The prices are affordable so you can ask for the quotes based on the total word counts in your videos. That's your second budget item. Step 3a: a much cheaper, faster to produce, version would be to add sub-titles to the videos. If the audience complains and requires voice overs you go Step 3b: You get voice-over artists, say here: https://www.upwork.com/hire/voice-over-freelancers/ (I hate, hate, hate, hate, Upwork, but the people need work and you need affordable voice-over artists. You add your own costs and a modest income and voila!, you will have had several language versions as a nice start. Than, I am 100% sure, the community will keep supporting you to keep creating great videos. Good luck. I think "What is Dash?" video is kind of "official" video made for 10x more money and required 50x more time than your own so I would let them worry about it and its version, unless Tungfa or some others involved in making it or whomever is responsible green lights it. (you do not really need a permission, but you do not want to duplicate work if they're are producing language versions) |
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Hey, let me present my new DASH video:  Thanks to TanteStefana and Tungfa for their help with script and sound editing. It'll be nice if Dash community help me to cover direct production expenses - on my DASH: XxG6WRPA5ef767m37eEbGjK8T1UPAVGdCq I have lots of additional promo-ideas but can't sponsor them by myself. Thanks! Please spread the word, everybody - distribute this nice video.  Alex, all you've done so far was great. While the talking heads are not my favorite (your other work was freaking fantastic) I wonder why don't you submit a budget proposal for the community to fund @ https://www.dashwhale.org/budget? Just list all these great videos you've created and outline the plan? To put my money where my mouth is, as a small token of gratitude for all your contributions, I just sent you several DASH to the address you indicated. |
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So are you saying that being invited to the Satoshi Round Table is like being invited to a private place to conspire against the world?
Personally, I would think that'd be a waste of time.
I'm hoping that Evan and Daniel will have a chance to step out of their focus on Dash, and mingle with people to learn instead of to teach (about Dash). They'll have great conversations with people that are doing things I doubt that Daniel or Evan even know about. They'll make connections, and get a broader view on what's up in the industry today. I'm certain they'll come back more inspired than ever, but I doubt they'll come back with a conspiracy to dominate over everyone and control the world's finances, LOL.
I wouldn't so easily dismiss the Bilderberg of Crypto concerns. All of us are just people with so many flaws and, as the Bitcoin disturbances among its key people has shown, big egos clash nastily. You may "doubt they'll come back with a conspiracy to dominate over everyone and control the world's finances," and you're correct if you're referring to Evan and Daniel but what crypto is doing is precisely that: an attempt to fundamentally change the world of finances and to, ultimately, snatch the control over the world from the The Financial Crime Cartel™ and its claws... These people, The Financial Crime Cartel™ (TFCC) and its best buddies, the military-industrial-media-spying complex have no qualms when "they killed men and have ordered men to be killed," but not in a gentlemanly, in comparison, Mafia way, but they go and kill millions in many a defenseless, blameless country thousands of miles away for one reason only: to make themselves and their friends rich beyond belief. The rest is just a smokescreen obscuring the bloody racket. Take the power of the (collective) purse from them and you will have destroyed a well-oiled pillaging & killing, most destructive murderous, money making machine the world has ever seen. So the crypto, with DASH being its brightest star still under the radar, is at the same time the only REAL danger TFCC et.al. are facing perhaps less than a decade from now (rest assured, they will not go quietly into the dark chambers of hell from where they seem to have materialized, but will bite, and will bite hard, chopping off heads and killing more millions, just to cling on their blood-lust based power) and faces its own problems. No matter how genial the governance idea is, there's a mechanism of inequality embedded in the system: the more masternodes one has, the more income it creates and can, thusly, create even more masternodes, in a much faster, progressive way than someone who has 1 - 2 or 5 MNs. The gap will widen. 1%, rather 0.1% again, anyone? So, one day, with DASH replacing the dollar as the border-less world's reserve currency, these masternodes will be worth trillions of today's dollars and our motley crew gathered in the Bilderberg of Crypto will have faced (will have had it) the same power The Financial Crime Cartel™ people are having today. And than, given our shared humanity -- let us admit: most of us calculated how much our DASH holdings would be worth in that scenario  -- all the bets are off. Just my 2 cents. Shrug them at will. / " Only the Paranoid Survive" / |
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Evan is a treasure that never ceased to amaze me with his realness, kindness, humility of his articulous statements and the ability to explain complex issues in a simple way. Not to mention he's a Benjamin Franklin type visionary of the crypto and a tech mastermind. To piggyback on his genius is such a joy. |
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I actually think Dash is dodging a bullet not being controlled by altcoin Chinese exchanges. How reliable are those numbers coming in from China and how many western investors are actually depositing money into Chinese altcoin exchanges to try to participate in these pumps?
And we are not talking BTCC, OKCoin or Huobi, we are talking the smaller type Chinese exchanges. So I think if you see projects like Monero or Dash it clearly shows for whatever reason that the chinese speculators are not in control of those projects. Which I think makes them healthier to hold, who would want to be buying into the chinese pumps at this stage? It just makes me really uneasy.
Just my personal opinion. Dash is doing great this year, the fact that it is harder to manipulate is a good sign.
I agree with every world you wrote here. The seriousness of the DASH Evolution project erased every single doubt I had had since the demise of Darkcoin, and I had them a lot, and this moment in the cryptocurrencies life, especially DASH's is the most exciting I've ever witnessed. |
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US Stock markets resuming dump proceedings.
FED FOMC announcement that rates are on hold is not enough. They wanted December's rise wound back. 217 points wiped off Dow in 20 minutes just cause auntie Janet said she wasn't letting them have their free money back.
Toys now leaving prams at breakneck speed on Wall Street.
Well, strangely enough, soon enough cryptocurrencies not unlike gold of the yesteryear, will be deemed as "safe investments." Think about idiocy of all these investors investing into stuff they do not even start to comprehend. It might take a while before all this is sorted out i.e. which cryptocurrency has a future and which one does not. I wonder when the Wall Street will introduce cryptocurrencies options to further mess all of this up. What an exciting time to be alive. (unless you live in the countries our own countries pillage, maim, bomb, invade, kill and loot) |
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Hello everybody. I would first like to say happy birthday, we made it. Over the last week I spent some time putting together a little present for the community. You can view it live at http://darq.io/dash-timelineThank you to @Raptor73 for letting me use his images: Please leave feedback on typos, events, dates, etc. If you want anything added let me know. If you want to embed it on your website you may do so: Please give proper credit. Embed code below: donate: XdarqoPGPhpFGDGD8rxnDzUh87d9yx98Jj Enjoy. <iframe src='//cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=1tas33D3li8GaCktwqog0RxSlWt7FEOf8_i5wGzBJcZE&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650' width='100%' height='650' frameborder='0'></iframe> GREAT presentation, thanks! You might consider using all the data and do something similar on https://slate.adobe.com/welcome/. It is another great visual tools, scrolls vertically but, more importantly, your DASH presentation would than be a part of a community outside of our own and will have reached even more people. Just my 2 cents. Take them at their worth or shrug them off. Anyway, thanks again!! |
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Dash vs. Bitcoin Comparison Infographicplease share !! Tx to newcomer ericsammons (DT) Great info-graphics. I'd only suggest to place an "X" next to the features BTC does not support. It would emphasize the differences and DASH advantages even better.  |
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Middle Eastern stock market carnage.
While I have no clue where this come from, a deterioration, if not the outright destruction of all these mostly criminal, fiat based fraudulent systems run by The Financial Crime Cartel is more than welcomed news in my book. |
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selling DASH is like selling my Kids, can't do this
I hear you -- but sometimes "the greed is good."  / not really / |
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Stocks slammed. Oil crammed.
"It's only money." and not even the real money at that. But at 1 US Dollar equals 13.40 Argentine Peso I'm tempted to go back there. Spent several insane months in Buenos Aires while ago when they had austral and it was taking an incredible plunge... |
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@ 0.01 and BTC below $350.00 I'd be tempted to sell my DASH for BTC for a quick profit |
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Just noticed this  Someone tell them to re-direct HTTP to HTTPS version. I think you just did. And what status code should they use for the redirect for maximum SEO friendliness - 301 permanent ? Then make sure that all promoted home page links contain a consistent protocol: http or https ? Why use https for just regular stuff ? It's slower. 301, absolutely. than, all the pages should be HTTPS and the images and other factors must be made HTTPS as well. SSL is an algorithmic factor i.e. a Google's signal that reflects in ranking of a given page. They should also fix their page speed ( https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdash.org%2F&tab=mobile), especially for the site's mobile version. Albeit the https://dash.org/ speed is not abysmal, a Google penalty lurks for the slow sites. It's UX (user experience) factor they need to pay some attention to. |
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Just noticed this Someone tell them to re-direct HTTP to HTTPS version. I see this is a Divi WP theme so it's an easy task in General Settings. Or they can use .htaccess to do the same. As it is, the site now has three (duplicate) versions: http://www.dash.org/ and https://www.dash.org/ and http://dash.org/The whole point of forking out so much money for the domain was for the googling purpose. Google does not like duplicate / multiple home page URLs. |
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I jumped out from cryptsy 2 weeks ago ...like a boss I am doing a small experiment as I type in which a confirmation time for BTC (from Coinbase to Poloniex) was less than 15 minutes. DASH, at the other hand, sent from Wallet to Cryptsy, still does not reflect on my Cryptsy balance (nothing's even "pending"), despite 32 minutes since I sent it and 13 confirmations thus far. So I guess the Cryptsy is kaput indeed? Don't send anything to Cryptsy, dude. Are you crazeeee?? lel I gather this as yes, they are kaput. I sent only a minuscule amount, less than $100.00, for testing purposes. The test, it seems, has been already concluded |
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I jumped out from cryptsy 2 weeks ago ...like a boss I am doing a small experiment as I type in which a confirmation time for BTC (from Coinbase to Poloniex) was less than 15 minutes. DASH, at the other hand, sent from Wallet to Cryptsy, still does not reflect on my Cryptsy balance (nothing's even "pending"), despite 32 minutes since I sent it and 13 confirmations thus far. So I guess the Cryptsy is kaput indeed? |
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Three responses:
a) In terms of what Bitcoin might implement in the future, I suspect the answer is "nearly nothing." They have been arguing for three years over the trivial change of increasing block size. I suspect that if they can't agree on something so trivial, they will never be able to agree on something truly challenging, like implementing Lightning Network or Sidechains or Confidential Transactions.
b) For every "Betamax was superior but VHS ultimately won" argument, I'm reminded of the countless times when the technologically superior competitor DID, in fact, win. Occasionally the world sees Betamax fall to VHS. But far more often, the world sees MySpace fall to Facebook. In countless examples that have been referenced ad nauseum, the initial entrant to a field was ultimately overthrown by a later rival, despite the advantages of network effect.
c) In the event that Evan should ever choose to use his talents elsewhere, the project will continue under the auspices of the other developers. As much as I don't want to ever see Evan leave the project, it's naive to assume that he will continue to work solely on Dash for the rest of his career (he is only in his early thirties!).
Just for fun and to play the devil's advocate: a) Apple was a dying company rescued by, none less than Microsoft and its $200M dollars investment. Than Steve Jobs had returned... b) This is by far the best argument I can't argue against c) It's too early in this project's life to speculate it would be able to survive and thrive without Evan. I am aware of numerous advantages his project has and I do hope it would survive long enough to attract a critical mass of users / investors needed for its long-term success. Otherwise MNs are going to be like a perpetuum mobile machine producing nothing of value but the "units" of something no one uses. Granted, my long-term outlook is greatly impeded by this staggering, real time loss of DASH, relative to BTC, value, now at 0.00530262 |
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Betamax was slightly superior. Dash is vastly so. Permit me to cross-post a comment I made on Slack:
My own take is this: if Bitcoin is like the internet in the mid-1990s, then Dash is like Arpanet in the late-1960s. In both cases the possibilities are endless; I do believe that vastly superior technology will ultimately win the day, but I also believe our investment time frame needs to be *at least* 5-10 years.
I originally got involved in crypto in December of 2014 ($20 Litecoin days!)...much to my chagrin. I've often reflected that if I'd gotten involved two months earlier or two months later, I would have been so much better off! But anyway, I came into this with the impression that within a year or two the lid was going to blow off and we would all be very wealthy.
After nearly two years of seeing Bitcoin (and by extension, all of crypto) in the doldrums, I've greatly lengthened my timeframe. I still believe crypto is going to secure a very significant place in the fintech world, and that Dash will be a big part of that...but I believe it will take a lot longer than I had initially believed. We're doing something the world doesn't understand--something like creating SMTP or TCP/IP--and the world won't mass-adopt it until it becomes something they do understand, like Gmail or Firefox.
tl;dr ... Rome wasn't built in a day.
You may have a point. What worries me is the very fact we tend to be myopic. Yes, DASH may be vastly superior to BTC (being a n00b I have no clue, I don't know what kind of development Bitcoin might implement in the future) but no one is really rolling their thumbs. Since I fall in love with Darkcoin and out of love with DASH I completely stopped following any other alt, believing in Evan's genius. But if were a billionaire I would simply present him with an offer he could not refuse, and get him to star anew, on DASH technology without any baggage or unfortunate "branding" and voila!, in a jiffy DASH is dead. This far-fetched hypothetical situation is a hint about dangers such a fledgling project is facing... |
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$ 6,167.39 per a BTC at 0.3% of all the fiat money or
$61,673.96 per a BTC at 3.0% of all the fiat money.
Aren't you out by a decimal there ? Doesn't the $61,673 price correspond to the 0.3% liquidity capture ? That would make the 3% correspond to a price of $616,730. (According to your figures). (By the way, and if Dash were to capture 1% of Bitcoin's market, that would mean a 5x rise from here) ^This is what keeps me in Dash. Right now Dash is valued at less than a small-to-medium sized company. If Bitcoin replaces just 0.1% of the world's money, and Dash reaches just 1% of Bitcoin's marketcap, we are all rich. Quick research shows in the neighborhood of USD $65 trillion in money supply (M3 or equivalent) in the world. 0.1% of $65 trillion is $65 billion 1% of $65 billion is $650 million Dash would be worth $108 each; the price of a masternode would be over $100,000. What if Dash reached 2%, or 3%, or 5% of Bitcoin's marketcap under that scenario? Or what if Bitcoin captured 0.15% or 0.2% or 0.25% of the world's money supply? The sky isn't the limit. The moon isn't the limit. Freaking Pluto is the limit. What I'm saying here is for us as well as the trolls. Holding virtually any decent form of cryptocurrency will make you very wealthy if even a fraction of a percent of the world's money flows into crypto. Yes Tok, it seems I am off for a decimal - I am not very good in simple math 
0.00554996When I originally invested in Darkcoin I made a calculation (scrutinized and found correct regarding the numbers presented) based on shadow economy that pointed at 1 DRK = 0.80 BTC as a max value for one Darkcoin. Now the focus is not the shadow economy anymore so this calculation is as dead as the dead parrot or the Darkcoin itself... Than the worst re-branding in history occurred and we have this 0.00554996 ratio which really makes me think about DASH's greatness. Betamax was far superior than VHS but the later outlasted the former for several, perhaps half a decade, years. I have no doubt in my mind that this thingy that is nor a coin neither the money is superior to Bitcoin's technology but I simply haven't got a clue will it survive at all... We still have only a meager 3,421 members over at https://dashtalk.org/ and if you look here, there are only the usual suspects "defending" the DASH against the same number of trolls. We simply do not grow, do not have venture capital interested (still - but take a look at the structure of the Foundation board, they are close to it and yet nothing's going on, that the wider community is aware of, on that field) and are meekly positioning ourselves as the Bitcoin's superior competitor no one seems to care about. So, as I always said - only the stamina of Evan and the developers team will decide DASH's future. Being totally out (again) as an investor I feel relief not to suffer the losses. I mean, I have - on the paper thus far - a profit of 76% on my BTC since I re-entered it at $234.00 and it feels better to gain than to lose I mean, even as I typed this, DASH went down from 0.00554996 to 0.00545000. It's not fun to watch, much less to be in. (yeah, yeah, again, I know, in the dollar terms...) |
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1BTC = $499.58 for the 1st WOW 1DASH = 0.00582578 as the 2nd WOW It's easy to get carried away in the exciting moment like ongoing BTC run, but after the Chinese decision I quoted earlier and so many developments surrounding the Bitcoin, I do feel like a huge paradigm shift is happening right in front of our eyes. Translation: with several USD trillions (that's a "T") circulating as fiat money, in USD, EUR, JPY and CNY, just to mention the four big ones, capturing only 0.3% of all the fiat money in circulation (this is a very rough estimate assuming $3T in circulation for an easy math) would translate itself into a mind boggling market cap of USD 900,000,000,000.00 (nine hundred billion American dollars) or 123 TIMES more than where it is today So $ 6,167.39 per a BTC at 0.3% of all the fiat money or $61,673.96 per a BTC at 3.0% of all the fiat money. That was fun. |
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