It's probably the busiest year in Dash's entire history.

 • postman switches the good one for a 'dodgy' one that has a beautiful black case, just like the real 'Trezor' in every respect except the internal electronics are totally designed to capture everything that's going on on your desktop and transmit it to the malevolent recipient

 • corruption of the manufacturer's supply chain. Hacked component included without manufacturer even knowing

 • some rogue programmer employee somewhere in the supply chain who's responsible for programming one of the EPROMs decides to have "some fun"

 • the manufacturer themselves goes rogue and decides to stop protecting data and start stealing it

 • a dodgy porter at one of Amazon's warehouses switches a box of real Trezors for a box of fake ones with a hack that gets activated in 6 month's time once users have got "comfortable" with their security

In summary, my general philosophy is that the more "secure" you feel with any trusted piece of technology, the more at risk you are in reality

I'm never convinced about the wisdom of using a piece of hardware who's sole purpose is to guard millions of pounds worth of money. These things seem like an exercise in building the biggest hacking target known to man. Even if the thing itself is secure, how do actually know you've got an authentic one ?

I prefer just to create an encrypted drive with the host OS and bung the wallet in there.

Bootiful. A time stamped audit trail. Why didn't the Athenians think of that ?

Nice invention. (Almost as good as forcing your devs to write all the codebases that will never make it into production on top of the one that does ! )

He exited the toxic exchanges he was involved in, that's all. He's around ok.

The only reason I'm still here is because I'm already 'fully toxified' and someone has to keep the jelly rolls company A few others are also in that bracket, for example quizzie. Most others slopped off to Slack which has grown exponentially in membership due to good management.

Dedication to duty as tyre-kicker in residence.

High standards of commitment are demanded of all Dash project staff

What iCEBREAKER is trying to explain that Dash "has a lot of hodlers". (As do all effective stores of value)

Bitcoin's blockchain capacity will not be augmented by the Lightning network. You will simply have a new off-chain network in which to transact. In a strategic sense it's therefore no different from a Bitcoin backed debit card network, where all the trades occur off-chain except for occasional 'deposits' and 'withdrawals'.

What implication does that have for the core chain ? It's going to ADD to the traffic, not deplete it. Furthermore, you no longer have a fungible, unitary monetary token - it's been split into a 'credit' layer managed by a counterparty and a 'host layer' that's decentralised.

Why you need Dash is because it uses a cash monetary archetype rather than a flawed 'layered technology stack' archetype as its guiding design principle. In other words, in the diagram below, it prioritises the red zone so that ALL layer-2 client networks are highly supported, not just one.

It will therefore continue to be better store of value than bitcoin.

It means that one of Dash's original design priorities is being met, which was to reconcile technology objectives (incentivising the growth of the network infrastructure) with monetary objectives (making Dash a better store of value than bitcoin).

Wall demolished @ 5400.

Vertical bulldozing in progress.

Earwig. Low.....

Everyone trying to get in below 5k.

We have entered the 5k sphere of gravity.

Market now believes we are about to break it.

The pegging is about supporting a stable goods price, not so much a stable coin price. The coin exchange rate with other cryptos or national fiat currencies can still move long term with the market because it's a rolling peg which means the peg can move at discrete intervals.

Between those intervals you have a stable monetary platform on which to trade goods (like, say kids prams, motor cars or the new Honda Jet).

This mitigates or eliminates the trader's exposure to losses on their goods trade from currency fluctuations. Meanwhile, the fact that the peg can roll also makes the currency investable and tradeable in its own right.

Best of both worlds: Decoupling the priorities of goods trading with those of a freely traded monetary instrument so that the blockchain has an independent interface on each market.

Her twitter feed is always active.

Well we can always aspire to your level of intelligence.

In fact we could dream of surpassing it to the point where we can tell the difference between a guy and a gall's forum handle

Hey, I didn't say I was wrong. I just nipped over to the dark side to checkout the vista for a while

Pro'lly due to mixing my drinks at the weekend.

Never bodes well for a bright Monday with me.

Looks like it. (P.S. Before everyone goes jumping into their bunkers, Trump didn't "declare war". It's just sabre rattling from the N. Korean's saying that he did.)