There sure are a lot of transactions on our Dash network today : http://178.254.23.111/~pub/Dash/Dash_Info.html (Block/Trx Info)

This is currently how Bitcoin looks longterm on Bitfinex :



The difference in MACD between Dash and Bitcoin indicates that Dash (and several other altcoins)
will most likely see a new longterm trend ahead of Bitcoin.

Which means that in a few months Bitcoin's price movements will have less of an impact on Dash,
as it will start moving against Bitcoin (at least that is my hope).

Note : there is a chance that comparing MACD between Dash and Bitcoin across two different exchanges, could be like
comparing apples with oranges ... time will tell.
 

Another month passed, time to take another look at the Dash longterm (1 month interval) price trend development
on tradingview, to see if we can spot a new price trend developing or not :



I'm using Poloniex because it has the longest history with Dash, which comes in handy with longterm charts like these.
Just be aware that most of the Dash traded volume is taking place outside Poloniex.

I put two MACD charts in there, one that tradingview offers by default and one that is populair under its registered users.
Both MACD charts show a slow but steady decline of the current longterm downward trend, this all should give rise to a new longterm
trend in 3 or 4 months, which will hopefully be a new longterm upward trend.

https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-price-technicals-say-sell-despite-wider-crypto-market-recovery/

1 Dash is now wearth more then 1 BSV, this article goes into that for a bit.

Good !! The more cryptocurrencies implement privacy elements, the more difficult it will be for goverments to try
to ban those cryptocurrencies that offer privacy. Hopefully Bitcoin will also offer privacy at some point, so the war between
central control and decentralized privacy will be over for cryptovaluta.

For privacy-centric cryptocurrencies (only focussed on privacy) this could be a threat, but luckily Dash has moved away some time ago from being a privacy-centric cryptocurrency to forming a fast, decentralized, peer-to-peer transaction provider that as a bonus also provides optional privacy on its transactions and is actively developing other use cases.

V0.13 Update Progress

Masternode Support :  64%
Link : https://www.dashninja.pl/masternodes.html

Miners Support : 45,8 % (still fluctuates a lot)
Link : http://178.254.23.111/~pub/Dash/Dash_Info.html (V13 .0 Adoption)

We need 80% of miners support for approx 1 week to lock-in DIP3 and then another week to activate DIP3
Links :

https://blog.dash.org/introducing-deterministic-masternode-lists-daaa7c9bef34
Note : the blog mentions that a new transaction for the 1000 Dash collateral needs to be created but that is not necessary anymore,
masternode owners can now simply link to an existing collateral transaction.

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/dash-core-v0-13-on-mainnet.43130/#post-206027
Note : this describes the update procedure for v0.13 in a clear and easy to understand overview

Specifically the miners support has started to increase in strength recentely, which is a good thing as we rely on them
with this update to lock-in and activate our Dash Improvement Proposal 3 (DIP3)

That would make sense as Bithumb still has a lot of wash trading going on, which is why coinmarketcap normally excludes their volume. I guess coinmarketcap accidentally added that volume to Dash overall traded volume and removed it later on.

That is very strange, checking the 1d chart it seems you are right about that volume number,
but there has to be some kind of mistake or a form of washtrading somewhere as a billion usd in volume
would drastically increase or decrease the price. Much much more then we are seeing with Dash right now (-8% at its lowest yesterday).

Dash volume currently shows 166 million usd on coinmarketcap, which is pretty much a normal volume for Dash as
it has been trading daily between 150 million usd and 200 million usd throughout 2018 and first month of 2019.

ZEC is far behind Dash, you can see that in the number of transactions (https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactions-zec-dash.html), in the number of integrations, in the availability on exchanges, in the pure vision of its project.

I see ZEC as limited as Monero : only focussed on privacy in what is pretty much a niche market and oblivious to scalability, userfriendlyness,
developing additional use cases, preparing for mainstream adoption.

You sense that too or you would not be in this Dash forum, expressing your uncertainty and worry in that post of yours.

Current v0.13 update progress :

45% of the masternodes updated (https://www.dashninja.pl/masternodes.html)
4,2% of the miners now show support for v0.13 (http://178.254.23.111/~pub/Dash/Dash_Info.html (v13 adoption)
Edit : miners support % seems subject to change at the moment, should be more clear in a few days

Miners support has started to increase the last hour and large exchanges also have began updating their wallets recentely
(Kraken did that today for its Dash wallet, through a planned maintenance session).

I suspect miningpools and large exchanges were waiting to see if there were any last minute hotfixes before
starting their update procedure. V0.13 has been remarkably stable so far.

The goal of the Dash team is not to promote shortterm pumps, its to increase Dash adoption and strengthen Dash role as
a decentralized, instant, low cost payment provider. Also bear markets have little to no effect on short term pump initiatives.
Lastly Dash already has a -7% reduction in block rewards every year, next reduction will most likely happen in the next few months.

Maybe its better to reply to hashengineering directly in here : https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/hash-engineering-dash-wallet.15793/
Replying on his last post in there seems rather on-topic too as he specifically mentions encryption, pincode and wallet backup.
In this forum it will most likely just be overlooked.

Yep, for normal wallet (linux / windows) users this a relatively simple update. Good to hear its running fine on your linux desktop.

For masternode owners step 1 is the easy part (updating the Dash software and masternode start it from cold wallet).
Masternode owners will then need to wait for activation of DIP003 on the network (activation through miners support), after which they can proceed to step 2 (registering their masternode as a DIP003 masternode).

This would be a good time for those masternode owners to think about if they want to keep receiving their masternode rewards on their
current mn public address or if they want to receive them on a different wallet address (which can be set during step 2 and be processed when spork 15 goes active).

Maybe you should google theymos + censorship + Bitcoin Maximalist

Dash roadmap is as follows :  

* v0.13 : currently on Testnet getting tested as final release candidate, so should be out relatively soon. This update will bring three DIPS to the Dash network : Special Transactions (DIP002), Deterministic Masternode Lists (DIP003) and
Simplified Verification of Deterministic Masternode Lists (DIP004). It will also bring a ton of improvements to InstantSend (Automatic InstantSend on simple transactions) and PrivateSend (multi-session mixing, makes mixing much faster).
Since these DIPS are going to be activated via combination of a BIP9-like deployment (bit 3) and new spork (`SPORK_15_DETERMINISTIC_MNS_ENABLED`), it could take awhile before our whole network has been upgraded.

* v0.14 : in development on Testnet, smaller update, focussed mostly on Long Living Masternode Quorums  
* v1.0   : Dash Evolution release on all platforms

v0.13 was suppose to hit Mainnet in Q4, 2018 but it got delayed and split into v0.13 & 0.14.
Best is to bookmark following page and look it up from time to time : http://www.dashroadmap.org/




Good question, maybe one of the Dash devs can provide an answer if they happen to still read this forum (some do).

A wild guess of mine would be that its maybe a network-load related issue : they managed to improve network efficiency, so that the network can handle more load and they are confident that the network can handle the transactions with 4 or less inputs but maybe they are less confident
that the network can handle the increased load of transactions when all inputs are included ?  So they put a restriction on it for now? Just a guess...

Because it will only apply to those transactions that have 4 inputs or less (which is about 90%).

Looks like DX.Exchange (EU regulated) will also include Dash as an Ethereum based tokenized stock product. Looks like this will only be a Dash/BTC pair, not a Dash/Euro or Dash/USD.

https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2019/01/xrp-trading-with-five-pairs-goes-live-on-the-revolutionary-dx-exchange/
https://bitcoinist.com/nasdaq-dx-exchange-ethereum-tokenized-stocks/


https://dx.exchange/exchange/


 

That is what i call the million dollar question. 
Hopefully soon.