On Twitter, Reddit and across social media, a heated discussion has been playing out over findings published on MoneroLink.com.
Launched on 14th April, the website provides a block explorer that lets users follow the inputs and outputs of a majority (62%) of transactions
conducted before January 2017, a feat that was widely thought to be impossible.

The explorer is a practical implementation of techniques published in a research paper by Andrew Miller and Kevin Lee of the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, and Arvind Narayanan and Malte Möser of Princeton University.

Since its publication, much debate has taken place over whether the findings of the paper have been presented accurately, and equally, whether
the monero team's own research – which founder Riccardo Spagni says highlighted the same findings in 2015 – has communicated well enough
to give users of the network a clear understanding of its limitations.

April 20, 2017

This update is further to our announcements on April 13, 2017, and April 17, 2017, with respect to inflows and outflows of customer fiat funds to and from Bitfinex.

Bitfinex, unfortunately, continues to experience temporary delays in the processing of outbound fiat wires. We are developing alternative channels to address these delays, but this takes time. We appreciate the patience and loyalty demonstrated by our customers and the community in this matter. We were advised by our banks that we would be able to process outbound wires in HKD and CHF, and while we were able to successfully process several such transactions, we are now being told that the moratorium is being extended to these currencies, as well. Domestic transfers in all currencies within Taiwan, however, are working with no problems or delays.

Bitfinex is not alone in the bitcoin community in confronting challenges presented by correspondent banks; other exchanges in the digital currency ecosystem are also being affected. However, we are no longer in a position where we can wait for our existing banking partners to provide viable solutions. Accordingly, we are taking steps to work with our attorneys to ensure they are able to satisfy any requests and claims from customers. We are confident that this short-term solution will allow us to meet our fiat obligations to customers. However, it will likely be a one-time option per customer for USD withdrawals. It is not an ongoing solution to the correspondent banking problem and customers should be advised that they will be required to provide an appropriate acknowledgment of payment for claims in order to receive their fiat funds. Nonetheless, we believe it is important to build this solution for the immediate needs of our customers. This is also taking some time, and we will report back on our progress as soon as we are able.

We want to be absolutely clear here that Bitfinex is solvent. We have assets that exceed all user balances. We also want to emphasize that digital token trading is not affected on Bitfinex. We are developing facilities for different currencies, but in the interim, customers are welcome to trade and to undertake financing on Bitfinex and to deposit and withdraw smoothly using the available suite of digital tokens.
We want to apologize again for this continuing inconvenience, and to assure our customers that we are doing everything to get back to normal operations. We thank you for your ongoing patience.

Following Bitfinex’s announcement to disable fiat deposits, more bitcoin exchanges are having the same issue. The other trading platforms have also disabled incoming USD wire transfers, citing bank account and “intermediary bank” problems.

But why the sudden change? what do these services have in common ?

They all have accounts of the 8 Taiwan Mega banks. (per wire origin from users)
Taiwan AML and banking reforms.
This is an evolving story. Taiwan has been a banking mess for years but in the last few years they wished to be a world bank center and fintech startup incubator. So as a country, they have been attempting to go through these reforms to meeting this goal. Many crypto currencies exchanges/services and MSBs choose to bank in Taiwan because they have more lax compliance/AML/KYC requirements then some banks but enough to meet the agreement in the US Banks. However, USA has changed these requirements recently at a Fed level. If you like USD you must comply.

You realize that informing everyone that he would instamine and later briefly offering an airdrop before quickly withdrawing the offer are two completely different things, yes?

If you're going to spin and offer excuses, at least try to use ones that actually make some sense.

Dash getting used for any real world purpose besides speculation? *crickets*

Does this look like an organic ramp up of usage to you? https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/dash-transactions.html

When you need a real store of value, it's BTC at the top, now being challenged by ETH. When you need privacy or fungibility it's XMR or possibly newcomer, ZEC.

Note Dash is not being considered by the grey/dark markets because it's not viable for those. https://themerkle.com/cradlecore-may-introduce-new-monero-and-ethereum-ransomware/

Heh, the community meaning those few who participated in the first hours which distributed 1m+ coins? They didn't want to roll back? No shit. Glad they've made lots of money but this will always hold Dash back from being a top coin, current price aside.

I hope you don't find these insta-mine threads or questions asked by reporters annoying, because I don't expect they'll go away, ever.

Could you please give more details about the instamined coins ? Where are they ? and is it possible to track them ?

If they were mass sold on exchanges, it could mean that dash's creator wanted either to create a development fund for DASH, or just fill his pockets. Maybe both, but i think that it would be better if we have more informations about it.

And please, ignore the trolls, i know that many of them doesn't even know what is a premine or an instamine.

No founding member now has any direct control over Dash’s development

This move completes a shift away from direct control over Dash’s development by any founding member. During the Dash Core offices open house in Scottsdale last month, Duffield announced that he had deactivated all his masternodes, meaning that he no longer has a direct vote in how Dash’s treasury is spent. He also pledged 80% of his personal wealth to community projects, on which he intends to focus his attention as Dash as a whole grows to reach as many people as possible.

The net result of this reorganization is that, while sole remaining founding member Duffield still plans on remaining active in Dash’s growth, and is incentivized to see it continue to succeed, no founder now controls Dash directly in any way. This move to further decentralize the currency also displays great faith in Dash’s future, Core team, and community.

For you maybe.  The instamine would be 'OK' only if Mr. Duffield informed everyone that he would do so.  But he didn't.  He broke a social contract with the community and that's a bad and dishonest thing to do.  But whatever, DASH is riding sky high and that's what matters for everybody interested in it right?  

Someone just setted up a good bunch of Mnodes  

http://178.254.23.111/~pub/masternode_count.png

Hi, I just found out about this project, what was the ICO price?

Dash Force News Website Is Live!


Visit: http://www.dashforcenews.com

https://youtu.be/B4SUsbC675g

#dash_force

Nope there's nor pool neither poll, I don't see anyone voting for dash being added to cryptopia or yo-yo exchange. U should keep in mind that larger exchanges rejected dash not by accident. It had something to do with shittiness of dash core. I will not tell u more as I own dash but the idea is there. Trunk is rotting while smaller branches keep flourishing. U have to find the origin of the disease if u don't want branches to die.

because pivx was not instamined like dash, but dash was not actually instamined, darkcoin was instamined up to 5 million from the dev, and then they did the swap with the so called dash, but one is a pos and the other cna still be mined, even if dash is bad because instamined, i still like it more because you can mine

Quibbling over the difference of a premine and an instamine is like quibbling over 2 * 1 versus 2 x 1, they both = 2

I phrased my previous thread quite badly so here it is again.

There was a paper released on Monero saying that about 20% of transactions could be traced (not sure how true) and smooth said that there are known flaws in Monero.
At the same time, Dash always has the premine problem, so are Zcash and PIVX better for anonymity?

Catched my attention yesterday too.

I wonder how can have one such a large sum on an exchange and sleep at night !?

If I had to guess... considering the use of the words "airdropped" and "long-awaited" I would think that the news is that Dash has been approved by Apple.