Dash Launches Dash Platform Video Series



On Friday, September 18, 2020, the Dash Core Group, in partnership with Amanda B. Johnson, released the first installment of a video series aiming to explain the intricacies of the upcoming Dash Platform.

In the video, Amanda B. Johnson noted that while Dash has been a leader in blockchain technology with many enhancements to speed, security and scalability, said basic blockchain technology would not be enough to compete with the various payments options and incentives we have today. Rewards programs, contact lists, and easily accessible accounts have traditionally been the domain of centralized entities...

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A Dive into Dash's Fundamentals



Fundamentals are one of the most important aspects of a cryptocurrency. This is why whenever you see the announcement of a new coin the first information usually provided is the coin supply, emission rate, hashing algorithm and other similar information. This information is quite vital as it forms the base of a new cryptocurrency. It's no use building fancy new technology on a platform with weak fundamentals that might make it collapse at any moment. As such it's important to look at how Dash handles this critical aspect and why it excels at it.

It’s always best to start with the basics, this gives a quick overview of the philosophy behind a project. Is it a fixed supply like Bitcoin that tries to achieve deflation or an inflationary supply like Ethereum for example. Dash follows in Bitcoin’s footsteps by assigning a maximum supply of 18.9 million Dash meaning that eventually there will never be more than that amount of Dash in existence. Over the time it takes to mine all of the Dash in the world, the reward miners get for solving blocks steadily decreases...

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Professional Traders and Dash Unite with FastPass



It is of no news that Dash till date remains an ideal cryptocurrency for trading due to its near-instant speed of transactions, low cost of transactions and high security. Dash has now moved another step towards making it the de facto currency of crypto traders by launching a network of integrated companies called FastPass.

Fastpass is a system of integrated companies working together in a mutual trading ecosystem to optimize usage by Dash traders in executing their business. Either as institutional traders or individual traders, the FastPass network offers tools that enable trading transactions to happen with minimum fuss. Such tools include staking solutions, margin trading, trading bots, OTC, analytics, lending, and derivatives. The different platforms and services that make up FastPass possess the InstantSend and ChainLocks functionalities that enable users to withdraw, deposit and execute trading with Dash at near-instant speeds...

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OrionX Exchange Brings Dash to Chile



Chile is a very important and relevant country within the Latin American continent, and lately, it has been of great help to more than 600,000 Venezuelans who have decided to emigrate because of the political, economic and social problems that have occurred in our country during these last years.

Chileans are an honest, hard-working, and united population that are looking for an evolution and growth within the economic sector, which has been affected by the number of people from different countries who have moved to that region throughout this recent time.

As a result of the aforementioned, the exchange platform OrionX has partnered with Dash. They have decided to join together to offer Chileans and foreigners who are currently living within that country access to and consumption of this leading digital currency for payments, which is impacting the world, day by day, with its innovations...

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Dash FastPass: A Trial Run for Dash Platform



The Dash FastPass initiative is a really great idea. A while ago, I released a video outlining the situation that Dash now had the potential to enable near-instantaneous transfers between exchanges due to its InstantSend and Chainlocks technologies. The exchanges, though, were sleeping on this potential to delight their users with a better experience.

How can Dash offer instant transactions?

On the surface, the same way that any other proof of work coin could do it: 0-conf. Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Dogecoin, they're all capable of doing this. But, with 0-conf you run the risk of double-spend attacks that have been proven to be quite trivial to pull off if one knows what they are doing. So, the Dash development team, understanding the need for both speedy and secure transactions, developed InstantSend and Chainlocks to give Dash transactions triple-stage security...

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Molto Bello! Dash Appears on Blockchain Caffe



As a cryptocurrency project that started with English being the only language of communication, Dash had a relatively limited sphere of influence over the first couple of years. Over time, however, Dash began capturing the hearts and minds of multi-lingual individuals who started teaching its concepts to others in different languages. Fast-forward to today, and there is Dash content in quite a few languages around the world. Spanish is the language that's seen the lion's share of global Dash acceptance, but there is significant representation in German, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Polish, Thai, French, and Italian, among others.

The Italian Dash community is led by a pair of hard workers, known as Antonello and Alogen69 on Discord. They are working tirelessly to bring the word of Dash to their countrymen. As part of their work and passion, they attempt to land Italian cryptocurrency influencers to talk about Dash. They do this with the knowledge that if people really take the time to give Dash and its user experience a chance, they will become fans as well and work to bring more and more people into Dash Nation...

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Understanding the Improvements of Dash Platform v0.15



The organization working behind the scenes to improve Dash (the Dash Core Group), continues its usual tradition of releasing updates with new functionalities every six weeks with the release of v0.15 on Evonet! Under this schedule, v0.16 is expected at the start of this year’s 4th quarter (between Oct. 6th and Oct. 20). In order to prepare for this latest update, it was necessary to wipe the entire Evonet blockchain and start fresh with the new parameters. As such, decentralized application developers had to back up and remove their data from the network and will reinstate it after the update.

In a statement issued by the company concerning this process, DCG stated that “while the approach is fine for early testing, it is not appropriate for testnet and mainnet. To handle different versions of data, nodes, and clients all working in coordination, Dash Core Group developers introduced versioning that allows for the smooth roll-out of breaking changes without affecting user experience”...

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Introducing an Enhanced Trading Experience with Dash FastPass



Traders are always looking to gain an edge in the highly competitive digital currency exchange scene. Often decisions are made in seconds by human traders and microseconds by trading bots. Timing is everything, and time lost in either direction of a trade results in a less than efficient, sub-optimal financial result. In short, time is money, and delays result in money being left on the table.

To gain an advantage against their peers, traders have employed various techniques. They try to use exchanges that offer a higher level of liquidity, they design trading bots that are consistently gauging market sentiment in order to make micro-trades that add up to financial gains for the builder, and they've tried to use digital currencies for inter-exchange trading that arrive at their destinations in a short time to take advantage of arbitrage...

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Breaking Down Dash's Treasury Adjustment Options



For followers of Dash, the initial shock of Ryan Taylor's closing keynote speech at the Dash Open House in December of 2019 was quite palpable. Mr. Taylor, the CEO of the Dash decentralized autonomous organization's largest contractor the Dash Core Group, threw a curveball to the audience that was tuning in expecting to see a demonstration of the latest Dash Platform developments. It felt at the time like he hijacked the whole event, as the prevailing expectation in the community was that this event was solely designed to show Dash Platform's possibilities.

Mr. Taylor closed a successful day for Dash with an unrelated, but in hindsight very important, speech about Dash's economic setup. Why was Dash, a cryptocurrency with amazing technology and successful adoption efforts around the world, a digital currency that's simply a joy to use, doing so badly in the markets? This formerly top 10 project was dropping like a stone in the CoinMarketCap rankings, with other coins that pale in comparison to Dash's accomplishments seemingly leap-frogging it on a regular basis...

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No, There is No Dash CEO.



In 2015, Dash created cryptocurrency's first decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO for short. Yes, it appeared even before the infamous project of the same name (The DAO) that self-destructed and ended up taking half of the Ethereum network with it. DAOs can be complicated creatures, with lots of features and nuances that are not readily visible to the casual observer. Dash's DAO has an interesting structure, but it's one that can lead to some misconceptions.

One of the biggest misconceptions that I've seen over and over and over again is the title of Ryan Taylor. Mr. Taylor is not Dash CEO, he is the CEO of the Dash Core Group. This erroneous statement has been repeated in headlines, and in more articles and videos than I can count. I understand the confusion, as it's not something that's explained regularly, but this mistake does tend to hurt Dash in an industry that values decentralization...

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Dash Core Group CEO Ryan Taylor Provides Some Updates



Dash Core Group CEO Ryan Taylor, the leader of the Dash decentralized autonomous organization's largest development contractor, took to Twitter on Friday afternoon to provide some much anticipated updates. In a series of tweets, he informed the community that the next iteration of Dash's software will be hitting testnet imminently.

Version 0.16 of Dash's core software will include many enhancements, and will feature the new block reward allocation that has been discussed at length in the Dash community and approved in a recent governance vote. Mr. Taylor indicated that the product brief will be updated early next week, and there was only a few odds and ends to clear up before we will see a testnet release...

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There Are Two Sides to Every Story



The Bitcoin network and its many forks have had a tumultuous existence when it comes to the aspect of governance. Originally, there was one Bitcoin. Everyone was on the same page fighting for an answer to the corrupt legacy system. Soon after, however, cracks began to show in the unity. There were differing opinions on how to proceed from a technological standpoint.

Because Bitcoin didn't have and still doesn't have an effective governance mechanism to ascertain the will of the true majority, the only thing they could do was to create another coin through a "hard fork" of the code. This new coin was called Bitcoin Cash, and those that shared the same viewpoint as the leaders of Bitcoin Cash followed...

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An Update to the Voices of Dash Nation Writing Initiative



The reboot of the Dash Nation movement has sure been a busy time! After letting this website go kind of abandoned for a long time (something I'm ashamed to admit), there was a lot to do to modernize it and upgrade the front and back ends to deliver a user experience that's worthy of Dash. Dash is speedy, secure and modern, so we needed a site that could claim the same. I truly hope you like the results of our work.

But what good's a website without content? There are plenty of things to talk about with Dash. Proposals, price action, new features and requests, ideas, regulation, economics, you name it. To that end, we needed to attract some writing talent to the Dash Nation team. In July we posted a request for talent to come and write articles in either English or Spanish, as those are the major Dash-accepting communities at this point. We offered a small stipend of $10 USD for each article written, not really as a direct compensation for the time spent, but rather as a "Thank You" for donating their time and skills to the movement towards financial freedom through Dash.

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Dash Nation: A Place for Everyone to Succeed



Dash Nation is the home of Blue Hearts! It's a global community of financial freedom advocates who are dedicated to the belief that Dash is the future of money around the world. They also report on the latest news, updates and advancements of this cryptocurrency.

Founded in 2014 by Christopher Carruthers (known as Tao of Satoshi in all his social networks) Dash Nation offers a website that has undoubtedly been a revolution for the world of cryptocurrencies. It provides us with a community-focused platform and ways to access the different types of data and information related to Dash. It uses social networking as a strategic tool to show them to the public. Some examples of platforms used by Dash Nation are Discord (in which there are currently 9758 people in its chat), Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Uptrennd, Twitter, among others...

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Dash Core Group Demonstrates DashPay Contacts and Notifications



The Dash Core Group held an information session today to show off the latest technology achieved by the team. In this second in the demonstration series, Dash Core Group CMO Fernando Gutierrez and Product Manager Brian Foster showed a live audience the contact list and notification features of the DashPay wallet.

They showed a contact request with notification to the receiver, an acceptance of the request with a notification to the sender, and another incoming contact request notification to the sender. As Brian Foster noted, this budding functionality is nothing new to social media tools. What is new, and potentially game-changing, is that all of this is being done on a decentralized network. These features are the basis of a completely new way of viewing finance, and it's our privilege to be here for its beginning...

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A Dash Embassy DACH Update from Jans Heinrich Meyer



Hello Dash community!

Dear masternode owners,

I want to give you a short update about our future plans. Before I start with the outlook, I want to inform you about some major changes in our organisation. But first of all, I want to thank you for funding us during the last cycle. This funding allowed us to pay for liabilities from July and August and saved us from running into insolvency and private debts.
Due to the financial uncertainties of the past two months I decided to cancel almost all contracts we had. This includes the office, associations, contractors and employees. All employees, including Sidem. I offered Sidem to continue working for the Embassy as a freelancer, but he declined due to private reasons. This and the fact that the network doesn’t want us to execute the activities based on the strategy document we have been working on for the last five months, puts me in a very difficult situation, because...

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Dash Nation Demonstrates the Beauty of a Dash Economy



When I first learned about cryptocurrency, I dreamed about the possibilities. The legacy financial system had so many flaws, and this new way of handling finance seemed to have such a bright future. Bitcoin, created by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, was the de facto leader of this new dynamic by virtue of being the first on the scene. Its ability to send any amount of money, anywhere, at any time without any borders sent my mind reeling anticipating what was to come.

Over time, however, I began to sour on the innovator due to some pretty big drawbacks. Bitcoin was definitely an improvement on the clunky legacy system, but cracks began to appear in the areas of scalability, security, privacy and economics. While the ability and the talent to fix these issues were there, the Bitcoin community was stalemated by the lack of a decisive governance mechanism to ascertain its wishes...

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