Dero quick summary:
Dero is one of the very few blockchains built from scratch:   https://twitter.com/cryptic_monk/status/999227961059528704

Traditional 51% attacks are not possible on DERO network.

DERO in single image:


DERO facts:


DERO DAG mining POW in action: https://stats.atlantis.dero.live/


DERO ROCKET Bulletproofs:

 You can check on the http://explorer.dero.io/  or use status command in the daemon for supply. 
Will upload the curve too if required let us know.

Dero is currently in talks with several exchanges for listing process. Exchanges are appreciating Dero innovations and technology.
Now we all know exchanges are expensive and we don't want to burn through the community funds too quickly.
Cryptopia have lowered their listing fees to 2.75 BTC. If you would like to donate to support the listing fee to get listed on Cryptopia please feel free, the remaining balance left over will be used from the community wallet.

BTC Address: 12FgmibxiRL6bbs2cgy7WrZKvhJ8zsecAB
DERO Address : dERoinCHkFnLwG8W1kUTvHEYiuq1YvwwEBG8WWqcDTf8LtVGJf5h1piVUwT1AgLAP6JqFYK947652R4 XoYqbLM3R1riDuAx6fS

Dero donation wallet viewkey: bffd60d4f5772fcf5c457c2b6250fdeb3d1a3142193d587b42558a6a1b76e69e77ec46f4a98fa6b b722fe5c524f55d14eb1058b975fdf8b81b8fd4bee0095705

Also track the Dero latest updates.

Thanks for your support and time.

Ans 1: Already answered by @MagicSmoker.
Ans 2: Dero DAG like other chains requires block propgation time to propgate blocks. Block propgation times AVGs 99.99% ~15 seconds.
Ans 3: By client protocol.
Ans 4: 2 uncles(Dero side blocks if you are referring to them only) are allowed depending on NW.
Ans 5: RingCT is core part of Dero architecture.
Ans 6: We are still searching better algo than POW.

  Thanks for your time and questions.

DERO GUI wallet released. https://github.com/deroproject/dero_gui_wallet

Its work in progress but fully functional. Developed from scratch,
DERO gui features:
Remote Node supported by default.
Localhost node also supported. Custom remote node not supported.
ALL communications are TLS/SSL encrypted..
All processing in GUI wallet is local: Data is fetched from remote node and processed locally.
No Keys/seed/passwords is transmitted to remote node in any case.
Even if remote node is compromised, Local wallet is safe.

Any blockchain/crypto expert/dev interested in DERO source audit/review is welcome for ongoing review.

Pls visit #ext-developers channel on discord https://discord.gg/GmDgjkD

For full details pls see: https://forum.dero.io/t/dero-source-and-compilation-details/760


Pls see first how to Install GO https://golang.org/doc/install

DERO Introduction
DERO is decentralized DAG(Directed Acyclic Graph) based blockchain with enhanced reliability, privacy, security, and usability. Consensus algorithm is PoW based on original cryptonight. DERO is industry leading and the first blockchain to have bulletproofs, TLS encrypted Network.
DERO blockchain has the following salient features
DAG Based : No orphan blocks, No soft-forks
12 Second Block time: Extremely fast transactions and 2 minutes confirmation time
SSL/TLS P2P Network
CryptoNote : Fully Encrypted Blockchain
BulletProofs: Zero Knowledge range-proofs.
Fully Auditable Supply: Supply is fully auditable.
Ring signatures
Written from scratch: Almost everything has been implemented from scratch.

DAG
DERO DAG implementation builds outs a main chain from the DAG network of blocks which refers to main blocks (100% reward) and side blocks (67% rewards). Side blocks contribute to chain PoW security and traditional 51% attacks are not possible on DERO network. If DERO network finds another block at the same height, instead of choosing one, DERO include both blocks. Thus, rendering the 51% attack futile.
Traditional Blockchains process blocks as single unit of computation(if a double-spend tx occurs within the block, entire block is rejected). However DERO network accepts such blocks since DERO blockchain considers transaction as a single unit of computation.DERO blocks may contain duplicate or double-spend transactions which are filtered by client protocol and ignored by the network.
DERO DAG processes transactions atomically one transaction at a time.

Crypto
Secure and fast crypto is the basic necessity of this project and adequate amount of time has been devoted to develop/study/implement/audit it. Most of the crypto such as ring signatures have been studied by various researchers and are in production by number of projects. As far as the Bulletproofs are considered, since DERO is the first one to implement/deploy, they have been given a more detailed look. First, a bare bones bulletproofs was implemented, then implementations in development were studied (Benedict Bunz,XMR, Dalek Bulletproofs) and thus improving our own implementation.Some new improvements were discovered and implemented (There are number of other improvements which are not explained here). Major improvements are in the Double-Base Double-Scalar Multiplication while validating bulletproofs. A typical bulletproof takes ~15-17 ms to verify. Optimized bulletproofs takes ~1 to ~2 ms(simple bulletproof, no aggregate/batching). Since, in the case of bulletproofs the bases are fixed, we can use precompute table to convert 64*2 Base Scalar multiplication into doublings and additions (NOTE: We do not use Bos-Coster/Pippienger methods). This time can be again easily decreased to .5 ms with some more optimizations.With batching and aggregation, 5000 range-proofs (~2500 TX) can be easily verified on even a laptop. The implementation for bulletproofs is in github.com/deroproject/derosuite/crypto/ringct/bulletproof.go 1 , optimized version is in github.com/deroproject/derosuite/crypto/ringct/bulletproof_ultrafast.go

There are other optimizations such as base-scalar multiplication could be done in less than a microsecond.Some of these optimizations are not yet deployed and may be deployed at a later stage.
Further research/studies/optimizations are in-progress to further improve DERO network.

Instructions
Install GO https://golang.org/doc/install
mkdir dero
cd dero
export GOPATH=pwd
git clone https://git.dero.io/DeroProject/src.git
cd src
go install github.com/deroproject/derosuite/cmd/

Pls see DERO explorer, DERO daemon and DERO wallet-cli binaries in $GOPATH/bin.
This source code release is for selected devs only for personal use and feedback only. No distribution in any case/form.

Contact us:
DERO Developers are not perfect and there may be bugs in the code.
Please report any bugs, flaws found during the audit/go through to further improve the project at: https://forum.dero.io/

Thanks for your patience and support.

Hello @Serena,
My first reply to you since you left.
I believe you have contributed lots of efforts and time for the DERO Community. Thanks for that.
For me you are still the same kind and sweet person. Pls don't allow this incident to affect you any way.
Let the good and positive in you be more powerful. I have seen and handle lots of such in life, thanks to the teacher called Experience.
You will always have my good wishes. Feel free for anything else.

Thanks.

Regards.

Dear Dero Community,

I am proud to announce to you the members of the Dero Community Advisory Board (DCAB).

DCAB members have been a part of the Dero community for at least 6 months and collectively have:
   - 128+ years experience working in a professional capacity
   - 56+ years business leadership experience
   - 23+ years experience with crypto
   - 1 PhD, 2 Masters Degrees, 1 MBA
   - Specialists in the fields of Distributed Systems, Networking, Consensus Algorithms, Marketing and Early-Stage Growth to name a few

For more details about the members and their bios  pls check https://forum.dero.io/t/dero-community-advisory-board-dcab/757

The DCAB hopes to use their collective skillsets to help Dero grow in the coming months and years.

Thanks.

I think you forgot to place derod_database.db in mainnet folder( mainnet/derod_database.db). Alsi it should start with 95550.
Sync speed depends on your network/CPU. It is very fast on SSD.  In next update sync speed will increase  20-40% due to several optimizations.

For first four months dero network was running on Monero Helium-Hydra code fork, it is opensource and still on github https://github.com/deroproject/dero
DERO network was running good with opensource Monero code till there was attack on several CryptoNote networks. By that time we had partially written Golang code and few of the nodes were migrated to new dero GOLANG code and those nodes were secure and protected from time-warp attacks and thousands of block were mined in few hours but DERO new Golang code refused to accept those blocks. In hurry we migrated all nodes on Golang code. DERO exchanges were down for long as we didn't have any rpc-interface written in Golang-code due to emergency migration .
Till then we already realized its impossible to stop 51% and double attacks with existing blockchain technology. So we decided and wrote Atlantis with DERO DAG.

For details of attack pls see ,its already on forum https://forum.dero.io/t/bizarre-behavior-of-the-official-pool-statistics/357
Also anyone can go through this ANN thread to refresh memories and details.




Every real CryptoNote devs know each coin generated on CryptoNote protocol is audit-able even after years.



DERO Facts : First blockchain to have: DeroDAG + Cryptonote + Bulletproofs + Complete SSL + POW. Blocktime 12 secs + Confirmation times 2 mins.



Pls feel free to discuss with me something good and technical on discord: https://discord.gg/aQcphjF
Thanks.

Regards.
Captain

For first four months dero network was running on Monero Helium-Hydra code fork, it is opensource and still on github https://github.com/deroproject/dero
DERO network was running good with opensource Monero code till there was attack on several CryptoNote networks. By that time we had partially written Golang code and few of the nodes were migrated to new dero GOLANG code and those nodes were secure and protected from time-warp attacks and thousands of block were mined in few hours but DERO new Golang code refused to accept those blocks. In hurry we migrated all nodes on Golang code. DERO exchanges were down for long as we didn't have any rpc-interface written in Golang-code due to emergency migration .
Till then we already realized its impossible to stop 51% and double attacks with existing blockchain technology. So we decided and wrote Atlantis with DERO DAG.

For details of attack pls see ,its already on forum https://forum.dero.io/t/bizarre-behavior-of-the-official-pool-statistics/357
Also anyone can go through this ANN thread to refresh memories and details.




Every real CryptoNote devs know each coin generated on CryptoNote protocol is audit-able even after years.

Pls feel free to discuss with me something good and technical on discord: https://discord.gg/aQcphjF

DERO Facts : First blockchain to have: DeroDAG + Cryptonote + Bulletproofs + Complete SSL + POW. Blocktime 12 secs + Confirmation times 2 mins.


Thanks.

Regards.
Captain

Its sad to see so called crypto experts don't know how CryptoNote protocol, it's magnificent protocol. Every coin generated on CryptoNote protocol is audit-able even after years.
There are peoples who fud GPG also.
You guys have every binaries and almost 80% of source code(https://github.com/deroproject/derosuite) prove something.
Back in our days, Never asked for any company/product's source to verify anyone's claims. . If you need source  to verify someone's claim- it means current generation is loosing their skills.

Don't know why are you so interested in believing that info. You know that premine is fully intact as of your writing. DERO Foundation will setup in coming days and devs/members would be there.
After Foundation setup in max 2-3 weeks, Hope you can say all that above you wrote directly to devs in person. We can plan out some meeting if you feel in some third country.
DERO developers has enough credentials on internet lying for decades, hope you can verify those also after foundation setup.
We haven't even started guys, RELAX.
Let me know if anything is not clear or still any doubts, pls feel free for any more queries.

  DERO developers are same, No change or something like that.

Hello @Serena, @Mojo_LB  Good Luck for your life and Mojo too.

Thanks everyone for the support.

All is fine DERO community mods(Serena and Mojo) tried their best to damage and create panic nothing more. There is nothing to fear/worry, dont fall into any FUDs. I myself joined discord two days back after several complains of Serena and Mojo. DERO telegram is still operated by Mojo. I trusted them to create/operate discord and telegram community as we were naturally focussed on development. Everything is on track and nothing to worry

There are two options to check out how good is DERO's tech.
1] First Dont wait for others , start  DYOR, Go through the already released source code https://github.com/deroproject/derosuite , let me know if you are capable to figure out something good.
2] Else see below and start believing on others:
 DERO find place in blockchains build from scratch  https://twitter.com/cryptic_monk/status/999227961059528704





Pls feel free if you still have any doubts.

Rd.
Captain.