Monero's official website got compromised today and was infected with malware designed to steal coins : https://www.zdnet.com/article/official-monero-website-compromised-with-malware-that-steals-funds/

This got me thinking : do Dash users know how to verify the provided hash file that is available with the official Dash downloads ? (to verify if they have downloaded the correct official Dash Core Wallet file ?)
So i wrote this quick hash verification procedure for Dash users that are using Windows 10 / Windows 7.

When downloading from the official https://www.dash.org/downloads website, you will often come across this 'Hash File' :

 

After downloading such a 'Hash File', you end up with a SHA256SUMS.asc file. This .asc file can be opened with notepad / notepad++
which shows you the hash for each download and which looks like this :



Now lets for example download 'dashcore-0.14.0.3-win64.zip' and verify its hash to make sure that the downloaded file is actually the correct file with a match to hash number '0c3fe9a3658f4b676596154b085793fe6674f4d2c5c6015146f8bcedc883e25a'

For Windows 10 users, i suggest using Windows PowerShell (Admin), which you can find when you right click on the Windows Startbutton. For Windows 7 users i suggest you search
for Windows PowerShell within Windows 7.

Within Windows PowerShell (Admin) use cd to go to your download directory, use ls to list the files in there and then use command CertUtil -hashfile fullfilename* SHA256
* you can select and then copy (ctrl c) and paste (ctrl v) the full filename from within PowerShell  




As you can see the hash of the file i downloaded (dashcore-0.14.0.3-win64.zip), match with the provided hash in the Hash File.
The same can (and should) be done for other files like the Linux x64 file, when you for example need to update your online server / masternode.

Since it looks like we will be having a Dash Core Wallet update (v0.14.04) soon, we all will have an excellent opportunity to practice this.

Interesting to see Dash battling with Litecoin on the dark web.
It does seem to correspond with the transaction numbers on their network : https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactions-ltc-dash-xmr.html#6m
(Monero transactions are included to demonstrate that Monero is simply not that much used during this bear market in comparison to other networks, it seems to be failing its primary use case)

Wow, just wow. Monero users & merchants will actually have to wait for 10 blocks / 20 minutes, before being able to spend any incoming transaction ? Thats pretty bad news for both Monero users and merchants.
On a side note (but related nonetheless) : I wonder if this hard fork will finally fix Monero's locktime vulnerability on its transactions once and for all... or is that bug still there after the hard fork ?

Link : https://hackerone.com/reports/417515



You can read about this locktime bug in Monero's readme.md on Github : https://github.com/monero-project/monero/blob/master/README.md


With the current locktime bug and the hard fork's ten blocks locktime enforcement, i find it difficult to see Monero (or any other Cryptonote project) getting much usage with regards to transactions.
You basically have your own cryptonote protocol working against you.

 

 

Dash LatAm fights to stay alive despite funding woes


source picture : from article itself



Read more here : https://decrypt.co/11325/dash-latam-fights-to-stay-alive-despite-funding-woes

Good to see them continue the work and good of Dash Core Group clarifying that Latin America (Venezuela especially), remain vital markets.
There is also a Reddit Dash thread where this is being discussed : https://www.reddit.com/r/dashpay/comments/duf2d4/dash_latin_america_adoption_leader_leaves_in/
To conclude i also found this post : https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/announcement-regarding-the-closure-of-dash-latam-and-the-status-of-dash-in-latin-america.48796/#post-217645

Edit : i see Weaselly-Febo is back. I hope he is not still pretending to be a Dash supporter, who is just here to ask the tough questions ?
A bit difficult to present to us when he has such a strong Monero background and such a recorded hatred for Dash (posting history can be such a bitch).  

So you are looking out for us by backing up Febo ? A Monero fanatic who is trying to pass off as a Dash investor on this Dash ANN forum
(which is a hilariously dumb move on itself). A very strange way of looking out for us.

Maybe you should try to find other ways to look out for us guys, maybe wear one of these in your Bitcoin Wall Observer thread ?



That would be a clear visible sign of you looking out for us 

I use messario.io a lot too, i just filter out the stable coins and exchange tokens by activating "Show Watched Only' and i normally include '% Down from ATH' in my selection, so i can monitor how Dash is doing in comparison with other crypto projects. You get an overview like this then :



There are also other indicators i sometime use (ROI per year in USD, Active Addresses, Transactions, Payments). I have noticed the Median Fee there too, but i'm not familiar with the details of this indicator either.

To track the Dash price on a long term chart, i use Tradingview.com and select Dash on exchange Poloniex. This is one of the older exchanges trading Dash and has a nice long Dash price history, handy when looking at this with a long term eye. I like to put Dash on a 1W interval, which gets you an overview like this :



Price

As you can see there is a clear 'bottoming out' happening here for Dash in btc price and we are now basicly waiting for the MA cross to occur. If it breaks upward (red crosses green / golden cross) it will be a bullish signal, if it breaks downward (green crosses red / death cross) it will be a bearish signal.
 
RSI : Relative Strength Index

This (customized) RSI shows overbought condition (70 or above) and oversold condition (30 or below).

MACD : Moving Average Convergence/Divergence  

Signals possible new trends, their strength and also their duration. This customized MACD indicator use red lines for downside momentum and green lines for upside momentum. Current upside momentum started mid september 2019. Previous upside momentum took place between 10 september 2018 and 15 april 2019 (7 months). It will be interesting to see how long this new upside momentum lasts and if it can manage to push price up. Another way of looking at these red and green lines is negative and positive MACD.
MACD is known as a lagging indicator.

These TA's (technical analyse) are not as accurate as their usage in stock markets and should not be overly relied on. But they can provide on long term charts a signal for new forming trends or a strengthening in trends. Which is why i look at them from time to time, to get a feeling for the market (i'm not a trader and this should not be used for making trading decisions).

Are you part of the Dash community infofront ? If not, is it not  a bit strange to post in here and participate in this trolling campaign against Dash ?

Maybe you and your nice Bitcoin Maximalist hat should return to the Bitcoin Wall Observer thread, where you seem so much more at home. Also I seem to recall you really only like Monero as altcoin, is that correct ? (I'm too lazy to check your posting history right now).

Good Lord, bear markets sure bring out the worst in people online.

Active wallets overview seem stuck on 24 July 2014 ?



By the way, how is the sorting arranged in the Coins tab ? The (Alt)coins seem to fluctuate with each other a lot there...

Well, there is still time to put this into a question for the Dash Core Group Q3 Summary Call that starts 14th of november 2019.
Link : https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/dash-core-group-q3-2019-summary-call-thursday-14-november-2019.48704/

I'm not sure though if Dash Core Group has detailed information about this as Dash Labs and Dash Core Group are separate groups,
and are operating independently from each other. But maybe Ryan can share what he knows.

Also i think it is a bit premature to call him 'a developer who has run away with his coins promising to use them for great things that have not happened',
Dash Labs did create the Dash Labs Data Collection Protocol. Maybe the bear market hit him hard too, who knows.

I guess all we can do with Monero trolls like Febo who are demonstrating appalling trolling behavior in this Dash ANN thread, is to put them on ignore and report them
to the moderation team. Which i just did.

Congratz Febo, my first reporting in a very very long time. You trying to pose as a 'concerned' Dash investor several times already in our Dash ANN thread, while being fully invested in Monero
is misleading and dishonest to this Dash community and simply not very smart. Trolling behavior like that is one of the reasons people suddenly end up with negative trust scores on their account,
something to think about.



Dash is Looking Forward for Cryptocurrency Adoption in Latin America
Link : https://cryptomoonpress.com/dash-is-looking-forward-for-cryptocurrency-adoption-in-latin-america/

I came across this very good analysis of Dash, which not only focus on price but also explains all the aspects of Dash
and its history very well. Its an article from Brave New Coin and is dated 21st of october 2019

Dash Price Analysis - Increasing and sustained on-chain activity



Link : https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/dash-price-analysis-increasing-and-sustained-on-chain-activity

Below is just a brief summary that i'm quoting here, the article itself is an interesting read and i advice you all to read it fully.


Two remarks :

Protocol development for Dash on Github takes place in 'Development' before getting pushed to 'Master', which not many reviewers are aware of and not many sites take into account. Link : https://github.com/dashpay/dash/commits/develop
As you can see there is a lot of recent activity around Dash next update (v0.14.1), although it most likely pales in comparison to number of commits for v0.14.0 (much larger update).
I'm not sure this article included the Github 'Development' activity or just looked at Github 'Master' activity.

Delisting due to regulatory concerns seems to have slowed down, latest news was OKEx Korea actually reconsidering the delisting of Dash and Zcash and putting both cryptocurrencies back under review.
They did fully delist Monero though. Link : https://www.coindesk.com/okex-korea-reviewing-decision-to-delist-privacy-coins-zcash-and-dash

To conclude, the article also mentioned a new Dash ASIC miner emerging in November, could be interesting to see how this effects the Dash mining hashrate. Will hashrate explode upwards again or will it have
limited impact ? Will miners upgrade their mining equipment ahead of the next -7,1% Dash blockreward reduction ? (planned for somewhere in march 2020 i think).


Update : i think i found the Dash ASIC miner the article was referring to
Edit : a little facepalm to myself, article actually shows the specific new Dash ASIC miner of StrongU in its mining profitability overview picture.

https://miners.eu/product/strongu-stu-u6-x11-dash-miner/ (i have no experience with this specific site, i just found the new referenced ASIC miner there through a Google search)


Lets compare this new StrongU STU-U6 X11 Dash miner with Spondoolies SPx36 Dash Miner (which is out of stock by the way) :

StrongU STU-U6 X11 Dash miner specifications

Power consumption: 1950 Watt
Hashing algorithm: X11
Hash rate: 440 GH/S
All machines include associated power supply
Availability : Pre-Order
Price : €2,000.00 ex. VAT
Mining profitability : https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/dash?HashingPower=440&HashingUnit=GH%2Fs&PowerConsumption=1950&CostPerkWh=0.22&MiningPoolFee=1

Spondoolies SPx36 Dash Miner specifications

Power consumption: 4400 Watt
Hashing algorithm: X11
Hash rate: 540 GH/S
All machines include associated power supply
Availability : Out of stock
Price : $7,000.00 (that is about €6,336.00 and i assume also ex. VAT)
Mining profitability : https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/dash?HashingPower=540&HashingUnit=GH%2Fs&PowerConsumption=4400&CostPerkWh=0.22&MiningPoolFee=1

In the end it comes down to how much you pay for electricity (in my country about $0.22 / €0.20 per kWh) and exspectations about the Dash price.

What is interesting though is that despite an overall all-time low Dash mining profitability, there is such a growth in Dash mining hash power (near ATH).
This either means that Dash miners are using cheap electricity somewhere, or have high exspectations about a higher Dash price in the nearby future.  

That is pretty cool. If I remember correctly, a lot is happening on Malta with regards to blockchain technology. I think they are very pro blockchain.
Nice to see Dash acknowledged there.

I have to admit i'm getting a bit confused now, how to tell if a troll is actually participating in my friendly little troll competition 'bump this Dash thread the most' or is merely acting on its troll urges ?  
To be totally honest, i kinda mentioned that troll competition as a joke, but i'm not sure the trolls got that (they are not the brightest bunch) and i fear they are now deadlocked in this brutal bump competition.  

So do you feel insecure about Monero's price and is that the reason you are now trolling other crypto projects ? Or is it just a hobby of yours ? I'm just curious.
I'm gonna leave it at this though, i just want to show you guys the Febo we know (the one that trolls the Dash Announcements thread).

Link : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg53012385#msg53012385

Its not a very pleasant Febo.

Happy speculating in here..

Thank you for your participation, always nice to see people feeling pressured enough to make new newbie accounts just so they can troll.
Instant ignore of course. Also i'm seriously considering changing my name to Quizzie or qwizzle, that would make things so much more easy for me  
To those wondering, yes .. it really is a in my name. Just think of wafels.



Seems like you got lost, so i just returned you to your own forum (the Monero speculation thread in this case). Always nice to expose a Monero troll to his own (Monero) community.
I wonder if this will influence how your own Monero community thinks about you, a lot of people just loath trolls these days  

Looks like one of your trolls got lost and ended up trolling in our Dash Announcements thread, so i took it upon myself to return him to you guys. May i suggest you send him to bed without dinner  



I guess the saying 'Once a troll, always a troll' has some merit after all.

Question : could this trolling be related to Febo feeling insecure about Monero's current price and therefore feeling pressured to troll other crypto projects (again) ?
Or is it just in such a person's nature to troll like that ? What do you guys think ? Lets speculate...

This is great, even the trolls sense the longterm price stabilization for Dash and engage in excessive trolling to try to squash any positive sentiment.
Or maybe this is all just a distraction for them, from watching their own falling crypto project prices and from observing their own failed crypto project
accomplishments during this bear market ?

Some of these competing crypto projects really do look horrific on longterm charts, like they could drop 30% in price any day now.
In the mean time Dash continues leading with developments, integrations, growing mining hashrate, increase of active addresses, strong number of active masternodes / longterm investors
and its clear and open communication with its own community.

Tune in for Dash Core Group next Q3 Summary Call on 14th of november 2019 here : https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/dash-core-group-q3-2019-summary-call-thursday-14-november-2019.48704/
This should give us all more information about future updates planned for this year (2019) and a whole bunch of other usefull information as well.

I think we are getting closer, the MACD is showing for some time now a weakening in sell pressure and also crossed the signal line awhile back. Only a matter of time to see
this reflect in price as well in my opinion.

Looks like we have at least arielbit & Alexey45 participating in my friendly little troll competition 'bump our Dash thread the most', they must really really like the prize.
Maybe PoS, Dahaa and kuduirt will join them too, i guess time will tell.

Now just as a reminder, since i have not yet found that brave soul that is willing to rate the participants trolling posts on the merit of being either interesting or funny, there will be no extra
score points for the participants yet. My apologies to those participants that already tried to implement this into their trolling posts.

To conclude i want to thanks those trolls that are participating, and wish them good luck. We can bump this thread to page 10,000 before Xmas, but only when all you trolls work together !
I have faith in you guys !! (i'm assuming you are all guys, please correct me if i'm wrong) .

On a side note : this competition would have been so much more interesting with Icey participating, few trolls that can match his bumping skill or lengthy texts  
Oh Icey, where art thou ?

If our trolls work a little bit harder on bumping our Dash Announcements thread with trolling posts few people in here still read, we could be on page 10,000 by Xmas  
Just to make sure they keep motivated to continue bumping this thread, lets have a friendly troll competition : the troll that manage to bump our thread the most, gets below prize*



* requires a colorprinter, a scissor and some glue

Just bump our Dash Announcements thread if you as troll want to be added to this competition. Trolls making interesting or funny trolling posts gets extra score points.
Now we just need to find a brave soul to actually read their trolling posts and rate them  
Any volunteers ?