Stable coins are used by some traders (mostly large investors) during times of high volatility, when its unclear which way the market goes and when there is a high chance of major price movements.
They use stable coins to protect their investment against this volatility, since stablecoins are directly pegged against the dollar so their investment will be less impacted. Its basicly an alternative to
cashing out in FIAT (which will bring regulation, KYC rules and scrutiny with it).

There are ten stablecoins i'm aware of :

Tether : least trusted of the stablecoins and most controversial as no official audit was ever finished and presented. This stablecoin is issued by Bitfinex, which also has somewhat of a damaged reputation after getting hacked awhile back
and charging their customers in order to cope with the losses.

https://www.investinblockchain.com/new-stablecoins-2018/

Paxos Standard
Gemini Dollar
USD Coin
CarbonUSD
nUSD
Stronghold USD
Candy
LBXPeg
Tiberius Coin

Check the major exchanges and see which stablecoins they implement, that should give you an idea which ones are more in demand.
So in conclusion using stablecoins is not so much about making money, it is about protecting your investment.
Personally (eventhough i dont use stablecoins) i would check out Gemini Dollar as the Gemini exchange is well known (Winklevoss brothers), well regulated, provide strong protection and seems to have good insurance.

Its always interesting to see how fanatic die-hard Monero fans cant stay out of threads relating to Dash.
Hi Febo : what did Monero do these last few months/year with regards to development and integration ?
(besides getting connected more and more to diverse forms of malware focussed on secretly mining Monero and thereby damaging computers and servers)

To all : what did any of your alternative crypto projects do this year with regards to development and integration ?

For every serious investor there comes a time to evaluate the following :

* what are the achievements of the project i'm currently in ?
* what are the use cases of the project i'm currently in ?
* what is the vision of the project i'm currently in ?
* what is the roadmap of the project i'm currently in ?
* does the development team provide clear and accurate communication to its own community ?

If there are no clear answers to above questions, then that should form a red flag, a major red flag !

Also keep this in mind : if and when institutional money enters the crypto markets (hopefully next year), they will be focussing on use cases and on crypto projects that can fund themself for a long period of time
(as they themself will be investing for a long period of time). Which means they need crypto projects with dev teams that can (financially) operate and survive in bear markets and show steady progress.

http://www.dashroadmap.org/



13-dec-2018 Chicken Restaurant Chain Church’s Accepts Dash In 10 Venezuelan Franchises
12-dec-2018 Bitnovo To Integrate Dash Text, Expediting Consumer Purchases And Remittances
10-dec-2018 Thousands Of Dash Enabled KRIP Phones Sold, Spurs Adoption In Venezuela
07-dec-2018 KFC Venezuela could soon begin accepting dash, adding to the number of food outlets in the country that are taking crypto
07-dec-2018 DigiFinex, the cryptocurrency exchange based in Singapore and a top-5 global cryptocurrency exchange will be integrating Dash, including InstantSend functionality.
06-dec-2018 Idax the 11th largest exchange has recently integrated Dash, including InstantSend, as a Dash/BTC pair into their platform.
04-dec-2018 As part of the upcoming 0.13 release, regular transactions will be made InstantSend by default.
03-dec-2018 Dash has announced the future implementation of ChainLocks, an approach to solving a variety of network disruptions, including 51% attacks.
03-dec-2018 Dash ranked 1st as future cryptocurrency payment system in a new research report that examined 32 cryptocurrencies in the areas of Security, Availability, User-friendliness, Technical user aspects & Maintenance
29-nov-2018 Dash has partnered with ePaymints, a global merchant account and payments processing solutions provider, “to accelerate adoption of Dash cryptocurrency in high chargeback and cash based industries”
22-nov-2018 Panda Exchange has integrated Dash into their platform, which will expand both cryptocurrency and fiat trading pairs and add exchange-based InstantSend services for consumers.
21-nov-2018 Dash Point-of-Sale app Spark wins Wyoming start-up Challenge & completed integration of CoinText, which will allow non-smartphone users to use Dash via SMS text.
15-nov-2018 Dash Text, has now incorporated a simplified POS feature to make it easier to SMS Dash from a non-smartphone to a merchant’s wallet.
11-nov-2018 The community has started testing Dash version 0.13.0. This will be the second last update before version 1.0.0, which is the first of a series of updates known as Evolution.
11-nov-2018 Dash’s network processed a historic number of transactions during a recent stress test, far surpassing the previous record for a Bitcoin-based network held by Bitcoin Cash.
18-oct-2018 Medicinal Genomics, has mapped a larger part of the cannabis genome ever done to date. Says: “ Dash can disrupt the scientific review process for the better.”
12-oct-2018 Dash Labs: “Making Significant Progress On Enhancing Robustness Of Dash Network”
24-sep-2018 Bitbns, One Of The Leading Exchanges In India, Has Integrated Dash Into Their Platform.
11-sep-2018 Dash Leverages Innovative Capabilities To Revolutionize Quorum Technology

Yeah, its really striking the lack of good news coming from Dash. This project must be soooo dead  
Above is just from the last few months, Dash has been integrating and expanding throughout this year : https://dashnews.org/
and is showing signs of mainstream adoption in Venezuela :

The wave of institutional money waiting ...

Sooo close and yet soo far away.

I agree there is still a chance that Dash could fall in fiat value, as Dash like most altcoins is totally depending on Bitcoin's price movements. But looking at Dash longterm price movement in btc value, i think Dash hit bottom at 0.01764925.

Monthly Interval Chart of Dash on Poloniex


Note : Just disregard volume, most of the Dash volume takes place on other exchanges. But Poloniex does provide better longterm chart view thanks to its long history with Dash.
          MACD is particularly interesting in this longterm chart, as it could indicate a trend reversal.    

If Bitcoin does not dump below $3000, i think that Dash will make a slow but steady move upwards and i suspect that 2019 will be a lot more friendly to Dash then 2018.
But it will take many many months for Dash (or for any altcoin) to have this severe bearmarket completely processed.

Dash was never premined, nor did the founder ever denied the problems at start. Pls stop spreading lies.

Links :

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/the-birth-of-darkcoin.162/
https://dashpay.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OC/pages/19759164/Dash+Instamine+Issue+Clarification

Because of the instamine, the huge selloff that immediately followed by early miners, the pumps and dumps between 2014-2018, Dash has become one of the most distributed and decentralized projects.

Link : https://arewedecentralizedyet.com/

And just because a coin got added to Coinbase is a poor argument to choose that coin, specially when you see what kind of coins they are adding these days on Coinbase

Link : https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-continues-to-explore-support-for-new-digital-assets-92ba4ab7f465

Roadmap for Dash : http://www.dashroadmap.org/



Longterm (monthly) price development for Dash :



Note : Just disregard volume, most of the Dash volume takes place on other exchanges. But Poloniex does provide better longterm chart view thanks to its long history with Dash.
          MACD is particularly interesting in this longterm chart, as it could indicate a trend reversal.

Yep, 2018 has been a very good year for Dash with regards to integrations and merchant adoption.
Price/market will catch up to that at some point.

For every investor there comes a time to evaluate the following :

* what are the achievements of the project i'm currently in ?
* what are the use cases of the project i'm currently in ?
* what is the vision of the project i'm currently in ?
* what is the roadmap of the project i'm currently in ?
* does the development team provide clear and accurate communication to its own community ?

If there are no clear answers to above questions, then that should form a red flag.

 

Dash next update v0.13 (which is currently tested on testnet and should be out soon) will implement an instant send-lock-spend method on simple transactions (transactions with 4 inputs or less)
without any additional fees. Which means that a customer can pay for something within a few seconds, the transaction locked against double spending and the merchant can spend received money
right away. Only transaction fees are still applicable, but Dash has pretty low transaction fees.
This should making paying for food / products / services a breeze.

By the way KFC Venezuela is not the only (fastfood) place accepting Dash these days in Venezuela --> https://dashnews.org/chicken-restaurant-chain-churchs-accepts-dash-in-10-venezuelan-locations/
Where to spend your Dash on : https://discoverdash.com/







Roadmap for Dash : http://www.dashroadmap.org/



    

Holy F.. lift off

rebounce time

I dont trust that site, its data is unclear to me and seems static (doesn't change).

Dash current hashrate : 2,14P  
Link : https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/dash-hashrate.html

Correction: The following site show Dash hashrate more clearly --> https://www.coinwarz.com/network-hashrate-charts/dash-network-hashrate-chart (1,37PH/s)
                 Looks like some Dash miners switched off due to recent price dump, which is also making the mining difficulty go lower : https://chainz.cryptoid.info/dash/#@diff
                 (which should make it more profitable to mine again btw)  

crypto51 : 1P ?  

Current mining pools distribution on Dash network
Link : https://chainz.cryptoid.info/dash/#!extraction



crypto51 : 112% NiceHash-able (whatever that means  )
crypto51 : 1 Hr Attack Cost $1,932 ? No idea how they calculate that, but if they calculate Dash hashrate already incorrect and dont take into account the new generation Dash ASIC miner and dont update their own data, what value does this price really have ? Or any of their data ?

Also crypto51 makes no reference to Monero, why ? Why pretty much list all coins but exclude Monero ?

Good point(s)

Bitfinex : https://cryptowat.ch/markets/bitfinex/btc/usd/1d



Bitstamp : https://cryptowat.ch/markets/bitstamp/btc/usd/1d



I have difficulty seeing this dump break through the support at $3000

I wonder if there could be tax reasons for possibly concluding the dump before the start of the new year ?

This gives food for thought : https://www.coindesk.com/when-bitcoins-price-breaks-down-it-follows-a-pattern
Personally i hope Bitcoin hit bottom at $3300 (Bitstamp).

here we go again, check bitfinex..

Looks like this will be their pair for Dash : https://www.idax.pro/#/exchangepro?pairname=DASH_BTC
Should be active tomorrow.  


What is IDAX ?  --> https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/idax/
Looks like they dont have specific FIAT pairs, but they do pair most of their assets to Tether (USDT)

You can read up (or back) about it here : https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/51-attack-costs-on-cryptocurrencies-looking-for-feedback-on-article.38356/
I never did get a clear answer if Dash is really that cheap to attack..... i suspect it is not, specially now with the new ASIC miner out (the one with the very high price tag).
But on the other hand the price of Dash has dropped considerably.

Since the success of a 51% attack depends for a part on a weak hashrate, Dash seems less likely to get hit by 51% attacks thanks to Dash (still) relatively high hashrate and costly hardware.
And with regards to InstantSend possibly forming a protection against 51% attacks :


* TroyDash :
Dash current hashrate and overview of mining pools active on Dash network :

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/dash-hashrate.html
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/dash/#!extraction

Chainlocks obviously provides far better protection against these kind of malicious attacks, then just having high hashrate and high hardware costs.
 

If this transaction (2f453dff069a491e61a026c6d25d4c01fdca099b59d3b770d167e10a7d5825cb) keeps getting stuck, then make a backup of your wallet and go to the repair part of your wallet :
Tools - Wallet Repair and press "Recover Transactions 1".  You will notice this will re-broadcast your transaction to the blockchain and your transaction should get confirmed now.

This sort of thing happens on rare occassions, you could come across it more during mixing then with creating a normal transaction like this one. Maybe you had a bad connection or something
during creation of that transaction ? Let me know if this works.