[ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency

[wackyD]

anyone know what the hell is going on with dash-news.de ?? site has been offline for like 2 days

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[K~Ehleyr]

anyone know what the hell is going on with dash-news.de ?? site has been offline for like 2 days

It got DDOS'ed and is having to change provider.  It will be back 

[NibiruHybrid]

Funded Dash Treasury Proposals – Sept 3rd 2017

This month was a record setting month for the Dash Treasury Proposal system.  Over $1,500,000 in funding was allocated to 19 projects – none of which were submitted by the Dash Core team.

Read more: https://www.dashforcenews.com/funded-dash-treasury-proposals-sept-3rd-2017/

[doftplatform]

Looks to be interesting project.

Please check our's!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2135212.0

[NibiruHybrid]

Mahamadu Abdul-Salam on Dash’s Growth in Ghana

While cryptocurrency’s trend of rapidly gaining in value is attractive to users in all areas of the world, third world countries in particular are in need of a store of value that is not constantly eroding like many of their national currencies. Beyond value, however, the poorer regions of the world are largely unbanked and are in need of efficient and cheap transfers of value, something that Bitcoin no longer fulfills. I spoke with Dash activist Mahamadu Abdul-Salam on the rapid growth of interest in Ghana for Dash, particularly in the northern regions.

Watch here: https://www.dashforcenews.com/mahamadu-abdul-salam-dashs-growth-ghana/

[MasterMined710]

China ICO Ban Crashes Crypto Markets, Dash China Conference Cancelled

ICOs have been declared illegal in China, causing the cryptocurrency markets to tumble, while an upcoming Dash conference in China has been postponed.

Initial coin offerings as a means of raising capital for cryptocurrency projects have risen to high levels of popularity, with the sale of tokens, many of them issued on the Ethereum blockchain, used to crowdfund development. A notice released by the People’s Bank of China bans the issuance of ICOs, and demands that their issuers refund their customers.

Bitmain co-founder Jihan Wu mentioned the news via Twitter, but also reiterated that the ban only affected ICOs, and that cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin remain perfectly legal for the time being.

https://www.dashforcenews.com/china-ico-ban-crashes-crypto-markets-dash-china-conference-cancelled/

[Xandan]

We all were having big expectations from this future's conference but this will not happen anymore. Dash's market didn't effect much from this market driven under element of fear and in coming days we will see money flowing into big projects like Dash from many ICO's. I like Dash will continuously find opportunity to promote it in China once situation will be clear and things will be calmed down.

[pille]

temporary dashtv mirror: http://173.254.244.45/

[qwizzie]

temporary dashtv mirror: http://173.254.244.45/

Thank you pille

[SuperSayin]

Started getting into cryptos a few months ago and I was very interested in all the money I saw being made on ICOs. I researched a few different coins and a couple sparked my interest, but they are proving not be what I thought they could be. Even tonight I spotted two ICOs that might be scams, so it definitely makes me hesitant about investing in ICOs. I'm starting to research coins that have been around awhile and maintained a level of success in crypto, and Dash is one of the one that I am very interested in. I'm currently looking at Dash, Monero, and Steem as my top 3 prospects for longer term holds. What do you guys think?

[Majormax]

Started getting into cryptos a few months ago and I was very interested in all the money I saw being made on ICOs. I researched a few different coins and a couple sparked my interest, but they are proving not be what I thought they could be. Even tonight I spotted two ICOs that might be scams, so it definitely makes me hesitant about investing in ICOs. I'm starting to research coins that have been around awhile and maintained a level of success in crypto, and Dash is one of the one that I am very interested in. I'm currently looking at Dash, Monero, and Steem as my top 3 prospects for longer term holds. What do you guys think?

Price correction is underway after the 1000s % rises. All cryptos could fall a lot more. The boom-time for ICOs is pretty much over .

The 3 you listed are good, but this is a thread about Dash only.

[Pure-dev]

Dash is doing quite good in the market.My masternode pays me well and i am cool with it holding it wayy long term.

[NibiruHybrid]

What Does Your Response to China’s ICO Ban Say About You?

Whether you’ve taken a second loan out on your car to buy newly-cheap cryptocurrency or are seriously contemplating swan diving off the tallest object you can find after looking at your portfolio, odds are you’re aware of the bloodbath in the markets resulting from China deciding to ban ICOs. But what if I told you that the crisis is revealing as to your own character and motivations in the cryptospace?

Read more: https://www.dashforcenews.com/response-chinas-ico-ban-say/

[york780]

Is dash still a thing?

[MasterMined710]

BItcoin ABC Lead Dev: 2017 Is the First Year with Negative Bitcoin Merchant Adoption


Bitcoin’s merchant adoption has actually gone down this year, according to the Bitcoin ABC lead developer.

In an episode of BitTopia, Amaury Séchet mentioned Bitcoin merchant adoption and its present status. He sees a decline in adoption in 2017, with more and more merchants formerly comfortable with supporting Bitcoin now choosing to no longer do so. The connection between this trend and ongoing high fees is fairly clear as merchants no longer find it viable to accept Bitcoin transactions for smaller payments, and consumers no longer finds the novelty of the transaction to be worth the fees.


https://www.dashforcenews.com/bitcoin-abc-lead-dev-2017-is-the-first-year-with-negative-bitcoin-merchant-adoption/

[profitgenerator212]

Dash and Monero have similar marketcaps right now.

I have heard that Monero has better anonymity than Dash with it's masternode setup.

What reasons do you guys suggest to use Dash instead of Monero, from a general user's point of view.

Why is Dash better than Monero if it is at all?

[MasterMined710]

Dash and Monero have similar marketcaps right now.

I have heard that Monero has better anonymity than Dash with it's masternode setup.

What reasons do you guys suggest to use Dash instead of Monero, from a general user's point of view.

Why is Dash better than Monero if it is at all?

Both have advantages and disadvantages. Dash can scale to mass adoption levels fully decentralized at the protocol level and monero/zcash/btc can't.
Privacy only coins have their uses though, like having value as a Darknet currency, offshore type investment or money laundering on the fly. There is money to be made there but they can never scale to Digital Cash status like Dash, that is where the real money will be.

Dash's anon has also never been broken like other coins and its off-chain mixing is future proofed from Quantum computing which will eventually deanonymize the past of on-chain anon coins like monero etc.




Dash to unleash elite cybersecurity unit to ‘hack’ its blockchain
https://www.cryptoninjas.net/2017/08/03/dash-unleash-elite-cybersecurity-unit-hack-blockchain/amp/



Kristov Atlas Security review
https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/reply-to-kristovs-paper.2325/

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Monero has had a few issues with their privacy tech in the past but claim it is all fixed now. If you are real paranoid the best thing to do would be to use Dash, monero and zcash (on-chain/off-chain) all together, I prefer monero over zcash because of the trusted setup issues. I would hold in Dash at the end though. For me, all I use is Dash for privacy.


Monero Transactions History Can Be Revealed and Exposed: Research
https://cointelegraph.com/news/monero-transactions-history-can-be-revealed-and-exposed-research



Dash's privacy feature has never been broken - Turns out Monero's privacy feature has never really worked to begin with
https://www.reddit.com/r/dashpay/comments/65fz68/dashs_privacy_feature_has_never_been_broken_turns/


Warning: Every CryptoNote/Monero transaction in history will be retroactively exposed
https://steemit.com/cryptonote/@macrochip/warning-every-cryptonote-monero-transaction-in-history-will-be-retroactively-exposed


A well-respected cryptographer earlier this year released a tool called http://www.monerolink.com, where you can link all transactions from 2014-2016 with 100% (due to blockchain timing analysis apparently), and all transactions from 2016-2017 are linkable with a probabilistic distribution dependent on mixin size. So they have a table on the site, 1 mixin transactions are linkable 86% of the time, 10+ mixin transactions are linkable 22% of the time. Monero has fixed this bug since January of this year, but if you used monero on a DNM between 2014-Jan 2017, BEWARE!


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[profitgenerator212]

Dash and Monero have similar marketcaps right now.

I have heard that Monero has better anonymity than Dash with it's masternode setup.

What reasons do you guys suggest to use Dash instead of Monero, from a general user's point of view.

Why is Dash better than Monero if it is at all?

Both have advantages and disadvantages. Dash can scale to mass adoption levels fully decentralized at the protocol level and monero/zcash/btc can't.
Privacy only coins have their uses though, like having value as a Darknet currency, offshore type investment or money laundering on the fly. There is money to be made there but they can never scale to Digital Cash status like Dash, that is where the real money will be.

Dash's anon has also never been broken like other coins and its off-chain mixing is future proofed from Quantum computing which will eventually deanonymize the past of on-chain anon coins like monero etc.

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Trolls incoming in 3 2 1.....

Hey I'm not a criminal, I don't do dark market crap, I am just purely interested in this from either a general user's point of view but also from an investor's point of view because I do hold some Monero and I might buy some more Dash soon.

So you and that article are claiming that Monero is not quantum resistant, which is nothing new, most coins arent.

One point I always find is that the Dash mixing system relies on trusted masternodes to mix, so basically if the nodes are surveillance nodes, then the whole Dash privacy fall appart as well doesn't it?

So it's not just that Monero's privacy scheme is not flawless but actually Dash's privacy is worse.


Now ignoring privacy I do see more value in Dash since it's a DAPP kind of currency with a very active community and it has more appeal than any other blockchain, perhaps 3rd in popularity after ETH.

So I'm not saying Dash doesn't have value, but on the privacy front it's not that good. In other aspects it can be quite good, like the scaling of it I heard is much smoother and better than BTC.

[NibiruHybrid]

ICO Debacle Demonstrates Dash’s Dependable Design

Since their inception, all cryptocurrencies have faced two particular challenges above all others. The first is primarily a technical issue while the other is economic. These issues are scalability and funding. Scalability, of course, has been at the center of the acrimonious debate within the Bitcoin community in recent years. Various technical solutions have been recommended, none of them a “silver bullet” to solve the blockchain’s inherent scaling issues. But the other major challenge—funding—has received less attention, though it is perhaps a greater problem. For a cryptocurrency project to be successful, it must fund the developers and maintainers of the project, but how?

Read more: https://www.dashforcenews.com/ico-debacle-demonstrates-dashs-dependable-design/

[kointrend]

Is dash still a thing?

At least two, digital and cash.