Arizona State University (ASU) has announced a partnership with the digital currency Dash that will provide $350,000 to accelerate research, development, and education in ways that advance blockchain transaction speed, efficiency, security, and expand its uses.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/arizona-state-university-partners-with-dash-to-fund-research-scholarships"One of Dash’s community members who goes by the handle of “TanteStefana,” wrote that while MIT funds Bitcoin’s development, Dash funds ASU’s research lab. She points out that the direction of influence is completely different: Bitcoin is at least partially dependent on the good will and fundraising efforts of MIT. This means the university could theoretically attempt to influence the project.
With the partnership between Dash and ASU, money and influence flows in the opposite direction. It’s Dash that’s providing funding to ASU, making it impossible for the university to wield any influence over the project."
Great way to create a conflict of interest. Now Dragan Boscovic, who
is a notorious Dash pumper, suffers from perverse incentives to steer clear of any research showing Dash is obsolete digital trash compared to the latest version of Bitcoin and more advanced blockchain schemata like Monero and Cardano.
The fact MIT sponsors a couple of Core devs has little to no bearing on BTC as a whole, but since she brought it up let's unpack the compounded false representations and insinuations within her misleading propaganda.
Tante's analysis is flawed because she does not take into account the fact Dash simply copies and pastes most of its code from Bitcoin Core.
The idea MIT "could theoretically attempt to influence" Bitcoin Core is absurd on its face given the fact Core successfully resisted much larger pressures brought to bear in the XT, Unlimited, Classic, and (especially) Segwit2X initiatives.
Then there is the fact Arizona State is a shit-tier CS school that isn't even a backup choice for the best and brightest budding devs.
On the other hand, MIT is literally the top ranked CS school *in the entire world*.
Don't believe me, check the objective rankings for yourself:
http://www.shanghairanking.com/Shanghairanking-Subject-Rankings/computer-science-engineering.htmlIt's a shame ASU grad's EECS degrees will be worth less when the inevitable collapse of the Dash HYIP Ponzi scheme collapses and via association tarnishes the reputation of the admittedly improving CS department.
But hey, more power to Dragan Boscovic for successfully riding the Blockchain Hype Gravy Train as long and as hard is possible. Not a bad outcome for a dude who couldn't get a job at any Uni ranked above number 150.
Still, it's poor form to be taking pot shots at MIT and Core given the fact Dash copies and pastes most of its code from Core's repo. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
Let's hope he can fix Dash's
outstanding transaction malleability problem (so they may someday enable Lightning payment channels), or perhaps enable the IPv6 solution
promised many, many moons (IE >1 year) ago but never delivered and all but forgotten about, or maybe even improve the
horrendously slow/expensive/unreliable performance of Dash's PrivateSend.
