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

[vortexz]

Bloomberg has created a cryptoindex containing 10 coins , managers give each one a weight , DASH  is about 1% of the weight .

[alamgirbd]

As one of the most popular altcoins in the market, Dash has witnessed a steady growth in the last few years, and 2017 has been an exceptional year for this rising altcoin. Needless to say, it has successfully managed to break into the $1 billion market cap club.

[NibiruHybrid]

How Cryptocurrency Went From Exit to Escapism

This week the Consensus 2018 conference kicks off, a high-powered blockchain conference charging thousands per ticket. What a jump from the time Bitcoin was a program being run by a few hardcore believers trying to mine as much as possible from their home computers. Yet, despite this nearly half-trillion dollar booming market with countless projects and companies, the world is still largely the same as it was a decade ago. Somehow, the main thrust of rapidly-growing crypto economy shifted somewhere along the way.

Cryptocurrency’s true power is exit

The real power promised by distributed ledger technology applied to a medium of exchange wasn’t better payments. It wasn’t more security, interesting tech, or the concept of immutability. It was the ability to build an efficient global financial system without the permission of any of the powers that be. It was the ability to bypass the restrictions of banks, governments, payment companies, and whatever other gatekeeper exists in the present economy, and transact freely regardless of geographical location, jurisdiction, or financial and educational background. In short, it was the gift of exit, the ability to successfully leave the old system that controls the world today. Crypto was freedom.

Read more: https://www.dashforcenews.com/how-cryptocurrency-went-from-exit-to-escapism/

[bamita137]

There are also a lot of negative comments around the coin. But in my view, this is normal, and there is debate before there is development.

[JanpriX]

How Cryptocurrency Went From Exit to Escapism

This week the Consensus 2018 conference kicks off, a high-powered blockchain conference charging thousands per ticket. What a jump from the time Bitcoin was a program being run by a few hardcore believers trying to mine as much as possible from their home computers. Yet, despite this nearly half-trillion dollar booming market with countless projects and companies, the world is still largely the same as it was a decade ago. Somehow, the main thrust of rapidly-growing crypto economy shifted somewhere along the way.

Cryptocurrency’s true power is exit

The real power promised by distributed ledger technology applied to a medium of exchange wasn’t better payments. It wasn’t more security, interesting tech, or the concept of immutability. It was the ability to build an efficient global financial system without the permission of any of the powers that be. It was the ability to bypass the restrictions of banks, governments, payment companies, and whatever other gatekeeper exists in the present economy, and transact freely regardless of geographical location, jurisdiction, or financial and educational background. In short, it was the gift of exit, the ability to successfully leave the old system that controls the world today. Crypto was freedom.

Read more: https://www.dashforcenews.com/how-cryptocurrency-went-from-exit-to-escapism/

Good read, with facts that are mostly real and applicable with what we have right now in cryptosphere. This article made me realize that the technology that we currently have is indeed a gift of exit for our financial assets especially with DASH. As a coin that provides instant transaction and privacy, DASH facilitates the freedom that we want with our financial assets in any way that we want.

[maot4]

There are also a lot of negative comments around the coin. But in my view, this is normal, and there is debate before there is development.

Which coin are you referring to, hope not Dash?.  Dash is the only digital currency that not only has a strategic pupose and vision behind it, it also had a well defined tested and working structure. I've been silently impressed with how strategically the team have been driving the vision with a combination of well thought out road maps, collaborative marketing and educating the general public of the scalability and advantages that Dash brings to the digital ecosystem. Anyone that has negative comments about DASH definitely has no clue what the coin is about.

[qwizzie]

what are the advances in the work on this cryptocurrency?

The biggest advance will be implemented when Dash introduce Dash Evolution later this year, it is a major update that will bring Dash
massive on-chain scalability, userfriendly wallets for both users and merchants and it adds another layer to Dash current two-tier model.
It will introduce a decentralized api that will enable merchants to easily adopt Dash in their payment options and it allows the storage
of encrypted customer data on Dashdrive.

Link : https://www.dash.org/evolution/    

Eventhough Dash current roadmap is outdated and in the process of getting a major revision, it does provide some technical information on
what lays ahead for Dash in the nearby future : https://github.com/dashpay/dash-roadmap/blob/master/README.md
 

[ilcapitano]

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DASH can bring lots of helpful stuffs to its customers, users, including privacy, freedom, fast transaction speeds, stable Masternode ROI, potential to see its considerable rises in the future.
If you remember, DASH's all time high is somewhere around $1,5k. Currently, its price has stayed almost unchanged around $400.
Let's do what you should do in order to earn profits from DASH.
By the way, thanks DASH team and NibiruHybrid , in particular for regularly updated announcements.

[Lontonbit]

Is there any particular reason why dash doesn’t have a speaker at consensus? It seems like a missed opportunity.

[qwizzie]

Is there any particular reason why dash doesn’t have a speaker at consensus? It seems like a missed opportunity.

Consensus is organised by Coindesk, the speaker panels are also moderated by Coindesk.
Coindesk is not exactly pro-Dash and seems to focus more on startups, industry newcomers, ICO's and Bitcoin itself.

There are also not that many older altcoin cryptocurrencies represented in the form of a speaker,
Ethereum is boycotting this conference due to high cost per ticket and Coindesk accidentally promoting a scam project
(Coindesk used a wrong link in one of their articles) and other older altcoin cryptocurrencies are absent as speaker as well.

Hopefully with just the Dash booth over there enough important connections can be made and valueable networking can be done for Dash.  

Edit 1 : this is just my personal opinion, there could be far more logical and/or financial reasons behind it.
Edit 2 : i just came across a datasheet that contains those altcoin projects that are scheduled to speak, there are more altcoin speakers either in panels or through presentation than i anticipated.
Coindesk does seem to mostly focus on the recentely hyped ones : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3775772.0

[NibiruHybrid]

GPU Revenue Signals Growth of Cryptocurrency Demand

Record sales by GPU manufactures, Nvidia and AMD, signals that consumer demand for cryptocurrency mining and thus cryptocurrency is continuing to increase.

Last week Nvidia posted first quarter revenue of $3.21 billion USD, of which $289 million USD, or 9% of total revenue, was attributed to cryptocurrency mining sales. AMD, Nvidia’s chief rival, also reported first quarter revenue of $1.65 billion USD, of which 10% were also cryptocurrency mining sales. Even more significant was the growth from the previous year, 145% from Q1 2017 for Nvidia and 40% from Q1 2017 for AMD. Nvidia’s CFO Colette Kress said that “cryptocurrency demand was again stronger than expected, but we were able to fulfill most of it with crypto-specific GPUs”.

Read more: https://www.dashforcenews.com/gpu-revenue-signals-growth-of-cryptocurrency-demand/

[qwizzie]

Digital cash added to Gemini Exchange

Please stop trolling and get a life.

“Bitcoin being digital gold and Zcash being digital cash.”

By the way, you are raping your own slogan : If you can be anything, be kind and fair

[NibiruHybrid]

Can ASICs Be Avoided? Centralized Cryptocurrency Mining May Be Unavoidable

Cryptocurrency mining may be prone to both industrialization and centralization, despite attempts to keep the field decentralized.

A new post by Sia lead developer and Obelisk mining founder David Vorick goes into detail on the current state of specialized cryptocurrency mining machines known as ASICs. According to Vorick, ASICs can be developed profitably for just about any mining algorithm in existence, and flexible machines can still be built that can adapt to a network with frequent algorithm changes mean specifically to throw ASICs off:

“The ultimate conclusion here once again wraps back to the capabilities of ASICs. I think there are a lot of people out there who do not realize that flexible ASICs are possible, and expected that routinely doing small hardforks to disrupt any ASICs on the network would be sufficient. It may be sufficient sometimes, but just as algorithms can attempt to be ASIC resistant, ASICs can attempt to be hardfork resistant, especially when the changes are more minor.”

The post goes into detail about the manufacturing process, as well as the manufacturer-skewed mining market that allows large companies with quick turnaround times to continually make profits even on machines that are quickly obsoleted. The sum message is of the relative futility of attempting to resist the industrialization of mining, and with it the rise of a few relatively centralized players in both mining and the manufacturing of mining equipment.

Read more: https://www.dashforcenews.com/can-asics-be-avoided-centralized-cryptocurrency-mining-may-be-unavoidable/

[Lontonbit]

Should I buy more dash now?

[AzzAz]

Should I buy more dash now?

You always can ( if you want to hold long term ). Even under 0.05 short term. And you always can share MN...

[tungfa]

Dash @ Consensus 2018 - Live from NYC

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/consensus-2018-live-from-nyc.37872/#post-186833

[aqui12]

what do they use to save their dash?
electrum.dash is safe or not
I'm looking for one that has low fees and saves a lot of time, have the private keys
help

[tungfa]

what do they use to save their dash?
electrum.dash is safe or not
I'm looking for one that has low fees and saves a lot of time, have the private keys
help

buy a TREZOR
150% save ; )

[aqui12]

what do they use to save their dash?
electrum.dash is safe or not
I'm looking for one that has low fees and saves a lot of time, have the private keys
help

buy a TREZOR
150% save ; )

Thank you for your answer, but I do not have money to buy, so I want one that is saved on the pc , i have no other way

[Lontonbit]

Dash @ Consensus 2018 - Live from NYC

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/consensus-2018-live-from-nyc.37872/#post-186833

Are there breaking news for DASH community from the current consensus?
Would you mind giving me a bit important information about what's going on there, please.
Yesterday, DASH price took off for a short period of time, only several minutes.
I hope that DASH will actually grow exponentially after the end of the current consensus.

One of these days the pump is going to be real lol a sustained pump up in to the sky