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

[Decksperiment]

Some day in the past, I read that there are partnership between DASH and universities/ academic labs on the implementation of official courses on blockchain and DASH usages.
Please help me with link to it, everyone.
Today, I would like to read it but I can not find it amongst massive posts in the ANN topic of DASH project.  

https://www.dash.org/2018/01/18/asu.html
https://scholarships.asu.edu/scholarship/100296

The new $350,000 Dash-ASU agreement announced today includes:

The Dash Scholars Program, which provides $100,000 in scholarships for undergraduate and graduate research fellowships;
Research lab and Industry open source projects, providing an additional $100,000 in funding for ASU’s Blockchain Research Lab (BRL) and $50,000 in new funding for the Luminosity Lab, and
Blockchain course development, with $100,000 for creating an online graduate course expected to be offered at ASU this fall.
The partnership comes after Dash contributed $50,000 USD in Blockchain Research Laboratory startup funding in August 2017. In November, Dash and ASU announced the creation of the BRL at ASU, the first in academia.

With regards to the Dash Scholars Program, i'm not sure it got renewed for 2019

https://www.dashforcenews.com/new-asu-blockchain-lab-research-shows-dash-can-easily-scale-near-paypal-levels/
https://www.dashforcenews.com/dash-labs-making-significant-progress-on-enhancing-robustness-of-dash-network/

Wow! DASH really impresses me at giving importance to academe by donating huge amount for such cause. This project is becoming more noble.

[kostepanych2]

I've make withdraws from two exchanges two hours ago and still receive nothing...
Whats wrong?
That's because of network stress tests?

[NibiruHybrid]

An Open Letter to Bitcoin Cash Fans: The Lost Years

Bitcoin is fast approaching a civil war. Oh wait, that was last year. This time, one of the factions in the last war, Bitcoin Cash, is split between two camps of its own. Only this time, instead of a relatively smooth split, we may witness a hash war starting on the 15th of November, which could seriously disrupt the entire chain. A chain formulated on the premise of not being disrupted.

If you’re a fan of Bitcoin Cash, I have something to tell you. It won’t be gentle, those days are over. But it needs to be said. We’ve lost years at this already, maybe some of us can avoid losing a few more.

Read more - https://www.dashforcenews.com/an-open-letter-to-bitcoin-cash-fans-the-lost-years/

[tungfa]

Dash MainNet StressTest is over , we managed over 3 Mill Dash transactions in 24h 😉
https://twitter.com/staydashy/status/1061777034232373249?s=21

[FrankWatsonJr]

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The team launched in April 2018 and services the community with the full process from Start to Finish.

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[qwizzie]

I've make withdraws from two exchanges two hours ago and still receive nothing...
Whats wrong?
That's because of network stress tests?

Have your withdraws been processed by now ? Are those withdraws in crypto or in fiat ?
At the time of your post i dont think they were stress testing just yet....

However as of this moment (correction : as of yesterday), they are stress testing in full force :



Goal is to reach as many transactions as possible over the last 24 hours, number of transactions is currently at 3 million.
Update : The stress test seems to be finished now (see post tungfa). There will be a new stress test in december 2018 with version 0.13 (according to https://stresstest.mydashwallet.org/).

The Dash Network Monitors are currently in good shape : http://178.254.23.111/~pub/Dash/Dash_Info.html (Block / Trx Info)



History of the Dash Network Monitors :



Link :

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/dash-transactions.html#6m
https://www.reddit.com/r/dashpay/comments/9ucwqh/dash_stress_test_11th_november_2018/?st=JO53TWGQ&sh=ddd196c7

[NibiruHybrid]

Dash 0.13.0 Update Hits Testnet, Historic Release Imminent

Dash version 0.13.0, the update formerly known as version 0.12.4, is ready to be tested by the community and will be the last update before version 1.0.0, which is the first of a series of updates known as Evolution.

According to the Dash Forum post by Dash Core Group developer, codablock, “this release deploys DIP2/3/4, so we’ll have to ensure all existing and new functionality works as expected in multiple stages of the deployment”. He then expanded on the stages of deployment for getting version 0.13.0 ready for full release.

Read more - https://www.dashforcenews.com/dash-0-13-0-update-hits-testnet-historic-release-imminent/

[NibiruHybrid]

My Big Takeaways from Dash Core Team Q3 2018 Conference Call

Every quarter, the Dash Core team releases a quarterly conference call to inform the community and masternodes of progress and field a few questions. These calls are often hours long, however, and not everyone has the time or attention span to glean all relevant information from the call. In the interest of helping the community get the relevant information, I have listened to the call and included the most important developments/announcements that I noticed.

Read more - https://www.dashforcenews.com/my-big-takeaways-from-dash-core-team-q3-2018-conference-call/

[tungfa]

Dash Core Group Q3 2018 Summary Call - 12 November 2018

https://youtu.be/uK5Un-Wmbm0

Dashpay Q3 Quarterly Slides

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A976-SPLPsZf9QVJ2UlMhfzUNE7UIKKY/view

My Big Takeaways from Dash Core Team Q3 2018 Conference Call

https://www.dashforcenews.com/my-big-takeaways-from-dash-core-team-q3-2018-conference-call/

[tungfa]

Product Brief: Dash Core Release v0.13.0 (v13 now on TestNet)

https://blog.dash.org/product-brief-dash-core-release-v0-13-0-5d7fddffb7ef

[tranthidung]

Highly appreciated your time to answer my question.

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I also added those Dash Scholar Programs in to my topic, namely Available courses on Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology from colleges and Univers

Hope it helpful for newcomers in crypto ecosystem.

[qwizzie]

Highly appreciated your time to answer my question.

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I also added those Dash Scholar Programs in to my topic, namely Available courses on Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology from colleges and Univers

Hope it helpful for newcomers in crypto ecosystem.

Thank you for supporting Dash this way.

[exer20]

The bitcoin seems to be going for a correction, perhaps in the near future the situation may be corrected. Dash go!

[qwizzie]

Dash Nodes Summary per Country (Top 15) : https://dashradar.com/nodes

[NibiruHybrid]

Venezuelan Push for Petro Adoption Provides Opportunities and Drawbacks for Cryptocurrency

The Venezuelan government is planning to offer the Petro, their oil- and commodity-backed cryptocurrency to OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) as a unit of account for oil, however, many have called the Petro’s legitimacy into question.

The country’s petroleum minister and president of state-run oil and natural gas company PDVSA, Manuel Quevedo, announced via tweet that Petro transactions will begin in 2019.

Read more - https://www.dashforcenews.com/venezuelan-push-for-petro-adoption-provides-opportunities-and-drawbacks-for-cryptocurrency/

[qwizzie]

I wonder whats more difficult for Dash to compete against : Bitcoin Cash ABC (Favoured by: Roger Ver) or Bitcoin Cash SV (Leader: Craig Wright) ?
I suspect the answer is Bitcoin Cash ABC, as that includes smart contract abilities, oracle services and scaling improvements all aimed at reducing transaction costs.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/opposing-bitcoin-abc-and-bitcoin-sv-factions-debates-grow-heated-as-the-bitcoin-cash-hard-fork-draws-closer

Bitcoin Cash ABC (dominant in number of nodes)

The Bitcoin ABC split campaign is based on the belief that the basic structure of Bitcoin Cash is “sound”, and “does not need any radical change”. However, improving some of the network features is necessary for its further development,
according to the faction’s roadmap. Proposed upgrades include smart contract abilities, oracle services, and scaling improvements, all of which are aimed at reducing transaction costs at its core.

The future development of Bitcoin Cash is seen by the developers as the implementation of three core ideas.

* Improving 0-conf transactions for making the payment experience instant and reliable without changes to the consensus rules.
* Enabling massive on-chain scaling through the removal of the mempool admittance code and mining RPC.
* Improving fungibility.

With “Adjustable Blocksize Cap” as the faction’s name and slogan, this most popular Bitcoin Cash client also acts in the interest of node operators and intends to allow them “to adjust their block size limit.” The changes are planned to be implemented
by “removing software bottlenecks.”

Bitcoin Cash SV (dominant in hash rate)

The Bitcoin ABC views are opposed by the Bitcoin SV faction. Created on August 16 by the Blockchain development firm belonging to Craig Wright, who has previously declared himself Satoshi Nakamoto, the faction actively promotes the idea of
radical changing the current Bitcoin Cash structure. Its split is designed to entirely overwrite the network scripts of Bitcoin ABC and increase the block size of Bitcoin Cash from 32MB to a maximum of 128MB, all of which are expected to increase
network capacity and scale.

Promoting “miners choice: miners first” philosophy, Bitcoin SV intends to win miners’ votes by restoring the original Bitcoin protocol and promising long-term revenues.

Also by having Bitcoin Cash SV publicly threaten to hash-attack competing crypto projects (any competing crypto project !) by mining empty blocks on their blockchains, it has damaged Bitcoin Cash SV's reputation in my opinion  
and makes it therefore more easy to compete against.

https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/11/12/calvin-ayre-and-craig-wright-allegedly-plan-to-attack-btc-eth-all-cryptos

Coingeek has an exclusive deal with Squaremining for the production of ASICS chips that are being manufactured in Korea by Samsung.

Once they shore up their power with sha256 asics machines, likely attacking and destroying sha256 networks like Namecoin and Factom, they can set their sight on the manufacture of chips on other algorithms and begin to go after
the altcoins which inevitably absorb a large portion of the fractured bitcoin cash community. Coins like Litecoin, Zcash and Dash are obvious targets, but no Proof of Work coin that gains any traction or represents any threat to Coingeek’s
and nChain’s total dominance of this space, will be safe.

With the proven track record of being able to launch successful takeovers of bitcoin derivative networks, they will march on their ultimate goal: the BTC network.

Question remains though how vulnerable Proof of Work crypto projects like Litecoin, Zcash, Monero, Ethereum and Dash are to these hash wars.

[NibiruHybrid]

Dash Stress Test Passes 3 Million Transactions, Smashes Bitcoin Cash Record by Nearly 50%

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.

On the 11th of November, a pre-planned stress test was launched on the Dash network, run by Delta Engine, the company behind MyDashWallet. The stress test broke previous records by reaching over 3 million in a 24-hour period, passing the previous Dash high of 464,000 during an impromptu stress test in July of this year, and exceeding the previous record for a Bitcoin-based blockchain set by Bitcoin Cash in September, 2.1 million, by nearly 50%.

https://www.dashforcenews.com/dash-stress-test-passes-3-million-transactions-smashes-bitcoin-cash-record-by-nearly-50/

[tungfa]

Dash Sees "Mixed Signals on User Growth", Active Adresses Jump by 36%

https://cryptonews.com/news/dash-sees-mixed-signals-on-user-growth-active-adresses-jump-2915.htm

[solowhizkid]

Dash stress test hits 3 million transactions; surpasses Ethereum [ETH], XRP and Bitcoin Cash [BCH] all-time high transactions

https://ambcrypto.com/dash-stress-test-hits-3-million-transactions-surpasses-ethereum-eth-xrp-and-bitcoin-cash-bch-all-time-high-transactions/

#dash_force

Dash Is Breaking Out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riKYz3OAiFQ

#dash_force

[qwizzie]

Dash on a monthly-interval chart on tradingview, showing perhaps the first baby steps towards Dash longterm price recovery :

https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=poloniex%3ADASHBTC


01 dec 2018 will be important in this monthly-interval chart, to monitor if the MACD and RSI continue to have a positive influence on Dash price recovery or not.
The Dash price bottom currently sits at 0.0201500
Current Dash price : 0.0255472