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

[Tungi17]

Dash Core Group (DCG) is excited to announce the imminent release of Dash Platform v0.17 for testnet.
https://blog.dash.org/release-announcement-dash-platform-v0-17-dashpay-on-testnet-13a85225902e

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[sterle]

I heard dash is widely used in colombia is that right some stats?

[badlogin]

Maybe its good time to remove "private" functions to get unban from Asia markets?

There is practically no mention of DashPay on YouTube.
Same on Twitter.

How is this product supposed to be adopted if nobody knows about it?
Even my friends, who are interested in cryptocurrencies, were surprised, as I mentioned about Dash - they were sure that the project has already died and nothing is happening to it.

[Pang.]

Well, I couldn't resist. Faced with this new stage, we will see if it is shit or something relevant in the future. I have bought my son 10 dash for under $ 100 each.

Greetings to all and happy entry into 2021

[qwizzie]

Well, I couldn't resist. Faced with this new stage, we will see if it is shit or something relevant in the future. I have bought my son 10 dash for under $ 100 each.

Greetings to all and happy entry into 2021

Happy and healthy 2021

[qwizzie]

I heard dash is widely used in colombia is that right some stats?

Maybe this will help : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNjKP5JsGwI
Edit : it looks to be a video that was released in 2019 and re-posted recentely.

I don't have statistics, but i suspect there is still a Dash team on the ground in Colombia.
300 merchants was mentioned in that video of 2019, i can't confirm that number.

We used to have a statistics site that showed statistics per country, but after the Dash Force proposal got no longer funded in 2019 that site was no longer maintained.
This is the site i am talking about : https://discoverdash.com/location/colombia-2/ & https://discoverdash.com/stats/ (both not maintained for a long time now, data to be considered out of date).
Also from 2019 (and also to be considered out of date by now) : https://dashnews.org/analyzing-preliminary-dash-merchant-transaction-data-in-five-top-countries/

Looking at our most recent Dash Core Group Quarterly Call (Q3 2020) : https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/dash-core-group-q3-quarterly-call-29-10-2020.50832/
(see presentation slides in the edit there), it looks like Dash Core Group main focus is (and has been for awhile now) on Venezuela. There are currently no specific Colombia-focused
Dash community budget proposals getting funded that i am aware of, that could be used to gather statistics from.

So your very short and to the point question, is getting a bit of a unsatisfactory (even to me) answer. We are simply missing the resources right now to provide accurate statistics
about Dash usage in Colombia.

[toknormal]

Why don't you link directly to the docs ? This seems like an enormous body of work.

It's buried away 2 layers deep in a download but seems to be the eye-opener on the panorama.

[qwizzie]

Why don't you link directly to the docs ? This seems like an enormous body of work.

That is testing Dash Platform through Dash Evonet by using Dash Javascript.
I suspect testing Dash Platform on Testnet is something different, at least i assume it is.

[toknormal]

What's the difference ?

To me that stuff looks like what prospective devs would want to know. It's all beautifully laid out.

[qwizzie]

What's the difference ?

To me that stuff looks like what prospective devs would want to know. It's all beautifully laid out.

Evonet is more focused towards developers, providing them with tools to develop their own Dapps and improve the underlaying foundation (Dash Platform)
Dash Testnet is more focused i think towards endusers, and is normally tested through different test binaries (Windows / Mac / Linux) that gets available to users.

Instead of connecting to Dash Mainnet, a testnet environment is created that has its own blockchain, runs on tdash and uses its own test binary.  
Testnet is also a lot bigger then Evonet, so testing can be done on a much larger scale. All people really have to do to get on testnet is add -testnet=1 in their shortcut
(in target, behind the .exe) or put testnet=1 in their dash.conf
That will trigger the creation of the testnet environment.

I still have difficulty understanding how Dash Platform can be tested on our public Dash Testnet exactly.
I do understand how Dash Platform can be tested on Evonet (i played with it a bit, awhile back).

Normally Dash Testnet gets its binaries from Github and get distributed to users for testing purposes in here : https://www.dash.org/forum/topic/testing.53/
They are normally binaries that are a software version ahead of Dash Mainnet.

[toknormal]

Evonet is more focused towards developers...
Dash Testnet is more focused i think towards endusers...

ok, TX !

So there are 3 networks, not 2 ? Testnet, Evonet and Mainnet ?

[qwizzie]

Evonet is more focused towards developers...
Dash Testnet is more focused i think towards endusers...

ok, TX !

So there are 3 networks, not 2 ? Testnet, Evonet and Mainnet ?

Yep. Although Evonet is a different kind of network and uses a different coding language (Javascript / Node.js).
I consider it more a Dash Platform-specific testing network for devs --> https://blog.dash.org/announcing-the-release-of-dash-platform-on-evonet-c5a94dee0e59
There is also Dash Devnet, which i think can be used by other crypto projects as well for testing and developing their own crypto projects --> https://blog.dash.org/dash-devnets-bc27ecbf0085

Most crypto projects that forked from Bitcoin and that i know of, only use Mainnet and Testnet. Which has its limitations for developers.

[afbitcoins]

if DASH REALLY is looking to optimize as a store of value,  must be backed by proven store of values and OFF CHAIN...

This is not a cryptocurrency. It's a blockchain hosted security which is the worst of all worlds. A signed paper contract is far more secure for this type of asset.

Dash has the Dash Investment Foundation in which store of value assets CAN be purchased and held off chain. Dash would be backed by store of value assets completely separately of the token value.
This would be similar to how central banks hold gold 'off chain' (at least not directly linked to their fiat currencies). As far as I know Dash is unique among cryptocurrencies in this ability

I don't know how a dash fork would or could claim any joint ownership of the DIf assets. Probably would have to start from scratch and create its own investment foundation I'm guessing.

[toknormal]

Is Evonet functionality on testnet ?

Like can developers try out these JSON DAPI calls and the stuff described in "Start building with Dash Platform" ?

....ah, you mean Evonet IS a testnet. It's just not got the word "test" in its name. Whereas "Testnet" is a test upgrade of mainnet that we have at the moment.

Is that it ?

[birdonthewire]

if DASH REALLY is looking to optimize as a store of value,  must be backed by proven store of values and OFF CHAIN...

This is not a cryptocurrency. It's a blockchain hosted security which is the worst of all worlds. A signed paper contract is far more secure for this type of asset.

Dash has the Dash Investment Foundation in which store of value assets CAN be purchased and held off chain. Dash would be backed by store of value assets completely separately of the token value.
This would be similar to how central banks hold gold 'off chain' (at least not directly linked to their fiat currencies). As far as I know Dash is unique among cryptocurrencies in this ability

I don't know how a dash fork would or could claim any joint ownership of the DIf assets. Probably would have to start from scratch and create its own investment foundation I'm guessing.

Obviusly, theres nothing to claim, they are two different projects and matters.

A fork should build its own Reserves. That is Duffield's huge contribution to crypto: The possibility of financing the project by snatching the exclusivity of monetary emissions rewards from the miners (RTaylor wanted to amplify it by stimulating general interest funds , which are those that contribute to the general reinforcement of the project as Taylor knows perfectly ... and the Mnodes only they robbed the miners and increased their own share, condemning the vocation of decentralization and collective enrichment, as in the case of the marginalized Shared Mnodes , also contemplated by Duffield).

Elitist parasitism in DASH stems from a corrupt part of its structure, conceived to administer the project management and its rules ... and which has falsely derived its role towards an orgy of private profit - of the ridiculous profit generated by a garbage currency , centralized and capriciously intervened, of course -   ). Duffield conceived DASH as an economic structure controlled by ALL its members ... but did not pay attention to the possible corruption of one of its parts, which, by blocking the enormous decentralization that a legion of micro-holders would bring, hijacked the project and its spirit of synergy. collective, which was what gave it absolutely limitless projection of expansion and adoption as consensus money, which is what these retardeds underestimated, believing that DASH's wealth not only was raining from the sky...... but also would continue to do so after their crap tricks.

Amputating that collective projection that Duffield understood perfectly, they cut off the head of that insurmountable approach. Now these idiots are looking for that tailwind in "technological excellence", "user usability", "sale of monopoly rights" - the famous "rich" of @xkcd - and other pathetic attempts ... that of course, they will never match , not even remotely, the tremendous power of the original approach of the project, because DASH does not attract support not even to redirect a fucking twiter message ... as is logical and normal , because they have stripped the project of all its power.

It is the price of turning a collaborator with whom to share ... into a client with whom to enrich yourself ...  who obviously will not contribute his money or his effort for that 4 clowns take advantage (the belief that "the public" is such idiot is not true... just a sample of how idiotic the Mnodes are). On the charts against BTC you have the most explicit graphical representation of how crypto sector receives that "conceptual fallacy" (In the opinion of this gang of immoral morons, a "perfect hit"    ) : Literally, ignoring it, even being a supposed "improved BTC" (the biggest improvement of DASH over BTC was already expressed before any recent technological optimization ... and it was that DASH was a BTC self-controlled by their followers and also, distributing dividends...which is an absolutely unbeatable magnetism for a collective project ( yes, BETTER than that of BTC )... Its so simple...that not be understood by the elite who hijacked DASH gives a perfect measure of their neural capacity ).

Global citizens who long to win back the useful money that the global elite has stolen ,  which is the trigger that has made crypto a necessary place to go en masse...are not looking to feed new parasites, even if they change their suits. (Yep yep ... those narcissistic morons who publicly declare that "The Mnodes are like the Fed" ... and then laugh at the "brightness of their own occurrence").

So , that which was snatched and excised from DASH by them is the first thing that must recover a fork of DASH. . Precisely because it is the DNA that DASH no longer has and that caused the perfect popular crossroads PRIOR to ATH 2017. Exactly that absence is what makes the "brilliant minds of DASH" throw their fists into the air, once and again,  as if they were hunting invisible flies ... or every other continuous samples, including stock charts, of dizzying fall into hell. It's like they slaughtering its favourite goat ... and complaining that it won't budge the next time they fuck it. Those are the wonderful mental mechanisms of the "generals" of this army.

[qwizzie]

Is Evonet functionality on testnet ?

Like can developers try out these JSON DAPI calls and the stuff described in "Start building with Dash Platform" ?

....ah, you mean Evonet IS a testnet. It's just not got the word "test" in its name. Whereas "Testnet" is a test upgrade of mainnet that we have at the moment.

Is that it ?

Correct, that is it. In a way you can see Testnet as a fork of Mainnet.

Dash developers and other developers interested in Dash Platform have been testing, improving and developing Dash Platform on Evonet for over a year now.
They connect to Evonet through a Javascript Dash SDK and use Javascript code in their scripts. Dash Platform on Evonet got like 5 updates within a year, each time wiping out stored data
on Evonet and starting with a blank state. Even users had the opportunity to try it out, i think they still can by following the tutorials : https://dashplatform.readme.io/docs/tutorials-introduction  
Here are some concept Dapp's that Dapp devs worked on or where bounties are still for in place : https://dashincubator.app/output

Release schedule is like this : Evonet (public testnet for Dash devs, other interested Dapp developers and interested users) --> Testnet (public testnet for Dash end-users and DCG devs) ---> Mainnet
We moved from Evonet (12 months of testing behind us now) to Testnet (estimated 3 months of testing ahead of us) and in Q1, 2021 we will hopefully move to release on Mainnet.

I am just curious how they plan to test Dash Platform on Testnet and how users with little experience in javascript / node.js can participate in this new testing phase on Testnet.
Maybe they provide us with some tools to make that more easy. Or maybe Dash Platform on Testnet will be more for developers testing it there and less intended for the end-users.

Update : looks like the Javascript Dash SDK that is mentioned in the tutorial that focus on connecting to Dash Platform, will connect to Testnet by default now per version 0.17.0 :


Source : https://dashplatform.readme.io/docs/tutorials-introduction

So they changed the Javascript Dash SDK to connect to Testnet instead of Evonet. Looks like the testing of Dash Platform on Testnet will be pretty similar then, to testing Dash Platform on Evonet.
We will still need to use the Javascript Dash SDK for that.

Another more simple way of testing Dash Platform elements is by using the Dash Chrome wallet, which either installs as an extension to browsers or installs as a Stand-Alone Desktop version (Windows, Linux, Mac). It is already updated to connect to Testnet, with its latest v1.7.0
Link :

https://github.com/readme55/Dash-Chrome-Wallet/releases
https://github.com/readme55/Dash-Chrome-Wallet/commit/a65827dfb0c7553d381d7835e39c9849ddce82c3

[Alexey45]

Happy New Year Bull and bullish trend!
Congratulations to DASH on hitting bottom and 32nd place in coinmarketcap
↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓

[qwizzie]

Also Happy New Year to those incapable of change, stuck in their old ways.
Trolling and fudding their way into 2021.

It is sad really, that certain people can't even find something positive to post, 1st of January 2021.
I guess it is all about people's mindset, how they cope with things.

[qwizzie]

For those interesting in doing some testing of our next Dash Core wallet version 0.17.0.0 RC2 on Testnet, scheduled for release on Mainnet later this month : https://github.com/dashpay/dash/issues/3775

* go to https://github.com/dashpay/dash/releases/tag/v0.17.0.0-rc2
* make sure you put testnet=1 in your dash.conf
* get some tdash here : http://faucet.test.dash.crowdnode.io/ or here : http://testnet-452625393.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com/ (or ask me for some tdash)
* test PrivateSend mixing, instantsend locking, test possible GUI changes, test encryption on new wallets, etc.  

I am doing some PrivateSend mixing testing there right now :




For those interested in doing some testing of certain Dash Platform elements on Testnet :

Two options :

Option 1 : Use the Javascript Dash SDK. The Javascript Dash SDK connects to Testnet with latest version

* go to : https://dashplatform.readme.io/docs/tutorials-introduction  

This option require a tdash walletaddress with some tdash in it (which may need to be topped up a bit to pay for creating an identity)

Option 2 : Use the Dash Chrome wallet, which can be installed as an extension to browsers or can be installed as a Stand-Alone Desktop version (Windows, Linux, Mac).
The Dash Chrome Wallet connects to Testnet with latest version and even creates a tdash address with some tdash in it

* go to : https://github.com/readme55/Dash-Chrome-Wallet/releases

For those interested in doing some testing of the DashPay Wallet Dapp :

*  go to the DashPay Alpha Program and join : https://www.dash.org/dashpay-alpha-program/ (in the coming days this will be updated to connect to Testnet as well)

This will also most likely require a tdash walletaddress with some tdash in it.

[Alexey45]

33rd place is that what investors have dreamed of for several years?
Obviously the bullet will solve the DASH marketing issue.
You don't understand anything with words.
Soon investors will start shooting at the DASH management and only then the value of the coin will rise.