Christopher Carruthers

Dash Launches Dash Platform Video Series

The Dash Core Group, in partnership with Amanda B. Johnson, launched the first in a new explainer series about the upcoming Dash Platform network upgrade. In a video entitled "Dash is Becoming a Cloud", Ms. Johnson mentioned Dash's new capabilities and the reasons that these upgrades will be possible.

Full video: https://youtu.be/HdNMWjgT9I4

Dash Launches Dash Platform Video Series

On Friday, September 18, 2020, the Dash Core Group, in partnership with Amanda B. Johnson, released the first installment of a video series aiming to explain the intricacies of the upcoming Dash Platform.

In the video, Amanda B. Johnson noted that while Dash has been a leader in blockchain technology with many enhancements to speed, security and scalability, said basic blockchain technology would not be enough to compete with the various payments options and incentives we have today. Rewards programs, contact lists, and easily accessible accounts have traditionally been the domain of centralized entities...

Read more: https://www.dashnation.com/media/news/dash-launches-dash-platform-video-series/

Talking Dash Platform, Venezuela, and Kraken!

I finally had a chance to test out the iOS version of Dash Platform, and will share with you my early impressions. LocalCryptos pointed out that gas fees on Ethereum have the potential to wipe out large chunks of savings for people that put faith in that cryptocurrency. Lastly, the news that everyone's talking about, Kraken has won the right to become a US Bank called Kraken Financial.

Full video: https://youtu.be/nb6Uf3CLKfg

A Dive into Dash's Fundamentals

Fundamentals are one of the most important aspects of a cryptocurrency. This is why whenever you see the announcement of a new coin the first information usually provided is the coin supply, emission rate, hashing algorithm and other similar information. This information is quite vital as it forms the base of a new cryptocurrency. It's no use building fancy new technology on a platform with weak fundamentals that might make it collapse at any moment. As such it's important to look at how Dash handles this critical aspect and why it excels at it.

It’s always best to start with the basics, this gives a quick overview of the philosophy behind a project. Is it a fixed supply like Bitcoin that tries to achieve deflation or an inflationary supply like Ethereum for example. Dash follows in Bitcoin’s footsteps by assigning a maximum supply of 18.9 million Dash meaning that eventually there will never be more than that amount of Dash in existence. Over the time it takes to mine all of the Dash in the world, the reward miners get for solving blocks steadily decreases...

Read more: https://www.dashnation.com/media/education/a-dive-into-dashs-fundamentals/

OrionX Exchange Brings Dash to Chile

Chile is a very important and relevant country within the Latin American continent, and lately, it has been of great help to more than 600,000 Venezuelans who have decided to emigrate because of the political, economic and social problems that have occurred in our country during these last years.

Chileans are an honest, hard-working, and united population that are looking for an evolution and growth within the economic sector, which has been affected by the number of people from different countries who have moved to that region throughout this recent time.

As a result of the aforementioned, the exchange platform OrionX has partnered with Dash. They have decided to join together to offer Chileans and foreigners who are currently living within that country access to and consumption of this leading digital currency for payments, which is impacting the world, day by day, with its innovations...

Read more: https://www.dashnation.com/media/voices-of-dash-nation/orionx-exchange-brings-dash-to-chile/

Dash FastPass: A Trial Run for Dash Platform

The Dash FastPass initiative is a really great idea. A while ago, I released a video outlining the situation that Dash now had the potential to enable near-instantaneous transfers between exchanges due to its InstantSend and Chainlocks technologies. The exchanges, though, were sleeping on this potential to delight their users with a better experience.

How can Dash offer instant transactions?

On the surface, the same way that any other proof of work coin could do it: 0-conf. Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Dogecoin, they're all capable of doing this. But, with 0-conf you run the risk of double-spend attacks that have been proven to be quite trivial to pull off if one knows what they are doing. So, the Dash development team, understanding the need for both speedy and secure transactions, developed InstantSend and Chainlocks to give Dash transactions triple-stage security...

Read more: https://www.dashnation.com/media/voices-of-dash-nation/dash-fastpass-a-trial-run-for-dash-platform/

Molto Bello! Dash Appears on Blockchain Caffe

As a cryptocurrency project that started with English being the only language of communication, Dash had a relatively limited sphere of influence over the first couple of years. Over time, however, Dash began capturing the hearts and minds of multi-lingual individuals who started teaching its concepts to others in different languages. Fast-forward to today, and there is Dash content in quite a few languages around the world. Spanish is the language that's seen the lion's share of global Dash acceptance, but there is significant representation in German, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Polish, Thai, French, and Italian, among others.

The Italian Dash community is led by a pair of hard workers, known as Antonello and Alogen69 on Discord. They are working tirelessly to bring the word of Dash to their countrymen. As part of their work and passion, they attempt to land Italian cryptocurrency influencers to talk about Dash. They do this with the knowledge that if people really take the time to give Dash and its user experience a chance, they will become fans as well and work to bring more and more people into Dash Nation...

Read more: https://www.dashnation.com/media/news/molto-bello-dash-appears-on-blockchain-caffe/

Understanding the Improvements of Dash Platform v0.15

The organization working behind the scenes to improve Dash (the Dash Core Group), continues its usual tradition of releasing updates with new functionalities every six weeks with the upcoming release of v0.15 on Evonet at the start of this year’s 4th quarter (between Oct. 6th and Oct. 20). In order to prepare this update, it was necessary to wipe the entire Evonet blockchain and start fresh with the new parameters. As such, decentralized application developers had to back up and remove their data from the network and will reinstate it after the update.

In a statement issued by the company concerning this process, DCG stated that “while the approach is fine for early testing, it is not appropriate for testnet and mainnet. To handle different versions of data, nodes, and clients all working in coordination, Dash Core Group developers introduced versioning that allows for the smooth roll-out of breaking changes without affecting user experience”...

Read more: https://www.dashnation.com/media/news/understanding-the-improvements-of-dash-platform-v0-15/

Introducing an Enhanced Trading Experience with Dash FastPass

Traders are always looking to gain an edge in the highly competitive digital currency exchange scene. Often decisions are made in seconds by human traders and microseconds by trading bots. Timing is everything, and time lost in either direction of a trade results in a less than efficient, sub-optimal financial result. In short, time is money, and delays result in money being left on the table.

To gain an advantage against their peers, traders have employed various techniques. They try to use exchanges that offer a higher level of liquidity, they design trading bots that are consistently gauging market sentiment in order to make micro-trades that add up to financial gains for the builder, and they've tried to use digital currencies for inter-exchange trading that arrive at their destinations in a short time to take advantage of arbitrage...

Read more: https://www.dashnation.com/media/news/introducing-an-enhanced-trading-experience-with-dash-fastpass/

Breaking Down Dash's Treasury Adjustment Options

For followers of Dash, the initial shock of Ryan Taylor's closing keynote speech at the Dash Open House in December of 2019 was quite palpable. Mr. Taylor, the CEO of the Dash decentralized autonomous organization's largest contractor the Dash Core Group, threw a curveball to the audience that was tuning in expecting to see a demonstration of the latest Dash Platform developments. It felt at the time like he hijacked the whole event, as the prevailing expectation in the community was that this event was solely designed to show Dash Platform's possibilities.

Mr. Taylor closed a successful day for Dash with an unrelated, but in hindsight very important, speech about Dash's economic setup. Why was Dash, a cryptocurrency with amazing technology and successful adoption efforts around the world, a digital currency that's simply a joy to use, doing so badly in the markets? This formerly top 10 project was dropping like a stone in the CoinMarketCap rankings, with other coins that pale in comparison to Dash's accomplishments seemingly leap-frogging it on a regular basis...

Read more: https://www.dashnation.com/media/news/breaking-down-dashs-treasury-adjustment-options/

No, There is No Dash CEO.

In 2015, Dash created cryptocurrency's first decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO for short. Yes, it appeared even before the infamous project of the same name (The DAO) that self-destructed and ended up taking half of the Ethereum network with it. DAOs can be complicated creatures, with lots of features and nuances that are not readily visible to the casual observer. Dash's DAO has an interesting structure, but it's one that can lead to some misconceptions.

One of the biggest misconceptions that I've seen over and over and over again is the title of Ryan Taylor. Mr. Taylor is not Dash CEO, he is the CEO of the Dash Core Group. This erroneous statement has been repeated in headlines, and in more articles and videos than I can count. I understand the confusion, as it's not something that's explained regularly, but this mistake does tend to hurt Dash in an industry that values decentralization...

Read more: https://www.dashnation.com/media/education/dash-does-not-have-a-ceo/

Dash Core Group CEO Ryan Taylor Provides Some Updates

Dash Core Group CEO Ryan Taylor, the leader of the Dash decentralized autonomous organization's largest development contractor, took to Twitter on Friday afternoon to provide some much anticipated updates. In a series of tweets, he informed the community that the next iteration of Dash's software will be hitting testnet imminently.

Version 0.16 of Dash's core software will include many enhancements, and will feature the new block reward allocation that has been discussed at length in the Dash community and approved in a recent governance vote. Mr. Taylor indicated that the product brief will be updated early next week, and there was only a few odds and ends to clear up before we will see a testnet release...

Read more: https://www.dashnation.com/media/news/dash-core-group-ceo-ryan-taylor-provides-some-updates/

There Are Two Sides to Every Story

The Bitcoin network and its many forks have had a tumultuous existence when it comes to the aspect of governance. Originally, there was one Bitcoin. Everyone was on the same page fighting for an answer to the corrupt legacy system. Soon after, however, cracks began to show in the unity. There were differing opinions on how to proceed from a technological standpoint.

Because Bitcoin didn't have and still doesn't have an effective governance mechanism to ascertain the will of the true majority, the only thing they could do was to create another coin through a "hard fork" of the code. This new coin was called Bitcoin Cash, and those that shared the same viewpoint as the leaders of Bitcoin Cash followed...

Read more: https://www.dashnation.com/media/news/two-sides-to-every-story/