This Week in Dash: Tracking the Path of Bitcoin’s Stealthier Cousin

This Week in Dash: Tracking the Path of Bitcoin’s Stealthier Cousin

Dash is one of the cryptocurrencies hoping to one up Bitcoin by promising greater privacy, instant transactions, and token fungibility. Taking a break from BTC price hysteria, let’s instead take a look at what this perennial top-10 cryptocurrency has been up to in the past week. You never know…Bitcoinists might even learn a thing or two. Dash in the News. Let’s make a grand (and short) sweep across social happenings, price movements, networks statistics, development updates and more; here’s a 7-minute video update of the past week in Dash. Two mainstream mentions — namely VentureBeat and....


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