Interview with Evan Duffield, Winner of 2014 Proof of Honor Award
Evan Duffield is known for many things these days. He has revolutionized the altcoin world with the creation of Darkcoin, a cryptocurrency known for its privacy features unknown to other altcoins in its vicinity. He also brought to light a variety of problems in Bitcoin that he solved through the altcoin he made. I have had the privilege to interview Evan once before and was amazed by the calmness to his personality and how experienced he is in regards to darkcoin, bitcoin, and the blockchain as a whole. After watching the development of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for a few years,....
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The voting results for Coins Source's first annual 'Proof of Honor' award for cryptocurrency developers is in, and Evan Duffield has been announced as the 2014 winner. Duffield is the founder and lead developer of Darkcoin, and is credited with the invention of widely used innovations such as the X11 algorithm and the dark gravity wave method of difficult adjustment, which are now used by a slew of other coins, as well as with the introduction of instant transactions to Darkcoin. Darkcoin itself is a privacy-centric altcoin which aims to provide the highest possible level of anonymity to....
Lead developer Evan Duffield discussed the open source development plan for DASH Evolution during LaBitconf 2015. The next stage of DASH development will be featuring decentralized social data storage, social network functionality, an identity system, a decentralized API and more. During an interview with DisrupTek.info at LaBitconf 2015, Evan Duffield got into depth about the future of DASH development, aimed to bring "Paypal-like" functionality to the digital currency with notable advancements in ease of use. Below are some off the highlighted features announced and a general idea of how....
Answering everything from “Will future Dash wallets be based on Electrum or QT?” to “What happens if Evan Duffield gets hit by a bus?” five Dash contractors — Ryan Taylor, Daniel Diaz, Evan Duffield, Holger Schinzel, and Robert Wiecko — recently gave an hour-long Q&A on DASH: Detailed. The full group interview is here: ‘Core’ Team Answers Your Questions. The five guests featured in this interview are Dash’s founder and lead developer, Evan Duffield; Dash’s “treasury guy” and financial planner, Ryan Taylor; business development manager Daniel Diaz; product manager Robert Wiecko; and....
Since early in 2013, Darkcoin has been a permanent fixture in the daily digital currency news. From Darkcoin's initial meteoric rise, quickly reaching a USD value of $15, to the level of security and innovation it provides for privacy seekers, to the failures and triumphs of the "Masternode Network", Darkoin has been almost as interesting and intriguing as Bitcoin itself. And 2015 is shaping up to be a year of rebirth for Darkcoin, which is now Dash. We discuss the state of Dash, and the digital currency industry, with core developer Evan Duffield here on CCN. Interview with core developer....
On the 2nd birthday of Dash, CoinTelegraph spoke to Evan Duffield, the founder and lead developer of the Dash Project (formerly Darkcoin), to talk about the 2 years of this dashing journey. CoinTelegraph: Evan, congratulations on Dash completing two years. Evan Duffield: Thank you, it’s been a very exciting two years. So much has happened during the two years, it seems pretty amazing. We managed to develop the masternode concept, along with instant transactions, privacy, funding and governance. I’m pretty happy with the progress that we’ve made. CT: What was your vision for Dash when you....