Evan Duffield Announces DASH Evolution as a Social Market

Evan Duffield Announces DASH Evolution as a Social Market

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....


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