PR Decentralized: How Dash Succeeded in DAO-Powered Public Outreach
Bitcoin and many other cryptocurrencies functioning off Blockchain distributed ledger technology operate in an open-source environment without centralized ownership or command structure. Under this model, only miners, those who mint new coins and process network transactions, receive funding directly from the cryptocurrency itself in the form of the block reward, or all new coins created. Dash, a cryptocurrency emphasizing mass adoption and usability, breaks from this model by offering only 45 percent of the block reward to miners and reserving 10 percent of new coins minted to fund....
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The rise of Ethereum’s The DAO is certainly cause for excitement. However, for Dash, the prospect of successfully operating a decentralized autonomous organization is already old news. Created in 2014 by Evan Duffield as “Darkcoin,” Dash quickly grew from a platform for highly-anonymized transactions to a full service network for payments, project funding and decentralized governance by protocol. Dash: Two Years Ahead. With all the talk about The DAO, people seem to have forgotten — or simply don’t know — Dash has been providing DAO-like services for a couple of years. With its....
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....
For cryptocurrency Dash, presenting at d10e next week, the goal is to have people walk away realizing that there is a lot more that can be done with cryptocurrency or digital currency than bitcoin has been able to achieve thus far, says Ryan Taylor, head of finance at Dash. What Does Dash Bring to the Table? Dash will have a significant presence at the d10e Conference in San Francisco on Jul. 20. Lead developer Evan Duffield and head of business development Daniel Diaz will both be presenters. In addition, Dash will be hosting a booth featuring a Dash-enabled vending machine to highlight....
The last three months have been a period of organization, according to Evan Duffield, creator and lead developer of the cryptographic currency Dash. Now, with the question of scalability from an organizational perspective answered, Duffield says, “it’s time to execute.” Dash Evolution. “We are trying to build a new economy, a perfectly decentralized economy where everyone can participate,” said Duffield. Dash Evolution, essentially a web-based standalone wallet, will offer a toolbox of blockchain-based features to “make Dash even more secure, allow it to scale to extremely large levels,....
In this episode, Evan Duffield of the Dash project gives us an extended interview in which we talk about a new feature in Dash which will give Dash users and masternode operators a much greater say in how things are done. Called the Decentralized Governance System, this new aspect of Dash allows users to essentially propose projects for Dash to fund, and those which get the most approval receive funding until the budget runs out. We also talk about the Bitcoin block size troubled times, about the history of Darkcoin, and more. Following that, the song "Detonate" by the pro-Bitcoin band 22....