He's the brain.

And seem to work better than all brains of trolleros together.

I happen to think that Wolf0 is one of the few reasonable skeptics we have, and tend to enjoy his posts. They are very mature and thoughtful. Let's not be dicks.

Yah, it's hard to get your head around, but if you kind of take it from the beginning, the mixing, first like coinjoin, then denominating the funds so that they're the same and finally mixing before use, so that you can have you wallet ready to use any time after mixing.  Even in the begining, this required Masternodes.

Then came instantX which grew out of Masternodes.  Evan realized that he could use quorum technology to randomly group masternodes together, and have them make decisions on whether or not a transaction is valid.  They would lock the transaction, so no double spending could occur and send it on to the miners.  This is now going to be the base of how all of Dash works.  There will be many random quorums built between each block, and those quorums will sort through all the transactions, checking for double spends, etc... making transaction processing fast enough to rival Visa with all transactions being instant.

Masternodes also gave rise to a voting system

Then we realized, with a voting system, we could have a portion of the mining rewards go toward project proposals, just like a portion goes to pay Masternodes.

AT that point we became a self funded virtual corporation.

Now, with Evolution,  the aforementioned "every transaction will be instant" will be implemented (right now you have to choose instant payment, and pay a tiny fee) and there will be a DAPI in place.  This is a Distributed Applications Programming Interface, which will allow anyone to build an application for Dash that can run queries on the network.  So anyone can make their own wallet, their own search tools, etc.... on top of the Dash Network without the need to access the core program source in the repository, or need to ask permission.

And from that point, anything is virtually possible!




 

Sorry you're not suitably indulged, but in case you hadn't noticed, this is probably the most open thread on the whole of bitcointalk. Unlike your own where censoring "off-topic posts" is "de rigueur".

Anybody is free to post here and furthermore their opinions are largely their own - not those of the Dash "coin staff" (who are all too busy pursuing well defined strategic project objectives to be wasting their time on here sparring with fertiliser material).

You're either confused or poorly informed (or both).

There is a 100% open unmoderated Monero ANN thread (still subject to forum rules of course): https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/583449.0

There is also a moderated Dash price and trading thread: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/1233119.0

Ahhh, you mean my thread. Thanks for bringing it to everyone's attention here, i appreciate it.
Feel free to post in there guys, if iCEY can post in there .. so can you guys.
 
  

Well, being a lowly crypto nerd without the resources to either backdoor or subpoena the top three server providers for masternodes, unfortunately you are correct. However, the word "anonymous" does not come with the stipulation that you must be a lowly crypto nerd without those resources, it means untraceable. Considering the fact that the majority of masternodes are being run with unmixed coins, sending subpoenas to just a few server providers and perhaps backdooring a few other ones would paint a rather clear picture of a large number of individuals who are involved in this project (i.e. the ones who are mixing). Get your hands on that info, create db of all transactions related to those address.. and you start to have quite a bit of the people "mixing" exposed, which in some cases would completely expose your "mixing attempt" and in other cases just eliminate possiblities, identify new parties, narrowing down possiblities. Let a guv bot run through all that info and the word "anonymous" is not much of a proper fit.

* Throw in subpoenas to 3 or 4 US internet providers (bc you all set up your MNs all over the globe but almost all of you live in the US) as well as timing attacks.... that's all without owning any any coins. Throw in 17 nodes trying to mix and acting as sybil....

Masternodes were live and being paid before mixing was particularly functional on any level. From when there were 40mns to about 1000mns mixing was pretty much unusable, and almost everyone used Amazon AWS, for which you must provide your identity.

It takes a truly weak mind to base their arguments purely on someone's age. Congratulations volvoya, you will fit right in with the rest of these Darktards!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1384298/Student-15-way-Harvard-accepted-13-universities.html

Nonsense. A worldly 15 year old can have more wisdom and experience than a sheltered 40 year old. In short, age is irrelevant, and you made yourself look foolish with your weak-ass argument.

Maybe you should refrain from posting on forums until you have a little more common sense and life experience.

Dash