careful with words now..might label you a troll in here, thanks for the correction and another insight (less challenging Evan).

Listen to CIA Whistle Blower John Kiriakou And Evan Duffield Of Dash by The Crypto Show
 
(old interview of Evan Rerun !)
 
https://soundcloud.com/heryptohow/cia-whistle-blower-john-kiriakou-and-evan-duffield-of-dash

3:50 min onwards

Yes, Masternode operation is incentivized so as transaction volume increases the value of rewards to run more powerful nodes increases to offset the cost, meaning the network infrastructure scales with usage. Dash's design rationale in this area is to use economic incentives (a share of the block reward distributed equally amongst Masternode operators) to scale the network instead of reliance on Moore's law in the same way Bitcoin mining relies on economic incentives to secure the network rather than volunteerism.

Plus Masternode quorums mean you don't need every node in the network to partake in every action you want to do, therefore if Dash implements something like Ethereum's Turing complete scripting capability, the contract code wouldn't need to be executed by every node in the network, it could be delegated to subsets of nodes i.e. quorums, and could operate in near real-time rather than having to wait for the next block confirmation (state transition in Ethereum terms) by reusing the Instant X architecture.

There are also some new pruning methods in Evolution that Evan is working on that would reduce the blockchain size to help with scaling.

Fantastic news, Dash has a lot going for it! Great work all and congratulations to the new team members!

talk about centralization...

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Just noticed this 

That is way cool.

I now just type straight into my url bar and I'm there.

Sure beats dash-pay-dot-io  

SEO bullseye.

I think Evan should chime in..that is the best answer

even at https://dashpay.atlassian.net/wiki/display/DOC/X11 Created by Balazs Kiraly, last modified on Jun 01, 2015
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It was probably inspired by the chained-hashing approach of Quark, adding further “depth” and complexity by increasing the number of hashes, yet it differs from Quark in that the rounds of hashes are determined a priori instead of having some hashes being randomly picked.

The X11 algorithm uses multiple rounds of 11 different hashes (blake, bmw, groestl, jh, keccak, skein, luffa, cubehash, shavite, simd, echo), thus making it one of the safest and more sophisticated cryptographic hashes in use by modern cryptocurrencies.

The name X11 is not related to the open source GUI server that provides a graphical interface to unix/linux users.


Balanced CPU/GPU mining

When Darkcoin was initially launched with X11, it was only mineable through CPU mining programs. After a spike in the Darkcoin network hashrate in early February 2014, it was speculated that someone might have made a GPU miner and thus a bounty of over 3000 DRKs was given in order to assist in the creation of a GPU miner client that could be publicly available, for fairness reasons.

By mid-February the GPU client was launched and by late-February it was optimized for higher hashrates. At the same time, the CPU mining clients evolved to increase their speed by using the SSE2/3/4, AVX and AES instruction sets.

At that point it became evident that the hashrate difference between GPU and CPU implementations were not that chaotic, although GPUs still took the crown in terms of energy efficiency. Top of the line and tuned CPUs, like a 6-core i7s running at 4.5 GHz produced 880 khashes/second when GPUs like AMD's 280 and 290 gave 3 times as much.

A ratio of 1:3 was thus established for the fastest CPUs versus the fastest AMD GPUs – which is significantly better than Scrypt or SHA256 and allowing CPU users to mine X11 coins. By June 2014, the ratio had gone up to 1:6 due to the evolution of GPU mining programs and relative stability of CPU mining programs.

It should be noted that these ratios are more a reflection of the mining programs rather than an inherent property of the algorithm itself and thus the ratios can change depending the development progress of the CPU and GPU mining clients.
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is that you wolf0 that got 3000 DRK?

i highly doubt Evan didn't know about Quark, Quark was months ahead of dash launch

(blake, bmw, groestl, jh, keccak, skein) Quark

(blake, bmw, groestl, jh, keccak, skein, luffa, cubehash, shavite, simd, echo) X11