With Blockstream's current Thunder and future Lightning networks, should Dash be worried?

http://dashpaymagazine.com/index.php/2016/05/17/lightning-thunder-dash-worried/

An article by Dash's TanteStefana.

Contact Elisha on the Public Dash Slack channel. He runs the website, so he can switch the versions for you.

I don't know which version I read, but I liked the article! Great comparison between thunder and the masternode backend of Dash. Thanks a lot for taking the time to write the page TanteStefana!

Thanks! I use this script, but sometimes doesnt work :/

In that case, dashwhale has an option to restart a masternode if it is detected faulty, although I do not use it myself. I rely solely on cron restarting my masternode if something is borked and so far it's worked just great

From the developer:
"Another very important point to make about the Satoshi Roundtable was the very large issue with mining centralization in the Bitcoin space. When Satoshi originally invented Bitcoin, he did not anticipate the excessive mining centralization that has become a dominant force in the Bitcoin space. Due to this, we now have a small group of people that literally control the protocol consensus and their short term interests may be in conflict with the long term interests of other stakeholders, industry, users, etc. We definitely do not want our ecosystem to follow the same failed course and we definitely would have under the pooled ASIC mining paradigm. This is mainly because there are differences in efficiency that a miner can gain depending on where they live, which can give a huge advantage when their higher investment returns are compounded. Efficiencies such as cheaper labor, cheap or free electricity and even withholding newer advanced ASICs for their own mining operations, then selling them after they become less effective. After many iterations of these phenomenon in BTC we have come to a situation where the ones who have access to these advantages effectively control Bitcoin.

"After hours of discussions, we believe we have found the solution to the unfair mining advantages that produce centralization around certain jurisdictions that control the production of ASICS. We will be releasing much more information about this soon, but are feverishly working on this project for v12.1. We’re going to be releasing much more information about this in the coming weeks; it’s going to be a giant advantage for the Dash project."
Source: https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/march-2016-budget-proposal.8198/#post-86929

I forwarded this over to Google, now if the Dash price in the next few days suddenly increases by tenfold .. you will know why  



More clues can be found here : https://soundcloud.com/fernandogutie/sets/the-dash-rountable-podcast
at 55:27

It involves a new form of Proof of Work

dash GPG pubkey marked as harmful? or just me? 

Firefox has been doing weird stuff.... so does windows 10...


I would suggest Chromium Browser in Ubuntu Linux

or Lubuntu Linux for a snappy OS on older PC's.