Double Feature Wednesday: Amanda B. Johnson and Evan Duffield



http://www.dashnation.com/video/double-feature-wednesday-amanda-b-johnson-evan-duffield/

#DashNation #IoM

Budget proposals that got enough yes votes to pass will end up in superblocks once a month, which will be paid out to
the payment address that is defined in the budget proposal itself.

So each budget proposal contains a specific Dash payment address.

Anything goes in a trollbox, and they've been outdoing themselves with the ETH/ETC circus. Just saw this at Polo:

"PumpyDumpy: Fiat is the king! You will never be able to do transactions as easy and fast as a credit card paypass you bunch of delusionals. crypto is only a money grab"

There's no ignore button so one's eyes drift over to the box for a second, a minute, five minutes. Yikes!

Dash seems positively stuffy and conservative compared to the rest of crypto lately. Probably a very good thing. Heh - remember when fiat banks were stuffy and conservative? http://www.online-literature.com/stephen-leacock/literary-lapses/1/

ELI5 Masternodes and can I be one 

Hi Pbleak, good to see you around! Is funny to see you ask Dash noob questions. I hope you can help us out again soon and write some articles. 

It gets really hard here to remember who is who, LOL

But the question is actually a pivotal one for me.  I was looking into BitShares because I really liked what they were doing.  But the way their setup works is so easily turned into a good ol boy network, I just couldn't get into it.  Their "masternodes" are people who apply and are approved, not just anyone with collateral.  Sure, it's hard for the average joe to get funds for the MN collateral, however that doesn't matter.  What matters is that ANYONE is ALLOWED to purchase and run a Masternode.

And the services that are out there, of which I know we h ave at least 3, but I think there are 4 reputable companies running services, is not the most ideal in theory, but in practice, their services are still helping a minority number of people who only wish to invest and not run the actual nodes.  So it's hardly a threat to our decentralization.

Frankly it's brilliant and sustainable - creating no good ol boy networks.  God, I love how Evan thinks and how the rest of you awesome guys have helped and contributed to the direction Dash has been going in.  It's been taking the best possible roads and making the wisest decisions.  I think this is a combination of our team's talent as well as the fact that our leader, despite the fact leadership as very much been allocated to many individuals, is not afraid to scrap work already done for a better way. I think he's amazing that way.  He's not married to his first idea and the code he wrote for it.  In fact it seems to be part of his process at working out ideas.

So, yah.  More confessions of a Dash Cheerleader.  Why I can't get excited over any other coin.  Ethereum is making complex contracts possible.  Interesting, but Dash wants to be the worlds monetary medium.  Think on that!  Think of the original hopes and dreams Bitcoin brought to us, but can't deliver.  Now I believe Dash is the only way those hopes and dreams can ever be achieved.  And they coincide with my hopes and dreams for the future, for my kids and future grandkids.

I think it's a coin that deserves some cheerleading. The main factor for me in watching things is how DASH has remained so steady. It's just quietly at work, no major drama, no crazy ups and downs. Just sort of there being cool 

BTC-E ETH Etc drama https://btc-e.com/news/230

My popcorn bill will be pricy

LOL, Oh dear!  I shouldn't laugh.  I guess if you snooze you loose, eh?  I hope you have all of yours??!!!

To tell  you the truth, it seems like they're just holding them, not letting anyone have them because they don't want this second chain!  I never leave coins on any exchange longer than to pass through!  I started here just as Mt Gox was getting going.

A proposal was submitted to recognize hitting our 500th member in the public slack, the Dash Chat Slack.  I would like to encourage everyone to think about this slack as a community engagement tool and a great way to get the community fired up about Dash.  Vote as many times as you want as long as it is within about 5 days.

Dashwhale: https://www.dashwhale.org/p/slack-tipbot-com-eng
Vote: dash-cli mnbudget vote-many 553c44e64d57972c5e05fb68aa4467da330715ef0dea8599d19296d6170ae1b0 yes

The public slack is now picking up members and becoming the face of the Dash community.  We are over 500 members with 25 new members added each week.  We have 12 technical support contacts acting as an around the clock help desk.  We typically have over 15,000 messages each week. Slack is available on iphone, android, and browser which make communicating fast and easy in a chat like atmosphere.  Slack also supports easy file uploads and integrations with twitter and reddit to put news all in one place.

A few unique aspects of our slack is that there are dedicated channels to budget proposals to help answer questions directly from the proposal owner.  We have also had live podcasts where members could ask questions in real time.  Many discussions have started projects like Canadash which will be a Dash accepting pop machine located in Canada.  We offer a great way for miners and masternode owners to talk about pools or hardware settings and configurations.
 
After the community made suggestions from other successful sites that attracted users, it was determined that a bot that could tip and rain funds was key.  Naruby created a tipbot for Dash with a little help from Moocowmoo on security.  The tipbot can tip users, deposit, withdraw, provide Dash price in multiple currencies, and has a function to rain dash on all active users once it hits a certain amount. Recently, rain has been updated to sun for the summer.  The tipbot is getting used with over 50 Dash per month getting tipped out.  The plan is to add some security and features to make this bot work with other slacks and promote Dash further.
 
One of the Dash Detailed episodes talked about a Dash jobs section on the forum, and it is still blank.  A few members have asked for certain features and have even pledged their own funds to make it happen.  Effectively, the community has offered to create jobs for some smaller projects.  We think the value of this slack to the community is growing and would like to offer incentives to members that contribute.
 
Tipbot – 25 Dash
Add key features to enable the Dashbot to be used on other slacks as a promotional tool.
·        Add cold wallet storage with hot wallet online with minimal funds.
·        Add multiple slack usage form the same wallet.
·        Server rental and maintenance.
 
Community Engagement – 200 Dash
·        A portion will be used for activities to gain community participation.  Bounties will be used for innovate ideas and  prizes will be provided for contests to engage community activity.
·        A small portion will go to the tipbot to encourage new contributors and welcome people.
·        Donations will be given to support members answering questions on mining, masternodes, wallets, and general questions on slack, reddit, or other feeds in the support channel.
 
Total amount requested is 225 Dash per month for a 3 month duration.

Anyone that wants to check out the Dash Chat Slack, just click the link in my signature for an automatic invite.