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_i18n/en/_posts/2017-04-14-MNTrezor.md

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+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "MNTrezor.png"
+title: "Using Trezor with Dash Masternode / GUI"
+---
+Please secure your Masternodes with Hardware Wallets (Safety First)
+
+TREZOR and KeepKey are now supported by the new GUI Tool 
+
+(TREZOR + KeepKey work on the same Guide)
+
+As of 11th April 2017:
+
+<https://github.com/Bertrand256/dash-masternode-tool/releases/download/v0.9.4/DashMasternodeTool_0.9.4.win.zip>
+
+<https://github.com/Bertrand256/dash-masternode-tool/releases/download/v0.9.4/DashMasternodeTool_0.9.4.mac.zip>
+
+<https://github.com/Bertrand256/dash-masternode-tool/releases/download/v0.9.4/DashMasternodeTool_0.9.4.linux.tar.gz>
+
+Guides:
+
+[Set up MN / TREZOR](https://dashpay.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=106885788&src=contextnavpagetreemode)
+
+[Withdraw Funds from Masternode](https://dashpay.atlassian.net/wiki/display/DOC/Withdraw+Funds+from+Masternode?src=contextnavpagetreemode)
+
+[Changing hardware wallet's PIN/passphrase configuration](https://dashpay.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=106885438&src=contextnavpagetreemode)
+
+[Signing message with hardware wallet](https://dashpay.atlassian.net/wiki/display/DOC/Signing+message+with+hardware+wallet?src=contextnavpagetreemode)
+
+[TREZOR Storage Suggestions](https://dashpay.atlassian.net/wiki/display/DOC/TREZOR+Storage+Suggestions?src=contextnavpagetreemode)
+
+
+<https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/gui-tool-for-running-masternode-with-trezor.13748/>
+
+(check latest posts for updated versions ! )

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-04-14-kraken.md

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+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "CTkraken.jpg"
+title: "Kraken Adds Dash Trading for Bitcoin, Euros, Dollars, Enables Withdrawals"
+---
+The major cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has just opened Dash trading, capping off a recent run of integrations following this year’s price spike.
+
+Kraken, a US-based cryptocurrency exchange, announced on Wednesday the integration of trading pairs for Dash, a cryptocurrency focused on usability and privacy as a digital cash. In addition to a Dash/Bitcoin trading pair, Kraken also added fiat trading pairs for Dash (Dash/USD and Dash/EUR), cementing the coin’s place and independence from Bitcoin. Notably, Kraken will take advantage of Dash’s InstandSend functionality, allowing for withdrawals with instantly-confirmed transactions.
+
+Daniel Diaz, the Vice President of Business Development for Dash’s Core Team, has been working closely with Kraken on the integration:
+
+“Kraken is excited to offer Dash on their trading platform and our teams are working closely to ensure clients can begin trading the currency immediately.”
+
+He adds: “Kraken is an incredibly well established and well-structured organization and amongst the best in the exchange business. In terms of reputation, they represent the highest standard for client satisfaction. Dash is a project that has implemented very original ideas that resonate well with the market and as a top tier exchange, Kraken’s mission is to provide clients with access to digital currencies that are in demand and provide value.”
+
+A string of integrations following recent Dash price surge
+The early part of this year has seen a meteoric rise for Dash, rising from a market cap of about $80 mln in January to about $480 mln today. This has solidified Dash’s position as a major cryptocurrency, lead to a series of integrations, particularly with connections to the world of fiat currency. The European cryptocurrency exchange BitPanda recently added Dash-fiat trading pairs, increasing buying options for Dash without first going through Bitcoin.
+
+Recently, early Bitcoin pioneer Charlie Shrem partnered with the Dash DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) to create a Dash debit card. While ShakePay and SpectroCoin currently offer Dash cards, the Shrem card will be the first one widely available in the United States and will also prominently feature Dash branding on the card itself.
+
+Altcoins increasingly developing fiat trading options
+This integration marks an increasing trend of altcoins developing their own fiat trading markets. In the cryptocurrency world, Bitcoin is typically bought first and is used to trade other coins before Bitcoin is then used again to cash out.
+
+Adding new fiat trading pairs allows direct points of entry to alternative cryptocurrencies themselves, reducing reliance on Bitcoin for the entire cryptocurrency field.
+
+Bitcoin retains a solid first place, still worth more than $1,200 at the time of writing and claiming more total value than all other cryptocurrencies combined. However, its dominance in its field has slipped recently, dropping from about 86 percent of the total cryptocurrency market share in early march to roughly 69 percent now, up slightly from an all-time low of 65 percent at the beginning of April. This change is likely the cause of cryptocurrency growing as a whole, but Bitcoin’s scaling issues, including a vicious conflict including concentrated troll campaigns, causing market share to spill over into the top alternative coins.
+
+<https://cointelegraph.com/news/kraken-adds-dash-trading-for-bitcoin-euros-dollars-enables-withdrawals>

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-04-15-alexruamanda.md

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+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "alexruamanda.png"
+title: "I've Gone Public Because I'm Sure This Project Will Go Further' -- Alexey Gusev, Russian Outreach"
+---
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6Qdtimef5AU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-04-17-jaxx.md

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+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "jaxx.jpg"
+title: "Jaxx Version 1.2.6 is now available with Dash on  iTunes"
+---
+<https://twitter.com/diiorioanthony/status/853955893452357634>
+
+<https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jaxx-bitcoin-ethereum-wallet/id1084514516?mt=8>
+
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/274EjFi-y_A" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-04-18-Ryan TaylornamedDashCEO.md

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+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "RyanTaylornamedDashCEO.png"
+title: "Ryan Taylor named Dash Core CEO as founder Evan Duffield transitions to senior advisor role"
+---
+In a major overhaul in the Dash ecosystem, Ryan Taylor, Dash’s Director of Finance, has been appointed as the CEO of the Dash Core Project and will now focus on leading organizational growth, maintaining the project vision, and overseeing communications with Dash partners and investors.
+
+The appointment comes as Dash Founder Evan Duffield on Monday announced that he is transitioning to an advisory role, officially departing from day-to-day duties. He plans to focus on other projects aimed at expanding Dash’s ecosystem, but will remain available to offer advice and consultation to the Dash Core and its developers.
+
+“Since the beginning, my ambition was to create a sustainable and resilient blockchain project without any singular points of failure. Today’s announcement has been in development for many months, and I am proud to have helped Dash become the extraordinary project it is today”, Duffield said. “For the last several months, daily operations and technology development at Dash Core have been led by now-CEO Ryan Taylor and CTO Andy Freer. Our most recent software upgrade - deployed in February - was developed and released without my hands-on involvement. Thanks to the Dash Core, our developers, advisors, masternode operators and every single user around the world, the upgrade was the smoothest yet.” 
+
+According to the official release, the appointment has been unanimously agreed upon by Duffield and the Dash Core, the democratically-elected body responsible for the development, marketing and expansion of the Dash ecosystem. Dash clarified that no changes are being made to its blockchain governance, voting and treasury model.
+
+Taylor has been a key contributor to Dash since mid-2014. He left a traditional Wall Street career in March 2016 to join the Dash Core full-time helping accelerate Dash’s progress in becoming a blockchain industry leader and global payments network. Before joining Dash, Taylor was a hedge fund analyst covering a global stable of payments industry investments for the private equity and public market funds of a $20 billion investment firm based in New York, and previously served as an Associate Partner in McKinsey & Company’s Business Technology Office in New York.
+
+“Evan is one of the most gifted minds in blockchain and fintech. He created something that will have a permanent and lasting impact on many people across the world in a rapidly evolving economy. The Dash Core team is committed to ensuring that we follow the grand vision Evan laid for Dash. Today, we have extensive resources in place to deliver that vision. Dash is fast becoming a popular payment option for many thousands of people around the world, and we look forward to announcing further progress in the near future as we create compelling and relevant solutions aimed at everyday people”, Taylor said.
+
+In the first quarter of 2017, the Dash Project announced several milestone partnerships, which includes collaboration with BitPanda, MaRSe, and BlockPay, and the implementation of the highly anticipated Sentinel software upgrade which it touts as a stepping stone towards an industry-first decentralized payments system called Evolution.
+
+Dash is currently the fourth most valuable cryptocurrency by market capitalization (worth over $540 million at the time of writing). With the recent surge in its price, leading cryptocurrency exchanges, including Kraken, BTC-e, and Bitfinex, have added support for Dash on their platform.
+
+“The beauty of a blockchain-based project is decentralization, the dispersion and distribution of functions and powers. Since its inception, Dash has been the benchmark of decentralized success; our unique governance model ensures an ownership mindset that is designed to improve the state and functionality of the Dash network and increase the network’s value. Together with Evan, we built the world’s first self-sustainable decentralized autonomous organization with a substantial organic budget, and there’s so much more to come”, Taylor added.
+
+Dash further stated that it has a full pipeline of integrations in place and high-level business partnerships in progress. Now headquartered from Arizona State University’s SkySong Innovation Center, the Dash Core team recently announced its plan to add over 20 new positions, including development, customer support, infrastructure support, marketing, and administration.
+
+<http://www.econotimes.com/Ryan-Taylor-named-Dash-Core-CEO-as-founder-Evan-Duffield-transitions-to-senior-advisor-role-646140>

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-04-18-bitfinex.md

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+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "bitfinex.png"
+title: "Bitfinix & USDT About to Collapse? / Dash on Jaxx iOS / New Dash CEO / Casper Github Repo Is LIVE!"
+---
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IAxie8q7Fuw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-04-18-coreteamorganization.md

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+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "coreteamorganization.png"
+title: "Dash Core Team Organization Announcement"
+---
+Dear Dash Community,
+
+Over the course of the last year, the Dash Core Team has placed a great deal of emphasis on professionalizing our operations to serve the Dash DAO as best as we can. Today, I am pleased to announce a number of initiatives we are undertaking to continue that process of growth and professionalization.
+
+As you are likely aware, Dash’s founder Evan Duffield has been planning a transition in his role for some time. On our Q4 2016 conference call and again at the recently held Open House, he announced his intention to shift his focus toward an advisory role and exploring other means of investing in the Dash ecosystem.
+
+This transition has been underway for quite some time, and is a part of an overall transformation in the way the Dash Core Team plans to operate to best meet the needs of a growing network. A number of efforts were already underway. These include a transition to market rate compensation for our full-time contributors, and a dramatic expansion of the core team that was announced and approved last month.
+
+There are a number of other changes we plan to implement to provide better legal protections for the Dash network’s assets and the Dash Core Team members, to enable the ability to offer traditional employment options for a number of roles, to create stronger accountability of the Dash Core Team, and to organize ourselves more appropriately to deliver against the increasing number of workstreams underway.
+
+Today, we are pleased to announce some changes to our organization structure. The Dash Core Team has always operated effectively as a partnership, with each functional area having a representative and equal vote in internal Core Team decisions. That doesn’t relieve the need for an internal organization structure that aligns individuals to the various work areas. As Evan transitions to his new role, we are making two changes to ensure we have leadership continuity in place to deliver on our promises to the network.
+
+Andy Freer is being appointed as CTO of the Core Team to help guide the various technical teams working on the current software and future Evolution versions. Andy has 8 years experience as a CTO prior to Dash and has been involved with the project since late 2015, and has done a brilliant job designing and building our next-generation architecture under Evan’s guidance. Going forward, our development will require an increasing level of coordination across the various teams in support of Evolution, so it makes sense to have Andy ensuring each of the team's efforts are synchronized and aligned to our development priorities. UdjinM6 will continue leading the DashCore development team, along with Jon Kindel leading the DAPI and integrations teams, Chuck Williams leading the various Web teams, Nathan Marley leading the DashDrive team, and MooCowMoo leading the infrastructure team.
+
+In parallel, I was appointed as CEO of the Core Team. My role is to continue coordinating the day-to-day activities and priorities across the functional areas, ensuring our alignment with the team’s strategy, and providing public-facing representation for the core team in the media and strategic business relationships.
+
+A press release about our internal organizational changes has been distributed to the media through Wachsman PR, and we expect coverage to begin shortly.
+
+Does the assignment of a CEO mean that Dash is becoming centralized?
+
+No. The Dash network remains a fully-decentralized DAO, just as it always has been. The Dash DAO has no CEO, but rather hires various entities to serve its needs in a fully decentralized way. The Dash Core Team is simply one of many entities that serve the network, such as the Dash: Detailed team, or the DashForce team. To be clear, the Dash Core Team intends to continue operating essentially as a partnership, just as we always have when Evan was on the team under the “Founder” title.
+
+What else is planned?
+
+We are presently undergoing a legal restructuring to provide a number of benefits to the network. It will likely take at least two months to complete this process. The Dash Foundation is woefully inadequate to provide the Dash Core Team, its members, or the network with effective legal protections and will be replaced with a new legal structure designed to fulfill a number of needs.
+
+We want to ensure that network assets such as the Dash brand, trademark agreements, domain names, and other assets that belong to the network itself are not held by the Core Team or its members. Those should be held in a separate entity with legal obligations directed to the serving the network to better protect those assets and ensure that if the network funds another development team instead of the current Dash Core Team, the assets are retained.
+
+Another objective of the restructuring is to ensure that the Dash Core Team can offer regular employment as an option for our current all-contractor workforce. The Dash Foundation is not a perfect choice for providing this option due to a number of legal constraints on funding that entity.
+
+The entire team looks forward to continuing to serve the network and to the many improvements still underway to make our team more accountable and effective than ever. We strive to deliver the best technology, business strategy, and execution in the industry, with the goal of bringing a fully-decentralized digital currency to the mainstream. We thank you for your continued support on this journey.
+
+<https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/dash-core-team-organization-announcement.14434/>

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-04-19-1000bosses.md

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+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "1000bosses.jpg"
+title: "WORKING FOR 1000+ BOSSES: EMPLOYMENT IN THE DASH DAO"
+---
+Some people imagine that a freelancer is her “own boss.” That she is beholden to no one but herself and that, somehow, money just rolls in.
+
+Having worked as a waitress, an SEO blogger, a children’s party entertainer, a valet driver, a Hollywood movie extra, and over a dozen other jobs, I can testify that there is no such thing as “being your own boss.” If you’re getting paid to do something, guess what? You have a boss. The question is, just how many bosses do you have?
+
+If you work a more traditional job, you have just one. If you are considered a “freelancer,” you have upwards of a dozen or more bosses (you probably call them “clients”). And if you work for a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) like the Dash DAO? Welcome to the land of a thousand (or more) bosses.
+
+Every number of months – or even every month, in due time – I make an employment proposal to the Dash DAO on behalf of myself (and anyone who works under me) to produce the YouTube series DASH: Detailed. My proposal includes a precise description of the work my team will perform, as well as how much payment we seek in compensation. We may calculate our costs in US dollars or any other currency, but our request is ultimately denominated (and paid) in Dash.
+
+Hundreds or even thousands of people around the world – it’s impossible to know quite how many – then vote “yes” or “no” on the proposal, and if 10% more “yes” votes than “no” are achieved, the payment automatically shows up in my Dash “account” within the month. So does the payment of everyone else who submits a passing proposal in that cycle. You could call it the pay day of the future.
+
+The voters are people who lock 1000 Dash into a “masternode” (i.e. are invested) and make their masternode available to perform tasks needed to make Dash work as advertised (i.e. provide service). Each masternode then gets one vote. A person can own more than one masternode if he has made correspondingly additional investment and provides the same service on each node.
+
+The masternode owners, then, are my bosses. Their incentives are unique in that, in a sense, they’re paying me in “shares” of their organization (digital currency is unique in that its tokens are intended as money, but also act as shares in the underlying money transfer service itself). As with the creation of any new share (or currency unit, for that matter), any newly-created tokens dilute the value of all existing tokens proportionately. In other words, creating new Dash with which to pay me is a form of inflation. Masternode owners, then, must consider whether the value my team and I will create is worth the inflation that it takes to pay us.
+
+Thus far, masternode owners have decided that the value DASH: Detailed brings is worth the creation of new Dash for the last 10 months straight. We hope this trend continues, but as Dash grows more popular, we realize we’ll have more competition for the limited funds available each month.
+
+That is why we’ve reached out to Pro-Creative Video Production, with studio space in both Salt Lake City, Utah and Phoenix, Arizona, to shoot a pilot episode of a more professional, network news-style DASH: Detailed. The pilot episode will be revealed in a pre-proposal I make in the coming weeks. Pro-Creative’s work is of a considerably higher caliber than what my (very) small team and I have been able to produce on our own, and their price tag reflects this (though I might add that their bid came in much lower than their competition, whom I also contacted).
+
+So it will be up to the masternodes to decide. Will they like the pilot enough to pay for Pro-Creative to take DASH: Detailed to the next level? Or do they more prefer the price tag and quality level I’ve churned out so far?
+
+We’ll watch as the comments begin to roll in on the pre-proposal. If they’re favorable enough, I’ll make the real employment proposal. And then the voting-of-a-thousand-bosses will begin.
+
+<https://www.dashforcenews.com/working-for-1000-bosses-employment-in-the-dash-dao/>