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_i18n/en/_posts/2017-06-27-budget.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "july2017budget.png"
+title: "July 2017 Dash Budget Report"
+original-author: Robert Wiecko 
+original-link: https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/july-2017-budget-report.15524/#post-131163
+---
+As of today, all Dash Core Team proposals have been submitted to the network. Once again, due to the continued price increase compared with last month, we do not require additional funding for office space, marketing, infrastructure, applications, business development, public relations, HR, or legal. For the first time, we will also not be requesting funding for compensation of the team. For all of these areas / functions, we have sufficient funding to operate from existing balances and price appreciation.
+
+As with last month, the absence of these budgets is not a sign that the core team intends to discontinue any of these expenses. It is simply that the balances we normally keep in these categories to protect against currency fluctuations has risen in value dramatically and we can rely on savings to fulfill our obligations, even after taking currency fluctuation risks into account.
+
+We are requesting funding for several one-time items, including packages at two conferences scheduled for October, and a research grant to fund Dash-specific research through Arizona State University's new Blockchain Research Laboratory.
+
+There are some forthcoming plans and communications concerning an expanded marketing effort. Look for that communication within the next couple of days.
+
+July Budget:
+
+The July budget cycle is slated to pay out in the next superblock (697872) which will occur at approximately 1am UTC on Wednesday, July 5th. That means the voting deadline is scheduled for about 1am UTC on Sunday, July 2nd. Make sure to cast your votes by Saturday at the latest to ensure your vote is counted.
+
+July Core Team Budget Requests:
+
+Blockchain Labs Sponsorship
+<https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/proposal-blockchain-labs-sponsorship.15490/>
+This proposal seeks funding to sponsor Arizona State University's newly formed Blockchain Research Lab for research into blockchain throughput capacity and latency performance - 279.06 Dash
+
+Money20/20 Conference
+<https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/proposal-money20-20.15513/>
+This proposal funds Dash's participation at Money20/20, the world's largest conference focused on payments and financial innovation - 571.71 Dash
+
+The Trading Show 2017
+<https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/proposal-conferences-the-trading-show.15520/>
+This proposal funds Dash's sponsorship of The Trading Show New York 2017 at the Gold Sponsor level - 300.63 Dash

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-06-28-OpenLetter.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "OpenLetter.png"
+title: "An Open Letter From Evan and Ryan Regarding Dash Marketing"
+original-author: Ryan Taylor 
+original-link: https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/an-open-letter-from-evan-and-ryan-regarding-dash-marketing.15537/#post-131252
+---
+Background:
+
+This year, we witnessed a dramatic change in the resources available to the Dash project, the scale of which is unprecedented in our short history. Leveraged wisely, this is obviously a good thing.
+
+Our first priority for these incremental funds is obviously to fund ongoing development. There is an upper limit to the impact additional resources can accelerate Evolution, and we are at the point that resource constraints are not hindering those efforts. The team currently in place is well positioned to deliver Evolution efficiently.
+
+There is still work to be done to ensure we can retain the top talent we have working on the project, including the ability to offer regular employment and benefits commensurate with the market to fill ongoing roles. We are still working on these additional components to make working for Dash attractive long-term, but we have a path to completing that work within the next few months.
+
+In the meantime, our higher market capitalization and the rate at which it has risen opened up much larger budgets at the same time that the Core Team’s balance sheet expanded from the price increase, causing us to discontinue budget requests for most funding needs. This has left an expanding unallocated budget as the price increased for six consecutive months (and about to experience our seventh).
+
+In this environment, there is a clear desire on the part of masternodes to put the excess budgets to work on marketing initiatives. While we share this view, and marketing makes for a great “flexible budget”, we have several concerns with the approach and tone that some of the marketing initiatives are putting forward. This letter outlines our philosophy and a suggested approach to marketing that we hope shapes the opinions of the community, and provides some foundation for unifying our approach to marketing. We also outline our own plans for ramping up marketing in a more cohesive manner.
+
+Our objective in this letter is to provide an alternate perspective on the marketing topic that we believe will enhance the community’s ability to engage in critical thinking on the marketing topic.
+
+Our observations and concerns:
+
+Over the past couple of months, we’ve observed that the entire digital token / currency industry has become feaverish. Evidence of bubble-like exuberance was readily visible at Consensus and Token Summit this year. There are several parallels with previous asset bubbles - claims that the market is in a “land grab” for market share is reminiscent of the “land grab” for eyeballs during the .com bubble. Insufficiently educated investors are indiscriminately investing tens of millions blindly in ICOs that have little to show except a whitepaper and a vague description of a business plan.
+
+In this environment, it is easy to succumb to the fever, and many Dash investors - both old and new - believe that Dash can effectively market itself as an investment vehicle on the basis of its past performance. While we’ve not seen much advertising of this nature yet, we’ve begun seeing it openly discussed and proposals submitted to the Core Team by community members for this exact style of advertising.
+
+We believe there are significant risks to the project, our users, and our strategy by following such approaches. While not all marketing carries this risk, it is inappropriate to market Dash to potential investors that likely lack the expertise to properly evaluate cryptocurrencies and their risks, nor whose risk profile matches the high-risks of this market.
+
+We differentiate this type of marketing with marketing of Dash’s current utility as a payment network and value propositions to appropriate audiences. Examples include Dash being the only way to obtain 15% off gift cards at Bitcart or the fastest and cheapest way to transfer funds between exchanges or fund your WhaleClub account. One could even argue that Dash is a superior store of value in select geographies like Venezuela where inflation is currently over 30% per month. This is value and utility Dash brings to the market today.
+
+What is concerning about marketing Dash as an investment?
+
+In an environment in which ICOs are actively marketed, it may seem “normal” to market Dash as an investment. However, we believe that over the course of time these practices will be considered unethical and in many cases illegal, and primarily serve to tarnish Dash’s brand. Many if not most ICOs are clearly securities under the law when applying the Howey Test. In other words, coins are marketing unregistered securities to unqualified investors. This situation is unlikely to last, and we should not seek to mimic this approach.
+
+While we do not believe Dash technically qualifies as a security because no portion of the coins are issued by a centralized entity, we encourage the community to operate in an abundance of caution. Dash’s most valuable asset is its reputation, and in the near future the practice of marketing digital assets as an investment may be frowned upon, especially if the bubble pops and investors are seriously impacted.
+
+We believe that advertising Dash as an investment rather than on the basis of its utility as a payment network would be similar to Microsoft advertising the increases in its stock price rather than the utility of its software in the midst of the .com bubble. In time, we believe that this type of marketing will be viewed in an extremely negative light. Public opinion will shift and in the long-term, it would behove the community to avoid engaging in this behavior.
+
+In addition, any gains from this type of advertising would be temporary. As soon as the marketing is removed, the artificial influx of investments would deteriorate followed by the price. Wild price appreciation and crashes would actually detract from Dash’s utility as a currency and medium of value transfer, thus directly working against our stated mission and vision. We encourage the community to take a longer-term view to their investments and refrain from hyping the coin… there is plenty of hype inherent in the industry already.
+
+What about giveaways?
+
+While we often reference PayPal’s famous $20 sign-up bonus and referral program in presentations as one example of incentives that grew a new payment solution, PayPal’s situation was different from ours in meaningful ways. The main difference is that they had addressed the other two adoption factors… the product was faster and easier to use than credit cards or bank transfers and was more secure. The incentives were therefore effective at growing their business because a high number of users tried the product and became recurring users.
+
+Dash is unlikely to witness the same effects in the absence of Evolution. Our hypothesis is that incentives will have greater effect at a later time once the product value proposition is stronger.
+
+Even though we would discourage repeated giveaways, the recently completed giveaway is not wasteful. We can analyze blockchain activity for those funds getting used and for the deposit addresses seeing additional activity. We understand these funds were given to different groups including a large concentration within remote villages. We might gain some valuable insights from this data, and we encourage analysis of the results.
+
+Isn’t any marketing better than unused budget?
+
+As stated at several points in the past, dating all the way back to 2015 when the governance system first launched, the possibility exists to “resurrect” unused funds and allow them to carry over from previous periods. Although the protocol does not currently support this functionality, we as a network can choose to implement that without affecting the committed emission limits. This would provide the network greater flexibility to “save” its treasury budget for when the funds are needed, and eliminates the perceived need to spend funds simply because they would otherwise be wasted. Funds saved in this way are likely to be worth a great deal more when spent in the distant future, for a much greater purpose than simply filling up the budget limitations each month.
+
+We could easily resolve the question of whether unused budgets should be rolled over to future periods through a simple network vote.
+
+A potential path forward:
+
+As stated earlier, we are not opposed to marketing. Marketing can increase awareness of the Dash brand and our unique value proposition, and drive value for our business partners. We encourage the community to orient any marketing in these directions.
+
+In fact, by driving actual use we protect our investment and downside risks. When real commerce is flowing through Dash’s ecosystem, it means Dash can never drop to zero, and the more actual commerce we drive the higher our price floor becomes. This is equally, if not more, beneficial to providing our investors with a stable and growing network than any one-time gains from attracting trend-following speculators that will exit when the trend shifts downward.
+
+Marketing is both an art and a science. We believe that the best path forward is engagement of experts / professionals that can skillfully craft, test, measure, and refine a cohesive multi-channel marketing strategy featuring consistent messaging and branding.
+
+Here are the areas we feel marketing aligns most closely with our goals:
+
+General awareness: Industry events and trade shows, general branding, and communicating our vision and mission to general audiences
+
+Features: Many digital currency users are unaware of Dash’s features and benefits. Increasing awareness of our instant payments and low transaction fees are examples of messages that can increase awareness for what makes our product unique.
+
+Business partners: Advertising the services of our business partners (assuming they approve of the campaign) both encourages the use of the Dash network and provides incentives for merchants to integrate with Dash and continue utilizing it. For example, advertise that using Dash can you get 15% off Amazon gift cards at Bitcart. We could also advertise to businesses the benefits of integrating with Dash.
+
+Use-cases: Build awareness of specific use-cases, like cross-border money remittance or speed-sensitive transactions.
+
+Each of the above drives the actual use of our ecosystem forward, while avoiding the hype of investor-targeting advertising. Decisions made regarding marketing will have lasting or even permanent implications to our brand, product and reputation and we feel that moving forward, we should be careful and exercise caution. In these situations we recommend moving slowly, sure of the ramifications of each step we take.
+
+What is the Dash Core Team planning?
+
+For the past two months, the Dash Core Team has been pursuing a service contract with a leading professional multi-channel marketing firm to start formulating an effective, efficient, and cohesive marketing plan that aligns with the product roadmap and strategy. Selecting a firm has become more challenging than we expected, as we’ve encountered potential client conflicts that have delayed our progress.
+
+Once a firm is finalized, we plan to test at small scales various marketing strategies, messages, and channels to determine what is most effective. We feel the outcomes from these exercises will both inform the specific expertise we might require in hiring a marketing executive, and will help us formulate strategies for the launch of Evolution.
+
+In the meantime, we encourage the community to refrain from potentially brand-impacting marketing tactics, especially those that focus on marketing Dash as an investment vehicle. Dash has always been focused on delivering value, and is characterized by long-term investors that believe in our mission and vision, and we hope to continue that long-term mindset well into the future.
+
+Evan and Ryan

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-06-28-people.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "stellapeopleofdash.jpeg"
+title: "PEOPLE OF DASH: Joshua, Evolution Front End Developer"
+original-author: Leah Stella Stephens 
+original-link: https://medium.com/dash-for-newbies/people-of-dash-joshua-evolution-front-end-developer-e9a4c673ca8f
+---
+In this new series, PEOPLE OF DASH, you’ll learn about the humans who are working behind the scenes to make Dash, the digital cash choice for the masses.
+Many of you may not be aware of the fact that Dash founder, Evan Duffield, just released the roadmap for Evolution, Dash’s revolutionary application that will greatly simplify and streamline the use of digital cash for the average person.
+
+According to Blockchain News:
+Dash, a leading payments-focused digital currency, has today unveiled its highly anticipated roadmap for Evolution, as well as ambitious plans for 2017 through to 2020 and beyond. -Blockchain News
+What people may not know about Dash is how well its community works together and how diverse it actually is.
+Dash is a global, decentralized community and contains different people from all over the world who are working together to lay down the social and technological foundations for the mass adoption of Dash. The success of any global organization, including cryptocurrencies, requires that people from different backgrounds utilize whatever skills they have to grow the size influence of the network. Most of the attention is focused on programmers, as they are the ones building the tools for the mainstream adoption of Dash, but the reality is that it takes all kinds of people to effectively build a healthy and robust global movement.
+
+JOSHUA SEIGLER
+EVOLUTION FRONT END DEVELOPER
+Stella: How and when did you find out about Dash?
+Joshua: I got into Bitcoin in November 2013 after the price shot up to $1000 USD. In April of 2014 I decided to look into altcoins. I did a LOT of research to pick one I could trust. I found Dash, and it stood out as a coin that had material improvements over Bitcoin, and that still wanted to be used as money. I made some Bitcoin buying and selling Dash on Cryptsy, and in a couple instances my timing was really good due to paying attention to Dash news. I also did a little mining with my gaming video card. I managed to mine a few dollars’ worth of Dash per week. At that time I thought of it as a way to get more Bitcoin, but also as a project to keep an eye on.
+By March of 2016 I was convinced that Dash had the potential to take a leading role as a payment cryptocurrency. Due to a lack of governance, Bitcoin was struggling to resolve what should have been a very simple parameter change, and there was no end in sight. I sold the last of my Bitcoin for Dash.
+S: What’s your main contribution to Dash?
+J: I am a masternode owner. Aside from the income, voting on proposals gives a sense of involvement I’ve never felt elsewhere. I have been active in the public slack groups since they were up and running. I was a moderator in Buster’s slack, and I’m a mod in Tao’s slack now. I volunteered to set up custom CSS for the Dashpay subreddit, and because of that I got a chance to help with the dash.org redesign last year. I got along well with the team, so when we had this big price swell earlier in the year, I talked with Andy Freer (Dash Core’s CTO) and asked about a full time position. Fast forward to this past Monday, I just started working on Evolution full-time as a front end developer!
+S: What’s different about Dash compared to other coins?
+J: Dash is a monetary asset (not a smart token or appcoin). It’s a really good monetary asset, since it can meet all the requirements for what money is supposed to be good at. All the network participants have strong incentives to support it.
+S: How is Dash Nation unique in the crypto-sphere?
+J: We stand out as a very welcoming, friendly community. Part of that is the hard work from Tao and many others to maintain a good culture, but another major factor is Dash’s governance. Difficult decisions are put to a masternode vote, instead of being decided on social media. That lets the Slack be itself instead of turning into a battleground.
+S: Do you have any predictions about how Evolution could change the cryptocurrency environment?
+J: Just like with cash today, people will be able to use Dash Evolution without having to understand it. People are unhappy with banks. There’s a cultural shift happening, moving from centralization back to decentralization, and decentralized money is where it starts. High quality currency shifts power from gatekeepers to individuals.
+S: What are the pros and cons of Dash?
+J: Cons: It’s not yet widely spendable.
+Pros: Dash makes it possible to irreversibly transfer value over the internet in seconds. Nothing else can do that without some kind of central control. I like the name. It’s digital cash; it just makes sense. Strong incentives. The network pays for all the things it needs, which makes it sustainable.
+S: Anything else you want to add?
+J: I hope these answers were interesting, and maybe inspired you to get involved with Dash, either by buying some, or even just stopping by the Dash Nation slack to say hi or listen in. Here’s the link to the Dash Nation Slack: https://dash-nation-invite.herokuapp.com/

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-06-29- ChainScaling.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "scaling_1.png"
+title: "How To Enable On-Chain Scaling"
+original-author: Evan Duffield
+original-link: https://medium.com/@eduffield222/how-to-enabling-on-chain-scaling-2ffab5997f8b
+---
+How To Enable On-Chain Scaling
+
+Scalability has long been a massive barrier to the adoption of digital currency. To date, nobody has figured out how to process as many transactions-per-second as PayPal or VISA. The leaders of various digital currency projects claim that one day the whole world will be using “their” currency, but they can provide no credible plan for how they will scale their network to the necessary level. Even Satoshi Nakamoto, founder of Bitcoin, seems to have simply assumed that advances in hardware and networking would solve the scalability problem for him. Dash is the first digital currency to come up with an answer to scalability that’s not based on technology that doesn’t yet, and might never, exist. Dash will be able to rival the likes of PayPal and VISA simply by using its existing infrastructure.
+Dash’s two-tier network has provided a number of advantages over the years, and has allowed for the creation of compelling technologies such as InstantSend, PrivateSend, and decentralized governance. At present, there are over 4000 incentivized masternodes powering the second-tier of the network. Since these masternodes share in the block reward, their owners can afford to use higher-quality VPS hardware to host their nodes. This results in a high-quality decentralized network infrastructure. By leveraging the masternode system, Dash will be able to scale far faster than any other project. The first version of Dash Evolution will be able to support 500 thousand daily users, and over approximately the next three years, we will scale to a network capable of supporting 50 million users. This document explains how we intend to accomplish this unprecedented feat.
+Many projects in the space believe that on-chain scaling is impossible. That’s simply because they haven’t explored alternative P2P architectures for higher performance. We intend to show just how far an incentivized second tier architecture can take a project like Dash.
+Here is how our network looks today, with the second tier completely indistinguishable from the first tier.
+
+![Alt desc](/assets/img/scaling_1.png)
+From VPS to Server Farm
+Dash is already attracting significant interest from well-known companies who would like to build new products on top of Dash. Because companies are interested in Dash now, we realize that we must begin scaling immediately. When the first version of Dash Evolution is released next year, we anticipate even greater interest and consequently must ensure that our network’s capacity increases rapidly. In order to fulfill our goals of scalability, Dash will begin supporting 2MB blocks beginning in Q4 of this year. We intend on scaling the network before its transaction capacity is maxed out. We must stay ahead of the curve.
+The first version of Dash Evolution, which we anticipate releasing in 2018, will support 5MB blocks. We believe that the incredible features and ease-of-use that we are building into Evolution will cause a spike in demand for our network’s services. We want to ensure that we have sufficient transaction capacity to meet those additional needs. The second version of Evolution will support 15MB blocks using custom masternode hardware currently being researched by Dash Labs. We will likely use GPU acceleration to accomplish the necessary block processing, effectively creating the first iteration of our “ultra-large block acceleration” (ULBA) hardware. Finally, the third version of Evolution will support 45MB blocks by using custom hardware with PCI-EX cards to optimize block processing and enable the network to support 50 million users.
+Here’s how the network will look after upgrading.
+![Alt desc](/assets/img/scaling_2.png)
+
+Theoretical Issues
+It’s reasonable to ask why other digital currency projects haven’t adopted ultra-large blocks in order to scale their transaction capacity. The difficulty with large blocks is that each node must process each transaction within the block and then relay it to the network. Many digital currencies rely on altruism — ordinary users running nodes for free — to power their network. Unfortunately, because of the lack of economic incentives, these networks end up being bottlenecked by the slowest nodes. Dash solves this problem by economically incentivizing its masternodes, since they share in the block rewards.
+The technical solution to creating a network which can support large blocks is three-fold. First, we must ensure that each masternode is running on hardware powerful enough to rapidly process each block. Secondly, we must make sure that each masternode has enough bandwidth to propagate blocks to the network quickly enough. Third, we must ensure the second-tier masternode network is highly interconnected and able to relay blocks amongst itself at incredibly high speeds.
+Even without custom hardware, masternodes are capable of supporting significantly larger block sizes, assuming that they have adequate CPU, RAM, and hard drives. Therefore, we intend to begin the process of introducing larger block sizes even before Evolution is released. Scalability is a big concern in the digital currency space right now, with several projects experiencing high fees and long confirmation times. By beginning the scaling of Dash’s network immediately, we can offer a solution to these issues before they cripple our network as well.
+Gavin Andresen did a great deal of research on 20MB blocks before his retirement. Based on Gavin’s research, I’ve concluded that our network can easily handle 20MB and larger blocks, provided that we solve propagation issues shortly thereafter. See below for Gavin’s excellent research:
+<http://gavintech.blogspot.com/2015/01/twenty-megabytes-testing-results.html>
+<http://gavintech.blogspot.com/2015/01/looking-before-scaling-up-leap.html>
+Based on this research and our own research over the past year and a half, we offer the following upgrade plan for the masternode network.
+Phases Of Masternode Upgrades
+Phase I — V13: Normal VPS servers, which can be upgraded to relatively high-performance levels without requiring custom hardware. This will allow us to support blocks up to about 20MB.
+Phase II — V14: Custom computers with multi-core high-end processors, colocated in server farms for fast propagation and ultra-low latency.
+Phase III — V15 : GPU acceleration. GPUs such as nVidia’s Tesla series contain scriptable CUDA processors. The model below contains 448 such cores, which would allow masternodes to process the signatures from each transaction in parallel. We’ll also program small scripts for accelerating various tasks of dash-core, offloading some of the heaviest processing pieces to the masternode network.
+
+![Alt desc](/assets/img/scaling_3.png)
+
+<http://www.nvidia.com/docs/IO/43395/NV_DS_Tesla_M2050_M2070_Apr10_LowRes.pdf>
+Phase IV — V15: ASICs on PCI-EX peripherals. Just as miners moved from CPUs, to GPUs, and finally to custom ASICs, Dash’s masternode network will follow the same upgrade path. In this phase, we will create custom ASICs and place them either on PCI-EX peripherals or external USB 3.0 devices. First generation ULBA devices will be higher density and designed for specific versions of dash-core.
+ULBA devices inside masternode hardware will offline specific functions at 10x to 100x the speed of the GPU processing. Design and creation of this hardware will be completely open source and funded by the network. This will reduce the incentive for private companies to build proprietary hardware in hopes of gaining economic advantages over the rest of the network..
+In short, getting beyond 20MB blocks will require each masternode to run on a complex set of hardware. This hardware will require redundancy, failover, load-balancing, GPU parallelization, custom PCI-EX hardware and hard-disk arrays for increased, fault resistant storage of network data. Masternodes will support two types of hard-disks, spinning disks with higher storage support and SSDs for quick read/write ability specifically for blockchain and cache storage.
+Phase V: New versions of ULBA devices which utilize cutting-edge silicon fabrication, lower density chips, and full fiber interconnection of the masternode network. During this phase we begin to run services on the network like block explorers which require full validation.
+Mind the Gap!
+Miners and any others who want to keep up with the full data moving through the network will need heavy bandwidth and powerful servers to keep up. They will essentially require hardware that’s just as powerful as that used by the masternode network. This will increase the privacy of the network, since snooping will become prohibitively expensive.
+However, there is a risk that miners, facing additional hardware costs, might lose their economic incentive to mine. They will essentially be absorbing the cost of running both a masternode and a miner, yet will only receive payments for mining. Miners who are unable or unwilling to upgrade their hardware will find that their blocks get orphaned frequently, reducing their revenue drastically.
+We will solve this economic issue with a system called “collateralized mining.” Simply put, we will merge the process of mining into the masternode network. Masternodes running on advanced custom hardware will alo run mining software. We will call this combined masternode/miner a “collateralized miner.” An individual’s hashpower will therefore be determined by how many masternodes the person runs. There will be a transition period before collateralized mining is mandatory, which will allow existing miners to recoup their initial capital outlay. .
+
+
+![Alt desc](/assets/img/scaling_4.png)
+Economics and Bandwidth
+The basic premise of collateralized mining is to require collateralization and a special mining key which is associated with each masternode to be able to mine a block. Each masternode is then capable only of mining a specific amount of blocks per period of time, creating a round robin mining effect across the network.
+This has many features, all of them good.
+Lower power consumption
+Equal mining share per masternode
+Secure hashes for seeding quorums
+Quick block processing
+Quick block propagation
+Ultra-large block support
+Complete closure of 51% attack
+Removal of pooled mining
+Bandwidth and propagation is not a concern due to increased network connectivity and larger ethernet bandwidth.
+We believe that Dash Evolution will cause our project to be in line with Satoshi’s original vision for decentralized digital currency. Satoshi wrote:
+“The current system where every user is a network node is not the intended configuration for large scale. That would be like every Usenet user runs their own NNTP server. The design supports letting users just be users. The more burden it is to run a node, the fewer nodes there will be. Those few nodes will be big server farms. The rest will be client nodes that only do transactions and don’t generate.” — Satoshi, 2010.
+Tier one (end-users running dash-core software) will essentially be phased out, with users ultimately accessing the network using our decentralized API (DAPI). We are calling DAPI “tier three” of the network.
+Collateralization Phases
+We will gradually transition the network to collateralized mining in order to maintain network security while allowing existing miners to recoup the cost of their mining equipment. We will upgrade the network in phases:
+Phase I : Normal miner / Masternode mining arrangement
+Phase II : Optional masternode mining keys
+Phase III : Required masternode mining keys
+Phase IV : Required local ASIC w/ MN core daemon
+Masternode Keys (technical notes)
+Masternodes will also begin to use different signing keys for different actions. Right now, masternodes use the same key for every action. In the future, they will need a key specifically to delegate to the contractor who mines on their behalf. This will prevent that contractor from doing any other actions, such as voting. (Note that this refers to the masternode key, not to the key which holds the 1000 DASH collateral. That will always remain private.)
+A+B | Masternode Public Key / Signing Key
+A+B+C+D | Masternode Public Key / Network Message Signing Key / Voting Key / Mining Key

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-06-29- EvolutionsRoadmap.md

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+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "EvolutionsRoadmap.png"
+title: "Interview with Evan Duffield on Evolution's Roadmap"
+original-author: DashForceNews
+original-link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E65QixSRosw
+---
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E65QixSRosw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-06-29- abjhiatus.md

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+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "abjhiatus.png"
+title: "ABJ takes Hiatus"
+original-author: Amanda B Johnson
+original-link: https://youtu.be/xoG4HJHOWJ0
+---
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xoG4HJHOWJ0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>