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   fees: N/A
   image: cex.jpg
   url: https://cex.io
+
+- name: Cointed
+  trading_pairs: BTC
+  fees: N/A
+  image: cointed.jpg
+  url: https://www.cointed.com/en/

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   url: http://www.dewadloper.nl/
   image: dewadloper.jpg
 
-- name: Dewadloper
+- name: Organic Coffee
   title: Organic Coffee
   url: https://contraband.store
   image: contraband.jpg
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   title: Anything for coins
   url: http://www.dashbargain.com
   image: dashbargain.jpg
+
+- name: CNR
+  title: Consulting
+  url: https://cnr-web.com/
+  image: CNR.jpg
+
+- name: ZBOTANICALS
+  title: Herbal products
+  url: https://zbotanicals.net/
+  image: Zbotanicles.jpg
+
+- name: Motionimation
+  title: Graphics and animation studio
+  url: http://www.motionimation.com/
+  image: motionimage.jpg
+

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-09-14-qryptos.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "qryptos copy.jpg"
+title: "Dash now trading on new Japanese Exchange "
+original-author: tungfa
+original-link: https://www.qryptos.com
+---
+
+Dash now trading on new Japanese Exchange 
+
+<https://www.qryptos.com>

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-09-14-steemit.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "copay-dash-wallet.jpg"
+title: "Dash finally on Steemit"
+original-author: tungfa
+original-link: https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@dashpay/dash-finally-on-steemit
+---
+
+Dash finally on Steemit
+
+<https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@dashpay/dash-finally-on-steemit>

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-09-15-attackbitcoin.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "960x0.jpg"
+title: "Good read (no Dash)"
+original-author: Panos Mourdoukoutas 
+original-link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2017/09/14/why-big-banks-attacked-bitcoin/
+---
+
+Why Big Banks Attacked Bitcoin
+
+Big Banks want to destroy Bitcoin before it destroys them.
+
+Bitcoin, the “people’s currency,” has the potential to become a new currency, free of the control of big governments and big banks.
+
+That’s why they both want to limit this potential. Each one in their own way. Big governments by stepping up regulations of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and by shutting down cryptocurrency exchanges, as the Chinese government has announced recently, crushing cryptocurrencies.
+
+Coin/Investment Trust	*Change 24H*
+Bitcoin (BTC)	-9.66%
+Ethereum (ETH)	-11.22
+Litecoin (LTC)	-16.92
+*As of Friday September7  at 9 pm*
+
+Source: Coinranking.com
+
+Coin/Investment Trust	*Change 24H*
+Bitcoin (BTC)	-17.32%
+Ethereum (ETH)	-19.74
+Litecoin (LTC)	-29.46
+*As of Monday September 14, at 7 pm*
+
+Source: Coinranking.com
+
+Big banks by attacking the very premise and the valuation of Bitcoin. Early in the week, for instance, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. leader Jamie Dimon called the digital currency a “fraud,” and a “tulip bulb.”
+
+Then there’s a Bank of America survey, which called Bitcoin, the “most crowded trade.”
+
+To be fair, bankers aren’t the only ones that have raised their level of skepticism about the rapid ascend of Bitcoin and other digital currencies. But to call the digital currency a fraud and a tulip is more than skepticism, in my opinion. It undermines the potential of Bitcoin to become a “peoples’ currency,” and replace national currencies.
+
+And that’s what concerns big governments and big banks. Big governments will lose seigniorage income—the benefits derived from printing money, and they will lose the ability to control the economy, as discussed in a previous piece here.
+
+Losing the ability to handle the money that flows between central banks and the economy is at the core of the banking business and the very existence in the monetary economy. A Bitcoin economy, for instance, can promulgate peer to peer lending that substitutes traditional lending, where banks collect the “interest rate spread,” the difference between the interest rate they charge depositors and the rate they charge borrowers.
+
+Still, Apostolos Pittas, adjunct professor of economics at LIU Post sees Bitcoin lending supplementing rather than undermining the traditional banking system. “Digital currency, as is the case with Bitcoin, helps to smooth the lending process. Recall what happened in 2007-2008 during the financial crisis. Credit dried up as banks stopped lending, and the markets froze. With a digital currency like Bitcoin, lending is decentralized, or peer to peer, and as a result, lending may continue, allowing money to reach those who need it."
+
+Simply put, the rise of Bitcoin can be a stabilizing rather than a destabilizing factor for the financial system, Apparently, big government and big banks do not see things that way at the moment.

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-09-16-copayalpha.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "Copay_Wallet_for_Dash_Enters.jpg"
+title: "Copay Wallet for Dash Enters Closed Alpha Testing Stage"
+original-author: JP Buntinx 
+original-link: http://www.newsbtc.com/2017/09/15/coapy-wallet-dash-enters-closed-alpha-testing-stage/
+---
+
+There can never be enough proper cryptocurrency wallet solutions. This is especially true when it comes to some of the more popular altcoins. Keeping funds in an exchange is no option if you want full control over the money. Copay, an open-source wallet solution, will soon get a Dash version. This new project is currently in the closed alpha testing stage. This new wallet will pave the way for the Evolution payment system.
+
+Most Bitcoin users will have heard of Copay before. This particular wallet was first introduced by BitPay. Creating an open-source client which can be ported to any cryptocurrency has been a great idea so far. In the case of Dash, this wallet is known as Dashpay. It paves the way for the upcoming Evolution ecosystem. Offering more user-friendliness and introducing advanced feature are two things to look forward to. Joint accounts, for example, have been off-limits to nearly all altcoin enthusiasts so far.
+
+Copay for Dash is a big Step Forward
+
+It is quite interesting to see a Copay version for Dash. This goes to show the community is looking for more secure and advanced solutions. Dashpay will also introduce recurring payment options in the future. Cryptocurrency and recurring payments have always been a difficult mix. By default, no cryptocurrency protocol supports recurring transactions automatically. With this Dashpay wallet, that feature will soon come to Dash users all over the world.
+
+Although this is still the closed alpha testing stage, a lot of progress can be made. More specifically, we may see a fully functioning Copay wallet for Dash before the year is over. This also marks the first step toward creating a more versatile Dash ecosystem as a whole. Evolution is an integral part of the roadmap for this particular cryptocurrency. Big things are scheduled to happen in the first half of 2018. Dashpay will help facilitate this transition by providing convenient access to new solutions.
+
+It will be interesting to see if other cryptocurrencies explore the Copay option in the future. After all, the concept has a lot of merit in its current stage. Joint accounts for all major currencies would be a good place to start. The Dash team has some other exciting features to launch in the next few months. DashPay is a big part, as this new concept will receive its own decentralized wallets as well. The future looks very bright for this popular altcoin, assuming the developers can deliver.

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-09-16-stokholm.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "stockholmsep16.jpg"
+title: "Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Stockholm Brought Together Politicians, Investors and Developers "
+original-author: Press Release 
+original-link: http://bitcoinist.com/blockchain-bitcoin-conference-stockholm-brought-together-politicians-investors-developers/
+---
+
+On September 7, the capital of Sweden hosted Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Stockholm for the first time. The event brought together owners of businesses related to cryptocurrencies and blockchain-based solutions. It was attended by more than 350 participants and 19 speakers from 13 countries.
+
+The conference took place at the Elite Hotel Marina Tower, the nineteenth-century majestic building near the city center. The hotel is known not only for its wonderful architecture and interiors but also by a high-end service.
+
+KEY PRESENTATIONS
+
+The event allowed to discuss the prospects and technical details of blockchain integration in businesses, legislative regulation of cryptocurrencies in Sweden and the world as well as the opportunities for investing in cryptocurrency crowdsales, mining, and cybersecurity.
+
+The keynote speaker of the conference – Mathias Sundin, Sweden Member of Parliament – said that the blockchain would help to prevent global financial crises. He revealed his viewpoint of society changes to be caused by bitcoin: authorities would no longer belong to state institutions but would shift to citizens.
+
+Frank Schuil, the CEO at Safello Stockholm cryptocurrency exchange, discussed the bitcoin opportunities and changes of society’s attitude to cryptocurrencies.
+
+Sofie Blakstad, the founder of Hiveonline, presented her vision of cryptocurrency future: “Within nearest 5-10 years, digital currencies will revolutionize financial markets.” The speaker talked about the risks and advantages of digital currencies issued by central banks for developing countries.
+
+Several presentations were dedicated to the popular ICO topic: Daniel Zakrisson, Natalia Tokar, Julian Hosp and Oleg Kudrenko told the audience how to choose a project for investing as well as revealed existing risks and ways to avoid them. They discussed in detail the ICO launch and legislative regulation of crowdsales.
+
+Martin Mischke, the СЕО at Brickblock, explained how the blockchain would make a real property purchase process faster and allow to reduce prices due to abandoning intermediaries’ services.
+
+Karolina Marzantowicz, IBM Distinguished Engineer, devoted her presentation to blockchain impact on energy and utilities.
+
+Robert Wiecko and Fernando Gutierrez presented the Dash project: an open payment system based on the blockchain with anonymized transactions.
+
+Vladislav Martynov, a co-founder of BlockGeeksLab, talked about the demands of modern economy in such cryptocurrency assets as stable coin and its connection to gold.
+
+The event also included the exhibition of blockchain projects. Seventeen companies from various countries presented their recent solutions.
+
+The conference was held by Smile-Expo, an organizer of the major international series of Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference events, taking place annually in Russia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Malta and other countries. More information about company’s projects can be found on the website.
+

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-09-17-Londoncryptocurrency.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "Londoncryptocurrencysep17.jpg"
+title: "Dash now listed on London cryptocurrency exchange"
+original-author: TONY ZERUCHA 
+original-link: http://www.banklesstimes.com/2017/09/15/dash-now-listed-on-london-cryptocurrency-exchange/
+---
+
+Payments cryptocurrency Dash is now listed on London’s CEX.IO cryptocurrency exchange. It can also be bought and sold online with a linked bank account.
+
+CEX is a FinCEN-registered and PCI DSS-compliant exchange and broker that allows users to trade between different currency/fiat pairs and buy and sell digital currencies online with bank transfers or verified bank cards. It has more than one million registered users.
+
+“CEX.IO has a long and respected track record operating in the digital currency space,” Dash Core CEO Ryan Taylor said. “Their team is highly focused on the safety, stability, and legal compliance of its platform. For Dash users and traders, the integration into CEX.IO represents another great option for them to acquire Dash through bank transfers or with payment cards from a significant number of countries.
+
+
+Ryan Taylor
+“The site’s ‘Buy / Sell’ feature makes acquiring Dash as easy as making a typical online purchase. We are especially proud to see Dash added as the latest digital currency on CEX.IO’s platform, as they are very selective about the currencies they choose to add.”
+
+“We see Dash as a top rated digital currency so it was really only a matter of time before we joined forces,” CEX.IO CEO Alex Lutskevych said. “We really respect the fact that Dash is based on a real decentralized ledger and has such a strong core team and growing community. Dash also features a two-tier architecture of PrivateSend, InstantSend, decentralized governance and a budget system.
+
+“It’s obvious that Dash matures fast. Most importantly, Dash’s InstantSend function is incredibly impressive; in my opinion it has already paved the way for and surpassed Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, which will allow for faster Bitcoin transactions to take place. Dash are true standard setters.”

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-09-19-EmpireStrikesBack.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "empirestrikesback.jpeg"
+title: "The Empire Strikes Back with a Coordinated War on Crypto"
+original-author: Daniel Jeffries 
+original-link: https://hackernoon.com/the-empire-strikes-back-with-a-coordinated-war-on-crypto-bdd84fd2f854
+---
+
+On Sept 1 2017, Bitcoin roared to a new all-time high, touching the $5000 mark for the first time in history.
+And then the bottom fell out.
+While Twitterverse crypto enthusiasts called the sudden drop a natural correction, it quickly became clear there was nothing natural about it.
+Over the course of two weeks, Bitcoin and every other crypto faced a sustained assault of relentless negative press designed to crash the price, spread fear and destroy the trust in decentralized money.
+And it wasn’t random at all.
+It was a coordinated attack on crypto.
+To understand why you just have to know a little about the history of power in the world.
+The Empire Strikes Back
+David Smooke, the king of Hackernoon, called decentralized cryptocurrency “this decade’s iconic battle of government vs. business.”
+
+But it’s more than that.
+It’s not a battle between business and government. It’s a battle between the centralized empires of the world and a decentralized rebel alliance of every day people, an eternal battle.
+And it’s not just a battle.
+It’s a war.
+It’s been raging since humans first crawled out of the primordial swamp. It’s a battle of freedom versus control, power to the people versus the power of a select group of elites who’ve kept their jackboot on the face of humanity for thousands of years.
+Each generation must face the fight anew. Like a pendulum that swings back and forth forever and ever, when the world goes too far in one direction it must swing back in the other.
+Today, overcentralization is a disease. The pendulum only has one way to go.
+
+Gollum, the Return of the King, (copyright New Line Cinema.)
+But centralized empires don’t give up easily. Like Gollum clutching the dark ring, they’ll do anything to hold onto that precious power at all costs. It’s not even about what’s good or right. It’s about power for the sake of power.
+At first the Dark Lords of the world don’t pay much attention to rag-tag bands of rebels. They’re scattered and disconnected. But then they sack a trade ship or take a city and suddenly the Eye of Sauron turns.
+And now the Eye has turned towards cryptos.
+The Dark Lord’s playbook is simple but devastatingly effective:
+Co-opt, coerce, corrupt, outlaw, and kill.
+And many of these were on full display the last few weeks.
+Corrupt and Coerce
+It started with China.
+First they lashed out at ICOs, declaring them illegal fundraising.
+Of course, many applauded the move. While ICOs represent a revolutionary new way to crowdsource funding, moving beyond the straight-jacket of “accredited investors” and VC money, the space was rampant with scams and questionable projects. While the crypto market initially reacted with a short drop, very quickly the trading public saw the move as positive. Bitcoin bounced right back up. They assumed China would make the freeze only temporary and provide better guidance to protect investors with sensible legislation.
+But they were wrong.
+It was only the opening shot in a new wave of information warfare.
+Over the next few weeks, the news became a deliberate and coordinated drip of terrifying information, designed to derange the market and spread panic. Instead of the China regulatory news breaking all at once, like a normal story does, it kept dripping out in “leaks” and press releases and planted stories.
+Soon a story dropped in the Wall Street Journal, citing only “unnamed sources familiar with the matter” that China planned to shutter all crypto exchanges.
+Now the panic really set in. The sell-off started in earnest.
+
+Still, many pro traders were calling for HODL, aka holding your position, and waiting for the price to correct back up. Most traders, including me, took the rational position that China would never ban exchanges because it made no sense for them to do it.
+We should have known better.
+Leaks don’t just happen in authoritarian regimes. The regulatory groups and circles of power meet in secret, in smoke filled rooms, behind closed doors. The people in those circles are chosen carefully for clannishness and absolute loyalty. Real leaks get people killed.
+The only leaks are deliberate ones.
+While the rumors swirled, the big three exchanges reacted with caution, saying they had received no official word from the People’s Bank of China (PBOC).
+
+But the optimism wouldn’t last.
+Despite the fact that closing down crypto exchanges will only drive trading underground, rob the Chinese government of tax revenue and crater their ability to enforce KYC or “Know Your Customer” style laws, the PBOC moved swiftly to attack exchanges.
+Right on schedule with the stream of negative news, the PBOC released a statement attacking the exchanges for running without a license. Now suddenly those exchanges that ran for years without issues need a made-up license to operate.
+You see, Chinese law doesn’t work like western law. Although the Chinese Constitution provides legal, executive and judicial powers, they’re all subject to the whim of the Communist Party. The Party is supreme. Courts and regulatory bodies don’t need to follow any of those frameworks in deciding cases.
+China runs by rule of man (rén zhì 人治), not rule of law (fǎzhì 法治).
+Essentially, it means that regulators can change the rules whenever they feel like and that’s exactly what they did here. In classic rule of man style, the statement was overly broad, vague and subject to interpretation any way they saw fit, a staple of bad law making (just drop it into Google Translate to see).
+Now the panic really set in as traders dumped faster and faster. Classic trader memes flowed fast and furious from top crypto Twitter accounts.
+
+A few days later the first of the major exchanges, BTCC, announced it would suspend trading.
+
+A day later, the other two, OkCoin and Huboi, said they would meet with regulators. The day after that, they announced their own suspensions by the end of October.
+All hell broke loose.
+
+Bitcoin posted the largest one day red candle in history, as traders everywhere sold everything as fast as they could in a stampede of panic.
+And if it was just China news driving the market, that wouldn’t be enough to call it a coordinated attack on crypto. The Chinese government has flirted with cracking down on Bitcoin in the past and even closed exchanges.
+But this time was different.
+Hot on the heels of the Chinese story, a storm of negative press flooded the interwebs.
+Out of nowhere, the CEO of JP Morgan, a company known for investing in blockchain technology, called Bitcoin a “fraud” that’s “worse than tulips.”
+A few days later, JP Morgan’s lead quant backed the attack calling cryptocurrencies “pyramid schemes”.
+Soon after, CNBC was trotting out economist Mohamed El-Erian to say “Bitcoin should be worth half” what it was trading at, and that it would never achieve “mainstream adoption”, essentially the same argument they used against the Internet, video games, eBooks and digital cameras.
+Bitcoin is 'disruptive technology' but pricing assumes massive adoption: Mohamed El-Erian
+
+I think it is going to exist because it is a peer-to-peer currency, says Mohamed El-Erian, Allianz chief economic…
+www.cnbc.com	
+Now the price of every single crypto was circling the drain, driven down by the relentless assault of information warfare.
+Innovative Chinese platforms, like NEO, took some of the biggest beatings.
+But why now?
+On the surface none of this makes sense.
+The blockchain space has been booming. Investor money is flooding in. While there are certainly a number of useless projects out there, the space is filled with startups who will revolutionize everything from neighbors trading solar energy among themselves to supply chain management, with heavy hitters like IBM and the Apache Foundation backing the technology.
+But when looked at through the lens of the eternal war between centralization and decentralization, it becomes much clearer.
+Guerilla Warfare
+For years cryptocurrencies have ripped along, mostly under the radar.
+
+Classic Communist propaganda poster.
+Early verbal assaults on coins were weak and didn’t do much to dampen enthusiasm among adherents to the crypto creed. Back in 2013, when the first attacks started, the market cap of Bitcoin was tiny, a mere spec of the global economic pie. It traded at around $10–$20. Not much for a centralized empire to worry about at all.
+Those attacks were simple and straightforward, such as saying that only drug dealers and criminals used Bitcoin, usually by calling attention to Silk Road. Big government boot-licking economist Paul Krugman posted a now infamous missive in the New York Times called “Bitcoin is Evil” describing it as a weapon “intended to damage central banking and money issuing banks.”
+But the attacks didn’t stick. Bitcoin’s price continued to rise, despite laughable obituaries getting written almost weekly.
+
+The biggest heist before Mt Gox, as portrayed in the movie Goodfellas.
+In fact, the only thing that brought the mighty money badger’s rise to a grinding halt was an actual crime, the hacking of Mt. Gox, the most well known early exchange. Hackers made off with 850,000 Bitcoins, more than $450 million dollars at the time, making it one of the most audacious heists in history. Even with Bitcoin’s recent price slide, those coins are now worth upwards of $3.1 billion dollars.
+That’s a lot of money.
+And it was a serious blow. If exchanges can’t keep money secure, they’re unusable. That attack brought about the “crypto winter” and the prices of every major coin remained depressed for over a year.
+But they’ve been on a tear ever since rising from under $300 in the aftermath of Mt Gox to $5000 at its peak this year.
+New cryptocurrencies, like Ethereum, sprang onto the scene. They looked to address the shortcomings of the original crypto king, by providing Turing complete programming languages, smart contracts and more.
+This year, ICOs raised more than $1.5 billion dollars, outpacing VC money as the number one way to raise cash but doing it all from small investors like Kickstarter on steroids. Projects designed to do everything from decentralized DNS, to identity management and distributed storage started making waves, promising to upend the way we do just about everything in technology.
+Even the companies and governments that initially laughed at the ideas behind Bitcoin started to understand the breakthrough power of the technology behind it: the blockchain.
+No longer would you need to go to one of three central companies to get a web certificate or register a domain name, you could go to a decentralized web of trust that no one group controlled.
+
+Along the way, Chinese miners came to dominate Bitcoin. Today they make up half of the mining power on Earth. Their entrepreneurs built the fastest ASIC chips, designed to mine coins at astonishing rates, and filled up huge data centers to run them.
+At the Consensus Summit this year, an industry trade show, the halls were covered with familiar logos like IBM, and Deloitte Touche and JP Morgan.
+Wait, what? JP Morgan?
+Aren’t those the same guys that were ripping Bitcoin a few weeks ago?
+That’s right.
+
+While CEO Jaime Dimon was pissing on Bitcoin, his office was hosting crypto venture capitalists and crypto investors in San Francisco. And his analysts were lauding the technology in their own papers calling blockchain “the real deal”:
+“While the notion of blockchain may seem novel, the underlying technology is not new. It is the combination of proven, existing technologies: peer-to-peer networking, asymmetric cryptography and cryptographic hashing (see: In plain English). Bitcoin was the innovation that combined these technologies, offering the ability to transfer value, while preventing double- spend in a trustless, pseudonymous, publicly accessible system.”
+Oh yeah, and at Consensus, JP Morgan announced they would integrate the anonymity technology behind Zcash, another crypocurrency, into their own blockchain technology.
+“Monday, the company behind Zcash, the Zerocoin Electric Coin Company (ZECC) announces a partnership with JPMorgan Chase to add Zcash’s privacy technology to Quorum, an enterprise blockchain platform JPMorgan built on Ethereum, a network similar to bitcoin’s but focused on smart contracts.”
+Wait, JP Morgan has their own blockchain too?
+
+You bet’cha.
+So what the hell is going on here?
+How is it that China’s regime turned its back on a technology that its entrepreneurs dominate, while big banks like JP Morgan tout the power of the blockchain and the innovation of Bitcoin, only to try to destroy the technology that created it?
+Simple.
+It’s about power and control.
+Barbarians at the Gate
+For the first time the powers that be have started to realize that cryptocurrencies aren’t just a toy. As the Russian Minister said they’re now “impossible to ignore”.
+They’re also impossible for any one group or nation to control.
+And that’s just what the banks and authoritarian regimes of the world fear.
+
+J.P. Morgan himself, the original “fat cat” of big finance.
+You see, companies like JP Morgan have dominated finance for more than a hundred years. They’ve acted as the intermediary between us and our money. They’re so powerful that J.P. Morgan once bailed out the U.S. Treasury.
+That’s right, one company bailed out the entire U.S. Government.
+And when you act as the choke point that everyone has to go through to get to the most precious resource in the modern world, that’s not a power you let go of lightly.
+In fact, you’d do anything to keep that power.
+On the other side of the world, the Chinese government holds even more power than the big banks here. The Great Firewall maintains strict control over what their people can see and hear. Currency controls keep their rapidly growing middle class from taking too much money out of the country. The government employs more than two million censors to crush dissent online across social media. If you want to protest the millions of people who’ve disappeared with no trial into black jails, the censors will make sure you can’t say a word.
+And lately, they’ve cracked down even harder.
+They recently banned the use of VPNs that tech savvy Chinese citizens have always used to get around the ridiculous limits of the Great Firewall. All this is coming because China typically brings the hammer down on all dissent before its big five year meeting of top communist party leaders. They don’t want anyone protesting the rules they make for them without their consent.
+But this feels different than past years.
+This feels like fear.
+One of the most powerful companies in America and the most dominant force in all of Asia see cryptocurrencies as a major threat. They see them as a powerful, swiftly gathering storm that can level the playing field against their absolute stranglehold on every aspect of our lives.
+So they’ve gone on the attack.
+The Blueprint of Fear
+
+Both attacks fall squarely into the playbook of co-opt, coerce, corrupt, outlaw and kill.
+Let’s start with JP Morgan.
+Their attack is trivially simple. It’s a confidence game.
+They want to destroy faith in decentralized money to reaffirm faith in centralized money.
+And since money isn’t backed by anything but our faith in it, that’s a very powerful attack indeed and it’s been working for the last two weeks, driving down the price.
+JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon went on his epic rant after his own daughter dared to buy Bitcoin. It’s because he knows his job is obsolete. His company has acted as the middleman for a century. And now the jig is up. Clearly his daughter knows more about the future of money than he does right now. Good for her.
+And of course, the unbelievable arrogance of him calling Bitcoin a “fraud” boggles the mind considering that the number of times his company has been convicted of actual fraud is astonishing, amounting to billions and billions of dollars in settlements.
+
+The Big Short
+Lets also remember that his firm and their quants helped orchestrate the greatest and most devastating fraud in modern history, the Collateralized Debt Obligation scam, that brought the housing market to a screeching halt, destroyed millions of American lives, crashed the world economy and slammed us face first into the Great Recession.
+The scam was simple. Take a bunch of triple A rated mortgages, lump them together with some garbage mortgages and then sell them all as a derivative that is still rated triple A.
+Maybe you’re still under the impression that it wasn’t a scam at all, that it was just a natural cycle of boom to bust. Housing prices go up and housing prices go down. But let’s take a closer look to understand why that’s just not the case.
+
+You can check out the delightful Margot Robbie in The Big Short movie explaining it all in two minutes or less, but I’ve whipped up my own little analogy to help as well.
+Imagine that you have a box of deluxe chocolates. You could charge a premium for those candies, right? Put a pretty bow on the box and mark up the price.
+Those premium candies are like triple A rated mortgages because the people who took out that money to buy a house can pay the money back. You make money as an investor by buying up that debt ahead of time at a lower price, and then you can collect the mortgage money over many years at a higher price and come out way ahead.
+Now imagine that someone takes half the chocolates out of the box and plunks down dog shit in there instead. After that they paint up the turds with black ink to make them look like deluxe truffles. Then they charge you same price as the premium box.
+Still sound like a good deal?
+Those painted shit bags are the mortgages that will never get paid, because they were sold to people who couldn’t afford it, rolled in with the premium mortgages and sold at the same price as the deluxe box of chocolates, as if nothing had changed at all.
+If that sounds like fraud, it’s because it is. Actual, literal fraud.
+And they got away it.
+Not a single person went to jail for it.
+In fact, we gave them more money to make sure they didn’t go bankrupt for perpetrating this mass rip-off on the world. The tax payers, aka you and me, gave them $12 billion additional dollars for cheating us, crashing the economy and ratcheting up debt world wide to utterly unsustainable levels.
+
+Zero Hedge reports that global debt now stands at a record high $217 trillion dollars, more than 327% of GDP. Yes, that is trillion with a capital T. That’s a lot of unpaid bills and a lot of cans kicked down the road.
+The people who caused this looming humanitarian disaster are the same people who are telling you that Bitcoin is a “fraud”. The sheer audacity of it is utterly incredible.
+I guess you can admire their cojones though, right? I mean if you’re going to lie, just go all in with it.
+Oh and while they’re speaking with forked tongues about fraud, they’re also investing in the technology, which brings us to their second attack:
+Co-opt and corrupt.
+They’re building their own blockchains and their own coins. It doesn’t matter that a single company controlling an entire blockchain is utterly worthless. That’s not a blockchain, that’s a database. It provides absolutely no additional value whatsoever but they’re doing it anyway.
+As Navil Ravikant, founder of Angel List, says:
+
+Why is it nonsense?
+Because the true power of the blockchain comes from distributing trust across an entire ecosystem. Contrary to popular belief, trust is not a fixed concept.
+Trust is a moving concept.
+If we entrust all of the power to a single entity and that entity goes bad, we’re screwed. Just check out our good friends at Equifax, who couldn’t keep our data safe and managed to leak the personal information of half of the United States. Oh yeah and Equifax provides root certificates on the web as well.
+That’s why blockchains use a twist on the “web of trust” concept. They spread out trust so that untrustworthy central entities don’t get to keep our trust after repeatedly violating it again and again. They’re a check and balance on everyone in the chain, so that no one group can gain complete control over everyone else.
+If the bank, its shareholders, its regulators and all of its deposit holders hold the keys to the blockchain, then you have a true distribution of power. Only the rules that everyone can agree on will get passed. That’s the essence of democracy in action. Checks and balances.
+But a bank coin is owned by just the bank.
+That’s the same old broken trust model we’ve always had up until now.
+So why are they doing it?
+Because if a bank owns all the keys, they can do what they always do, change the game on a whim, defraud the public as they see fit and make you foot the bill for it, while laughing at you.
+They want centrally controlled “blockchains” because they can go on rigging the rules in their favor forever.
+And the Chinese government wants the exact same so let’s turn our attention across the sea for a few moments.
+The Chinese Dynasty Redux
+
+The very first emperor of China outlawed local currencies and made one coin to rule them all. He did that to make sure that nobody else could stand against him.
+China still uses a dynastic system, whether they call it that or not. A rose by any other name is still a rose. The dynasties of China never went away. They just transformed. The PRC is nothing but an extension of the same system that’s ruled China for the last five thousand years. One emperor or one party makes no difference. It’s the same. Either one guy makes all the rules or a thousand guys do.
+And its methods are the same too.
+While both China and JP Morgan’s assaults amount to an attack on confidence, designed to destroy faith in cryptocurrency, China takes it one step further.
+Their rulers just lept head first into using the law as a weapon.
+It started with banning ICOs under the guise of protecting the public, then banning the exchanges for being “unlicensed” even though no such license exists.
+That works because some people see the law as good no matter what. If the law says everyone has to jump off a bridge tomorrow, that’s the law and the law is good. Everyone better start jumping or else.
+But a law is only as good as the people who wield it. In a just society, the laws are just. In an unjust society, the laws are unjust too. That’s why every major atrocity in the history of man from the mass slaughter of Native Americans to the Holocaust was “legal”.
+Jihan Wu, owner of the biggest Bitcoin mine on the planet, jumped in to say that exchanges should retroactively require that made up license.
+
+I guess he better hope the government doesn’t decide to invent a license to run a Bitcoin mine too and then seize all his profits!
+First they came for the Bitcoin traders but I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trader. Then they came for the Bitcoin users but I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t really a user either. Then they came for the miners and there was nobody left to speak up for me.
+China’s regime clearly recognize the disruptive power of the blockchain and they want to capture that power like lightning in a bottle. They want to make sure they don’t lose control of the money supply, because money is power. In other words, they want to make sure they don’t get disrupted too.
+That’s why they’re working with private companies like Deloitte Touche to build their own “state sponsored” cryptocurrency. If that sounds ominous, that’s because it is ominous, even though Deloitte put that on their website without a trace of irony.
+
+The Chairman knows how to cripple an economy and starve 45 million people! Trust him with making the next “state sponsored” crypto! What could go wrong?
+Just like American companies helped China build the Great Firewall, Deloitte’s consultants are helping China create a crypto with a backdoor into every transaction, which will help them monitor and control every aspect of their people’s lives.
+It will grant them the power to remotely turn off your money like turning out a light.
+And that would actually be a brand new power for China’s dynasties.
+There is an old Chinese proverb:
+天高皇帝远
+“Heaven is high and the Emperor is far away.”
+It means that the country is too vast and its people too scattered for the emperor to keep an eye on everything. Despite the iron fist of the Party and the other emperors before them, the Middle Kingdom is actually incredibly decentralized in many ways.
+The only way that the regime can keep a hold on their citizens is through a show of force. They can’t stop everything they hate, so they might pick a random group of people and punish them with a vicious show trial. They’ve mastered this charade in places like Tibet, where they put a professor in jail for life when they couldn’t get a handle on the constant wave of uprising in the far western Xinjiang province at the edge of the world.
+It’s a classic use of the violence hack, the one hack to rule them all. Pick a random person, kill or imprison him and you let everyone know it could happen to you too.
+Controlling all digital money would amount to an unprecedented new power in the hands of the PRC. If they’re successful, they’ll have a crippled, centrally controlled money system that spreads the power of the emperor across the land, putting the Eye of Sauron into every single pocket and smart phone, giving them a two-way lens into every aspect of their people’s lives.
+Think of it as Panopticon money.
+
+Eye of Sauron as depicted in the film version of LOTR. © New Line Cinema
+Inglorious Bastards
+If all of that sounds like a bunch of folks who don’t deserve a lick of trust trying to jam a false narrative down your throat, that’s because it is a bunch of untrustworthy bastards trying to jam a false narrative down your throat.
+Here’s the thing though:
+In the long run, none of these attacks will work.
+First off, nobody trusts the big banks not to lie to us. We’ve been burned too many times. They can crow all they want about fraud, but everyone knows the Emperor has no clothes. The collateralized debt obligation scam was their last get out of jail free card.
+The debt bubble is building again but it’s bigger than it was in 2008 by an order of magnitude. And when it pops this time, none of them are getting a bailout or escaping a cell.
+Cryptocurrencies are built to survive chaos.
+That’s why they thrive in failed states like Venezuela, where the people are starving and their money is worthless because of idiotic socialist rulers who failed them.
+
+In the last few years, billions and billions in smart money has poured into thousands and thousands of blockchain projects. Someone is out there right now, working on the killer app, the one that will make cryptocurrencies take off like a rocketship. And when we hit that Mozilla moment, traditional companies will rush to embrace it and to defend the powerful new marketplace of ideas because now they have something to lose if it goes away.
+And the countries that stand against the blockchain will have that mistake blow back on them with terrible fury.
+If China crushes the exchanges for good and cuts off mining, their historical enemies, like Japan, will simply embrace it with glee, as they already have today. Their citizens will only go underground with it and they’ll lose any hope they have of enforcing KYC and stopping massive capital flight, especially as their house of cards economy crumbles.
+The Chinese are masterful at faking GDP growth. They’ve taken “shovel and pour” contracts to an epic level. Each local party boss is tasked with a target growth rate every year, usually an insanely impossible 7% or more. There is simply no way to achieve it legitimately.
+What do you do when you don’t have enough entrepreneurial spirit to grow at a faster clip than Internet companies in the 1990’s bubble? Build a bunch of useless crap. China used more cement in the last three years than the US did in the last century.
+They build entire cities where nobody lives. They’re called Ghost Cities.
+That’s not real growth, that’s fake growth.
+And the worst irony is that if they go after their own miners, they’ll only end up crippling their most innovative real entrepreneurs. The biggest Bitcoin miner in China recently turned their chip designers loose on the power of AI, creating a deep learning ASIC. AI is a technology China wants to dominate in the coming years. If the government seizes their Bitcoin mines and cuts off their primary source of funding, that chip will never come to market and they’ll lose their chance to shape the future of all technology. Once again, an American firm or a European one will dominate chip making for decades.
+The Aftermath
+You may think this is the death knell for decentralized money.
+Think again.
+Cryptocurrencies are amazingly resilient.
+
+Already, the markets are shaking off the attacks. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are bouncing back up fast. They move at video game speed. If a traditional market takes three years to recover, Bitcoin takes three months or a few weeks.
+That’s because bitcoin and cryptos are bigger than any one country or company. If someone doesn’t want to play nice, they won’t get to play in the sandbox at all.
+And if countries drive their citizens away from legitimate avenues to participate, they’ll only adopt illicit ones until that country realizes the terrible error of its ways.
+In the wake of the ongoing attack on crypto, privacy focused currencies like Monero, PIVX, Dash, and Zcash are looking hotter than ever. Lightweight mobile wallets will make them even better. Even Ethereum is looking to roll in the privacy tech behind Zcash, starting with their rapidly approaching Metropolis hard fork. Expect them to deliver a big return in the coming months if the wave of misinformation continues.
+The highly respected International Business Times just ran a story about the power of Monero to stop mega-data breaches like Equifax’s disastrous breakdown, which will cost Americans billions of dollars as hackers gleefully open credit cards in our names. If you’ve worked in computers for more than ten minutes you know the truth:
+No central company or country can keep our data secure.
+They have to play perfect defense and the hackers just need to score once.
+There is only one way to keep our data safe. Don’t keep that data at all.
+Privacy isn’t just a nice-to-have in a stable and secure society, it’s an absolute necessity. That’s why the Founding Fathers of the United States gave us the Fourth Amendment:
+“ The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
+If they were writing it today, they’d have included the right to be secure in our digital devices and papers too. That’s because they grew up in a totalitarian society, where the empire could make laws without their consent, put up soldiers in people’s houses and make them foot the bill and charge people in secret courts.
+Decentralized cryptocurrencies give people back privacy and control over their lives, while balancing the need for law and order. Every healthy society needs both. The only people who don’t get that are the same people who have never gotten it because they don’t care about anyone but themselves.
+The banks can keep their crappy shitcoins. Nobody will buy them. We’re not fooled.
+And countries like Venezuela can keep their hyperinflated money and socialist power mongers too.
+
+Today the banks and central powers have all our money, all our gold records and all our former hits. But we don’t need it anymore.
+They can go ahead and keep all that shit.
+Like Dr Dre, we’re moving on to bigger and better things.
+We’re taking back our lives and our money.
+The empire may have struck back.
+But the aftermath has only begun.

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+layout: post
+image: "upcomingconferences.jpg"
+title: "Daily: Upcoming Conferences: Bitkan, Dash, World Blockchain Forum"
+original-author: Boxmining
+original-link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGMHpb4rNTg&t=215s
+---
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iGMHpb4rNTg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

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+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "WeeklyRecapSep19th.jpg"
+title: "Dash News Weekly Recap - China Drama, New Exchanges, CoPay Wallet, London & More!"
+original-author: Dash Force News 
+original-link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd5PL5033Js
+---
+
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cd5PL5033Js" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "OnlyinArizonasep20.jpg"
+title: "Only in Arizona: How Smart Contract Clarity Is Winning Over Startups"
+original-author: Aaron Stanley 
+original-link: https://www.coindesk.com/arizona-smart-contract-clarity-winning-startups/
+---
+
+What happens when someone breaches a contract?
+
+If you've gone through all the rigmarole of developing a paper contract, the legal ramifications are clear. But paper contracts are not only inefficient but also prone to fraud, which is why a group of startups and developers are pushing digital "smart contract" systems tied to immutable blockchains.
+
+But what if someone breaches their smart contract? The answer, in most places throughout the world, is less clear. That is, unless you're in Arizona.
+
+Since passing a law in March that enshrined the validity and enforceability of digital signatures recorded on a blockchain, the Grand Canyon State has quietly emerged as a choice location for blockchain companies that develop applications based on the self-executing pieces of code.
+
+For Sweetbridge, a Phoenix-based outfit building a blockchain supply chain finance platform, the law has afforded the company sufficient legal clarity and confidence to begin rolling out operations more aggressively.
+
+Caroline Lynch, Sweetbridge's public policy and legislative advisor, explained that the state's decision to elevate smart contracts to the same legal grounding as traditional contracts has been imperative to the company's growth.
+
+Lynch told CoinDesk:
+
+"It takes away that one potential area for dispute, if for no other reason than a party to a contract cannot argue that because it was executed through a digital ledger it lacks validity."
+
+Arizona's legal safe haven
+
+Stepping back, the law in March actually amended the Arizona Electronic Transactions Act (which already stated that records or signatures cannot be denied legal effect and enforceability based on the fact they're in electronic format) to include digital signatures recorded on a blockchain.
+
+It now states: "A signature that is secured through blockchain technology is considered to be in electronic form and to be an electronic signature ... A record or contract that is secured through blockchain technology is considered to be in an electronic form and to be an electronic record."
+
+As such, in the event of a dispute or breach of a smart contract, parties have full ability to seek legal recourse in the state's court system.
+
+And with this, business representatives from the state have wasted little time in using the newfound language as a means to lure companies that are flirting with smart contract applications in sectors such as finance, real estate, law, public records and insurance.
+
+According to Darryn Jones, director of business development at the Greater Phoenix Economic Council, because the law is technology neutral, it legitimizes smart contracts regardless of the blockchain on which they choose to build.
+
+Jones went on:
+
+"From a value proposition standpoint, as we go and recruit companies that are utilizing or developing smart contract software, we can say that this gives them a safe haven for operating in Arizona."
+
+The business of contracts
+
+For blockchain-based supply chain startups, this small change makes a big difference.
+
+Supply chains, at their core, are distribution channels involving transactions among numerous partners and entities, all with contracts that lay out how each is supposed to act. If those contracts cannot be enforced or accepted in a court of law, the entire viability of the relationship is put in doubt.
+
+"Eventually, the stuff that you implement and any smart contract code that you put in place to direct business processes or transactions has to stand on legal footing. It has to be enforceable. And if it's not, it's going to fall apart in a second," said Todd Taylor, chief executive of Aperio, another Phoenix-based blockchain supply chain startup, and a professor at Arizona State University.
+
+While states such as Vermont and Nevada have passed laws this year aimed to bring additional clarity to blockchain firms, Arizona remains the only state so far to have cemented the enforceability of smart contracts.
+
+Sweetbridge's Lynch, who previously served as chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C., agreed with Taylor, saying the stability is of utmost importance as her company looks to build out its platform and carve its niche in the blockchain world.
+
+And Jones continued:
+
+"They wouldn't be able to do this in Arizona if we didn’t have this law. These companies would not be able to utilize their coins and their service as a smart contract platform if this enabling legislation was not passed."
+
+An unusually friendly climate
+
+But supply chain companies aren't the only ones seeing benefit in setting up shop in Arizona.
+
+For instance, Dash Core Team, which oversees the development of dash – the sixth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization – has established a hub in an incubator run by Arizona State University.
+
+Ryan Taylor, CEO of Dash Core Team, said his company has developed several successful partnerships with Phoenix-area businesses by way of city and state government officials making introductions. For example, Arizona State University launched a blockchain research lab in partnership with Dash, and is working on a blockchain certificate program for interested students.
+
+"They're connecting the dots actively; they're making this a priority," he said. "They're going to find ways to help the industry flourish, and that's huge, because I'd say, in most geographies, the politicians don't feel that same way and they don't even understand the technology."
+
+Observers say the law's passage is indicative of a surprising, if not rare, willingness among the state's political elites to overlook certain negative stereotypes in favor of how blockchain technology can be leveraged for economic development purposes.
+
+"The bill that was passed tees us up in a way that it's the start of many good things that we expect to come from our legislative bodies," said Rhonda Milligan, co-founder of Sweetbridge.
+
+Earlier this month, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced his intent to establish the country's first regulatory sandbox for financial technology, a category many blockchain startups fall under.
+
+Dash's Taylor concluded:
+
+"I think that business groups and government officials could learn a lot from looking at what Arizona is doing to ensure that they have a seat at the table when it comes to this new emerging field."
+

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "Crowdfund-Trip-to-London.jpg"
+title: "US Students Lead On-Campus Dash Promotion, Crowdfund Trip to London Conference"
+original-author: Joël Valenzuela 
+original-link: https://www.dashforcenews.com/us-students-lead-campus-dash-promotion-crowdfund-trip-london-conference/
+---
+
+A pair of aspiring Dash developers from Iowa State University have successfully crowdfunded a trip to the Dash conference in London using Dash donations.
+
+August Domanchuk and Jacob Hemmerich, two computer engineering students at Iowa State University with a passion for Dash, are in the process of starting a cryptocurrency student organization on campus and have already hosted several Dash events, including getting their whole dorm floor involved in Dash. They sought to attend the first Dash conference in London this weekend, but as university students with a limited budget, were unable to secure the funding for a transatlantic flight on such short notice. They then turned to the Dash community to help crowdfund their trip through cryptocurrency donations, promising to donate the proceeds to a computer science charity if they fell short of their goal.
+
+The pair have since passed the $6,400 fundraising goal and will be headed to London this weekend. I spoke with Domanchuck about how the Dash crowdfunding experience differs from traditional fundraising platforms, as well as his future plans as a future Dash developer.
+
+Dash Force News: When did you first get into Dash? What drew you to it
+
+August Domanchuk: Dash was one of the first cryptocurrencies I researched and I immediately identified some of Dash’s key features that set it apart from the average coin. I saw it as the first widely accepted digital cash and believed in the scaling potential. As a young entrepreneur, the monthly Dash treasury fund and the proposal system fascinated me. I couldn’t stop thinking about the potential possibilities.
+
+How did you get your first Dash?
+
+AD: I paid for my first Dash with the paycheck I received from working as a Youth Mentor running a summer program that taught coding for kids.
+
+Plenty of established professionals and investors look for ways of diversifying their portfolios and thus look into digital currencies. Do you think this is different for young people such as students?
+
+AD: Absolutely not, if anything I think that students of all ages are open to new ideas and vectors of investing, cryptocurrency being a prime example. It’s the new kid on the blockchain and what age demographic do you think is most likely to explore this new tech? Students were the first to adopt Facebook, they will be the first to adopt cryptocurrency and use it in their daily lives.
+
+You’ve made some good efforts promoting Dash at your university, how has the reception been so far?
+
+AD: The response has been incredible! As a dorm floor, we put up sticky notes across our den windows with the Dash logo and the website that can be viewed across campus. On the same night of putting up the sign we set up over 22 Dash wallets and gave out over $500 (donated by the community) in Dash to our entire floor. After the word got out, we had dozens of students ask us about Dash the next day and set up even more wallets. From the first impressions we’ve seen from students, it appears that Dash will make a massive splash in the university/student environment.
+
+One demographic of students that really took an interest were foreign exchange students who must pay a large fee to wire money from home for covering tuition and other university expenses. After talking to a few exchange students and international student organizations, they presented me with the opportunity to give monthly presentations to their club members about the benefits of Dash.
+
+It looks like you’ve crowdfunded your trip to the London Dash conference, congratulations!. How was this different for you from raising funds in more traditional methods?
+
+AD: I could have never imagined that we would be at this point. I thought that as a best-case scenario we would be able to purchase a few more coding kits for the kids back at home. In just under 8 hours we raised over $4,000 to go towards our trip.
+
+The huge difference between conventional ways of crowdfunding and using Dash as a fundraising tool is simply because it’s so fast! We were able to receive donations almost instantly after posting the link, no need to link a credit card or bank account, and wait a week or more for the donations to be transferred and processed by a third party crowd fundraising platform, only to be charged 10% to use their service. The power of InstantSend is that we could instantly take the donations and purchase amazon gift cards for our hotel room or buy our plane tickets 5 minutes after receiving the donations. This was important because flights and rooms were filling up fast!
+
+We actually have plans to write a future proposal for a charity or nonprofit crowdfunding platform using Dash. We are working with InstantKarmaFund.org to make this a reality.
+
+What happens after London? What are you going to do next?
+
+AD: Our next steps after the conference involve some pretty exciting proposals that we are actively working on with many long-term community members. One proposal that we are extremely excited for is called STEM Tech Tutors which will provide STEM related classes and programs to kids in local communities for free and employ high school mentors paid entirely in Dash. The other components of the proposal include Bit By Bit which will donate learning resources for financially challenged and underrepresented youth. The last pillar of the STT program is our active role of promoting the use and adoption of Dash as the world’s first Digital Cash.

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "Ogilvy&Mather.jpeg"
+title: "Dash signing up with Ogilvy & Mather"
+original-author: Ryan Taylor 
+original-link: https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/proposal-marketing-communication-october.16913/
+---
+
+This proposal is cross-posted at <www.dashcentral.org/p/marketing-201710>
+
+This proposal funds a marketing contract with Ogilvy & Mather, a leading global multi-channel advertising agency and marketing firm for a professional rebranding and a digital advertising campaign consisting of strategy, creative development, production, and media management.
+
+About Ogilvy & Mather:
+
+Ogilvy & Mather was founded in 1948 and represents many of the largest consumer brands. It is now part of WPP, one of the "Big Four" agencies, and by revenue is one of the largest marketing companies in the world. Ogilvy & Mather enjoys a very strong reputation, and was named Effies "World's most Effective Agency Network" in 2012, 2013 and 2016. They are very selective about the clients they choose to service, and the Dash Core Group has spent considerable effort to help the firm understand Dash, our value in the market, and the potential of our movement.
+
+<http://www.ogilvy.com/>
+
+About the contract:
+
+The main goal of the project is to begin approaching marketing and communication professionally to ensure we deliver a clear and relevant message to the market. The outcome of the project is to establish a solid basis to make Dash a powerful brand. There are several phases to the project toward achieving that goal.
+
+Step 1: Brand Positioning
+
+O&M will develop and propose a brand positioning for all future marketing communications. The goal is to provide a conceptual framework for the brand and make it relevant for the audience. Work on this phase has already begun in good faith as we await the outcome of this proposal. This framework will serve as an input into our logo, look & feel, artworks, guidelines and creatives.
+
+Step 1 is expected to be completed by the end of October or early November. The exact timing will depend on the outcome from research on market effectiveness of various concepts.
+
+Step 2: Visual Identity
+
+Once step 1 is complete, O&M will develop the visual aspects of the brand to reflect our brand values and positioning. There are several phases to this step:
+
+Phase 1: Logo creation. Starting from to the brand values and its positioning, they will redesign DASH’s logotype. In this phase, they will work on the creative concept, the shape, the symbol, the colors, the typography and its application.
+
+Phase 2: Look & feel creation. The look&feel of the brand will define the complementary graphic codes, typographic codes, chromatic codes, photographic and illustrative style and the hierarchy of the information. You will see the look & feel proposal applied to key corporate or communication assets such as the website.
+
+Phase 3: Artworks. Creation of the final artworks of the master logotype and the rest of logotypes from the brand architecture to ensure its correct reproduction.
+
+Phase 4: Guidelines. Once the new logotype and look & feel has been totally finalized, they will normalize the new visual identity of Dash through a Brand Guidelines of 25-30 pages that enable consistent use and the correct implementation of the new brand identity system. These guidelines will include the creative concept explanation, the graphic construction of the logotype, the brand architecture and its versions, its dimensions and proportions, its application in different backgrounds, the look&feel and its main elements and all the key corporate and communication supports designed in the previous phases.
+
+Step 2 will be completed approximately 2 months after it is started.
+
+Building digital awareness campaigns:
+
+In addition, we will begin delivering digital advertising campaigns to raise awareness of the Dash brand. O&M will pursue this ad campaign right away with our current brand. They will provide the strategy, creative development, production and media management. This consists of:
+
+1) building a simple and clear framework to build and execute communication campaigns for Dash
+2) creating and producing different originals and different format using Dash current branding and logo
+3) buying and managing digital media using the creative assets
+
+Setting the strategy and creative development will take about one month, and then we will begin executing campaigns. We will start small, learn from the early efforts, and begin expansion on an ongoing basis. We will receive a monthly report on the campaign's results. We are proposing starting with a 50,000 EUR investment above the 8,300 € for the strategy framework.
+
+Costs:
+Branding contract: 88,561 € + 10 Dash (total of about 91,500 €)
+Digital awareness campaign: 58,300 €
+Total = 149,753 €
+
+If you have any other questions, please direct them to @fernando in this Dash Forum post to ensure I see your request.
+
+Didn't we already fund a rebranding?
+
+Yes, there was a small budget request in the spring for a rebranding "refresh". Work was performed on designs that proposed minor aesthetic changes and sought to preserve the general look and feel of the current Dash brand. However, Dash is in a vastly different financial position compared with this spring, and we feel that now is the time for a full professional rebranding leveraging one of the very best firms in the industry. Given that a full rebranding was likely necessary upon the launch of Evolution, we decided against two rebranding efforts in such a short time. Insteand, we now feel it is preferable to launch straight into a brand that can carry us through the launch of Evolution and beyond.
+
+Requested funding is as follows for the October 3rd budget cycle:
+317.28 Dash for branding effort (91,453 € @ 288.24 € per Dash)
+202.27 Dash for digital marketing campaign (58,300 € @ 288.24 € per Dash)
+5.00 Dash proposal reimbursement
+Total: 524.55 Dash
+
+Note: Should any funding remain, we will apply it toward future marketing expenses.
+
+Manually vote YES on this proposal:
+dash-cli gobject vote-many 5f34e308b644b1684c7a92af50c7edbc5306d9287bb1d370ec68b2913cfaa6f8 funding yes
+OR from the qt console:
+gobject vote-many 5f34e308b644b1684c7a92af50c7edbc5306d9287bb1d370ec68b2913cfaa6f8 funding yes
+
+Manually vote NO on this proposal:
+dash-cli gobject vote-many 5f34e308b644b1684c7a92af50c7edbc5306d9287bb1d370ec68b2913cfaa6f8 funding no
+OR from the qt console:
+gobject vote-many 5f34e308b644b1684c7a92af50c7edbc5306d9287bb1d370ec68b2913cfaa6f8 funding no

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-09-21-trendsaffecting.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "market share cryptocurrency exchanges copy.jpg"
+title: "These are the trends affecting the cryptocurrency market in 2017"
+original-author: Divya Joshi 
+original-link: http://uk.businessinsider.com/cryptocurrency-market-coin-trends-cap-value-2017-9?r=US&IR=T
+---
+
+Rise of cryptocurrency
+We live in a dynamic business world, which is constantly evolving with newer innovations and technologies disrupting the traditional methodologies of living our day-to-day lives.
+
+When the world becomes comfortable with one technology, a newer and better technology often comes to play, breaking the routine and bringing about drastic changes.
+
+Be it drones for commercial deliveries, voice payments for businesses, or the use of cryptocurrencies for our daily transactions, ground-breaking innovations are paving the way for the rapidly changing 21st century.
+
+Invention converts into an innovation when it couples with mass commercialization and adoption. Cryptocurrency is the result of an invention, which is now poised to become the next big innovation in the fintech industry.
+
+Cryptocurrency refers to any digital currency that employs principles of cryptography (communication that is secure from view of third parties) to ensure security, privacy, and anonymity.
+
+All types of cryptocurrencies are decentralized -- they operate independently and are not coined or regulated by a single central authority. Consequently, the value of a cryptocurrency is not set by anyone other than market participants, who engage in the process of buying and selling on an exchange platform.
+
+Cryptocurrencies are often referred to as electronic or digital currencies as they all share the same inherent qualities of encryption.
+
+In this article by Business Insider's premium research service, BI Intelligence has explored the megatrend of the cryptocurrencies, their rise, and the future of the financial phenomenon. 
+
+Cryptocurrency market trends
+"The Future Currency of International Business," "Next-Generation Gold," "A Permission-less Innovation," "The era of a cashless society," and "A Carry-less Movement."
+
+Global cryptocurrency enthusiasts, users, and promoters have given different names and titles to cryptocurrency and its era. The nomenclature given to the digital currency by its promoters depends on their sentiment towards this groundbreaking financial innovation.
+
+Over the past few years, cryptocurrency has triggered interest regarding ‘alternative money’ among masses and has grown exponentially. Bitcoin is the most popular and the most traded cryptocurrency in the world. It is the world’s first decentralized, peer-to-peer digital currency, which has gained mixed reactions over time.
+
+Advocates for Bitcoin consider it as a superior payment mechanism, one that operates outside the control of governments, is global in scope, is more secure than the traditional payments systems, and which brings about a much-needed revolution in the almost ‘static and stagnant’ global financial industry in terms of money.
+
+At the same time, the growth of this unregulated payment mechanism has led to heightened concerns about it’s usage, legality, accountability, and control. 
+
+FILE PHOTO: A Bitcoin (virtual currency) coin is seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris, France, June 23, 2017. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/Illustration/File Photo
+FILE PHOTO: A Bitcoin (virtual currency) coin is seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in ParisThomson Reuters
+
+Cryptocurrencies & their market caps
+Over the years since Bitcoin’s birth, hundreds of digital ‘coins’ have taken to the crypto marketplace, reaching up to a mark of almost 900 cryptocurrencies available on the web's digital currency bazaar.
+
+By market capitalization, Bitcoin is currently the largest blockchain network, followed by Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Ripple and Litecoin.
+
+The top 10 cryptocurrencies as of this writing according to Crypto Currency Chart are: 
+
+Bitcoin (BTC): Currently trading at more than $4,000, the market capitalization of the world’s first decentralized cryptocurrency is more than $67 billion.
+Ethereum (ETH): Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference. Currently trading at nearly $300, market capitalization of Ethereum is almost at $28 billion USD.
+Bitcoin Cash (BCH2): Since its launch this August, the infant cryptocurrency had at one point doubled in value from $300 to a price touching $600, and investors are now wondering if its popularity poses a serious threat to the Bitcoin throne. Currently trading at almost $475, market capitalization of Bitcoin Cash is almost at $8 billion. Bitcoin Cash is essentially a clone of the existing Bitcoin blockchain​ with one important feature of additional block size capacity.
+Ripple (XRP): This cryptocurrency claims to be the world’s only enterprise blockchain solution for global payments, connecting banks, payment providers, digital asset exchanges and corporates via RippleNet to provide a frictionless experience to send money globally. Though Ripple is trading at just $0.19, its market capitalization is at more than $9 billion.
+Litecoin (LTC): Litecoin is an open-source, peer-to-peer Internet currency that enables instant, near-zero cost payments to anyone in the world. Currently trading at more than $55, market capitalization of Litecoin is almost at $3 billion.
+Dash (DASH): Although having similar features to Bitcoin, the only additional characteristics that set Dash apart from Bitcoin are instant transactions (InstantSend), private transactions (PrivateSend) and decentralized governance (DGBB). Dash's decentralized governance and budgeting system makes it the first decentralized autonomous organization. Currently trading at more than $330, market capitalization of Dash is at more than $2.5 billion. 
+NEM (XEM): NEM or the New Economy Movement is the world's first Smart Asset blockchain. Though trading at a mere $0.24, market capitalization of NEM is more than $2.1 billion. 
+IOTA (IOT): IOTA calls itself the ‘backbone of IoT’ with its core invention of the ‘blockless Tangle’, which is a revolutionary new blockless distributed ledger. Though the IOTA is trading at a mere $0.60, market capitalization of IOTA is more than $1.6 billion. 
+Monero (XMR): Monero is an open-source, privacy-oriented digital currency that is secure, private, and untraceable. Currently trading at more than $100, market capitalization of Monero is almost $1.5 billion.
+OmiseGo (OMG) : OmiseGo is a public Ethereum-based tech for use in mainstream digital wallets. Scheduled for launch in the fourth quarter of 2017, OmiseGo is designed to enable real-time, peer-to-peer value exchange and payment. Currently trading at more than $10, market capitalization of OmiseGo is more than $1 billion.
+For live charting, Cryptowatch is a cryptocurrency live charting and trading platform owned by Kraken, one of the leading online Bitcoin exchanges in the world.
+
+bitcoin
+An attendant holds a bitcoin sign during the opening of Hong Kong's first bitcoin retail storeREUTERS/Bobby Yip
+
+Future of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology
+Cryptocurrency is a booming segment of the global financial industry despite the cynicism and the negativity surrounding it. As an unusual and mysterious unregulated payment method, it has managed to penetrate the most unusual locales of our existing (online and offline) transactional world.
+
+Due to the evolving and yet unexplored nature of cryptocurrencies, investors and governments worry about the illegal undertakings and security concerns connected with the usage of unregulated cryptocurrencies.
+
+Apart from populaces worrying about the vulnerability of the currency to susceptible fraud and theft, governments and central banks globally worry about loss of their control over money supply and regulation if digital currency were to become the norm. It would directly imply shifting of power from the hands of the government to the common man.
+
+Apart from the apprehensions, there are many factors that have made cryptocurrencies encroach on our daily lives and become a part of our new world economy in the 21st century.
+
+Blockchain technology is considered as the future of the sharing economy as the technology can help energize and unlock the sharing economy by making it cheaper to create and operate an online platform.
+Another potential outcome of the mass adoption of alternate payment systems, like Bitcoin, is to provide companies with the impetus to improve their services.
+Fees charged for transactions, excessive time involved in transferring funds internationally and clearing transactions etc. are some of the usual nuisances that come along with using traditional payment methods such as banks, credit and debit cards, and checks.
+Cryptocurrencies have the power to eliminate all of the above and many more associated annoyances.
+Power to the common man: Bitcoin is usually labeled as a digital currency, which is ‘BY the people, FOR the people, OF the people’.
+The decentralized nature along with anonymity and freedom, coupled with little to no fees is what attracts most loyalists.
+Cryptocurrencies are here to stay and grow through steady mass adoption.
+There are various other ‘possibilities’ of cryptocurrencies in alternating our financial world as we know it, and for a future with endless opportunities. 
+
+A potential use of bitcoin could be in the world of the IoT (Internet of Things). IoT is the interconnection of unique computing devices within objects that might not otherwise have ever been connected to the Internet.
+Bitcoins could make SIM cards and paper passports obsolete. Cryptocurrencies have the potential of saving and storing such high-end sensitive data, all with maximized security that they have been posed to make ‘digital passports’ and digital IDs a thing of our very near future.
+Forecasts on the future of cryptocurrency ranges from outright failure as a temporary craze to filling a role of a new global currency. The answer probably lies somewhere between these extremes, and will depend on the legal and regulatory configuration that ends up defining the currency’s use in each country.
+

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-09-22-GreenBoatFloating.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "kayak-1541212_1280.jpg"
+title: "DASH Is a Green Boat Floating on a Sea of Red Today"
+original-author: Jon Southurst 
+original-link: https://bitsonline.com/dash-green-sea-red/
+---
+
+It’s been another day of potential marital difficulties for crypto investors, with most asset prices chomping into the kids’ college funds. But above a sea more red than a Japanese dolphin festival, DASH is floating with a 1.88 percent gain over the past 24 hours.
+
+Also read: BitPay Adds Bitcoin Cash to Its Insight Block Explorer
+
+It was a day Bitcoin dropped 4.09 percent, Ethereum 5 percent and Bitcoin Cash 8.83 percent. That’s not quite the carnage of 13-15th September, but still disappointing. All the various coin fans could do was console each other, rather than brag about their chosen asset’s resilience.
+
+Except DASH, that is. One unit is currently worth $352 USD, according to CoinMarketCap at press time. DASH has dipped since hitting almost $400 in August 2017, but has been mostly gaining ever since mid-September.
+
+DASH price gain
+chart via CoinMarketCap
+There are a few possible reasons for this. The big one is Bitmain’s new Antminer D3 mining machines, which are beginning to find their way into buyers’ hands. Bitsonline reviewed the unit two weeks ago and found it to be a pretty solid performer. High prices for several altcoins in 2017 have made previously ASIC-resistant mining algorithm assets suddenly profitable to mine this way.
+
+DASH Community Does PR Well
+
+DASH may also have got a boost from presenters at the recent BitKan-hosted conference in Hong Kong, who touted its privacy benefits. With price rises has come extra government scrutiny of cryptocurrency investing — which in turn has drawn more attention to assets designed to avoid just that.
+
+Rivals Moneo and Zcash make similar privacy claims, though DASH’s fanbase has generally been better at getting the headlines. Privacy alone is probably not the reason for DASH’s lone rise today. Its community recently raised funds to sponsor a DASH-branded bus trip across American by Max Keiser and Stephen Baldwin, which will become a TV series.
+
+There was also some concern that China was starting to restrict mining operations along with exchanges, leading to concern even within the industry. Despite a few isolated incidents and rumors, though, it appears that’s not happening… yet.
+

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-09-22-neocash.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "neocashradio22nd.jpg"
+title: "Neocash Radio interviews Joël Valenzuela from Dash Force"
+original-author: JJ Epic 
+original-link: http://neocashradio.com/blog/ep-224-pirate-bay-springs-monero-miner-website-visitors-australia-stops-double-taxing-crypto-dash-update-special-guest-joel/
+---
+
+Ep 224: Pirate Bay Springs Monero Miner on Website Visitors, Australia Stops Double-Taxing Crypto, DASH Update with Special Guest Joel
+Posted on September 20, 2017 by JJ Epic
+Pirate Bay springs website Monero miner on users. Australia stops double-taxing crypto. Micropayment solution for Ethereum announced. Blockchain tech on docket for SEC committee. Plus a DASH update from Darren and special guest Joel from Dash Force News.
+
+We’ve written out short overviews of the topics discussed on today’s show below! Be sure to listen in to the whole podcast to get more information, insights, and thoughts on each of them from Darren, Pedro and JJ!
+
+<iframe style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5760099/height/90/width/640/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" height="90" width="640" scrolling="no"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-09-23-livestream.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "livestreamlondonconf.jpg"
+title: "Livestream for London Dash Conference"
+original-author: coingun
+original-link: https://twitter.com/CashAlternative/status/911291734163906560
+---
+<https://t.co/Ecf06pttTC>

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-09-23-londonmeeting.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "londoncoremeetings.jpg"
+title: "Dash Core Team Meeting - London"
+original-author: tungfa
+original-link:
+---
+
+Dash Core Team meeting London
+
+(left to right)
+kot - fernando - tungfa - flare - ryan - andy

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-09-23-makingasplash.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "144_big.jpg"
+title: "Dash is Making a Splash: Displacing Litecoin, \"Digital Cash\" is on the Warpath"
+original-author: Christine Masters
+original-link: https://cryptovest.com/news/dash-is-making-a-splash/
+---
+
+Dash is a cryptocurrency with a mission: to be widely used and adopted. And in a week where other coins struggled, Dash was making robust gains
+
+Dash displaced Litecoin based on market capitalization, reaching position five on CoinMarketCap after climbing above $350. During a tense week when other leading cryptocurrencies were seeking direction, DASH pushed upward from the recent lows, and rose by more than 41% in the past seven days on increasing volumes. 
+
+The coin slid a bit on Friday, down to $345.49 at the time of writing.
+
+In September, the Dash team picked up their PR efforts, culminating in a conference in London in the coming weekend, among other events. Keynote speakers include the Dash CEO Ryan Taylor, among other cryptocurrency opinion leaders.
+
+In the past weeks, Dash sent out updates on its Copay wallet that is entering the next testing stage. Usage fees were also lowered by 10% in the middle of the month. 
+
+Dash is one of the few cryptocurrency projects with a paid developer team and bounties for marketers, so it is one of the most promoted coins- and for now, the promotion is successful. Dash also advertises itself as the currency accepted on Amazon, although it is only possible to buy Amazon gift cards with Dash, and then redeem them in the electronic store. 
+
+For now, Dash still struggles to be added to Coinbase, although it is more easily available for European buyers. Buying Dash with fiat is relatively easy in Europe through Kraken, BitPanda, LiteBit.Eu and other local exchanges. Easy availability has helped Dash position itself as a "ramp currency" right next to Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum. Recently, Dash was added to London-based exchange CEX.IO.
+
+But the Dash project has its own set of criticisms. Some users dislike the presence of Master Nodes, where holders of at least 1,000 DASH can stake their coins and receive rewards for verifying transactions. And the other criticism is related to the fact that a lot of DASH coins are locked up. With only around 7.5 million DASH in circulation, the market price is more easily manipulated.

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-09-25-boxmining.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "boxmininglondonconf25th.jpg"
+title: "Meeting people at DASH conference by Boxmining"
+original-author: boxmining
+original-link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=96sQjNly0wI&time_continue=3&ebc=ANyPxKrUqI3khozPJcZMaL1SXWA6xJ888x4KGI1nHA2ZQ_X_RCxgMFuYpYy-u9WrfVQ-cCDHQnOJIy8TdcmEDk53yccplBXpuw
+---
+
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/96sQjNly0wI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-09-26-integrations.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "dash-london.jpg"
+title: "First Annual Dash Conference Draws Hundreds, Announces New Integrations"
+original-author: Joël Valenzuela
+original-link: https://www.dashforcenews.com/first-annual-dash-conference-draws-hundreds-announces-new-integrations/
+---
+
+The first annual Dash Conference in London this weekend drew hundreds of attendees and set the stage for several forthcoming integrations.
+
+Funded via treasury proposal, the conference was held at the Oval Space in London over the weekend. It drew over 550 attendees according to the most recent ticket sales estimates. The conference was attended by Dash fans and industry leaders alike, many of whom have had strategic partnerships with Dash.
+
+In addition to the audience in live attendance, hundreds more tuned in from around the world to watch the conference streamed live. The conference was streamed on Twitch to over 800 people live, with a current view count of over 10,000. On YouTube, the stream drew over 500 live, currently over 6,000 views for the first part of the stream.
+
+Several major integrations announced for Dash’s near future
+
+As a key element of the conference, several forthcoming integrations were announced. The list was neatly compiled by Dash Force member Solowhizkid:
+
+![Alt desc](/assets/img/blog/twitterannouncements.jpg)
+
+To facilitate the acquisition of Dash, a partnership with a global brokerage service was announced, including free bank transfers from around the world. Several new exchange integrations were also announced, which would open up Dash to be traded for 20 new fiat currencies. Integration to a new ATM manufacturer, a large retailer integration, and many others were also mentioned, with the exact details remaining vague for the time being as official releases and specific announcements are sure to follow.
+
+One of the conference’s presenters, major Bitcoin debit card and exchange platform Wirex, announced they would pursue a full-on integration with Dash. Previously Wirex only took non-Bitcoin cryptocurrencies through ShapeShift, and this new integration would add another option to prospective Dash users to use their funds in everyday purchases.
+
+A host of new projects competing for Dash’s treasury budget
+
+These announced integrations are only the beginning of what will be a group of new projects. Because of the increase in the price over the last few months, Dash’s available monthly treasury budget is now about $2.25 million. Last cycle came nowhere near using up all available funds, despite big-ticket items like the Great American Pilgrimage. There are currently 38 active treasury proposals, and those which have currently received enough net votes to pass equal nearly $1.3 million so far, with more to come in the final days of the voting cycle.

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-09-26-recordings.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "londonconfrecordings26th.jpg"
+title: "1st Annual Dash Conference: London Keynote LIVE Recording"
+original-author: omar / Crypt0
+ 
+original-link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=96sQjNly0wI&time_continue=3&ebc=ANyPxKrUqI3khozPJcZMaL1SXWA6xJ888x4KGI1nHA2ZQ_X_RCxgMFuYpYy-u9WrfVQ-cCDHQnOJIy8TdcmEDk53yccplBXpuw
+---
+
+(Part 1)
+
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d8ExmIqRqOk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+
+(Part 2)
+
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9t-Ge6CEAyU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+
+
+(Part 3)
+
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jiFMjALqx0o" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-09-27-dashatswitch.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "dashatswitchsep27.jpg"
+title: "DASH at #Switch! Lithuania"
+original-author: Switch! Lietuva
+original-link: https://youtu.be/vUsArIeA08k
+---
+
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vUsArIeA08k" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-09-27-dashishiering.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "dashishiering.jpeg"
+title: "Dash is hiring!! DevOps, BizDev Director, Infrastructure Manager, Integrations Engineer, UX Designer + more to come"
+original-author: spencerdash
+original-link: https://www.reddit.com/r/dashpay/comments/72f5ex/dash_is_hiring_devops_bizdev_director/
+---
+
+I'm Spencer, the new global recruiter working on Dash's technical roles, and I wanted to introduce myself to the community and remind everyone that the Dash Team is hiring engineers!
+
+I have job descriptions available and will be creating public posts shortly, but please message me if you would like more details immediately.
+
+If you are not looking for a job but would like to help anyway, please add me on LinkedIn at the link below and share my job posts from time to time. A few extra likes and comments can really go a long way to helping the message reach a new audience. My network is weakest in Europe so if you have a strong network there, please get connected! https://www.linkedin.com/in/spencer007/ .
+
+I am looking forward to helping Dash find some amazing developers to ensure this project remains one of the best cryptocurrencies in the world!
+
+
+Please get in touch on reddit or on LinkedIn with any questions about the jobs or anything Dash related and I'll do my best to get back to you in a timely manner. .
+
+Thanks!
+-Spencer
+
+Most urgent openings:
+DevOps Engineer
+Infrastructure Manager
+Integrations Engineer
+UX / UI Developer (UX Designer role has changed! 😟 Sorry if you were looking at that one)
+Business Development Director

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-09-28-pleasevote.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "pleasevotesep28.jpg"
+title: "3 days to go - Please VOTE !!"
+original-author: tungfa
+original-link: https://www.dashcentral.org/budget
+---
+
+3 days to go
+Please VOTE !!
+
+<https://www.dashcentral.org/budget>

_i18n/en/_posts/2017-09-28-rvertalkingaboutdash.md

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+---
+author: tungfa
+layout: post
+image: "rvertalkingaboutdashsep28.jpg"
+title: "Roger Ver and Danny talk about Dash"
+original-author: The Crypto Show
+original-link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDDPKa0w4Sk&feature=youtu.be&t=5m23s
+---
+
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tDDPKa0w4Sk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

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