After my wee rant over the DailyDecrypt proposal the other day (I was the wrong side of too many christmas eve coppas), I went back and studied the reactions to the original Dashwhale proposal which can be seen
around this area in the thread.
I think the problem I was having with the DailyDecrypt thing is that the Dashwhale one was moderately controversial which generated some interesting debate around basic funding principles. For example some people made the point that although the service was very powerful, funding it would lead to favouritism amongst third party services.
Picking up the pieces of my drunken rant and accepting that the DailyDecrypt proposal looks like it will probably pass and therefore looking at it more constructively, I'd propose that at least some measure of that campaign's results be found.
It also raises the question of what measures already exist of detecting public awareness and market penetration of Dash amongst different groups - such as (a) within the existing cryptocurrency community and (b) outside of it. I'm thinking about things like level of email enquiries, market interest, rate of growth in relevant video views, hits to dash.org. All that stuff. I just think that if the blockchain is going to spend money on publicity it should at least measure the results of that spend, thats all.
P.S.
While I was doing that research, I used google to find some old posts. That dropped me into a site which looks exactly like bitcointalk.org but who's domain is "fanbitcoin.com". I didn't notice this and tried to log into that site using my full bitcointalk username and password. That of course didn't log me into bitcointalk and after a few moments I realised I was in the wrong domain. I immediately went and changed my bitcointalk password so hoping I don't get comprimised.
Just something to watch - I don't know what that site is.
