Are you new to Dash,
volyova? Some people hang in the background, but have been following a long time
Anyway, if you should still be rather new to Dash, we're always happy to explain things, like what makes Dash unique. I'm a fanhag myself, and could go on and on
Yes, I am a Dashnewb! It's quite a complex thing isn't it. Still trying to get my head around all the technical aspects, but I'll get there. I've been a miner for like..three years.
Yah, it's hard to get your head around, but if you kind of take it from the beginning, the mixing, first like coinjoin, then denominating the funds so that they're the same and finally mixing before use, so that you can have you wallet ready to use any time after mixing. Even in the begining, this required Masternodes.
Then came instantX which grew out of Masternodes. Evan realized that he could use quorum technology to randomly group masternodes together, and have them make decisions on whether or not a transaction is valid. They would lock the transaction, so no double spending could occur and send it on to the miners. This is now going to be the base of how all of Dash works. There will be many random quorums built between each block, and those quorums will sort through all the transactions, checking for double spends, etc... making transaction processing fast enough to rival Visa with all transactions being instant.
Masternodes also gave rise to a voting system
Then we realized, with a voting system, we could have a portion of the mining rewards go toward project proposals, just like a portion goes to pay Masternodes.
AT that point we became a self funded virtual corporation.
Now, with Evolution, the aforementioned "every transaction will be instant" will be implemented (right now you have to choose instant payment, and pay a tiny fee) and there will be a DAPI in place. This is a Distributed Applications Programming Interface, which will allow anyone to build an application for Dash that can run queries on the network. So anyone can make their own wallet, their own search tools, etc.... on top of the Dash Network without the need to access the core program source in the repository, or need to ask permission.
And from that point, anything is virtually possible!