Topic: [ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency - page 845. (Read 9723733 times)

And the “massive funding budget” surely comes from “bling-bling of innovation”? 

good hope for the best ......time will take turn for good people who have faith in effort.

In layman's terms, an API is a bridge that lets two computer programs talk to each other. In order for a merchant to accept Dash right now, they need to run their own full node, handle their own wallet.dat files, manually process all transactions, etc. No merchants have any interest in doing that, nor does it scale.

Merchants that accept crypto use APIs provided by companies like blockcypher, and these APIs handle all the heavy lifting. The merchant just puts a "Pay with Dash" button on their website, and blockcypher's API actually interacts with the blockchain and sends the transactions on the network. The API basically does all the "back office" stuff so that a merchant can just accept Dash and not have to worry about the technical nitty gritty details of how it works.

EDIT: If you go to Walmart, does the cashier take your credit card, call the number on the back of the card and verify your account balance? Then ask the person over the phone to please authorize a transaction for $x? No, of course not. Walmart has a pin pad and back office computer system that does all that--slide your card and the software queries the payment networks and handles all the heavy lifting. The cashier just sees "approved" or "declined."

i still cant grasp the utility of this thing,  i guess its another bling-bling of innovation that Dash can buy with its massive funding budget.

This looks like a good move and means businesses and developers can confidently start building on top of DASH without having to wait for the DAPI to be released

Great episode!

I still get the same issue

This is gonna get interesting.

Talking to a blockchain that can talk back 

Hi

Uninstall the widget, and reinstall it from the store. It's an issue with the localStorage (where preference data are saved), by reinstall it, the localStorage will be cleaned up (only for this widget), and then it will works again.
Really sorry about it.

tx
i ping the 'boss' 

DASH Business Development Strategy Update - FEB 2017

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/dash-business-development-strategy-update-feb-2017.13133/

Very nice!
Only thing: i can't install it on chrome with more than one digit after the point. For example:

Now it is at 19.48

I get 19. ..... (even with 2 digits)
19.5 ofc if i want to exclude cents

In practice, not enough room

Same here  


If trolls work hard, maybe we can get Top 2  

I have 5 cars. Anybody give me some DASH for few?

I love the troll argument "he knew what he was planning so he unfairly invested in his product." I would certainly assume that he had some idea of what he'd like to do, and some direction he wanted to take the currency. Isn't that the case with any founder? You think Satoshi was just bored one day and decided to bang out some code with no real purpose in mind?

Everybody forgets January 2014, but I remember it vividly since it was the month I really started getting active in crypto (sadly, I wouldn't discover Dash until June of that year). In early 2014, everybody was promising the moon. You had Counterparty that was going to build this major product on top of Bitcoin (now #28 by marketcap). You had Nxt, which was going to be Bitcoin 2.0 (now #37 by marketcap). You had a couple of other flavor-of-the-month projects, like Blackcoin (#60) or Auroracoin (#100). You had eMunie, which after three years of development STILL never did launch. To my knowledge, the only successful projects to come out of the early 2014 period were Dash, Monero (props guys), and Ethereum (the idea was announced in January 2014 although the ICO didn't happen until late summer). MaidSafe came a little later, but we can count them too.

So out of the hundreds of projects that were begun in early 2014, perhaps four of them were successful. If Evan really had the foresight to know that his project would be one of the four that actually survived/thrived, and he invested accordingly, then more power to him!

Nice one!!  Any plans to make one for Firefox?

Chrome Extension : Dash Price Monitor

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/chrome-extension-dash-price-monitor.13122/#post-113975

That as well as most of us realize that a MN is like a gold mine. Continuous payments for providing services to the network - why the hell would we sell it? I am going to live off mine.

My prediction for 2017 is Dash is Top 3 by years end!

you forgot an important piece of statement..."Evan's masternode plans is his motivation to orchestrate the instamine"

Evan's motivation to do the instamine proves that it never was an accident.

It must be rather discouraging for these trolls when they mention masternode owners cashing-out would
collapse the price, when in fact it does not seem to have any significant effect on the price.

Ofcourse it also does not help them that a decrease in number of masternodes just means that masternodes are changing hands through
Dash extensive access to OTC markets (Wall of Coins), giving it additional liquidity. And then we have a major new exchange
coming up with FIAT pairs that will also help with liquidity.