Why does Dash has to pay 50k$ to an exchange for integrating it ?
Did Bitcoin/Ethereum/Monero pay anything to get integrated?
This sounds really suspicious to me.
On top, where does the money from the Dash Foundation come from ? Is there such a big pool so that you can just throw around 50k$ like that ?
Dash has a decentralized budget system in place where budget proposals like these can be voted on by masternode owners and if approved can be paid directly from the blockchain
by superblocks which occur once a month. There is a treshold of 10% which a budget proposal needs to clear before it gets approved and paid out.
More detailed information about current budget proposals :
http://dashvotetracker.com/This is made possible because Dash has a two-tier system (miners & masternodes) and has its blockreward split between miners (45%), masternodes (45%) and its
decentralized budget system (10%). The superblock that occur on the blockchain once per month effectively bundles that 10% into a defined amount of Dash per month for
budget purposes (currently that is 7449 Dash per month). By the way, each year the blockrewards towards miners/masternodes/budget will diminish with -7% because Dash has a
scheduled yearly 7% cut on its blockrewards. Its next cut of 7% on blockrewards will be somewhere in Feb 2017.
With regards to why Dash should pay to get integrated on a major exchange :
Bitcoin got first mover advantage, which gave it access to pretty much all exchanges
Ethereum generates large trade volumes already, which makes it attractive for certain exchanges to add it
Monero is mostly traded on Poloniex, which should not be confused with a major exchange. Also i'm pretty sure money was used to make it a premium coin there early on.
Dash has the opportunity now to get listed on a major exchange, with possible implementation of its InstantSend technology on both incoming and outgoing transactions.
This could be huge, but it does come at certain costs.
I'm really excited about this! Is there any confirmation yet that DASH/EUR will be available?
No confirmation yet, we are all waiting for :
A : the budget proposal getting accepted, by passing the treshold of 10% & passing its 24 hrs network processing time
B : for the exchange in question to make its own announcement in time