Last updated: Mar 29th, 2018

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General Note

• This thread shifted from its original purpose. It now serves as info source on different aspects of Dash. Content directed at experienced users.
• Newbies check sidebar to the right, this infographic or the Dash Wiki

Table of contents

1. Communications
2. Guides & Instructional links
3. Key people to follow on Twitter
4. Dash Core is hiring
5. Quarterly Summaries
6. Notable Core Team Proposals
7. Dash Whitepapers
8. Dash Technology Peer-reviewed
9. Addendum: Misconceptions on Dash cleared up

Communications

1. The birth of Dash's Governance: Self-sustainable Decentralized Governance by Blockchain
2. 'We're Doing the Planning That Takes Us to 1 Billion" - Ryan Taylor, Dash Director of Finance
3. The philosophy behind the DASH reward split by (now) Dash Core CEO Ryan Taylor
4. Dash's Ryan Taylor at TNABC Bitcoin Miami 2017 (Best presentation on Dash so far!)
5. What is DASH & Where Is It Going? 2017 DASH Open House
6. Hong Kong | Research and Planning - by Evan Duffield
7. Dash Roadmap to Evolution
8. How To Enable On-Chain Scaling by Evan Duffield
9. DFN - Interview with Evan on Dash's Roadmap
10. Open Letter From Evan and Ryan Regarding Dash Marketing
11. Wachsman PR - Q2 project closure report
12. Interview With The Crypto Show! - Evan Duffield
13. Dash Improvement Proposal No. 1 - DIP001
14. Important information regarding wallet backups
15. Dash Labs Network Update
16. Copay Wallet going into closed Alpha Testing
17. 1st Annual Dash Conference: London Keynote Professional HQ Recording
18. DASH – DIGITAL CASH by Robert Wiecko at SWITCH! 2017
19. Crucial information to all proposal owners: Do NOT use multisig addresses as payout destinations!
20. Interview With Ryan Taylor, The CEO Of Dash Core Team
21. Ryan Taylor at the World Blockchain Forum
22. Ryan Taylor interview with Crypto Trader (MSNBC Africa)
23. Dash Core Community Update
24. Dash Core 12.2 Release
25. Dash CEO Ryan Taylor: „Dash is in many ways a better Bitcoin“
26. Update from Dash Core on Business Development
27. How DASH is resistant to retargeting issues
28. Dash presentation at the Euro Finance Tech in Frankfurt by essra
29. Link collection of Dash's 2017 achievements
30. What Is a DAO and Why Is It Revolutionary?
31. Dash: The First DAO
32. Welcome Bradley Zastrow - Director of Global Business Development
33. Interview with Ryan Taylor, IR4 Podcast #12 (January 2018)
34. Chuck Williams at Anarchapulco 2018 on Dash
35. Dash Force Podcast E42 with Chuck Williams on Dash Evolution
36. Evolution Demo #1 - The First Dash DAP
37. Dash Force Podcast E43 - Feat. Fernando Gutierrez (Dash Core CMO)
38. Our New Approach to Communications with the Community
39. Dash Community Q&A - March 29th, 2018

Guides & Instructional links

1. Dash Developer Documentation
2. Upgrade Instructions for Masternodes (12.2)
3. Upgrade Instructions for End Users (12.2)
4. Upgrade Instructions for Masternodes (12.1)
5. Upgrade Instructions for End Users (12.1)
6. Paper Wallet Setup Guide
7. Trezor Guide for Masternode Operators
8. 8 Steps to a Successful Proposal
9. Masternode Boot Camp by solarguy2003
10. DASH 101 Video Series

Key people to follow on Twitter

1. Ryan Taylor, CEO of Dash Core Inc.
2. Fernando Gutierrez, CMO of Dash Core Inc.
3. Bradley Zastrow, Chief of Business Development at Dash Core Inc.
4. Andy Freer, CTO of Dash Core Inc.
5. Chuck Williams, Head of UX Development at Dash Core Inc.
6. Robert Wiecko, PM of Dash Core Inc.
7. Joel Valenzuela, Dash Force
8. Mark Mason, Dash Force
9. Amanda B. Johnson
10. Scott Farnsworth, The Dash Racer

Dash Core is hiring!

1. Internship at Dash Labs
2. DashLabs - Trezor Engineer
3. GPU Accelerator Project
4. DevOps Engineer @ Dash
5. Infrastructure Manager @ Dash
6. Sr. Backend Developer Role @ Dash

2017 Quarterly Summaries from Dash Core

1. Dash Core Team Q1 2017 Summary Call
2. Dash Core Team Q2 2017 Summary Call
3. Dash Core Team Q3 2017 Summary Call
4. Dash Core Team Q4 2017 Summary Call

2016 Quarterly Summaries from Dash Core

1. Q1 2016
2. Q2 2016
3. Q3 2016
4. Q4 2016

Notable Core Team proposals:

1. Dash sponsored Blockchain Research in Arizona State University
2. Conferences - The Trading Show
3. Money 20/20 in London
4. Conferences - BTC & Blockchain International Summit
5. Dash Conference 2017 (London)
6. Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference (Stockholm)

Dash Whitepapers

1. Original Dash Whitepaper

Note: Previously the Evolution Whitepapers were linked in this section. These papers were written back in 2015 and are outdated, because Dash Evolution has seen a massive re-design and has been developed much further than those papers could have predicted. A new version will be posted here and elsewhere as soon as it is available.

Dash Technology Peer-reviewed

1. Dash PrivateSend Peer Review by Kristov Atlas and Core Team's Response
2. Dash Governance Peer Review by IOHK and Dash Core Team's Response

Addendum: Misconceptions on Dash cleared up

1. What has Dash to offer other than features any other coin could just copy?
2. InstantXploit? Cool Name, No Threat
3. "Lazy Masternode" attack theory thoroughly debunked (see my comment)
4. Hardware vs Software scaling - Why SegWit is not the savior of cryptocurrency
5. How solid is PrivateSend, really? and Broken privacy promises vs Dash
6. Dash has better wealth distribution than almost all top cryptos
7. How is Dash NOT a ponzi scheme?
8. PSA: DASH is not a CryptoNote clone - DashCOIN is
9. Discussion/clarification on Dash's opensource approach
10. Evil Masternode tyrants ruling over us?! and Masternodes in Dash = The rich get richer?
11. Has Dash's development steadily declined over the past few months?
12. The major advantage of optional privacy
13. Ridiculous comments on Dash - by Kurt Robinson
14. The Dash Masternode Network: A Response to Critics - by Eric Sammons
15. Analysis of the first day in mining Dash by Ryan Taylor, (then) Director of Finance at Dash Core:
16. How to Prevent the Hostile Takeover of a Blockchain: Eric Sammons on Dash Governance
17. Official clarification on the "Instamine" issue (Fastmine actually)
18. Evan Duffield has no more than 256,000 Dash and will give away 80% of that to fund DAOs within DASH. Follow-up: Part of the funds has already been used to found the Dash Labs research arm in Hong Kong. The lab is fully maintained through Duffield's private funding. No Treasury proposal for it exists.
19. 10 Stupid Things People Say About Dash And How To Respond
20. Sporks: One of the foundations of Dash's success
21. There is no so called "Master Private Key" in Dash and there never has been. Sporks (explained above) have no relation to user funds, as the source code easily proves.
22. Trolls vs. Users: The Limited Importance of Online Communities
23. Dash PrivateSend and usage of denomination inputs
24. Valuable link list from Dash Force member Mastermined
25. "But Dash PrivateSend has a much smaller ambiguity set! Its privacy is broken!!!"
26. Succinct refutation on Masternodes "artifically" blowing up the price & Evan Duffield being the only miner at launch
27. Bitcoin Cash vs Dash
28. "Dash rebranded from Darkcoin to distance itself from its dark history!!" -> Not at all. Nothing about its history is "dark" and more importantly this thread called "The Birth of Darkcoin" is stickied by Evan Duffield himself on the official main forum.
29. "Evan Duffield lied about the launch time so he would get an unfair advantage at mining!" -> Quotes from the original launch thread on Bitcointalk: "Awesome! We'll be launching soon. Things are looking good." and "Launch is being moved to 11PM EST!". As the genesis block proves launch took place at 03:54:41 AM (UTC) on Jan. 19th, 2014 or 10:54:41 PM (EST), Jan. 18th, 2014. So if anything it was 5 minutes early.
30. "But Litecoin is superior to Dash!!" - Really? Let's compare - Here's another sober look at the facts on this issue.
31. Why Dash is not prone to cluster analysis attacks
32. How "centralized" is Dash, really? & Which project is actually centralized here?
33. From the day Dash started trading until late April 2014 anyone had the chance to buy Dash for less than 1 USD
34. Dash Core developer MooCowMoo on alleged Masternode centralization and PrivateSend
35. Why Masternodes have no incentive to vote in a proposal to pay themselves a large sum of Dash
36. What is Dash's competitive edge?
37. Why saying "Dash is a company" is false: Dash Core Inc., a company based in Scottsdale, Arizona is not the decentralized network called Dash. The network, consistent of over 4.5k globally distributed, decentralized Masternodes decided to hire and fund the company Dash Core Inc. to develop said network. This is the distinguishing property of Dash being a DAO, so it's understandable people have difficulty grasping the concept. Similarly Dash does not have a CEO, while Dash Core Inc. -obviously- has.
38. Dash does not and never had a "dev tax": Dash has a Treasury and its distribution is being voted on each month. Only those funds that have been approved by the Masternode network go to proposal owners. The Treasury is capped at 10% of the accumulated block reward of one month. There is no central authority non-requested or non-approved funds go to and there never has been. Those funds are simply not created. So you can have months in which only 8% of the budget is being paid out, with the remaining 2% going to nobody due to not being mined.
39. "B-but Evan Duffield can roll back the last 24 hours of the blockchain with the flick of a button!" Complete bullshit. The key in question refers to requiring a Masternode to re-validate its pre-existing blockchain in order to ensure it's on the right chain. Masternodes have nothing do with putting or removing transactions into or from the blockchain, only the miners can do that, thus claiming someone can "roll back the blockchain" in Dash is a malicious lie and a desperate attempt to make Dash look centralized when it's not. In short: No such button exists, ever existed or will ever exist.
40. Why the total coin supply was changed or "The 84 million coin"-Question

General notes:

The Dash community is well aware that during most of its history this project has been under attack by competitors, many of which are trying to portray Dash (among many other things) as a failure. This is oxymoronic, because nobody hates on failures, especially not for 4 successful years in a row.

If you want a quick history lesson, here's a comment I made on where the Dash hate originated from back in 2014

Another, longer history lesson

Remain skeptical towards sensational accusations without evidence. Our community is helpful, knowledgeable and more than happy to answer any questions, as we have done many times on this subreddit. Still, we're all only human, have limited resources and we're just one project among many (always among the top, though!). Stakeholders and investors of other projects will always have an agenda to smear what they perceive as competition (I have yet to see our community actively go after other projects, though).

Just remember the Bullshit Asymmetry: "The amount of energy required to refute bullshit is at least an order of magnitude larger than to produce it." So it would be very unjust to expect a refutation on the spot all of the time. Prefer taking the initiative by asking the community directly about the claim you're confronted with. This community has proven many times to possess the integrity required to admit to technological shortcomings, but at the same time we'll never hesitate to call out illegitimate claims and accusations, of which there are many, for what they are.

The most common and most empty attack is "Dash is a scam".

• Dash has surpassed its all-time high price several times
• Its developers are publicly known, many by full name
• It's still being developed after almost 4 years with an incredible track record of under-promising and over-delivering, a game-changing roadmap & a clear vision of the future
• Its technology works as advertised and remains objectively superior to Bitcoin and many other currencies
• Myriads of projects copied Dash's features
• Look at the wealth of in-depth information linked on this page alone. Look at all the interviews, articles, news shows, podcasts, presentations, conferences, infrastructure, the people and all the money invested into all of this: Does this all really look like a grandiose scam? Why the effort?

More importantly you have to ask the critic just this one question: Who was scammed? The answer usually consists of complete silence or attempts to change the topic. This may sound all very defensive to someone who has never experienced the kind of FUD Dash has faced over the years, but the falsehoods we've refuted above are still being perpetuated by a very lonely but also very loud minority.

Not an ICO project

Regarding Dash's finances: Despite what many people assume influenced by the ICO insanity of the recent past, Dash did not have an ICO and Dash does not depend on 3rd party funding/investors. It is self funded from the blockchain and thus an entirely independent organization that does exactly what it wants, not what any angel investors want us to do. Dash is the first currency in history to achieve that.

Quick incomplete rundown of Dash's features

In fact Dash pioneered almost every single one of its features making it one of the most prolific innovators in the cryptocurrency space. Before Dash invented them, none of these features existed:

• X11: power saving hashing algorithm
• Dark Gravity Wave: highly reliable difficulty adjustment
• Sporks: Multi-phased forking technology avoiding hard forks during network upgrades
• Masternodes: Incentivized full node infrastructure through split of mining reward
• PrivateSend: protocol level coin mixing without the flaws of CoinJoin
• InstantSend: instantly confirmed double spend proof transactions
• Treasury: Self-funding by splitting of block reward
• Blockchain Governance: Voting rights for those who provide our network's backbone
• Evolution platform technology: Under heavy development but making rapid progress towards true digital cash so user-friendly that even your grandmother could use it

To re-iterate a previous point:

Dash has been copied by several dozen other projects either completely or through selected features indicating a strong approval of its technology within the wider cryptocurrency industry. The most copied feature by far is the Masternode system and the financial self-reliance it provides.