EP8: Evan Duffield - Improving Crypocurrency Through Competition With Dash

Published: Dec. 15, 2015, 3:12 a.m.

Dash \u2013 Interview with Evan Duffield:\n\nNotes\n\n00:12 Evan's background\n\n1:17 Altcoins as experimentation grounds\n\n2:06 Economics of scalability, fungibility, and privacy\n\n3:28 Decentralization using by incentivizing the running of nodes in Dash, contrast to Bitcoin\n\n5:48 How the Dash project is uniquely run using a decentralized viting system to crowd-source development funding\n\n7:40 Analysis with Bitcoin system funding mechanisms\n\n9:00 Future of Dash: Dash Evolution\n\n9:50 Privacy in Dash, why does it matter?\n\n\u201cThe reason that we value privacy in the Dash ecosystem so much is because eventually it will be used against the users in the bitcoin ecosystem, and I see that as a threat.\u201d\n\n10:30 \u2013 Other things Evan is excited about in the crypto ecosystem: RootStock, Ethereum\n\n11:01 How to get learn about and get involved in Dash: dash.org has 100 pages of information\n\n11:20 \u2013 contact details: evan@dash.org