My take on Evan's interview about DASH roadmap
First let me tell ya'll that I am very pro-DASH. I own DASH and also have got me a great reward. However I have always been skeptical of DASH plans for the future, actually not skeptical but rather inquisitive. Sort of a 'yeah... but' idea.
Evolution is posted to be the solution for everything. But first of this is vaporware, so is hard to evaluate vaporware. Making people aware that what they are talking is vaporware is not as easy as one might think.
Besides the vaporware issue, there is also the actual goals. None of the actual goals actually help their major goal of being accepted as digital cash, evolution solutions seems more like a solution for online banking and manage your funds on an easier and faster way. But none of that will actually be something that will make it easier for me to buy a cup of coffee on any store across the world unless they adopt it.
Now Evan interview seems that he is tinkering the backend into a more complex masternode layer with more hardware. I am not a hardware expert but this doesn't really sound like something I want. I mean, DASH now is required to be a masternode on a straight hardware. This makes it DASH as a hardware store more than a general porpouse machines. This is nothing new since you can argue that the bitcoin network has been ran on specialized hardware.
Also not sure how these connect with evolution.
As I made a post on the slack, I thought Evan was going Jeff Barker from Silicon Valley about bringing ideas in a common 'box-enterprise' model.
The next point of conversation is the DAPI. I have read the DAPI since 2015 and have even read the whitepaper, although is not clear enough to explain it. From his interview Evan say he wants to divide it from the privatesend and making the network more sophisticated through a tor-like onion routing to make the funds more secure.
On the topic of masternode shares, is a hot topic because a lot of people might be able to get some reward however seems these plans have been put off for the future. This is disappointment because like Joel said, a lot of people wanted to gain the voting rights. Seems the only answer is the Node40 masternode shares organization.
Personally I think this is a mistake since this could be huge for the adoption of DASH which is a missed opportunity. The issue is that Evan sometimes seems very disconnected with the overall feeling of the community.
On the topic for core team workflow is also another hot topic since right now, is not possible for the community to 'fire' core devs members. Since transparency has been gone off the road. So transparency is needed, unfortunately Evan is the least efficient communicator to do this and I don't think is a good idea to have him as the liason. Joel idea was much better since he has a communication experience as a journalist and an avid writer.
The question becomes, do we need new development groups and also how we can get better development projects off the ground.
The last question of the interview about crypto and banks where DASH has been damaged or not worked as expected. So this becomes a lot of growing pains for DASH as a crypto tool.
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at this point i still cant buy coffee with bitcoin, and if a merchant near me somehow accepted it, i still would not buy it because the combination of expensive fees and ridiculous wait times to see it cleared. I see the recent release of info and roadmap as basically saying -heres what were going to do to make it easier and inexpensive to use DASH as every day money. We see bitcoin struggling to adapt to its userbase and we want to avoid it by being proactive before we can reach the market cap and avoid bumping into those same hurdles and possibly turning away people from DASH.
I think you're aware of the work thats going on behind the scenes(through the proposals system) to allow merchants to seamlessly transition into accepting DASH at actual brick stores and not jsut online venues. If customers walk into a store and they see some form of DASH advertisement that could go a long way into getting the common person that has never heard of cryptos into looking at DASH.
Well I am following the proposals month to month, actually I blog about them as well. But these are proposals by the community that has nothing to do with this roadmap. Independent developers like Kodaxx or dmitriybtc a 22 year old from Ukrane.
I would feel much more comfortable if a multi-developer team is put to develop enterprise systems and integration to marketshare relevant ERPs like SAP or PeopleSoft, or even Microsoft Dynamics.
true, alot of the work we know about merchant adoption is done by community proposals and those are the ones open for everyone to see. However, I do remember Daniel Diaz saying somthing along the lines of not wanting to mention or comment about big merchants or exchanges accepting DASH because it tends to cause major speculative run ups in the price. I would hope for more information on this aspect to also be released soon, just like we were updated on Evolution.
To be blunt, of the various hosted masternode offerings, Node40 is the least attractive. What's more, if Dash gets anywhere near where it wants to go, the price is going even higher and that will justify higher demands of masternode operators and their hardware. Dash Hosting Services (Host / Pooling / Monitoring)
AFAIK Node40 is the only one that I am aware that offer 'shares'. I just saw that Moocowmoo has a Masternode share program as well. However the point of the article is to point the route that DASH is going (and what is taking less priority) on the core team.
I heard a lot of people being excited about this when Amanda talked about it on Anarchapulco, however it wasn't touched upon until another interview that Amanda did on Evan, however it doesnt seem like a priority. Just like lowering the proposal fees don't seem like a priority either.
"None of the actual goals actually help their major goal of being accepted as digital cash, evolution solutions seems more like a solution for online banking and manage your funds on an easier and faster way. But none of that will actually be something that will make it easier for me to buy a cup of coffee on any store across the world unless they adopt it."
All of what they are doing will make it easier for mass adoption, which will make it easier for you to buy anything wherever you want it. DAPI is a case in point. DAPI will make integrating DASH into any ecommerce solution as easy as Venmo.