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Dash Watch March 26th 2019 Report on
DashBoost Cycle Funding February - April by Pasta
https://dashwatchbeta.org/r/MAR19/db-cycle-feb-march

I wanted to clear up my no vote, the reason is simple, right now there are to many worthy proposals submitted, for that reason start-up proposals make a bit less sense.

None less Dash boost is something that should be here to say for a long time coming.

Dash Watch February 24th 2019 Report on
DashBoost Cycle Funding February - April by Pasta
https://dashwatchbeta.org/r/FEB19/db-cycle-feb-march

Long time Dash Supporter here-this project over the next few months has so much potential to bring in new people to Dash. Embrace it, cherish it, it can make us proud.
The best is yet to come. Great to see Pasta on Dash News podcast-you seem like a really sharp guy. Keep up the great work and innovation!

Thanks so much!

I very much like the idea of DashBoost as a venue that facilitates and encourages smaller proposals. That right there is enough to vote yes. However, it is also like a sandbox to try out various game theory solutions to produce better and fairer outcomes. If we learn something cool/useful, it might have significant or profound applications for the larger Dash Treasury.

So, more yes from me.
solarguy

I have read the opinions, and I think that DB is a great complement to the main DAO.

It allows small projects to be started that could turn into great achievements, especially in emerging economies countries where Dash is more useful and necessary.

Another virtue that we may not be aware of allows us to decentralize the treasury further. The authors with projects with small treasury are more motivated to work and give results to the DAO, than the main DAO projects with greater cash.

It has been good for the DB the incidents, cases, anecdotes, etc. that have happened, so that Pasta goes 'debugging' the platform.

I also agree with (RobbyDash01), we has not given enough visibility in the media to attract entrepreneurship, and there the entire community will have to work as a team.

For all this I will continue to think that this effort is useful and vote yes. Thanks for the proposal.

voted yes. I think it's worth persevering through the current gamification and figuring it out. It should increases participation in the network by magnitudes. As our value rises it might be worth having another funding tier so figuring all the growing pains out is just something we got to do!

The excessive no votes are a joke, clear case of DAO manipulation
Apparently a bunch of mega whales have conspired and are hell-bent to destroying Boost
They are making a mockery out of the Governance voting procedure!!!!

I can only fight their overwhelming no votes with my single yes vote, but i will do so

We have to do something about those who are gaming our system. There's no way for us to grow if they won't leave us alone. We should begin trying to identify these masternodes and kicking them off the network!

Who determines what is gaming the system and what is voting. You? What's all this talk of censorship? MN owners have skin in the game and they can vote as they please. Your options are pretty limited, one being sell your node's dash and leave. Blacklisting nodes is not one of the options. It can start a slippery slope to nodes being singled out for any reason. Perhaps if blacklisting nodes becomes possible, your node(s) should be banned first, for originating this censorship garbage.

i wholeheartedly agree

Can't emphasize enough the importance of having micro-proposals.
Pasta, you have my vote

Thanks for your support!

I´m voting for DB
YES x1

Voting Yes, DashBoost has filled an important role in the entire Dash ecosystem.
Please keep up the good work.
You can count on my support !

"Discourage last minute voting" is needed so that DashBoost cannot be gamed. But in order for me to be able to vote, I'd like to know where the randomness in "Implement random end time on end date" comes from. It needs to be provably random otherwise nothing is gained. Even worse, the PO could choose the end time of day according to preferences in votes.

Dear MNOs, I usually do not comment on other proposals, but I felt obliged to express my opinion here. The work that Pasta is doing brings tremendous value to our ecosystem. DB can help us fund people with smaller ideas or those that want to test their concept prior to applying for funding on Dash Central. We need to work as a community to attract more talent and move smaller proposal owners to DB. I have successfully completed different proposals for Dash community and I understand the value of this service, especially for people in developing countries. Furthermore, Pasta is working hard to update the community about their plans and solve issues related to whales obstructing proposals at the end of the month.

@Arthyron, you have expressed concerns about cash-grabs and I completely agree that we need to keep building DB as a community to solve these issues and establish an efficient service with more insight into development. I am currently working on a proposal that will be posted on Dash Boost this month and will involve a monthly call with proposal owners at Dash Boost, monthly reports about their progress, profile on proposal owners (including verification of their identity), connecting proposals owners that might be competent to work together, request for proposals etc. All this will turn DB into efficient funding mechanism. @Undercurrent, we will also be working on filtering ideas, coming up with concepts (crowdsourcing community needs), and connecting proposal owners to work on proposals that will bring more value to growth of Dash.

I sincerely believe that we can turn Dash Boost into a crucial growth segment of Dash as the value they have already created for our ecosystem is irreplaceable.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with, then, because it's something DB needs if we're going to continue to fund it.

Our proposal is live for voting on Dash Boost platform and includes monthly call with proposal owners, progress reports, request for proposals, verification of new proposal owners (preventing scam and cash-grabs) etc.

Here is the link: https://www.dashboost.org/proposals/view/324/Boost%20Insight:%20Monthly%20Call,%20Reports,%20Dashworking

Please vote and support our work. Thank you for your support!

Glad to see the improvements made to stop the malicious last minute whale voting. Looking forward to seeing Dash Watch type oversight of proposals in the future.
Yes votes incoming!

voting YES. DB provides potential support for smaller scale projects ( and could do with further voters as per the podcast with Dash News).

Personally, I'm not really satisfied with how the system-gaming issues have been handled. I thought the "only wallets with 999 Dash or less can vote" solution was probably a better one, as it forces MNOs who really want to swing a vote to potentially unfund their Masternode Rewards in order to do so, which I think is much better than just allowing the few MNOs who actually care enough to look at the proposals and vote to steamroll the entire system at the last minute.

Additionally, because there's so little oversight on these proposals, I have concerns about some of them just being cash-grabs that provide little to no value to the network. Certainly there have been marked successes (Spark, Dash Text, etc) that have come out of Dash Boost so I don't want to diminish the work that's gone in to it or its potential to benefit the network, but I think it could be administered better with some improvements and constraints.

So for now, I'll hold off on voting until we know how the rest of the budget pans out and give the team some time to address some of these concerns.

Talking about it in discord with you and Ash, I'm confident we'll be able to continually improve generating more voters and becoming more resistant to malicious activity.

I wanted to make it clear that I'm still a supporter of the project and its mission, and that our discussion and your assurances that you're working on the things we discussed warrant a Yes vote for this cycle, just in case there was any doubt.

Agreed,
+ Leveling the playing field on Dashboost will make smaller holder more active, if I was a smaller voter I would feel pretty unneeded if a couple MNO's steamroll it. Dash should move away from oligarchy idea as much as possible.

I'm inclined to vote no. I believe that smaller proposals are a waste of money because of economies of scale. I'd like to be proven wrong though.

Dashboost is a good starting point for someone to get involved. It's also a great opportunity for proposal owners to prove their work.

I've said this before about Dashboost. There could very well be a young Vitalik Buterin who comes across Dashboost and decides to give it a try. The potential talent discover alone could be worth more than all Dash previous funding combined.

Dash's greatest advantage over all over cryptocurrencies is that we can give opportunities to people to build something.

What we need to do is advertise Dashboost more. We need to attract new talent to Dashboost.

It's worth noting that there have been *some* successes such as the Spark PoS system by kodaxx or additional funding for other successful proposals like Dash Text that have come out of Dash Boost, but for the present, these are the exception rather than the rule. It does, however, show as a proof of concept that it can be helpful, so how do you feel that the system can change to better facilitate projects such as these that bring greater value?