Proposal “DIF-funding-proposal-3months“ (Closed)Back
Title: | PLEASE VOTE DOWN. SEE REVISED PROPOSAL - Dash Investment Foundation (DIF) January - March funding proposal (3 months) |
Owner: | TheDIF |
Monthly amount: | 800 DASH (30448 USD) |
Completed payments: | no payments occurred yet (3 month remaining) |
Payment start/end: | 2020-01-15 / 2020-04-13 (added on 2020-01-13) |
Final voting deadline: | in passed |
Votes: | 95 Yes / 506 No / 33 Abstain |
Proposal description
Monthly ask will be 800 Dash per month for the next 3 months.
In order to maintain the USD amount of funding requested in previous cycles, our monthly ask has been revised upwards from 500D to 800D. This represents funding of $40k per month, or approximately $500k per year currently.
What Does This Proposal Fund?
This 800D is for only two purposes: 1) reserves and 2) the service fee for fund management.
Reserves are able to represent the vast majority (think 95%+) of this allocation thanks largely to Demelza Hays offering the DIF a deeply discounted rate for fund management services.
What is the DIF’s Strategy Now That it Has a Fund Manager?
Please see Demelza’s presentation in the DIF’s Q42019 quarterly report call embedded above, which begins at minute 5:52. You’ll also hear a refinement of how the DIF measures success, how we’ll report on assets going forward, a review of our contact information, etc.
How Much Does the DIF Currently Have in Reserve?
2,012 Dash. This represents all of the reserve funding that has been allocated to the DIF so far.
Note Regarding Possible Funding Proposal Later This Year:
At time marker 30:54 in the quarterly report call above, DIF chair Michael Lewis discusses a potential shortfall in 2020’s admin fees -- the ones that were intended to be covered by DIF director Glenn Kennedy’s initial funding proposal in June 2019 when Dash was $154.
We are currently operating on the premise that the Dash price will recover enough that an additional ask to cover these fees will not be necessary, but want to give you a head’s up regarding the possibility.
We hope to answer any questions you may still have below.
Thank you, masternode owners and shared-masternode-owners, for servicing Dash’s governance needs.
In order to maintain the USD amount of funding requested in previous cycles, our monthly ask has been revised upwards from 500D to 800D. This represents funding of $40k per month, or approximately $500k per year currently.
What Does This Proposal Fund?
This 800D is for only two purposes: 1) reserves and 2) the service fee for fund management.
Reserves are able to represent the vast majority (think 95%+) of this allocation thanks largely to Demelza Hays offering the DIF a deeply discounted rate for fund management services.
What is the DIF’s Strategy Now That it Has a Fund Manager?
Please see Demelza’s presentation in the DIF’s Q42019 quarterly report call embedded above, which begins at minute 5:52. You’ll also hear a refinement of how the DIF measures success, how we’ll report on assets going forward, a review of our contact information, etc.
How Much Does the DIF Currently Have in Reserve?
2,012 Dash. This represents all of the reserve funding that has been allocated to the DIF so far.
Note Regarding Possible Funding Proposal Later This Year:
At time marker 30:54 in the quarterly report call above, DIF chair Michael Lewis discusses a potential shortfall in 2020’s admin fees -- the ones that were intended to be covered by DIF director Glenn Kennedy’s initial funding proposal in June 2019 when Dash was $154.
We are currently operating on the premise that the Dash price will recover enough that an additional ask to cover these fees will not be necessary, but want to give you a head’s up regarding the possibility.
We hope to answer any questions you may still have below.
Thank you, masternode owners and shared-masternode-owners, for servicing Dash’s governance needs.
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thanks, solarguy
I am fine with 500 a month but maybe you should actually do something for the network before deciding that you need an increase in funds.
Voting no, I encourage you to resubmit with a more reasonable ask.
I'm serious, if we fail to stop this madness, next cycle the DIF dares to ask 2000 Dash.
Where will you masternodes draw the line?
When will you finally cry out loud "enough is enough" with this ongoing BS?
My vote is against it, of course
The DIF should have been conceptualized with minimal running costs being able to pick up and hold some equity, if this is even possible in the real world.
Because it means companies of proposal owners need to be registered, written contracts have to be made and signed, DIF staff would probably have to travel all over the world in order to finalize such contracts. It may not be easily feasable to do - OR - it will have no legally-binding force of the law behind it.
In such a case there really is no need to spend lots of money on something we cannot legally enforce anyway (in most of the situations).
I urge all the MNO to consider this with a realistic outlook.
Contracts are only worth something, if the signatories are reachable and known(verified), if the contracts are valid and effective (in the specific jurisdiction) and if they can be enforced, and if it is even worthwhile to potentially spend lawyer fees in order to enforce them, in case of litigation or refusal to comply by the other party.
Something that looks good on paper and in theory must not necessarily be practicable in real life.
For sure there is no justification to constantly drain our treasury and eating up our budget in such vast dimensions and down its greedy throat.
And no, i don't want a bunch of elected (let alone appointed) individuals determine on what treasury funds are being spent, because a majority of them (not all) may not even be qualified to take such decisions.
Elected means little, if the pool to choose from is very limited and isn't required to prove any kind of qualification whatsoever.
Hell, history has taught us, that the voting MNO network was often fooled and made costly wrong decisions.
But at least, we MNO have every right to make mistakes, because we own Dash and literally *pay* for every mistake we make.
The decision-makers in the DIF have little to nothing to lose when they f*ck up big time.
Fact is, the DIF is a centralizing approach to spend treasury funds.
The worst thing about this CREATURE that is the DIF is not even the endless waste of funds, but that this entity is risking Dash's status as an Utility Token and will only contribute to Dash's perception of a Security Token.
By denying this very real risk, you are deluding only yourself. Take a look what happened to Decred.
And with the DIF we too are walking over thin ice.
You can claim the narrative that the DIF is just one of many proposal owners, just like many others.
But the fact that we endow the DIF with unique and special powers tells another story.
And the SEC will sooner or later argument that the DIF turns Dash into a centralized for-profit operation where de-facto employees (because of their unique and special powers) are acting in the economic interest of shareholders (MNO) with the sole objective of maximizing profits. The very definition of a Security.
Right now this proposal is setting established and well performing teams at risk. One might see a conflict of interest here, because I'm a proposal owner myself. This might be right to a certain extend, but it doesn't change my opinion that this aks is irresponsible.
DIF and Trust are essential to our long term growth.
I don't think that the DAO can afford to loose teams like Thailand, Nigeria or DACH. But that's just my point of view.
It is up to the Masternode Owners to ultimately decide the relative merits of this proposal vis-a-vis the others. You should have kept silent and simply voted your Masternode(s) if you have any.
In regards to staying silent: I'm part of the DIF so I want it to succeed, but I will share my opinion and thought whenever I feel it's the right thing to do. I hope this is why MNOs voted for me to be a supervisor of the project. If not I might have misunderstood the role.
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