Welcome!

DeFi Conference 2020

Some results from the DeFi Conference are:

1. Presented Dash on a panel alongside Jonas Lamis - Founder and CEO at StakerDAO, Flora Sun - Managing Director of Binance X, moderated by Liam Kelly - Editorial Manager at Crypto Briefing. Video of the session is here - https://youtu.be/AK_FhUzvZGo

The Defi conference had 977 attendees from 30 countries represented.

2. A great outcome of presenting at the Defi conference is that Nathaniel Luz will be headlining the CRYPTO FEST 2020 conference on October 30 at a cost of $0 https://cryptofest.co.za/speakers-2020/. The speaking and other privileges we have gotten for free are available under the "premier sponsorship" which costs R80,000 or $4604.28 https://cryptofest.co.za/become-sponsor/.


3. Recap of Defi Conference by BitcoinKe

"...While the above shows that Ethereum is pre-dominantly driving DeFi, it was interesting to learn that protocols like Dash employ the concept of masternodes that can offer true DeFi use cases that take the power back to the users" https://bitcoinke.io/2020/08/watch-defi-africa-conference-2020/

The Dash/NAIRA pair is a good development.

Thanks.

Remittance Dash Use Research for the Nigerian market

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B9YVTznNzt_Eev6eT0p0bCGHfONqoAyMIvd2hFGQetI/edit?usp=drivesdk

This document was created  off the "Dash - Digital Cash - Strategy Paper (DACH region)" thanks to the Dash Embassy team, and adapted to the remittance situation in Nigeria. 

Here's a video explanation of the document - https://youtu.be/Rwbh36MkBnk

Kindly read it and drop your questions or comments.

Thanks.

New Dash Listing by Dash Nigeria

Dash has partnered with Coinprofile, a Nigerian based cryptocurrency payments company. Coinprofile is providing its users with the best possible Dash experience, using InstantSend to solve inefficiencies and lower costs around remittances and payments.

https://newsroom.dash.org/106293-coinprofile-listing-enhances-living-on-dash-in-nigeria

https://bitcoinafrica.io/2020/08/19/coinprofile-dash-in-nigeria/?s=08

https://coinstituency.com/coinprofile-listing-enhances-living-on-dash-in-nigeria/?s=08

https://businessday.ng/crypto-and-blockchain/article/coinprofile-listing-enhances-living-on-dash-in-nigeria/

High Fees Make BTC Less Appealing for Remittances in Africa: 'Pray Blocks Happen Quickly' - Nathaniel Luz of Dash Nigeria interviewed

https://news.bitcoin.com/high-network-fees-make-btc-less-appealing-for-remittances/

SPONSOR ANNOUNCEMENT!

We welcome @Dashpay as a Gold Sponsor of the #DeFi Conference 2020 #DeFiConf2020!

Nathaniel Luz of Dash Nigeria will be speaking here tomorrow.

Article on the conference here https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/defi-conference-2020-to-showcase-the-tremendous-growth-of-defi-projects/amp

How much did this sponsorship cost and did it involve travel and lodging?

Hi agnewpickens,

The sponsorship costs us $560 for the speaking slot. We initially wanted to pay an extra $100 for an exhibition space but we had to cut on that to save costs. We paid $560 and have the receipts for it.

The conference held online earlier today and included no travel or lodging.

Thanks.

Do you have any results to show for this investment of Dash?

DeFi Conference 2020

Some results from the DeFi Conference are:

1. Presented Dash on a panel alongside Jonas Lamis - Founder and CEO at StakerDAO, Flora Sun - Managing Director of Binance X, moderated by Liam Kelly - Editorial Manager at Crypto Briefing. Video of the session is here - https://youtu.be/AK_FhUzvZGo

The Defi conference had 977 attendees from 30 countries represented.

2. A great outcome of presenting at the Defi conference is that Nathaniel Luz will be headlining the CRYPTO FEST 2020 conference on October 30 at a cost of $0 https://cryptofest.co.za/speakers-2020/. The speaking and other privileges we have gotten for free are available under the "premier sponsorship" which costs R80,000 or $4604.28 https://cryptofest.co.za/become-sponsor/.


3. Recap of Defi Conference by BitcoinKe

"...While the above shows that Ethereum is pre-dominantly driving DeFi, it was interesting to learn that protocols like Dash employ the concept of masternodes that can offer true DeFi use cases that take the power back to the users" https://bitcoinke.io/2020/08/watch-defi-africa-conference-2020/

Hi agnewpickens,

We certainly have results to show for the Defi conference and our entire proposal. Our results will be listed in our DashWatch report for the month and we'll also post the ones regarding the Defi conference here in this thread.

Thanks.

https://twitter.com/BlockchainZA/status/1290577960718733312?s=19

A Tweet? For $560?

Congrat Nate you deserve more than the Dash Community give you.

Thanks.

Making an integration incumbent on passage of a proposal that doesn't specify the cost in the budget sounds a bit extortionary to me, Abstaining for now.

Hi agnewpickens,

The technical cost for the integration is $1,000 and it is stated in our budget. Following every new integration is a marketing campaign which includes an AMA with the company, which is also covered in our PR and Marketing aspect of the budget costing $1,000.

Kindly note that we are supposed to speak at the Defi Conference August 5, 2020 http://bitcoinevents.co.za/deficonf2020/ and we have to pay $660 for the speaking slot which will be paid from the $1,000 PR and Marketing budget if we pass.

Getting Dash on coinprofile.co will boost the use of Dash for remittances to Nigeria and it's certainly worth the $1,000 we'll be paying for it.

Looking forward to getting your YES vote. Thanks.

See our budget breakdown here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZOoyeXU-qVJCrWorDQLBthkG6gUvERahI8UexuhGVaA/edit?usp=drivesdk

You received at least 25 Dash in private Dash donations. Abstain.

We received approximately $2k in donations to operate in the month of July 2020. Though little, we were able to put it to good use.

A few highlights of the month are;
1. Landed an earned media interview/ book review with Cointelegraph, largest crypto media outlet in the world https://cointelegraph.com/news/book-review-digital-is-the-cash

2. Worked with Coinprofile.co to conclude plans for integrating Dash including signing of MOU, creation of a joint marketing document, testing of the Dash integration on the staging/testnet version of coinprofile.co and giving feedback etc.

3. Worked with Naijacrypto towards the release of the first Dash debit cards in Nigeria - I applied for my card yesterday & will do a video of it and how to use it once I receive it. The debit cards will allow users spend Dash directly on all POS terminals in the country without needing to convert to naira.

4. Got a speaking slot at the Defi Conference 2020 http://bitcoinevents.co.za/deficonf2020/

5. We also worked on new integrations/ announcements. Going forward we should have at least 1 new integration monthly.

P.S. If we had been funded for this month of July, we'll have had the Coinprofile.co integration live & marketing started by now. But there's just so much we can do without proper funding. Thanks to all who donated to keep us operational in the month of July.

Dash Nigeria Proposal Update

https://youtu.be/DkAqvNHKr7E

Meet the #DeFi Conference 2020 Speaker!

Nathaniel Luz, Lead at Dash Nigeria, is a speaker at the Defi Conference 2020, August 5, 2020.

The DeFi Conference 2020 is a free 1 day online conference with two tracks and over 25 global speakers sharing their knowledge on Decentralized Finance or DeFi with topics covering financial inclusion, open finance, adoption and regulation.

This event will connect entrepreneurs, liquidity providers, academics, investors, economists, regulators and others who are looking to learn and network in the decentralized finance industry and explore the current opportunities and challenges in the space.

http://bitcoinevents.co.za/deficonf2020/

*We'll only be able to speak at this event if our proposal passes, as we have to pay for our speaking slot*

Hi MNOs.

Nathaniel and his team are really doing great in promoting dash in Africa. It saddens reading some comments on this proposal.

I can testify to the community that Nate has given all his time and efforts for dash adoption and mainstream awareness in Nigeria and Africa at large. A win for this proposal is a win for dash in Africa.

Thanks Sahabia

Sending Dash directly to a bank account will become possible from August thanks to Coinprofile.co. Remittances can now be carried out without the end user using exchanges or touching crypto.

https://twitter.com/coinprofiledev/status/1282585703180894214?s=19

Update on Dash Nigeria Proposal

We have gotten Dash integrated into coinprofile.co a crypto-fiat remittance platform. Coinprofile will allow people all over the world to send Dash directly to a Nigerian bank account.

The rates are favourable being 17% cheaper than existing fintech remittance options. We anticipate a great use of Dash for remittances via coinprofile.

Launching Dash on coinprofile is planned for the first week of August 2020 and is also reliant on us being funded. This is as we have some roles to play in the partnership which we can't do without being funded.

Vote for the Dash Nigeria proposal so we can get this and others done.

Digital is the Cash book review and Dash Nigeria activites covered on Cointelegraph

https://cointelegraph.com/news/book-review-digital-is-the-cash

Great stuff, well done Nathaniel.

Thanks.

I was really surprised to see that this proposal isn't passing. From the weekly DCW calls, which Nathaniel is attending frequently, I have the impression, that he and his team are doing a good job for Dash in Africa. Good luck Nathaniel. I hope you will be able to continue your efforts.

Thanks for your support. We'll not dropping our tools. We hope we get funded so we can work at our planned pace.

Donate to keep the lights on at Dash Nigeria

We've gotten 24.9 Dash so far from donations. We need 25 Dash more to keep the lights on for Dash Nigeria. We're not funded for the month of July 2020 and are seeking your donations in order to keep being operational.

We've well on track with our milestones and we have some positive news that'll be out this month.

Stopping our operations will lead to a cease of support for our users and partners which will not be healthy for the long term growth of Dash in Africa.

We are receiving donations at the same address as our proposal here:

XjA2Z53RjSz2xHSSk2fXoP1GN8ZZkvZoy8

We'll also appreciate your feedback to our proposal and activities.

Thanks.

Nathaniel Luz
Lead, Dash Nigeria

Dash Nigeria Call for Donations

We're not funded for the month of July 2020 and are seeking your donations in order to keep being operational.

We'll like to continue our work for Dash this month and are seeking 50 dash in order to cover running costs such as the continuation of our biz dev/ integrations, helpline and support program, ongoing social media presence, PR and administration expenses.

Stopping our operations will lead to a cease of support for our users and partners which will not be healthy for the long term growth of Dash in Africa.

We are receiving donations at the same address as our proposal here:

XjA2Z53RjSz2xHSSk2fXoP1GN8ZZkvZoy8

We'll also appreciate your feedback to our proposal and activities.

Thanks.

Nathaniel Luz
Lead, Dash Nigeria

Africa Desk could be a winner. Zimbabwe is #2 in national-currency inflation in the world right now. Zimbabwe could be the easiest country in the world right now to win market-share in for our product

The Dash Africa Desk will focus on promoting Dash as the choice crypto in African media including Zimbabwe. It'll also be the go-to desk for Dash enquiries in Africa.

The State of Crypto in Africa Report by Arcane Research favourable mentions the adoption of Dash and the activities of Dash Nigeria. Link to report: https://research.arcane.no/the-state-of-crypto-africa

This and more will be our focus. Thanks for your support.

It'll be great to get some feedback from the 'No'and 'Abstain' voters. Is there some other form of deliverable you'll like to see from us?

Yes from me, good luck with your budget proposal.

Thanks for your support.

The State of Crypto in Africa Report by Arcane Research favourable mentions the adoption of Dash and the activities of Dash Nigeria.

This is another commendation of our work at Dash Nigeria.

Link to report: https://research.arcane.no/the-state-of-crypto-africa

Link to article on the report:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/report-africa-is-bullish-on-crypto-despite-infrastructure-and-regulatory-hurdles

At this ask/cycle and after so much time, I would need to see a sustainable revenue model, or perhaps even a stake for the DIF. Voting "No."

Hi Agnewpickens,

Regarding a sustainable revenue model, I was well ahead here with nepsium.com.

1. We built a fully functional product without a $ from the Dao.

2. We lost $1,500 in proposal fees for Nepsium as it never got funded.

3. https://www.dashcentral.org/p/dash-payment-gateway---nepsium (the proposal information was redacted several months later. Since it wasn't funded, my co-founder wanted it redacted as it contained sensitive business information).

4. Nepsium was built as a crypto payment gateway that'll be integrated directly into the Dash mobile wallets so Nigerians can buy/sell Dash in-app similarly to Uphold. As it stands to Uphold doesn't support Nigeria. Nepsium was supposed to make Dash Nigeria self sustainable after a period of time.

A stake for the DIF? Certainly not a problem. We could get that resolved.

Thanks.

5. We worked with DCG mobile wallet devs regarding Nepsium. Building it out on our own cost about $20k.

It really is a shame that the network was TRICKED into not supporting you. We should not let this stand. Something should be done.

It is both strange and hilarious to watch the ever twisting rationales designed to keep us from growing in our global wheelhouses and funding the very teams that have brought us countless adoptions and integrations.

This "rationale twisting" from indivdiuals such as agnewpickens, lysergic, realmrhack et al. here goes on only with these performant teams and growing proposals in the third world, while at the same time, THESE SAME INDIVIDIUALS support wasteful or barely hatched proposals like George Donnelly (who worked tirelessly to destroy our Ven. adoption), "DashFarms" (agnew's friend), or DashCamLife (agnew again).

Not only that, but as the height of hypocrisy, Agnew was AGAINST the real Dash Venezuelan teams working for adoption (only recently "supporting" Dashmallandparking even though that's a complete no-brainer).

So you only want to fund Venezuelan teams when you're paying them for sex work? But if they're independently plotting their own course and charting their own map without your micro-managing all of the sudden you don't want to play anymore? LIES AND HYPOCRISY!

Lysergic, mrhack, and agnew usually vote together on many proposals. Lysergic for example, just like agnew, was very happy and all in favor of voting for DashCamLife and "DashFarms" even though all of the criticisms (and then some) that they routinely apply to DashNigeria, DashHaiti and DashVenezuela proposals apply 20x to the ones they support.

What else could this indicate but a cabal of MNOs with a conflict of interest? Best to ignore their comments completely until we can do something about them, they are bad actors working against the DAO in my opinion.

A very solid "HELL YES!" from me. As a contrast to the slew of negativity both this month and in general that this PO routinely recieves, allow me to take merely a second of your time to recap some of the main acheivements that this team has granted our network, so that we can know for certain whether or not they serve or will in Nigeria and Africa abroad or not.

Normally, I'd refer to Dashwatch reports, but honestly, this team has been so performant I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader. This time, we're going straight to the tap to get a drink. Without further ado, I present the reasons why I have before and will continue to heartily vote yes for DashNigeria and Nathaniel's team.

First of all and most importantly, Nate is loyal to the network. He, like Carlo lead manager @ DashHaiti, has worked tirelessly throughout the last two-three (?) years to spread Dash adoption in Nigeria. They were defunded for a large portion of last year. Unfortunately, they had to let most of their team go in fact.

Despite all of that, however, here he remains. Because Dash is the best and DashNigeria, like the rest of the world, wants the best money. Because of this loyalty, DashNigeria is responsible for a smorgasbord of adoptions, integrations and true partnerships with African crypto-businesses. Many are listed in the proposal but the one I want to highlight is ANKERPAY which was a very big deal:

https://thepaypers.com/cryptocurrencies/dash-ankerpay-to-expand-dash-payments-network-in-sub-saharan-africa--1242215 Do you see this?

"Users in South Africa can now **purchase or sell Dash through their ATMs or wallets and spend it at participating merchants in the country**. Users can also purchase goods and services online with Dash. Furthermore, the partners will be introducing **remittances services to South Africa** (and other regional markets) from the UK and Europe. "

Yeah. We have DashNigeria to thank for that stupendous deal. DashNigeria has a lot of clout throughout Africa. With it, they're able to land local and NON-LOCAL integrations all over. As the lead of DashNext said in a comment on their proposal, this kind of cross-border integration news provides A LOT OF HYPE in the community amongst businesses.

A lot of integrations come about because, "Oh I heard what you guys are doing in Ven." or "Oh, DashNigeria is really great! I heard about Dash through their outreach/book/videos". So number one is the strong partnership DashNigeria brings as well as their list of powerful integrations.

Secondly, the decentralization of the network and development is at stake. Do you remember DashNepsium?

https://www.dashcentral.org/p/dash-payment-gateway---nepsium

In that proposal NespiumTeam asked for 50 Dash and promised us basically Dash/fiat conversions in Africa on a platter using a DCG-approved in-wallet plugin for Dash-fiat purchases and sales. Just like KuvaCash tried to do. Coincidence?

Here's a quote from quantumexplorer, head of mobile development for DCG, speaking on his involvement with Nepsiumteam:

• quantumexplorer

• 7 points
11 months ago

"I am head of mobile team for DCG, and built the majority of the current iOS wallet. I would like to confirm that I talked to the Nepsium team and I suggested that they take this path forward as it's the quickest way to give users access to buying/selling Dash in Nigeria compared to the previous approach that I thought was not feasible in the time frame.

**Fiat on/off ramps were and to an extent still are part of our strategy for 2019, however we don't have the resources in Core to develop all these integrations. Any development submitted by a third party developer will be thoroughly reviewed and will be always be required to be fully open source.**"

Ok so basically, Nate was trying to rapidly expand Dash's growth and reach not just in Nigeria but all of Africa. By creating a separate team focused solely on allowing the buy/sell of Dash in the actual Dash wallets using a third-party plugin for fiat conversions. This would've been a global first and a very big win for the Dash network.

Everyone is always talking about "We need to decentralize the dev teams", we need to "increase code-base knowledge among non-core devs". Yet, when a proposal was brought to the network TO DO JUST THAT VERY THING, guess who showed up? Realmrhack again. Downvoters and hateful favortists with hidden agendas that the network doesn't benefit from showed up spreading lies and fud. And NepsiumTeam was not funded, and the Dash DAO was set back again in one of our wheelhouses. Just like with Kuvacash.

How many times are we going to allow hateful LIARS to derail our growth and adoption? In fact, let's take KuvaCash as an example. No matter how you feel about it or the personalities involved (ugh), the fact remains indisputable that they were defunded right before they were supposed to launch, so we'll never know if it would've worked out or not. We ended up wasting 2 million dollars of network funds.

Nobody was punished for that and nobody was reprimanded. Its funny to read all these arguments AGAINST DashNigeria, DashMallandParking, DashHaiti calling them "wastes of money" and "cash-grabs", yet nobody was upset when these jealous liars made the network waste $2 million USD and a year and a half of work over stupid drama! Hypocrisy and enabling only HURT THE NETWORK AS A WHOLE AND LIMIT OUR GROWTH.

Thirdly and second most importantly, below Nathaniel posted an article called "The State of Crypto in Africa Report". I want to quote some select statements from that report. Its a little bit of a read but these parts are relevant to this discussion. The first part is ALSO THE MOST IMPORTANT FOR US:

"ElectroneumIn terms of raw users, Electroneum (ETN) is probably the one of the moresignificant cryptocurrency-project in Africa. The project claims to have over **100,000** usersthroughout South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda, and Tanzania. As high as these figures are, raising questions about their validity, they have been recently verifiedby the research firm, Cointelligence."

Do you see this? Electroneum has in Africa *as many users as we have in all of Venezuela*. Considering how much money and time we've spent in Venezuela, that's pretty impressive. Electroneum is a far more centralized, less performant coin than Dash. Yet they have instant transactions. They are preparing to provide job services to Africans, they already provide electricity top ups and the following perks:

•Instant payments via the Electroneum application

•The Electroneum application rewards users with $3 worth of ETN per month•Buying of airtime and data with ETN through the Electroneum application

•A $80 smartphone, the M1to facilitate the usage of ETN

•An on-the-ground incentive program targeting merchants called ETN Everywhere

•A freelancing marketplace, called AnyTaskand e-learning site, TaskSchoolthat leverages ETN as its payment network

In other words, WE HAVE COMPETITION, PEOPLE. Competition with similar features that we offer, like crypto-mobile phones (Kripmobile), instant tx'es, merchant adoption programs, freelancing marketplace etc.

We can't afford to waste ANY TIME listening to losers and liars like realmrhack who have SPENT LITERALLY YEARS LYING ABOUT OUR DAOS just so that we wont' be able to grow properly. This is the result of that effort. If the massive defunding of African proposals over 2018-2019 didn't take place, we can definitely say that we would be in a far superior position than we are now to take on electroneum and our other treasuried/bear-market-survivable competition.

But DashGhana, KuvaCash, and several other Dash communities in Africa were HATEFULLY AND MALICIOUSLY DEFUNDED by the same Donnelly-esque hit-and-run tactics used in Ven. Now they seek to do the same thing once again to Dash Nigeria it looks like. This is called a "civility attack".

Where people like realmrhack and lysergic PRETEND TO BE YOUR FRIENDS while THEY STAB YOU IN THE BACK AND SHIT ON ALL YOUR WORK IN SECRET! Why? So shitcoins like Monero and Electroneum can gain the adoption that RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO DASH. These communities do not want decentralized private digital cash in the hands of the masses. They want their KYC/AML system of COERCION to win the day instead.

While they try to convince us to keep restarting from square one with tiny, ineffective proposals for a DAO of Dash's current size and scale, our competition DESPERATELY RACES TO CATCH UP TO US SO THEY NEVER HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE OUR SUPERIOR POSITION. Again, I submit that we do our competition NO FAVORS by limiting our growth to protect their egos and validate their bad choices. They could and still can get on the Dash train at any time, just like the rest of us did.

In summary, we have in DashNigeria and Nathaniel's capable hands an ever growing and strong community in a regional hotspot in Africa that is poised to grow in business use-cases for decades to come. Nathaniel has written a BOOK ON DASH and cryptocurrency in general (so it appeals to a wide audience as well), translated it into different languages, and is providing copies to governments, regulators and universities. This is the kind of long-term growth that we as a network need to continue to cultivate and foster.

I've said enough I think. Let's vote yes for DashNigeria and increase our adoption in Africa and worldwide!

Wow now i really know your a lunatic moron that continues his ramblings and doubles down on stupid bullshit.

Honestly dude get a life!, Its people like you who are toxic in this environment who, cant differentiate reality.

Exhibit A from the hateful and malicious favortist himself. His presence and attempts at emotional abuse serve as proof positive that I am if not 100% correct, at the least 90-95% so. Who else would try to emotionally assault others in this venue? What does he even gain from that? The ONLY people who REQUIRE negativity to operate are TROLLS AND SHILLS! Why do they need negativity? To HIDE IN. If you're fighting other MNOs and they're fighting you (severe infighting like what's happening now in BCH), then they can disrupt, pull plugs, damage machinery, unawares.

IN OTHER WORDS, ITS SO YOU DON'T ATTACK THEM BACK LIKE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO! When they use these emotional attacks they make their victims become defensive and separate themselves from the rest of the network (forcing them into their own egos where they can do the most damage - which is the only way to attack a DAO). By hiding under "ROI" or "metrics" they can PRETEND to be for the network, while they're in actuality trying to divide and conquer it. This is called a "deflection shield".

But why? Why the HELL would anyone want to do this? Because the cryptocurrency community is peopled by various groups who use egotism as a way to both grow their own and infiltrate other communities. Fluffypony of monero routinely "brags" about having a higher marketcap than Dash, which is an appeal to the ego. "Hrmph, we're bigger. You're smaller. We don't need to deal with you (turns nose up)."

This impression is not recieved by accident, it is deliberate. Of course it is also completely superficial, because Monero only has a larger marketcap than Dash because it has TWICE the issued supply. That's it. When you compare them with the same supply, Dash is larger and has been for years. But this doesn't matter because the ego is about superficiality. *That's why emotional, ego-based investing is SO DANGEROUS*.

And THAT'S WHY people like hack, lysergic, geert, Moka, ceti, thedesertlynx, mastermined, macno and other hateful favoritists use it. Because they know that people in their egos are the easiest to manipulate and DESTROY! So they stroke the ego, they rely on ego-based arguments, ego-based motivations, all because FACTUAL ANALYSIS WILL EXPOSE THEM FOR THE CHARLATANS THAT THEY ARE.

As you can see, hack is aggressive on all the "third-world" teams that GIVE US, THE DAO, REAL RESULTS. They all vote together and spread LIES TOGETHER.

Here is a quote from xkcd from the Dash MNO discord channel yesterday where he is LYING about Dash-Nigeria and DashNepsium (a proposal that was going to provide a Dash-fiat banking integration in the official wallet that was aggressively attacked by hack and others from this cabal).

"xkcd Today at 15:36
@theman2121 (therealdashman21's discord handle) Do not conflate the two, the cointelegraph article does not mention DASH as I said, I am now reading the Arcane report (37 pages) and will give you my thoughts shortly.

Also, about the nepsium website, total bunk. I completely reject your reasoning as acceptable. (edited)"

So, this is xkcd BASICALLY TAP-DANCING AROUND trying to explain why he is discrediting evidence and voting NO. Yet he clearly supports "DashCamLife":

"xkcd Today at 13:06
DASH.CamLife has gone to private funding, I remain in full support of it."

Also xkcd on Nathaniel:

"xkcd Today at 05:24
nathaniel has done less than me, he takes money all the time and has little to show for it, where are the videos of people using DASH?"

My response:
"theman2121 Today at 05:24
@xkcd
How can you say he has done LESS than you, when you just admitted that you have DONE ZERO adoption?
You're not making any sense..."

Also note that pointing out that deliberately ignoring evidence is malicious behavior got me a "warning" from TroyDash. Which got him a warning from me: Engage in censorship and I'll tear your whole sandcastle-censorship-playhouse down.

This is how you know this is a blockstream-esque attack on Dash's value proposition and not "racism". They want to use that as a deflective COVER. Gravbender in the MNO channel yesterday pointed out that it seemed that Moka, ceti and others were being decidedly negative against Dash-Africa Desk because of the color of Nate's skin. WHAT FOLLOWED NEXT is what convinced me that this is NOT AT ALL about racism! Moka, ceti and another MNO then IMMEDIATELY went into first damage-control, then attack mode!

Within thirty seconds of that particular accusation from gravbender, the hemming-and-hawing began. The FAUX-OUTRAGE at being called racist was so thick you could cut it with a katana. Which means these guys were prepared for that accusation. They were READY for it. Called it "fuckin' disgusting" that gravbender would even dream to think that maybe, just maybe they were attacking Nate because of his skin. Which means that is definitely the area of discussion they wanted us to go towards. They deliberately left themselves "wide-open" to that criticism. Which means its a feignt.

Which likely means that that is the planned "deflection channel" they have set up, all their scenarios and pre-scripted behavior is for that line of eventuality. They are prepared to defend against being racists because THEY'RE NOT racists. They are INFILTRATORS from another coin, so they do not mind ONE BIT getting us to spin our wheels over "racism" instead of CALLING THEM OUT FOR BEING FROM OTHER COINS AND DISRUPTING OUR VOTING SYSTEM!

This is why hack always defaults to emotional abuse and NEVER responds to arguments reasonably or rhetorically. Because HE KNOWS he's wrong! So he has to DISTRACT you from that as much as possible.

When people get defensive its nearly impossible to notice things like this (and why neutrality is so powerful because you get to see all of this clear as day), that is what these MNO-cabal members are attempting to take advantage of. They are trying to "Trojan Horse" us by being a "poison pill" that we take now when we're growing so they can MISDIRECT US into paying strippers and drug addicts INSTEAD of the teams that want to work to spread Dash Digital Cash!

In other words, they are relying on CYNICISM to emotionally TORTURE the Dash network and community into NOT FUNDING OUR GROWTH! They are doing this because they are BUTTHURT that our coin is superior to there's and can survive the bear market and continue to grow while they slowly suffocate. So they use what clout, time and abilities they have to LIE AND FUD OUR TEAMS! Some more direct quotes from liars attempting to cynically discount DashAfrica's work and get this team defunded:

In response to the idea that quantumexplorer, head of mobile dev for Dash Core Group, gave his explicit stamp of approval on the DashNepsium proposal, xkcd cynically replied:

First up, let's ignore DCG, they told the MNOS how important ALT36 was and sheilded (sic) them from DW and it all went to pure shit, so DCG has a cross against their name and we won't ever take anything they endorse at their word, next stop spamming this crap!"

Wow, really? Firstly I haven't posted in the discord in about a month, I only have time to come around when voting is hottest near the end of the cycle. So this was definitely not me "spamming" anything, I was just arguing for DashAfrica in the MNO channel, but Xkcd didn't want the others to see that it seems. Secondly, NOTICE HOW DESPERATE he is to take away any and all clout and praise from DashNigeria?!

All of the sudden, DCG can't be trusted now. So I guess we should defund them too huh? This is what happens when you allow IRRATIONAL LIARS into your network. They just keep SPOUTING THE PARTY LINE until their agenda (our destruction) is complete. Then they'll disappear (or laugh on twitter, "see? your coin wasnt that good after all, hrmph!" Just like children.

Xkcd lying and using emotional abuse (hot-and-cold) to justify defunding a performant DAO:

"xkcd Today at 13:26
I will scroll up soon and read the links you posetd and refute them too, believe me I want to support nathaniel, he is a swell guy, he just isn't making the progress we'd hoped he would. It's been a long run, he's had a good go of it, but it seems like it might be time to sunset his work."

Wow. Also take note that xkcd NEVER SOURCED this argument. He never provided evidence. This is actually SAF which is against the rules. Guess who was admonished for "violating" SAF by calling this behavior malicious (which it obviously is)? Yep, me. This proves that they are all working together to attack our growth in Africa.

They are attempting AND SUCCEEDING in pulling off a "civility attack" where they are nice to your face (unless you're doing things and growing in ways that are out of their control), while they ARE STABBING YOU IN THE BACK and hiding like COWARDS in MNO instead of bringing their reasonings against Nate here to his proposal. Nate has 124 no votes with NO FEEDBACK! This is not how the DAO is supposed to work and it proves we have a conflict of interest/infiltrated masternode problem, and its time we acted accordingly.

Thanks for your support.

Thanks for your efforts!

A strong yes from me. I strongly believe that the seeds we have been planting with our Nigerian team will bare excellent fruit in the future.

I concur completely.

Thanks for your support.

Strong NO from this MNO, I bet after the 117 DASH x 3 there won't even be a desk, this is a complete waste of money, we will see nothing for it. Adoption efforts in the region have been futile, the PO is unable to post evidence of any adoption to date, COVID-19 is ravaging the continent and is accelerating, mingling and meetups are not going to happen. Please MNOs wake the fudge up and stop peeing away your investment for nothing.

Which Continent the Covid19 ravage ?

Strong negativity directed at one of our best teams? What does COVID-19 have to do with it anyways? It's ravaged every continent. If Dash is going to succeed in making it as a currency alternative, it isn't going to be adopted by those with access to functional fiat, but by those places where, even using the dollar is bogged down in friction due to the lack of banking services. Nathaniel has been Dash's Nigerian tiger, a man on a mission for YEARS now. I think he and his team deserve a little respect by this point.

1) How many people in team please?

2) I would be interested in some feedback from some of integrations, pertaining to actual use and Dash volume.

Hi Criticalinput,

1. 3 full time and 2 part time. Our work has been greatly increased to cover the Dash Africa Desk, Book translation and review, and several others listed in the proposal.

2. We're currently still in the promotional phase for some of our integrations like Bitfxt, Naijacrypto and Gigalayer. We had to slow down as we were short on funds for promotions.

My personal communication with them show that there's increased usage of Dash on the platforms. For instance, Naijacrypto needed more liquidity for Dash since March and we worked with them to get a bigger liquidity provider. The deal was sealed some days ago and will be launched next week.

(Usually, partners charge 5 - 6 figures for liquidity but we got this figured out at no cost).

Thanks.