Welcome!

The fact remains, here in March 2020, that Thailand is NOT an economy that is experiencing demand for a competing currency.
My suggestion is: to remove the Thailand operations from seeking DAO funding going forward

Great news! DASH Next and PARSIQ are engaging in a strategic partnership to deliver real-time Dash payment notifications through Smart-Triggers for users, automated accounting and reporting for settlement partners, and compliance tools for third-party apps integrating with Dash. See full announcement with details over Parsiq blog link: https://blog.parsiq.io/2020/02/20/parsiq-and-dash-to-bring-real-time-payment-notifications-and-compliance-tools-to-thousands-of-merchants-across-asia/

Great News! Dash Next & PTEx partnership goes in Phase 1 of the Dash price reduction sales plan. 100 Dash will be available at a 10% discount tomorrow. Use this chance to buy in the number 1 payment coin with InstantSend and ChainLocks at a reduced price. More details on the artwork and on ptex.vip.

Dash Next is excited to announce our partnership with the Singaporean digital asset platform Biki.com. Biki is committed to grow Dash usage in new markets to it's 2million registered users and community members mainly in Asia. Dash including it's InstantSend feature are enabled from today onwards as the first step in this partnership. More details here: http://blog.biki.com/biki-com-announces-partnership-with-dash-next/

Hackernoon published great coinstelegram interview with Dash Thailand & Dash Next co-founder Felix Mago. Enjoy the read about Dash's fantastic achievements in Thailand and beyond:

https://hackernoon.com/dashs-development-and-progress-in-thailand-and-beyond-interview-with-dash-thailand-co-founder-sl5q32cl?fbclid=IwAR3vKaOoyyl51Ap3BAmXUpJzk4uP33oPV8DLmmh2aBGmaeFJ9XZowsA49dg

We are delighted to announce that Dash Next has partnered with PTEx, a Leading Global Real Estate Trading Platform. Dash got listed on PTEx.vip as the first step in this partnership with DASH/USDT & DASH/BTC trading pairs. As a next step PTEx intends to make it easy for everyone to invest overseas and will offer TOKENZIED Thailand properties or land projects which have either fixed annual rental or high price appreciation with Dash over ptohome.com soon. Stay tuned for more, and check out the platform here: https://ptex.vip or join their TG: http://t.me/PTExEN.

Good luck guys, support your work, still a tight budget cycle, if you don't make it into funding, please resubmit at a lower ask with Dash price rising.

Thanks a lot for the support and the comment. Let's keep the fingers cross. Price increase is coming at the right time as we did not receive a funding last month and we had a super tight budget already as we did not want to overwhelm the treasury during the low price of Dash.

Dash Thailand Founder Felix Mago is a complete non- technical hand. His qualification is in.. wait for it.. political science!

Why are we paying huge salaries to liberal arts guys when we need to double down on the tech. It is ridiculous These embassy proposals + dash force news are a complete waste of money and should not be given a cent going forward.

Dash Thailand PO's are paying themselves 100 Dash Salaries Each and using treasury funds to live a lifestyle of luxury, drinks and parties. Everyone knows that there is demand for dash in thailand with such a stable currency.

Since they know the chances of dash adoption in thailand are zero, these guys have been trying to take credit for exchange listings that happen automatically. This proposal is a complete waste of waste of money.

You are a vile troll, I think this has gone long enough, comments are reserved for MNOs and people bringing value to Dash (generally POs). Can you explain what you have done for this project and why you should have a voice here?

@quantumexplorer You should first give a proper answer to what happened to the $300,000 you took from the treasury and either kept it or wasted it. Being an old timer doesnt make you exempt from performance standards.

Your comments getting more and more ridiculous and your accusations could not be more wrong!

We are 3 PO's and we had in the whole time never less than 4 full time people + freelancers and part time employees on Dash Thailand and Dash Next.
Even if we had no other costs then salaries 100 Dash for each PO is simply not possible. Please just get a calculator and do not steal our time!

This month we did not get any funding, and the PO's have to cover all salaries as well as all running costs out of their own pockets . Last month we got around 10k USD for the full team salaries and all running costs any operation and registered company is having. Ohh yes what a luxurious lifestyle. No one of our team would normally work for such low amounts if we would not believe in Dash Thailand & Dash Next!

You say no Dash adoption in Thailand. Anypay statistics prove you wrong as we are for many consecutive month in the top 3 around the world!

The other thing you seriously believe that integrations happening automatically?
Did you ever work in a company your whole life or run any?
Every company has biz dev teams but you believe they are not needed, that is very revolutionary and shows that you have no plan at all!
We also proved to DW that every integration we announced came through us and only happened because of our integration support!

With your wrong accusations your only goal is to harm Dash.
Hiding behind fake identities to probably push other projects in competition to Dash!

We hope that no one fall in your trap!

Are you saying that an exchange that has a 100 trash Coins listed has never heard of Dash? Or that you have somehow convinced them to integrate dash? This is an unbelievable claim.. You are claiming credit for things that happen automatically.

Whatever the founding team is, it is just splitting up the money as thailand is one of the cheapest countries. There is no need for Dash in Thailand. The currency is stable and works everywhere. Claiming credit for all of Thailands transactions is a complete exaggeration and people can judge for themselves how much to believe your exaggerated claims.

All I can see you that you think nothing of wasting dash money on trips and parties which doesnt add any value to dash.

You have no idea what you are talking about. All the shit coins you mentioned paying a shit lot of money to get listed on the exchanges.

DEAR COMMUNITY , MNO's etc. WE ARE NOT ANSWERING THIS ACCOUNT ANYMORE AS WE ARE SURE THAT THIS ACCOUNT AND HIS MULTIPLE FAKE ACCOUNTS ONLY GOAL IS TO MANIPULATE THE DASH COMMUNITY. PLEASE READ ALL HIS COMMENTS AND OUR ANSWERS! THANKS FOR UNDERSTANDING

Exciting news to launch the New Year! We are delighted to announce that Dash Next is partnering with RightBTC, a Top 20 Exchange on Coinmarketcap. RightBTC currently offers Spot Trading and a Savings Account with annual interest rates close to 6% while allowing immediate transfer options.

Dash will be listed on RightBTC as the first step in this partnership: DASH/USDT & DASH/BTC. Stay tuned for more, and check out the platform here: https://rightbtc.com/ or https://rightbtc.pro/

Thanks a lot for a great 2019 to all MNO’s, PO’s, Dash Coworking members, Developers, Dash Next Partners and the Dash communities and fans around the world. Especially to all the Dashers based in Thailand or visited us here over the year and helped to grow our Dash merchant ecosystem. Much love and let's get ready for an evolutionary 2020!

we don't need any more exchange or merchant integration, if there is demand, merchant and exchanges will do it for their customers. paying them to get integrated would not help dash adoption at all.

We never paid any money to exchanges to list Dash.

but the DAO is paying Dash Thailand Team to pursue these integrations. DAO money is being spent, that ie. might not be getting a positive ROI

We are hearing your criticism on merchant on-boarding and integrations. But can you please also share what is in your eyes a proposal for a better ROI?

So till you find something useful to do with the money, you still want the money to keep coming in ?

Valid point. Not to forget how Dash Thailand is wasting treasury money on booze, travelling around the world and parties. Egregious waste of resources.

I would like to inform people that this did not get funding for December sadly as it missed the cutoff by a few votes.

DashCentral said It got funded:
a) the message at the top of the budget page for the few days when the voting ended was that 5200 got paid out
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It didn't get funding.

No we unfortunately got unfunded due to the last votes coming in just a couple of minutes too late.

Frankly defunded for very good reason.

This team has been wasting DAO money on parties and booze and claiming credit for integrations that organically happened. If they came back with a slim proposal, it might have a chance of passing but if they going to scam the treasury for personal entertainment, then that wont happen.

Ignore this troll who is constantly lying to get proposals defunded.

For a man who has scammed $300,000 from the treasury himself, I am not surprised that he is choosing to support wasting treasury money on booze and parties for the thailand embassy.

Check out quantumexplorer's proposal
https://www.dashcentral.org/p/internshipsDashThailand where he stole the money and gave no update on progress or output.

how would Jorge from Dash Valencia Spain know this info^? (https://www.dashcentral.org/p/DashImpulseVenezuela see comments that ValenciaDash is Jorge from Dash Valencia Spain)

You are a vile person. For one, I am the person who chose Dash's name, I also worked as a volunteer for years. At the time were were giving millions of dollars to MMA sponsorships and other things that I didn't really agree with. I believed and still believe that research is the way forward with things. For that proposal we did our best and were in constant communication with Dashwatch. In a subsequent passing proposal I asked the community to downvote our second proposal since it only was funded on it's second month and as I personally decided that it was too much for me to take on. I also always worked free of charge and never took a cent from that proposal, I even lost money in the end as some obligations were needed that I paid out of pocket for. I'm sure Dashwatch has the numbers to back all of these things up.

As for our work there were papers produced. I shared one of them in the MNO channel and can do it again. I would prefer not to make it so readily available until we can use it for our own project.

quantum: how was 300k usd paid out and you never took a cent + needed even to pay some expenses out of pocket? What on earth happened?

It's simple, a company that was the recipient of those funds, hired people to work based on what was promised to the network, and in turn got an internship program going. All money went to salaries (Up to 6k/month - I didn't take one), intern compensation, infrastructure costs as well as some legal fees and office space. The Dash was also not sold at 300k as we were paying people in Dash solely. When the money dried up I still had a contract for office space, that I paid for out of pocket for a few extra months. I let anyone working in Dash use it during that time.

He basically trashed or pocketed $300k worth of Dash for no results. People are fired for a lot less.

If the price of Dash is 600 at the time of payout, and then goes to 150-250 during the project how much funds do you think we had? Also how much do you think the above would cost? With 6 people involved (not counting me) between 3 and 6 months (also interns had their rents paid for @700$ per month per intern - higher because of short time contracts), and all other costs I outlined? Would you care to do a tally here instead of throwing out baseless accusations?

I don't mean to personally attack you but this money went down the drain. In a more professional setup, such waste would not be tolerated no matter how many feeling get hurt.

You called me a scammer, but you don't mean to personally attack me?

You took hundreds of thousands of dollars and wasted it without any result or accounts. It is a shame there is zero accountability and that someone who kept or wasted all that money is the "wronged" one somehow.

We were accountable to Dashwatch. Also why do you think it was a waste, because you personally don't understand what we did, or because the price of Dash didn't go up as a result? Those results won't be apparent immediately but in time when we get there should lead to optimizations saving the MN network millions of dollars in cpu costs over time.

I also don't feel wronged in anyway except by you, I feel like someone pretty incompetent who hasn't done anything for this project is calling someone who has done a lot for it a scammer.

We did some "work" that cost hundreds of thousands. Nobody knows anything about it but it will save unspecified amount of money in the future. Amazing accountability.

Be extremely wary of this team

- They have claimed an integration with Celcius and on investigation it was found that dash was integrated not because of "Dash Thailand" but on their own initiative and fraud exposed.

- The mystery shopping report shows that most locations they claim dont work with dash

- When they are criticised for demanding an unreasonable budget and spending it on parties, travelling and alcohol on dao fund they claim that the opposers are trying to "harm dash". Calling out scams benefit dash, dont harm it.

- They have been trying to ingratiate themselves with dash force thinking that will get them votes instead of doing work. See how they splashed out funds on air tickets to attend the convention.

264 dash is a ridiculous amount to spend on an embassy which is why this was defunded. Vote no

Thank you for trolling us non-stop and claim the same stuff over and over. We believe everybody who is reading this realized that you are not interested in constructive communication

- we did a marketing partnership with celsius, verified by DW
- we use the mystery shopping report to improve results (and btw, the tester dis not find locations. We are happy to show them to him)
- travel expenses to conference and alcohol claimed was covered by conference organizers. We came back with many great leads and new partners
- we are talking to DF and streamline efforts in the Dash co-working, together with other teams. No idea what integrating to DF is supposed to mean.

The criticism not constructive for you because you have been milking the treasury for your airline tickets, booze and parties. Why will you be happy with it being pointed out?

You travelled to the convention on DAO money so you can "get along" with the dash force crowd. You have been just wasting dao money on your personal entertainment in a bear market.

Celcius themselves have said that they integrated dash on their own. You have been trying to claim credit for it which has now been exposed as fraud.

Everybody who is reading this has realized how worthless these embassy proposals are which is why you have been defunded for good reason.

You don't read do you? "travel expenses to conference and alcohol claimed was covered by conference organizers".

Stop trolling. If you care about Dash show it with some positive verifiable action. Until then please just stop making posts. You are not helping solve the problem, you have become the problem.

Furthermore how can you even say 11k USD for a team a month is scam worthy? It's more job worthy, and they have been doing a job to our network. And if not these guys who would you prefer doing it and why?

Yes from me.

Please read about the fraud perpetrated by this team in Thailand in this mystery shopping report. https://gofile.io/?c=mDv6cD

They also faked credit for the "Celcius Integration" which has now been exposed.

1000's of dash have been rained on these cheats which have been outright misappropriated. Dash watch has also failed to discharge any responsibility and have just been counting free money.

One of the many fraudster PO teams going around.

This is pure trolling, I live half the year in Bangkok and regularly pay in Dash at about 10 merchants. I like how your report doesn't include any specifics about what places paying in Dash didn't work. If you are indeed George maybe you should explain yourself how the MN network spent so much on Colombia only to have almost no places continue to accept Dash after you were defunded. We need to create positive ecosystems where merchants like to take Dash because it brings them more customer. From what I know you got all your merchants to go to BCH and no longer accept Dash, this stab in the back just shows that no one should pay you any heed anymore.

Thanks Quantum, since you actually live there your opinion matters a lot!

Better to burn money than to give it to scammers.

The only scammer here is you and the only purpose of your wrong accusations is to hurt Dash. I hope all Masternodes see through your actions!

Check the discussion on discord where there is clear proof that dash thailand had nothing to do with the celcius integration. Total fraud.

Most of the so called merchants dont care about dash because nobody needs to transact with it there. As for donnelly, that "adoption" project was as much of a scam as merchant adoption is nothing more than a pipe dream at this stage.

All integrations are proven! Stop your wrong accusations!

And our Dash merchant ecosystem in Thailand is working great. People who live here can all proof that.

Law of economics: economies will not switch to a new currency if there is already one being used that is substantially less volatile.

So voters: this Thailand merchant strategy is not going to produce currency adoption results beyond some Dash-enthusiasts paying with Dash @ these merchants.

this.
I stay in Thailand for several years already and I've yet to see a shop accepting even Bitcoin. The only people using cryptocurrencies here are traders who benefit from arbitraging between major exchanges and localbitcoins.com

Firstly, Please look at our successes with Dash Next. The Thailand strategy is just a small (but important) part of our proposal. Secondly, the Thailand strategy is focusing mainly on crypto travellers, digital nomads etc. Dash is a perfect use case for them and they for us.

a) crypto travellers are a very small # for the DAO to be funding Dash Thailand
b) digital nomads mainly just rely on FIAT currency. The % that would have cryptocurrency is small. And the % that would have Dash (and WANT to spend that Dash) specifically is much smaller
c) please consider not coming to the DAO for funding for Dash Thailand next month. Or if so, please consider submitting 1 proposal for NEXT and 1 for Thailand

Hi, the budget mixes together the Dash NEXT and Dash Thailand. Please update the budget in the googledocs file so that it's broken into the separate costs for each

Thanks for the recommendation. We will follow your suggestion for the next proposal we will separate Thailand & Next to avoid any misunderstandings etc.

You are right. Also, 264 dash a month for failed embassy ideas?

These proposal owners have been milking the treasury for parties, travel and hotel stays. They just attended a bash in Malta from these funds. Rest of it is being grabbed for personal compensation.

It will be a shame to waste even a cent more on these embassy ideas which have totally failed.

@ValenciaDash: We are happy about every comment on our work and proposal to improve even more. But it seems you are just trolling and not even read our answers. Beside winning the DAO award in Malta was an amazing value and exposure for Dash the treasury did not even have to pay a cent for it. We explained that to you multiple times.

Pointing out that money is being wasted on airline tickets, hotel stays and parties is trolling?

What have you done precisely to collect this "award"? And who authorised you to travel half way across the world on DAO money?

This embassy proposal is an egregarious waste of dao resources.

Classifying criticism as trolling is poor defence for wasting dao money for personal gain.

@ValenciaDash:

Why you do not want to understand that we have been invited to these conferences? We told you many times that no money is being wasted on airline tickets, hotel stays and parties! understood now?

And you asked us who did authorised us to collect this DAO award for Dash? No one! But we got invited to collect it! And btw you understand that we are a DAO right? Can you tell me please who do you think should authorise us then?

The rest of your accusations are even more ridiculous and also answered too many times!

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Important notice

I have received confirmation from two former teammates of mine, that the Dash Valencia account is managed by George Donelly. So I want to inform the MN community to consider this when reading this account’s comments.

This can also be verified when we consider the DashValencia account appeared only after George was defunded; and if you run any word cloud generator on DashValencia and any of George Donelly comments you will find the language is very much the same.

I do now know exactly the reason for these recent attack on most of Dash proposals, but according to my friends (Who are waiting on George promises to work with BCH) it seems that George wants to get people to fork Dash and create a chain split, or to try to come back later as BCH has not given any funds to him. You can read his own thoughts here https://twitter.com/georgedonnelly/status/1207715240357638146


Regardless of his specific motivation, remember George Donelly -now using the DashValencia account- is doing the one thing he did best during his time in Dash: Destroying other team’s reputation.

please ask Jorge from Valencia, Spain to post on his Twitter what he did with his DashCentral login credentials

Thanks for your comment and this insights. The ValenciaDash account is definitely someone who want to harm Dash and the comments intention is clearly not to improve anything.

I recently saw a video interview with DashThailand/Next and they seem to have a very solid approach, investing the funds effectively & efficiently. I was actually very impressed by that interview and it made me think very positive about DASHs future.

I also saw a video with them showing off the merchants in Bangkok which was very authentic! They claimed to have 100 merchants in Bangkok, which is absolutely enough at the current level of demand!

They seem to have a very deep understanding of what DASH needs to become a succesful P2P money.

I would like to see them getting funded, despite the fact that they are asking for a substantial amount, their results seem to be excellent and I could hardly imagine a better ROI.

@realbitcoinclub: Thanks a lot for this really profound comment and for supporting our proposal.

We have been funding these failed embassy ideas for a long time and they have done nothing for dash. Pause and think what good they have done and their impact on the price.

264 is a huge amount to waste on one embassy and that too thailand, where is literally zero demand to pay with dash.

@ValenciaDash: Thanks again for your comment! But it seems you did not see our answer to your first comment? We reacted very detailed to all your points below. Please have a look. We are also open to discuss the new ideas you mentioned. But you did not answer anything in that regard. We are very open to discuss this ideas of yours as we always listen to community members and try to do the best for Dash. So please answer us on the comment below. I hope you understand that writing new comments or repeatings things does not help to improve anything for Dash. Thanks for your understanding and willingness to push Dash further together.

Do you have a single verifiable metric of the volume of transactions you have been responsible for? I dont see any figure.

264 is far too much for one embassy and I see money being wasted on parties, hotel stays and airfare for attending conferences with little benefit to Dash.

Why are going around collecting "awards"? These make believe awards are completely worthless and not one cent should be wasted on them, let alone getting the treasury to pay for your trips and drinks.

Sadly, this the problem with embassy proposals, money being wasted on personal luxuries for low impact activities.

Yes of course we have verifiable metric of the volume of transactions and we published the figures many times. You can see and get them from Anypay for example (Neutral third party)

To the other points we reacted already in previous comments. And we are very sorry but we are getting the impression that your comments are not for the good of Dash at all. Everyone reading your previous comments and seeing our answers will realise that it does not make sense to discuss with you and that is pretty obvious that your only purpose of commenting is to harm Dash.

These guys are killing it, they listened to the community and moved most resources to Dash Next, and have been consistently delivering on barely any network funds. Not sure what more could be expected.

killing it? suggestion the Thailand portion needs to be removed from DAO funding for 2 specific reasons:
a) Thailand is NOT an economy that is looking to switch to a new currency
b) the demand to pay with Dash in Thailand comes from Dash enthusiasts--which is a very poor ROI for the DAO

@quantaumexplorer : Big amounts were paid to you for thailand internships. Havent heard anything since; I am assuming all the money was wasted without result.

Wow, it's so nice of you to attack everyone. I set out to get interns, write papers and create relationships with schools. I did all 3 of those. For the papers we just aren't yet ready to apply the conclusions on platform. As for relationships with schools, we could easily have another program, but I just can't run it as i'm locked away coding atm. On a side note that probably doesn't matter I never took a penny from any of my proposals either, in fact I ended up dishing out money at the end.

Thanks so much Quantumexplorer. We are very happy about a feedback from someone who really know how hard we work and sees our results so close.

Easy yes from me. I disagree entirely with the negative comments. Networking is important, integrations are important, visibility is important. Thailand is important. You guys have done a great job.

libertyzeal: how is Thailand important given that there is no demand by the Thai economy to switch to a new currency product?

Thanks a lot for your supporting comment and jumping in here. We are always listening to the community, trying to improve day by day and working hard on pushing Dash to the next level. The results and feedback also from outside the community are very good. Happy about every supportive comment here. Thanks so much!

debate: integrations are overrated. That we need use cases where Dash is working better than an existing product consumers are using.

Dash is for payments, this requires integrations. That's why I invested in Dash. That's why I support teams like this.

Can you please explain why do you think integrations are overrated? And what is in your eyes this better working use case you are mentioning? Thanks for your support

a) because: integrations often do not create an increase in purchases of our product
b) I haven't been able to identify a use case where Dash works substantially better than an existing product consumers are using in Thailand

regarding a) It's the chicken and egg problem. to increase the purchase you also need options
regarding b) Tourism, crypto travellers, digital nomads, ...

voters: debate we are better off to stop investing DAO funds into Thailand since Thai consumers have extremely low demand for an alternative payments product such as ours. (The Thai Baht is working is working very satisfactorily for payments)

This is a very valid point.

Please see quantumexplorers comment and read our proposal deeply. You will see that we are focusing mainly on major global integrations, partnerships, biz dev consumer activation, media coverage etc. on different verticals with great results. Dash Thailand is only a small part of of our work, but a very important one as it is a great working ecosystem for locals, crypto travellers and digital nomads, which is an fantastic proof of concept and showcase for us and Dash around the globe.

Question to all MNO

we have had these embassy props going on for 12+ months and how has it impacted our price or integerations we are easentialy paying for shills akin to btc maximalists

All we have seen is negligent integerations which have not helped recover any dash value thats been lost

Will be voting NO on all embassy proposals!

Thanks a lot for your comment as well. As mentioned prior it's very helpful to clear here this obvious misunderstanding. We are for a very long time not a simple embassy proposal anymore. We are not even calling us embassy anymore to avoid misunderstandings. Our proposal is focusing on major integrations, biz dev, partnerships etc. in a scalable way. We are also very unhappy about the current dash price as many of our team members hold their savings in Dash, treasury fundings are very low etc. etc. I think the downsides are too obvious to name them here.

Even if we are not an embassy proposal, can you please explain why do you think the embassy proposals are in your eyes responsible for the current Dash value? Or also what would you have been done to increase Dash value? Very curious to know that as we should share this ideas here to improve it together instead of picking random proposals to down vote them. That was not really successful in the past for Dash price and reputation. We are an DAO and we should use our strength and not down voting hard working proposals based on misunderstandings. Generating new ideas together and driving up Dash price is exactly the reason why we strongly participating in the Dash co-working as described in our proposal. It is also why the Dash teams around the world are working on marketing strategies that attract more Dash usage and provides value propositions for investors. At the end of the day, we are payed in Dash and are directly affected by Dash’s low price and dropping value on CMC. Lets work together, not against each other to change this as we are all sitting in the same boat obviously!

Thanks and looking forward to your input

These embassy projects are a big failure and just a way to sponsor a luxurious lifestyle with air tickets and hotel stays.

I dont know why these people find it appropriate to fly half way across the world on treasury funds to receive "awards" on "behalf of dash" and attend parties. What have these guys done to collect these awards and what good does it do?

These projects have been funded for a long time with little benefit to dash. It is time some new ideas are tried as this is just a big waste of money.

Thanks a lot for your comment. That's very helpful to clear here some obvious misunderstandings. Firstly, we are for a very long time not a simple embassy proposal anymore. We are not even calling us embassy anymore to avoid these misunderstandings. Our proposal is focusing on major integrations, biz dev, partnerships, marketing etc. in a scalable way.

To get these partnerships done, a very efficient and successful way is speaking for and representing Dash at conferences. To make this clear: We are NOT paying for this conferences from treasury funds, We get usually invited to these conferences and even get many times free partnership & marketing packages for Dash. Reason for this free offers are, that Felix Mago has become a well known representative who is recommended even by others in- and outside the Dash Dao to the organizers, which is just one reason why they are even willing to pay most of the times the travel expenses. Instead of calling it a waste of money, these conferences bring in fact massive value for the Dash DAO in exposure, reputation, marketing and - most of all - numerous partnerships, integrations, biz dev etc.
Maybe travelling for a few days, speaking at these conferences and going to networking events is fun, fact is that it is a lot of work, esp. following up after the events. So in fact, it is far away from a luxurious lifestyle.

You are also asking why we are going? The answer is simple, because the conferences reaching out to our team directly as Felix Mago from our team is meanwhile a famous Dash face in the scene and an excellent speaker as well as many people are interested in our Thailand use case and work of Dash NEXT. Everyone knows how important personal and local networks are to drive business. We hope most of the community understands the value of having representatives for Dash on conferences. We are proud of the fact that we get invited for free. It's an absolute no-brainer to go there. For example receiving the DAO Award for Dash was an amazing marketing exposure and very good for Dash's reputation around the globe.

Thirdly you mentioned new ideas which suppose to have more benefits for Dash! Can you please tell us what new ideas do you have? We are very happy to hear them and will of course add them to our multiple existing tasks if possible.

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