Welcome!

Can you share your past achievements on the same ground with other projects and reports?
Where can we find you on social?

Good afternoon, I'm not a freelancer; I was working as a news editor. I'll be making a report at the end of next week. I've already published a couple of news items about Dash.

Yeah, it would be good to know who they’ve worked with before and what results they’ve achieved.

I agree.

Do you have a MN?

Also, have you asked this of the "DashGrowth" proposal?

The PO is totally new here. No past experience, no numbers, no nothing. I think MNOs have learnt from past experience. DashGrowth is well known for the community and you can see and follow what it does. Full stop.

If you really thought that, then you wouldn't support 'DashGrowth'. Joel has NO past experience, not of getting adoption anyway, DashForce, DashNews, DashGrowth, ALL failures with no numbers, no nothing.

I think MNOs are ready for a change, someone who's not corrupt sitting around waffling online pretending to work. The only thing you can see from DashGrowth is that it doesn't work. How many years of 500 Dash per month has Joel gotten and what? Nothing! You are being preposterous in your comment here.

You are forgetting your one-liner. At least be consistent.

Trolling aside, this argument is more important than verifying if splawik, who I vaguely remember, has a MN. Btw, trolling is inappropriate for these discussion forums, just FYI.

If you really care about 'being consistent' you should focus less on trolling me and more on replying to my responses that you ran away from. At least be consistent.

I don’t offer freelance services — I was in-house News Editor at ReadWrite, running outlet blasts
I’ve followed Dash ~5 years, run my own masternode
Your project excites me — I’ll organize the full rollout with my media/dev contacts.

I can set up a Slack team where everyone can chime in on which articles to push and what exact text to include in the promotion.

And we’ll get to know each other better along the way.

This is a very good proposal :)

@PO Just ignore both of the dickheads qwizzie & lysergic, we see they are trashing almost every well-meaning proposal and should go screw themselves.

Finally someone that actually spells my name correct and thank you for mentioning me. I sincerely hope i will live up to your expectation of 'dickhead', i will give it my all.

By responding to this non-MNO, you yourself are guilty of 'derailing' this budget proposal and filling it with nonsense, proving that you are fine being a hypocrite.

Nah, he is fine, you OTOH are not.

Thank you for your opinion. However, your opinion has proven to be bought and paid for, and you rely on trolling, emotional torture and gaslighting in these debates. Not to mention you two are likely part of a paid cabal to attack anyone who 'gets in your way'. Which means you are projecting. YOU are the one who is not fine.

This is absurd! Do you even read back your comments before posting them?

You are not denying the accusation, which is what's actually absurd. You think your incredulous response is a substitute for an actual response denying that you are corrupt. Which means you're the one being abusrd.

Be aware, this user is not a MNO and their comments should not be taken seriously.

If truth be told, does it really matter from who it's coming?

qwizzie & lysergic have perhaps 2 pathetic votes combined and try to influence how everyone else votes.
We should wipe our asses with their opinions.

Tut Tut !

It does matter. This place is for MNOs to discuss our business. By you posting here, you are subverting the will of the DAO, attempting to force us to 'deal with disrespect' so you can gain power over the DAO and spread false narratives, regardless of the truth/falsehood of your current comments. 2 votes is enough to comment here and influence other MNOs. 0 votes is not.

The badge means nothing. Half of the usernames with a badge are no longer MNOs.

So you're saying that this place should just be a free-for-all and the will of the DAO doesn't matter? But tekken, if you really believe that, then why are you here?

Incorrect. Dash Central is for discussions between MNO's + Budget proposal owners + whitelisted persons by the Dash Central team. That has always been the case (10 years now). If you don't like it, take it up with rango and his team that own Dash Central. Frankly if you have such an issue with it, you should have contacted them many many years ago. I guess it does not help that nobody is taking you serious these days.

But by all means continue with your efforts to derail every single budget proposal with your silly one liners 'Are you a MNO ?' to whitelisted persons that take the effort to comment on Dash Central, be the Don Quixote among us .. it suits you.

Incorrect. Dash Central is for discussions between MNOs + Budget Proposal owners. You may not remember, but we MNOs explicited asked Rango to limit commenting to these groups some years ago. There was quite a lot of trolling in the past with POs, and 'whitelisted individuals' without MNs trolling on proposals, making comments that were untoward and generally messing things up. It was so bad that we MNOs requested Rango make it stop by limiting commenting to MNOs and POs ONLY.

See "trustlessmoney"'s reply in this thread for verification:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dashpay/comments/87amlb/be_vigilant_and_highly_aware_our_trolls_have/

>TrustlessMoney
8y ago

>Great post, as a member on DashCentral, proposal reviewing, has once again become a much smoother process ! Frankly if you have such an issue with it, you should have contacted them many many years ago.

>If you don't like it, take it up with rango and his team that own Dash Central

This has already happened, 8 years ago. You are out of date.

>I guess it does not help that nobody is taking you serious these days.

Speaking for other people is dishonest. I have been thanked several times for my comments by other MNOs. Thank you for proving that you are dishonest.

>But by all means continue with your efforts to derail every single budget proposal with your silly one liners 'Are you a MNO ?'

Its not derailing, its the will of the MNOs. Why would you want NON-MNOs to be able to comment here, just because 'Rango said its okay'? The point of the treasury is for THE STAKEHOLDERS OF THE NETWORK to voice our opinions on who should get funding.

Non-stakeholders shouldn't have a say, just like the janitor of your building doesn't get a say in a C-Suite meeting. You are undermining that for NO GOOD REASON except just because you're paid to attack me, proving that you're dishonest and have betrayed the DAO.

It was so bad that we MNOs requested Rango make it stop by limiting commenting to MNOs and POs ONLY.

No. That was just you posting something about this in the shoutbox of Dash Central and Rango ignoring you.

Btw, even if what you said were true (and its not), Rango doesn't have the right to ignore me or any other members of the DAO. He literally works for us. He's paid both by donations as well as DAO funding, so him 'ignoring' one of his sponsors is a huge red-flag and evidence that he has been compromised.

So thank you once again for validating one of my arguments, you're being pretty helpful today!

You're in a fantasy! Do snap out of it !

You are talking to yourself, do stop that!

Thank you for admitting I am correct in my view of the DAO by not responding to my claims in your reply.

No, not true. I wasn't the one who made the request initially and it wasn't in the shoutbox. It was on proposals themselves and many other MNOs made the call.

These two are separate lines:

>Great post, as a member on DashCentral, proposal reviewing, has once again become a much smoother process !

"Frankly if you have such an issue with it, you should have contacted them many many years ago."

Could you please give me more details about the media outlets - list them one by one?
What exactly do you mean by “popular news sites”? Are they local or global?

Will these publications also appear on the media’s social media pages?

And one more thing - why are you asking for a budget for three months upfront? It would be better to split it into parts and report on results each month.

Do you have a Masternode?

The way i see it : this budget proposal starts not this superblock, it starts with the next superblock (6th of December 2025). So proposal owner has plenty of time to provide some examples of his previous work in the Marketing & PR business, to convince people to support his budget proposal.

That also gives MNO's plenty of time to think about this, before voting on it.

I'll make a couple of real articles for Dash and add them to the end of the topic.

That's what the hatching chick means on the MNOwatch leaderboard https://mnowatch.org/leaderboard/?20251030214003 However, it is still a NO from me due to my valid concerns about this PO being a no name, not coordinating with Dash.Growth, not acknowledging their progress and not going through escrow, etc etc.

This is absurd. There is no stipulation that adoption/growth proposals need to 'check in' with Joel or DashGrowth before being funded. Its obvious that you and your cabal are trying to corner the market on DAO funds like some sort of mafia. Why should a completely separate proposal be forced to 'acknowledge DashGrowth's progress'? That is a completely stupid requirement that isn't part of anything related to what's best for the DAO. It is clear that you are corrupt and DashGrowth is too.

Or maybe it does need to be decided during this current voting period (i still find the proposal system confusing in that regard), at which case proposal owner has just 18 days to make his case.

Why two months? Try getting funding for one month and show results. Please show me your portfolio; I'm interested in what projects you've promoted.

I see errors in your description; I see that you don't fully understand what you're promoting (in particular, "Platform for dApps"—the platform doesn't have a virtual machine).

I ask, do you hold DashGrowth to the same standard? Because we haven't seen any results from that proposal for years now...

> Because we haven't seen any results from that proposal for years now...

Absolute lies! Dash.Growth attained media placement with our Market Across venture, and BraveAds and recently, we hit a million views on X with our road to three billion story. What a humiliating defeat for you @therealDashman21 I hope it stings just so.

yes

Well then, thank you for your service.

I agree with lysergic. Voting No.

This is absurd. There is no stipulation that adoption/growth proposals need to 'check in' with Joel or DashGrowth before being funded. Its obvious that you and your cabal are trying to corner the market on DAO funds like some sort of mafia. Why should a completely separate proposal be forced to 'acknowledge DashGrowth's progress'? That is a completely stupid requirement that isn't part of anything related to what's best for the DAO. It is clear that you are corrupt and DashGrowth is too.

I will be voting NO on this proposal for the following reasons.

The PO states under 'rationale' that "Dash media presence: near-zero in 2025" this is bull crap and ignores the Market Across promotion done by Dash.Growth as detailed in their proposal https://www.dashcentral.org/p/dash-growth-q4-2025. Indeed, in addition to the MA placements, Dash.Growth has been running BraveADs and boosting the @dashpay twitter handle to a million views and making waves across various chains. Indeed, results are starting to permeate to the main Discord where enrollments are up, we are also seeing a steady stream of username requests from members in adjacent networks to dash which can be seen here https://dash.vote/ showing that the strategy employed by Dash.Growth is bearing fruit. The PO will win no rewards by being dishonest regarding existing POs, like Dash.Growth, and I consider dissing them a red flag here.

The PO is coming in under a new handle of 'camelot', there are two concerns here, as a new member to the community and as such untrusted, asking for 300 Dash is a bit too high. Recently, key MNOs figures have agreed to abandon the "Spray 'n' Pray" model, in favour of pay later, escrow type systems, where the new PO would need to do the work upfront and then be paid. The PO should seek escrow services of community members, such as myself, Splawik, Joel, or perhaps Latte of DCG. MNOs are unlikely to throw money at anon usernames these days.

Also, the PO has not demonstrated they are at all capable of delivering any of the items they have promised.

The PO should consider instead auditioning for a position within Dash.Growth, to work in that structure and then increase the budget to Dash.Growth, so the network has a unified front, does not double spend on the same initiatives and does not clamor over itself with a confused message coming from two distinct teams that are not singing in harmony.

So, in summary, it is a firm NO from me. I hope the PO takes these comments onboard and has more success in the future.

Be aware, that this user is likely part of a secret cabal working to limit Dash's growth and adoption while siphoning all 'adoption proposals' to that cabal (made up of Joel et al) in order to 'corner the market' on adoption and growth.

Lysergic and this cabal are ALLERGIC to anyone else receiving any money for adoption efforts, so that they can't outshine Joel's piddling efforts at 'adoption'. Joel has been getting 500 Dash a month FOR YEARS, and we haven't seen any growth, nor any evidence that the username increase comes from his efforts (ever since platform released there has been steady growth in usernames).

You should consider his 'strong support for DashGrowth' evidence that he is likely paid by them to vote their way and shutout other POs from competing on adoption and 'outshining DashGrowth', and thus this comment should be stricken from your consideration of this proposal.

All lies from you and paranoid conjecture. I not in any 'cabal', there is no cabal, no one is paid to have an opinion here, Joel's Growth proposal is bearing fruit, you can see it yourself. It is only logical that MNOs shoot down a no-name PO asking for a heap, with no track record, who has already displayed ignorance in the OP text, could you be more naive and hateful?

Not lies, and not paranoid and not conjecture. You all REPEATEDLY coordinated attacks against Latam adoption proposals FOR NO GOOD REASON even though they had STELLAR adoption numbers. You all REPEATEDLY try to FORCE 'DashGrowth' on the network, you even stated above 'voting no since they won't acknowledge DashGrowth', like wtf?

That is clearly corrupt behavior, and the fact that you all use the same talking points and attacks against me across venues (here and on the discord) strongly indicates that you are coordinating your moves and talking points, which is all that's required for a cabal to exist.

You cannot see anything for yourself. There's no proof that the 'DashGrowth' proposal is bearing any fruit at all, its been there for A YEAR AND THEN SOME and there was no change, no growth in adoption. You are just SELFISHLY CLAIMING things that haven't been proven BECAUSE YOU ARE A LIAR.

Why would MNOs 'shoot down' anyone that hasn't proven to have failed? You are trying to reverse the burdern of proof in a form of TRICKERY, i.e. where you greenlight the corrupt DashGrowth proposal while ATTACKING proposals that haven't been proven to be corrupt. In this way, you limit all adoption efforts to JOEL and DashGrowth even though THAT'S NOT IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE DAO.

The best interests of the DAO lie in **multiple**, **DECENTRALIZED**, **DIFFERENT** adoption proposals all over the world working independently to gain adoption for DASH, not to give clout to Joel. The fact that you are trying to limit DAO funds in this way PROVES that it is YOU that is being naive and hateful, attacking anyone who isn't part of your corrupt little clique.

The only reason anyone would do this is because they are paid to do so, which means I am most likely correct, you are part of a cabal seeking to corner the market on DAO funds, turn Dash into a corrupt and ineffective cryptocurrency all so you can pretend to win against me and anyone who stands in your way.

Which means you are projecting and should definitely be banned from the network. Don't worry, thanks to you we will soon have means of punishing MNOs who behave in bad ways just like you're doing now, so thank you for your help in making the DAO better.

I’m not part of any one group, but I have the technical skills to handle promotion and the right connections who can jump in to help. About me: I’m a passionate gamer, crypto investor, and the go-to second-in-command for my tech friends when it comes to pushing articles. I know the entire process inside out.

Why don't you join the Dash.Growth team? Why should the network fund another no-name startup and just hope and pray you don't fuck it up, or simply run with the money?

I appreciate your clarification and background history, thank you for your proposal and your clarifying comments. I would like to note, when I said "this user is likely part of a secret cabal" I was referring to the user Lysergic, and not you.

Thanks again and I hope your proposal passes (I'll be voting yes for it)!

This is absurd, how the hell do you know Camelot is not part of a cabal? We literally know nothing about this entity and here you are falling over yourself to fund this guy because of your unquenchable hate for Joel and anyone who recognizes the work he does. Shame on you for being so dishonest and working against the DAO.

What's absurd is you assuming everyone but the people who have clearly evidenced themselves as part of the cabal is part of the cabal. I only go based on evidence, I don't make speculative accusations. They could be part of the cabal, but they also could NOT be. You are FOR SURE part of the cabal, however, due to your history of abusing the DAO, TROLLING, LYING ABOUT GOOD PROPOSALS and attacking others without just cause.

Funding someone who claims to want to gain adoption is WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR, are you even reading what you post? YOU ARE SUPPOSED to pay people who have good ideas to gain adoption, only AFTER THEY FAIL are you supposed to doubt them. You would know this if you weren't paid to "look the other way" when Joel and all your fellow cabal members fail, while attacking those who might outshine them.

I don't have any 'hatred' for Joel, I have GRIFTING, LAZINESS AND LYING! What has Joel done for the network?? Hundreds of thousands of dollars given to him and NO RESULTS FOR YEARS! Shame on you for projecting your dishonesty onto me and working against the DAO by LYING against good actors, and looking the other way for bad ones.

I think proposal owner is confusing Dash for a privacy-centric coin like Monero and Zcash and is unaware of the Dash developments over the years with regards to Dash Platform and its use cases that needs a different kind of marketing alltogether.

We just got a Platform release that upon activation in a few weeks will give us the necessary SDK tools that developers need to start building dApps and tokens on the Platform chain. We need to heavily start promoting and marketing this, so we can attract both more users and dApp developers.

Untill Dash actually get Confidential Transactions merged into its codebase (which will also need specific marketing and promotion) i think we should focus less on positioning Dash as “the practical privacy coin” and focus more on Dash Platform and its new use cases. Specially since so much budget funding has been put into this over the years.

Thanks for the feedback — you're 100% right to focus on Dash Platform. I’m fully aware of the ongoing developments and the massive treasury investment over the years. Dash Platform is live, production-ready, and the future of the ecosystem — and it’s time to tell the world. This proposal was updated and center everything on Platform adoption.

Thank you.

Please see my above comment.

Both of the following statements are false for the reasons I state below:

1. >"I think proposal owner is confusing Dash for a privacy-centric coin like Monero and Zcash "

Dash is currently the strongest privacy coin with an anonymity set size of 41 million @16 rounds of mixing, Zec only has an anonymity set size of roughly 5 million, while XMR only has an anonymity set size of 4 (according to their own subreddit). Dash is therefore a stronger privacy coin than either Zec or XMR.

2. >"Untill Dash actually get Confidential Transactions merged into its codebase (which will also need specific marketing and promotion) i think we should focus less on positioning Dash as “the practical privacy coin”"

This is also false. Confidential transactions doesn't work as a technology, which is why Monero is dumping it in their FCMP++ upgrade. Confidential transactions left XMR open to two forms of attack: timing analysis attacks as well as amount analysis attacks. Currently, Dash coinjoin separates mixing from sending and hides amounts using common denominations, making Dash coinJoin a form of ZK-proof, i.e. there is zero-knowledge required in order for you to get your coins mixed, you just know that they're mixed.

Confidential transactions removes these protections by 'mixing' at the time of spending and removing common denominations and relying on 'encryption instead'. Even if the encryption isn't broken, there are statistical and other attacks that can trace confidential transactions, as such, Dash is indeed currently the most practical privacy coin and your statement is in error.

It seems you are doubling down on this talking point without responding to feedback, which indicates that your position is not an honest one, but is likely paid promotion, probably from Joel or "Powerup Privacy" which is a Monero-based organization. If you think that Dash should be closer and friendlier to Monero, you owe it to the network to explain why and what's changed.

What are you mumbling about now ? privacy-centric = only 1 use case --> privacy (Monero, Zcash).

Dash has far more use cases then that single privacy use case and is therefore not privacy-centric : instant transactions that are instantly locked against doublespending / instantly spendable by receiver, optional privacy through CoinJoin, Platform use cases (Dash blockchain usernames, Decentralized data-type driven dApps of which the meta data can be stored on Evonodes, decentralized api), ROI use cases (masternodes / evonodes can gather passive income for its owners)

Well that's your definition. Dash was started to add privacy to BTC, the definition of 'centric' is as follows:

"Situated at or near the center; central. Having a center. " Which means that your definition is not correct. You can be 'privacy-centric' without only having '1 use-case'. What's more, ZEC has more than one use case, transparent transactions are and always have been a thing, so even there your definition fails and falls flat on its face.

My response to your post is therefore that your definition of 'privacy-centric' is incorrect and thus your characterization of Dash, ZEC and XMR is also incorrect.

So what other use case does XMR have beside privacy ?

Irrelevant question as you defined 'privacy-centric' as 'only 1 use case'. That definition is not correct and Zec is the only counterexample necessary to prove that is the case. Which means your definition is wrong and so is the rest of your post.

So for me it is a NO to 'make Dash the privacy narrative in 2026'.
The narrative should most definetely (in my opinion) be about Dash Platform in 2026.

the focus should be universal: digital cash, privacy Coin, powerful Platform, and all Dash strengths together.

Beware, that this user is part of a 'group' that works together to promote false narratives like the ones I explained above. As such you're not going to get him to budge, even though Dash is obviously a strong privacy coin, his group has likely been paid by the Monero community to promote their talking points in our DAO to corrupt discussions and control the narrative on privacy coins.

Notice that he promotes Confidential Transactions, which is a Monero technology, as well as the false notion that 'Dash is not a privacy coin'. Both of these are Monero-based talking points that have little to actually do with Dash.

Ok. Thanks!

You're very welcome :)

Such a silly spam troll

You have to prove that what I'm saying is spam/trolling. Spam is unsolicited promotional material, trolling is emotionally charged posting for profit or fun. Neither of which I'm doing, and BOTH OF WHICH you are doing by repeating this false accusation without any proof.

Thank you for proving that you're a hypocrite, and thank you for tacitly acknowledging/admitting to my accusation by refusing to respond to it in your reply.

I just want to further expound on this:

"As such you're not going to get him to budge, even though Dash is obviously a strong privacy coin"

Whether or not you're a 'privacy coin' depends simply on one thing: do you offer your users privacy in their transactions? If the answer is yes, then you are by definition a privacy coin.

Holding that contingent upon 'adding confidential transactions to the codebase' when Dash's first innovation was privateSend more than ten years ago, is therefore a laughable contention to make. And to boot, 'confidential transactions' are a dubious privacy technology, with a long history of deanonymizing its users due to flaws they open up.

Qwizzie, thedesertlynx, lysergic, and all those I argued against and defeated in the thunderdome appear to desire to bury their heads in the sand and just run with this false, Monero-based narrative. Monero has said that 'Dash is not a real privacy coin' for years and pointed to a misinterpretation of a DCG tweet as proof.

That tweet was merely saying that Dash's privacy is technically the same thing as privacy on BTC, i.e. coinjoin and thus Dash is not really a 'privacy coin' aka a coin developed specifically for privacy in that its just Bitcoin, which was developed and deployed for TRANSPARENCY. But to use this as an argument that Dash isn't a privacy coin is just incorrect as privacy coins are coins that provide private transactions to their users.

Dash has done that for years with its strong coinjoin offering, and Dash is literally the ONLY privacy coin out there that hasn't been traced, tracked or had to shut their privacy down due to bugs or other issues (PIVX and ZEC had to shut their privacy off TWICE due to bugs in implementation not to mention XMR being traceable FOR YEARS since its release in several different ways).

But why? Why are they doing this? Why are they obviously and blatantly lying about the coin their supposed to serve? Well, I hate to toot my own horn, but it appears that the reason they're doing this is **to push me out of the network**.

Since I spent 7 years defeating and destroying Monero (to the point where nobody cares about it now, they couldn't successfully pull off their 2023 exit scam like Charlie Lee did for LTC and they've lost the privacy narrative), they seem to believe that by forming a 'secret detente' with Monero, they can frustrate me and force me to quit the network. By working to undo all that I've done for Dash in attacking Monero, Dash's ardent competition, they seek to get me to 'give up and ragequit' so that they'll have Dash all to themselves.

Joel did similar things to the discord 7 years ago, he split the discord into two based on some garbage drama surrounding Ben Swann and his defunding, and eventually the opposing Discord shut down and now only his discord remains, where he has free reign to manipulate and set narratives as he likes. I oppose such moves as being against the DAO and against decentralization.

There is more evidence this is targeted towards me; they worked TIRELESSLY to attack, malign and destroy all the adoption proposals that I supported (to this day they still lie about them and use them as a nipple-twist against me, read xkai's arguments in the thunderdome, where I defeated him on this very point), like the DashLaTam proposals, DashHaiti, DashNigeria, they infiltrated the last two and turned them against me.

They also DDOS'ed my masternode for years (only Rango/Dashcentral knew which node was mine, and xkAI was forced to admit that he was part of the group that DDOS'ed my node), and most recently when I was in the thunderdome, they all ganged up on me, tried to emotionally trigger me to break the rules so that they could ban me etc. etc.

This is a campaign of targeted harassment against me personally, because I stand against Monero and all that Monero stands for, i.e. lying, gaslighting, trickery and other devious techniques. So just be warned, that these individuals are attempting to destroy and take over the DAO by removing its decentralization and turning Dash into their own private fiefdom. They don't mind riding it down to ZERO pricewise, as that makes the MNOs even more pliable to their emotional torture techniques (as we saw with the recent BRA proposal pushes, 4 PROPOSALS in 2 months!!!)