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Digital Cash Network

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Dash Podcast 154: Robin O'Connell of Uphold

12 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments TheDesertLynx

Robin O'Connell, CRO of crypto broker and Dash strategic partner Uphold, joins the Dash podcast to talk the business of providing that crucial fiat-to-crypto gateway allowing people to move between the two worlds. Also the debut of the CoinTree supe...

Bitcoin Forks Have Millions of Dormant/Lost Coins Raising Market Capitalization Questions

11 Sep 2020 2 minute read 3 comments TheDesertLynx

Over 23% of the coin supply of the major Bitcoin forks has not moved in the past five years. These may indicate irrecoverable coins, which may increase Bitcoin's scarcity and can raise questions as to the relevance of prominent market capitalization...

Dash Debuts FastPass Trading Ecosystem of Partners Leveraging Instant Transactions

10 Sep 2020 2 minute read 5 comments TheDesertLynx

Dash has debuted FastPass, a network of ecosystem partners dedicated to trading which leverage Dash's special features of InstantSend and ChainLocks. The FastPass designation is intended to denote services where users can expect Dash transactions to...

Pablo Menéndez-Ponte on How to Calculate the Fair Value of Cryptocurrencies

8 Sep 2020 1 minute read 6 comments TheDesertLynx

What is the real value of a cryptocurrency based on actual use, and not speculation. CoinFairValue founder Pablo Menéndez-Ponte comes on the podcast to talk about fair value calculations of cryptocurrencies, which measure economic economic activity...

How Ethical is Advertising in Crypto?

7 Sep 2020 1 minute read 1 comment TheDesertLynx

Cryptocurrency is based on open-source software, much of it developed for free or relying on generous donations. But how ethical is it to use platforms to advertise for products? Is there a way to earn revenue for advertising services while keeping...

Did the Bitcoin Cash Split Accidentally Solve Crypto Governance?

6 Sep 2020 1 minute read 11 comments TheDesertLynx

During recent interviews with Roger Ver and Amaury Séchet on crypto governance as a whole (prompted by the upcoming Bitcoin Cash split), each revealed some insight into what really makes a cryptocurrency's governance system work. Though they disagre...

Amaury Séchet on the Bitcoin Cash Split and IFP and How to Solve Development Funding in Crypto

3 Sep 2020 1 minute read 12 comments TheDesertLynx

Bitcoin ABC lead developer Amaury Séchet comes on the show to explain his side of the possible impending Bitcoin Cash split, as well as talk governance and development funding. We go over the particulars of the Infrastructure Funding Plan (IFP), why...

Crypto Publishing Platform Publish0x Delays Withdrawals Due to Ethereum Fee Spike

3 Sep 2020 2 minute read 3 comments TheDesertLynx

Cryptocurrency-based publishing platform Publish0x has announced a delay to withdrawals for authors, citing spiking Ethereum fees. In an announcement this week, the Publish0x team announced a delay in the weekly withdrawals of earnings to its variou...

Roger Ver on the Bitcoin Cash Split and IFP and How to Solve Governance in Crypto

2 Sep 2020 1 minute read 11 comments TheDesertLynx

Roger Ver of Bitcoin.com fame comes on to talk about Bitcoin ABC's developer funding proposal, the Infrastructure Funding Proposal (IFP), which may cause Bitcoin Cash to split into two separate chains this November. We discussed the merits of the IF...

Why Joe Rogan's Spotify Deal May Be a Huge Mistake

1 Sep 2020 1 minute read 3 comments TheDesertLynx

  Podcasting, standup comedy, and UFC commentating legend Joe Rogan just landed a huge exclusivity deal with Spotify, set to take place by the end of the year. But what could some of the unintended consequences of this be, particularly in exposing h...