The backbone of dash network is it's masternodes that enables faster and higher transaction speed and privacy compared to bitcoin.

     Although, DASH was forked from bitcoin, dash can make further improvements because it operates on a self-governing and self funding model.

    DASH, a mixture of two words 'Digital' and 'cash', was first released on the 18th of January, 2014 as "xcoin" by Evan Duffield - Evan Duffield is a well-known American software developer. Duffield is responsible for creations like the X11 mining algorithm and Dash, a cryptocurrency focused on making instant transactions and with support for anonymous transactions.

    On the 28th of January, 2014 , the name was changed from 'xcoin' to 'Darkcoin' and then finally DASH on the 25th of march 2015. Upon it's release, a bug was introduced when the fork happened, resulting in the mining of 1.9 million dashcoins within the first two days of its release.   1.9 million is about 10% of the total dashcoin that will ever exist. 

                HOW CAN DASH BE USED? 

   Dash can be used to make transaction in a more private and speedy manner, because of these three features : 

• Masternodes
• Private send
• Instant send

   MASTERNODES

  Masternodes acts as special servers for critical function on the dash network. They are responsible for Private Transaction ( private send) and Instant Transaction ( instant send)  and the governance treasury system.

         These masternodes improve the security of the network and make cash transactions quick. This process cost a lot of money and effort from the masternodes, so they are rewarded by the network.

    PRIVATE SEND 

    Bitcoin transactions for instance, is made up public to anyone with internet access,  it is completely public.  But dash transactions cannot be traced back, nor it's users revealed. As I've earlier mentioned, private transactions are facilitated by masternodes.

     INSTANT SEND

   Dash transactions are past instantly confirmed by the masternode network. A normal dash transaction gets cleared about 2.5 minutes, faster than bitcoin, but you can make it more faster by paying a small fee to the masternode, to be cleared in a few seconds.

     SELF GOVERNING AND SELF FUNDING PROTOCOL 

  In Bitcoin, when a block gets mined, 100% of the reward goes to the miner(s). However, with Dash, 10% of all the mining rewards go back to Dash.

It basically gets added to the budget which is then used to fund the growth and advancement of the Dash crypto. This means that Dash cryptocurrency can fund its own growth and adoption.

     You can buy dash on coinbase or anyother high end cryptocurrency exchange platform. And you can also store DASH on hardware wallets like trezor and ledger and other trusted wallets also. 

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