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In recent years and months, independent content creators have seen their work erased from the web by centralized entities. It’s more important than ever for people to be able to protect their content without fear of being shut down.
Software company Unstoppable Domains is aiming to put an end to online censorship by providing blockchain-based domains. While offering free speech protection in its mission to provide uncensorable websites, Unstoppable Domains also aims to simplify sending and receiving crypto payments.
Unstoppable provides two services: an address for receiving crypto payments, as well as providing a blockchain domain that cannot be censored. Rather than sharing a lengthy, complicated conventional cryptocurrency wallet address, Unstoppable Domains provides a “yourname.crypto” address for sending and receiving crypto payments. The system currently supports over 20 cryptocurrencies with plans to include more.
When you buy a domain, it will be stored in your cryptocurrency wallet, and in this wallet your domain can’t be transferred or removed by anyone but yourself. Unstoppable Domains currently supports two domain extensions: .zil, a low-fee extension on the Zilliqa blockchain, and .crypto, which is on the more widely known Ethereum blockchain.
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The South American country has been plagued by never-ending inflation and devaluation of its central currency, the bolivar.
As we reported on Reality Check, the Venezuelan government recognizes the opportunity with cryptocurrency to solve its economic problems. But their approach is the petro, a cryptocurrency essentially backed by oil, not the blockchain. Take a look.
In that episode, we reported, “The two major selling points of blockchain are radical transparency and decentralization, meaning no one can manipulate the supply or the transactions, including the government. And it’s those two aspects of blockchain that governments are not fans of.”
The Dash Venezuela project, led by an organization called Dash Caracas, was launched in 2017 by Eugenia Alcala Sucre. She saw the currency’s potential to help Venezuelans break free from government currency and achieve real prosperity.
A proposal was submitted to the Dash Treasury last year to finance a series of educational conferences, aimed to teach Venezuelans, step by step, how to use Dash Digital Cash as a much-needed alternative to government issued money. It easily gained the votes necessary to fund the project.
In less than a year, more than 4,000 people have attended these educational conferences. And the number of entrepreneurs accepting Dash as payment has grown to over 100.
These conferences are an inspiring example of effective outreach, supporting widespread adoption of Dash use throughout Venezuela.
The Dash Leopards are working to enable a better life for kids in South Africa through sports, education and social activities.
Dash has allowed the soccer program founder, Coach Ricardo, and the other coaches, to use soccer as a tool to help the players with life skills.
The Dash Leopards program also offers tutoring to help children with their schoolwork, and they’re learning about healthy food and nutrition, receiving snacks and smoothies prepared with fresh ingredients.
Cryptocurrencies like Dash are a natural fix for the continuous problems with the devaluation and corruption associated with fiat currency. Fortunately for Africa, Dash is a decentralized currency that holds value across the globe.
This edition of our dash spotlight highlights the recent Dash sponsorships of Bellator fighters Rory MacDonald and Chael Sonnen.
Why would Dash sponsor mixed martial arts fighters? Because they have fans all over the world, and Dash is a global cryptocurrency.
Canadian Rory MacDonald is one of the world’s top-ranked MMA fighters. He holds a 20-4 record and has fought in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is currently the Bellator welterweight title.
After his latest victory, MacDonald accepted the title belt wearing Dash gear.
MacDonald sees his dash sponsorship as just the beginning of a long-term partnership with dash, telling CCN, “The exciting thing about [the Dash budget system] is that it’s a voting process, so we can make all kinds of different, unique ideas to pitch to the network … it could be the next wave of sponsorships pouring into the MMA community.”
Another major figure in the MMA world, Chael Sonnen, is also sponsored by Dash Digital Cash.
Sonnen has fought in five different fighting leagues including the UFC, and won the Bellator Heavyweight World Grand Prix Tournament in January. He’s an ESPN analyst and fight commentator, and routinely appears on CBS sports radio with Jim Rome.
These sponsorships are just another way Dash is disrupting the status quo. Cryptocurrencies like Dash can disrupt funding for MMA by allowing fighters to go directly to the source of their funding, instead of bending to the control of a fighting monopoly.
As more people are introduced to the benefits of decentralized currencies, the more people will realize the liberating power and potential cryptocurrencies like Dash.
Note: Chael Sonnen won the Bellator Heavyweight World Grand Prix Tournament in January, but because the tournament is tiered he technically did not win a “championship.” The article above has been updated to reflect this information.
Welcome our Truth in Media sponsor spotlight on Dash Digital Cash.
Dash Digital Cash is the exclusive sponsor of Reality Check and the Truth in Media project.
This edition of our Dash Spotlight features Joël Valenzuela, who is living a cash-free life in Portsmouth, New Hampshire thanks to Dash Digital Cash.
Valenzuela, the editor of Dash Force News, was recently featured on CNN about living a completely cash-free life in Portsmouth. He’s able to pay his electric bill, pay his rent, and live off Dash alone.
Portsmouth has become the hub of the cryptocurrency movement in New Hampshire. The town of 22,000 currently has 22 locations that accept cryptocurrency as payment, including the Free State Bitcoin Shoppe that attracts customers from the high traffic tourist area and helps them open their first cryptocurrency wallet.
Dash Digital Cash has 18 Dash accepting locations in Portsmouth and 42 across the state of New Hampshire. A strong and active Dash micro-economy is thriving in Portsmouth and across the state of New Hampshire.
Unfortunately, CNN failed to fully explain the scope of what’s happening in Portsmouth and with individuals like Valenzuela. The CNN segment made it sound as though cryptocurrencies like Dash only hold value within the Portsmouth micro-economy.
This is far from the truth. What the mainstream media fails to understand is Portsmouth is just the beginning of cryptocurrencies, like the massive adoption of Dash.
Because unlike local currencies such as “berkshares” and “equal dollars” which only hold value within their communities, cryptocurrencies like dash hold value across the globe.
Be part of the revolution and start using Dash Digital Cash today.
In our last Dash Spotlight, we explained how the Dash Treasury funds projects like Reality Check and Truth In Media to support the growth of Dash use and facilitate innovation in various industries.
But how is the Dash Treasury funded, and who manages those funds?
It all starts with miners, or Dash nodes, and Dash masternodes.
Like other crypto miners, Dash nodes solve complex math problems using specialized computers. When a problem is solved, a new block is added to the blockchain and the miner is rewarded Dash Digital Cash.
This is where Dash masternodes come into play. Masternodes enable financial privacy and the decentralized governance of the Dash budget.
So miners power the first tier and masternodes power the second tier. And for powering that second tier, masternodes are rewarded.
In the last episode, we explained the budget breakdown: with each new Dash mined, 45% of the reward goes to miners, 45% goes to masternodes, and 10% goes to the treasury. The treasury is what funds projects like Reality Check and Truth In Media.
Dash is the first-ever crypto to set up this type of two-tier system, making the features implemented by masternodes unique in the crypto world.
Masternodes are focused on ensuring anonymous and instant transactions, but also governance through monthly budgeting and voting.
Want to become a Dash node or masternode? Check out Dash.org for more information.
Welcome our Truth in Media spotlight on Dash Digital Cash.
Dash Digital Cash is the exclusive sponsor of Reality Check and the Truth In Media project.
In the first Dash Spotlight, I reiterated that Dash is a revolutionary cryptocurrency that will change the game for everyone.
So how is Dash Digital Cash revolutionary? Well, Dash Digital Cash operates as a money-as-a-service business. This is what separates it from other cryptocurrencies built on the blockchain.
Dash is run by a decentralized, autonomous community of people from around the globe. To operate as a money-as-a-service business, members of the Dash community decide on projects to fund that will increase the use of Dash, and make a difference in the world.
Here’s how it works: instead of other blockchain based networks giving 100% of each new crypto coin to miners, Dash Digital Cash divides its block reward, or unit of Dash, into three different parts:
45% goes to the Dash miners, or nodes, 45% goes to masternodes, and 10% goes to the treasury.
We’ll explain nodes and master nodes in the next Sponsor Spotlight. For now, let’s focus on the treasury.
The Dash Treasury is a pool of Dash Digital Cash allocated to support the growth of Dash, fund independent media, like Reality Check and Truth In Media, and help facilitate innovation in different industries that can solve big problems.
Be part of the revolution and start using Dash Digital Cash today.
In the next Sponsor Spotlight, I’ll explain how that funding was made possible through the unique way Dash Digital Cash operates as money-as-a-service business.
But first, how do you use Dash Digital Cash? Well, it works just like cash.
It’s transferred instantly, in just one second, and is completely anonymous. It costs less than 1 cent to send Dash, regardless of the size of the transaction. One second, less than 1 cent.
The easiest way to buy Dash Digital Cash is on Uphold.com, as explained in the video below:
You can also purchase Dash Digital Cash on exchanges like Bittrex and Poloniex.
To hold and spend small amounts of Dash Digital Cash, you will need a mobile wallet. Dash Digital Cash has mobile wallets available for download in the Apple App Store and on Google Play.
Remember—always consider the amount of Dash you carry and the necessary security measures to protect your crypto.
So where can you use Dash Digital Cash? CheapAir, Overstock.com and BitCart are some of the most popular places Dash Digital Cash holders spend their crypto.
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