Once you taste financial freedom with instant deterministic settlement and low fees, it's hard to resist!

Thanks again to @CryptoCanal for a great conference at ETHDam this year, and @blockblanc for this unforgettable photo! 😁

On of our very most valuable ecosystem partners has been @spritzfinance, and we're honored to have highlighted them at ETHDam! One app alone lets you live completely on Dash: pay bills (rent, utilities, mortgage, credit cards even), pay for everyday expenses with reloadable virtual cards, and off- and on-ramp! The US market has been tricky for crypto bill pay solutions, but Spritz more than delivers here.

@spritzfinance Go here to try out Spritz: https://t.co/bfpfdagKDT

Lightning Network: ❌Can't exclusively control your own funds ❌Can't send to everyone ❌Can't send any amount ❌Payments aren't final until settled on-chain ❌Needs permission to connect to another node ❌Breaks in a high-congestion L1 environment Dash: ✅Fully control your own money ✅Send to anyone, any time, anywhere ✅Send any amount from a penny to a million ✅Payments deterministically settled in seconds ✅Connect to a vast network of nodes ✅Not affected by Bitcoin congestion If you're looking to live all on crypto, and you have a stack of Bitcoin you want to spend in a trust-minimized way, stop dealing with Lightning headaches. Swap some to Dash for your spending cash.

Use @THORWalletDEX to swap from Bitcoin to Dash on decentralized rails (thanks @Maya_Protocol!) https://t.co/bwgy8OnPYl Try @bitrefill for the best way to really experience instant, trustless payments that just work: https://t.co/mRRpPQ8wu2

Self-custody, on-chain payments can be for everyone! The whole world. 🌎 It's common right now in crypto for projects to focus on layer-two scaling, or make excuses for why custodians are needed for everyday use cases like payments. This is absolutely not true! The three common arguments for why custodial or trusted solutions are needed to facilitate payments are: -Network decentralization -Technical scaling limits -User experience Let's tackle all of these, and show why, at least at Dash, we don't have to make these compromises. 1: DECENTRALIZATION Probably the most common argument against making the base layer accessible to anyone is that it would require decentralization sacrifices in order to handle that scale. A few points. First, decentralization doesn't mean everyone and their cousin needs to run critical infra. It means that enough separate parties are responsible for running and securing the network that it's difficult to take down by making a couple of phone calls. Dash fixes this by having a self-funded, diverse network of masternodes, EvoNodes, and miners. All are paid by Dash in Dash to secure and run the network. There's nearly 4,000 of these collateralized nodes in total, some with collateral owned by many different individuals, in addition to miners. You need both to run, or attack, the network. Very well-decentralized! Second, decentralization doesn't matter if people are using centralized solutions! Dash's approach of everyone affording the base layer means that its decentralization benefits are conferred to everyone, for practically all use cases! 2: SCALING LIMITS There's a great myth that "blockchains can't scale." This is absolutely not true and isn't reflected in the technical reality of modern blockchains. Whether it's mass scaling by Solana (when it doesn't break 😅) or sharded chains, we've seen capability to process immense amounts of transactions and data. At Dash, @blockchainASU did some basic scaling simulations to prove that Dash can easily scale to handle volumes similar to legacy payment networks. You can read about it here: https://blockchain.asu.edu/block-propagation-applied-to-nakamoto-networks/ The tech is only getting better, and especially for a simple payments chain, there's no need to trust centralized or custodial solutions. 3: USER EXPERIENCE Typically, using crypto is a mess. You have to copy and paste a long ugly address, set transaction details, make sure your wallets are compatible, pay inconsistent and sometimes high fees, and worst of all, wait for confirmations. Some projects solve these by simply hiding the underlying network and tech from the end user, taking full custody of their funds, facilitating payments on their own internal ledgers, managing accounts, etc. Basically, becoming a bank. We don't believe in this. At all. Every Dash payment is instantly and deterministically settled, for a fraction of a cent, with no limitations on amount, who you can send to, etc. It just works, without compromising on any of our core principles of financial sovereignty. Even so, this isn't good enough. We're working on a new project called Evolution that will essentially fix the last bit required for average people to adopt crypto. Human-readable usernames and contact lists, invoices, and all kinds of decentralized applications necessary to make money just work. All decentralized. No custodians or middlemen! It's been a long road so far, and we still have a long road ahead. But very soon, the world will be able to start using this amazing new technology. We hope this leads to a freer world. We're betting on it. Just say no to custodians, anon.🫡

If you're stuck in Bitcoin and think you only have custodial, trusted options to spend it, try moving some into Dash. @THORWalletDEX is great for this without trusted intermediaries. https://t.co/bwgy8OnPYl Then spend it on something with @bitrefill. Super fast, super cheap, but… https://t.co/OgCoV8F3ay

Dash works like magic. 🪄 Try it yourself and you'll see!

The best way to experience the magic of Dash is through the mobile wallets: https://t.co/i5usj9u5ox Then if you buy something on @bitrefill, you can experience the magic of instant finalization! https://t.co/mRRpPQ8wu2

Also shout-out to @CryptoCanal for putting on an amazing event this year at ETHDam! 🙏

Over the past 24 hours, Bitcoin fees shot up into the hundreds of dollars per transaction! 😱 This makes self-custody out of reach for most users, let alone payments of any kind. This is unacceptable. We can do better! Dash transactions are always cheap, instantly-settled, reliable, and just a pleasure to use. We won't let you down like this. Use whatever you can to live free. It's a free market, after all. Just remember: We'll always be there for you when you need us. ⚡️💵

Random shout-out to @bitrefill for making it so easy for most of the world to actually live on Dash. We really appreciate you as a partner! 🤝 Anyone who's still skeptical about the feasibility of living on crypto, try Bitrefill out with Dash. There's something about instant settlement for buying real-world goods and services that makes crypto, known for a poor user experience, seem magical. 🪄

@bitrefill Download a Dash wallet and get some Dash: https://t.co/i5usj9u5ox Then sign up for Bitrefill and get something. Anything. Doesn't matter. https://t.co/mRRpPQ8wu2 Let us know how the experience was, and which country you're in!

Dash is proud to announce a partnership with @CryptoApis! Crypto APIs is a blockchain infrastructure provider and development platform which provides tools to build, scale, and optimize blockchain projects, including: 🌐Blockchain data 🌐Blockchain events 🌐Nodes-as-a-service 🌐Noncustodial wallets 🌐Blockchain automation 🌐xPUB sync And much more. Crypto APIs recently integrated Dash as a supported blockchain, and we're happy to have their services available for our partners to use. Welcome to the Dash ecosystem! 🤝

@CryptoApis If you want to try out Crypto APIs for your business, please use this link so we can keep track of how many customers we send them! https://t.co/UW1OTrXvHe

ETHDam is a wrap! Thanks to @CryptoCanal for hosting such an excellent conference, dedicated to the critical values we hold near and dear. 🙏 After speaking with many users, builders, entrepreneurs, hackers, artists, and more from across the space, we hear the message loud and clear. The people want: 💙Financial sovereignty 💙Privacy 💙Security 💙Ease of use 💙Low fees 💙To use crypto as money 💙No excuses! More than ever, we believe our mission is important, value, and what's more, its time is coming. It's time is here. Digital cash for the world has never been more demanded! We were approached by countless people one-on-one asking how they can start living on crypto today. Our time has come. Our time is now. Thanks to @crowdnode, @DashInvests, and DIF recipient @EdgeWallet for coming out and supporting us this past weekend (and to the countless other Dash-supporting companies in attendance). We're stronger because of our partners! 💪 On to the next one. 🫡

The financial revolution we're building will make the world a better place. Don't stop now. We're almost there! 🌠

The @Maya_Protocol is Dash's decentralized bridge to the rest of the crypto world. With just action on a decentralized network, you can swap from Dash to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Kujira, Arbitrum, and soon Zcash and more! Without centralized intermediaries, you can hold just Dash, spend it on all your goods and services, and if you find something that doesn't accept it, you can still use your Dash. We're pursuing this "just works" experience with everything, with maximum decentralization, and Maya is a great partner in this. 🤝

@Maya_Protocol Use @THORWalletDEX to hold your Dash and easily swap with Maya, stake and earn, diversify your portolio, off-ramp, on-ramp, spend via a card, and more! https://t.co/bwgy8OnPYl

Imagine discovering the most amazing freedom-enabling decentralized tech in the world, and then basing your entire personality on never using it. 🤦 Couldn't be us. 😏

Try it out. Download the Dash Wallet: https://t.co/i5usj9u5ox Spend with Bitrefill: https://t.co/mRRpPQ8wu2 See how easy it is to actually use Dash in the real world.

Dash has deterministic, not probabilistic, finality for transactions! 🧠 This makes Dash much more certain and secure than cryptocurrencies which have to wait for block confirmations in order to be secure. Yes: a Dash payment may be more secure than a Bitcoin transaction will ever be! 🤯 First, some definitions: ✍️Probabilistic Security: High likelihood that a payment won't be reversed ✍️Deterministic Security: Certainty that a payment won't be reversed With Bitcoin and other proof-of-work mined coins in particular, miners build blocks on top of previous ones. The chain with the most accumulated proof-of-work is the valid one (others may be forked off). The reason you wait for confirmations is probabilistic security: the deeper in a chain of blocks that a transaction it is, the lower the chance that a chain with a different outcome for the transaction will win out. But it's always a possibility! Dash is a proof-of-work chain and runs on exactly this setup. But it has a couple of different mechanisms built on top that offer deterministic security: ⚡️InstantSend: Locks in transactions instantly, making them deterministically unable to be reversed ⚡️ChainLocks: Locks in the first-seen block on the network, making it deterministically final and permanent Chain reorganizations are always a risk in most of the crypto world, which is why exchanges, payment processors, wallets, etc. wait for confirmations, risk score transactions, and so on. This is probabilistic security. But this is not necessary with Dash! All a service has to do is configure their node (or use a supporting block explorer API like our favorite, @Blockchair) to check for an InstantSend lock in mempool transactions, or a ChainLock on a block, to be completely sure that a payment is secure! 🤯 Lots of chains claim "fast/instant transactions" that don't actually have this. Litecoin, Dogecoin, Bitcoin Cash, and more rely on probabilistic security, especially for unconfirmed payments. You make a payment and then wait until you feel comfortable assuming that it'll be fine. But you're never sure! Improvements to these systems, such as double-spend proofs proposed in Bitcoin Cash, don't change this. They watch for lower probability of a reversal, but don't fundamentally change the model. Even Bitcoin Cash was forced to improve a form of deterministic finality with 10-block rolling checkpoints, preventing a reorganization from lasting more than 10 blocks, when payments with more than 10 confirmations were at risk! 😱 Deterministic finality is universally recognized as what really matters. Bitcoin has historically gotten a pass from this, because its large and established hashrate makes the probability of a significant block reorg extremely low at this point. But conditions could change. The bottom line is this: A Dash payment is more final in under 2 seconds than a Bitcoin payment will ever be! Still relatively few blockchains are like Dash and offer instant deterministic finality for payments. There are a few, and these chains will rise above the rest in the coming years. Demand deterministic finality. It's 2024. Anything less in this age is unacceptable. 🫳🎤