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I need to get back to coding, so I won't be replying here for the coming few days. There will be a AMA with Joel on Friday, so if you want you can come ask me your questions in there. Thanks everyone.

So you would vote down DCG because we asked the network what they preferred? Security is something that few truly understand. I believe it's because of the term security that might mean one thing to cryptographers and something else to people investing in crypto. All of these systems have very...

If you consider yourself the opposing voice in this scenario. Try to imagine yourself in my scenario. You talk about a comfort zone. You think it's a comfort zone when Glenn has left and I need to take control of the bank accounts in order to actually have people paid? Do you think it's a...

I am doing everything in my power to release as fast as possible. What incentive do I have to delay releasing? None. What incentive do I have to release? Well quite a lot. Glory, fame and the project succeeding. This is what I want. But at the same time we can't destroy such a monumental effort...

Okay, 330k is the strict probabilistic minimum and I guess I should not have said it. It's probabilities, and you need about 1/3rd of the network to carry out such an attack. Collateral for Platform nodes would be at around 1.8M Dash. So you would need around 600k Dash (probably more like 500k...

This is ridiculous, the nodes went offline, we are not banning them. We are just telling platform to use a new quorum from core (that we won't choose). This could be done through software, but it's quite complicated to do so best not to have a delay in release. Now if some nodes representing...

The hesitance is because the best quote we got for a partial review was 120k USD. That's about 3k Dash. Second factor is that takes a lot of time to find the right firm, make sure they are up to the task, then have many many calls to make sure they understand things. This all introduces delay...

We are going to have each team rotate and review code that they never had seen before. I personally think this will actually work better than an external security audit, mostly because our teams will care more, whereas most external auditors are employees working on multiple projects at once...

"reallocating that Platform security audit funding to DCG Infrastructure" -> Well it mostly went to the core audit. Which basically didn't reveal any security flaws that we didn't already knew existed (2 minor issues, we will get around to fixing them). The reason why I don't think it's a good...

Well maybe I didn't touch on this enough during my presentation. And that's really on me. It's been talked about inside DCG so I should have included this aspect. If a platform bug somehow completely takes Masternodes down (not just platform, but core too). In the "every node runs platform...

Let's imagine just for a second that Platform were to go down taking down all nodes with it. Chainlocks would fail, IS would fail, Coinbase would no longer process deposits... This could be catastrophic. Most blockchains have glitches when they are released. So if I just release and see and then...

Here's the thing, this change is somethings like 15 lines of code. We'll spend 1 hour on Monday writing it. I'll time one dev to see, so we can dispel any thoughts that it might delay anything. With Glenn's (our ex CFO) departure I was forced to spend a considerable amount of time dealing with...

Are you saying we are not allowed to propose software that would restart the network if it came under attack? What's your alternative?

In the presentation we did give these:

I am concerned about the negative feedback here. But I am also concerned that people for some reason think that there is some ill motivation at play. My role, and DCG's role is to serve the network. My incentives are that the Dash network does well. I am here in good faith to try to explain why...

There currently are more than twice the number of MNOs that have 4k. So while it might be a big barrier to initial entry. The network surely has enough MNOs to perform this switch. The barrier to receive rewards from the network stands at 1k. Proper incentivization is very important, and it...

The fee multiplier will be coming from a contract in Platform where Masternode owners will be able to essentially vote on their preferred fee. If the price of Dash goes x10 or goes down masternode owners should react by changing the multiplier to keep Platform either competitive or to make sure...

No this is incorrect, it's a market, so they could have lower rewards, incentivizing them to switch to 1K Masternodes. Well when it's a market I can't know for sure what will happen, this is an experiment that I do not think has ever been done before exactly like this. However market theory...

No worries, all good.

@Semarg You do see that the 4 is on the row of the "stop chain" right? And 10/11 on the row for taking control?