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Great News! Dash Next is partnering with Cgift to present a new and easy way to buy Dash in Asia, starting with Thailand. Get Dash in the hands of more people is the mission. Find details about the Dash gift cards and the different functions here: https://www.cgift.io/dash/

Dash Next partners with Cash2vn. Now you can send remittances or any kind of payment easy to friends and business partners in Vietnam with Dash & the recipient will receive Vietnamese Dong. Cash2VN payments are usually received within a few hours after the payment. Cash2VN has been operating in the Vietnamese market since 2015 and is backed by Vietnam’s oldest Bitcoin Exchange BitcoinVN with great rates! page link here: https://cash2vn.com/

Great Dash Thailand News! Through our partnership with the local Crypto Exchange Satang there won't be any trading fees related to Dash for 75 days if people register before 30th April!. Satang waived the fees on their own costs. That will help us to get Dash in more hands here.

More details here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dashpay/comments/g8rsr5/great_news_dash_thailand_is_proud_to_announce_the/

Dash Next is proud to announce that we are going to built up our next local presence after Thailand in the Philippines. Therefore we are welcoming Veronica Andrino as the Dash Philippines Ambassador.

The Philippines show great potential for Dash, especially in terms of remittances and businesses. Veronica Andrino will be our local Head Ambassador there. She is a long time Dash super fan and Dash Next team member. Big things are coming!

Please follow and support the new channels

telegram: https://t.me/dashphp
facebook: https://fb.com/dashphp
twitter: https://twitter.com/dashphp.

Voting Yes! here. I just want to say that even though the block reward is reducing soon, and even the price is still low, I want to represent the contigent of MNOs who appreciates and wants to see more of this level of ask for our communities. As a student of the liquidity school of Dash adoption, it is my personal opinion that we need to spread Dash as much as possible to as many different regions around the world as possible.

Ryan Taylor recently stated that although our focus on merchant adoption in Venezuela was the right thing to focus on, we now need to focus efforts on getting Dash into people's hands so they can spend them at merchants and we can continue to grow our merchant and user adoption. Ryan was focused on employment and remittances as a source of Dash. But I would submit that the best, easiest and fastest source of Dash liquidity is the treasury itself.

Employment and remittances as a focus in Venezuela have the same issue that Ryan noted about our inital efforts at adoption there, which is that there's a sort of barrier to entry when users have to convert their fiat/Bolivars to Dash and then spend it. Its better if they already get paid Dash that way they can spend it more easily. The problem is employing people is too slow for us to spread Dash as a network. The treasury barely will spend 20k per month in Venezuela and we're employing the very teams that have given us the clout we now have in terms of global adoption. The amount of work that we the network need done is TOO SMALL relative to the amount of people who need Dash in their hands.

So I submit to the network that the fastest way to get over this chicken and egg problem is to just VOTE TO SPREAD AS MUCH DASH AS POSSIBLE. Its that simple. We just blast Dash all over the world every month like fire hydrants going off. Eventually, everyone in the city will get wet. And they will take their Dash and spend it and increase the transactional usage and demand of our coin.

This means that we don't want our teams lowering their ask, we want them increasing it as much as is feasible. We want as many teams as possible getting as much Dash as possible. They will have to sell to cover their costs and that will provide the liquidity the local economy needs to get Dash moving and give us LONG-TERM, SUSTAINABLE growth. Growth that isn't fleeting and ".5% of transactions". If you give it (Dash), they (transactions) will come.

Thanks a lot for the Yes Voting, the great support and your comment!

Spread Dash to different regions is exactly our goal. Especially regarding the different use cases: tourism in Thailand, remittances in the Philippines, ... Other ideas we are working on for a while is a dash job platform and the cross border payment use case.

Being in different regions and pushing different uses cases is also great for exposure, brand building and building business ideas around Dash. When we speaking on conferences people come always to us and say "oh Dash yes I heard you are doing great things in Thailand and Venezuela" also the media write about us because of the great Thailand tourism use case. When people think about Dash they think about Venezuela and Thailand. Even if not everyone in the network agrees about that use cases. We always have to remember the exposure we get through that.

And absolutely we can not only onboard merchants or do integrations on one side we also need people to spend it. It's always a chicken and egg problem as you said. That's why we work and improve the above mentioned use case and also employ more people in Thailand and the Philippines with small jobs, do events at Universities, Schools etc., get AMA's, conference's and media partners who distribute dash (sponsored even by our partners not by the treasury) to get Dash in as many hands as possible for as little costs as possible for us.
Here just an recent example from our partnership with HUOBI Wallet. They sponsored 10k USD worth of Dash this week and distributed another 1k USD worth of Dash during the AMA with our Dash Next co-founders Felix and Sascha.

See more details here on the reddit post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dashpay/comments/g4kao6/the_dash_next_dash_thailand_cofounders_felix_mago/

So we spread Dash in as many regions as possible and give it in as many hands as possible but also do not waste any Dash and everything is spend very wisely.

Thanks again for your support and comment!

Wow, that's great. Yes I do remember reading about that Huobi partnership and thinking "About time!" This is exactly the direction we need to move in. I've watched your proposal for a couple cycles now and I've been nothing but impressed. Thank you for your attention, your field report, and your kind words. Keep up the good work!

We are very happy to hear that as we are working hard and doing our best to push Dash forward. Comments like yours are motivating us even more then! We will definitely keep up. Thanks again and stay healthy!

How much of this requested budget is being devoted to your expansion into the Philllipine market, if any?

Hi thanks for the comment and question. We did not increase any budget devoted to your expansion into the Philippines market. We will cover that for now completely from our existing Dash Next budget to save treasury budget. As mentioned we see a huge potential there, but let's wait first about results coming in. If the results fulfil their promises it might be a good idea to do a separate proposal with a designated Budget.

And for the record, I know this is continuing funding, but you get the same criticism I gave to the DIF proposal, I would like to see you submit a lower ask in light of the 7% block reward reduction at the very least. I have to vote "No" here.

Thanks again for your comment and we can assure you we always do our budgeting as efficient as possible even prior the block reward reduction. To be able to make all that important partnerships and integrations around the world happen, to get all the global media coverage done, the conferences, AMA's and event invitations, to push the Thailand and Philippines ecosystem and for all the other things we are doing we need a professional team and have expenses to pay. We hope you can see our results and we can convince you to vote in future with Yes.

We are always open for constructive criticism on our work and are also always happy to share deeper information even in a call or personal meetings as soon as it is possible again. Feel free to reach always out to us.

Great News! As announced our Dash Next partnership with Crypttp will make Dash payments even simpler! Now you can pay Dash in only 2 clicks through Crypttp’s instant pay button to merchants & payment processors using the following connected wallets: Trust wallet, Ellipal, Ownbit, Zelcore, & Guarda. Check them out!

Dash Next / Dash Thailand are very excited to announce the Dash listing on Satang vs. thai baht on 31st of March. This new fiat on/off ramp option is the start of a very promising partnership between Dash Thailand and Satang to bring the Dash merchant network and crypto payments in Thailand to the next level.

You can find more info and registration here: https://satang.pro/ ... and stay tuned many projects are already in the planning!

The Budget that is linked is for Q1

Note: 273 yes votes for this proposal, even tho the budget is not included

The budget is of course included and linked budget sheet is also for Q2. What was maybe misleading is that the google doc stated the start of the 2020 budget with Q1. We aligned now the link title with the sheet title so the complete link provides and states only Q2.

voters: note the budget doesn't include a clear breakdown of DashThailand vs. DashNext. So we don't have clear info on what DashThailand is costing us (and note: Thailand is of course an economy that is not looking to switch to a new currency, hence we could be getting negative ROI on it)

Dash Next is changing the conference and event strategy for now due to the current Covid19 situation. We wanna spread the word about Dash without spreading the virus. Virtual Conferences are the key. Join us at the upcoming online DAO & Crypto Investment conference May 21-24 and see Felix Mago co-founder of Dash Next speaking about driving real-life adoption of Blockchain and crypto payments with Dash for over 18k already registered participants. More details here:
https://summit.dao.digital/GIVS#/speakers?lang=en&speakerId=6818000000484011

Great update! Dash Next is partnering with the global EduTech platform Unifinity. Unifinity enables universities and schools around the world of any size to rapidly implement the use of Blockchain technology & smart contracts for various application needs. Through this partnership you will be able to pay different courses of education providers around the globe in future also with Dash. We are especially happy about this partnership as it is our first partnership operating out of our priority market the Philippines - more will follow! Stay tuned and get more info here: Unifinity.io