Welcome!

July Dash Latam MNO Report now available: https://youtu.be/p5s-HCc1ybA

And there is more!

15 purchases with Dash in 5 cities across 3 Latam nations showing real people (vlog playlist): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL92ognmkx-f5a99mHYiNPqgKTpQeNK6wk

Dash Growth in Latam Measured by Active Androids Wallets (real Google Play Store data): http://dash.ist/2019/07/07/dash-growth-in-latam-measured-by-active-android-wallets/

A playlist of 6 videos with testimonials from real Dash users/remittance beneficiaries. Never before seen! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL92ognmkx-f7JNaZks7cXKGygjW93w_4g

19 new Dash events this last month by Dash Latam across Venezuela, Colombia and Peru: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjizxJYH0K7oYhW6gQ9iG4g/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=8

And here is a new Dash Watch report: https://reports.dashwatch.org/JUL19/dash-latam-colombia-201905.pdf

I just got word a supermarket on the Venezuela-Colombia border spontaneously added Dash to its weekly flyers! We have a large presence in that city in great part thanks to this proposal

https://www.reddit.com/r/dashpay/comments/cipyzs/supermarket_on_venezuelacolombia_border/

"Venezuela Remittances, 100 New Venezuela Merchants"
-->voters: Venezuela is still the #1 ranked country for consumer openess to switch to a new currency

Take a look at the dozens of photos of new and verified Dash merchants in Venezuela, as well as Dash-paid combo remittances we created with them to sell Dash outside of Venezuela and get people using it to buy basic necessities for loved ones in the country.

http://dash.ist/2019/06/27/what-dash-latam-has-achieved-in-venezuela/

Hello @georgedonnelly, interesting proposal. In your video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxsUU_R5ki8 you speak about measures of your success. And among the measures you speak about the number of transactions that you aim to generate. All this is very good as an old rule is that only what can be measured can be improved. Can you please explain me how do you measure the number of transactions that are generated by your work? Because if I look at the blockchain I see the transactions in general, but not the transactions in Venezuela, or to a Venezuelan person. Thanks.

Hi and thanks for your question.

We have a point-of-sale software at https://pos.pagacondash.com/ (DAO-funded via Kodaxx/DashBoost and Dash Retail) which is deployed at hundreds of merchants across Latin America and which reports anonymous aggregate transaction counts and amounts at https://tracker.pagacondash.com/ with a short delay relying in large part on Google Analytics.

Also, when we sell Dash or remittance combos for Dash, we can take note of it manually.

That said, a lot of transactions still take place wallet to wallet or in other ways that are outside of our ability to track. This is inevitable and good, because it is the sign of a healthy decentralized ecosystem, which is what we aim to build.

So, we aim to evidence our work via these methods and hope to find other indicators that may give a hint as to the level of activity taking place where we can not track it, such as via social media activity or active Android wallet installs of the Dash reference wallet (Hash Engineering). Here is some data on that last one:

http://dash.ist/2019/07/07/dash-growth-in-latam-measured-by-active-android-wallets/

Thrilled to answer further questions.

Very interesting. I sent you a friend request on Discord so we can speak more. One thing which could be used to measure adoption is measuring the percentils. You can see how Dash is being used by tracking the median (aka 50 percentile). But it might be interesting to see how the 25th and 75th percentils change too.

Accepted, sorry about the delay. Would love to chat anytime. Also:

george@pagacondash.com
+573218423668 (whatsapp, phone)
@georgedonnelly (twitter)

371 NO votes, yet not a single negative comment in here.
Very strange to say the least.

@DCG:
Are we plebs and peasants allowed to know the reason why it was voted down?
I guess not...

I think some MNOs (why blame DCG?) would like George (and his adoring sidekick Ed) to stick to getting stuff done, instead of trying to tear down others...just my 2 duffs.

Interesting how some MNOs are only comfortable tearing down other's proposals when they hide their true identities behind a sockpuppet. For the record, here is a link to when Cedbrown tears down the work done in Colombia by calling the merchant listings "abysmal". Hypocrite!
https://www.dashcentral.org/p/dash-force-may--august

Edward Stoever's report exposed outright FRAUD against the DAO with extensive and hard evidence. Edward Stoever was doing his job as an MNO.

Why am I and my team, and in fact DASH itself, being punished due to proximity to Edward and his hard-worked and well-done report? This is irrational and self-destructive behavior that prioritizes personal butthurt over the mission of growing Dash use.

Where are your priorities, sir?

Fraud against the DAO demands denunciation of the wrongdoer, not of the whistleblower and anyone within a few kilometers.

Likewise, when I discover fraud and sabotage against the DAO, I will not hush it up. Silence when faced with wrongdoing is complicity.

You, sir, may be content to remain silent when others commit fraud within your line of sight. But I am not. That is something the DAO can always count on from me.

And if my decision to maintain my integrity means I am not welcome within Dash, then so be it. Better to be an honest failure than a dishonest winner a million times over.

debate: this proposal (needing 101 to get funded) will win much more market share for Dash compared to Thailand which is passing with +113

What Dash Latam Has Achieved in Venezuela

http://dash.ist/2019/06/27/what-dash-latam-has-achieved-in-venezuela/

And there's a surprise inside!

**Dash Delivers**

The full video (excerpt has 2,000 views on Twitter) of one of many deliveries our commercial partners in Venezuela are executing based on our sales of Dash to remitters in Spain and Colombia. More commercial allies, more liquidity partners, more sales and more deliveries coming soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L2lAwqqbOE

Remittances to Venezuela is the best possible use case for Dash to make a bunch of new and substantial transactions. And the team has good metrics to judge success by. Don't be shy.

solarguy

George's team has demonstrated an extremely high level of professionalism, communication, and most importantly accountability when it comes to reporting and representing the work they have accomplished. This is an invaluable and essential part of the work that needs to be done in the LatAm region and most especially in Venezuela, and without these attributes we don't really know what we're funding or what the DAO is getting out of these expenditures. This is why George's team and projects are among the only grassroots, boots-on-the-ground projects I'm willing to support at this point. There's still funding left in the treasury and we need to keep up our momentum in Venezuela. It's our best shot.

Thank you.

Dash Watch May 26th 2019 Report on
Dash Venezuela Remittances by georgedonnelly
https://dashwatchbeta.org/r/MAY19/dash-venezuela-remittances-201902

Really wanted this to pass last time it was proposed, Dash Retail was passed, this is the best use case we have right now for that already funded proposal, voting yes.

Thank you!

You have my support, good luck.

Thank you!

What is being done to incentive participants of the program to organically promote it to their personal networks?

Thanks for your question.

We are drawing up a table of incentives, similar to what we have for affiliating merchants and expect to have that ready shortly. We'll use that, and a referral code in the remittance order system, to track earning of incentives.

That said, we need to make sure we have a basic and sustainable system working for the sale, delivery and support of remittances before we turbocharge it with the referral incentives.

Happy to answer further questions.