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Good afternoon everyone. It’s been a crazy week with coronavirus impact/news and stocks being stonks. But regardless of what’s going on out there, in here —in the Decred house — we keep building something meaningful. Hopefully everyone is OK — be careful out there folks.

Lots to cover this week in the world of Decred. You can practically see the Decred momentum picking up within the community. And newcomers are asking questions — How did Decred get started? Wait, Decred is its own blockchain? (uhh.. yes) How is the Decred chain more secure than BTC on a market-cap weighted basis? Friends on Twitter are starting to DM and ask noob questions. Finally, people are beginning to understand the deeper message here — “Bitcoin gamified time-stamping. Decred gamified decision-making.” — stated by Dustin LeFebvre.. So powerful..

Published yesterday, an in-depth overview and analysis of 2019 Decred Marketing from community member, Dustin Lefebvre. Reading through this, I am amazed at how much a global online community can accomplish in one year. The collective belief and motivation, the willingness to work and coordination of community members all over the world — it’s mind-blowing. Stemming from its self-funding nature, Decred truly is an experiment of “human organization”. Dustin’s piece itself is concrete evidence that public blockchains give us an opportunity to reorganize, re-coordinate in a novel and profound way. Furthermore, Decred is one of the very few blockchains that is actually doing this, actually reorganizing us from the ground up. It is my belief that the day is nearing when the world will desperately turn to and begin to depend on systems like Decred to reorganize and restructure. DM on Twitter if you want to chat about more. Interesting tweet here from Richard Burton simply pointing to the fact that in 2017/2018 shitty projects raised way more capital than they needed and very few raised less that $1mm. Decred developer Luke Powell chimed in to explain not only the frugal nature of Decred during early days funding, but also the well-planned, credible “go-to-market” strategy that Decred followed. If you’re ever curious about the premine details — Decred is about as transparent as it comes.. premine details here. Luke also includes a link to the origin story of Decred — check it out here. Thoughtful thread and good points brought to our attention by Decred’s own Richard Red. “ Decred takes a more human-oriented approach to the DAO’s aim of producing cryptocurrency infrastructure/support.” Worth reading through this thread. Permabull Nino published an insightful on-chain analytics piece, Decred On-Chain: Macro + Micro Outlook. Highly recommend combing through this one. Love how these pieces are more visual, rather than simply text-heavy. Can consume and interpret the data and charts while leaning on light guidance from Permabull to understand the continuity. Informative article published by CoinTelegraph featuring Decred community members, Akin Sawyerr and Elian Huesca. From Sawyerr, “since the unbanked are ignored by mainstream financial institutions, decentralized financing could play an important role in Africa’s fourth industrial revolution.” That makes sense to me… From Huesca, “An important reason for [increased popularity of crypto in LatAm] is the variety of use cases for cryptocurrencies from remittances, investment and savings to a monetary alternative against hyperinflationary currencies.” Makes sense to me… Decred on track to be one of these financial relief systems. Love these new bi-weekly video updates from Exitus. Really — what a great job... Thanks for the credit on the DEX graphic =) and looking forward to many more of these. You do a great job presenting, and many of us do prefer watching to reading, so very helpful to have this video content. Make sure to give Decred a follow on YouTube if you haven’t already. DCR Time is an aspect of the Decred ecosystem that not talking about enough, imho. DCRComic pushed a cool post stating that with DCR Time, we can “time-anchor data for free.” The implications of this are massive. Making the past permanent on a public, decentralized blockchain may a feature that is adopted by individuals, corporations, and governments globally for centuries to come. Thought-provoking tweet from Decred’s own Jake Yocom-Piatt. ‘Nuf said. On Politeia, currently voting is “Decred Europe — Grassroots Marketing and Events Proposal” from Haon. Get your votes in. If you’re a DCR hodler, remember that this is your money being spent from Decred network treasury. It’s important for everyone to voice their opinion on proposals that request funding from our Decred treasury fund. Ticket prices have been exceptionally volatile this week. Overall, the price trend of ticket prices has been up and to the right for the past couple years. I expect that to continue as Decred takes hold in different corners of the globe and there is more demand to participate and govern our ecosystem.

Have a great rest of the week folks.

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Dragon

@DecredDragon on Twitter