Is the #FirstDashWallet an unbelievable success? Yes, absolutely. It's incredible. People from all over crypto are taking notice. Any day now, it has the potential to hop into the mainstream media sphere.





Should it continue into the future, using surplus funds that aren't already being absorbed for more targetted use? Yes, if the campaign evolved. (continent by continent rule variants, different tasks, etc.)





For the last week, my team and I have been working with Pete and Amanda in the goal of minimizing their manual labor inputs required. We've been able to program and deliver them a couple different tools to pull and organize data, and then make batch payments. On top of this, though, a full manual fraud review is still required. My guess is that Amanda and Pete have each been working 18 hour days since the campaign begun, even with these tools.





In terms of feasibility alone, more programs and tools must be developed, and labor aside from Pete's and Amanda's would need to be input for scalability and enhanced fraud review. In an ideal world, Amanda's time could be totally freed up for press interviews discussing the promotion, not implementing it.





We've run blockchain analysis on several large samples of the payment addresses to see what's going on. All of the forementioned activities are occurring: some are leaving it on their wallet, some are adding it to larger wallets, some are sharing it with friends, some are passing it around in all types of ways, some are aggregating and selling it off or trading it. Similar to real money, people are using it for all different types of things.





Aside from simply giving money away, though, what Dash/Amanda are really doing is paying people to do things from across the world. Amanda is paying two people to find a friend, make a sign, download an app, get a payment address, make a post to twitter. For $10 a person, they are completing this task. What else could these people be paid to do? Has there been a time before in history where a person sitting at a computer on one side of the world could hire thousands of other people to do a task and have them paid without banks? I'd love for this discussion to evolve into what else these people could be paid to do in a mutually beneficial way.





Overall, though, having $1,000,000 in unspent budget in a startup like Dash is unacceptable. It's a squandered opportunity.





Many of us keep waiting for Core to take this gigantic budget, invest every dollar (that's not going into R&D) right into productive marketing, such as Google, Bing, Reddit pay-per-click ads. Until the day that Core realizes that this surplus money needs to be reinvested into aggressive outreach and marketing to new investors, I think Tao's vision of surplus reinvestment into an evolving #FirstDashWallet campaign is brilliant, and we support it.