Every Thursday this brief newsletter highlights top-notch Decred content from the previous week.

Good afternoon and welcome back to The Decred Drive, where we take a closer look at the Decred community’s hard work and commitment to building a more fair financial infrastructure.

This week was busy. Let’s dive in (drive in??)… =)

Checkmate released his third research paper, Decred, The Resilient Stronghold. Imho, these top-notch research papers from members of our community are invaluable as they will be referenced by newcomers and veterans for years to come. Make a cup of tea, sit down, and read this one. If you don’t have the attention span, Checkmate was kind enough to give us a TL:DR. On the social media front — two incredible things happened this week: 1) JYP rejoined Twitter, and 2) our long-neglected Instagram page finally got a post. Give both a follow if you’re on either social media platform. DCP0005 was approved! Out of 22,019 tickets that voted, 13 voted no. That’s 99.94% support. Community spoke loud and proud on this one:

4. New Decred in Depth podcast with Elian Huesca. This podcast is simply fabulous. Great work Angelo. But wait! What’s this?? We have a new podcast as well… thanks to Permabull Nino and Checkmate…

5. Welcome to ROUGH CONSENSUS. Looks like Angelo may have been kind enough to show Permabull Nino and Checkmate the “podcast ropes” to help them start their own podcast. Really looking forward to this series gents. Love the informality of the conversation — flows very well. Nice how it is very discussion based.

6. If you haven’t already, head over to DCR Comic. Such a colorful website for learning about Decred... All the comics are clearly list for your learning pleasure. In the most recent comic, Decred’s own Matheus Degiovani explains DCR Lightning Network. Also, Stakey has a way of turning around a bad day:

7. In discussion on Politeia, from Haon, Decred Europe — Grassroots Marketing and Event Proposal. Please take time to discuss and explore proposals directly with the proposer on Politeia. It’s very important for the community to have clarity on that which we are funding from the network fund.

8. Exitus had an epic post on Twitter this week. Imho, ARK Invest is potentially the best asset manager and research firm in the world when it comes to evaluating opportunities in disruptive technology. Very early-stage investor in Tesla and Amazon, Cathie Wood is simply a legend. Read more about Cathie here. Will be interesting to chat with ARK and Yassine more about Decred.

9. On the price action front, I’d have to agree with Crypto Emporium that “$DCR is criminally undervalued.” It’s amazing how disruptive technology can be mispriced… and therein lies the opportunity. Remember TSLA was trading around $180 in May 2019. Not anymore. Imo, it’s important to have at least a little exposure to assets that represent ownership of technologies that can potentially change the world. Assets like $DCR.

10. It constantly amazes me how global the Decred community is. A uniting force. Check out the video recap from the Decred meetup in Nigeria. The community in Nigeria is growing and strong. Looking forward to updates on Decred’s continued presence in Nigeria.

Last but not least, congrats to Exitus and Checkmate for their proposals being Approved on Politeia. We look forward to much more colorful research from Checkmate and more top-notch Decred video content from Exitus.

Thank you and have a great weekend everyone.

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Dragon

@DecredDragon on Twitter