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

Decred was at it again this week — BUIDLing.

Here’s this week’s spotlight action:

Politeia Digest is back in full gear on Block Commons! Politeia Digest, as the name may suggest, is a full overview of new proposals as well as updates on approved/rejected proposals. This publication also covers updates on ongoing proposals to keep all DCR holders up-to-date. Decred community member AGNFAB has been putting creative talent to work by painting some very cool artwork (below). Who will buy this piece? Pretty epic name — DCR is Water, BTC is Fire. Imho, buying original Decred artwork could be a nice way to ride the wave as $DCR price appreciates. AGNFAB accepts $DCR as payment (obviously) and will ship these paintings framed to your doorstep with a signed note of description.

3. Sometimes we forget how big the Decred contractor community actually is. It’s impressive — see this tweet from Dusty Decred here. “Decred is a digital collective of 70+ individuals from 35 different countries working for and getting paid by the blockchain.” That’s pretty amazing.

4. This week I spoke with multiple Decred users who are experimenting with mixing/privacy. Very exciting times. It is also clear that there will be a clear, UX implementation into core Decred wallets that will enable private transactions. Here is your resource for Decred CoinShuffle++.

5. New Decred in Depth episode with Permabull Nino. Permabull “discusses the Politeia proposal process and his ongoing work analyzing ticket movements on the Decred chain, introducing concepts like TVWAP and Hodler conversion rates.” — I’m looking forward to listening this evening.

6. Looks like there was a high-turnout Decred meetup (in Poland, I think) this week. The event was hosted by our friends at GoCracow. These meetups seems to be great for learning more about the all-powerful GO programming language.

7. Posted by Richard Red, voting went live for Phase #3 of the Open Source Research Program. Previous funding (for earlier Phases) supported the rise of resources such as Block Commons and Crypto Commons. This is an important proposal to make your voice be heard — log into Politeia and vote here.

8. Wonderful evaluation of PR Firm’s proposals was posted by Exitus this week. This is a must listen. It questions which PR Firm we should hire for Decred — Ditto or Monde PR. This is real money — your money — going out to pay for work and hire services for Decred. So it’s important to vote! While the voting for these proposals has passed — we need more videos like this to dynamically dissect the performance of past service providers. Congrats to Monde Public Relations for being Approved by the community.

9. DCRComic had some very nice posts this week. On Jan 17, DCRComic gave an overview of Decred Explorer. And on Jan 23, DCRComic gave a nice overview of the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) community’s decision to create Development Fund. Wonder where BCH got that idea from! Open source software funding is going to become a major issue in 2020.

10. Akin Sawyerr speaks out about how important Decred’s governance mechanism can be to African nations in an article on Coindesk. Going to be interesting to see how Decred in used in African nations over the next decade.

11. Checkmate points out some major issues that will surely come in 2020. Decred is ready.

That’s all for this week. Onward!

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Dragon

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