First let me tell ya'll that I am very pro-DASH. I own DASH and also have got me a great reward. However I have always been skeptical of DASH plans for the future, actually not skeptical but rather inquisitive. Sort of a 'yeah... but' idea.
Evolution is posted to be the solution for everything. But first of this is vaporware, so is hard to evaluate vaporware. Making people aware that what they are talking is vaporware is not as easy as one might think.
Besides the vaporware issue, there is also the actual goals. None of the actual goals actually help their major goal of being accepted as digital cash, evolution solutions seems more like a solution for online banking and manage your funds on an easier and faster way. But none of that will actually be something that will make it easier for me to buy a cup of coffee on any store across the world unless they adopt it.
Now Evan interview seems that he is tinkering the backend into a more complex masternode layer with more hardware. I am not a hardware expert but this doesn't really sound like something I want. I mean, DASH now is required to be a masternode on a straight hardware. This makes it DASH as a hardware store more than a general porpouse machines. This is nothing new since you can argue that the bitcoin network has been ran on specialized hardware.
Also not sure how these connect with evolution.
As I made a post on the slack, I thought Evan was going Jeff Barker from Silicon Valley about bringing ideas in a common 'box-enterprise' model.
The next point of conversation is the DAPI. I have read the DAPI since 2015 and have even read the whitepaper, although is not clear enough to explain it. From his interview Evan say he wants to divide it from the privatesend and making the network more sophisticated through a tor-like onion routing to make the funds more secure.
On the topic of masternode shares, is a hot topic because a lot of people might be able to get some reward however seems these plans have been put off for the future. This is disappointment because like Joel said, a lot of people wanted to gain the voting rights. Seems the only answer is the Node40 masternode shares organization.
Personally I think this is a mistake since this could be huge for the adoption of DASH which is a missed opportunity. The issue is that Evan sometimes seems very disconnected with the overall feeling of the community.
On the topic for core team workflow is also another hot topic since right now, is not possible for the community to 'fire' core devs members. Since transparency has been gone off the road. So transparency is needed, unfortunately Evan is the least efficient communicator to do this and I don't think is a good idea to have him as the liason. Joel idea was much better since he has a communication experience as a journalist and an avid writer.
The question becomes, do we need new development groups and also how we can get better development projects off the ground.
The last question of the interview about crypto and banks where DASH has been damaged or not worked as expected. So this becomes a lot of growing pains for DASH as a crypto tool.
About me:
Steemian, crypto fan, like to listen to 90s hip hop, and loves to chat about Linux Python and Free software. Runs a local Tech club in sunny Cancun, and enjoys hopping on planes and landing somewhere else.