Q Thank you for having me on. You bet. So, so Dash is one of really the only survivors of kind of the early, uh, how do we say, the early heydays of, of kind of crypto, where there were, there was all these kind of altcoins out there and such. So, describe to us today, what does Dash do, and how are you different than Bitcoin?
A Well, uh, so we are based on the Bitcoin code base, so it, it operates with the same level of security that, that users are accustomed to there. The three areas that we mainly improve on, number one is on governance. We have an explicit governance system that allows the network to actually vote on changes as opposed to, uh, kind of having Reddit debates, um, about what should happen next that can rage on for quite some time with other cryptocurrencies. The second major area is we're self-funded. Um, most other cryptocurrencies, and certainly all the first generation ones, um, all rely on donations of developers' time, uh, donations of server infrastructure in order to run the network, and so on, and the only thing that's compensated is, um, uh, the mining activity. Um, and we recognize that there's more than one need on a network, so we, we Have incentives for the infrastructure and incentives for, uh, people to contribute to the network. Uh, the Dash core team receives its funding from the network itself in order to operate. And the third major...
AI assessment note: “The three areas that we mainly improve on, number one is on governance.”