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All the latest from the Decred DCR development stack

Treasury Expenditure Policy Bug

Treasury Expenditure Policy Bug

Payments from the new decentralized treasury infrastructure are currently blocked and will be delayed until a new consensus vote takes place to implement a change to the consensus rules. Contractor payouts will continue via the legacy treasury until the changes are deployed and activated.

A More Private Way to Stake

A More Private Way to Stake

The Decred community considers privacy to be a fundamental human right. Protecting the privacy of Decred users has been a core tenet of the project since its inception. To quote the Decred constitution:

Decred 2019 Marketing Report

Decred 2019 Marketing Report

Bitcoin gamified time-stamping. Decred gamified decision-making and formed a digital collective, a technology-enabled experiment in human organization. The core infrastructure is under construction; the same holds true for Decred communications.

Introducing DownloadHawk

Introducing DownloadHawk

We recently observed the Monero hack in which an attacker compromised getmonero[.]org and replaced one of the binaries with a malicious coinstealer. The Monero team has good reliability when it comes to security and all indicators seem to show that the attack was sophisticated.

LN & Multi-Owner Tickets

LN & Multi-Owner Tickets

One consistent question over the past few months as Decred’s Lightning Network has entered testnet, is on how it relates to the staking system and if they will be somehow integrated.

Introducing Dcrpool

Introducing Dcrpool

Decred’s high network security is a result of its hybrid Proof-of-Work (“PoW”) and Proof-of-Stake (“PoS”) mining system. It depends on how decentralized Decred’s PoW and PoS actors are. With over 20 Voting Service Providers (“VSP”)

Iterating Privacy

Iterating Privacy

Decred’s privacy features and plans are ready to be revealed. The goal of our privacy features is to be simple, adaptable, and creative.