Re: [ANN][DASH] Dash | First Anonymous Coin | Inventor of X11, DGW, Darksend and InstantX
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1200/RR1231/RAND_RR1231.pdf
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Put another way, Bitcoin is anonymous in
the following sense: It is as though every bank transaction and every
bank-account balance is known to anyone with an Internet connection;
the only information that is unknown is who owns each bank
account, something that can be inferred from user interactions.
Clearly, such anonymity is unacceptable for everyday economic
life, and therefore additional safeguards must be built in.28 For many (if
not most) existing VCs, including Bitcoin, the current process of maintaining
anonymity amounts to learning a degree of cyber-operational
security or tradecraft, which seems unrealistic for the layperson.
....
"It is difficult to evaluate the ultimate security (and usability) of
Zerocash, as it has not been tested in the crucible of real-world use
and evaluation, though its theoretical mechanisms have more rigorous
security proofs than virtually all existing VCs. By contrast, Dashcoin is
currently being used and seems to be reasonably anonymous (certainly
more so than using Bitcoin without additional privacy-enhancing technology),
though it has only been in existence for about a year as of this
writing; its current market capitalization much less than that of Bitcoin,
thus an equal comparison is difficult to make.4"
...I'm bolding the part of "tradecraft" and layperson because I'd really like to see out of the box anonymity in both the IP part and the transaction part. If you give the layperson an out-of-the-box anonymity, you are tapping a much broader audience than the geek crowd who can set up their own IP anonymity/obfuscation.
....
Put another way, Bitcoin is anonymous in
the following sense: It is as though every bank transaction and every
bank-account balance is known to anyone with an Internet connection;
the only information that is unknown is who owns each bank
account, something that can be inferred from user interactions.
Clearly, such anonymity is unacceptable for everyday economic
life, and therefore additional safeguards must be built in.28 For many (if
not most) existing VCs, including Bitcoin, the current process of maintaining
anonymity amounts to learning a degree of cyber-operational
security or tradecraft, which seems unrealistic for the layperson.
....
"It is difficult to evaluate the ultimate security (and usability) of
Zerocash, as it has not been tested in the crucible of real-world use
and evaluation, though its theoretical mechanisms have more rigorous
security proofs than virtually all existing VCs. By contrast, Dashcoin is
currently being used and seems to be reasonably anonymous (certainly
more so than using Bitcoin without additional privacy-enhancing technology),
though it has only been in existence for about a year as of this
writing; its current market capitalization much less than that of Bitcoin,
thus an equal comparison is difficult to make.4"
...I'm bolding the part of "tradecraft" and layperson because I'd really like to see out of the box anonymity in both the IP part and the transaction part. If you give the layperson an out-of-the-box anonymity, you are tapping a much broader audience than the geek crowd who can set up their own IP anonymity/obfuscation.
That's the most interesting thing I've read recently, Rand Corp is the leading global policy think tank and also the organization that got Game Theory off the ground in the 1950s, which is such a foundation to everything we are doing in crypto currencies. The fact that Dash is on their radar is quite telling I think.
We are on the radar, but not totally since they named a cryptonote coin.
There are 13 references to Dash in the paper, 11 are correctly named Dash, 1 is named Dashcoin, and the other is a link to 'dashcointalk.org'. Some references to Dash in the paper are prior to the rebrand and some are after, I can only guess that before publication they had to update references to the new name and during that process someone used the term Dashcoin. It's very unusual for RAND to have any consistency errors in a publication like this though.
Bio's of the authors.
http://www.rand.org/about/people/b/baron_joshua_william.html
http://www.rand.org/about/people/o/omahony_angela.html
http://www.rand.org/about/people/m/manheim_david.html
http://www.rand.org/about/people/d/dion-schwarz_cynthia.html
Metadata in the pdf shows it was published on 7/12/2015 and modified that day.
May not be entirely accurate by at least there is broader interest in the subject matter.
This is really cool. I sent it to my mother to try an justify the viewpoint that I'm not criminally insane
LOL But I haven't read it yet, and it's just chilly enough to curl up with my touchpad and read 
So if I disappear again today, this is probably what I'm doing