I really like the marketing efforts of DASH both at conferences and on social media. Translations also have been very helpful in reaching new markets.

Is there some way that more funds can be directed to development this year (in addition to not instead of marketing). DASH is doing great on the marketing from but seems to be falling further and further behind in terms of privacy tech. Darksend cannot be compared (from a privacy standpoint) to CrytoNote/Confidential Transactions much less Zerocash which is now in alpha. Is there any chance DASH could try to implement one of these more privacy focused technologies?

With better tech in ADDITION to the nice DASH GUI, large community and marketing materials DASH would have a very bright future.