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.
I don't think Evan wants to change Dash in any of those ways. We like that you can clearly audit the blockchain, but with mixing, you can't follow where the coins came from.
What will happen is coins will go through mixing in the 3rd tier network, the Evolution version, and instantly be mixed through a quorum. I believe it'll be equal to 10 rounds, and the ip address of the user will not be distinguishable to the first MN in the quorum, because the user is sent to the quorum from an entry point, which obfuscates that information. And that entry point has no way of knowing what is being sent back to whom.
So in the end, mixing will simply be instant, and better than ever, but look exactly the same as it does now.