Thank you Evan (and tungfa) for sharing this with us. I'm glad to hear that the planning phase has entered its final stage
and i'm excited to hear about all the new (and overhauled) elements that are getting introduced with Dash Evolution.
The new hardware that is getting developed which specifically focusses on Dash and with keeping it secure
and efficient sounds very interesting.
The future looks bright for Dash
While it sounds all really good and DASH follows a correct Path to become the digital world currency the dedicated hardware part worries me. I might missunderstand this but for security and cartell reasons it is no good idea when the Hardware for the Network comes from DASH itself.
If it comes to that you need this specific Hardware in order to run a masternode then how can this network stay trustless?
I see it like how ASIC's evolved from GPU's with regards to mining. This specific piece of hardware will support masternodes, with increased efficiency, increased security against DDOS and will comply and most likely exceed the hardware requirements (RAM, CPU) but I suspect it is an optional choice.
I suspect Masternode owners can still choose to upgrade their rented servers every so often and secure it themself instead of taking the dedicated hardware route.