Welcome to "Decred and the State of the Market," brought to you by Exitus and PhoenixGreen. In this episode, we’ll dive into Decred's strategic positioning and long-term vision, exploring the innovative thinking and development philosophy that has shaped this unique cryptocurrency project.

## Livestream Agenda:

* Stablecoin summer

* Biggest leak ever: 16B logins & passwords exposed - https://x.com/VivvekShukla/status/1935762735813283999

* Dave C on why Decred - https://x.com/realdavecgh/status/1930497471613940185

## Discussion Q&A:

* a fair launch, community-driven development and innovation, treasury for development (10% of miners rewards)

* A Fair launch vs Tail emission

* Low PoW miner rewards risk reducing network security...

* PoS ticket voting and Politeia governance favours wealthier and more active stakeholders

* Limited mobile functionality

* Privacy features are limited compared to dedicated privacy coins ( Considerations: inflation prevention, ease in changing the cryptographic primitives, and long-term pruning)

* Contributors and community face barriers due to the complexity of the protocol

* the hybrid consensus POW / POS just makes everything super complicated and potentially vulnerable to hacks and bugs