So I want to call you Alex-ru, because that's your handle.
But I'm assuming that Alex-ru isn't your birth name.
That stands for "Alex Russia", am I right?
Yeah.
It's…
First I didn't have the intention to make me a public person so it was a kind of log-in
that wouldn't discover my identity.
So, I am Alexey Gusev.
I am from Russia, in Moscow.
So now I decided to be a public person.
And you decided to become public, I think just three weeks ago.
I logged into Slack and I saw a post from you.
And you said, in celebration of Dash crossing the $100 mark, here is a picture of me giving
my first public Dash presentation here in Russia.
I've decided to be public now.
Yeah it was not only my public presentation about Dash but my only public presentation
at the moment for being public so it was a kind of huge event for me personally.
It was a bit scary and all this stuff.
But I like it.
Yes, $100 price mark is a very important and so I'm now quite sure this project will
go further and so I decided that my anonymity will stop me in some situations, in some scenarios,
and lots of people start looking to get in contact with me to discuss possible cooperation
so I decided to be a public person and to support this activity.
Well I have to say, I think that that is wonderful.
And I will be keen to see if other people eventually choose to do what you did — to
become public at some point because for me personally, it can be difficult getting interviews
with people when something like a full half of the Dash Core team if not maybe more than
half, are you know, like you used to be, anonymous handles online and I ask them for an interview
and they say, no.
So I'm really glad that you became public so that I can talk to you.
That's great.
Although I see the strength in some identities now being known.
I see that too.
You see, there are some problems with being a public person, because in some countries
— in Russia also — there's some danger in some situations.
So it's always a kind of compromise between being public and active, and being safe and
anonymous.
So I can understand people who don't decide to be public yet but the situation may change
and later they may decide to be more public.
My English is not good as I said before, so sorry to all viewers if you don't understand
something you can arrest me.
No it's fine!
You know, maybe I'll even subtitle this thing in both English and Russian, because
that's what I want to get into next, which is, first of all, there is a Youtube channel
that publishes Dash information in Russian.
In fact, it's this fantastic girl who kind of looks — we both have dark hair and pale
skin — and she makes Dash videos in Russian.
Now, did you set this up?
Who is she?
And who's producing the stuff?
You see, it was a kind of a surprise for me also.
So I found the girl who was a video blogger and created some videos about — not only
about Dash — but how to make money on the internet in general, how to install different
wallets and all this stuff.
But I have noticed the sympathy that she gives to the Dash project and I contacted her and
asked if she needs any help with that.
So I helped her a little bit, but it was her general initiative in the beginning.
And I just helped her and she's willing to proceed doing this stuff herself.
Wow.
So she's quite independent.
And she does it on her own Youtube channel not the official Dash channel.
She's quite like you independent and beautiful.
Well I hope to meet her one day.
Maybe I'll have to learn — where is she from?
Kazakhstan?
She's Kazakhstan, yes, but in Kazakhstan about 90-95% of the population speaks Russian
so it's quite good that several countries around Russia support the Russian language.
And Yulia speaks perfect Russian and it helps her to get her success.
Yeah.
Clearly.
So I want to rewind into the past a little bit to ask you, when did you first hear of
Dash?
It was the middle of 2014.
It was my investigation about possibilities to invest in cryptocurrencies in general.
Of course Bitcoin was the main, most obvious direction, but I dug a little bit deeper and
found that Darkcoin — it was the name of Dash during that period — suits the best
way to my impression, what is the best and more viable way a cryptocurrency should be.
So that's why I concentrated most of my attention to this project from that moment.
And then how did you become involved?
Ok, so middle of 2014 you just hear of Darkcoin and you think, that sounds like something
I'm interested in.
And now, I go to Dash.org/Team and I see your name and face there as head of Russian Dash
Coordination.
I'll have to get the exact title, I forget your exact title on the site.
So how did you go from one to the other?
It's a long story.
I don't know how much time we have to discuss this stuff.
Just the once.
And then in the future, if anybody ever asks you this again, you can just send them the
link to this video.
Ok, so when I started my investigation about Darkcoin there was not much information in
Russian at all.
So my English was awful at that moment but when you invest some money you have to understand
what the project is, what are the details, what are the specifics, and this was a great
incentivization for me to learn more about Darkcoin, to learn English, and all this stuff.
At the end of 2014 I understand that many people in Russia can't find any information
about Darkcoin in Russian language and it stops them from investing, from helping this
project.
So at the very beginning it was mainly translation work.
We translated as many as possible key information about Darkcoin at that moment.
And soon we started to involve more and more people in this process and now we have the
whole team of translators — about seven, eight translators — working on translations.
And I'm coordinating them.
So I never intended to be the kind of formal leader of Dash Russia.
I would prefer if somebody else will do this work.
But as nobody had done anything I decided to put my efforts on it.
So, here I am now.Wow.
So you've done even more than I thought.
I didn't realize that you also learned much more English to be able to do this job.
To go back and forth.
That's very interesting.
So would you mind telling me, where are the main websites or social channels where Russian
speakers go to view things that your team has translated?
First of all it was our Russian section on the official Dash.org/Forum.
There are also some other cryptocurrency forums with Dash threads that we can post in.
There are several cryptocurrency media outlets here in Russia.
And they — most of them — are willing to publish any news about Dash that we have
translated.
Some of them prefer Bitcoin-only materials but many of the others are quite friendly
to Dash also.
So it's not a problem for us to publish information.
Recently we have a member of the Russian team — [Philipp] Grebenshchikov — who started
his own Dash-oriented website that is mainly specialized on Dash information.
And now about half of our translations are published there.
And also Yulia, this female video blogger, she's doing every week, Dash news video
in Russian.
It also helps us to keep our Dash people informed.
And this year I think the main channel is becoming the Telegram chat — Russian Telegram
chat — it's about 800 people there at the moment.
And it's the most-active source for people to get help, to get informed, and all this
stuff.
Wow.
So you would say that there has been growth of Dash ownership in Russia over the past
two years, since you started your efforts?
Yes, definitely.
I see a rise in activity in Dash not only investors but also miners and all people around
this project.
Maybe the last price rise have damaged this process a little because many people have
made a profit and sold Dash intending to buy it cheaper.
And now I know it's a really big problem because we really have missed many important
people of the Dash team who have done translations also.
People sold their Dash and then they can't buy them back so they are now looking for
some cheap alternatives.
And it's, well…
From another hand some new people, I would say, strong investors have come into the scene
and started their own investigation — how to help the project.
They are planning to invest into creating infrastructure.
But not only Russian Dash but creating some new services.
I think we will see them soon.
And it's another compensation for us for loosing some people but getting more, others
involved.
Very good.
I like to say what I heard Roger Ver say to Tao, I believe it was, don't short Dash,
don't short the altcoins.
But maybe I just say that because I myself am a failed day trader.
I remember, it was something — late 2014 or early 2015 — I first learned of this
concept of day trading in cryptocurrency.
And I thought I would give it a try with Dogecoin and Litecoin.
And of course I lost money.
And I never touched any of that again.
I thought, I am not a trader.
I would just like to find what I think is going to win.
And just hold on to it.
And that's it.
But…
So I have a final question for you Alex, which is, what is your advice for anybody who is
perhaps like you, in that a person living in a country that does not speak English as
the main language, and they're thinking the same thing you're thinking, which is,
there isn't a lot of Dash information in my home language.
How would you recommend that they get started on the same path that you are on for their
country?
If such a person is interested in developing a Dash project — maybe it's a kind of
investor or the kind of person who gets his own budget proposal approved — if they have
the incentive to do it, then just start working.
Because you can't create something huge in one moment.
You have to start doing basic things yourself.
Understand the problems.
The best way to optimize the process.
And then you just delegate this part of the process to other people in your country.
Don't try to do everything yourself.
Better to create an atmosphere and community.
The more people involved in the national community the more possibilities will appear.
Because if you have ten people that are involved in this process you can create different things
and possibilities and so on.
Very good.
So create possibilities — don't do everything yourself.
Help other people like Yulia the video blogger, like Grebenshchikov who created a site, like
many, many other people who want to help the project.
Help them to help the project.
Don't do everything yourself.
That's my advice.
Well I just appreciate that a lot.
Alright, well Alex, as I mentioned earlier you do have an online handle.
So for anyone looking for Alex on the Dash Nation Slack for example, it's "Alex-ru".
And is there anywhere, any other social profile people should look for you at Alex?
At the moment I don't spend much time in the Dash Nation Slack because there's too
much work in the Russian segment, in the Russian Telegram.
In Russian Telegram.
In the past I tried to help the English community a lot but now I see there are a lot of new
faces like you, like Tao, that are quite successful in this direction.
So I decided to dedicate myself to Russian promotion mainly.
But you always can find me at Dash.org/Forum, I'm "Alex-ru" there.
You can find me in the Dash Slack also — if you just tag me so that I will see that somebody's
looking for me.
So that I will answer it.
Ok good.
And then I will paste the Telegram invitation to the Russian Telegram in the description
of this video for anyone who wants to find you there also.
Ok, ok.
Alright, thank you for your time Alex.
Thank you.
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