Ditto’s December 2019 recap.md

Placed CoinDesk Year-in-Review op-ed by Jake about decentralized governance “It’s Time to Walk the Talk on Decentralized Governance” https://www.coindesk.com/its-time-to-walk-the-talk-on-decentralized-governance
Secured three pieces of tier-one coverage:
CoinDesk - article on the sale of .org domains, which includes a quote from Richardred https://www.coindesk.com/planned-sale-of-org-angers-many-open-source-crypto-developers
Off the Chain - podcast with Anthony Pompliano and Akin, talking about crypto in Africa and Decred’s unique governance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNg5G_EZxtU&feature=youtu.be
NasdaqTV TradeTalks - segment with Akin talking about blockchain in Africa https://www.nasdaq.com/videos/tradetalks%3A-blockchain-emerging-technologies-in-africa

Arranged and attended a media tour with Akin in NYC, where he met in person with reporters at The Block, Fortune, Pomp’s Off the Chain podcast, and the Chain Reaction podcast (pending publication).
Secured Cigars and Crypto podcast with Akin, which aired on Christmas Day https://anchor.fm/investnoir3/episodes/Episode-73---AkinSawyerr-e9pnmu
Secured tier-one business interview with Akin, which are pending publication. Following up with the reporter for coverage, and will share once story is complete.
Secured and staffed an interview for Marco with CoinDesk, and followed up with stats on contractors paid via Decred’s Treasury. Pending publication.
Prepared panel briefing doc and conducted media outreach for Akin’s participation at the Digital Money Forum at CES (Tuesday, January 7). Arranged for him to speak on a panel called “The Libra Effect” https://thedigitalmoneyforum.com/2020-agenda/, alongside Michael Casey of CoinDesk and Dante Disparte of the Libra Association.
Spearheaded a Twitter poll on Decred’s most noteworthy achievement of 2019. The winner was the privacy implementation, with 36.6% of the vote, followed by Politeia & DAO progress (33.1%). 475 people participated in the poll. https://twitter.com/decredproject/status/1207060170855141376
Identified and shared opportunities for the community to engage with Crypto Twitter and educate outsiders about Decred. Lately, the community has been abuzz on the unique contractor model at Decred, particularly for developers. With the community contributing more than 40 unique posts using #cryptodevs and a new handle @dcrgoodfirst as a new aggregate of good first issues for developers interested in contributing to Decred.
Developed Phase 3 Ditto PR proposal, which will be live on Politeia mid-January.