Bitshares has some serious competition: http://www.augur.net/

[btswildpig]

http://www.augur.net/blog/augur-at-sxsw-s-startupdebut
http://www.augur.net/

Robin Hanson is involved and he's probably the thought leader in prediction markets.

Bitshares was supposed to be a prediction market. What happened?

you can't jump to the moon without a solid infrastructure .
Function is easy , stability and performance is hard .
You can add a lot of function in it . But then again , even the current load of function is buggy as it is , you don't want to rush for more and fix it later  .

[luckybit]

http://www.augur.net/blog/augur-at-sxsw-s-startupdebut
http://www.augur.net/

Robin Hanson is involved and he's probably the thought leader in prediction markets.

Bitshares was supposed to be a prediction market. What happened?