How possible would it be to start doing price feeds for this asset? I think it was always in the BitShares plan to have a decentralized oil asset. Some investors would be intrigued by this and would put more BTS into contracts.

It's bugging me that the participation rate is 96% and not 100%. It looks like bitcube (@cube) has not produced a block in a month but is still a witness. I suggest moving votes away from bitcube and to delegate-1.lafona (@lafona) who has the lowest missed blocks rate of the top standby witnesses.
Particularly @bitcrab @Harvey @newtree (baicai) @Xeldal and @cass

@fav is voting awesomely, as usual. I <3 the cryptofresh voting page: http://cryptofresh.com/ballots

I'm also happy for folks to proxy to me, @kmnk
I have an interested in bitshares staying fantastic and I'll keep my votes up to date with what's working and what's not.

Voting in bitshares is super important and you can participate passively by proxying your vote to someone else. A lot of people choose @xeroc and although he is an superb community member with great knowledge he already has enormous sway (too much even by his own accounting) and doesn't respond quickly to changing workers and witnesses.

I've been doing some calculations on obits just to see what's cracking and if it's a good investment. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Right now obits are around 1c (usd) each. If the switch to sharedrop goes through, which I think it will (see obits.io/voting) I've done a calculation for how much I'll be getting back on a $100 investment.

OpenLedger has been very transparent with the data from obits and I expect they'll keep doing that. Over the last few months on the 2nd of each month Obits has put between 1 million and 3 million BTS towards a buyback of Obits. (obits.io : buyback history)

I think October will be a good month (with BlockPay and BTC:peerplays as well as obits trading itself generating big fees) so let's assume a 2 million BTS sharedrop on a 7,202,031 Obits supply:

10,000 Obits/7,000,000 Obits (my share of the supply) * 2,000,000 BTS * .005 BTS/USD = $13.84

That's a pretty insane return. In <10 months I'd have over 100% gain. Is this right?

Is discussion formally moving over to the bitshares page on steem?

there needs to be a place for beginners in bitshares to go and get information easily such as:

how to get bitshares?
how to use openledger
3-4 different choices of blockchain explorers right now I can only think of 2, cryptofresh and openledger.
how does bitshares work? witnesses? workers? committee members?

I know bitshares is always changing and I think it's changed by far, on the whole, for the better, but we can't let the communication get all tangled up more than it already is. Bitshares.org needs to point people in all the right directions.

Let's discuss where the discussion is taking place. I like steem, seems steemy. Saunas are hot.

I guess if nobody responds that's kinda an answer too.

Bitshares' organization needs help. From an outsider perspective Bitshares is difficult to approach. We need a portal for the up-to-date, informative, functional humans we actually are.

My suggestion is this: make a site (I suggest openledger.info) look more like blockchain.info or at least blockchain.com.