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General Discussion / Re: 2016 Vision Blog Post
« on: December 29, 2015, 03:13:16 am »Bitshares was in the great position to be a decentralized exchange, with increased security, and 0% chance of being mf globaled. The amount of traders that would have embraced this would have been huge... i personally know very influential traders that fear that the markets will be taken away within the next 10 years. With bts that would have been impossible. All we had to do was grow that business... but we killed our golden goose.
I agree with your initial assessment of the 90% and that the ideological goals would be easier to achieve once the financials were secure. However I do not agree that the golden goose is dead or even lame. The platform is powerful and one person's use case for it, even if it is the creator, does not drive everything. It can still be the exchange platform for the masses, the POS that competes with Visa/Mastercard, and a social currency exchange.
IMHO this is akin to trying to decide what the internet should be used for when really we should be just insuring that it stays as open as possible.