Quote from: xeroc on October 28, 2014, 12:55:26 pm

It seems that a large stakeholder (probably a set of several stakeholders) decided to put some delegates in the active list



That party seems to have access to roughly 15% of the BTSX stake.

I'd kindly ask for the new delegates to introduce themselves!
Further, I'd recommend to publish feeds for the assets also!

Personally, I hope this is not one of the major exchanges as (IMHO) they are not supposed to vote for anybody using costumers funds!

About your question of whether exchanges are voting, I believe the answer is yes. They definitely have approved several delegates, but I can't say whether they are actively voting, though I suspect yes. Here's an example of a transfer from BTER to my account that shows 11 delegates have been chosen:

http://bitsharesblocks.com/blocks/block?id=602596

Good question. Traditionally, I measure marketing performance by revenue minus how much I spend on advertising. It's really easy when you can track everything that's going in and out of a funnel... It won't be possible to objectively measure any delegate position. If you're a developer you could have someone like bytemaster determine the code quality and we can all see commits being made on github. Marketing will be considerably more subjective since there is no way to track how much a marketing campaign adds to market cap.

Similarly to seeing a developer post commits, you can see the ad campaigns I launch. I can post the results of any A/B tests I conduct so ALL marketing efforts can benefit from a scientifically provable marketing message.

Quote from: liondani on October 28, 2014, 08:18:55 am

so effectively you are saying that it could be possible for btsx to live...  and the merge not to happen ? Or letting all dacs in existence? or what ever...  depended of the "elections" ?

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Quote from: Vato_ on October 26, 2014, 04:23:35 pm

There will be no merge. Only an airdrop wich results in a greater overall supply for BTS(X).
You will be able to claim your stake but I do not believe you can import your DNS accountnames.

I think so too ..
This will require some certain steps to redeem your airdropped funds ... and we should probably come up with an ELI5 tutorial on how to redeem them ..

Quote from: 天籁 on October 26, 2014, 05:41:22 am

Quote from: xeroc on October 25, 2014, 11:11:27 am

Quote from: mavisjames on October 25, 2014, 03:51:42 am

@Bytemaster, Are you guys just going to hardfork the current BTSX blockchain or launch a brand new BTS genesis blockchain off the snapshot essentially leaving all BTSX worthless after the snapshot?

for BTSX users there will just be a client update .. renaming BTSX to BTS .. all trades .. all bitUSD will just continue to be there .. no major change ..
it's not really a hard "fork" .. more a hard "upgrade"

So the shorts need not be covered, sure? It is very important!

If every short has to be covered before the "airdrop" .. would result in the need for ALL bitUSD to be destroyed .. effectively killing the market ..

conclusion: Having the need to cover shorts will kill bitUSD in short term .. make investors angry and people lose money ..

conclusion2: There will surely be no need to cover your short position!! (due to the "merger"/ transition to the superDAC!)

further supportive indications: BTS will be just a software update to BTSX .. nothing more!
all bitAsset balances will be preseverd .. all open orders will be preserved .. no changes will be made to the market engine (unless bugfixes)