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Random Discussion / Re: Disappear, digitally
« on: December 07, 2015, 06:59:55 pm »How many VPNs are run by spooks? Great way to run a honeypot.
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My comment was pretty straightforward. I'm kind of amazed that anyone likes phpBB. It's like a fax machine. I have one so I might as well use it till it dies.
I disagree that a trollbox and a discussion board serve the same purpose. While I agree a trollbox can be searchable, I think it's analogous to using twitter as a support desk. Trollboxes help identify issues, but they do not provide a platform for other users to learn from the experience of others.
Based on the participation in this thread, seems like there aren't many people who care one way or another, and there are a few who do seem to care. Not a huge issue to me one way or another.
I'm also not opinionated on the brand. Would just like something that's based on a modern web technology that doesn't reload the page with every post, one that shows me in real time when I have replied and/or inline direct messages.
Talking to a guy recently who is very knowledgable about crypto projects in general... he knew of my past interest in Bitshares and asked me if it is true ... Is BitShares controlled by a small number of Chinese whales?
I told him I do not know, but such a thing could very well be true...
After reading this thread I really do wonder.
Some Chinese guy(including some so-called whales ) have asked me if BitShares is an ATM and controlled by a few western developers in I3 . why they can keep bleeding dilution on Chinese , Why the developers can put up a proposal that could grant them more BTS just in 2 month than any single whale in the Chinese community .
Sometimes I just don't know what to tell them .
Guess we all have our troubles .
This feature helps set BitShares apart from most other crypto currencies
The problem is not setting it up, as dev networks are trivial to create. The problem is demo liquidity.
I was listening to Beyond Bitcoin Show of November 6th. BM mentioned a demo website located on a central server with fictitious tokens as being an item on the roadmap.
I know it is for people to test dev stuff but can we use it for paper trading too?
I myself would love to play in a "sandbox" with fictional BTS, USD, BTC, etc.
Connected to a good tutorials and "voila"...Bitshares Academy!
This could also serve as a funnel to get people to buy Lifetime Memberships when they are ready to trade for real.
Anybody else interested in BitShares paper trading?
Yes. I think this could be a tremendous tool. I would enjoy it for all sorts of reasons. Eager to see it materialize.
The learning curve can be quite steep on first approach. The freedom to use all the features, turn all the nobs, and play with all the settings is a great way to become familiar and actually get whats going on, without spending a bunch of money or making a costly mistake. There's good incentive to build all sorts of things on this.
My understanding is that this is not meant to be DevShares but a sort of playground. DevShares would specifically be the branch slated to replace the main network and would not contain any of the playground experimental stuff.
Hey @Xeldal you are probably more familiar than me about how one could go about creating such platform. I think it could be a great way to get new users...especially if we "gamefy" it. Just like those poker website where you can learn without spending any real money then when one feels good enough to play with real money, we've got a trained trader who will buy a membership to use the platform and actually use it.
Do we need a license from cryptonomex @bytemaster?
The un-banked are the target audience for cryptocurrency, so we must raise fees as high as possible to attract more high quality un-banked people.
I hope that helps!
The bucket shop talk is just an unrelated thing to this thread. Everyone keeps skipping over the main point:
"As for the referral system, I stand by my statement that the referral system is currently holding the entire network hostage. 5 to 20 is a 400% increase. No real referral system places such a huge burden on it's base system. Going from 5 to 7 or 5 to 8 I could stomach, but the current system, no way, not ever."
If the referral system is going to be legit, it should only affect the base by something like 5-30% max. 400% is absurd. It's like Mark Lyford was given free reign to design it.
When the outside world looks at this thing, they don't even know the fee rate can be changed over time, so they're thinking, "nice, if this coin hits 3 billion market cap like Bitcoin, I get to pay $15 in fees per transaction ! "