What's interesting is this guy doesn't allow comments on his blog post. Guess he doesn't want to enter the arena of ideas and have his challenged. But he does have a place to email him directly. I suggest we win him over, or attempt to rather than fight him. His opinion is based on a lot of ignorance about BitShares, but it's good practice for all of us to win over our worst critics, or attempt to, even if we dont. What's amazing to me is that with as many people as we meet and talk to at all the events we attend, rarely do we find anyone who has more than one or two objections...so bloggers like this are certainly in the minority..... B
Totally agree he should be engaged with and educated, but I think your final comment might be more indicative of trouble than the good you seem to be implying from it. Preston works professionally in the non-crypto comparable industry to what Bitshares X hopes to accomplish (derivatives). Because of that, he has context with which to look at Bitshares X and say "Oh, it's the same from conventional tools in this way and different in these ways and this is what that means" which I'm willing to bet most of the "bloggers" do not.
When you speak to these "bloggers" how many of them actually understand how Bitassets work, or even think they do vs. how many are just trusting that Dan knows what he's talking about and think it sounds really neat.
Do you understand how Bitassets work well enough to respond to this article?
I agree that in general not finding criticism, doesn't mean you're doing it right.
Does Preston understand bitAssets well enough to write the article in the first place?
I was a professional in the same or similar field and will say that I would not trust half these people to pick up my garbage. (oddly the individual i eventually partnered with independently, was actually a trash man, but that's another story) I would not want 98% of financial 'professionals' managing my finances, as I would not take economic advice from 98% of professional economists. How many journalists do you feel get it right because their profession is journalism? Ones profession does not always equate thorough, correct understanding. In fact its often people outside the 'industry' that break the mold. A professional is often too entrenched in his world view to see the value in what doesn't fit. I think we can agree here that what we're talking about, for many may require a new view of the world.
I don't mean to say Preston doesn't know what he's doing, or that he has nothing to offer to the conversation, but he clearly doesn't know what he's talking about with regard to bitAssets/BitShares, and so regardless of what he does professionally, his opinion about bitAssets, so far, carries little weight for me.
So, what I'm getting at is, someones profession
can lend credence to their opinion, though, if what they say illustrates a clear lack of understanding or proper investigation of the topic, its garbage, just like any other.