Assuming they could do it, why would you expose yourself and let everyone know you are? It's more profitable to not tell anyone what you are doing than expose yourself.

Quote from: r0ach on September 27, 2015, 05:26:46 am

when someone asked me "what do I need to do to try and become a Bitshares miner/delegate?"

Show the community that you deserve to be a miner:

Tell us who you are, where you live, show us proof that you kick ass, or show us a picture of your gear, tell us your business plan, or impersonate Ken Code.  Tell us what you plan to use all your mined BTS for.  Be creative, or just be f'n cool, and make us laugh.  Tell us who you know, drop some names.  Have your famous friend sport a BitShares T-Shirt to the Grammys.

Quote from: r0ach on September 27, 2015, 05:26:46 am

when someone asked me "what do I need to do to try and become a Bitshares miner/delegate?"

you tell them:

"simple...just do the exact same thing you do on a job interview for any job:"


sell yourself

Good miners are a dime a dozen today.  You need to differentiate yourself from the rest.  BitShares mining is all about being a good community member... we want good team players, dedicated fanatics, or people who just want to structure their political and financial lives/careers within the ecosystem.

I think a prerequisite should be that the person must join the test network for a period of time and demonstrate they a proficient in managing a witness. After that a they can be released into the the pool of users that quality to be voted on for the witness role. Just like there are metrics to judge a poor performing witness, there should be metrics to prove worthy of being a witness.

Why not just add different levels here in this forum?  You could have, a sub forum for verified stake holders, whales, and all levels in between.  Couldn't you just sign a transaction with an account key, or transfer to an address with a certain memo to prove ownership?  After that it shouldn't be too hard to automatically check that balance once per day, and give the account appropriate permissions.

Why just make it a membership forum. If its that valuable ppl we pay to join.  Have 1000 or 5000/mth fee.

BitShares : We make too big to fail small enough to succeed.

Nice! 

I got my nets set for the falls and my cape on for the rise!   

If I was just buying I would just hold, but when you are buying on margin you gotta sell sometimes to keep from getting ran over.

Polonix has been having issues with BTS deposits the past few days. It something on their end.