I don't think there is a need for a feature to do this. Worker proposals are the way to go both ways: either to add a new feature or to remove an old one.

I think it would be best if there is not a separate worker proposal for marketing video but instead some part of the actual worker proposal funds for this feature would be pointed for the video. We could probably also raise some sum with donations, at least I could give something like $20 for this.

Nick Szabo's newest blogpost: Two Malthusian scares

"For in reality, post-gold-standard prices for industrial commodities are not driven purely, or often even mostly, by industrial demand being met by appropriate changes in material supply.  Instead, both supply and demand curves have been warped by a new role for the major industrial commodities -- they are no longer purely commodities; the are in part also money."

"During the Bretton Woods era the U.S. dollar, pegged to gold at $35 an ounce, served the entire free world as a common and reliable standard of value.  The transition from Bretton Woods to floating rates left the world with no common and reliable standard of value by which to guarantee future real returns on contracts or investments.  As a result the most commonly traded commodities, and especially geopolitical commodities such as oil and phosphates, became Mengerian intermediate commodities, with a price premium as a store of value that waxed and waned with the weighted expected inflation among the world's various floating currencies. As a result, the prices of these commodities are much more volatile since 1970 than they were during the Bretton Woods era. Epochs of increasing inflation expectations have led to rapid, broad-based commodity price rises, where the market gives out false signals of scarcity, leading to Malthusian anxieties and panics that we face a future of diminishing natural resources."

Come on people, we can't repeat again all the marketing mistakes we always do.

When (or if) this will be rolled out, everybody should be marketing in any way they can. Version number will be changed to 2.1 to signal that Bitshares has been changed in a major way. This is not even a cheap gimmick but totally true. After this change Bitshares will become somewhat usable for projects that need micropayments. And Bitshares can be used all over the world, even in poor countries where people can't afford to pay our current fees. This will be first economically viable option for third world countries – with smartcoins this is a huge opportunity for billions of people.

All the basic things have to be done:
- Information on the website: main page, technology overview page and blog
- Press release
- Try to get Bytemaster to as many podcasts as possible
- Pictures to be shared on social media
- etc, add your own

Let's not fail again and keep a new feature as our own secret. Hasn't anybody been wondering why FBA isn't getting any traction? Because nobody knows about it. There's not even a mention about FBA in the website!

I'd like to see some marketing budget to be included in the worker proposal, for example for a short video that explains clearly how Bitshares will function from now on. This revolutionary feature has to be understood, otherwise people won't get interested and won't care.

What's going on? Your current worker proposal is the most accepted one, but two new proposals have negative amount of votes. Who are voting against these and why?

how much would it cost us shareholders to implement the zero fee subsidized transaction Proof of Bandwidth poroposal you blogged about the other day?

reducing friction will bring more liquidity but exactly how much remains to be seen
thats all thanks

And how fast this could be done?

I agree that this is really interesting idea!

Biggest problem that comes to my mind is how to handle the transition from our current system. All other exchanges would have to find a solution that will satisfy all customers that aren't interested in moving their BTS to our internal exchange. Could creation of bitBTS work with this system?

I'd like to see that people stop talking about inflation in the case of Bitshares. We don't have any inflation, there is a fixed supply of 3.7 billion BTS and that's it.

If somebody wants to decrease the active supply, there are two possibilities:
- vote for refund/burn worker
- get more paying customers, because part of the part of the transaction cost will go to reserve pool

It's really this simple, let's not complicate the message. After all, this is also very important metric to see if Bitshares is working as it should be. If active supply is decreasing, it's a clear sign that things are working well. Customers are paying more for Bitshares than Bitshares is spending for maintenance and development.