I love the way we will be differentiating ourselves from the rest of the crypto world... Let others fight over micro payment scraps as we go after the big fish

just to be clear guys,  i need to buy bitcoin before i can buy bitassets or bitshares right? is it right in saying theres no way i can go and buy directly from my debit/credit card or bank transfer.

You can buy bitshares directly with fiat using CCEDK.com

So was this announcement suppose to be at noon eastern US time?  Almost 2 hrs late if it was.

There was just an announcement today that you can buy bitUSD on CCEDK with a wire transfer.  The best bang for your buck would be to open up an account there.  Wire them USD. buy bitUSD.  Then sell the bitUSD on the bitshares exchange for bts.  I think you would stand to make 5-10% on your money right away.

Quote from: kenCode on June 02, 2015, 09:29:26 am

I hope DPOS2 will fix the voting issues. I pay $100 every month just to run for Delegate

How so? My machine cost $9 a month .. what monster machine are your running here?

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.. and I run high-quality feeds too, which most Delegates don't:
http://bitsharesblocks.com/delegate/feeds?name=delegate.kencode

Can you elaborate on how you achieve "high-quality feeds" here?
I see an
Average deviation from median: -2.60%
for your delegate .. while my delegate's feed shows:
Average deviation from median: -0.17%

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The fees I pay, the bounties I pay out, the feeds my server produces, the verifiable work that I do here, the business connections I bring, the media attention I Agent, none of that matters in DPOS1. So, I have high hopes for DPOS2...

paying fees for the feeds is part of the job description .. you don't need to publish feeds if you are not in the top101 .. really .. no need!
Why do you think that you work is not honored with DPOS1 and it will change with DPOS2? Shareholders obviously do
a) either not yet see your contributions or
b) they see your contributions as insignificant or
c) they don't trust you ..
why should any of this change with the protocol upgrade to DPOS 2.0?

Xeroc bringing down the hammer!

Obviously I'm not going to win this battle as anyone who may have bought bts with knowledge that an exchange would be integrating BTS isn't going to admit it here.  And i'm realizing internet battles might be the least productive thing in the world.  I'm also not a BTS bear, I got lucky and bought a bunch when it was trading around 9mil.  But if a BTS bull like me is bringing this up, what do you think people in other communities or anti bts people might say?  Insider trading happens everyday on wall street and many never get caught.  Its the repeat offenders that do.  If it wasn't the core dev team making the announcement I don't think it would be that big of a deal, but they have direct control over BTS until 1.0 is released.  We just saw Ross Ulbricht get life in prison for a grey list a crimes and creating a website.  Don't give someone a reason to investigate the dev's. 

Well look at this... Giant run up in price prior to a bunch of announcements, then a small pump after the announcements by the last suckers buying, followed by a 25% dump within a day.  Sold to you...

But just remember that there was no info disseminated privately before the announcement to a privileged few...