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We welcome with open arms any input, ideas, or suggestions

Here we go. I was at a friends house and we started talking about tech. He then asked me what I thought about Ethereum, and he also mentioned ripple. He is just an observer of crypto with no stake in anything, but he confirmed that he has heard loads of press about those other projects and none about Bitshares. When discussing why that was, he showed me ethereum.org, and he praised its clarity and speed at telling the visitor what he needs to know about ethereum. At the top of the page it has headers for:

What - clearly explains what ethereum is

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Ethereum is a platform and a programming language that makes it possible for any developer to build and publish next-generation distributed applications.

Why - clearly explains why I should care about ethereum

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Most of the services you use today have something in common: they are centralized...

We then compared it with bitshares.org, my passive observer friend said that he couldnt tell what on earth Bitshares was. There are no quick links at the top for What and Why. Instead there are links to TV - he doesnt want to watch 30 minute TV episodes, he wants to know what BitShares is in 20 seconds or he is closing the page and going elsewhere.

His comments after reading the content on bitshares.org were:

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Avoid the outrageous fees... As Good As Cash

- so why is this any better than Bitcoin?

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Any Currency

- other projects give you multiple currencies, why is this better?


Anyway this is the honest feedback that my friend gave me about the site. We need to explain the core appeal of BitShares more succinctly.

I think this is all true. Needs to be clearer.

It seems tome that we're getting close to the 1.0 and then some polishing. The marketing efforts are ramping up and some exchanges are reaching out to us. Still need to put in a lot of hard work though as i thin we need to be as polished as ripple (all their stuff looks sharp imo).

I have no idea what the real potential is, but if LTC can reach $50 it just doesnt seem right to me that BTS should be valued less when it does so much more. Imean where else can you save in gold and earn interest on it? You need to believe LTC will have value in the future, i would rather have a bitasset that pegged to something - gold, silver, usd or something else.

After all that, i guess we will just have to wait and see.

Quote from: charleshoskinson on December 31, 2014, 09:52:06 pm

How much did you pay yourself?

I had a lower salary than almost all of the developers and took a bonus of equal size.

I applaud your efforts, dedication and vision bytemaster. Thank you for all you have done and will do.
Heres to a great 2015.

PS. This goes for all the other developers too by the way 

I love the payment gateways ripple has, but what's more exciting is once we will be able to send Bitcoin or any other asset to our Bitshares addresses

>>>> http://i.imgur.com/ons6sUz.png

Yea thats a nice looking interface they have IMHO

Keyhotee is effectively dead =\

Oh man, that sucks. Well thanks for clarifying Toast.

When we get to 1.0 and people have some time, lets delete the links to it.

I thought I caught wind of one, but have not noticed anything in the forums.

I dont mean to sound ignorant, but what is this new feature?

Obviously if we failed to trademark BitAssets when they were in fact trademarkable that would be a sizeable mistake on our part.

  Let try and trademark BitAssets if possible