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General Discussion / Re: If you are a Brownie holder
« on: November 01, 2015, 06:38:32 pm »
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The problem with a high number is voter apathy, so like i said, becoming a delegate should require you to submit a collateral bid, then the client is set to automatically vote for the highest 101 collateral bids unless you choose to manually vote.
Is nobody paying attention here?
r0ach makes one of the best suggestions/proposals I have heard lately!
We should evaluate them seriously.
PS I agree with the PR nightmare known as 17 delegates
PS2 PR was never his "big thing"
Not a bad idea... but it is effectively buying your way into power which is less accountable and has different risks.
Many can't see the forest but for the trees. i.e. sticky posts right under your very noses.
A discussion of micropayments can be found in the P & P index.
Don't miss the latest post there either, where the issue of accounting is raised about all costs of the ecosystem. To determine if micropayments are economically viable one must fist ascertain the cost to provide them, and I have not seen any type of discussion about that in the form of a comprehensive income / expense statement for the entire BitShares operation.
It's a difficult task to accomplish when so many variables are in play and changing all the time. The analysis may therefore be more of a projection than hard cold empirical numbers.
The issue is Bitshares needs adoption. If you can't attract people through micropayments how exactly will you get a person to work to earn a whole BitUSD? If people cannot earn a BitUSD through surveys, clicking ads, or watching ads, how will they learn the value of BitUSD? Don't assume that new people are going to want to buy BitUSD or that everyone has Bitcoin to trade to get BitUSD.
There aren't enough ways to earn BitUSD and that is suppressing the marketing effort. Micropayments would immediately fix that but would come at a price. In my opinion the price is worth it because the fees can come from many places.
Perhaps so, I don't agree or disagree with that point.
You seem to miss my main point is that WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT how to sustain a business (i.e. blockchain operations) to support them. I don't believe that subsidizing them from other means is sustainable, except from a charity basis.
I'm saying we need to do a comprehensive analysis of costs and income before we can know if micropayments are economically viable and I see NOBODY taking on that challenge, or if they have they have not disclosed it to the community here.
What I'm talking about is not rocket science, it's simply good business. If we can't do this for our own blockchain it makes us look like hypocrites when we say bitcoin isn't sustainable due to the cost of their security model.
BTer withdrawal back in action, successfully pulled some out. Should help the price with people no longer having to dump for btc.
We urgently need to fix bitshares.org to be able to even start this
24 ) nice good looking and info oriented website for ordinary users to know more about BTS .
Oh, wait .......There is already one . www.AboutBTS.com