We are not looking for a quick ticket to retirement.
Who says it's not going to be quick?
Overstock could have chose to put their service on the BitShares smartchain, and maybe it wouldn't have lost so much money building and maintaining redundant blockchain infrastructure. BitShares gives them full control over whatever system they want to implement and as much bandwidth as they could ever dream of, but it's all irrelevant now. OSTK is the hot chick that wouldn't talk to you in high school, but now realizes........
The BitShares smartchain is just the high speed internet connection. If NASDAQ, and Overstock want to relinquish their "first mover advantage" in this space, then that's fine with us, because as soon as one of their competitors chooses to leapfrog them by jumping onto our 100,000 TPS public blockchain, then Mr Byrne will realize that he just built his system on a dial-up 56k internet connection that he has to continue servicing at -$100,000
The BitShares blockchain (BTS) is the infrastructure. The market has not realized yet that all they need to do is to provide their service over the most robust infrastructure, and by the looks of the competition, it appears that nothing comes close to the performance of our smartchain.
But it is kind of funny watching people who steal IP try to reinvent the wheel.
I got your pitch right here:
BitShares - the choice is yours +100,000 TPS or -$100,000
If my analysis was a little too frank, and you still think that Mr Byrne is the one for you, then I'll delete this post. I just get a little upset when my chief talent, BM, gets publicly BR'd:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlwwVuSUUfc#t=37sBM just built a protocol that's adequate for mass global public consumption. What makes you think that he is going to get all star struck when Jeff Bezos comes knocking? Cryptonomex is firmly in the negotiating drivers seat. The only competitors to the BitShares Smartchain (where you will integrate your business) are centrally controlled blockchains that, as Mr Byrne is fast finding out, are not cheap to develop, secure, or maintain.
The price of integrating into the BitShares Smartchain went up the moment the 100,000 TPS secret sauce was discovered.
Name one company that you would trust with your money, and only there you will find our competition (if they forked our smartchain).
The reason you trust the BitShares Smartchain over all other chains in the world is because you don't have to trust that somebody else will vote in your best interest. Because you get to vote yourself.
If it's just good old publicity you want, just sit back, relax, and wait for all the public BitShares Smartchain clones to begin popping up claiming: Fork of BitShares, Fork of BitShares, Fork of BitShares. Bitcoin truly cemented its dominance following the rise and fall of its clones. What's taking this process so long to play out is the fact that much of the crypto community is miners, and the rest barely even comprehend mining.
Bitcoin 1.0 is static blockchain technology founded on a proof of work where the work is pure mathematical computation. Bitcoin 2.0 is dynamic smartchain technology based on a proof of work where the work is useful coding and marketing. Bitcoin 1.0 is the "primitive", and BitShares 2.0 is the "technical." The simple reason for this distinction is because Bitcoin1.0 (like fiat currency) is controlled by something other than the shareholders.
Technical Currency is Bitcoin2.0 because you get to trust your own technical abilities when voting on the survival of your wealth.
Primitive Currency is everything else besides hard assets where you put your trust in somebody else entirely (in god or Gavin we trust). So unless the bitcoin community gives control over the code to its holders, there are no other 2.0 currencies.
The break from non-shareholder controlled money (or code / protocol) was first performed successfully by BitShares through Smartchain Technology; and just as bitcoin was copied to puking, community controlled currencies like BitShares will be forked to death too. Not because BitShares is that awesome, but simply because BitShares was the first. One thing that will be different, however, is that the BitShares clones will be more successful than the Bitcoin1.0 clones, because centrally coded crypto resembles fiat more than it resembles BitShares.
BitShares - community controlled crypto code