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General Discussion / Re: [ANN] [STEEM] Introducing Steem, Looking for Witnesses / Miners
« on: August 01, 2016, 09:47:07 pm »The sharedrop was promised by Invictus company .
And STEEM is run by STEEM company .
So . it's ok not to drop on it .
I have to say this is a very strange response from someone who's been around as long as you have. Steem/Steemit/Steemit Inc. is running on code and talent developed for Bitshares. Dan's pitch, and the reason so many invested in PTS/AGS, was that the code base could be used to bootstrap an entire ecosystem of blockchain based projects. Investors would fund development of the initial code base and in return would receive a share in future projects.
The world is a harsh place and I would expect some to profit by abusing the 'social contract' upon which investment in PTS/AGS was premised via any number of schemes (ie. we changed the name on the sign and are no longer on the hook) but to be completely honest the lead dev is the last person I would have expected to do this sort of thing.
Those of us that invested in Dan's vision in the early days did so because his vision was sheer genius - design a generic platform which could be used by others to build an entire economy of block chain based businesses. By funding the creation of the generic platform investors could share in the success of the businesses that were built on top of it.
Steem/Steemit/Steemit Inc. seems to be the first profitable (?) realization of Dan's vision and hot damn, it's hard to believe the Bitshares folks are being left to hang.
Yes, BTS seems to be seeing some buying of late. Yes, the 'select few' that followed Dan are enjoying an influx of capital. All good things. But the social contract that was supposed to transcend the legal/political/corporate fuckery that defines the current state of the world seems to have been shat upon.
Say it ain't so! I've held my investment through brief highs and long, long lows because I believe Bitshares has real potential to level the playing field, globally. Hopefully Dan is having his Skywalker moment of doubt and is dabbling in the dark side.
It ain't so. Do some research. There are innumerable people still working on BitShares, and many of the people working on Steem are also very active in BitShares. If Steem had not been invented, BitShares would have ground to a halt because their were no development funds, and some of the devs NEED TO EAT, and NEED TO FEED THEIR CHILDREN.
There are some very "entitled" people in BitShares who think they are owed something beyond what had been produced by the time development funds ran out (and further funding through dilution - a very common business practice, as in new funding rounds - could not get the required votes).
And look at BitShares Munich, one of the leading sources of BitShares development now. It has brought in thousands of dollars of bitshares development funds for itself BY POSTING ABOUT IT ON STEEMIT.COM and getting upvoted there (when it couldn't raise enough funding by selling its OPENPOS asset on the DEX).
The ignorance sometimes displayed in this forum is stifling.
thanks for your view of an "inside
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Aren't you the guy who took month after month of pay from the blockchain to fund his own bitshares-related business startup? And then shut it down?
Yours is the type of ignorance that I am talking about. And your constant negativity and bitterness are not only stifling, but counterproductive.
true, and the opensourced codebase is here: https://github.com/wildbunny/metaexchange
the community paid for this and for this reason the codebase is opensource.
but, why has my personal opinion something to do with this?
@oldman
thanks for your post, you said what i would like to said if my english would be better
@bytemaster
good to see you have success. But you will not erase your past, good luck to look into the mirror!