You should speak your mind more. Silence is taken as conformity here. But being vocal is also the enemy, regardless of intention.
Here, https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,10148.msg132915.html#msg132915 Gentso1 clued in to what was really happening and BM stated the finances were fine even though we got paid delegate dilution because finances were not in fact fine. I agreed with Gentso1.
I also was demanding one sentence why VOTE was all of a sudden some became a "secret sauce" and I never got a response to the question. Only some BS about how voting is corrupt and BM has to try and change it blah blah blah.....VOTE merger was a scam and will alway be a scam. It will never work. DNS had a chain and Toast was the lead developer. BM didn't have to split time with DNS. So this was all about getting VOTE, the DAC least potential to become the reason we needed to give i3 more shares and Adam a huge stake.
Newmine is right in at least that VOTE is never going to work. Its just a fantasy that you can convince governments to move voting systems over to a blockchain that they dont even have a stake in.
Am I the only one outside of the core devs that understands BTS, VOTE and DNS are the holy trinity?
Together these things form and incomprehensibly powerful tool that can change the course of human history.
DNS is not going to work either, at least not as a self-sustaining profitable business.
For blockchain-based DNS to work, browsers need to be integrated with the software to lookup ips from the blockchain. That means getting the likes of Mozilla and Google Chrome on board. Does anyone think they would ever care about anything we have to be incentivized to partner with us? No. In the remote possibility that more than a few geeks started to care about looking up websites from blockchains, Google or Mozilla would just add their own blockchain into their browser. Again they have no stake in BTS either. Even if BTS had a $1 billion market cap they wouldnt care.
Once the core BitAssets take off then yes it might be worth it to add on DNS into BTS later, but this was never going to be a catalyst for large user growth.
Just my opinion.