- PTS went PTS-DPOS? I can import my old PTS wallet in PTS-DPOS now? Is PTS-DPOS still running?
- AGS went straight into BTS. Or is there anything else?
- BTS is still BTS? What is BTS 2.0 in a nutshell?
- Does I3 still exist?
- How are you doing?
1) PTS has been upgraded to PTS-DPOS .. not sure if it is still running.
At least no one I know of is using it
2) AGS has been sharedropped "half" of the BTS
3) BTS(1) has been "upgraded" into BTS2 with a 'pitch fork' ..
Essentially everything was moved over (except for transaction histories
and open orders) .. see http://docs.bitshares.eu/migration/
4) I3 does no longer exist. To separate business (for legal and tax
reaons I think), Dan created a new company called Cryptonomex (CNX) that
has developed Grapehene (the core technology of BTS)
5) Fine .. Heading for FrankfurtMain shortly to get some legal
clarification about Peermit.com (2FA authentication service for
BitShares)
Other Rip Van Winkle factoids:
6 ) Ronny Boesing at the CCEDK exchange has adopted BitShares and is pouring a ton of energy converting his exchange into OpenLedger.info - a decentralized exchange
network that is open for other exchanges to build on and share market depth, network effect, and products and services. It makes its order books public by using the BitShares blockchain as its back end. This is providing us with some much needed effort at building the business and marketing it to new customers.
7 ) There are many other partners who are also building their businesses on top of BitShares. Lest I leave anyone out, I'll leave it to each of them to add a paragraph to this list.
8 ) After the AGS donations were fully utilized in 2014, the developers formed Cryptonomex to continue to do development for BitShares based on our developers' own sweat equity. There are about twenty such stakeholders sweating for equity, most from this community. This led to the lightspeed Graphene Toolkit (limited only by the speed of light and the dimensions of this planet).
9 ) Cryptonomex donated it's Graphene Toolkit to BitShares and the community upgraded to BitShares 2.0 in September.
10 ) BitShares 2.0 is the first "real time" DAC which runs at 3 second block times (scalable to 1 second and 100,000 transactions per second) compared to, say, bitcoin's 600 second block times and 7 transactions per second.
11 ) All sorts of new BitShares 2.0 features are summarized on the home page at BitShares.org. In particular check out the referral program. You can earn up to 80% of the lifetime network fees of every user you sign up.
12 ) We invented a new kind of tradable asset to go with Market Pegged Assets (MPA) and User Issued Assets (UIA). These are called Fee Backed Assets (FBA). FBAs are UIAs that have been hardwired to pay their holders a share of the fees generated by some new function or service on the BitShares blockchain. This provides a new incentive for new developers to add features and get paid for their efforts. In effect, an FBA is a mini-DAC that shares the BitShares blockchain. It also gives BitShares interesting new assets to trade that you can't get anywhere else.
13 ) This year Cryptonomex continues to support BitShares in several ways:
a. Using its own funds, it is building new FBAs to generate development revenue and drive traffic to BitShares.
b. Using community funds, it continues to build community priorities - determined by voting.
c. We continue to support other partners with consulting services to grow the number of businesses using BitShares.
14 ) What else am I forgetting?
Other than that, the developers have been mostly slacking off and taking unfair advantage of the poor unfortunate badly abused trolls.