http://btstip.io

let us know what you guys think of the platform

It looks ok, but current on-hover effect is very annoying for me.

2nd thing, IMO there is no point of displaying a message "click to sign in" if this is only the one option on the website. Just show login form.

What about autobridging to fix this problem?

Yes! This is that I am thinking about.

Or could the bitshares webwallet show a combined orderbook with the best prices for TRADE.BTC/OPENBTC against BTS?

I think user should be able to choose a partner. The price should not be the only factor.

Right now we have:

BTC, bitBTC, TRADE.BTC, OPEN.BTC... and every new gateway will produce new SOMETHING.BTC. From perspective of new user this is far too complicated.

But in my opinion this is not the worst part. The main problem with this approach will always be low liquidity. And this is not only my concern.
https://twitter.com/genxnotes/status/660845841565941760



In my opinion gateways should work more like (or exactly like) https://metaexchange.info/ or http://shapeshift.io/. As far as I know, metaexchange provide liquidity with their own funds, having in mind that they will generate profit thanks to spread.

From my perspective all gateways should be "end-to-end" (BTC<->bitBTC) and "single transfer" gateways. I should send my real BTC to address generated in my wallet , and this should cause that bitBTC will appear in my bitshares wallet. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY to have simple gateways. Otherwise they are yet another exchanges. And we have to remember, that if any exchange is based on User Issued Assets, they are always counterparty risk. This risk will be bigger if users will be tempted to keep their positions on SOMETHING.BTC:BTC orderbooks.

Community testing should become part of the deployment cycle.

100% agree.

Tbh what we need is a testnet..

This is also true. We should be able to test all kind of scenarios without having to worry, that this will cost us a fee.

Next step would be to automate testing. And do not merge a Pull Request without all unittest pass, and do not release new version without all selenium tests passed. I could help with that.

I asked Max few days ago about bitshares.tv:

https://twitter.com/noisypl/status/659876266959618048

First of all, I am not in anyway related to livecoding.tv (I am not sure, why I want to emphasize that...). I am just a big fan of the idea, that other people can watch you as you write a code.

Livecoding.tv is not a BigBrother system. In my opinion it's a movement similar to "Let's Play" series very popular among gamers and youtubers. And you have to remember, that there are gamers which made a lot of profit thanks to their "let's play" activity.

I think a lot of developers are curious about how to develop anything in blockchain technology. That would be the great way of showing this and even teaching them, simply by showing the real live project. I think it also would be great way of:

* promote a bitshares among very technical people
* share a knowledge about bitshares development
* have a kind of free code audit during development
* I guess, this will be unique in the cryptocurrencies world.

Why I wrote, that this is a crazy idea? Mostly because I think that it would be too good to be true. Nevertheless, I sincerely believe that this is possible!

I know that this is not easy just show other people your screen. We are all humans, and we are always afraid that someone will told us, that we are doing something in wrong way. I had similar feeling when I decided to create few episodes of my own "Let's Code" series... and upload it on youtube.

I uploaded on youtube 4 movies, and I had almost 1000 viewers. And that was just an attempt. That was some small meaningless project comparing to bitshares.

I am sure that bitshares developers are professionals, which already did extraordinary things. Why not show to the world the true effort which stands behind code developed by them?

I am sure, that there is a strong demand for livestreams on livecoding, but I am also curious how much of you would be interested to take a look how bitshares magic become a reality on daily basis



PS.

In a moment when I am writing this post, there is a livestream with 1437 with viewers. Do you see the potential?

Unfortunatelly, Recurring & Scheduled Payments is still not ready, but in my opinion this could be a game changer for bitshares.

I am wondering whether you think the same. I believe, that recurring payments can guarantee quick grow of number of transactions.

I started this thread, because I think that this would be useful to have list of possible markets, which could be positively affected by bitshares technology.

For example, in Poland a lot of people use cell-phones with prepaid cards. User phone-account could be refilled automatically with new funds on monthly basis. Right now I can refill my phone-account by bitcoins with 10% discount, but I need to remember about that. With bitshares everything could be automated.

What are other type of services, which could be integrated with bitshares?

Maybe some entrepreneur will read that thread and will create new service with bitshares integrated

Simple question. Do you have any ideas?