We all ready have too many things going on so the most we can do is encourage independent teams and help vet ideas.
I really get that and can more than see that there is so much to be done right now.
But like I said my point was not about material outcomes, like funding or giving a 3rd party responsibility and a specific assignment. I can not see from here whether this makes sense or not. But it is about non material matters like making personal connections with those 3rd parties so that they keep the faith in the Bitshares project and are not lost forever or go somewhere else because of personal disappointment. Adam B levine, domsch, (potentially) Truthcoin are all examples of that same thing.
RESPECT, support, goodwill, interest and encouragement are emotional categories.
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Bithaus is just another PHP based exchange with 0 experience entering the crypto-currency exchange market. I certainly hope they can learn quickly and offer competition to Cryptsy and Bter and we would love to work with them.
might be true technically. I really don't know. But you don't say something like this (!) when you ever want to work together with them again and
you can not expect from them to talk positive about you and Bitshares again. HUMANS are p2p emotional beings, not technical collaboration engines!
You have an existential interest and a responsibility towards stakeholders that the most influential people in the crypto space are personally supportive of bitshares. I am a loyal supporter of bitshares (the basic model is sound and I like the I3 team which is trustworthy) and I don't see how Ethereum could benefit investors or society. But what Charles understands is that personal relations are crucial, are half of the success and that it doesn't matter if there is something coming out of this personal relation
immediately, this is a technical skill I would love to see within the bitshares team. It deserves it! You can never encourage somebody too much. You will get it back somehow. Why do you think Ethereum has all that coverage?