*BUMP*

I think this BSIP is needed more now than ever before, we've barely got competition against the currently elected witnesses & the 'campaigning' for these positions is almost non-existent. We're seeing witnesses in power who have zero price feeds and several who are entirely anonymous. I think that having to refresh your votes once every 6 months would be healthy for Bitshares. The solution to voter apathy isn't to ignore the problem and rely on proxies, but rather to encourage participation in the voting mechanism.

The CryptoFresh block explorer is notorious for going down, and it's currently our only web block explorer which many services rely upon.

I believe that users have reached out to the owner of CryptoFresh unsuccessfully requesting the open-sourcing of his explorer in return for a payment/worker-proposal (despite his requests for witness votes to fund the website), so I think it's a good idea that we try to lure new developers to this task.

I understand that anyone can create a worker proposal to request payment for work, but it appears that only long term community members have had the confidence to create worker proposals. Perhaps it would be worth creating a public bounty which upon the delivery of an open source block explorer is paid out?

If there was an open source block explorer, I'd run my own Gridcoin themed Bitshares block explorer & I'd imagine that many others would run their own explorer.

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What do you think?

What should be the minimum requirements of such a block explorer?

What would be a fair bounty for such a task?

Looking forwards to the sharedrop

Interest/Profit-Sharing/Dividends was discussed in today's Bitshares Hangout, give it a listen when it's released.

Edit: https://steemit.com/beyondbitcoin/@glitterfart/bitshares-hangout-2017-04-28-beyond-bitcoin-radioshow-raw-recording-for-impatients

Would anyone be interested in collaborating on a BSIP for this idea through google docs (or a more FOSS alternative platform)?

Thanks for adding Open.GRC to BTSBOTS

If we had custom dividend rules for UIA, you could potentially set an x% issuance per year to be distributed to said UIA asset holders - you would be able to migrate POS cryptos to such a system with a one-way-peg.

How would we cover the 100% collateral though? Poloniex does this with a centralized insurance fund..

Ideally all witnesses should be publishing feeds.