I just realized why Andreas used such a long-winded and loaded question trying to confirm whether Bitshares would be for traditional businesses looking for better transaction ledgers.
"BitShares does for business what Bitcoin did for money" ---- This was the first thing Andreas saw when he researched BitShares prior to the interview! It lead him down a completely incorrect rabbit hole of thinking. No wonder he didn't have any follow up comments to that question -- He had been completely mislead by our slogan into thinking the USP of our technology would be for traditional businesses rather than the masses. If we had had a clear slogan on the website that actually explained our USP, Andreas would have participated 10x more in the discussion because he would have been correctly prepared rather than thrown off-guard . I can only imagine how many people the current slogan has deceived.
We need a better slogan -- Now!
Edit: Brian, get on this. and not to be a dick, but get on it now! Be reminded of this -- discussions about correcting the slogan have have gone on for months and even you have conceded that ithe slogan needs to be changed. As DOM it is your duty to make this right. Please respond to this with confirmation as to whether you will or will not change the slogan.
Isn't Andreas another POW fanboy ? Bitshares has been around for quite some time, I don't think he got much from the slogan.
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Yeah I don't think Andreas took anything from the slogan. That long line of questioning starting at 28:00 was centred around the idea that a POS type system in general unfairly rewards early adopters specifically in the use case of the shares being used as just a currency. Andreas feels POW & mining is a much better, fairer form of distribution.
So all his questions were designed around proving that, starting at about 35:30 Daniel clearly succinctly debunked the whole POW idea imo and explained why the BitShares system specifically is actually much fairer even for a global currency use case than anything out there. After that they moved on...
Edit: I'm not against changing the slogan though, I think I'm one of the ones that brought it up. I just haven't seen anything since that jumps out like wow, yes, let's use that!