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Quote from: JoeyD on October 28, 2014, 08:02:50 pmWhere do you live? Mars. But I'm going off studies of investment behavior, probably mostly in the United States. I don't dispute that women like to spend money. I was talking about the investment mindset. So go ahead and set up some shopping malls if you want.
Where do you live?
Quote from: kuvira on October 29, 2014, 12:57:24 amwhats the plan on making them support it?also if ppl buy bitusd, does the bitsharex price go up? i am confused how this workskurvaWelcome aboard! I am a big fan of new, fast typing, opinionated, informed account holders like you!
whats the plan on making them support it?also if ppl buy bitusd, does the bitsharex price go up? i am confused how this works
whats the plan on making them support it?
also if ppl buy bitusd, does the bitsharex price go up? i am confused how this works
Quote from: ripplexiaoshan on October 28, 2014, 11:00:12 pmI do think South America market is more attracting than North America. Because North America is developed, all new things which have potential to break the current rules will be confined.And don't forget, BitUSD is the U.S. dollar equivalent. RealUSD is either hard to get or expensive to obtain. When one's own local currency has rampant inflation, BitUSD could be a very attractive store of value/wealth.
I do think South America market is more attracting than North America. Because North America is developed, all new things which have potential to break the current rules will be confined.
Quote from: sschechter on October 28, 2014, 08:06:29 pmIs there any women on this board?It would be kinda sad if the best representative of women is our "feminine" side.Btw:If one of the potentially 3 women that tonyk has spared no time, effort nor expensive to sniff out, reading this is wondering, no you don't have a male side. If you are feeling somewhat irritated by that fact just imagine the possibility of a male with no feminine side at all.PSYes I did just plant the image of TonyK sniffing out women, mwuahahahaha, language is such a wonderful thing, the things you can do with it.
Is there any women on this board?
True, but there are two counter factors. (1) There are far fewer women in technical areas. High tech fields are male dominated. Many of the people who have found BitShares thus far have some technical understanding of it. This means there are fewer early adopters among women. (2) Studies have shown that when it comes to investing, men take bigger risks than women do. Women are much more conservative with their money choices. The funny thing is that both approaches end up with about the same results when it comes to investing studies that I've seen. I think if we make it simple and useful for everyone, we will have no shortage of women and men who wish to use BitShares.
Pardon me for keeping this off topic, but getting bitshares and bitusd accepted by the fairer half of the population is kinda, sorta essential. If they all think of it as bitshits, no matter how fertile we make the concept out to be, it would be an uphill battle before they will smell the roses.
Quote from: Stan on October 28, 2014, 05:11:03 pmQuote from: matt608 on October 28, 2014, 04:03:58 pmQuote from: MeTHoDx on October 28, 2014, 04:01:56 pmQuote from: Stan on October 28, 2014, 03:36:38 pmWho are you waiting for? This is a decentralized industry.Anyone with the vision and skills should grab a niche and get going. You clearly have both. I understand what you're saying. I'm an independently wealthy serial entrepreneur with too much time on my hands and an obsession with BitShares, why not just go do it? The problem is, I'm already spending too much time on this as it is (according to my girlfriend who now lovingly refers to BitShares as BitShits ) and bootstrapping network effect in the aforementioned niches will require [small] seed capital (not to mention a significant time commitment). Posting on these forums in the hopes my ideas get through to the Invictus hivemind is just about the best thing I can do right now. I'm open to suggestions.What about becoming a delegate with dilution once that feature launches? I would vote for you and I'm sure lots of others would.Also, hire your girlfriend so you get double-credit for time spent talking business with her. Haha! Careful there. I talked to a guy worth millions who plays golf all day. He lists "Data Input" as his occupation on his tax returns. Red flagged for an IRS audit...
Quote from: matt608 on October 28, 2014, 04:03:58 pmQuote from: MeTHoDx on October 28, 2014, 04:01:56 pmQuote from: Stan on October 28, 2014, 03:36:38 pmWho are you waiting for? This is a decentralized industry.Anyone with the vision and skills should grab a niche and get going. You clearly have both. I understand what you're saying. I'm an independently wealthy serial entrepreneur with too much time on my hands and an obsession with BitShares, why not just go do it? The problem is, I'm already spending too much time on this as it is (according to my girlfriend who now lovingly refers to BitShares as BitShits ) and bootstrapping network effect in the aforementioned niches will require [small] seed capital (not to mention a significant time commitment). Posting on these forums in the hopes my ideas get through to the Invictus hivemind is just about the best thing I can do right now. I'm open to suggestions.What about becoming a delegate with dilution once that feature launches? I would vote for you and I'm sure lots of others would.Also, hire your girlfriend so you get double-credit for time spent talking business with her.
Quote from: MeTHoDx on October 28, 2014, 04:01:56 pmQuote from: Stan on October 28, 2014, 03:36:38 pmWho are you waiting for? This is a decentralized industry.Anyone with the vision and skills should grab a niche and get going. You clearly have both. I understand what you're saying. I'm an independently wealthy serial entrepreneur with too much time on my hands and an obsession with BitShares, why not just go do it? The problem is, I'm already spending too much time on this as it is (according to my girlfriend who now lovingly refers to BitShares as BitShits ) and bootstrapping network effect in the aforementioned niches will require [small] seed capital (not to mention a significant time commitment). Posting on these forums in the hopes my ideas get through to the Invictus hivemind is just about the best thing I can do right now. I'm open to suggestions.What about becoming a delegate with dilution once that feature launches? I would vote for you and I'm sure lots of others would.
Quote from: Stan on October 28, 2014, 03:36:38 pmWho are you waiting for? This is a decentralized industry.Anyone with the vision and skills should grab a niche and get going. You clearly have both. I understand what you're saying. I'm an independently wealthy serial entrepreneur with too much time on my hands and an obsession with BitShares, why not just go do it? The problem is, I'm already spending too much time on this as it is (according to my girlfriend who now lovingly refers to BitShares as BitShits ) and bootstrapping network effect in the aforementioned niches will require [small] seed capital (not to mention a significant time commitment). Posting on these forums in the hopes my ideas get through to the Invictus hivemind is just about the best thing I can do right now. I'm open to suggestions.
Who are you waiting for? This is a decentralized industry.Anyone with the vision and skills should grab a niche and get going. You clearly have both.
Quote from: MeTHoDx on October 28, 2014, 03:10:29 pmQuote from: mf-tzo on October 28, 2014, 02:28:24 pmPeople in Greece will soon literally hide Eur in their mattresses in a couple of months and by the end of 2015 people in Italy, Portugal and Spain as well...The lost opportunities for establishing network effect in niche markets is driving me nuts.Who are you waiting for? This is a decentralized industry.Anyone with the vision and skills should grab a niche and get going. You clearly have both.
Quote from: mf-tzo on October 28, 2014, 02:28:24 pmPeople in Greece will soon literally hide Eur in their mattresses in a couple of months and by the end of 2015 people in Italy, Portugal and Spain as well...The lost opportunities for establishing network effect in niche markets is driving me nuts.
People in Greece will soon literally hide Eur in their mattresses in a couple of months and by the end of 2015 people in Italy, Portugal and Spain as well...
I've always championed bitAssets over bitUSD and hope we can promote those as an idea first and foremost. After all, bitAssets can cover many different currencies, not just the dollar. But bytemaster has a point in wanting to promote bitUSD first, because (whether we like it or not) USD is still the primary currency for much of the modern world and even more so in the tech world, which is where we find ourselves. But agreed, we need to focus on the idea of "virtual" or "crypto" currencies on the broad scale, not just bitUSD and to those within USD based economies.
I think when delegates obtain the ability to inflate we should find some famous marketer and/or investor in a country like Argentina. They would run a delegate and could use that money to spread the word in that country.
Quote from: toast on October 28, 2014, 01:36:06 amFFS when will we start paying this guy to help usI suggest right after he creates a Potbit assets, writes a press release 'BTS now sells digital pot asset!', sends it to all media outlets, and as a result of the attention BTS price skyrockets ....
FFS when will we start paying this guy to help us
Quote from: CLains on October 17, 2014, 08:43:18 pmLTC jumped from under 2 dollar to 55 dollars this time around last year, from lower then we are now to 20x higher (1.2 billion).. From what I could tell 99% of that was hype generated internally from the crypto community, the average investors on the periphery being collateral damage sucked into it after the fact.In that case it was also a question of access, but then there was so much buzz, so much insanity and hype, "LTC on GOX" and "LTC ON CHINA" - everyone could feel shit was about to go down http://trollboxarchive.com/quote/20357534A BTSX pump would be awesome but I think the crypto community has become incredibly averse to altcoins in general. Establishing a solid foundation would ultimately do us more good than a couple of pumps (unless those pumps lead to infrastructure and BitUSD gaining use).
LTC jumped from under 2 dollar to 55 dollars this time around last year, from lower then we are now to 20x higher (1.2 billion).. From what I could tell 99% of that was hype generated internally from the crypto community, the average investors on the periphery being collateral damage sucked into it after the fact.In that case it was also a question of access, but then there was so much buzz, so much insanity and hype, "LTC on GOX" and "LTC ON CHINA" - everyone could feel shit was about to go down http://trollboxarchive.com/quote/20357534
Quote from: CLains on October 17, 2014, 09:07:19 pmQuote from: Empirical1.1 on October 17, 2014, 08:56:26 pmI remember Max Keiser was all over it as well, I think that really helped, he has quite a platform. I think his pump juice is much weaker now though, felt kind of sad watching him try do the same thing for MaxCoin.Keiser is involved with Startcoin now though Keiser had no actual involvement with MaxCoin, other than to allow others use his name. He's the anti-Kanye. Startcoin is his project, along with the Startjoin crowd funding platform.
Quote from: Empirical1.1 on October 17, 2014, 08:56:26 pmI remember Max Keiser was all over it as well, I think that really helped, he has quite a platform. I think his pump juice is much weaker now though, felt kind of sad watching him try do the same thing for MaxCoin.Keiser is involved with Startcoin now though
I remember Max Keiser was all over it as well, I think that really helped, he has quite a platform. I think his pump juice is much weaker now though, felt kind of sad watching him try do the same thing for MaxCoin.
However out of all the markets, until there is a catalyst, Western mainstream especially baby boomers are the hardest to target. So I'm not a fan of wasting money with big network effect programs trying to bootstrap them.
bitBTC <-> bitUSD, bitCNYTo the Bitcoin and alt community we could easily be a decentralized exchange with fast transaction times, almost no fees and yield on assets. Everyone in the crypto community understands the problems of centralized exchanges, they know about regulatory issues, overhead, and even cases like Gox, CryptoRush, and now Mintpal (not to mention the shadiness BTC-e or ineptitude of Cryptsy). I constantly now see people on facebook, twitter, chats and comment sections all slowly turning their backs to mining and calling out for good, decentralized exchanges.It feels to me like we almost have too many options at this point for how to market BitShares X. It is 1) a decentralized exchange, 2) a personal vault that pays interest, 3) fiat&assets on a blockchain, and 4) an opportunity to invest and speculate in a new type of bank and exchange. Combining all these aspects of BitShares X's potential with different target demographics will result right away in an explosion of possible marketing strategies.. How do we decide?
Anywhere demand is high but supply is limited or restricted. That's the market. It's like selling water in the desert, easy. The marketing strategy should clearly be to find the 4/5 markets that fit those criteria the most & try penetrate them, starting with the ones that are the most targetable.