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General Discussion / Re: Bitshares identity crisis - have we changed course?
« on: October 30, 2014, 11:46:04 pm »Bytemaster had good reasons for merging the DACs. No one is perfect and no one can totally plan ahead every last detail.
Can we please just move on? The rebranded & merged BitShares without the X even sounds simpler, and will be more appealing to new buyers who dont understand every minutia of BTS crypto-lore.
Merging multiple DACs is not contrary to the original vision of Bitshares. If it makes sense and if the shareholders agree then there wouldn't be a problem with merging Vote with BTSX, or even possibly DNS (though that seems like a tangent). Also, I've been arguing for a re-brand for a looooong time. Neither of these action is contrary to the original vision of an open Bitshares platform.
The problem initially began with the proposal to "eliminate PTS/AGS" (though that has been reversed) and the ongoing hostility towards even the mere existence of other chains built on the Toolkit. Even though the decision to eliminate PTS/AGS was reversed, there is still another sharedrop to PTS/AGS happening on November 5th which seems totally arbitrary. I argue that we should not re-sharedrop PTS and AGS and that we should support their continued existence as sharedrop instruments for 3rd party DACs. Furthermore, we should separate or support the efforts of others to separate the core Toolkit from the BTS repo to make it easier for 3rd parties to fork the toolkit and develop cool DACs.
Isolationism doesn't work and centralization doesn't work. Bitshares as a platform has far more potential than Bitshares as a swiss-army knife of features built into a single blockchain with a hostile and unwelcoming attitude towards alternative strategies. Would you rather own a single app or the entire operating system? Are we a spider or a starfish? We shouldn't be consolidating around a particular action or product decision (to merge or not to merge). Rather, we should consolidate around a set of core principles that define our mission and identity as a community.