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3. Video on front page (Augur, Slock.it etc..) that talks about never getting Goxed again
4. Profit

This is a pretty catchy BitAsset video I did back in the day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuXzQZAjPA&feature=youtu.be (I loaded it up again but as 'unlisted' as it's outdated/copyright issues/song author uncredited.) 

Realistically though BTS best interim bet might be to look at using some of this OpenLedger video with Ronny's permission https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--CivEZvTxU

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The front page of our website should just say     "Bitshares is a fully decentralised exchange"


The text currently on the front page of bitshares.org is meaningless to new visitors.

 +5% Something easy for people to visualize.  Simple as 1-2-3

1. Simple clean interface
2. Website targeting the Decentralized Exchange
3. Video on front page (Augur, Slock.it etc..) that talks about never getting Goxed again


4. Profit

@JonnyBitcoin @TravelsAsia check it now, it was updated

 +5% I sometimes think DEX only is a bit narrow, but underneath you've added

'BitShares 2.0 offers a stack of financial services including exchange and banking on a blockchain'

So it's an improvement imo.  (I think it should probably be 'financial services including an exchange..' )



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General Discussion / Re: Potential BitShares Road Map for 2016
« on: March 04, 2016, 03:02:03 pm »
If the largest banks can achieve deposits of over $1 trillion dollars with no meaningful interest, how many deposits could BitShares attract and what would that mean for the value of the bank?

Road Map

1. Lower Forced settlement to 95%
2. 2% BTS per annum directed to BitUSD. 
(With a yield subsidy many BTS Shareholders will yield harvest creating millions of BitUSD.)
3. Spend $200 a day incentivizing $100 000 of liquidity.
(For 0.2% interest per day  many BTS Shareholders send a small portion of their BitUSD to a liquidity pool where it's sold for $1.01 and bought back at $0.99)

Customers can buy this BitUSD from a bridge for fiat/BTC and save/spend it from a basic account & don't need to understand/see the DEX...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mr. Man In Street Account

BitUSD Balance:   $888             Buy BitUSD $1:01         Sell BitUSD $0.99
Current Yield:        4.6%

Buy/Sell with Bitcoin/Bank/Card via our trusted partners.

Visit Exchange (Advanced)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Their new BTS (For BitUSD) demand raises the BTS price incentivizing more people to short, possibly with some of the dilution being directed their too. Shareholders/liquidity pool will buy from them to replenish their position.

The yield subsidy is key imo to achieving a better result faster and it's largely self funding https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,21641.0.html
(By the time the yield subsidy is removed, banks will be charging negative interest well below -1%. So no NIRP will make private, zero yield BitUSD seem like a treat.)

i like it, but what about making the solution more general and coded into the smartcoins --fees from each smartcoin exchange go to yield on those smartcoins. that way we're not picking a winner (letting the market decide) and the yield funding process is perpetually self-sustaining. picking any fixed dollar amount from the general pool runs the risk of being the wrong amount and potentially cannibalizes other worker projects that could be funded. it makes more sense to me for every smartcoin to have the potential for yield, the amount varying by popularity of that market.

That's a good idea for when Smartcoin adoption plateaus or reaches maturity because at that point it wouldn't make sense to direct a percentage of BTS to BitAsset yield because it wouldn't be offset by equal or greater demand for BTS and so we would be losing value by subsidizing yield.

However if you fail to direct a percentage of BTS to BitUSD/Other Yield now you may lose the SmartCoin race because...

All else being equal would you rather hold a BitUSD with good yield or a BitUSD with no yield?

How much would it cost a competitor to offer yield?  Nothing.
(For the duration that their SmartCoins in circulation were increasing annually by a greater amount than the cost of the yield.)



Example: Let's say competitor ABC is identical to BTS. They have  a $12 million valuation and ABC is diluting by 2% a year or $20 000 a month and directing that to ABCUSD Yield. That would mean they are able to offer circa +5%  on up to $5 million of ABCUSD.

All else being equal, most customers would presumably choose the crypto USD with yield. So the next $5 million of crypto USD demand will go to ABCUSD not BitUSD. This creates up to $5 million of ABC demand which more than offsets the $200 000 worth of annual ABC sell pressure.  Until new ABC demand is less than the cost to ABC of subsidizing yield, they will grow in value and grow their ABCUSD. (As ABC grows in value the dollar amount of the %  directed to yield will also increase allowing them to attract even more crypto USD demand. Also the % they will need to dilute at a higher valuation to fund development will be much lower than the % BTS needs to dilute to fund the same development.)

ABC as the market leader will then also bootstrap because merchants will see they have millions of ABCUSD with thousands of holders and merchants will want to sell their products and services for ABCUSD much the same way 100 000+ merchants accept BTC but a lot less accept other cryptos like BTS which currently serve a much smaller market. This will create a situation where all else is no longer equal. ABCUSD even without yield at that stage would be superior to BitUSD because it is the most established, known, popular and most importantly has Utility.

Therefore I believe you have to take this approach of giving some of that early demand back to the customer or you will lose to a competitor that does. 

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General Discussion / Re: Potential BitShares Road Map for 2016
« on: March 04, 2016, 09:08:32 am »
If the largest banks can achieve deposits of over $1 trillion dollars with no meaningful interest, how many deposits could BitShares attract and what would that mean for the value of the bank?

Road Map

1. Lower Forced settlement to 95%
2. 2% BTS per annum directed to BitUSD. 
(With a yield subsidy many BTS Shareholders will yield harvest creating millions of BitUSD.)
3. Spend $200 a day incentivizing $100 000 of liquidity.
(For 0.2% interest per day  many BTS Shareholders send a small portion of their BitUSD to a liquidity pool where it's sold for $1.01 and bought back at $0.99)

Customers can buy this BitUSD from a bridge for fiat/BTC and save/spend it from a basic account & don't need to understand/see the DEX...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mr. Man In Street Account

BitUSD Balance:   $888             Buy BitUSD $1:01         Sell BitUSD $0.99
Current Yield:        4.6%

Buy/Sell with Bitcoin/Bank/Card via our trusted partners.

Visit Exchange (Advanced)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Their new BTS (For BitUSD) demand raises the BTS price incentivizing more people to short, possibly with some of the dilution being directed their too. Shareholders/liquidity pool will buy from them to replenish their position.

The yield subsidy is key imo to achieving a better result faster and it's largely self funding https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,21641.0.html
(By the time the yield subsidy is removed, banks will be charging negative interest well below -1%. So no NIRP will make private, zero yield BitUSD seem like a treat.)

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General Discussion / Re: Bitshares price discussion
« on: March 04, 2016, 04:52:29 am »
I'm stocking up on BTS right now, hopefully I still have another few hours to get some under 0.00001

Well it's over 0.00001 now :)  (Edit: It was over 0.00001...)

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BitShares may be added to Azure BaaS next week. In your opinion is there a liquidity measure, even temporary, that could be fast-tracked so that next week BitUSD is looking it's best? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZiEVzpVjYo

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General Discussion / Re: Bitshares price discussion
« on: March 03, 2016, 06:24:32 pm »
Azure should be a top target.  Its the difference between Bitshares looking legitimate to the crypto world, and it looking like a scam.

I think Azure may be nearly in the bag thanks to Fox.

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his upcoming blog post highlighting BitShares.

Which to me says BTS is being added to Azure and it could be announced shortly.

(By the way thanks for your explanation the other day on Polo cascading margin calls/forced liquidations I was able to buy the sharp dump on ETH today at the low and sell on the rebound realising that's what it probably was.)

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Id rather focus on the speed, scalability and flexibility of bitshares.  Fox is talking to the bizdev of strategy...one hell of a strategy would be to show that, and then tall about the features (like smartcoins) as some examples of what can be done in the future. 

This guy wants to know about our flexibility, speed and scalability more than ANYONE.

He wants information he can use to help him communicate what BitShares is in his upcoming blog post.

Read his previous blog posts to get a sense of how he has described projects like Factom/Emercoin & contribute ideas on what you think should be included on a similar blog post about BitShares

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/azure-blockchain-update-5/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/azure-baas-update-2/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/ethereum-blockchain-as-a-service-now-on-azure/

Saying speed, scalability and flexibility is great but how would you communicate that in a paragraph etc.
 


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If you're interested in giving ideas on how to communicate BTS briefly as a brand you may wish to contribute ideas to FOX's community action request for Azure Baas Blog post...

Community Action Request: Content for Azure BaaS blog post. 

Background:
I've been in contact with Marley Gray, Director, BizDev & Strategy - Cloud and Enterprise, Microsoft on the on-boarding process for BitShares to Azure BaaS.  We are a pull request approval from being live. 

Request:
First, please review Mr. Marley's previous blog posts to see how other blockchain offerings are being positioned [1].  Then, please provide ideas on what you feel should be included in his upcoming blog post highlighting BitShares.  I have a skeleton contained within the metadata.json and README.md files within the GitHub repository [2].  If you choose to tweet this information, please mention @ryanRfox

Gratitude:
Thanks to all those that have tested the scripts and provided feedback thus far; please offer more. 

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/author/marleyg/
[2] https://github.com/ryanRfox/azure-quickstart-templates/tree/review/bitshares-ubuntu-vm

This was my contribution/attempt to help explain/market/position what BTS is very briefly...

BitShares is a Decentralized Financial Services Blockchain offering an industrial-grade asset exchange and specializing in Smartcoins. SmartCoins are price stable crypto-currencies innovated by BitShares that allow users to hold & trade balances denominated in commodities like gold, currencies like USD as well as popular stocks and indexes. They also offer additional tools such as User Issued Assets, Smart Contracts and recurring payment functionality. Their goal is to provide a financial safe haven for individuals & a cutting edge blockchain for business without the volatility.

If BTS does get added to Azure that will be great exposure for BTS. As I mentioned on the price speculation thread, DACs that have previously been added have risen quite a lot in value as a result and held on to a lot of those gains too.

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I think you're missing the point

What would happen to the market cap of BitShares if the algos started picking up news stories of how the lead dev of B.T.S. just got hired by V.I.S.A?

you do know counter-party dev was hired by a big company as well right .....

to build something different from xcp...

now one question i have is whether or not working for visa might give someone like bm the resources he needs to build the solutions visa (and bts) needs. 

It could be one hellnof a powerful move if he networks with the right people and lets bitshares be "officially" run by those already in our ecosystem...while keeping us in mind. ;)

An employee would have to sign NDA's and VISA would own the intellectual property rights to their work so it wouldn't be shared. Whichever blockchain loses a developer to that job wouldn't benefit imo.

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General Discussion / Re: Bitshares price discussion
« on: March 03, 2016, 04:11:25 pm »
No the reason is perhaps because we could be shortly added to Microsoft Azure BAAS.

Community Action Request: Content for Azure BaaS blog post. 

Background:
I've been in contact with Marley Gray, Director, BizDev & Strategy - Cloud and Enterprise, Microsoft on the on-boarding process for BitShares to Azure BaaS.  We are a pull request approval from being live. 

First, please review Mr. Marley's previous blog posts to see how other blockchain offerings are being positioned [1].  Then, please provide ideas on what you feel should be included in his upcoming blog post highlighting BitShares. 
[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/author/marleyg/

On 7th December Microsoft Azure announced they were adding Ripple.  Over next 4 days, XRP increased 75% in value.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/azure-blockchain-as-a-service-update/
On 15th December  Microsoft Azure announced they were adding Factom. Over next 6 days FCT increased 680% in value.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/azure-baas-update-2/
On 4th January Microsoft Azure announced they were adding Emercoin. Over next 6 days  EMC increased 367% in value.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/azure-blockchain-as-a-service-update-3/

Probably noobish of me, but what exactly is Azure?

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/overview/what-is-azure/

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General Discussion / Re: Bitshares price discussion
« on: March 03, 2016, 04:06:59 pm »
localhost sent 11,540,000 BTS to poloniexwallet
30 minutes ago

Well there you go, he's officially out of BTS. Rally time?

 8)

Insider moves 12 million BTS into poloniex in order to sell into the coming rally. Rank speculation? I'm stocking up. Same thing happened with Ether last week.

If the insider sells he's an idiot, I'm stocking up on BTS right now, hopefully I still have another few hours to get some under 0.00001

That's a good point...just cuz he's moving BTS to polo doesn't mean he's selling. I mean, if he sells like 11 million BTS right now the price would go to like 500. Would make much more sense to pump first sell later.

No the reason is perhaps because we could be shortly added to Microsoft Azure BAAS.

Community Action Request: Content for Azure BaaS blog post. 

Background:
I've been in contact with Marley Gray, Director, BizDev & Strategy - Cloud and Enterprise, Microsoft on the on-boarding process for BitShares to Azure BaaS.  We are a pull request approval from being live. 

First, please review Mr. Marley's previous blog posts to see how other blockchain offerings are being positioned [1].  Then, please provide ideas on what you feel should be included in his upcoming blog post highlighting BitShares. 
[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/author/marleyg/

On 7th December Microsoft Azure announced they were adding Ripple.  Over next 4 days, XRP increased 75% in value.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/azure-blockchain-as-a-service-update/
On 15th December  Microsoft Azure announced they were adding Factom. Over next 6 days FCT increased 680% in value.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/azure-baas-update-2/
On 4th January Microsoft Azure announced they were adding Emercoin. Over next 6 days  EMC increased 367% in value.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/azure-blockchain-as-a-service-update-3/

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General Discussion / Re: Bitshares price discussion
« on: March 03, 2016, 03:50:14 pm »
localhost sent 11,540,000 BTS to poloniexwallet
30 minutes ago

Well there you go, he's officially out of BTS. Rally time?

 8)

Insider moves 12 million BTS into poloniex in order to sell into the coming rally. Rank speculation? I'm stocking up. Same thing happened with Ether last week.

If the insider sells he's an idiot, I'm stocking up on BTS right now, hopefully I still have another few hours to get some under 0.00001

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Community Action Request: Content for Azure BaaS blog post. 

Background:
I've been in contact with Marley Gray, Director, BizDev & Strategy - Cloud and Enterprise, Microsoft on the on-boarding process for BitShares to Azure BaaS.  We are a pull request approval from being live. 

Request:
First, please review Mr. Marley's previous blog posts to see how other blockchain offerings are being positioned [1].  Then, please provide ideas on what you feel should be included in his upcoming blog post highlighting BitShares.  I have a skeleton contained within the metadata.json and README.md files within the GitHub repository [2].  If you choose to tweet this information, please mention @ryanRfox

Gratitude:
Thanks to all those that have tested the scripts and provided feedback thus far; please offer more. 

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/author/marleyg/
[2] https://github.com/ryanRfox/azure-quickstart-templates/tree/review/bitshares-ubuntu-vm

 +5% Great Work

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First, please review Mr. Marley's previous blog posts to see how other blockchain offerings are being positioned [1].  Then, please provide ideas on what you feel should be included in his upcoming blog post highlighting BitShares.

Maybe something like...?

BITSHARES

Azure Blockchain as a Service welcomes BitShares to the ecosystem. BitShares is a Decentralized Financial Services Blockchain offering an industrial-grade asset exchange and specializing in Smartcoins. SmartCoins are price stable crypto-currencies innovated by BitShares that allow users to hold & trade balances denominated in commodities like gold, currencies like USD as well as popular stocks and indexes. They also offer additional tools such as User Issued Assets, Smart Contracts and recurring payment functionality. Their goal is to provide a financial safe haven for individuals & a cutting edge blockchain for business without the volatility.

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What Bitshares is?

The simplest answer: Decentralized Exchange.

I think BTS should first and foremost be considered a Decentralized BANK & Exchange. The man in the street wants a safe place to store money but VERY FEW of them have ever used an 'Exchange'.

BitShares offers a bank account that earns 5% interest where funds can be transferred in minutes seconds anywhere in the world with more privacy and security than a Swiss bank account.  Your account can never be frozen, your funds cannot be seized, and the bank can never face collapse due to loan defaults or fraud.  All of this is made possible without requiring any employees, lawyers, regulatory compliance, vaults, buildings, and other infrastructure required by traditional banks.  Unlike existing banks, you can hold your balance denominated in gold, silver, oil, or other commodities in additional to national currencies.
 



*It's highly likely, the actual Fort Knox is quite empty but the idea/metaphor of BTS being your own personal vault is a strong one imo.
*I've crossed out +5% interest but with a yield subsidy it's actually possible https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,21641.0.html
*Also I'm aware there are legal issues with describing yourself as a bank. 





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