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General Discussion / Re: Bitshares has some serious competition: http://www.augur.net/
« on: March 16, 2015, 04:03:46 pm »It is a shame that I have to bite my tongue on forward looking features.
Overall I am in favor of providing tools that allow people to create their own PM with their own judges and profit from it. The delegates should stick to the role of block production and price feeds. There are entirely too many different prediction markets out there for the delegates to be the judge.
Isnt the whole point to create a secure decentralized environment for prediction markets functioning honestly? Creating judges seems like more complexity without actually levereging our edge.. might aswell keep pms outside the chain and somehow just reference them.. let some other system worry about the issues since one crack and it would ruin confidence in the whole goal of
the project.
If you remember the prediction markets were the whole point of Bitshares. I remember early on that the main feature after a decentralized exchange that I was excited about was the prediction markets.
I don't know what happened to that or what the roadmap is anymore. I think the price is suffering now compared to last summer because the roadmap is less clear now.
Seriously, roadmap is so badly needed it's crazy that it hasn't happened yet. We need less tongue-biting and more concrete details. Just avoid saying anything obviously controversial (negative attacks against competitors, proposals without discussing the ramifications with fellow devs first, more inflation [hah]) and the BTS community won't panic sell every time you open your mouth. Stick to facts, tell us what is legit going on. Honestly, it really shouldn't be that difficult.