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Should we start doing weekly skype meetings before you broadcast anything? Just to get a feel for what kinds of things people can talk about
Bytemaster and I discussed the outline for what would have been the first day of the event. My assignment is to turn this into something that looks like a training course. Once that is complete, it would be easy to pour it all into a Moodle instantiation and run it as an online MOOC-ish thing, enabling people to run content-full local meetups.
Rather than fly Bytemaster's mild-mannered alterego all over the landscape, we could Skype him in like those flickery holograms in Star Wars."Help us Obi-Wan, you're our only hope!"
That's fantastic!
So its a place to hangout and discuss anything “Beyond Bitcoin" but the pond will be stocked with Bitshares enthusiasts?
This event has been postponed unless we can find a partner in the industry to take over running it. With the recent events in Bitcoin we felt the ROI was too risky and would take away from a more effective internet effort using the same resources. Brian is preparing an official announcement soon.
Amen. I was thinking the same thing when I read that.
Meanwhile, leading gold and silver advocate Mike Maloney just had a few nice things to say about crypto currencies vs. the banking system.very good stuff.
http://hiddensecretsofmoney.com/blog/BitcoinDestroysBankingLeechesMikeMaloney
We should be able to do better than Denmark. To think we can't make cryptocurrency tax free is called quitting before negotiation starts. Denmark managed to give cryptocurrency tax free status so I guess it's unfair that US citizens have to pay taxes while they don't have to in Denmark?
Maybe they are just smarter people in Denmark and our policy should be similar to Denmark. The current capital gains treatment stifles innovation and cripples the industry. We should not be worried about taxes when we innovate.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/21cb9y/new_decision_bitcoin_gains_are_tax_free_in_denmark/
Let's push to make capital gains on cryptocurrency 0%. Capital gains taxes hurt economic growth in this industry and don't even make the government enough money to matter.
Wow I could swear we are all on the same playbook.
The why is important but there are better ways of doing that than demonizing what exists. Talking down the opposition shouldn't be necessary.
You might consider that Governments are nefarious, others might disagree and might appreciate their efforts; and yet you would both agree on what is being done here to progress what is possible.
If such narrative was written as a positive, to acknowledge how empowering the individual is liberating, it might go down better than kicking those who 'control us'?.. Even just abstracting it to the idea of how third parties are inefficient, might do better than tending to a typically libertarian slant and talking of 'others imposing the will of the majority by force'. There's no point in alienating half the political spectrum - just give them the tool that changes their reality and they will learn from that positive. Challenge what they hold dear and you'll scare them into wondering what viewpoint they are supporting.
2¢ - I would prefer that we're politically neutral, as that's less likely to meet resistance.
I think many of us would agree with a lot of the political rhetoric but speaking as someone who lives in the shadow of our Big Governemnt in the DC metro area and having first-hand experience with how they treat people whom they regard as "heretics", I agree with this completely!
No point in directly picking a fight with them. Be prepared for "battle" but don't start the war!
p.s. Also, we know they like to use agent provocateurs to flesh out people whom they consider to be extremists. Been there so...word to the wise!!
Subforums for all!
THIS.
But where to put it? It's not "Alternative DACs," it's not suitable under "General," and they are too small to each warrant a whole section? Perhaps a "New Bitshares" section, with each of the ones on the roadmap as unique child boards, and the main as general discussion around new Bitshares products. Something like that?
.. or "Bitshares in Progress"Then once they are deployed they can graduate out into the main section.
From reddit. I think for us here it is very clear and nice but here are a view for a reddit guy. I think he has a few good points there :
"The website makes absolutely no sense to me. I haven't a clue what Bitshares is.
According to the video, it gets rid of desks, rent, utilities, salaries and equipment and pays all of the money saved to shareholders. And it allows you to transfer shares for free but only for digital companies which exist entirely in software (which don't yet exist).
The best explanation of what bitshares is is hidden on the FAQ page:
BitShares is a free open source software platform that can be used to launch Distributed Autonomous Companies (DAC).
Ok, so where is this open source platform? Or is BitShares a company, it seems to be employing people.
So your website claims BitShares is an open source platform, things you can trade like shares, a digital autonomous company and also a regular company? I'm confused.
Overall opinion: lots of words that mean very little and claim to make lots of money. Is it a scam: no, they aren't asking for my money. Is it an advertisment: no, it's open source. I have literally no idea what the point of this website is other than a design exercise for The Creative momentum"
We need a better presence on Reddit with more informed participants answering questions and addressing concerns. I think this is absolutely imperative actually.
I think a good way for Invictus to capture additional fundraising would be to allow the purchase of something akin to "AngelID's" for Keyhotee ID's.
This could allow those who missed the initial Founder period to be able to obtain a custom ID before mining begins.
I suggest that these ID's carry some identification and other benefits beyond that of mined ID's, but maybe not with as many benefits as the Founder ID's.
Differences from Founder ID's:
1. They have already missed out on the gifted Founder AGS.
2. Different colored names (maybe Platinum or Gold for Founders, Silver for Angels)
3. Include AngelID's in the Exodus block, Founder's in the Genesis block (is this possible?)
Edit: Also - advertise this availability on LTB network and other bitcoin / DAC friendly avenues.
For the sake of the average Joe (of which I am one) please help me run through the math:
I initially hold 4000 BTS and there are 4,000,000 total BTS:
(4000 / 4,000,000) * 100 = 0.1% of total BTS.
At some later point transactions have destroyed 2,000,000 BTS and there are now only 2,000,000 total BTS:
(4000 / 2,000,000) * 100 = 0.2% of total BTS
A 2:1 forward split is implemented, granting shareholders one BTS for each BTS held:
4000 BTS (original holding) + 4000 BTS (granted by split) = 8000 BTS.
The post-split total number of BTS has now increased to 4,000,000:
(8000 / 4,000,000) * 100 = 0.2% of total BTS
Thus the 'dividend' is paid to the shareholder: holdings increase from 4000 BTS to 8000 BTS or alternatively from 0.1% to 0.2% of total market share.
BTS is saved from death by zero.
Assuming the foregoing is correct I have the following questions:
1. What is the mechanism for the split? Does the Bitshares X DAC create/distribute the BTS?
2. Can the splits occur on a daily/biweekly/monthly cycle? This would be extremely desirable in terms of investor familiarity and adoption.
Thank you for your help - I think this an extremely important concept but also a potential stumbling block.
It will be crucial for marketing to communicate the dividend mechanism in clearly and simply.
