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General Discussion / Re: BitUSD thought experiment
« on: March 24, 2014, 08:58:30 pm »
So I think I understand that merchants can accept bitAssets, but turning them all into gateways is not a path to go down (yet).

The company that creates this POS app, could also be the finCin registered buyer.

This removes the gateway aspect but actually makes the merchants life easier.

It seems there are a few percentage points to play with here (at first glance we might have a profitable company here and we don't have to be in the trenches trading like bitPay to make money).

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General Discussion / Re: BitShares X Status Update
« on: March 24, 2014, 08:48:44 pm »




https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=3812.msg47872#msg47872

Lol, hopefully devs won't encounter any suprise Rodents Of Unusual Size, it could cause another delay.

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Keyhotee / Re: Keyhotee - Rebranding
« on: March 24, 2014, 08:07:46 pm »
Key Mail is pretty good, rhymes with Email, can reasonably say its short for “Keyhotee"

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General Discussion / Re: BitUSD thought experiment
« on: March 24, 2014, 03:28:33 am »
We should find a way to crowd fund this app and then distribute shares so the community owns it, unlike with BitPay and Coinvoice. Let the company follow the social consensus from the start.

I agree LuckyBit.

I have more ideas I want to share with the community as well.

Hopefully people with tech/code skills can combine organically to get some of the better stuff accomplished.

I would be grateful just to be involved.  I think my sales/entrepreneurship background has given me a unique flair for creativity for catering to non-tech "regular" people.

I think the group of people or company that bring crypto to the masses will be the winner in massive increase in market cap.

The key to mass adoption may just be the product/service that is least "scary."  BitUSD (and other assets by region or preference) make sense if you trust the math and the markets, you aren't really required to trust the perceived value like bitcoin adoption requires (and many people find it too repulsive).

A distributed gateway/POS system, while legally nebulous in some jurisdictions, it will be a huge step forward in countries with a large unbanked population.  Many people have access to the internet but no gateway to the internet of money.

I plan to follow up with a more thoughtful description of this plan and some others which may or may not be useful.

I look forward to anyone joining this thread with any way to improve the idea or start implementing it.

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General Discussion / BitUSD thought experiment
« on: March 23, 2014, 05:43:06 pm »
I was thinking about all the shop owners out there that could benefit from accepting bitUSD.  This includes businesses that do not like bitcoin and are skeptical of cryptocurrencies. 

I was thinking we could have an app for these merchants, that has a really simple interface for invoicing and receiving bitUSD, as easy as checking Facebook or whatever.  All they need is to feel safe that the transaction has gone through.

Now here is the twist, We connect this app to a website map, and their bitUSD balance is updated in real-time.  Essentially advertising that they have bitUSD for exchange.

Then internet money enthusiast walks into the store, gives them cash for their bitUSD.

The store owner really just had to install and app and learn how to use it (with a friendly explanation from one of us in the Invictus street team)

The BitUsd will actually enter and exit their registers on autopilot.  Because 1:1 transfer is attractive, their cash registers should clear of any bitUSD everyday.  (It is also efficient, as presumably this shop owner was making a daily trip to the bank anyway).

If they exchange bitUSD 1:1 (which should be encourage or default for "non-crypto" store owners, people that just want to tap bitUSD market, but are not interested in what crypto can do for them).

This could effectively turn every cash register in the USA a gateway to BitX, and also makes all BTS spendable at any business that is doing this program.


The only weak point is that person A might not want to exchange 1:1 when he/she is actually buying something, because bitUSD should probably be worth a little more than USD.

Still person A will still get hungry etc, and still might find buying pizza at 1:1 is still easier/cheaper than some convoluted way of getting a few extra dollars out of a central exchange point, etc...



anyway...  is this a good idea?

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General Discussion / Re: Dividends?
« on: March 23, 2014, 03:30:13 am »
If you split the stock all the time, you will totally remove the point of having a dividend at all, and it could affect the psychology of the market and the share price.


You probably shouldn't have any plan to split it at all, and only do it like 5 years from now when everyone is crying about it.

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Recent attacks have shown that 10x collateral requirement may be too much... so assume it is down to 3x which means that you can go short using 50% of your collateral.   You still earn dividends from transaction fees with your collateral.  So this means you get a solid yield and can leverage it up to some extent but not to the point of causing too much risk.

 +5%
wow this will be so attractive to the market

honestly this thing could go institutional

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You could make much more than 5%, but only only on 1/10th of your capital.

But if its true that your collateral will earn 5% because you are lending into the system, then I see that there is a strong incentive for financial speculators to use BitX.

Is that correct?  Or when collateral is pledged to a short position, it no longer earns the 5%?

Further, is there any problem with using this collateral to go long other bitassets because credit has not really left the system, it will just make a lot more work for the developers

:)

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Ahh I see so shorts should still be attracted BitX because they will be earning 5% on their reserves,

So instead of borrowing money.. shorts BECOME lenders,

and that entails the benefits of doing so..

Is that correct?

EDIT:  Is there a way a short's collateral could still be attached (long) to other bitassets (the collateral would still be in BTS afterall)

Obviously this would get complicated, I am just wondering if its a future possibility.

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I was wondering that now that we know that shorts will be required to have 10x leverage,

is there any problem with creating bitassets as shorting a small portion of your capital may not be totally attractive,

compared to a traditional stockbroker, who will actually give you money to short stocks..

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General Discussion / Re: [Social Media] Team Viral
« on: March 22, 2014, 06:00:08 am »
Am I on the team?

This is my second post ITT.

Standing by for directions.

Should I subscribe to this thread/deliver this thread to email so I know what to do?

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General Discussion / Re: New website sneak peek: BITSHARES.ORG
« on: March 21, 2014, 06:03:55 am »
Great site!

I have heard some of these demo songs before.

The Vegas thing is awesome

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General Discussion / Re: Is SEC really not a concern?
« on: March 20, 2014, 06:57:08 pm »
I'm just glad SEC is there to protect us.  /end sarcasm

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General Discussion / Re: Is SEC really not a concern?
« on: March 20, 2014, 05:30:06 pm »
Thats why AGS are donations and there is no legally binding contract.

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Its like saying I can't trade my property with someone else.  Of course I can.

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