Omitting "OPEN" in front of asset name is a really bad practice since other assets with same names exist in same client. It is awfully  confusing. If Openledger wants to make their client exclusive for trading their assets, they should make it clear and disallow other assets.

The last few days the "open" was there, now today its gone again.

I've noticed they have been changing the lists the last few days.  BitUSD is still there but the rest you have to search for.

I would imagine they will make a tab with the BitAssets.

Quote from: vikram on November 06, 2016, 12:13:42 am

Soledger Inc. (myself and @Agent86) is proposing a BitShares worker for handling administrative and maintenance tasks including--but not limited to--the following:

• Emergency security patches
• Emergency network stability patches
• Merge upstream Graphene, fc, other library updates
• Fix important compilation and compatibility issues
• Tag core releases
• Manage GitHub issue tracker
• Manage GitHub pull requests
• Consolidate high-quality community projects into BitShares GitHub organization
• Consolidate and maintain other important documentation to help ease contributing and integrating

Vikram - I don't mean to quench your enthusiam, but like others have already said, the software has been *very* stable, which means that there is no immediate need for any of the above. You've set up a worker that pays $1200 per month - for essentially nothing.

Also, I find it a little strange that someone with little knowledge of Graphene turns up after a year of absence, and the first (well, second actually) thing they do is request full access to the main GitHub repo.

I know you're a very capable person, but I would still prefer a more gentle approach to things. That would allow the community to evaluate your work, and give you a chance make yourself familiar with the new codebase. If we reach a point again where BitShares sees more or less regular updates, with your help, I will certainly approve your maintenance worker as proposed above. But not yet.

@pc There may not be an immediate need however having someone like Vikram more involved can help tackle idea's found in this thread: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,23355.0.html

We need someone technical to keep pushing the BTS codebase forward.

I'm surprised this post alone has not caused a price spike!  You could really jump start this community as of right now we only have BitShares Munich doing visible work.

Glad to see you are still around.  Historically, it has been difficult to get workers approved.  It may be easier to break apart tasks into smaller, specific worker proposals instead of one general proposal.

Quote from: lil_jay890 on October 25, 2016, 11:44:17 am

Quote from: tonyk on October 25, 2016, 03:06:47 am

Have been off of here (once my favorite place on the net) for months.

Is there any non spam/ non scam/ non idiotic promotions/ etc content  I should read?.

Sorry but the scam wall of posts by Compuseeds, followed by other almost equally deceiving posts by Obits (and or their other 20th ICO project), with no quality in between, just makes me  to want to puke.

Why hang out here when you can get unlimited free money for liking posts of half naked chicks on steem???

The fuckage of bitshares holders via the merger was bad, but the pure desecration of the larimers lemmings via steem has been awesome to watch. I remember when I said steem was a scam to manipulate coin market cap, that I had "zero vision". But now that steem has run its investor screwing course, it's probably time for cnx to release another "innovative" vehicle to run over investors with.  Wonder what it will be called... Plasma? Graphene 2.0?

I agree. Actually if you read one of my last comments on Steemit (by my hidden but not really hidden identity on Steemit) I just commented that BM...aaah sorry dantheman has currently "disappeared to do just that - think on his next scam... sorry did I say scam? I meant project of his."

What exactly sets apart "scam" vs "project?"

It's been very slow around here ever since Dan went full time on Steem...

As @Stan would say, you need to think bigger!  Rather you like or dislike Steem, it is an example of blockchain tech attempting to branch off into the real world.  For a blockchain to succeed, we need to look for issues in the real world that can be solved by blockchain technology.  At the same time however a blockchain is not the best solution to every problem!


First real world problem in which I see BitShares can alleviate while also bringing a substantial amount of new users into the ecosystem.


Monetizing Massively multiplayer online role-playing games

These extremely popular world wide games have a cash flow problem which I believe can be solved by BitShares.  Basically the current model for a MMORPG is to:

1.  Charge a price for the base game
2.  Charge a monthly subscription fee.
3.  Offer "credits" for in game purchases (transaction flows through company)  ie 500 credits for $50

Item's 1 and 2 are simple where as item 3 becomes very complicated and controversial however are required as these games carry massive on going development costs.


Enter BitShares MMORPG

BitShares can provide these companies with a built in revenue stream.  I will try to outline a basic example how this can work.

The most basic of in game economy's consist of such stores of values:  Platinum, Gold, Silver, Copper.  These can easily be added as a UIA to the BitShares dex for example gamename_Gold vs BitGold.  Each game will have separate markets, naming could be Everquest_Gold vs BitGold for example.

Cash flow 1:
This solves part of line item 3 above where the game company no longer will need to process credit card transactions for in game credits.  The blockchain will handle this and they can also charge a fee for these trades.

Cash flow 2:
Once a user purchases some Everquest_Gold with their BitGold they are now ready to spend it within the game's marketplace.  Most of these games have dedicated market places where users buy and sell in game items.  Once again this economy is now running on BitShares and each users in game transactions will generate a fee.  User ABC bought item xyz for 7 Everquest_gold.  This is simply a transfer thus a fee will go to the game company.  Multiple this fee by the thousands and thousands of players constantly buying/selling items with each other and this becomes a real cash cow.

Cash flow 3:
This can also work in reverse if a user wants to liquidate their in game assets.  They can simply trade Everquest_gold > BitGold.  Once again a market trade and transaction fee going to the game company.

Cash flow 4:
Since BitShares provides a real $ outlet for the company, monthly subscriptions can now be paid with Everquest_Gold that the user earned while playing the game!  The company can simply convert this into any FIAT via a gateway such as OpenLedger.


The above cash flows are the absolute simplest of idea's that connect real and virtual game worlds.  Obviously developers can run with this idea and incorporate more areas where fee's can be administered.

Tying this together with BitShares will require some coordination such as when a user creates a character, a BitShares wallet for them following the naming scheme above is also created.  gamename_username.  The game company would need to run a host just as OpenLedger does today to pay for these registrations.


Anyone know any game company executives?