Quote from: Brekyrself on June 05, 2017, 09:35:48 pm

Quote from: Stan on June 05, 2017, 07:48:35 pm

Quote from: Brekyrself on June 05, 2017, 07:18:48 pm

Successful people do not respond to criticism the way this guy does as they live to be competitive and prove their worth...

I have only seen two of his pitches, the mission 2 from a month back and this one yesterday, however they just scream too good to be true.  If he really wants to grab the attention of blockchain users there has to be more hard hitting details of such plan before asking for 50k cash...  Both video's still leave me in the air on exactly what his game plan is.

@Stan Since you have been working with them, can you help us connect the dots?

Well, no one ever let us fully develop the concept.
Perhaps I'll blog about it when I get a few spare hours.
Using bitshares to hold someone's payment for gold in the ground as escrow to borrow heros against to pay for mining it is the basic idea.
It's a way to solve the counterparty problem for all sorts of asset backed coins.
There are tons of illiquid assets out there, and using hero technology to secure them is a promising use case.

Successful people quickly recognize when they encounter intractable obstacles and cut their losses.
It's not thinned skin rage, its simple pragmatic realism.

Thanks for the follow up Stan, we do appreciate everything your doing. 

I honestly believe the way Matt presented and pulled out of the Steemit post so quickly left a sour taste for many.  It was near impossible to connect the dots on where the project was headed before he started asking for 50k investments.

No doubt there are cultural mismatches.  No excuse for always assuming the worst about people.  "They'll be time enough for judging, when the dealin's done" - Kenny Rodgers

Kenny Rogers never sang that lyric, unless you intentionally meant to spell his name wrong

Something else to note here... One of blockpays largest investors, in fact the largest investor prior to the OPENPOS dilution, has been significantly cutting their stake over the last couple days.

I'm not sure if info about blockpay is being posted anywhere... steemits bitshares-munich account has been silent for 2 months and  kencodes steemint has made no mention of anything either.

Couple that with todays price drop and things seem fishy...

Also, why the hell is the market fee to trade 2%?? That's crazy high...

Make that 40%

3rd worst performing crypto out of the top 20 over the last week

Hope everyone enjoyed being rich for a week

Quote from: tbone on May 24, 2017, 02:56:08 pm

I got tired of wondering what's going on with stealth, so I asked @kenCode what the deal is and he said his team resumed work on it some time ago and the public testnet is probably less than a month away.  That was really great to hear! 

Not to mention, apparently libsnark has been replaced by Confidential Assets (CA).  This is fantastic because with CA, transactions are much faster than with libsnark (which apparently slow down transactions by at least 40 seconds).  Also, with CA there is no "trusted setup" issue like zcash and other libsnark implementations have.  Anyone who has followed the "trusted setup" controversy even a little bit knows that it's a big deal.  So this is a very positive development for Bitshares!

https://blockstream.com/2017/04/03/blockstream-releases-elements-confidential-assets.html

Quoted the entire thing because it's that important. Also is it time for a happy dance or do I need to reel myself in?

Why would blockpay, Ken, Chris, and whoever else is in charge over their leave investors completely in the dark about this?  They missed out at a massive opportunity to increase the value of the blockpay token... @Chris4210 mentioned in a previous mumble that the purpose of the blockpay token may be changing, what is the status with that?

While it's good to hear that Ken is still working on this, Blockpay investors shouldn't have to hear this "through the grapevine".

Quote from: Chronos on May 21, 2017, 03:18:19 pm

Bitshares has grown in value by 2500% over three months.

That's really amazing.

It is .. but what are the fundamentals for this astronomical rise?

I think we could easily x50 with STEALTH in the picture from here ..

Considering that the anonymous coins are outperforming mostly everything, I would say you are correct... We still haven't heard anything out of blockpay regarding stealth or their current issues.  Golden opportunity that was missed by the blockpay team.

In my opinion the worker proposal system is fine the way it is... It is similar to the way many companies compensate their employees, via stock options.  It provides incentive for the developers to do good work and promote the ecosystem.

Startups provide stock based compensation because it works.  It brings in the best talent, because it promotes greed.  Also, it's not like this recent price pump didn't factor in the worker proposal system.  The market knew that the dev's would get a dramatic bump in salary but bought anyway.