I just had this very discussion with Dan today.  The metaphor we came up with is "virtual vault" where you can trade virtual gold, silver, dollars, etc.   Trying to move the message more away from bank and never directly call it a bank.  After all, the X stands for eXchange, so it functions mostly as an exchange, albeit an exhange where you can store your value long term.

yeah. calling and comparing it with a traditional establishment such as a "bank" is so limiting, imho.

crypto projects, especially crypto 2.0 can be much much more than a bank and an exchange even.  hoping bitshares will have its implementation of smart contracts in the future. 

... maybe that's where etheruem comes in? 

awesome!  can't waiiit! 

yeah.  i think cryptos are more about  taking the banks out of the equation and getting the flow of value straight to/from/thru the people. 

so calling btsx a 'bank' is very limiting.  and yes, it is a beautiful exchange, and so much more.

6 btc

emailing your university's comsci department faculty and students would be a good idea.  but it should not look like you're spamming tho. 

Quote from: bitsapphire on August 17, 2014, 12:26:23 pm

• Add a PTS and BTSX price ticker to the header of the forum
• Make all outgoing links on the forum nofollow. This way we won't be as attractive to spammers and Google most likely ranks us better.
• Change the current URL structure to something human readable (the current links would redirect to the new links, nothing gets lost). This is for both legibility and better search ranking.

I like it ..

any chance for a tipping bot? ;-)

yes!  a tip bot would be the coolest!

I'm really encouraged by this collaborative attitude by the 2.0 community's best minds. While we view ourselves as competitors the true "other team" is the status quo economic systems that are so entrenched.


The concept of a universal client is appealing; like a web browser for blockchains.

YES!  glad you are in the same boat.  i've been trying to make everyone aware via "better together" cross community giveaways.