@xeroc
Would you explain why the committee is aiming to give in to bitcrab's demands, instead of making sure that all other options are considered first?
And by giving in to his demands I mean proposing anything lower than the current $0.10 as the flat transfer rate.
Who made the decision that transfers are no longer part of the referral program? I have not seen any discussion about it at all.
Transfers are still part of the referral program. They just pay less
into it. Given that the "transfer" operation as well as the trading
operations represent a core functionality of BitShares that have quite
some competition, the idea was to reduce those to attract some new basic
members and encourage them to stay and provide the so needed liquidity
and usability for smartcoins.
Secondly, no final decision has been made yet and there was quite some
discussion within the committee (7 days straight). At this stage,
everything is a proposal. But we felt the need to
a) act now and not way for any hard fork to bring (even) more flexibility (e.g. bsip#10)
b) encourage outside traders to start trading within BitShares
c) encourage microtransaction businesses to look deeper into our platform.
Furthermore, no change will be implemented without asking for feedback
from the community. And to present a fee schedule that most of committee
can live with, we first developed the schedule behind the scene. You
must understand that there are quite some members around that do not
(yet) understand the full functionality of BitShares and only focus on
one particular operation fee. But we now have a proposal that seems to
fit many committee members, business and will hopefully help BitShares
to gain more traction.
Just because we propose to lower the trading flat fee and the transfer
flat fee, does not necessarily mean that we
a) give up the referral program, or
b) want no profit for BitShares itself.
En contraire. We just switched over from pricing the core features high
to pricing advanced features higher.
The committee didn't "just scetch a new fee schedule", instead every
single fee has been discussed and tweaked to fit as many entities as
possible.
And there will be a roadmap that has the purpose to give businesses some
stability so that they can run their numbers while leaving some
flexibility to tweak some fees if it turns out that they didn't result
in what we wanted them to.
Another major thing is, that we will probably agree in denoting the fees
in USD and track/change them as the valuation of BTS changes.
Even though I can't yet reveal the whole fee schedule to you, I hope it
makes sense to you.