Quote from: Samupaha on March 05, 2016, 04:27:24 pm

So what's the timeline here? When the stealth and free transactions features are ready? If I understood right, Bytemaster said in the latest hangout that they might be in a same hardfork quite soon.

If we want to use this possibility for focused marketing effort, we need to know only two things:

1) Is the version number going to change to 2.1?
2) When the hardfork is going to happen?

If we know these as soon as possible, anyone can make marketing plans either together or individually. We don't need to agree on a certain message, but we all need to make the effort at the same time to get the full benefit.

@bytemaster, @Stan would be nice to hear a comment from Cryptonomex on this topic.

IMOH(!) ... CNX is only a software provider for BitShares and nothing more. They probably won't and shouldn't be able to *just* decide on bumping the version number.
As they are merely the technological providers for BitShares, the marketing side of things has to be done by other parties (and it should be as we all know how well
marketing went with CNX/I3).

How come we have a decentralized network, decentralized community, decentralized exchange but not decentralized marketing yet?!?

completely agree. besides, i bet CNX would like it if more of us stepped up and took on active roles.

just voted. any chance we can get into a bot tutorial, as well?

I know youre joking, but as far as coins that are trying to be currency go, Monero basically has the best distribution of all of them.  Its no premine or fastmine, with a long term emission schedule and a ~1% a year tail emission to keep it from ever becoming deflationary.

monero seems to be the best digital cash at the moment, though i also support Dash. i still consider it way undervalued, but admittedly am holding off on buying more in this big upswing.

Quote from: bytemaster on December 28, 2013, 06:48:58 am

If the largest banks can achieve deposits of over $1 trillion dollars with no meaningful interest, how many deposits could BitShares attract and what would that mean for the value of the bank?

Road Map

1. Lower Forced settlement to 95%
2. 2% BTS per annum directed to BitUSD. 
(With a yield subsidy many BTS Shareholders will yield harvest creating millions of BitUSD.)
3. Spend $200 a day incentivizing $100 000 of liquidity.
(For 0.2% interest per day  many BTS Shareholders send a small portion of their BitUSD to a liquidity pool where it's sold for $1.01 and bought back at $0.99)

Customers can buy this BitUSD from a bridge for fiat/BTC and save/spend it from a basic account & don't need to understand/see the DEX...

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Their new BTS (For BitUSD) demand raises the BTS price incentivizing more people to short, possibly with some of the dilution being directed their too. Shareholders/liquidity pool will buy from them to replenish their position.

The yield subsidy is key imo to achieving a better result faster and it's largely self funding https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,21641.0.html
(By the time the yield subsidy is removed, banks will be charging negative interest well below -1%. So no NIRP will make private, zero yield BitUSD seem like a treat.)

i like it, but what about making the solution more general and coded into the smartcoins --fees from each smartcoin exchange go to yield on those smartcoins. that way we're not picking a winner (letting the market decide) and the yield funding process is perpetually self-sustaining. picking any fixed dollar amount from the general pool runs the risk of being the wrong amount and potentially cannibalizes other worker projects that could be funded. it makes more sense to me for every smartcoin to have the potential for yield, the amount varying by popularity of that market.

Our marketing execution has been a joke

 

well, we'll get there...let's just be supportive and keep pressing forward

thanks @xeroc ...i'm seeing this as a way for OL and other wallet devs to get paid for their effort, plus the basic MLM incentive to go out and recruit new members (not my favorite marketing theme by any means, very often attracts low morality scammers IMO). At $100 for a lifetime membership, that may be worth the investment...

Nice run @merivercap ...my stats for the week: 0.4% weekly gain from basic market maker activities, but that's just nominal, not adjusted for changes in PEG.FAKEUSD price, borrowed amount, and asset inventory.

Any lessons learned from the week? The testnet functioned very well for me, actually better than bitshares.openledger.info.

What exactly is the reserve pool? How much is in it, how was it accumulated, and who controls is?