I tend to agree about the partner thing. There have been so many starts and stops and unpredicted changes with BitShares that I don't think any amount of internal hype is going to blow this up; outsiders aren't going to trust that. But if the volume grows naturally and partners are joining because they see the potential, it will be a sign that this is extremely useful. IMHO, we have not seen any crypto experience truly organic growth yet, nor have we seen the kind of steamrolling, cascading momentum that I think could take this beyond critical mass. Those are just words, but there has been such a limited amount of money so far in crypto, partly because Bitcoin is so flawed. With a system which actually works efficiently and enables people to solve so many problems at once...escape velocity is certainly possible here. If we near that critical mass where outside money continues to flow in, then all bets are off on how big this could get.