I have to give OpenLedger credit. Ronny is a publicity machine.
Meanwhile, where else in Cryptodom can you find as many freaking new potential revenue producing FBA assets to trade?
Now you don't have to launch a whole DAC, just roll your own FBAs one at a time. Priceless.
BM is now extra inspired to start cranking them out (in his spare time).
I wonder when @toast, @Rune, @BunkerChain Labs , @bitsapphire and a host of others will get in the act?
I think whats missing in BTS land is docs on how to go about this. How does one create a fee based business on BTS? What types of business could be created? How does one do this and remain regulatory compliant in the USA?
Another example is prediction markets. We are told they are possible but nobody has any idea how to create one.
Another example is custom operations were mentioned in a mumble weeks ago but that was all anyone has heard of them since. What can one build with custom operations? Give examples etc.
A reasonable question.
This is being invented on the fly. OnceUp has really started something.
The simple answer is, "any transaction that people are willing to pay for". Secure messaging? Smart contracts? Provably fair games? Any feature that we've previously described in the roadmap that hasn't been funded yet?
I predict you'll see proposals for most of the things you mention above. We are only limited by how many entrepreneurs get involved and how fast they can put together quality proposals.
Nothing says that a group of people who want to invest in a revenue stream can't meet up over an eBeer at Fuzzy's ePub and form a jointly funded business partnership on the back of a napkin. You don't have to wait for one of The Usual Suspects to propose something. Carpe Diem like Onceuponatime just did.
You don't need to know how to do everything yourself. Start the process with a discussion thread and see what like-minded partners you can attract.
Indeed
to jaran for noticing this. It's been brought up before, more than a few times. WE NEED SOLID DOCUMENTATION if ideas like this are gonna ever take off. I like what bytemaster said in last weeks mumble about becoming more "developer focused", and that takes tutorials, examples, docs etc. Not every programmer has the chops to read someone else's complex code and understand it well enough to jump in and start using it without some guidance, and that typically comes from good docs. Doxygen is great to provide the raw API facts but that just describes the puzzle pieces NOT WHY they exist and HOW they can be fitted to form a picture.
Having been a programmer for decades I can tell you most that are really good at it prefer to create through coding rather than describe their creations through the lengthy and often arduous process of documentation and teaching others. There are exceptions of course.
Whenever I was exposed to a new API for a particular domain I had an interest in (like finance / crypto, machine control, communications...), I didn't get excited about it until I could see HOW that API could be used to get things done and serve as a catalyst for my creativity. I recall way way back in my early career how just looking at the instruction set of a new microprocessor could provide a better way to get things done than ever before. Or how the operating system calls available in a real-time multitasking OS would enable me to easily create state machines to control complex mechanisms.
Providing the insight about the API and code modularity is important. Describe the platform API and provide clear examples of how to use it to get things done. Add financial incentives to that and you're on your way to viral adoption by programmers.
The same concept applies to the UI. I've seen so many apps / domains that provide a plugin architecture to shape a UI / UX. If that were implemented in the web wallet and well documented you would see an explosion of different flavors of color schemes, layouts and customizations. Provide a rich and well structured API for the backend and step back and watch what others can do by combining them to realize the vision of a new app of feature.
The dev team has their hands full coding functionality. I wished I would see more signs of better team management like Bill Butler and jakub have brought to the table. I wish BM managed the project with more attention to API consistency, standardization and ease of use. I wish BM would guide efforts to completion before shifting his focus elsewhere, without first insuring a replacement could finish the job. I wish we could clone xeroc or find others with the respect of the dev team to dig out the details in the code and write up quality documentation to facilitate programmer understanding and adoption.
I see
S O much potential here, I just wish all these things could be brought together faster to enable the creativity of the people in this community to do the great things I know they're capable of.