could you like stop advertising your delegates in every single post you make?

 

 

Good news BM!

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Quote from: xeroc ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ on May 28, 2015, 06:45:41 am

I totally agree here .. with TITAN people get a wrong sense of privacy .. and I am sure BM realized that too already!

Please elaborate?

Sure ... TITAN deposits in your account are collected to one balance. If you send from your TITAN account you might need to links several TITAN deposits. Everyone on capable of reading the blockchain will see that those deposits are owned by the same individual .. Same thing as in bitcoin .. you just don't have any information about the identity .. but can figure out his funds over time ..
That's why it is a false sense of privacy ..

Well, with certain bitcoin clients, you can 'Send from' an address. I routinely use this to keep funds in the same wallet separate. And of course, I use different wallets for different things as well.

With BitShares you can't do this, but you can send your funds to yourself regularly. The way I understand it, assuming a TITAN account, over time it becomes more difficult to link things.. unless you send a huge transaction which will link all the mixed addresses.

I for one would dearly love that privacy was paid more attention around here. It seems to almost never be on the radar.. from the glaring lack of proxy support to Tor+the forum working only ~40% of the time, to the faucet STILL registering accounts as non titan (the issue you opened on github when I brought this to attention still sits there, unanswered)..

Privacy is important guys. I realize there are ALSO other priorities, BUT we should not forget that we have a right to privacy and that these technologies, if used wrong, are much worse than the traditional banking system in terms of privacy.

Privacy is largely an illusion, even with Bitcoin and stealth addresses. 

Please elaborate.

We need assets that track the value of things that appreciate in price, only then will we get a market.

Gold is hard money and over 60 years has only appreciated 1% above inflation, stocks have done the best.

Warren Buffett says if your not going to investigate stocks to often buy an index fund that tracks the market.

Investing in stocks & indexes from BitShares would be awesome indeed.. one less reason to have a legacy bank account.

I get this since 0.9 too, but it goes away after 10 min or so and then it is synced.

Quote from: merivercap on May 25, 2015, 10:46:46 pm

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Quote from: hughmanwho on May 25, 2015, 07:12:41 pm

The one issue I have with BitShares is that it isn't really as decentralized.. every day people can't just connect to the network and directly mine.

Also the POS makes it less trustworthy.. I definitely prefer POC over POS.  (POC = Proof of Capacity)

But.. I've always found Bitshares interesting.  After this little mini-bubble dies down, which seems to be someone trying to pump the price, I may buy some.

The good news is that your one thing might be the result of a misunderstanding, I should know, I have them a lot too. Bitshares is decentralized enough to remain corruption resistant, which is what we all need the most, yet able to scale and remain efficient. Bitshares is accessible to anyone at any wealth level because of bitassets. DPOS is so far, the leader in integrity....it's not perfect though, but the devs are innovating their way to perfect. Get in before they get there 

idk.. I'd call US Senate pretty corrupt and it's basically the same voting structure.

DPOS gives people the ability to one day realize they can start voting to pay themselves money similar to how it always happens with democracy slowly being corrupted into communism.  Vote for the delegates that promise them free money!  Not as likely to happen in a POC system.

Plus POS has a lot of issues with it.. history key attacks for example.. which DPOS makes much easier.

I will acknowledge that DPOS helps the blockchain trimming problem that POS has though.

I've thought about the whole communism thing, but most stakeholders will generally agree that this practice would be harmful to the blockchain and not approve. 

I like to compare DPOS to how companies operate, just like how the millions of companies that exist (corporations, llc, partnerships etc) do today.  Shareholders control and delegate the operations and there is usually little fear of freeloading.   Businesses and DPOS blockchains must be efficient to survive.

I'm sure key history attacks are incredibly difficult to execute and there are preventative measures... It's always good to be aware of as many attack vectors as possible though.

The senate is corrupt because it is not accountable. Delegates are accountable. The Bitshares ecosystem is built to incentivise efficiency as merivercap says. A delegate must perform the role he/she is voted into to perform. If they can do that whilst paying out their salary, great. They have access to a finite level of resource from the blockchain or value they create themselves. Bitshares will become an effective meritocracy.

There is one thing I haven't seen discussed.. imagine BitShares really goes to the moon, interest by companies and institutions is spiked, and soon enough they realize they can run their own delegates as well... these guys have millions to pour in, in a week they could arguably out-vote all the previous delegates with their own.

Maybe. Did I miss something in this picture?