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General Discussion / Re: What's happening with the price?

« on: April 04, 2015, 07:49:04 pm »

Quote from: Empirical1.2 on April 04, 2015, 07:42:33 pm

I'm not sure you can blame the bear market for our poor performance since the merger.

Since the Merger on November 5th, the top alts have gained an average of 68% vs. BTC

DRK - UP 225%
XRP - UP 180%
STR - UP 125%
MAID - UP 45%
LTC - DOWN 35%
NXT -DOWN 25%
DGC - DOWN 20%
PAYCOIN - Did not exist

BitShares is the worst performer in the top 10 and has lost 55-65% in BTC terms since the merger.
(Since dilution became a serious reality obviously the numbers for BitShares are even worse and we’re down 70-75% vs. BTC)

Bitcoin itself is down less 25% during that time.

Very painful to see if spelt out, I really don't understand why Bitshares are taking such a hit though. If those other alts are considered to have a fair valuation then Bitshares is so so incredibly undervalued right now it's insane.

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General Discussion / Re: BitShares 0.8.0 Feedback

« on: April 04, 2015, 07:06:31 pm »

I recently hit some issues with 0.8.

I tried enabling RPC and this triggered a full blockchain re-download which took a few hours.
While this was happening, I set the logout automatically to a really big number like 40000000000 or something. This triggered a bug rendering the wallet completely unusable with the timing out screen rapidly appearing and disappearing. I couldn't fix this from removing the config etc and in the end had to restore from a backup wallet.

Since then I have been struggling to re-obtain my correct balances even after a full blockchain re-download and several rescans. I have used several of my backup files but the client seems to refuse to allow the balance to go above what it was at the time of backing up. Also, for some of my older backup files it just says "incorrect password" when I'm 100% I was entering it correctly. I am going to try and regenerate keys as a last resource as I have tried everything else from here: http://wiki.bitshares.org/index.php/Best_Practices/RecoverFunds

EDIT: I have successfully recovered all of my funds through re-generating keys

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General Discussion / Re: vikram Classmate Are you there？

« on: April 04, 2015, 05:34:21 pm »

Why would a key developer be spending all of his time in the "general discussion" subforum?
If you have found an issue/bug, provide as much info as you can and post in "technical discussion" and patiently wait for somebody to find the time to take a look.

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General Discussion / Re: Expired shorts will sell at feed price only in next release?

« on: April 04, 2015, 05:32:46 pm »

I used to be averse to the 10% short rule but actually as there is currently such low liquidity it kinda makes sense and I'd rather see it stay.
Just think about it, at the moment there's an opportunity for anybody to make a smooth 0-10% in an illiquid market from expiring shorts. As more and more people do this the competition will increase and the spreads will tighten naturally.

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General Discussion / Re: Moonstone.io development and crowdfunder diary

« on: April 04, 2015, 05:24:37 pm »

Quote from: bitsapphire on April 04, 2015, 01:32:55 pm

We're in the final testing phase of our crowdfunding mechanism (Thanks metaexchange!). We would like to ask the community whether you want both a BTC and BTS based fundraiser or a pure BTC fundraiser. Please let us know about your preference and your reasoning!

We initially wanted to include both as to increase the total available liquidity for the fundraiser, however, looking at the order books of most of the BTS exchanges out there it seems selling the BTS on the market at market prices (rather than with a trade strategy) could potentially depress the price of BTS even further. This would obviously not be the case for BTC.

Looking forward to your input!

It would be cool to use BitAssets like BitUSD - In all seriousness it would probably be silly to keep all of the raised funds in BTS or Bitcoin due to the volatility. It's far more important to know the dollar value of funds raised (unless of course you intend to pay everybody with a fixed BTS/BTC amount each month regardless of their exchange rate against the dollar).

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General Discussion / Re: What's happening with the price?

« on: April 04, 2015, 04:57:54 pm »

Quote from: Stan on April 04, 2015, 03:10:09 pm

Actually, I left out one important Fun Fact: In 5 months the share supply has increased from 2,498,764,342 to 2,505,960,283 for a net increase of 7,197,985 or 0.28%. So, those who complain about dilution are asserting that a fraction of a percent worth of dilution is responsible for several hundred percent decline in price.

Now, it may be true that complaining about dilution is responsible for such a drop, but the dilution itself has been negligible.

Good stats but I don't think anything can decline more than 100% unless we can go into negatives

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Technical Support / Re: Coin total supply

« on: April 04, 2015, 11:09:22 am »

New coins are created through being issued to delegated determined by their pay rate. If we had 101 100% paid delegates and for some reason weren't burning any BTS through fees then the max supply could hit 3.7billion eventually (this is very unlikely). At the moment it's about 2.5billion and we have around 30 100% paid delegates.

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Technical Support / Re: Bug: Setting logout timeout

« on: April 04, 2015, 10:15:02 am »

Quote from: xiahui135 on April 03, 2015, 11:45:24 pm

I think we have develop some not so important function. We just need to concentrate.

It's a one liner fix though, I'm not familiar with the code so would take me ages to pull req.
But yeah, treat it as an FYI as it is a big inconvenience if users do this!

EDIT: Okay so I've managed to resolve the issue - for those that stumble across this from accidentally setting the timeout too high, I solved it through clearing the app data and restoring from a historical wallet. Make sure you backup your wallet regularly...

EDIT: It had to rescan the entire blockchain which took a couple of hours but now my balance is incorrect (I used an old backup) I'm missing a lot of Bitshares and Bitassets. When I use the command line get balance command it is also incorrect. I am now attempting to rescan all transactions - is there anything else I can try?

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Technical Support / Bug: Setting logout timeout

« on: April 03, 2015, 11:17:08 pm »

MacOs V0.8 - setting logout timeout to a large number, I went with 600000000 or something and now the client is completely glitching out and unusable. Anyway I can revert without a full re-install and blocksync? The logging out screen keeps popping up rendering the client unusable.

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General Discussion / Re: RPC help

« on: April 03, 2015, 01:32:00 pm »

I'm having problems with RPC on v0.8.

$ curl --user user:pass http://127.0.0.1:1776/rpc -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"method" : "blockchain_get_account", "params" : ["dev0.theoretical"], "id" : 1}'
curl: (7) Failed connect to 127.0.0.1:1776; Connection refused

Config is:
"rpc": {
"enable": true,
"enable_cache": true,
"rpc_user": "user",
"rpc_password": "pass",
"rpc_endpoint": "127.0.0.1:1775",
"httpd_endpoint": "127.0.0.1:1776",
"encrypted_rpc_endpoint": "127.0.0.1:0",
"encrypted_rpc_wif_key": "",
"htdocs": "./htdocs"
},

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General Discussion / Re: Reworking the wallet trading interface

« on: April 02, 2015, 02:52:56 pm »

Quote from: cass on April 02, 2015, 12:22:28 pm

from the design point of view i'll completely revamp GUI ... started with splash ... jsut playing for now ... but will polish all pages within the GUI over the next time!

https://bitshares.org/labs/ui/ui-splash-revamp-with-animate.mp4

Love it, nice work cass!

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General Discussion / Re: Bitreserve is turning up the heat!

« on: April 01, 2015, 10:01:31 pm »

Quote from: Stan on April 01, 2015, 10:00:31 pm

Too bad. Those names are out in the wild, in use by a couple dozen different organizations in the worldwide BitShares ecosystem. Good luck trying to claim prior use.

We've already been told that BitShares can't be registered for the same bogus reason that Bitcoin can't be registered - "Its too descriptive". So, good luck with BitUSD and BitGold...

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General Discussion / Re: UIA name squatters - is it even possible to transfer ownership of a UIA safely?

« on: April 01, 2015, 04:27:38 pm »

Yeah at the moment it would need to be done through an exchange of private keys so yes, all funds associated with the account included. Squatters buy up names on the speculative hope that they will be tradable on the internal market someday

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