Oh for those not technical into the code yet:

It seems to be possible that anyone can create a vesting balance for any account.

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get_prototype_operation vesting_balance_create_operation
[
  32,{
    "fee": {
      "amount": 0,
      "asset_id": "1.3.0"
    },
    "creator": "1.2.0",
    "owner": "1.2.0",
    "amount": {
      "amount": 0,
      "asset_id": "1.3.0"
    },
    "policy": [
      0,{
        "begin_timestamp": "1970-01-01T00:00:00",
        "vesting_cliff_seconds": 0,
        "vesting_duration_seconds": 0
      }
    ]
  }
]

That means that you can sell a specific kind of bond already:
* non transferable
* fixed 'interest rate' on a UIA (e.g. MKR)
* one out of two policies (cdd and linear cliff)
* pre-paid vesting balance

More:
http://docs.bitshares.eu/bitshares/user/vesting.html

Not sure if that makes sense to anyone, but we could have something like this today:

* user pays x USD to an account bond-issuer
* bond-issuer issues x * 1.10 IOU.USD and puts them into a vesting balance for the user
* the user can claim his IOU.USD linearily over one year
* user can exchange it back into real USD in the market or via the issuer

Get the idea?
Possible today!

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?!?

Quote from: Empirical1.2 on March 01, 2016, 05:24:23 pm

Quote from: BunkerChain Labs on March 01, 2016, 04:40:26 pm

Quote from: Samupaha on March 01, 2016, 03:13:27 pm

What's the big thing here? Isn't Microsoft that evil big corporation that produces unusable and annoying software and destroys projects that it "cooperates" with?

I worked for Nokia when Elop became CEO. When he announced that Nokia will start to use Windows I knew that it was the end Nokia phones. I'm still a little bit bitter about that. 

Community is just being a little schizophrenic atm. On the one hand we want to get some name recognition via other companies that have some association with Bitshares. On the other we are trashing any relationships thus far made with any businesses that are supporting Bitshares at present: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,21699.0.html

Which other blockchains have a partners section?

Just the 2nd largest market cap one.. 4 sections of them: https://consensys.net/ventures/

OH.. and 2 days ago from the 3rd: https://ripple.com/insights/ripple-partners-with-crypto-facilities-for-xrp-derivatives/

It is basic good business and signal to investors. The idea to remove that from visibility only makes bitshares look like an unused product that isn't good enough for any company to want to adopt.

Quote from: Empirical1.2 on March 01, 2016, 05:24:23 pm

Quote from: BunkerChain Labs on March 01, 2016, 12:36:02 pm

What do a handful of forum goers do? Have forum polls to make sure nobody who is a supporter of bitshares is ever seen or heard in the one small communication channel (the forum) that bitshares has. Not a plan for winning.

While I agree with the Change from Partners to Third Party Projects, I think something like the top 5 most popular should be directly listed on the forum.  (On the forum under 'Local', I would probably only directly list 'Chinese' and then put everything else in 'Other Global Areas' and save space there. )

That would be a step forward. Though having a place away from the forum that is meant for this type of info would be most ideal.