Possible to make an AMI (Amazon Machine Image) of ubuntu with a witness_node pre-installed, so anyone who want to run witness_node on AWS can just clone it and start? Or on any other VPS providers? Better if there is a web-console to start/stop/change settings and etc.

Need to trust the image creator though.

Quote from: alt on January 08, 2016, 05:54:05 am

sell BTS account

what do you mean by that ?

He meant sell the account name to others. It's possible just like domain names.

"Let’s assume, Alice, Bob, Charlie and Dennis have common funds. We want to be able to construct a valid transaction if only two of those agree."

common funds where ? in whose account ? in one of their own accounts or a separate account?

A separate account.

agree how,  what does that mean?  , whats the procedure of agreeing on a transaction ? how those separate authorities communicate about on what to agree?

how many here understand and successfully implements this, anybody ? I need help

For example, let's say that separate account is "our-account", they want to send 10 BTS from the account to abit(my account). None of them would be able to do it by using the "transfer" API (which is the current GUI using to do transfers), since any one of them hasn't enough permission to do it. But any two of them have enough permissions.

Instead of the "transfer" API, they need "propose proposal" and "update proposal" APIs.

Alice make a proposal: let's send 10 BTS from "our-account" to abit, sign the proposal with her key. If Bob or Charlie or Dennis agree, he add his signature to the proposal, so the threshold reached. When the time defined in the proposal arrives, the proposal will get executed. If nobody else agree what Alice tried to do, they can ignore the proposal so it won't get executed at any time, or they can actively "refuse" the proposal.

//Edit:
My English is not so good, as I don't know what are the differences between "permissions" and "authorities". But you should know what I said above.

You need to use propose_transaction and approve_proposal to play with threshold permissions, which are not available on GUI right now. Try CLI.

Quote from: Akado on January 14, 2016, 05:29:15 pm

Could you fetch the volume of BitShares Asset Exchange from coinmarketcap? It would be really nice to see how volume evolves on the DAC! http://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/bitshares-asset-exchange/

@roadscape

CMC actually gets the data from cryptofresh but it's pretty hacky. When the new market api is out I'll dig into it.. definitely want to see this data..

Quote from: abit on January 16, 2016, 04:46:34 am

@roadscape Is it ok to make a remark on the fee schedule page, so that people will know that canceling an order will get fully refund of fees for created the order?

Yeah, no problem! What are the official rules for this? Isn't it like a 99.9% refund, as long as it's completely unfilled?

It's 100% refunded because now it's free to cancel an order. The committee may consider adding a fee for canceling an order to prevent potential attacks.

Quote from: xeroc on January 15, 2016, 05:31:26 pm

For me it seem a bot is keeping BTS at the same dollar price .. for quite a while now ..

We have price-stable bitUSD.  Now we have price-stable BTS.

Last time we said this is when BTS is 0.08 CNY each. Then it went down.

Imagine total BTS in the system is 1000 ,  only holders are two of us
you hold 500 and I hold 500
1. I create an UIA and ask 300 BTS for it
2. You think that it worth that much and  you buy it
3. now you have 200 BTS + UIA (worth 300) = 500
4. I now have 500 + 300 = 800
5. So now in total there are 1300 BTS in the system, wrong?

Haven't we just diluted the system?

( I didnt take fees into account since they are still in bitshares system.)

Although I may believe your UIA worth 300 BTS, others may not believe it. The 1000 BTS in total is still 1000 BTS, so it's not dilution. In short, dilution on BTS itself is dilution, otherwise not.

If everyone believe your UIA worth something, it usually because you brought or will bring some value into the system which is what we want to see. It's again not dilution, it's value add.

Thank you @Stan, the referral program makes sense for the smaller entities here. But it requires that some percentage of UIA trading fees go to the referral program. UIA issuers and referrers do have arguments about this.

In regards to the EBA concept, imo it somehow conflicts with shared order book concept. From 2 or more member exchanges which have similar sizes, you can only get EBAs OR shared order book, not both. Smaller exchanges can adopt EBAs issued by big ones and share their order book though, like USD. Smaller ones can also united together and issue another EBA like EUR (big ones can united together as well).

So in conclusion we can give out two choices to targeted exchanges (which are our potential partners):
1. Adopt EBA's issued by existed partners(or maybe a union of some partners), and get shared order book,
2. Issue their own EBA's and compete with others.
To promote the first one we need liquidity, to promote the second one need user base.