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In theory the use of a cryptocoin should be cheaper for the customer, because the merchants has no counterparty risk to fraud!

In practice no merchant use this advantage to get the eayes of the crypto users. You should calculate how much cheaper you can offer your products, if you have not to pay : VISA card, fraud buyers etc.

If you have the number now we can talk about to find a nice pricpoint to bitAsset buyers.

Lets assume you can now make it 10% cheaper for buyers in general, this would let me think as a buyer "What the fuck is bitGBP if i buy with this here?".

UIA:
If you want to use it as a kind of coupon you are fine with the regulation and you can think about it as a first step for a new business. There are a lot of companies out who are selling coupon books to people, because you will get promoted. Now you can start to sell your UIA in the beginning, because if you use them you will get a discount on my purchases. If you find more businesss much better, because now your
coupon is more useful and will promote your and the other businesses for free.

This would be my thinking to get this started!

I agree, any savings in efficiency due to the use of crypto could fund the product discount....I'm not sure yet what that figure will be.

Thinking about how to appropriately use the UIA is making my head spin! Thanks for your input!

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I have a stake in a friend's Vape retail company, Vape Emporium, based in Hampstead London.  We also have a website http://vapeemporium.com/ which is currently being rebuilt and should be relaunched in a couple of weeks.  Once the new website is live, i'd really like for us to be able to accept BitShares & BitAssets.  Are the merchant plugins ready to go?  Could someone please suggest a good place to start for up-to-date info and support?

Also, in trying to think of how I could add value to both BitShares and Vape Emporium, I started contemplating the potential issuance of a UIA on BitShares.  I imagined the token could operate like a loyalty scheme that would discount VE's products (is this potentially dangerous with growth needing to pay for the discounts?) and perhaps act as the reward for some kind of referral scheme.  I'm having difficulty working through the economics though; how many tokens should there be at launch, can we involve our suppliers, should we do an asset drop and to whom? Should used tokens be burned?  Should the supply be fixed?  Can anyone imagine a scenario where a competitor might accept our UIA to discount their products etc. 

I would appreciate any feedback or insights you may have.  This is a genuine attempt to bring value/transactions and awareness to BitShares.....we need everyday people to eventually start using our BitShares products.  Vaping is a growing trend with numbers and demographics that should appeal!  We could also do a lot to point non-crypto literate people to the right places for more information if the UIA is a success and it generates further interest in BitShares.


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General Discussion / Re: A Toast to Toast
« on: April 20, 2015, 03:22:36 pm »
Not to be stupid here, but what exactly the heck is notes and why is it not part of the blockchain?  I'm trying to grok the ecosystem a bit better here.
What would be their reason for running a blockchain fork which to my mind would be a hostile action.
In the future there might be a Bitshares VIDEO, who knows?
And a BitShares Digital Art!

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GEMspace sounds absolutely awesome  +5%

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General Discussion / Re: A Toast to Toast
« on: April 20, 2015, 02:15:25 pm »
think of it this way .

The development fund of BTS------ namely AGS , has a lot of stake in the Music system  .

If Music will be to the moon , that means the development budget of BTS will have great increase in value  , and be worth to compensate the BTS developers .

In fact , we would want to help all of the DACs who have gave AGS fund significant stake to succeed .

Absolutely!  We are closely economically aligned, almost like that was the plan!  +5%

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General Discussion / Re: A Toast to Toast
« on: April 20, 2015, 02:01:02 pm »
Thank you Toast.  Long may your journey with BitShares continue.  BitShares Music will surely benefit from your expertise!  +5%
Haha.. interestingly, I can recall forum members complaining a year ago how BM could possible offer a job to a "newbie" from the university :)
Not this forum member I hope!  ;D  I would gladly have eaten humble pie though, BM's not always right but Toast has been brilliant.

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There are many bitshareophiles working tirelessly to build out the BitShares ecosystem.  Many are apparently motivated by more than just economic gain.  I believe that BitShares will succeed because of the mission, the technology and (more importantly) the incredibly creative and motivated community. 

However, I've often wondered what the chances were that an enormously wealthy individual might decide to ensure the success of BitShares (given it's sterling objectives) by throwing £100 million or so at it. 

Anyone know any central bankers, energy magnates or retail tycoons that might want to appease their conscience by helping us to build the tools that will put humanity back on the path to civilization?

I'm being rhetorical of course....but it would be nice wouldn't it......

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General Discussion / Re: A Toast to Toast
« on: April 20, 2015, 01:19:09 pm »
Thank you Toast.  Long may your journey with BitShares continue.  BitShares Music will surely benefit from your expertise!  +5%

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Great episode!  Billiant.  Your explanations of both the evolution of BitShares and the many innovations to come from the project were excellently articulated!  +5%

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Just wow.  The journal is excellent.  The pipeline is absolutely rammed.  What a bloody amazing bunch of visionaries  +5%

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This initiative absolutely rocks!  +5%

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First they found the World Wide Web and started to wake up.  A new narrative and context became apparent which prompted a deeper search for truth and freedom.  They discovered Satoshi's Bitcoin, arriving in droves to explore the first cryptorush.  But Bitcoin was only the beginning of the journey.  There was something missing.  Bitcoin was potentially a Trojan Horse.  So the search continued for something incorruptible and unstoppable.  That's when they found Bytemaster & Co.  It was BitShares 'that ignited a rebellion.'


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Excellent proposal  +5%

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The winds of change are blowing and the idea of sovereign currency has taken root.  Time will do the rest.  Oh and BitShares :)

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General Discussion / Re: Beyond Bitcoin Survey
« on: April 02, 2015, 12:54:54 pm »
done  +5%

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