BTS needs to be promoted as a tool of freedom that it is. It needs to develop its own mini economy of people that are passionate about a common goal.
Unfortunately, growing a community in such a manner is much slower than most would like.
I'll have to disagree here. While think freedom is really important, I'll have to accept the fact that most people don't care about it.
Of course Bitshares has to be "freedom compatible", otherwise it won't be useful and wont' revolutionize anything. But using freedom as a main marketing point is just waste of time.
Freedom lovers are a tiny group, and most of them are already using bitcoin, and especially right now when the BTC is rocketing, they are not interested in questioning the foundations of Bitcoin and analyze how bad it actually is (in the long run).
So I am a normal guy with a bank account, debit card and a PayPal account.
And I use my PayPal account (or my debit card) 2-3 times a month to pay for the stuff I buy online and it looks like a free service for me.
(It looks like this because the fess are hidden from me and even if I'm smart and I know that ultimately I pay for the fees - as they are just factored in the price of the product I'm buying - I don't really care because altogether the fees cost me less than $3 per month)
If we skip the freedom part - what's the big deal for me to convince me to dump PayPal (or debit card) and start using bitUSD / bitEUR / bitCNY instead?
The Bitcoin price is going to become distorted at some point -- maybe sooner rather than later...
like the London (UK) and New York residential housing markets that are the "depositories" of copious amounts of "hot money"
that need laundering and a safe haven...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-02/bitcoin-more-doubles-2015-lows-chinese-ignore-easing-capital-controls"... however if a few hundred million Chinese decide that the time has come to use bitcoin as the capital controls
bypassing currency of choice, and decide to invest even a tiny fraction of the $22 trillion in Chinese deposits in bitcoin
(whose total market cap at last check was just over $3 billion), sit back and watch as we witness the second coming of the
bitcoin bubble..."
But is this really a reliable launching pad upon which to build a foundation for a renaissance of the Bitcoin ecosphere?
If so, by definition it would be counter to the decentralization ethos and effectively become a potential single point of
failure..
I think BitShares just needs to make ONE feature/aspect/use case that grabs the attention of the mainstream and they
will discover the rest of the benefits themselves...
e,g Can you imagine for example if a company provided an option to its employees to have a percentage of their
paycheck direct deposited into a basket of bitAssets, instead of just a checking account or 401(k)
or Pension funds not having to rely on such "venerable" institutions as JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs etc...or worse, end up like the employees of Enron..(at retirement age)
If BitShares could demonstrate a real world practical demonstration to show how organizations & situations like this
for example
http://ouroregon.org/millions-in-management-fees-mean-lower-returns-on-investments-and-bigger-paydays-for-banks/can use what BitShares has to offer....Many other people, institutions, media, academia, businesses, students, etc. will discover all the other BitShares features, benefits and technology....
and the BTS market price will never look back..
Just the thoughts of an average Joe..