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General Discussion / Re: Connecting the dots
« on: January 27, 2016, 06:07:27 am »
From my perspective, the biggest problem with adoption is getting BTC over to bitbtc in a cost effective manner. Let's say I transfer in some openbtc. If I decide I'd like to purchase bts, the openbtc/bts market is priced unfavorably compared to bitbtc/bts. This is going to sound naive, but I feel that "like currencies" should be exchanged not on an open market but on a one-to-one basis with only a handling fee applied, say .1%. This would dramatically spur activity because people would be able to get into the core asset at an acceptable exchange rate.

As an example, I'd like to be able to exchange openbtc for bitbtc at a published flat rate or a very small percentage fee.

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Peer to peer exchange of money with a mobile web wallet. Essentially friends reimbursing friends for movie tix, meals, etc. This is very targeted and has viral potential. Think of it as a substitute for Venmo, Cash, Paypal and others.

Needs a really simple BTC -> USD gateway that funds their bitUSD at the Coinbase rate (with maybe a $0.25 fee for the conversion).

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General Discussion / Re: And we are here bacause...[poll]
« on: December 07, 2015, 04:57:22 am »
not only a week goes by...and our great leader decides he will discover what is wrong with this world...by a forum post...

Great focus...while his product is a giant pile of...and the right thing is definitly to find what is wrong elsewhere while thing here are heading...no where.

[clapping  from the background]

@tonyk I can't figure you out. If I had to guess, I'd say you are young. You are abrasive and on the verge of being a bully. Maybe I'm totally off base and you are sarcastic. You clearly believe that you have been wronged. BM is clearly young and introverted and it sounds like you've backed him into a corner on more than one occasion, triggering him to lash out at you.

You guys throw blows but you aren't accomplishing anything meaningful or productive except to stroke your ego or defend a bruised one as far as I can tell.

Progress comes in small steps, identifying the most egregious faults and slowly chipping away at them, methodically. So, let's all try chipping away at things.


Some big items include:

Improving the deposit process
Make it easy for friends to send other friends bitUSD/bitCNY and for that same wallet to allow for easy conversion to BTS for people who want to speculate a bit in the underlying asset.

Life is too short guys. Let's be productive and make a badass Distributed Exchange.

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Biggest obstacle: BTS still doesnt provide the same experience as a centralized exchange like Poloniex.

The gui doesnt look as polished as Polo, for example they make it really easy to see markets with the highest volume. They have a trollbox etc.

Markets with highest volume is a good point. Also coinmarketcap styled sparkline to show past week trend.

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General Discussion / Re: Bitshares Graphene-ui 2.0.151125 released
« on: December 07, 2015, 04:32:30 am »
I've pushed a change that makes it so the total displayed in the header is the total for all accounts controlled by the currently open wallet. It will no longer be affected by accounts that you're just browsing. If you control no accounts, no total will be displayed.

Is this the value displayed on the top line to the left of the settings gear / icon? Any reason you didn't use a label with it, like "Wallet Value:"
Yes. No label to keep it clean, it really shouldn't be necessary imo, there will be a tooltip though  breaking down the totals by asset.

I'm a bit fan of tool tips. I think almost everything should have one attached. A tool tip on that value is all that's required to explain what that number represents, and, it keeps the UI clean. I had to ask what it was, b/c I'm not sure it's right, or how it calculates the value. It doesn't seem to add up in my case and the wallet contains only 2 accounts with very few assets.

It doesn't currently total assets held as collateral or open orders....but it will for v1209 !!

https://github.com/cryptonomex/graphene-ui/issues/584

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General Discussion / Re: Any interest in a more modern Discussion board?
« on: December 07, 2015, 04:27:37 am »
My comment was pretty straightforward. I'm kind of amazed that anyone likes phpBB. It's like a fax machine. I have one so I might as well use it till it dies.

I disagree that a trollbox and a discussion board serve the same purpose. While I agree a trollbox can be searchable, I think it's analogous to using twitter as a support desk. Trollboxes help identify issues, but they do not provide a platform for other users to learn from the experience of others.

Based on the participation in this thread, seems like there aren't many people who care one way or another, and there are a few who do seem to care. Not a huge issue to me one way or another.

I'm also not opinionated on the brand. Would just like something that's based on a modern web technology that doesn't reload the page with every post, one that shows me in real time when I have replied and/or inline direct messages.

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General Discussion / Re: Any interest in a more modern Discussion board?
« on: December 06, 2015, 07:39:11 pm »
We need a trollbox in Open Ledger. The current discussion board is fine and I think we need to get away from discussion boards and put the discussions into Open Ledger.

The more time we spend on the forum the less time we are spending in Bitshares.

@luckybit I think most of us are in agreement that a trollbox would be good. It's not a substitute for a discussion area though.

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General Discussion / Any interest in a more modern Discussion board?
« on: December 06, 2015, 03:57:17 pm »
I wouldn't expect this to happen overnight, but why not consider it?

http://flarum.org/features/

Reasons:

- Attaching images is archaic with phpBB
- formatting text is archaic
- URLs are cryptic
- Page reloads are required for every post (as opposed to live streaming and sockets)
- General UX is terrible with phpBB (it was awesome in 2005, but it's not so awesome now)

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General Discussion / Re: Bitshares Graphene-ui 2.0.151125 released
« on: December 06, 2015, 03:38:27 am »
Thanks for the tips. Best to retire this thread since we have more recent upgrade announcement threads.

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General Discussion / Re: UI Progress
« on: December 06, 2015, 03:35:44 am »
Voting needs a total ui overhaul and I plan to tackle that in late January.

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General Discussion / Re: Can't trade on Openledger. Newbie!
« on: December 06, 2015, 03:34:32 am »
We've chipped away at the biggest ones. Pretty happy with where we stand on the big front.

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General Discussion / Re: Bitshares UI 2.0.151202 released
« on: December 06, 2015, 03:32:57 am »
Nice. I'll keep this in mind for a future release.

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General Discussion / Re: Bitshares UI 2.0.151202 released
« on: December 06, 2015, 01:31:10 am »
One suggestion. Showing percent of NAV for each asset in the wallet would be cool.

I'm not sure what this means.

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General Discussion / Re: Bitshares UI 2.0.151202 released
« on: December 05, 2015, 03:00:43 pm »
Net asset value is displayed incorrectly currently. It should include funds locked in orders. These are my assets. It should also include a fraction of collateral which exceeds my debt.

I agree! It should also include balances tied up in collateral positions etc. I would think.

Tracking here: https://github.com/cryptonomex/graphene-ui/issues/584

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General Discussion / Re: BTS voting initiative
« on: December 04, 2015, 09:45:25 pm »
Voting needs a complete UX overhaul for worker proposals as well. I'd love to get a full understanding of voting, then maybe I can work with the UI team to build this into the graphene client.

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