Hello everyone,
Good Questions.
I understand the community's apprehension in a young organization like ours trying to be involved so heavily and its a very welcome emotion. Some of the ways we intend to add value to the community here are
1. Share drops And Intrinsic Value
We intend to have ShareDrops on virtually all of the products we build for the community. We build into communities, knowing that sharing ownership of what we build also helps us scale it to new heights. In keeping in line with the same line of thought, we'll be doing ShareDrops on BitShares holders (and being gamers, we also like dkp
) This should help us ensure we do deliver in terms of adding value to those that hold coins here, because your community is at the beginning of the Sharing economy in crypto, and sharing also brings liquidity (see part 3). But it brings much more richness as well.
2. Increasing Adoption
We are a gaming community with a network of projects reaching over 200,000 users. We have been working with a very niche group of users whose preferences and demands pretty much defines what runs the internet. We understand the importance of efficient integration and breaking down the nuances of crypto to the average user. We have also seen a lot of concern regarding the GUI here and have some gamified ideas to make users drool. I request you guys to please take a look at some of our projects to get a basic idea of our proficiency in this regard, but for some special reasons we have to be careful giving you all our intentions. Just know that we hope to prove ourselves to you and thank fuzzy for his trust.
3. Increasing Liquidity
A large number of our operations run on crypto and due to the same we'll be required to buy in and sell crypto often. In lieu of this very idea we have even begun work on our own trade bot and have made announcements of an exchange (to be named Barter) in this week’s hangout. It is in our best interest to ensure the markets run efficiently and that you trust us. We are trying to make a move to BitShares for obvious reasons. We can bring ease of use.
4. Adding value to the ecosystem
I believe we have shared at least 5 key concepts we intend to release in the months to come in the recent past directly on these forums. By enabling us to build what we intend to bring to these marketplaces we will be able to further empower the growth of the community. That is why we got along with fuzzy. He seems to understand that roads and highways need built for an economy to prosper. This is true for gaming and crypto worlds just as in the analog one. It is also why we are partnering with Beyond Bitcoin and seeking funding. To help build those roads and to let fuzzy help us with transparency along the way.
5. Marketing
Our large user base forms a key user base for crypto's and projects in general. We sustain on advertisements and we believe, by creating synergistic partnerships with communities, we can “level up” to a point where the organization can stay profitable and manage to expand without stressing itself more than necessary. We are also working in merging with an advertising agency that deals specifically in crypto and caters to the gaming community, and if we can build what we want to build here it will be easier for us to get them interested in BitShares too. But we need you onboard first.
Regarding Questions from Shentist
1) the tippingbot nxthaus has is nothing like our system, we have a trustless system completely integrated with our forum, as we coded the nxthaus bot we can be certain that its features are not in line with what this community needs, regardless of that fact we arent asking that people pay for this one project, or even two projects, but that people help us bootstrap a serise of enterprises that bring intrinsic value to the entire community
2) barter is not a shapeshift competetor, the features we plan (and will outline in our whitepaper when the time is right) will be the most advanced implementation of currently existing ideas, combined with the best ideas of the other teams and exchanges to create a technology never seen before in the industry, and may for the first time be a system that makes that claim and is correct much the same way metaexchange brought trustless (accountless) trading to the table we intend to advance technology not compete against pre existing technology
3) first and foremost we are a business, we do want to share all of our ideas with this community and the people who can use them the best, however for the sake of competition and fair market we will chose to only release information as it is time, that being said we are all for transparency and building the systems we create into the core of bitshares, but the rapid pace, high scale techonology we bring to the table requires food on our tables because we are full time cryptocurrency developers