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Here's a cliffnotes version for those who may have missed the original PTS to PTS2 announcement threads:
A couple of days ago it was announced that the bitshares dev team is planning on upgrading bitshares PTS after bitshares XT is completed and released
This news was stealth announced in a cryptic topic titled "Rest in Peace, DA" found on the marketing board. The topic, created by user Stan, intended to deliver great news to #bitsharesbelievers: Invictus is planning to upgrade the PTS network (via a soft-fork) by utilizing the DPOS tech which they have been developing over the past few months. In addition, it was announced that when this upgrade takes place, there will be around ~$1,000,000 of "windfall" money, and that this extra capital would go in a marketing slush fund controlled by Invictus
As I lurked through thread, some users appeared to like the idea. The current PTS PoW algo has some sustainability issues that are alleviated by upgrading to DPOS. Others observed that by allocating the remaining PTS to themselves, Invictus would breach the established social contract.
Stan continued to post in the thread, elaborating upon and holding his original position: investors should like this announcement because Invictus is in the best position to spend the funds wisely and thus maximize shareholder return.
After a total of 3 topics and 300 posts over the last couple of days, the first two topics discussing this issue have been closed, and all posts Stan made referencing the original million dollar marketing fund have been edited out of existence and can no longer be found. The most recent topic demotes the previous PTS DPOS upgrade announcement to a "proposal", and drops any talk of what to do with the left over PTS, instead deferring the decision to (community?) consensus at a later date.
I do not bring up the fact that Stan edited away the original announcement to cast suspicion on him. I do it because the original post Stan made regarding this (now defunct) marketing fund was more than a little half baked, and responsible for a lot of the FUD surrounding the PTS PoW to DPOS transition. Also it serves as a perfect example of how to confuse and alienate your user base.