To be clear, It is cool to point out the benefits of bts. In fact I would say it is critical. I am just saying being tactful.
Dont say bitshares is better. Say bitshares is better in this instance.
Say bitcoins does this great while bitshares does that great.
Its just the principles in the classic. "How to win friends and influence people."
But it is all kind of heightened by a factor of ten because if you can make it pro bitcoin you will get 10 times the eyeballs.
I totally agree with you as a PR strategy. It extends further though into maturing the software features that bitcoin users need: Bitcoin users need bitshares bitAssets.
I am a hardcore bitcoiner who has never invested in any other alt-crypto until a few weeks ago I got really interested in bitshares. I would say that it wasn't I chose bitshares but rather *I didn't have any choice but bitshares*. Learning about the bitshares network security helped. Bitshares is the only way I know of to diversify bitcoin into FIAT without entering a centralized counter party risk system. The bitAssets CFD pools are the only decentralized option that is functional today. Bitcoin users need fiat diversification now. So everytime there is short term volatility in bitcoin or a failure such as Gox/Stamp, bitcoiners will go on the lookout for fiat diversification options. Bitshares is standing there with open arms ready to solve their problems via a decentralized network.
The biggest problem I have with bitshares today is its lacking cold wallet functionality. I could x10 my bitshares investment overnight if there was a cold wallet feature that could sign offline transactions and a hot wallet that could broadcast them. Alternatively OTP support in the client would help. Unfortunately now I have to just sit on the sidelines and wait. In the meantime perhaps other options will come up that overtake bitshares.
This is the bitshares race. I recently downloaded the bitShares android app from these forms which seems to work great. Also I tried one of the btc/bitshares gateways you mentioned earlier and it worked! I would love to see a fully client side bitshares webwallet people could download and run locally in their browser with cold and hot wallet features. The existing software is 90% there but the final 10% missing security features are critical.
These development features lay down bridges that invite bitcoiners to cross over into bitsharesland whenever there is turmoil in the bitcoin kingdom. There are still some critical bridges that aren't fully matured which means bitcoiners who come to them may think twice before crossing. The bridges needs to be strong, smooth, shiny and straight as possible to maximize rapid conversion.