I get the fact Dan wants to share his view and vision. Other people shouldn't pressure you not to think or share your thoughts or how you see the world, etc
I believe everything you ever did for BitShares was, is and will be with the best of intentions, I really believe that, however, from anyone else's point of view, whose money is into BitShares, will not see it the same way.
It's impossible to please anyone and you're just sharing thoughts, however you must know by now that these kind of posts, whatever they might be, being the topic itself controversial or not, will end up in polemic.
Why? Because from other people's point of view, they only want to see results. They want to see CNX being pragmatic and efficient. Most people will see this and think you're not focused, lost in philosophies, etc, I'm not saying you are and that you should ever let others condition how you express yourself, but unfortunately that will be like most people will see it, always.
People only care about results, not caring if you even had to be inhuman to achieve them. They want them, they demand them and that's it. Now obviously you aren't obliged to anything, but that's the kind of reaction you should expect from other people, from most people.
For them:
- BitShares relies completely on you and CNX (even if it can hire 10000 devs, because pratically that's how it is atm)
- Without you, project dies
- They want results
- They don't see results
- They see philosophical stuff which they don't care the slightest
- They don't see their money growing which is what they care the most
- They see multiple ideas everywhere
- They don't see a path, a clear objective on what will happen next
All of this causes people to feel insecure, afraid, mad and all kind of different negative reactions, even if your intentions are the best. Of course most people's reaction if they were in your shoes would be something like "But all I did was a single post, trying to explain my vision, what's wrong with that? I can't say what I think? I can't share my opinion on the project I started?" and that might feel pretty unfair. However, once again, most people won't care about that because all they care about is their own money and well... I can't judge them because of that, that's how the world works, we are too dependent on money, no money, no funny, no food in the tummy.
So basically all I have to say trying not to be biased is to take that into consideration, because you know everything you say and everything you do will be watched and analysed very carefully. On one side because people see you as someone so intelligent and with great ideas, on the other because this entire project, still relies too much on you and CNX.
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My opinion on this.
No problem with you sharing your ideas other than that you should know everyone panics, whether you say "yes" or "no", wether you say "right" or "left".
Also I'm of the opinion before we can start any of this stuff we need money. It's better to have it to secure our future and guarantee that stuff can be done then start off with that immediately and jeopardizing the entire project.
Atm I must say - although I've been in BTS since the AGS donation period and haven't sold a single one - I'm afraid stuff like Bond Markets/Margin Trading, Prediction Markets, etc, won't be done.Imo that's imperative. But that's just my opinion. The shareholders choose,