Well, I got voted back in happily the day after making my last post ITT. My reliability has increased a lot since making that hiccup my first day as a delegate. I am now at 95.5% reliability, and I expect it to further increase as time goes on as I have been keeping close watch of my delegate. I've also been performing all upgrades quickly, and keeping my price feeds up to date.
I have gone down like ~20 spots today though and I'm now sitting in the 101 slot. I would appreciate your votes to help keep me in.
In case you were not aware, I have revealed my identity for all to know if it makes you feel more comfortable about voting for me. Here is that info:
I would appreciate your votes. I have no problem revealing my identity. My participation is a bit low right now, but that is because I've only been a delegate for a couple days. I made a silly error on the first day and missed 8 blocks which gave me 0% participation <facepalm.jpg>. I fixed the problem and my participation has increased to above 90%.. it should get better as I am keeping a close eye on my VPN and updating price feeds regularly. I have good trust in the Bitcoin and Litecoin community, and have been operating Bitcoin/Litecoin mining farms for about two years now so I am more than capable of operating a delegate. My pay rate is 75%, no charities or anything at the moment! but I am helping out in other ways around the forums as much as possible. Along with telling people about Bitshares on Bitcointalk on my main thread and defending it on others: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=225659.0
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You can tie my identity to my login by running a "whois" on my business' domain: cryptovest.com and with the following information.
I am Coinhoarder from Bitcointalk.org aka. William E Connatser III
I have signed with this PGP signature multiple times, including here on Bitcointalk when confirming the addresses of the Cryptovest 'special edition' coins:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=286027.msg5667149#msg5667149
You can also see my name in the "about us" page of my website a bit below the text "why choose us":
https://cryptovest.com/about-us/
I own the Coinhoarder account on bitsharestalk.org, and my only BitsharesX delegate is delegate.coinhoarder
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I have also been ttrying to help provide technical support to users that are having issues, and I am still defending Bitshares as always from FUDsters on Bitcointalk.
This was my latest conquest:
i'll take actual USD in my possession over BITUSD any day for a long long time.
I'm talking about actual physical cash (USD).
lol as if I didn't realize that banks operate on digital cash (USD).
There are obviously some advantages to having physical cash compared to bitUSD (Bitshare's digital USD version), but there are also some disadvantages. I think it is silly to write off the whole idea of decentralized market pegged assets due to their real life counterparts being "safer." Do you also not have a bank account, not use debit or credit cards, and never buy gift cards as presents? I would argue all of those things are not as safe as "physical cash in your possession." Furthermore, you could make the argument that Bitcoin/Litecoin are not as safe as physical cash in your possession.. I just don't get your point.
The advantages of having physical cash in your possession are pretty obvious, so I will highlight some of the disadvantages. Physical cash can be:
- Easily confiscated by the government [bitUSD- (if you secure it properly) could not confiscated]
- Easily taxed (no one can force taxes on transactions with a decentralized block chain)
- Limited transactions (you can't send it anywhere in the world on a whim)
- Someone can easily short change you without you noticing (cannot happen with cryptocurrencies)
- Someone can give you fake dollar bills as change or payment (cannot happen with cryptocurrencies)
- You cannot easily speculate on the price of the dollar with cash (with bitUSD you can conveniently go long or short)
- Etc.
There are uses for decentralized digital forms of FIAT and commodities, and that is what makes Bitsharesx valuable (and me a fan boy of them.)