Thank you guys!! For this very precise and informal education on these critical points.

There are other platforms where users can create tokens for a one-time fee and if bitshares requires "rent" then users will quickly migrate their business elsewhere. Bitshares is super efficient and we can let people use the blockchain for super cheap (and still profit).

SmartCoins are more unique and I think you'll like this: They reduce the supply of spendable bitshares.

There is 'rent' in a way.. you need to keep your fee pool filled with BTS no matter what asset you have. Any assets pairing with BTS are paying fees to the network as well.

To me, BTC (bitcoin) is a crazy bad investment right now, blockchain at capacity, slow and inefficient, terrible governance and toxic community

And... thanks for taking the time to explain all this to me.

Conclusion: With SO many other assets dependent on the bitShares blockchain, bitShares will certainly be around for a long LONG time. And... now being sold at the  bargain price of 230 per dollar, it's the IDEAL time to start accumulating bitShares.

This is a daily chart. Each bar represents one day of trading. As you can see bitShares has been a orderly down channel for about four months now. But for the last week or so, the price has been flat. Notice how the price is bumping up against the top of that downward slopped trend channel. A breakout through that top line would be a VERY good sign.

Here's a closer look. This is the same chart only each candle represents 2 hours of trading. There's that same gray trend channel. Only the top line is visible. And it looks like price has been trying to break through, but keeps coming back down into the channel. Now there's also support there, seen as the yellow line.  If price breaks down through that yellow line, then a new bottom may be likely.

Now this very interesting. Here's a 4 hour chart from Poloniex. This is just about 4 days of trading. Notice where I've placed the blue arrows. These candles all represent significant moves up. But then someone... seeing the price was moving up on good volume saw that as a good opportunity to sell a large stake, immediately pushing the price back down again. No way to know who this is, but the pattern is quite obvious.

I've was VERY impressed with the recent Chronos Crypto videos on youTube. In fact, as a programmer, I'm blown away by all the intricate functionally and possibilities of bitShares. Far and above any other crypto I seen. Then there is all this existing technology already based on bitShares. Ie: OpenLedger. So... I start buying some bitShares. They're they're like 2300 per dollar.

I don't understand... why are bitShares so cheap? Yes, the Available Supply is 2 1/2 billion. What's going on there? And with all the adjunct platforms based on bitShares, why's the Market Cap and Daily Volume so low?

It seems like bitShares has already accomplished everything Ethereum plans on doing, all without getting bogged down with a procedural language. I must be missing something. Why isn't bitShares more popular?