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General Discussion / Re: [ANN] Bitshares E-sports Tournament [ANN]
« on: January 26, 2016, 06:48:38 am »Steadily growing through Alpha.
About to announce on Bitcointalk and a series of other avenues.
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interesting, I was under the impression freebieservers had more influence. in the end 0 teams signed up...?
We've been solely focusing on gamebet.gg for the past few days. This is metric from 2 days of taking sign ups.
I decided not to move forward with the tournament until we launched 2 key projects (gamebet & gambit) as they use Bitshares heavily and it made no sense to have the tournament until the projects were launched. I'll get back to promoting Bitshares as these pieces fall in place.
We had close to 400 bets being placed in our alpha test mode. I'll share metrics later.
Regards
Thanks as always for providing us the info
interesting, I was under the impression freebieservers had more influence. in the end 0 teams signed up...?
@fuzzy thank you. I will send you 2,000 later today.
Regarding the list I would like also Andreas Antonopoulos.
He has done an extremely good job helping Bitcoin in many ways,
however he is too bitcoin centric, everything other than bitcoin isn't good for him. He sees bitcoin in a pedestal and doesn't accept the idea of any other cryptos. At least that's my opinion of what I've seen of him. It's either bitcoin or nothing.
@Akado that is why it would be interesting to have him in a hangout. It would be a debate. There is no purpose doing hangouts with external parties that agree that bitshares is better than bitcoin. We should want to have debates with bitcoin enthusiasts and convince them why bitshares is better.
@fuzzy just to let you know that if you have sent me any copper or silvercoin nothing has gone through.
I agree but my opinion about him is you might try to justify with all the rational arguments and facts that he will just continue to say no, just because. He has done some pretty bold statements in the past that I was pretty amazed to see from someone like him. I don't remember about what though, maybe PoW vs PoS? Can't remember for sure.
I remember one comparison with a metaphor about cars and wheels? I don't remember if it was that one but it was something that atm made zero sense to me.
Still, I might be wrong. I'd welcome him or anyone else of course, as long as they actually debate stuff instead of just saying: no this won't work, btc is better.
I think one awesome theme to any of those guys would be Governance. How Bitcoin governance may seem to have some problems and has involved coercion and corruption (assuming Mike Hearns arguments are true). How BitShares aims to solve that. What other solutions should bitcoin or us consider, etc. Or how could BItsahres and bitcoin help each other mutually
Prediction markets seem to be the best thing BTS has going for it...
Come to think of it a few good PM's would be...
-How many companies actually make it to MVP with bts by end of Q2 2016?
-How much in worker proposals BTS will spend by end of Q2 2016?
-Market cap of BTS by end of Q2 2016?
- Next big exchange being hacked and btc stolen
- Next big exchange shutting down due to hack, scam, etc (like gox or cryptsy)
Still the question is how can we create a BitAsset that requires only 100% collateral from the short side?
That way a bridge can accept LTC and credit BitLTC & vice versa.
explain further?
A centralized exchange accepts real LTC and credits you with an LTC IOU.
We need a bridge like Metaexchange to be able to accept real LTC and credit people with BitLTC for a very low cost, then we can replicate the services of a centralized exchange.
I was under the impression that in addition to market makers, this would be easier if there was a lower collateral requirement to create BitAssets but I might be confused
@monsterer @Shentist
@kuro112 @hybridd, @Xypher
@dannotestein
thoughts?
I noticed this message on Telegram from @Xypher . I wanted to pass it along:
"Crypted Xypher
If you are working on prediction markets. PLEASE contact me as am working on a betting project and I can really use help there. I'd be glad to plugnin your product to what we are building"
I have been looking to apply in Malta for a gaming license for the same thing for a few weeks now (maybe its great minds think alike) no dont mention the other lets keep positive
Iv'e worked with Dom on many occasions, and I still run the backend for some of his products.
good to see you here pal.
It seems to be a pretty good consensus here that prediction markets will be a big thing for Bitshares. I agree on a theoretical level, but in practice it's not so simple.
First of all, Augur has a big lead. They have millions of funding. They have a big group of developers and good marketing. So far we have nothing of those.
Question is: if we build the technology, will the funding, devs and users come?
We haven't seen any meaningful interest in building a PM business on top of the Bitshares blockchain. I would consider a team that is serious about PM business to be a requirement for developing it. It's useless to waste scarce resources to a technology that nobody is ready to use yet.
You guys know that this is a BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY where money can be made by however establishes a (privatized) bit asset tracking a successful asset and having high liquidity FIRST?So true.
I for my self would provide them if I had access to reliable price sources (like bloomberg) and if my lawyer would tell me that it's safe to do ..