Augur
tl;dr Augur was one of many teams attempting to build Truthcoin. I stopped advising them due to their technical incompetence, and their outrageously false claims (about their exclusivity, advisors, ‘contribution’ to the protocol design, etc). Today, I would best describe what remains as “a way to scam money from gullible Ethereum users”.
I know that claim doesn't look good. But the point here would just to stir up some discussion regarding Prediction Markets with someone who's knowledge on that area is far better than most. I only see us gaining from that, we're just learning from others. It could just spark an idea on someone's mind and that idea could end up helping BitShares.
I'm not defending him or the Augur team, to be honest I don't care about it. What I'm suggesting is an interesting talk about Prediction Markets and having people ask questions to someone who understands them, spark some ideas, make someone come up with something new, learn something, I think it would be interesting, don't you? That seems like a media approach, focusing on stupid skirmishes. What matters here is Prediction Markets, period.