@delulo
The word "Partner" to me is a legal term.
Mark, please definitely change your verbage to something like "is/am/are working with BitShares".
The only real "Partners" that BitShares (a DAC) has really is a blockchain. Without it, neither would profit.
Yup, thats me agreeing with Ken there, for the first time ever.
Partner is a very loaded term, it implies both a genuine 2-way relationship and mutual approval/endorsement.
Maybe I have a better view on this than BTS insiders, but the overall message that Stan (and others) have been pushing to the non-BTS world is that the relationship between BTS and Banx (or BTS and the other partners) is a solid business partnership. What I read here makes that implied relationship somewhat more ambiguous, but not everyone will bother to come here and check stuff out..
Given my current relationship with Banx, I'd love to see some sort of definition of the extent of BTS commitment to Banx (and vice versa).
If Banx was a prospective Nxt project, the Nxt community would have due diligenced Banx to pieces very quickly (well, we did anyway, you can thank us later).
An open platform is all very well, but there needs to be a balance between open access and encouraging dubious schemes.
Nxt has evolved a pretty effective community based defense against projects from bad actors, and (imho) BTS needs to develop similar defenses, or at least avoid enthusiastically endorsing projects without subjecting them to some serious due diligence research.
Heres the main "Banx, do not want" thread on BTT, if anyone hasn't seen it yet:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1181883.0