Have I been reading correctly that the bitshares protocol is similar enough to bitcoin's to accept and transfer real BTC? If it is, why don't we make it so the bitshares client can accept actual BTC so users can trade it on the bitshares exchange.
This would eliminate a whole step of getting money into the bitshares ecosystem and would make bitshares exchange even more useful. You could even accept other popular cryptos in the same way (or not, but at least BTC), then it would be even an even more functional decentralized exchange.
This seems like a no brainer to me, am I missing something?