For getting a list of transactions created by the simpleAPI (this is almost certainly the API you will want to use), you will first need to use simpleAPI/initiatieTrade to get an input address (and if you want a non-empty list, you will also need to send some coin to the input address).

1) To get an input address:
https://blocktrades.us:443/api/v2/simple-api/initiate-trade
{
  "inputCoinType": "btc",
  "outputCoinType": "bts",
  "outputAddress": "btsnow",
  "outputMemo": ""
}

Returns something like:

{
  "inputAddress": "1FDgyw6NSdErYbowNty8EPxY6fHCVRCwWd",
  "inputCoinType": "btc",
  "outputAddress": "btsnow",
  "outputCoinType": "bts",
  "refundAddress": null
}

2) Send some bitcoin to inputAddress

3) To check on status of the trx from step2:

https://blocktrades.us:443/api/v2/simple-api/transactions?inputAddress=1FDgyw6NSdErYbowNty8EPxY6fHCVRCwWd

Since you control the assets, would it not be possible to pull back all the old OPENxxx assets and then issue the new OPEN.xxx to all the holders of those old OPEN assets 1:1 ?

Saving everyone the trouble of making the trade themselves?

I don't mind either way.  It's no trouble.  Just asking, if it's possible.

One problem with that approach is existing orders placed on the market are still locked up.

I'm fine with the worker pay being denominated in BTS rather than a usd/euro equivalent. If we see a significant appreciation in the value of BTS, we can increase the amount of work we do (and I think BTS is near its low side now). It's relatively easy for BlockTrades to convert pay to different forms as required by different contractors.

We'll put together a list of some of the problems we would address near term, but one of the ones that stood out for me was the high data spamming across the websocket that was stressing mobile web browsers.

I believe we need a worker proposal to fix many of the small problems discovered in the blockchain protocol and code base. These problems are generally too small to require individual proposals that must then be voted in by shareholders. There's too much overhead, the issues aren't easily explainable to voters, and there's too much delay in such a system to effectively address small tasks. Note that we already have similar proposals voted in for the GUI coding and web development (SVK, Cass, etc).

BlockTrades is soliciting feedback on this idea before making a formal proposal on the BitShares network.

We're thinking of proposing to do this at a rate of 60000 bts/day.
The work would be done by Eric, myself, plus other subcontractors as necessary (e.g. Cryptonomex or SynaptiCAD employees). We would make a report once per month on what has been done during that period.

I like the idea. BlockTrades will lower our normal pricing for buying BTS on Feb 29th to allow users to acquire BTS they can use to create more BitUSD and BitBTC (to get good liquidity, I think more of these will need to be shorted into existence).

Quote from: Akado on January 13, 2016, 11:12:06 pm

Quote from: clayop on January 13, 2016, 11:07:53 pm

Although Bitshares 2.0 already has prediction market backend, its frontend should be more developed.

We can have "Prediction Market" tab in the current wallet. But I think it would be much better to additionally have separated, simple, and light application only for prediction market. Some unrelated functions (voting, permission, explorer, trading, etc.) can be removed and the app only has transfer and prediction market functions.

What do you think?

Isn't that something to service providers who want to make a business out of Prediction Markets?

I question this too.  For example, why does the community pay for GUI development (in openledger I presume) but ccedk receive all the referral income?

ccedk doesn't receive all the referral income. Anyone can host a wallet and set up a referral system.

The community pays for the general wallet development, but anyone is welcome to take the general wallet and offer a customized version (or offer their customizations back to the general wallet if they want to share the changes and the community finds them acceptable). Both of these use cases are occurring, from what I've heard.

Quote from: dannotestein on January 07, 2016, 05:00:45 am

Quote from: onceuponatime on January 07, 2016, 04:34:45 am

Quote from: werneo on January 07, 2016, 04:26:06 am

I sold out around 800 back in November and set an auto buy at around 500, which just got filled. So I guess I should be happy with the profit. Hurrah for me 

Anyone have a clue about why the price just collapsed (again)? Quite slide from 3000.

Account bts-qq123-bts just claimed over 56 million BTS from balances an hour ago and is selling it through Blocktrades. 
That must be Dan's first Chinese backer of Innvictus. I forget his name.
Or somebody needing to cover big losses on the Shanghai exchange with the two limit downs this week.

Well, I try to avoid generally commenting on market activity, since we operate as a market maker, but it looks to me more like the account you mentioned was "reacting" to the price drop rather than causing it. But your idea about the drops in Shanghai exchange being the ultimate cause could be correct; it might be someone needed to cover a margin call on Shanghai exchange by selling on poloniex to get funds. However, I always assumed most chinese traders would be trading on chinese exchanges instead of poloniex, but I suppose that's not universally true of course.

Looks like the dumps on Polo is after the whale transferred BTS to blocktrades.

Looking at Polo's price history chart, the first dump happened at 03:20 - 03:25 GMT, with volume of 1.5M BTS.
The largest volume (5.5M BTS) of dump happened at 3:35-3:40 GMT
Screenshort here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3xrm70jSHn4dFZSOXFvU3lSVDg

Looking at bts-qq123-bts's account history, 2M BTS  transferred to blocktrades before 3:20 GMT, Another 10M BTS transferred to blocktrades before 3:35 GMT.

Quote

2016-01-07T06:59:03 Transfer 200000 BTS from bts-qq123-bts to blocktrades -- Unlock wallet to see memo.   (Fee: 32.42187 BTS)
2016-01-07T03:36:12 Transfer 100000 BTS from bts-qq123-bts to blocktrades -- Unlock wallet to see memo.   (Fee: 32.42187 BTS)
2016-01-07T03:34:42 Transfer 500000 BTS from bts-qq123-bts to blocktrades -- Unlock wallet to see memo.   (Fee: 32.42187 BTS)
2016-01-07T03:33:12 Transfer 1000000 BTS from bts-qq123-bts to blocktrades -- Unlock wallet to see memo.   (Fee: 32.42187 BTS)
2016-01-07T03:31:39 Transfer 1000000 BTS from bts-qq123-bts to blocktrades -- Unlock wallet to see memo.   (Fee: 32.42187 BTS)
2016-01-07T03:30:03 Transfer 2000000 BTS from bts-qq123-bts to blocktrades -- Unlock wallet to see memo.   (Fee: 32.42187 BTS)
2016-01-07T03:28:42 Transfer 2000000 BTS from bts-qq123-bts to blocktrades -- Unlock wallet to see memo.   (Fee: 32.42187 BTS)
2016-01-07T03:26:51 Transfer 3000000 BTS from bts-qq123-bts to blocktrades -- Unlock wallet to see memo.   (Fee: 32.42187 BTS)
2016-01-07T03:24:48 Transfer 3000000 BTS from bts-qq123-bts to blocktrades -- Unlock wallet to see memo.   (Fee: 32.42187 BTS)
2016-01-07T03:15:36 Transfer 1000000 BTS from bts-qq123-bts to blocktrades -- Unlock wallet to see memo.   (Fee: 32.42187 BTS)
2016-01-07T03:12:36 Transfer 1000000 BTS from bts-qq123-bts to blocktrades -- Unlock wallet to see memo.   (Fee: 32.42187 BTS)
2016-01-07T03:10:33 Transfer 200000 BTS from bts-qq123-bts to blocktrades -- Unlock wallet to see memo.   (Fee: 32.42187 BTS)
2016-01-07T02:58:54 Transfer 100000 BTS from bts-qq123-bts to blocktrades -- Unlock wallet to see memo.   (Fee: 32.42187 BTS)
2016-01-07T02:56:06 Transfer 1000 BTS from bts-qq123-bts to blocktrades -- Unlock wallet to see memo.   (Fee: 32.42187 BTS)
2016-01-07T02:41:18 balance_claim_operation bts-qq123-bts fee: 0 BTS
2016-01-07T02:41:18 balance_claim_operation bts-qq123-bts fee: 0 BTS

@dannotestein ?

It's possible the transfers were made to BlockTrades before the sell off on Poloniex, but the timing is so tight it's rather hard for me to tell the order in which things happened (and the time zone reporting differences don't help).

My belief that it was a reaction was mainly based off the fact that we don't see any transfers from bts-qq123-bts to any account other than BlockTrades (i.e. they didn't make any transfers to Poloniex before or after selling to us). What I can say for certain is that BlockTrades didn't make any trades on Poloniex during any of this time. If our system did this sort of automated dumping, where it sells below the price it buys at, we would have gone bankrupt long ago during one of the earlier crashes. However, we have been and continue to be a profitable enterprise.

If you're right, and the Poloniex sales happened after the BlockTrades sales, then either someone was watching the BlockTrades account and sold when they saw a big sale to us (possibly in some automated fashion which seems slightly improbable to me, but not impossible), or else the bts-qq123-bts account owner also had an existing bts balance on Poloniex and just sold there as well. I guess the scenario where it's one person with two accounts is the most probable one.

The idea that margin trading contributed to the severity of the drop seems reasonable to me also, given the drop mainly seemed to happen on poloniex and not the chinese exchanges.

Quote from: werneo on January 07, 2016, 04:26:06 am

I sold out around 800 back in November and set an auto buy at around 500, which just got filled. So I guess I should be happy with the profit. Hurrah for me 

Anyone have a clue about why the price just collapsed (again)? Quite slide from 3000.

Account bts-qq123-bts just claimed over 56 million BTS from balances an hour ago and is selling it through Blocktrades. 
That must be Dan's first Chinese backer of Innvictus. I forget his name.
Or somebody needing to cover big losses on the Shanghai exchange with the two limit downs this week.

Well, I try to avoid generally commenting on market activity, since we operate as a market maker, but it looks to me more like the account you mentioned was "reacting" to the price drop rather than causing it. But your idea about the drops in Shanghai exchange being the ultimate cause could be correct; it might be someone needed to cover a margin call on Shanghai exchange by selling on poloniex to get funds. However, I always assumed most chinese traders would be trading on chinese exchanges instead of poloniex, but I suppose that's not universally true of course.