V and I had a great time and I appreciate him making the trip to Virginia.
One thing that has come out of the process is that I am a firm believer in the need for a "Turing Complete" environment on a DAC. The other thing that came out of the meeting is that the existing Eth. design has woefully inefficient abstraction for the types of data structures that DAC developers really need. Technically it is turing complete and it is possible to do everything on their existing design. I was throughly impressed with V's ability to solve problems on the fly and believe that Eth will be a very interesting platform and will find many solutions.
So what I can say is that a future BitShares chain will be fully Turing Complete with the ability to run arbitrary code. I think that we will probably have a friendly competition moving forward as we steal good ideas from each other.
One thing I can say is that nothing replaces real-world experience writing DACs from scratch to learn what the proper abstraction layer is. V gained some insight from our experience writing real DACs while we gained some of his experience with doing things more generally.
We also recognized that the biggest need we have is for our communities to work together rather than against one another. It is kind of like different tribes. It seems that the best way to align our communities is to have a mutual financial interest and for that reason I could see a joint venture with allocation from both sides for the development of BitShares Turing.
All of these things are probably a year or more away as we both have to focus on current systems.
It is very much like tribes. Sharedropping incentivizes collaboration between shareholders of different communities, Diversifies every holder's portfolio over time, and Diversifies a technology's community. Diversification will create more redundancy between systems and will support higher market caps in the ecosystem, introducing more volume and stability.
Another way to incentivize trust is for at least one tangible initiative to be established that various communities all have a stake in. For instance, DPOS based chains can use some of the extra funds to collaboratively put together a legal fund to cover the expenses of establishing favorable legal precedents.
As for V, thanks for clearing that up.