I've compiled and run the witness_node, but it just sits there stuck at 0 blocks, not syncing with the network... I have a bitshares witness on the same machine which is ok, any ideas what might be going wrong? Are they conflicting maybe?

In this new bond market, I propose that the blockchain be a BTS lender. It can print BTS to lend out to potential longs/shorts with 0 risk and pretty much guaranteed profit, which would be burnt, thereby reducing supply.

This would bootstrap liquidity, and make the blockchain as a whole more profitable.

Thoughts?

I have no idea what it is, or why it needs to be funded.

Apparently, the fee pool for METAFEES is somehow empty, which means no one can do anything with it. How does this work? Do we have to pay into the fee pool so anyone can transfer METAFEES? Isn't this going to be very expensive to keep up, if we need to constantly refill it?

Metatrader4 is the defacto forex consumer trading platform http://www.metatrader4.com/en

The key feature of MT4 is the ability to buy, create and run your own trading bots - this is a massive source of liquidity and trading volume and there are vast libraries of such bots available on the metatrader marketplace https://www.mql5.com/en/market/mt4

There has been some discussion about how to integrate metatrader 4 with bitshares, and I have good experience of both platforms so I know what it will take. I've created this thread to open the discussion about how this might be achieved.

There are a few things to know about MT4 first:

1. This is a margin trading platform. You go long/short with your base currency as collateral in your desired market, and you always close your order with one of the opposite type, so if you buy, you must sell to close your position. This means you always end up back in the same currency you started out with.
2. There is typically leverage available, the amount varies depending on your broker
3. I *think* the available markets are hard coded into the platform, so you have to offer markets like EUR/USD, JPY/USD etc
4. The is no orderbook available to traders (this is a big negative point)
5. The spreads are typically denoted in Pips, which are fractions of a dollar (this is a bit of a sticking point for integration)
6. The metatrader 4 client side app communicates with the broker via a custom protocol - there would need to be a bitshares bridge server
7. Placing and cancelling limit orders is free
8. There are order types bitshares doesn't support right now, buy stop and sell stop which are resting orders which do not activate until the price reaches them (opposite way to regular limit orders)
9. Metatrader the corporation would almost certainly be opposed to this integration, so this would need to be done with no central point of failure in terms of legal ramifications

I propose something radical to address point 7, which is a huge point for existing MT4 users who would never accept having to pay for that: require a Proof of Work for placement and cancel orders, but have 0 transaction fee. That would prevent spam while costing no currency.

Point 8 could easily be addressed by adding these order types into the DEX.

In summary, I think it would be possible to integrate IF bitshares supported margin trading in a compatible way.

Cheers, Paul.

That is crazy high. Especially since it costs 5000 just to create a cheap one.

I get this error:

asset_symbol_itr != asset_indx.end(): Asset METAEX.BTC may only be created by issuer of METAEX, but METAEX has not been registered
Yet, METAEX exists.

get_asset METAEX
{
  "id": "1.3.586",
  "symbol": "METAEX",
  "precision": 8,
  "issuer": "1.2.30966",
  "options": {
    "max_supply": 21000000,
    "market_fee_percent": 0,
    "max_market_fee": 0,
    "issuer_permissions": 79,
    "flags": 0,
    "core_exchange_rate": {
      "base": {
        "amount": 1,
        "asset_id": "1.3.0"
      },
      "quote": {
        "amount": 1,
        "asset_id": "1.3.586"
      }
    },
    "whitelist_authorities": [],
    "blacklist_authorities": [],
    "whitelist_markets": [],
    "blacklist_markets": [],
    "description": "metaexchange IOU root",
    "extensions": []
  },
  "dynamic_asset_data_id": "2.3.586"
}


There is no way to reduce the supply of a UIA in 2.0! The equivalent to burn, reserve_asset doesn't work at all.

Please can a core member put a high priority tag on this issue:

https://github.com/cryptonomex/graphene/issues/398

It was quite handy to have a url to enable easy transaction sending via the wallet in 1.0, I could do this:

bts:gatewaytest/transfer/amount/10/memo/BTS_BTC-0-0.00001345-0.080-3778279794/from/monsterer/asset/"BTS"

and it would automatically fire up the client and set all the fields correctly. Can we do this in 2.0?