I am slightly shocked how much the developers ignore the severity of this bug.

The asset market is BitShares' most important feature. If we were only to worry about funds not being stolen we could just stay with Bitcoin, right?

With shorting broken and the 10% penalty for expiry still in place (is it?) this will dry up the asset market, break the peg (they will be trading at 110% if at all) and piss off those few who are willing to still short in this bear market damaging liquidity for the next weeks/months.

If you want a safe quick fix, reduce the 50% max APR to something like 5%. This is one single variable and surely can not break anything else.

I assume it's a feature of the client and not the block chain.

Wait until a short expires and sell him some (newly shorted) MPA for 10% above peg.

Actually there used to be two alts (Litecoin and PTS).
They were hard-forked out (without any public discussion) and replaced by renamed GAS and DIESEL which to date have not attracted a single price feed and therefore never been traded.

Maybe it's time to rename them once more...

Or electricity usage. Make an asset around electricity demand and you'll get something extremely stable but which always increases.

Electricity is probably the commodity with the most volatile price. It can jump to 100 times its average price within minutes and can also become negative at times. It is also highly location dependent. The reasons for this are that long distance transport is expensive and inflexible and that it can not be stored economically.

When did that doubling happen, I think I missed it. Was it the jump from 0.047 to 0.068 CNY? Or did it happen backwards in time

Anyway, serious pumpers are always welcome!

If the price of a bitAsset is below the feed there is no need for additional supply - so no need for shorts to go through.

When demand for a bitAsset picks up the price will rise to (and sometimes even above) the feed price at which shorts are executed, increasing the supply.

The only reason for the APY is to sort the queued short orders at the feed price.
Once trading happens above (not at) the feed price APY is typically zero.

Said all this, normal selling (and buying) can happen at any prices, so the market is not "locked up". Only shorting is restricted in the manner described above.

I can translate it into German.