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Title: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: merivercap on April 15, 2016, 05:58:19 pm
Just curious what the community thinks about the current platform & ecosystem after BM's mumble.....
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: Shentist on April 15, 2016, 06:37:21 pm
Just curious what the community thinks about the current platform & ecosystem after BM's mumble.....

what does hi said? do i need to sell or buy?
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: pal on April 15, 2016, 07:32:46 pm
I was terrified. I think people will panic soon, this always happening than bytemaster makes this kind of decisions. No blame to him, his is doing right thing - going with his own heart. We are on our own from now on. Is bad in short term, but in long term we could survive.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: hadrian on April 15, 2016, 07:51:19 pm
We are on our own from now on.

Hmm... not quite what he said. He was explaining where he was intending to focus his effort at the moment (Steem). This doesn't preclude him from doing significant work on/with BitShares if circumstances suit. I believe one of his main points was that he intends to do whatever best suits his aim of securing life, liberty and property for all. He can't continue to pour him personal funds into BitShares because it's not sustainable. Also, if Steem succeeds it should help BitShares. I hope this is a fair summary.

Does anyone think there will be a sharedrop on BitShares? This may be something to consider if you're weighing up your options. I missed part of the mumble session, so I don't know if this is likely or if it was mentioned...
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: lil_jay890 on April 15, 2016, 08:20:07 pm
There is not going to be a share drop.

The biggest benefit to this is that bitshares is no longer the guinea pig for cnx.

What I find absolutely hilarious is how earlier this year Dan said his new year's resolution was to become a "better leader for bitshares"... Quits 4 months later.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: onceuponatime on April 15, 2016, 08:32:23 pm
There is not going to be a share drop.

The biggest benefit to this is that bitshares is no longer the guinea pig for cnx.

What I find absolutely hilarious is how earlier this year Dan said his new year's resolution was to become a "better leader for bitshares"... Quits 4 months later.

He didn't quit. He was fired by those voting against development workers.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: liondani on April 15, 2016, 08:50:12 pm
He didn't quit. He was fired by those voting against development workers.

Yep right... and after he was fired he got instant-enlightened and came to the STEEM plan-b idea ...  Cm-on...
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: Shentist on April 15, 2016, 08:51:29 pm
There is not going to be a share drop.

The biggest benefit to this is that bitshares is no longer the guinea pig for cnx.

What I find absolutely hilarious is how earlier this year Dan said his new year's resolution was to become a "better leader for bitshares"... Quits 4 months later.

He didn't quit. He was fired by those voting against development workers.

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,21296.msg288383.html#msg288383

he never recieved payment from workers, because he never asked for it. i need to wait for the mumble session to be available to build my opinion on it.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: puppies on April 15, 2016, 08:54:23 pm
What is it you would like him to do that he isn't?
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: Empirical1.2 on April 15, 2016, 08:56:11 pm
Well at least he's not focusing on bootstrapping a competing USD through the VOTE DAC  :)

He didn't quit. He was fired by those voting against development workers.

It's true that BTS hasn't been paying development workers so they can't be surprised when the developers move onto something else. However I think STEEM has been being worked on for a while and in his own words he cannot serve two masters...

Quote
I don't want to have divided loyalties... I cannot serve two masters.

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,10148.0.html

So I would say that BTS is secondary now.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: liondani on April 15, 2016, 09:05:15 pm
Well at least he's not focusing on bootstrapping a competing USD through the VOTE DAC  :)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adamkalebernest/e2e-verifiable-blockchain-voting-software-follow-m?ref=nav_search
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: Empirical1.2 on April 15, 2016, 09:08:11 pm
Well at least he's not focusing on bootstrapping a competing USD through the VOTE DAC  :)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adamkalebernest/e2e-verifiable-blockchain-voting-software-follow-m?ref=nav_search

Well it's a good thing we didn't give them shares in BTS & lose millions in value in the resulting merger  :)

Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: Stan on April 15, 2016, 09:36:13 pm
Bytemaster has been saying for months that:

BitShares needs to stabilize and stop "innovating".
Sidechains are the proper way to expand.
He will continue to innovate (it's what he does).
He will be there when BitShares needs him.

Funny, no one mentions the other bombshell today... hint:  it ends in "3.0".

Bytemaster makes babies and leaves it to others to raise them.
That's because he is the best choice for the first and the worst choice for the second.

We all benefit when BM makes babies because we find out about them first and we know their daddy well.

He will make us many babies if he is free to innovate. 
What do you think his talent will be worth if chained to maintaining a stabilized BitShares?

BitShares is in the hands of mere mortal entrepreneurs like you and me now.
And we are exactly what it needs at this point in time.

:)







Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: davidpbrown on April 15, 2016, 09:43:21 pm
Bytemaster makes babies and leaves it to others to raise them.

Might that be mistaken for neglect and abandoning, where there are not also clear statements of confidence and encouragement, put alongside each instance of change.

Mumbling is all very well but I'd rather BitShares get into the habit of stating things clearly.. it's hard in passing by the forum, as most BitShares interests will be, to make sense of this latest twist.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: Stan on April 15, 2016, 09:57:11 pm
Bytemaster makes babies and leaves it to others to raise them.

Might that be mistaken for neglect and abandoning, where there are not also clear statements of confidence and encouragement, put alongside each instance of change.

Mumbling is all very well but I'd rather BitShares get into the habit of stating things clearly.. it's hard in passing by the forum, as most BitShares interests will be, to make sense of this latest twist.

BitShares is not a piece of software, it is an ecosystem.  Like all ecosystems, they evolve in phases.  Bytemaster is the pioneer species that prepares the environment for other species to thrive.  He has done what his species needs to do for BitShares.   A successor species of entrepreneurs has already taken over the next phase of growth.  They will do things for BitShares that BM will never do.

(http://www.zo.utexas.edu/faculty/sjasper/images/plant_succession.jpg)

Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: liondani on April 15, 2016, 10:07:57 pm
BitShares is in the hands of mere mortal entrepreneurs like you and me now.
And we are exactly what it needs at this point in time.

if you mean ME and YOU ... I am not excited  :-X
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: davidpbrown on April 15, 2016, 10:11:15 pm
BitShares is not a piece of software, it is an ecosystem.

define: pabulum

BitShares is not just a piece of software, it is an ecosystem.
BitShares needs its devs.. a clear statement, for example, of what devs are still strongly bound to the project, would be more interesting than daddy suggesting his son is God!

Success requires certain behaviours.. there are many contributing factors that create lasting success. So, I'm all for BitShares being challenged to evolve.. but there are ways and ways of progressing and ensuring the state of play is clear to all, is a key part of enabling others to provide what support is needed.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: Shentist on April 15, 2016, 10:18:39 pm
BitShares is in the hands of mere mortal entrepreneurs like you and me now.
And we are exactly what it needs at this point in time.

if you mean ME and YOU ... I am not excited  :-X

i think the market will see the benefit from it and we will rise tomorrow 20% - great :D  This ANN could not be done better. Finally a good
strategy to make the best out of it.

You could say it is like Napoleon leaving the battlefield before the end of the battle because all his great Generals will do the job as good as he could do,
so no need to stay and watch the endresult.

or i like this one

It's like the 12 children are coming home and find a note from their father "I learnt you all i have, from now you are on your own". The children are so thrilled, they
burst out of joy and sing a song the whole night.

This will be so awsome, i feel like a big rock is finally of my back. It's so great!

Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: hadrian on April 15, 2016, 10:25:34 pm
(http://www.zo.utexas.edu/faculty/sjasper/images/plant_succession.jpg)

Just looking at the illustration...
Are you saying bytemaster a lichen, or is he Mosses?  :P (this is very funny because the illustration says "Mosses", but I've accidentally on purpose mistaken it for Moses! Ha!)
Couldn't resist...

(http://i.imgur.com/ypaZ3V5.jpg)
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: speedy on April 15, 2016, 10:28:52 pm
For me the biggest disappointment of the BitShares platform so far is the promised 2.0 feature of the bond market. Ive been wanting to loan out my BTS and get interest on it for ages. I expect that many others feel the same way, and that this feature will give a huge boost to the daily transaction count, because BTS bulls now have something to do whilst patiently hodling their shares.

Is there any ETA on this?
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: bitimaru on April 15, 2016, 10:32:43 pm
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/obits-positions-bright-future-openledger-bts-20-ronny-boesing
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronny-boesing-65b61720?trk=pulse-det-athr_prof-art_ftr

When I see this I'm very, very confident about BTS future. If I had balls I would just add some long on my position. Many great news ranked up recently on BTS. ICO support is something worth bragging about...

I think the real position on BTS will be taken next week... or even sooner. there nothing bad with BTS changing hands.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: bitimaru on April 15, 2016, 10:34:37 pm
For me the biggest disappointment of the BitShares platform so far is the promised 2.0 feature of the bond market. Ive been wanting to loan out my BTS and get interest on it for ages. I expect that many others feel the same way, and that this feature will give a huge boost to the daily transaction count, because BTS bulls now have something to do whilst patiently hodling their shares.

Is there any ETA on this?

This and Margin trading...
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: yvv on April 15, 2016, 11:02:56 pm
Bytemaster makes babies and leaves it to others to raise them.


Just like my cousin. He made 5 babies from 3 different women and left his babies to be raised by those women. Now he needs eight jobs to pay alimony. Poor bastard, whahaha.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: svk on April 15, 2016, 11:13:06 pm
You people sure do love to FUD. There's nothing new here, so please stop making such a big deal out of it..

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Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: giant middle finger on April 15, 2016, 11:33:32 pm
woo hoo

stable feature set means no more hard forks!

stealth smartcoins, free transactions, and incentives for liquidity.

now we can take donations (like other communities do) or save up for a bond market feature after we agree on the rules.

BitShares is THE smartcoin market. What more do you want? 

Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: Stan on April 15, 2016, 11:40:57 pm
For me the biggest disappointment of the BitShares platform so far is the promised 2.0 feature of the bond market. Ive been wanting to loan out my BTS and get interest on it for ages. I expect that many others feel the same way, and that this feature will give a huge boost to the daily transaction count, because BTS bulls now have something to do whilst patiently hodling their shares.

Is there any ETA on this?

This and Margin trading...

Those features are still possible, if that's what the shareholders vote for.

Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: tonyk on April 16, 2016, 12:18:47 am
Carbyne:
Scientists create 'holy grail' strongest material in the world that's tougher than.... Graphene


http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/carbyne-scientists-create-holy-grail-strongest-material-world-thats-tougher-graphene-1554867?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=rss&utm_content=%2Frss%2Fyahoous%2Fnews
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: CLains on April 16, 2016, 12:39:51 am
Carbyne:
Scientists create 'holy grail' strongest material in the world that's tougher than.... Graphene


http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/carbyne-scientists-create-holy-grail-strongest-material-world-thats-tougher-graphene-1554867?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=rss&utm_content=%2Frss%2Fyahoous%2Fnews

lol.  amazing
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: ebit on April 16, 2016, 12:41:46 am
Quote
BitShares needs to stabilize and stop "innovating".
+5%
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: liondani on April 16, 2016, 01:12:56 am
Carbyne:
Scientists create 'holy grail' strongest material in the world that's tougher than.... Graphene


http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/carbyne-scientists-create-holy-grail-strongest-material-world-thats-tougher-graphene-1554867?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=rss&utm_content=%2Frss%2Fyahoous%2Fnews

lol.  amazing

I will suggest them to call it....   STEEM
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: btswildpig on April 16, 2016, 01:54:37 am
There is not going to be a share drop.

The biggest benefit to this is that bitshares is no longer the guinea pig for cnx.

What I find absolutely hilarious is how earlier this year Dan said his new year's resolution was to become a "better leader for bitshares"... Quits 4 months later.

The biggest benefit of this is for people to recognize the reality and be less serious about people's random commitment without a legal contract . Of course , same goes to every new ICO project out there .
People shouldn't even take the sharedrop theory seriously in the first place........What , just because a guy said so , then he will give you 10% of everything he built in the future ? Just because this guy sounded serious ?

Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: gamey on April 16, 2016, 04:21:31 am
There is not going to be a share drop.

The biggest benefit to this is that bitshares is no longer the guinea pig for cnx.

What I find absolutely hilarious is how earlier this year Dan said his new year's resolution was to become a "better leader for bitshares"... Quits 4 months later.

The biggest benefit of this is for people to recognize the reality and be less serious about people's random commitment without a legal contract . Of course , same goes to every new ICO project out there .
People shouldn't even take the sharedrop theory seriously in the first place........What , just because a guy said so , then he will give you 10% of everything he built in the future ? Just because this guy sounded serious ?

The sharedrop thing was never given any sort of chance. Mining gives away far more than 10%.  10% for a premade dedicated community to support your product isn't that bad of a deal. If someone gives you 10% then it either will be in the code or it won't.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: Shentist on April 16, 2016, 05:35:04 am
You people sure do love to FUD. There's nothing new here, so please stop making such a big deal out of it..

Sent fra min MotoG3 via Tapatalk

no, but is the same like BTS 1.0 and he worked behind the scenes on BTS 2.0

- this community did a merger to keep him and we lost in this process a DNS blockchain, Follow my Vote blockchain and we deluted BTS
- in BTS 2.0 we got stripped of the sharedrop and now

"i am moving on, because i am funding the development from private funds since...."

the "secret source" is now going into something new, and this community left behind. Really funny!

and i don't like to blame the "chinese community for not supporting workers" for it.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: btswildpig on April 16, 2016, 06:08:04 am
You people sure do love to FUD. There's nothing new here, so please stop making such a big deal out of it..

Sent fra min MotoG3 via Tapatalk

no, but is the same like BTS 1.0 and he worked behind the scenes on BTS 2.0

- this community did a merger to keep him and we lost in this process a DNS blockchain, Follow my Vote blockchain and we deluted BTS
- in BTS 2.0 we got stripped of the sharedrop and now

"i am moving on, because i am funding the development from private funds since...."

the "secret source" is now going into something new, and this community left behind. Really funny!

and i don't like to blame the "chinese community for not supporting workers" for it.

In theory , they need to put more effort to honor the development on BTS . So stop working on BTS make sense for them , at least they have "justification". 

But they don't need to put more effort to give as little as 10% sharedrop on BTS or AGS or PTS , if they're afraid of selling pressure they can vest the sharedrop for even years(which they never seem to care when dilute on BTS) . And this time , they can't blame it was because of lack of funding or people refuse to fund them  ....It's purely because they won't honor the sharedrop or whomever paid for AGS/PTS , out of their own free will .

So it's a good sign ....at least for now we know what the reality is , and it's a great reference for those who want to invest significantly in STEEM .
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: donkeypong on April 16, 2016, 06:31:54 am

The sharedrop thing was never given any sort of chance. Mining gives away far more than 10%.  10% for a premade dedicated community to support your product isn't that bad of a deal. If someone gives you 10% then it either will be in the code or it won't.

I remain a big fan of sharedropping. If done right, it could be well worth the cost.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: kenCode on April 16, 2016, 08:06:02 am
This will be so awsome, i feel like a big rock is finally of my back. It's so great!

Agreed. So many folks have been complaining that the captain of the ship keeps getting sidetracked and then never finishes a feature to shareholders expectations. So, I think the friday mumbles could now be moderated by the Beyond Bitcoin team but the guests can be those who want to talk about their projects. No more perception of a top-down structure (i have even seen Bitshares referred to as central banking 2.0).
 
I had a nice conversation with BM, Stan, Onceupon and Thom yesterday on mumble after the official mumble. We have a very solid plan to move Bitshares forward. Blinded transactions, recurring and scheduled payments, bond market, liquidity bots and market makers, margin trading, free transactions, Smartcoins POS integrations, a 2nd mobile wallet app for iOS and android (all native and material design), skin-able specific use-case wallets, Marketing... There are lots of things being started, worked on and finished up as we speak.
 
BitShares Munich will be expanding over the coming days. BM has been so far, and confirms that he will continue to consult with us in assisting our expansion, getting more Devs up to speed on graphene, direction with the different repos and docs, etc. We have roughly 40 Devs (c++, js, python and ui/x etc) that can work with us on various projects (as you guys know I have been in software and outsourcing for over 24 years now). Roughly 7 of those 40 are employed with us full-time and as more investment comes in we can slowly expand further. I would like all of the existing projects above finished/polished first and make them awesome.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: liondani on April 16, 2016, 08:07:12 am
if they're afraid of selling pressure they can vest the sharedrop for even years

 +5% +5% +5%
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: Shentist on April 16, 2016, 08:23:25 am
1 worker left, all the supporters moving and saving their investment out of Bitshares. I think we should probably thank BM again, that now
the none deliution fraction is by far the biggest one.

if i wouldn't have a large stack of my investment in Bitshares i would just buy popcorn and watch this tragedy.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: Chris4210 on April 16, 2016, 09:06:04 am
This will be so awsome, i feel like a big rock is finally of my back. It's so great!

Agreed. So many folks have been complaining that the captain of the ship keeps getting sidetracked and then never finishes a feature to shareholders expectations. So, I think the friday mumbles could now be moderated by the Beyond Bitcoin team but the guests can be those who want to talk about their projects. No more perception of a top-down structure (i have even seen Bitshares referred to as central banking 2.0).
 
I had a nice conversation with BM, Stan, Onceupon and Thom yesterday on mumble after the official mumble. We have a very solid plan to move Bitshares forward. Blinded transactions, recurring and scheduled payments, bond market, liquidity bots and market makers, margin trading, free transactions, Smartcoins POS integrations, a 2nd mobile wallet app for iOS and android (all native and material design), skin-able specific use-case wallets, Marketing... There are lots of things being started, worked on and finished up as we speak.
 
BitShares Munich will be expanding over the coming days. BM has been so far, and confirms that he will continue to consult with us in assisting our expansion, getting more Devs up to speed on graphene, direction with the different repos and docs, etc. We have roughly 40 Devs (c++, js, python and ui/x etc) that can work with us on various projects (as you guys know I have been in software and outsourcing for over 24 years now). Roughly 7 of those 40 are employed with us full-time and as more investment comes in we can slowly expand further. I would like all of the existing projects above finished/polished first and make them awesome.

Agree, maybe it is a good thing that we will have a more stable ecosystem for the next months now. We at BitShares Munich are continuing our efforts and are heavily focusing on POS software (Odoo, Standalone) and started raising funds for our mobile payment app ECHO. The response from the market and investors is very good so far.

I am sad that BM shifted his focus and will work on STEEM now, but somehow it is like a Satoshi Nakamoto moment for BitShares. Now it is up to us to develop this awesome platform and make it great.

You can start helping us already: Leave a comment here https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,22218.0.html
We want to update the BitShares.org main site. Thank you for your help!
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: mindphlux on April 16, 2016, 09:22:55 am
This will be so awsome, i feel like a big rock is finally of my back. It's so great!


BitShares Munich will be expanding over the coming days. BM has been so far, and confirms that he will continue to consult with us in assisting our expansion, getting more Devs up to speed on graphene, direction with the different repos and docs, etc. We have roughly 40 Devs (c++, js, python and ui/x etc) that can work with us on various projects (as you guys know I have been in software and outsourcing for over 24 years now). Roughly 7 of those 40 are employed with us full-time and as more investment comes in we can slowly expand further. I would like all of the existing projects above finished/polished first and make them awesome.

 +5% +5% +5%
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: hadrian on April 16, 2016, 09:32:26 am
Thinking long term, BitShares needs to become less reliant on bytemaster (or any individual). It's been clearly stated months ago, and I don't recall hearing anyone disagree. Perhaps if it's going to happen it's best when the market cap is relatively low because there's less value to be destroyed with the perceived disruption. If BitShares survives this in the short term (which it should), then it's down to the community and entrepreneurs to gradually build on what we have. It'll be a long game, but we could end up with something very well established and integrated into many people's daily lives. Ultimately we all know how good this tool can be once the world is ready to use it. These things historically take many years to click into place, mostly for obvious reasons...
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: btswildpig on April 16, 2016, 09:42:09 am
1 worker left, all the supporters moving and saving their investment out of Bitshares. I think we should probably thank BM again, that now
the none deliution fraction is by far the biggest one.

if i wouldn't have a large stack of my investment in Bitshares i would just buy popcorn and watch this tragedy.

Actually , I'm expecting to watch the tragedy of STEEM .

I think STEEM holder will suffer the same fate . Just different version  .

When I was a BTS holder , I didn't think what happened to DNS/PTS/AGS/VOTE holders would happen to me .

Of course , by tragedy of STEEM , I only mean its potential investors , not the tragedy of STEEM developers .
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: testz on April 16, 2016, 09:46:58 am
Actually , I'm expecting to watch the tragedy of STEEM .

In any case you will see tragedy, or for STEEM holders or for STEEM haters.  :)
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: btswildpig on April 16, 2016, 09:56:49 am
Actually , I'm expecting to watch the tragedy of STEEM .

In any case you will see tragedy, or for STEEM holders or for STEEM haters.  :)

ah , STEEM will be used as a tool to elect the US president ?   :)
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: Valentin | Lin9uxis on April 16, 2016, 10:16:43 am
This will be so awsome, i feel like a big rock is finally of my back. It's so great!

Agreed. So many folks have been complaining that the captain of the ship keeps getting sidetracked and then never finishes a feature to shareholders expectations. So, I think the friday mumbles could now be moderated by the Beyond Bitcoin team but the guests can be those who want to talk about their projects. No more perception of a top-down structure (i have even seen Bitshares referred to as central banking 2.0).
 
I had a nice conversation with BM, Stan, Onceupon and Thom yesterday on mumble after the official mumble. We have a very solid plan to move Bitshares forward. Blinded transactions, recurring and scheduled payments, bond market, liquidity bots and market makers, margin trading, free transactions, Smartcoins POS integrations, a 2nd mobile wallet app for iOS and android (all native and material design), skin-able specific use-case wallets, Marketing... There are lots of things being started, worked on and finished up as we speak.
 
BitShares Munich will be expanding over the coming days. BM has been so far, and confirms that he will continue to consult with us in assisting our expansion, getting more Devs up to speed on graphene, direction with the different repos and docs, etc. We have roughly 40 Devs (c++, js, python and ui/x etc) that can work with us on various projects (as you guys know I have been in software and outsourcing for over 24 years now). Roughly 7 of those 40 are employed with us full-time and as more investment comes in we can slowly expand further. I would like all of the existing projects above finished/polished first and make them awesome.

 +5%

We need to move forward even if the Bitshares' core and Graphene need to remain stable for the moment. However, sidechains and applications are really the ways we need to explore to expand Bitshares. I'm pretty sure guys from Bitshares Munich or BunkerChainLabs will help us to achieve that.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: hcf27 on April 16, 2016, 02:07:13 pm
This will be so awsome, i feel like a big rock is finally of my back. It's so great!

Agreed. So many folks have been complaining that the captain of the ship keeps getting sidetracked and then never finishes a feature to shareholders expectations. So, I think the friday mumbles could now be moderated by the Beyond Bitcoin team but the guests can be those who want to talk about their projects. No more perception of a top-down structure (i have even seen Bitshares referred to as central banking 2.0).
 
I had a nice conversation with BM, Stan, Onceupon and Thom yesterday on mumble after the official mumble. We have a very solid plan to move Bitshares forward. Blinded transactions, recurring and scheduled payments, bond market, liquidity bots and market makers, margin trading, free transactions, Smartcoins POS integrations, a 2nd mobile wallet app for iOS and android (all native and material design), skin-able specific use-case wallets, Marketing... There are lots of things being started, worked on and finished up as we speak.
 
BitShares Munich will be expanding over the coming days. BM has been so far, and confirms that he will continue to consult with us in assisting our expansion, getting more Devs up to speed on graphene, direction with the different repos and docs, etc. We have roughly 40 Devs (c++, js, python and ui/x etc) that can work with us on various projects (as you guys know I have been in software and outsourcing for over 24 years now). Roughly 7 of those 40 are employed with us full-time and as more investment comes in we can slowly expand further. I would like all of the existing projects above finished/polished first and make them awesome.

Agreed, I think Bitshares still has a lot of valuable members and talented coders: Bitshares Munich, Bunkerchain Labs, bitcash, transwiser.com, etc.

I think its time for the community to step up and make this project truly great!

Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: bitimaru on April 16, 2016, 02:09:18 pm
This will be so awsome, i feel like a big rock is finally of my back. It's so great!

Agreed. So many folks have been complaining that the captain of the ship keeps getting sidetracked and then never finishes a feature to shareholders expectations. So, I think the friday mumbles could now be moderated by the Beyond Bitcoin team but the guests can be those who want to talk about their projects. No more perception of a top-down structure (i have even seen Bitshares referred to as central banking 2.0).
 
I had a nice conversation with BM, Stan, Onceupon and Thom yesterday on mumble after the official mumble. We have a very solid plan to move Bitshares forward. Blinded transactions, recurring and scheduled payments, bond market, liquidity bots and market makers, margin trading, free transactions, Smartcoins POS integrations, a 2nd mobile wallet app for iOS and android (all native and material design), skin-able specific use-case wallets, Marketing... There are lots of things being started, worked on and finished up as we speak.
 
BitShares Munich will be expanding over the coming days. BM has been so far, and confirms that he will continue to consult with us in assisting our expansion, getting more Devs up to speed on graphene, direction with the different repos and docs, etc. We have roughly 40 Devs (c++, js, python and ui/x etc) that can work with us on various projects (as you guys know I have been in software and outsourcing for over 24 years now). Roughly 7 of those 40 are employed with us full-time and as more investment comes in we can slowly expand further. I would like all of the existing projects above finished/polished first and make them awesome.

 +5% +5% +5%
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: mike623317 on April 16, 2016, 02:30:37 pm
This will be so awsome, i feel like a big rock is finally of my back. It's so great!

Agreed. So many folks have been complaining that the captain of the ship keeps getting sidetracked and then never finishes a feature to shareholders expectations. So, I think the friday mumbles could now be moderated by the Beyond Bitcoin team but the guests can be those who want to talk about their projects. No more perception of a top-down structure (i have even seen Bitshares referred to as central banking 2.0).
 
I had a nice conversation with BM, Stan, Onceupon and Thom yesterday on mumble after the official mumble. We have a very solid plan to move Bitshares forward. Blinded transactions, recurring and scheduled payments, bond market, liquidity bots and market makers, margin trading, free transactions, Smartcoins POS integrations, a 2nd mobile wallet app for iOS and android (all native and material design), skin-able specific use-case wallets, Marketing... There are lots of things being started, worked on and finished up as we speak.
 
BitShares Munich will be expanding over the coming days. BM has been so far, and confirms that he will continue to consult with us in assisting our expansion, getting more Devs up to speed on graphene, direction with the different repos and docs, etc. We have roughly 40 Devs (c++, js, python and ui/x etc) that can work with us on various projects (as you guys know I have been in software and outsourcing for over 24 years now). Roughly 7 of those 40 are employed with us full-time and as more investment comes in we can slowly expand further. I would like all of the existing projects above finished/polished first and make them awesome.

thank you ken  +5% +5%
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: mauritso on April 16, 2016, 03:40:54 pm
This will be so awsome, i feel like a big rock is finally of my back. It's so great!

Agreed. So many folks have been complaining that the captain of the ship keeps getting sidetracked and then never finishes a feature to shareholders expectations. So, I think the friday mumbles could now be moderated by the Beyond Bitcoin team but the guests can be those who want to talk about their projects. No more perception of a top-down structure (i have even seen Bitshares referred to as central banking 2.0).
 
I had a nice conversation with BM, Stan, Onceupon and Thom yesterday on mumble after the official mumble. We have a very solid plan to move Bitshares forward. Blinded transactions, recurring and scheduled payments, bond market, liquidity bots and market makers, margin trading, free transactions, Smartcoins POS integrations, a 2nd mobile wallet app for iOS and android (all native and material design), skin-able specific use-case wallets, Marketing... There are lots of things being started, worked on and finished up as we speak.
 
BitShares Munich will be expanding over the coming days. BM has been so far, and confirms that he will continue to consult with us in assisting our expansion, getting more Devs up to speed on graphene, direction with the different repos and docs, etc. We have roughly 40 Devs (c++, js, python and ui/x etc) that can work with us on various projects (as you guys know I have been in software and outsourcing for over 24 years now). Roughly 7 of those 40 are employed with us full-time and as more investment comes in we can slowly expand further. I would like all of the existing projects above finished/polished first and make them awesome.

 +5%
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: dannotestein on April 16, 2016, 04:08:20 pm
I think BitShares 2 has been slowly gaining momentum in the past five or six months as the infrastructure being built on top of it has improved. That infrastructure includes an ever-improving GUI, improved documentation and libraries to make it easy for 3rd party programmers to interact with it, many new and interesting types of assets to trade, one of the coolest blockchain explorers around, and even new ways to finance improvements to the blockchain itself such as FBAs.  And it's all being built on top of what is, to my knowledge, still the fastest blockchain around. And all of this infrastructure has been done during a time when BM and more than half of the CNX crew have been off working on STEEM. This is one of the reasons why I'm not too worried about the future of BitShares. In fact, I'm confident enough that I've actually been increasing BlockTrades' holdings in BTS lately.

There are many ways one can try to quantify how a blockchain is doing, and most people focus on marketcap, but this can often be misleading as it's driven primarily by short term speculation in cryptocurrency. For BitShares, I tend to focus on how it's performing in it's stated primary business: a decentralized exchange. So one of the metrics I like to look at is the number of "fills" shown on www.cryptofresh.com/charts. With a little smoothing, it shows a nice steady increase from around November 2015 onwards.
As we demonstrate the ability of BitShares to beat traditional exchanges in time-to-market on introducing new asset types, I expect this trend to accelerate.

Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: fuzzy on April 16, 2016, 04:11:38 pm
This will be so awsome, i feel like a big rock is finally of my back. It's so great!

Agreed. So many folks have been complaining that the captain of the ship keeps getting sidetracked and then never finishes a feature to shareholders expectations. So, I think the friday mumbles could now be moderated by the Beyond Bitcoin team but the guests can be those who want to talk about their projects. No more perception of a top-down structure (i have even seen Bitshares referred to as central banking 2.0).
 
I had a nice conversation with BM, Stan, Onceupon and Thom yesterday on mumble after the official mumble. We have a very solid plan to move Bitshares forward. Blinded transactions, recurring and scheduled payments, bond market, liquidity bots and market makers, margin trading, free transactions, Smartcoins POS integrations, a 2nd mobile wallet app for iOS and android (all native and material design), skin-able specific use-case wallets, Marketing... There are lots of things being started, worked on and finished up as we speak.
 
BitShares Munich will be expanding over the coming days. BM has been so far, and confirms that he will continue to consult with us in assisting our expansion, getting more Devs up to speed on graphene, direction with the different repos and docs, etc. We have roughly 40 Devs (c++, js, python and ui/x etc) that can work with us on various projects (as you guys know I have been in software and outsourcing for over 24 years now). Roughly 7 of those 40 are employed with us full-time and as more investment comes in we can slowly expand further. I would like all of the existing projects above finished/polished first and make them awesome.

Agreed, I think Bitshares still has a lot of valuable members and talented coders: Bitshares Munich, Bunkerchain Labs, bitcash, transwiser.com, etc.

I think its time for the community to step up and make this project truly great!

Great!  So what are you planning?
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: hcf27 on April 16, 2016, 04:20:43 pm
This will be so awsome, i feel like a big rock is finally of my back. It's so great!

Agreed. So many folks have been complaining that the captain of the ship keeps getting sidetracked and then never finishes a feature to shareholders expectations. So, I think the friday mumbles could now be moderated by the Beyond Bitcoin team but the guests can be those who want to talk about their projects. No more perception of a top-down structure (i have even seen Bitshares referred to as central banking 2.0).
 
I had a nice conversation with BM, Stan, Onceupon and Thom yesterday on mumble after the official mumble. We have a very solid plan to move Bitshares forward. Blinded transactions, recurring and scheduled payments, bond market, liquidity bots and market makers, margin trading, free transactions, Smartcoins POS integrations, a 2nd mobile wallet app for iOS and android (all native and material design), skin-able specific use-case wallets, Marketing... There are lots of things being started, worked on and finished up as we speak.
 
BitShares Munich will be expanding over the coming days. BM has been so far, and confirms that he will continue to consult with us in assisting our expansion, getting more Devs up to speed on graphene, direction with the different repos and docs, etc. We have roughly 40 Devs (c++, js, python and ui/x etc) that can work with us on various projects (as you guys know I have been in software and outsourcing for over 24 years now). Roughly 7 of those 40 are employed with us full-time and as more investment comes in we can slowly expand further. I would like all of the existing projects above finished/polished first and make them awesome.

Agreed, I think Bitshares still has a lot of valuable members and talented coders: Bitshares Munich, Bunkerchain Labs, bitcash, transwiser.com, etc.

I think its time for the community to step up and make this project truly great!

Great!  So what are you planning?
I got Team Argentina together and we are working towards building our own smartcoin.. we will provide liquidity and promote it trough our Bitcoin Embassy in Buenos Aires, we will also provide a 1-1 conversion and talk about bitshares at our meetups.

I also help the bit20 project in whatever I can....

I have set up some liquidity bots for the USD, gold and CAD market..

I think efforts need to be decentralized.. I am working with spanish speaking Team and with @Estefantt who has a great vision for his index.... bitsharesmunich doing their thing and so on...

I also dont blame people who join bitshares to just trade.. we need those guys too.



Enviado desde mi SM-A300M mediante Tapatalk

Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: fuzzy on April 16, 2016, 04:23:02 pm

So many folks have been complaining that the captain of the ship keeps getting sidetracked and then never finishes a feature to shareholders expectations. So, I think the friday mumbles could now be moderated by the Beyond Bitcoin team but the guests can be those who want to talk about their projects. No more perception of a top-down structure (i have even seen Bitshares referred to as central banking 2.0).


We have been doing precisely this for the past 3 sessions.  BM is moving toward a role more as a community member (who will naturally be asked more questions than most people and will in turn talk more because of this fact). 

However, I can honestly say that for the past 900+ days working on coordinating hangouts with the community ( and guests from Solarcoin's project lead to Sunny King and much more) that I have always kept it open for the community to step up and lead the conversation (show me other places that enable this).  Whether THEY choose to do so is up to them. 

See I agree with you Ken, but then again we have been doing this already.  ;)
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: jamesc on April 16, 2016, 04:24:23 pm
This will be so awsome, i feel like a big rock is finally of my back. It's so great!

Agreed. So many folks have been complaining that the captain of the ship keeps getting sidetracked and then never finishes a feature to shareholders expectations. So, I think the friday mumbles could now be moderated by the Beyond Bitcoin team but the guests can be those who want to talk about their projects. No more perception of a top-down structure (i have even seen Bitshares referred to as central banking 2.0).
 
I had a nice conversation with BM, Stan, Onceupon and Thom yesterday on mumble after the official mumble. We have a very solid plan to move Bitshares forward. Blinded transactions, recurring and scheduled payments, bond market, liquidity bots and market makers, margin trading, free transactions, Smartcoins POS integrations, a 2nd mobile wallet app for iOS and android (all native and material design), skin-able specific use-case wallets, Marketing... There are lots of things being started, worked on and finished up as we speak.
 
BitShares Munich will be expanding over the coming days. BM has been so far, and confirms that he will continue to consult with us in assisting our expansion, getting more Devs up to speed on graphene, direction with the different repos and docs, etc. We have roughly 40 Devs (c++, js, python and ui/x etc) that can work with us on various projects (as you guys know I have been in software and outsourcing for over 24 years now). Roughly 7 of those 40 are employed with us full-time and as more investment comes in we can slowly expand further. I would like all of the existing projects above finished/polished first and make them awesome.

 +5% +5%  Thanks Ken...  For what it is worth, I'm very happy with the past and the present.  These are startups, so I keep learning to enjoy the ride..

I recognize that blockchains like BitShares are the right thing to do so I continue to upgrade my personal finances to use this new technology and invest in new businesses that show they can be sustained long term.  There is very little I can do to gage adoption or even to put a financial price tag on this.  Isn't user adoption something like cash, will you ever have enough?  If one can have passion and do well user adoption is free... The incentive is more excitement in the way of future opportunity.

These are real business and we have an awesome exchange on BitShares.  It is fast, high-volume, secure, decentralized and efficient.  I hear of very clever workarounds to the speed issues in blockchains and, although I would implement them if I were in their shoes (to keep things going), I would always know very well that as a developer they are cracks in a foundation.  One little hack in the core can take down a platform in unforeseen ways.  DL understand this well so this gives me confidence in his work.  I know this part of the platform should not change frequently and does not require his constant attention.  The less frequent the better.  This is great news for us, we have property now that will keep giving us value at little or no cost at all.  This is why we put forth all the time and effort up front to create things that will last.  You don't want to change them latter.  Also, for this reason it is completely normal to move to other modules, projects, chains, etc...  None of this raises a red flag for me.  Software is complex, you need to move to another area so you have freedom and can't break any code.   Fighting this is like fighting the rip currents, the key is to go with the flow and gently move in the direction you need to go...

This is what I was after, I wanted to see this become a reality.  The market experiments are a lot of fun to use and watch, these are important tools for very serious investors.  This is exactly what we need, if we are going to be home for major investors and even the average person's retirement portfolio.  This is a huge step up for the average joe.  Also, for this to be viable we needed web and mobile clients.  We pulled it off.  The major pieces are here...  Best of all the community owns it in full so this sets the stage for a honest future where it is greed and monopoly resistant.

This is another asset for the BitShares exchange.  Keep them coming ;)...
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: Shentist on April 16, 2016, 05:08:10 pm
This will be so awsome, i feel like a big rock is finally of my back. It's so great!

Agreed. So many folks have been complaining that the captain of the ship keeps getting sidetracked and then never finishes a feature to shareholders expectations. So, I think the friday mumbles could now be moderated by the Beyond Bitcoin team but the guests can be those who want to talk about their projects. No more perception of a top-down structure (i have even seen Bitshares referred to as central banking 2.0).
 
I had a nice conversation with BM, Stan, Onceupon and Thom yesterday on mumble after the official mumble. We have a very solid plan to move Bitshares forward. Blinded transactions, recurring and scheduled payments, bond market, liquidity bots and market makers, margin trading, free transactions, Smartcoins POS integrations, a 2nd mobile wallet app for iOS and android (all native and material design), skin-able specific use-case wallets, Marketing... There are lots of things being started, worked on and finished up as we speak.
 
BitShares Munich will be expanding over the coming days. BM has been so far, and confirms that he will continue to consult with us in assisting our expansion, getting more Devs up to speed on graphene, direction with the different repos and docs, etc. We have roughly 40 Devs (c++, js, python and ui/x etc) that can work with us on various projects (as you guys know I have been in software and outsourcing for over 24 years now). Roughly 7 of those 40 are employed with us full-time and as more investment comes in we can slowly expand further. I would like all of the existing projects above finished/polished first and make them awesome.

 +5% +5%  Thanks Ken...  For what it is worth, I'm very happy with the past and the present.  These are startups, so I keep learning to enjoy the ride..

I recognize that blockchains like BitShares are the right thing to do so I continue to upgrade my personal finances to use this new technology and invest in new businesses that show they can be sustained long term.  There is very little I can do to gage adoption or even to put a financial price tag on this.  Isn't user adoption something like cash, will you ever have enough?  If one can have passion and do well user adoption is free... The incentive is more excitement in the way of future opportunity.

These are real business and we have an awesome exchange on BitShares.  It is fast, high-volume, secure, decentralized and efficient.  I hear of very clever workarounds to the speed issues in blockchains and, although I would implement them if I were in their shoes (to keep things going), I would always know very well that as a developer they are cracks in a foundation.  One little hack in the core can take down a platform in unforeseen ways.  DL understand this well so this gives me confidence in his work.  I know this part of the platform should not change frequently and does not require his constant attention.  The less frequent the better.  This is great news for us, we have property now that will keep giving us value at little or no cost at all.  This is why we put forth all the time and effort up front to create things that will last.  You don't want to change them latter.  Also, for this reason it is completely normal to move to other modules, projects, chains, etc...  None of this raises a red flag for me.  Software is complex, you need to move to another area so you have freedom and can't break any code.   Fighting this is like fighting the rip currents, the key is to go with the flow and gently move in the direction you need to go...

This is what I was after, I wanted to see this become a reality.  The market experiments are a lot of fun to use and watch, these are important tools for very serious investors.  This is exactly what we need, if we are going to be home for major investors and even the average person's retirement portfolio.  This is a huge step up for the average joe.  Also, for this to be viable we needed web and mobile clients.  We pulled it off.  The major pieces are here...  Best of all the community owns it in full so this sets the stage for a honest future where it is greed and monopoly resistant.

This is another asset for the BitShares exchange.  Keep them coming ;)...

i would like to hear more from you and svk. the point is this community is so focus on bytemaster because everything run threw his hands. Would be nice to hear from you personally sometimes on mumble. Weekly is not needed.

cheers
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: speedy on April 16, 2016, 05:36:23 pm
For me the biggest disappointment of the BitShares platform so far is the promised 2.0 feature of the bond market. Ive been wanting to loan out my BTS and get interest on it for ages. I expect that many others feel the same way, and that this feature will give a huge boost to the daily transaction count, because BTS bulls now have something to do whilst patiently hodling their shares.

Is there any ETA on this?

This and Margin trading...

Those features are still possible, if that's what the shareholders vote for.

"Still" possible? So its a decreasing possibility, as in probably not going to happen? You havent given us a bond market proposal to vote for, nor said how much cash it will require. Where do I vote for it?
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: EstefanTT on April 16, 2016, 05:36:57 pm
This will be so awsome, i feel like a big rock is finally of my back. It's so great!

Agreed. So many folks have been complaining that the captain of the ship keeps getting sidetracked and then never finishes a feature to shareholders expectations. So, I think the friday mumbles could now be moderated by the Beyond Bitcoin team but the guests can be those who want to talk about their projects. No more perception of a top-down structure (i have even seen Bitshares referred to as central banking 2.0).
 
I had a nice conversation with BM, Stan, Onceupon and Thom yesterday on mumble after the official mumble. We have a very solid plan to move Bitshares forward. Blinded transactions, recurring and scheduled payments, bond market, liquidity bots and market makers, margin trading, free transactions, Smartcoins POS integrations, a 2nd mobile wallet app for iOS and android (all native and material design), skin-able specific use-case wallets, Marketing... There are lots of things being started, worked on and finished up as we speak.
 
BitShares Munich will be expanding over the coming days. BM has been so far, and confirms that he will continue to consult with us in assisting our expansion, getting more Devs up to speed on graphene, direction with the different repos and docs, etc. We have roughly 40 Devs (c++, js, python and ui/x etc) that can work with us on various projects (as you guys know I have been in software and outsourcing for over 24 years now). Roughly 7 of those 40 are employed with us full-time and as more investment comes in we can slowly expand further. I would like all of the existing projects above finished/polished first and make them awesome.

Agree, maybe it is a good thing that we will have a more stable ecosystem for the next months now. We at BitShares Munich are continuing our efforts and are heavily focusing on POS software (Odoo, Standalone) and started raising funds for our mobile payment app ECHO. The response from the market and investors is very good so far.

I am sad that BM shifted his focus and will work on STEEM now, but somehow it is like a Satoshi Nakamoto moment for BitShares. Now it is up to us to develop this awesome platform and make it great.

You can start helping us already: Leave a comment here https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,22218.0.html
We want to update the BitShares.org main site. Thank you for your help!
Just going to +5% this to be sure everyone sees it ;)

Come on everybody, post a suggestion and let's make of bitshares.org something exiting, something that makes ppl want to know more about BitShares and invest in it.

Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: yvv on April 16, 2016, 06:57:59 pm
I don't get why people get frustrated about BTS future. Pegs are getting more tight, spreads are getting smaller. It is unbelievable, but this shit is working. There are many problems to solve though. Imo scarcity of fiat ramps is the major one. Let people who get their wages in fiat to deposit/withdraw easily, and your volumes will go to the moon.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: kenCode on April 16, 2016, 08:10:50 pm
scarcity of fiat ramps is the major one. Let people who get their wages in fiat to deposit/withdraw easily, and your volumes will go to the moon.

 +5% +5% +5% +5% +5%
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: nomoreheroes7 on April 16, 2016, 08:17:08 pm
Funny, no one mentions the other bombshell today... hint:  it ends in "3.0".

I kind of half listened to the mumble and I didn't hear anything about this. Anyone know what Stan's alluding to here?
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: Shentist on April 16, 2016, 08:27:13 pm
Funny, no one mentions the other bombshell today... hint:  it ends in "3.0".

I kind of half listened to the mumble and I didn't hear anything about this. Anyone know what Stan's alluding to here?

i think BM mentioned lessions learnt for BTS 3.0 but didn't said something that this is in the pipline, because you know, lack of funds, mean no development on the blockchain, only on the frontend.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: hadrian on April 16, 2016, 08:35:31 pm
Funny, no one mentions the other bombshell today... hint:  it ends in "3.0".

I kind of half listened to the mumble and I didn't hear anything about this. Anyone know what Stan's alluding to here?

My version from what I remember:


Is thi about right anyone?
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: fuzzy on April 16, 2016, 10:36:09 pm
Funny, no one mentions the other bombshell today... hint:  it ends in "3.0".

I kind of half listened to the mumble and I didn't hear anything about this. Anyone know what Stan's alluding to here?

i think BM mentioned lessions learnt for BTS 3.0 but didn't said something that this is in the pipline, because you know, lack of funds, mean no development on the blockchain, only on the frontend.

bombshells just anger people more... at least historically.  I am more trying to say there are many chains out their that compete against us and have centralized bodies paying their dev teams.   Bitcoin and ETH both exemplify this.  Yet people somehow think Dan and team are horrible when I assure you the eth core devs and btc core devs have been promised constant payment indefinitely until when? until they WIN in the market and probably beyond.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: mike623317 on April 17, 2016, 07:00:42 am

I think BM spoke an awful lot of sense in this last mumble session and  the need to keep innovating and face some of the problems bitshares has (liquidity etc).
I think he deserves a lot of encouragement in this STEEM idea.  +5%
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: fuzzy on April 17, 2016, 01:24:22 pm
This will be so awsome, i feel like a big rock is finally of my back. It's so great!

Agreed. So many folks have been complaining that the captain of the ship keeps getting sidetracked and then never finishes a feature to shareholders expectations. So, I think the friday mumbles could now be moderated by the Beyond Bitcoin team but the guests can be those who want to talk about their projects. No more perception of a top-down structure (i have even seen Bitshares referred to as central banking 2.0).
 
I had a nice conversation with BM, Stan, Onceupon and Thom yesterday on mumble after the official mumble. We have a very solid plan to move Bitshares forward. Blinded transactions, recurring and scheduled payments, bond market, liquidity bots and market makers, margin trading, free transactions, Smartcoins POS integrations, a 2nd mobile wallet app for iOS and android (all native and material design), skin-able specific use-case wallets, Marketing... There are lots of things being started, worked on and finished up as we speak.
 
BitShares Munich will be expanding over the coming days. BM has been so far, and confirms that he will continue to consult with us in assisting our expansion, getting more Devs up to speed on graphene, direction with the different repos and docs, etc. We have roughly 40 Devs (c++, js, python and ui/x etc) that can work with us on various projects (as you guys know I have been in software and outsourcing for over 24 years now). Roughly 7 of those 40 are employed with us full-time and as more investment comes in we can slowly expand further. I would like all of the existing projects above finished/polished first and make them awesome.

 +5% +5%  Thanks Ken...  For what it is worth, I'm very happy with the past and the present.  These are startups, so I keep learning to enjoy the ride..

I recognize that blockchains like BitShares are the right thing to do so I continue to upgrade my personal finances to use this new technology and invest in new businesses that show they can be sustained long term.  There is very little I can do to gage adoption or even to put a financial price tag on this.  Isn't user adoption something like cash, will you ever have enough?  If one can have passion and do well user adoption is free... The incentive is more excitement in the way of future opportunity.

These are real business and we have an awesome exchange on BitShares.  It is fast, high-volume, secure, decentralized and efficient.  I hear of very clever workarounds to the speed issues in blockchains and, although I would implement them if I were in their shoes (to keep things going), I would always know very well that as a developer they are cracks in a foundation.  One little hack in the core can take down a platform in unforeseen ways.  DL understand this well so this gives me confidence in his work.  I know this part of the platform should not change frequently and does not require his constant attention.  The less frequent the better.  This is great news for us, we have property now that will keep giving us value at little or no cost at all.  This is why we put forth all the time and effort up front to create things that will last.  You don't want to change them latter.  Also, for this reason it is completely normal to move to other modules, projects, chains, etc...  None of this raises a red flag for me.  Software is complex, you need to move to another area so you have freedom and can't break any code.   Fighting this is like fighting the rip currents, the key is to go with the flow and gently move in the direction you need to go...

This is what I was after, I wanted to see this become a reality.  The market experiments are a lot of fun to use and watch, these are important tools for very serious investors.  This is exactly what we need, if we are going to be home for major investors and even the average person's retirement portfolio.  This is a huge step up for the average joe.  Also, for this to be viable we needed web and mobile clients.  We pulled it off.  The major pieces are here...  Best of all the community owns it in full so this sets the stage for a honest future where it is greed and monopoly resistant.

This is another asset for the BitShares exchange.  Keep them coming ;)...

great points jcal
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: lil_jay890 on April 17, 2016, 02:30:19 pm
For me the biggest disappointment of the BitShares platform so far is the promised 2.0 feature of the bond market. Ive been wanting to loan out my BTS and get interest on it for ages. I expect that many others feel the same way, and that this feature will give a huge boost to the daily transaction count, because BTS bulls now have something to do whilst patiently hodling their shares.

Is there any ETA on this?

This and Margin trading...

Those features are still possible, if that's what the shareholders vote for.

"Still" possible? So its a decreasing possibility, as in probably not going to happen? You havent given us a bond market proposal to vote for, nor said how much cash it will require. Where do I vote for it?

Cnx complains that there is no money for development and the voters are cheap... No, the voters would vote in a bond market or integration to mt4 in a second.

There has never even been a proposal to reject or accept from cnx. I bet bts would even vote in a mas style program if a proposal was ever made.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: Empirical1.2 on April 17, 2016, 02:33:34 pm
I see in a quote I used in another thread there was also reference to a large dev fund for BTS that is slowly being released via the merger...

The result is that as part of the merger many people (including the large Dev fund) are taking a long-term vested interest in things.
Do you really want Toast, Adam, and I to have instant access to a large percentage of all new funds or do you want us vesting with a long time horizon? 

Will we still benefit from that or has that been kind of lost given that they've said they've had to spend some of their own money funding BTS?
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: Brekyrself on April 17, 2016, 06:48:07 pm
All the more reason to push out the anti dilution crowd.  The blockchain was built to have built in support for workers to pay for development.  This is currently at a standstill and thus will not help attract any outside devs.

Amazing that people do not realize time=money and it takes money to build anything!  This is the same as a company firing their key engineers, thus no more work can be accomplished.


We need a voting initiative.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: LoveYouMakMak on April 17, 2016, 07:24:09 pm
The Dex is just too hard to use. You hear it all over the Bitcointalk forum. There's a reason why IOUs for products like Lisk are doing well are questionable exchanges but barely any volume through Bitshares. I hate to be so critical but I feel like it's being looked through the eyes of people who do this all the time and not the rest of us.

I see Ronny created some great how-to videos, that's a good start. Unless I have an overwhelming reason to trade on OL, I won't spend the time. I need it as simple as Loloniex, even easier. Friendly 1 click options with tooltips to walk me through like I'm new to all of this. That is what's holding us back, it's still too confusing. I don't think any additional tech advancements are going to make a difference, there's plenty.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: davidpbrown on April 17, 2016, 07:37:48 pm
The Dex is just too hard to use. ...

BitShares perhaps is too hard to use.. and that then begs a question of if the devs are thinking big and pitching at professional business interests, with expert options that traders will recognise. I don't mind if that's the case, as that's where the big money will be. Long term BitShares needs to find a market.. and to do that it needs to provide a compelling reason to use BitShares rather than another option with similar functions. There are threads through the ideas behind BitShares that make a lot of sense and indeed appear unique but drawing those together into a coherent package that's easy to sell to a defined market, requires focus and commitment.

I'm encouraged by responses above but keen to seen what has been achieved acknowledged and re-enforced - where is moonstone.io wallet upto for example.. having flexibility in GUIs will be an important contribution towards appeal in different user groups. Much of the market atm is likely individuals; speculators; and less atm finance-centric businesses - those are an end game, question is how best to get to the point they can and do use the markets here.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: Thom on April 17, 2016, 07:47:08 pm
There has never even been a proposal to reject or accept from cnx. I bet bts would even vote in a mas style program if a proposal was ever made.

If support for bond market functionality is so freakin high, why isn't a solid proposal created and floated before the shareholders? The answer: I see this plea as simply the voice of a small minority who refuse to take responsibility to rally the support for it to make it happen. "Let's just be a squeaky wheel and hope someone else will oil us".

I happen to believe a bond market is a niche market with a high cost to implement. It's yet another idea for a market experiment without ANY solid market research or numbers to make a case for how big such a market would be to the crypto world, or if trying to reach a broader audience what the cost of customer acquisition would be to attract people elsewhere who might be interested . In short, there has been no business case made for it, just statements people want it. Well that's just not enough. Let's focus on what we have and strengthen it, not take on a massive new effort like implementing a bond market experiment.

There are plenty of other projects and reasons to remain focused and committed to the vision of those who innovated this ecosystem. Nobody here is doing this solely based on principles and the long term mission of making financial freedom a reality. We are all here to make money in the process. I wish those who are here ONLY to make money and principles be damned were in the minority. I'm afraid however too many can't see the big picture and are in fact the majority.

Wake up and see BitShares for what it is, not for what it lacks! There is always room for improvement but look at all the amazing things happening with projects like those promoted by ccedk, BitShares' Munich Point of Sale, Maker, SollarsNsense, the Beyond Bitcoin gang, Bitland and others. Of all the other projects and chains in the CryptoSphere think of how great it is Bitland has chosen the BitShares platform to move forward with, and that Ronny@ccedk also sees it's potential and is willing to promote it. Think of Billions in Africa, think of the value those people and those projects collectively represent - how can all that NOT instill optimism?

Bytemaster moving on to Steem is not a blow to this community, it is an opportunity for us who remain to step up and take responsibility to push this platform and those who empower it to be successful. Calling all entrepreneurs! C'mon, lets go, if there ever was a time to focus and get after it that time is now!
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: openledger on April 17, 2016, 08:07:37 pm
I second this and support all progressive actions put towards greater good of the bts platform OpenLedger and by doing so I am promoting not only OpenLedger, but also bts as a currency, bts as a platform and bts as a community hoping that this same community will start thinking less about what others can do to improve it all, and instead start thinking what it could contribute with itself.

Dont forget, together we are much stronger than 3-5000 users all thinking on themselves first and foremost. Together there is not much a community like that could not achieve, and we are already on the way, but less talk about what others did not do, and more about what could be done is what is needed now.

And drop the hidden agendas pls to whomever are carrying those, we really dont need them here.

Rgds

Ronny

Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: werneo on April 17, 2016, 08:40:56 pm
Starts @44:45

Quote
With the lessons we've learned from Steem, we have the ability to create, let's call it Bitshares 3.0, if you will.  Bitshares 3.0 would be different from the current iteration of bitshares in the following ways:

  • it would not charge any transaction fees.
  • it would have multiple assets like Steem backed dollars but paid to different .... gold, silver, euros, so on and so forth.
  • it would create those assets only to pay people who do work.

In the work that the blockchain would pay for, would be:

  • liquidity
  • witnesses

So, with liquidity and witnesses paid for in these assets, and the blockchain then turn around and backing them,  you would have an exchange with no fees, pegged assets where you could trade gold, silver, so on. I would then share drop such a chain on Bitshares with an allocation that is sufficient to cover the cost of development.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdYK1ifKLXw


This was a very exciting interview!

I've never done mining before. I think I could cobble together a GPU miner but it sounds like I could do CPU mining as well.

Could someone explain (like I'm 5) what steps I need to mine steem? Or point me in the right direction anyway....  :)
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: liondani on April 17, 2016, 09:03:55 pm
This was a very exciting interview!

I've never done mining before. I think I could cobble together a GPU miner but it sounds like I could do CPU mining as well.

Could someone explain (like I'm 5) what steps I need to mine steem? Or point me in the right direction anyway....  :)

it's a good start...
http://steemit.com/steemhelp/@pharesim/ubuntu-14-04-miner-setup

#!/bin/bash
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade -y
apt-get install -y git build-essential cmake libssl-dev autoconf autotools-dev doxygen libncurses5-dev libreadline-dev libtool screen libicu-dev libbz2-dev graphviz
cd /home/ubuntu
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.57.0/boost_1_57_0.tar.bz2
tar xjf ./boost_1_57_0.tar.bz2
cd boost_1_57_0
./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/opt/boost_1_57_0
./b2 -j36 > /dev/null
./b2 install > /dev/null
export BOOST_ROOT=/opt/boost_1_57_0
cd ..
git clone https://github.com/steemit/steem.git
cd steem
git submodule update --init --recursive
cmake .
make -j36
cd programs/steemd/
screen -S steem -dm ./steemd --mining-threads=36 --seed-node='52.38.66.234:2001' --seed-node='52.37.169.52:2001' --seed-node='52.26.78.244:2001' --rpc-endpoint \
--miner='["account1","5WIF1"]' --witness='"account1"' \
--miner='["account2","5WIF2"]' --witness='"account2"' \
--miner='["account3","5WIF3"]' --witness='"account3"' \
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: werneo on April 17, 2016, 10:05:39 pm
This was a very exciting interview!

I've never done mining before. I think I could cobble together a GPU miner but it sounds like I could do CPU mining as well.

Could someone explain (like I'm 5) what steps I need to mine steem? Or point me in the right direction anyway....  :)

it's a good start...
http://steemit.com/steemhelp/@pharesim/ubuntu-14-04-miner-setup

#!/bin/bash
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade -y
apt-get install -y git build-essential cmake libssl-dev autoconf autotools-dev doxygen libncurses5-dev libreadline-dev libtool screen libicu-dev libbz2-dev graphviz
cd /home/ubuntu
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.57.0/boost_1_57_0.tar.bz2
tar xjf ./boost_1_57_0.tar.bz2
cd boost_1_57_0
./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/opt/boost_1_57_0
./b2 -j36 > /dev/null
./b2 install > /dev/null
export BOOST_ROOT=/opt/boost_1_57_0
cd ..
git clone https://github.com/steemit/steem.git
cd steem
git submodule update --init --recursive
cmake .
make -j36
cd programs/steemd/
screen -S steem -dm ./steemd --mining-threads=36 --seed-node='52.38.66.234:2001' --seed-node='52.37.169.52:2001' --seed-node='52.26.78.244:2001' --rpc-endpoint \
--miner='["account1","5WIF1"]' --witness='"account1"' \
--miner='["account2","5WIF2"]' --witness='"account2"' \
--miner='["account3","5WIF3"]' --witness='"account3"' \

Thanks!

Here is a good question someone just PM'd me.... could someone answer it cause I don't know (remember, I'm 5)....

Quote
I presume these values need to be replaced with something else, is that right?

Code: [Select]

--miner='["account1","5WIF1"]' --witness='"account1"' \
--miner='["account2","5WIF2"]' --witness='"account2"' \
--miner='["account3","5WIF3"]' --witness='"account3"' \


How do you create the accounts? I assume the 5WIFn are the private keys for those accounts, correct?
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: liondani on April 18, 2016, 12:27:56 am
Here is a good question someone just PM'd me.... could someone answer it cause I don't know (remember, I'm 5)....

Quote
I presume these values need to be replaced with something else, is that right?

Code: [Select]

--miner='["account1","5WIF1"]' --witness='"account1"' \
--miner='["account2","5WIF2"]' --witness='"account2"' \
--miner='["account3","5WIF3"]' --witness='"account3"' \


How do you create the accounts? I assume the 5WIFn are the private keys for those accounts, correct?

./steemd --rpc-endpoint
on a new terminal (or screen)
./cli_wallet

cd programs/cli_wallet
./cli_wallet
new >>> set_password "PASSWORD"
locked >>> unlock "PASSWORD"
suggest_brain_key
unlocked >>> import_key "WIF KEY starting with 5..."
unlocked>>> get_account "youraccountname"

make 3 times brainkey so you import 3 different priv.keys
choose whatever account names you want without creating them... after your miners mine some steems you will get them...
use 3 witness, 3 miners with dif. keys (optimal setting )
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: btswildpig on April 18, 2016, 02:18:39 am
Funny, no one mentions the other bombshell today... hint:  it ends in "3.0".

I kind of half listened to the mumble and I didn't hear anything about this. Anyone know what Stan's alluding to here?

i think BM mentioned lessions learnt for BTS 3.0 but didn't said something that this is in the pipline, because you know, lack of funds, mean no development on the blockchain, only on the frontend.

bombshells just anger people more... at least historically.  I am more trying to say there are many chains out their that compete against us and have centralized bodies paying their dev teams.   Bitcoin and ETH both exemplify this.  Yet people somehow think Dan and team are horrible when I assure you the eth core devs and btc core devs have been promised constant payment indefinitely until when? until they WIN in the market and probably beyond.

no they don't have  been promised constant payment indefinitely .
They can only accept payment as long as they can fulfill their task in time / in quality compare to market standards . Or they'll be fired by whoever hired them and replaced by whoever can fulfill their task in time/ in quality .

If you expect otherwise , you should apply for that easy and guaranteed job in Bitcoin/ETH and use their payment to buy more BTS to support the BTS eco-system  :P

Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: Thom on April 18, 2016, 02:22:22 am
Quote
choose whatever account names you want without creating them...

And just how do you do that? There's got to be some way to tell the minors where to put the steem they create, so "choosing" must require a wallet command. In BTS there is a create_account_with_brain_key, but that same cmd does not exist in this steem wallet. The steam wallet has 2 create_account commands:

Code: [Select]
create_account(string creator, string new_account_name, string json_meta, bool broadcast)

create_account_with_keys(string creator, string newname, string json_meta, public_key_type owner, public_key_type active, public_key_type posting, public_key_type memo, bool broadcast)

It isn't obvious which one should be used or what the arguments should be for "creator" or "json_meta". I have assumed "json_meta" to be an empty string value, same for "creator" and that dashes in the name are OK. I have tried a number of variations all of which produce an error.

I'm straddling 2 systems atm and can't login to the slack channel, but I have an invite waiting now.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: kenCode on April 18, 2016, 06:23:54 am
less talk about what others did not do, and more about what could be done is what is needed now.

 +5% +5% +5%
@everyone - i think i read somewhere that Yunbi (an exchange?) is voting against Workers and having their heavy buddies do the same. so, let's either A) disable Yunbi in the web wallet, and/or B) do the same thing with CCEDK/OL, Blocktrades and MetaExchange voting FOR the Workers. Fight fire with fire and we will never have to worry about a cheating exchange again. Light'em up!
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: EstefanTT on April 18, 2016, 11:28:11 am
less talk about what others did not do, and more about what could be done is what is needed now.

 +5% +5% +5%
@everyone - i think i read somewhere that Yunbi (an exchange?) is voting against Workers and having their heavy buddies do the same. so, let's either A) disable Yunbi in the web wallet, and/or B) do the same thing with CCEDK/OL, Blocktrades and MetaExchange voting FOR the Workers. Fight fire with fire and we will never have to worry about a cheating exchange again. Light'em up!
You've probably read it in this 245 replies long thread here ;p  :

http://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=22082.0

That's a real problem, BTS has been made to have funds available to grow. This one of the best thing we have, we should think how o best allocate these fund and not stop spend. Come on anti dilution community, don't you want to have your money x 100 in 3 years ?

Start a war with exchanges is very dangerous, if someone could persuade  Poloniex and BTC38 to give their voting power to someone, it would be the end of BitShares democracy.

I have a suggestion. Someone with a confidence voice, speaking a good english make a quick video showing how to vote in the wallet. (That could be done in an hour). While showing how to vote,  he explain why voting for a proxy like "xerox" who support workers is the best way of keeping BitShares in the path of success and grow the investment in BTS of everyone . These daily funds we have are there to develop BitShares. The sell pressure is caused mainly by the merger. Without workers, we will loose our competitive advantage in 6 months, bla bla bla
The "bla bla bla" should be all the good reasons we've seen in the 245 replies in the thread.

Once the video is done, every one here start sending transactions of 0.01 BTS with a quick message in the memo and the link to the video to the big and small whales who are not voting.

Here are a few one :

mcxcwbts 11,107,976
goldsix 6,050,401
ubris 6,000,000
miso69 4,833,076
lambda1 4,063,036
deepweb 2,974,341
jaehyuk 3,876,514
andrewmiao 3,786,080
tomliu 3,719,558
go-danny-go 3,533,157
mike-primorac 3,479,329
bts-ats8088 3,778,135
freggieleggie 1 3,401,362
brentallsop 3,247,576
zy360 2,891,468
bts-fruitsalad 2,804,446
operations.hyperetas 2,626,603
rand1 2,586,347
thread 2,553,716
hardfork 2 2,545,413

Which is 76,201,801 BTS not voting.

You can have fun and find more here and using CryptoFresh to check their voting :

http://richlist.btsgame.org/#/richlist/bts (http://richlist.btsgame.org/#/richlist/bts)

I'm sure if this video is well made and only 10 of us would send these transactions/reminder to vote, we could made a big difference ! Also we would have a weapon for these kind of situations. If you look for more ppl who don't vote, you'll find easily more than 76 million BTS. In about a couple of hours, I could find 100-150 millions.

I'm not able to do the video myself with my terrible Belgian accent and my poor english. Maybe it could be the association between a nice voice like fuzzy and a good script from one of our best mind in here.

We just need one or two volunteers to make this short video ( 1-2 min max ) and we can start as a community, to show how organised we can be and how we solve big problems with simple solutions.

Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: lil_jay890 on April 18, 2016, 11:36:13 am
less talk about what others did not do, and more about what could be done is what is needed now.

 +5% +5% +5%
@everyone - i think i read somewhere that Yunbi (an exchange?) is voting against Workers and having their heavy buddies do the same. so, let's either A) disable Yunbi in the web wallet, and/or B) do the same thing with CCEDK/OL, Blocktrades and MetaExchange voting FOR the Workers. Fight fire with fire and we will never have to worry about a cheating exchange again. Light'em up!

Yunbi proxies to laomao... Maybe we should try to convince laomao that some projects are worth while. Also we need to get workers that are not basic maintenance workers.  The Chinese are against the cost in which we are paying to fix bugs and do documentation. I see where they are coming from.

I find Dan's reasoning for leaving extremely hollow.  There was never a worker proposal created to add any new features to bitshares that we could have voted on.  People need to realize that, instead of just assuming the Chinese will never vote in a worker.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: kenCode on April 18, 2016, 11:46:02 am
You've probably read it in this 245 replies long thread here ;p  :

http://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=22082.0

That's a real problem, BTS has been made to have funds available to grow. This one of the best thing we have, we should think how o best allocate these fund and not stop spend. Come on anti dilution community, don't you want to have your money x 100 in 3 years ?

Start a war with exchanges is very dangerous, if someone could persuade  Poloniex and BTC38 to give their voting power to someone, it would be the end of BitShares democracy.

I have a suggestion. Someone with a confidence voice, speaking a good english make a quick video showing how to vote in the wallet. (That could be done in an hour). While showing how to vote,  he explain why voting for a proxy like "xerox" who support workers is the best way of keeping BitShares in the path of success and grow the investment in BTS of everyone . These daily funds we have are there to develop BitShares. The sell pressure is caused mainly by the merger. Without workers, we will loose our competitive advantage in 6 months, bla bla bla
The "bla bla bla" should be all the good reasons we've seen in the 245 replies in the thread.

Once the video is done, every one here start sending transactions of 0.01 BTS with a quick message in the memo and the link to the video to the big and small whales who are not voting.

Here are a few one :

mcxcwbts 11,107,976
goldsix 6,050,401
ubris 6,000,000
miso69 4,833,076
lambda1 4,063,036
deepweb 2,974,341
jaehyuk 3,876,514
andrewmiao 3,786,080
tomliu 3,719,558
go-danny-go 3,533,157
mike-primorac 3,479,329
bts-ats8088 3,778,135
freggieleggie 1 3,401,362
brentallsop 3,247,576
zy360 2,891,468
bts-fruitsalad 2,804,446
operations.hyperetas 2,626,603
rand1 2,586,347
thread 2,553,716
hardfork 2 2,545,413

Which is 76,201,801 BTS not voting.

You can have fun and find more here and using CryptoFresh to check their voting :

http://richlist.btsgame.org/#/richlist/bts (http://richlist.btsgame.org/#/richlist/bts)

I'm sure if this video is well made and only 10 of us would send these transactions/reminder to vote, we could made a big difference ! Also we would have a weapon for these kind of situations. If you look for more ppl who don't vote, you'll find easily more than 76 million BTS. In about a couple of hours, I could find 100-150 millions.

I'm not able to do the video myself with my terrible Belgian accent and my poor english. Maybe it could be the association between a nice voice like fuzzy and a good script from one of our best mind in here.

We just need one or two volunteers to make this short video ( 1-2 min max ) and we can start as a community, to show how organised we can be and how we solve big problems with simple solutions.

@emailtooaj - you are an amazing video maker with an AWESOME voice. maybe a bounty from us to create this quick video on voting?
Chris Coney @JonnyBitcoin does great explanatory videos as well.
So, let's try it. Which of you would like to do this for us and how much does the bounty for you need to be?
 
@EstefanTT has a brilliant idea here and I think we should give it a shot!
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: EstefanTT on April 18, 2016, 11:55:50 am
You've probably read it in this 245 replies long thread here ;p  :

http://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=22082.0

That's a real problem, BTS has been made to have funds available to grow. This one of the best thing we have, we should think how o best allocate these fund and not stop spend. Come on anti dilution community, don't you want to have your money x 100 in 3 years ?

Start a war with exchanges is very dangerous, if someone could persuade  Poloniex and BTC38 to give their voting power to someone, it would be the end of BitShares democracy.

I have a suggestion. Someone with a confidence voice, speaking a good english make a quick video showing how to vote in the wallet. (That could be done in an hour). While showing how to vote,  he explain why voting for a proxy like "xerox" who support workers is the best way of keeping BitShares in the path of success and grow the investment in BTS of everyone . These daily funds we have are there to develop BitShares. The sell pressure is caused mainly by the merger. Without workers, we will loose our competitive advantage in 6 months, bla bla bla
The "bla bla bla" should be all the good reasons we've seen in the 245 replies in the thread.

Once the video is done, every one here start sending transactions of 0.01 BTS with a quick message in the memo and the link to the video to the big and small whales who are not voting.

Here are a few one :

mcxcwbts 11,107,976
goldsix 6,050,401
ubris 6,000,000
miso69 4,833,076
lambda1 4,063,036
deepweb 2,974,341
jaehyuk 3,876,514
andrewmiao 3,786,080
tomliu 3,719,558
go-danny-go 3,533,157
mike-primorac 3,479,329
bts-ats8088 3,778,135
freggieleggie 1 3,401,362
brentallsop 3,247,576
zy360 2,891,468
bts-fruitsalad 2,804,446
operations.hyperetas 2,626,603
rand1 2,586,347
thread 2,553,716
hardfork 2 2,545,413

Which is 76,201,801 BTS not voting.

You can have fun and find more here and using CryptoFresh to check their voting :

http://richlist.btsgame.org/#/richlist/bts (http://richlist.btsgame.org/#/richlist/bts)

I'm sure if this video is well made and only 10 of us would send these transactions/reminder to vote, we could made a big difference ! Also we would have a weapon for these kind of situations. If you look for more ppl who don't vote, you'll find easily more than 76 million BTS. In about a couple of hours, I could find 100-150 millions.

I'm not able to do the video myself with my terrible Belgian accent and my poor english. Maybe it could be the association between a nice voice like fuzzy and a good script from one of our best mind in here.

We just need one or two volunteers to make this short video ( 1-2 min max ) and we can start as a community, to show how organised we can be and how we solve big problems with simple solutions.

@emailtooaj - you are an amazing video maker with an AWESOME voice. maybe a bounty from us to create this quick video on voting?
Chris Coney @JonnyBitcoin does great explanatory videos as well.
So, let's try it. Which of you would like to do this for us and how much does the bounty for you need to be?
 
@EstefanTT has a brilliant idea here and I think we should give it a shot!
@xeroc has brownies left for this purpose. If everybody agrees on a decent bounty, not symbolic but not overpaid, xeroc can aprove it.

The video would be done in no time and all our workers voted back in progressively.

Imagine you are a whale and are not voting probably because you think it's probably still complicated as it was in bts 0.9. You receive 17 transcations from different members asking you to check a 1-2 min video and consider voting. Even if you have very few spare time, you will at least, watch the video, out of curiosity.

We should propose the better proxies and explain how it works. It's simple and they'll know they just have to set it once.

If the video is well done, it should not promote voting wotkers but try to teach the benefits of maintaining them working and the big risks of having them out.  Like that we don't start a war with the antidilution ppl.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: cylonmaker2053 on April 18, 2016, 01:04:25 pm
from a trading perspective, Bitshares is awesome and has come a long way. As recently as a month ago I had chronic issues placing orders and executing trades. After a little bit of bitching, all the issues were resolved and now I'm just having fun in my own little trading world. I still recommend continual improvement to the trading experience.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: liondani on April 18, 2016, 01:37:56 pm
(http://urbanchristiannews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/swan-song-EP.jpg)
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: karnal on April 19, 2016, 09:48:35 am
Bytemaster has been saying for months that:

BitShares needs to stabilize and stop "innovating".
Sidechains are the proper way to expand.
He will continue to innovate (it's what he does).
He will be there when BitShares needs him.

Funny, no one mentions the other bombshell today... hint:  it ends in "3.0".

Bytemaster makes babies and leaves it to others to raise them.
That's because he is the best choice for the first and the worst choice for the second.

We all benefit when BM makes babies because we find out about them first and we know their daddy well.

He will make us many babies if he is free to innovate. 
What do you think his talent will be worth if chained to maintaining a stabilized BitShares?

BitShares is in the hands of mere mortal entrepreneurs like you and me now.
And we are exactly what it needs at this point in time.

:)

Exactly how many more people besides BM can take over development of major new features in a way consistent with the current codebase?

In other words, who else really groks the code?
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: Musewhale on April 19, 2016, 02:14:56 pm
great!
good idea!
i like this!
just do it!
 +5% +5% +5%
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: emailtooaj on April 19, 2016, 09:10:24 pm
You've probably read it in this 245 replies long thread here ;p  :

http://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=22082.0

That's a real problem, BTS has been made to have funds available to grow. This one of the best thing we have, we should think how o best allocate these fund and not stop spend. Come on anti dilution community, don't you want to have your money x 100 in 3 years ?

Start a war with exchanges is very dangerous, if someone could persuade  Poloniex and BTC38 to give their voting power to someone, it would be the end of BitShares democracy.

I have a suggestion. Someone with a confidence voice, speaking a good english make a quick video showing how to vote in the wallet. (That could be done in an hour). While showing how to vote,  he explain why voting for a proxy like "xerox" who support workers is the best way of keeping BitShares in the path of success and grow the investment in BTS of everyone . These daily funds we have are there to develop BitShares. The sell pressure is caused mainly by the merger. Without workers, we will loose our competitive advantage in 6 months, bla bla bla
The "bla bla bla" should be all the good reasons we've seen in the 245 replies in the thread.

Once the video is done, every one here start sending transactions of 0.01 BTS with a quick message in the memo and the link to the video to the big and small whales who are not voting.

Here are a few one :

mcxcwbts 11,107,976
goldsix 6,050,401
ubris 6,000,000
miso69 4,833,076
lambda1 4,063,036
deepweb 2,974,341
jaehyuk 3,876,514
andrewmiao 3,786,080
tomliu 3,719,558
go-danny-go 3,533,157
mike-primorac 3,479,329
bts-ats8088 3,778,135
freggieleggie 1 3,401,362
brentallsop 3,247,576
zy360 2,891,468
bts-fruitsalad 2,804,446
operations.hyperetas 2,626,603
rand1 2,586,347
thread 2,553,716
hardfork 2 2,545,413

Which is 76,201,801 BTS not voting.

You can have fun and find more here and using CryptoFresh to check their voting :

http://richlist.btsgame.org/#/richlist/bts (http://richlist.btsgame.org/#/richlist/bts)

I'm sure if this video is well made and only 10 of us would send these transactions/reminder to vote, we could made a big difference ! Also we would have a weapon for these kind of situations. If you look for more ppl who don't vote, you'll find easily more than 76 million BTS. In about a couple of hours, I could find 100-150 millions.

I'm not able to do the video myself with my terrible Belgian accent and my poor english. Maybe it could be the association between a nice voice like fuzzy and a good script from one of our best mind in here.

We just need one or two volunteers to make this short video ( 1-2 min max ) and we can start as a community, to show how organised we can be and how we solve big problems with simple solutions.

@emailtooaj - you are an amazing video maker with an AWESOME voice. maybe a bounty from us to create this quick video on voting?
Chris Coney @JonnyBitcoin does great explanatory videos as well.
So, let's try it. Which of you would like to do this for us and how much does the bounty for you need to be?
 
@EstefanTT has a brilliant idea here and I think we should give it a shot!

@kenCode
I appreciate your vote of confidence  :)

I'd be more than happy doing this for the community. 
Here's the crux at the moment...
I'm in transition to building a new computer system, just waiting for the motherboard which should arrive tomorrow. 
So it'll be a few days to a week before I can get everything built, reinstalled and tuned up before I'd could produce this.
**this is the reason it's been taking me forever to get the OPENPOS Mobile wallet speed test video finalized**

If the community can be patient waiting on me,  then I'm a go!
Otherwise,  if some one else steps up to the plate... feelings won't be hurt  :P


Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: julian1 on April 19, 2016, 09:13:45 pm
Bytemaster has been saying for months that:

BitShares needs to stabilize and stop "innovating".
Sidechains are the proper way to expand.
He will continue to innovate (it's what he does).
He will be there when BitShares needs him.

Funny, no one mentions the other bombshell today... hint:  it ends in "3.0".

Bytemaster makes babies and leaves it to others to raise them.
That's because he is the best choice for the first and the worst choice for the second.

We all benefit when BM makes babies because we find out about them first and we know their daddy well.

He will make us many babies if he is free to innovate. 
What do you think his talent will be worth if chained to maintaining a stabilized BitShares?

BitShares is in the hands of mere mortal entrepreneurs like you and me now.
And we are exactly what it needs at this point in time.

:)

Exactly how many more people besides BM can take over development of major new features in a way consistent with the current codebase?

In other words, who else really groks the code?

thereverseflash looks to be pretty effective

Perhaps we could have a bidding war to lure him over to Bitshares?
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: svk on April 20, 2016, 07:21:27 am
Bytemaster has been saying for months that:

BitShares needs to stabilize and stop "innovating".
Sidechains are the proper way to expand.
He will continue to innovate (it's what he does).
He will be there when BitShares needs him.

Funny, no one mentions the other bombshell today... hint:  it ends in "3.0".

Bytemaster makes babies and leaves it to others to raise them.
That's because he is the best choice for the first and the worst choice for the second.

We all benefit when BM makes babies because we find out about them first and we know their daddy well.

He will make us many babies if he is free to innovate. 
What do you think his talent will be worth if chained to maintaining a stabilized BitShares?

BitShares is in the hands of mere mortal entrepreneurs like you and me now.
And we are exactly what it needs at this point in time.

:)

Exactly how many more people besides BM can take over development of major new features in a way consistent with the current codebase?

In other words, who else really groks the code?

thereverseflash looks to be pretty effective

Perhaps we could have a bidding war to lure him over to Bitshares?

Since he's BM it would be hard I guess ;)
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: liondani on April 20, 2016, 09:45:47 am
Bytemaster has been saying for months that:

BitShares needs to stabilize and stop "innovating".
Sidechains are the proper way to expand.
He will continue to innovate (it's what he does).
He will be there when BitShares needs him.

Funny, no one mentions the other bombshell today... hint:  it ends in "3.0".

Bytemaster makes babies and leaves it to others to raise them.
That's because he is the best choice for the first and the worst choice for the second.

We all benefit when BM makes babies because we find out about them first and we know their daddy well.

He will make us many babies if he is free to innovate. 
What do you think his talent will be worth if chained to maintaining a stabilized BitShares?

BitShares is in the hands of mere mortal entrepreneurs like you and me now.
And we are exactly what it needs at this point in time.

:)

Exactly how many more people besides BM can take over development of major new features in a way consistent with the current codebase?

In other words, who else really groks the code?

thereverseflash looks to be pretty effective

Perhaps we could have a bidding war to lure him over to Bitshares?

Since he's BM it would be hard I guess ;)

I hope he will not issue updated flash-colored-brownies2 IUAs and will stay with the first version of it!

(https://sp.yimg.com/xj/th?id=OIP.M7911fcc75493f80e61d6056b555ecab9o0&pid=15.1&P=0&w=300&h=300)

Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: karnal on April 20, 2016, 12:00:57 pm
So someone correct me if I'm reading this wrong, but the main person with the vision, leadership and core expertise for this project just went away to work on a glorious new vision.. if I grokked it correctly, because he believes this new steamy thing has a better chance of materialising his visions.

Does that not a) leave this project without ideological leadership and b) discredit the project in favor of the new shiny one?
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: CLains on April 20, 2016, 12:27:20 pm
So someone correct me if I'm reading this wrong, but the main person with the vision, leadership and core expertise for this project just went away to work on a glorious new vision.. if I grokked it correctly, because he believes this new steamy thing has a better chance of materialising his visions.

Does that not a) leave this project without ideological leadership and b) discredit the project in favor of the new shiny one?

That's like saying Elon Musk working on Space-X invalidates his Tesla vision. There's a lot of B2B, GUI and marketing work left to be done in BitShares, but that's not necesserily something BM can do better than the other guys around here. BM's expertise is his role as a visionary engineer and creative problem-solver. Long term it's also a good thing that more funds is being used to research and develop Graphene technology, it's easy to copy and paste improvements and new solutions.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: bitimaru on April 20, 2016, 12:41:40 pm
So someone correct me if I'm reading this wrong, but the main person with the vision, leadership and core expertise for this project just went away to work on a glorious new vision.. if I grokked it correctly, because he believes this new steamy thing has a better chance of materialising his visions.

Does that not a) leave this project without ideological leadership and b) discredit the project in favor of the new shiny one?

Well, I tried to figure that out too.
What I've conclude tho is the opposite.
Renewed leadership  is what Bitshares needed. IMHO Its 50x times better to have a fresh leader than a half-assed one.
This community is full of  god-level contributors...

Chineses leaving the boat and BM being honest with what currently passionate him and move on with it is what BTS really needed to grow straight.
AND Its not like if Vitalik would have left ETH before releasing metropolis. 'BTS core' is already working. The core expertise is not so much solicited now-a-day... (to my understanding)

Honestly, what I want to see now is the new leadership taking place and expand their goal and and new projection to us.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: lil_jay890 on April 20, 2016, 01:16:20 pm
It's the reasoning for CNX leaving that is dumb... They say there is no money available for development because of the anit-dilution (chinese) crowd.  Yet CNX hasn't even put forth a proposal for anything (MAS, Bonds, Rate Limited Transactions).

What is even dumber is how BM has basically screwed everyone who has ever followed his vision by making them jump from investment to investment.  Buy PTS, Donate AGS, Buy BTSX, Buy BTS, Buy Brownies, Buy Steem.  That's 6 different investments just to try to keep up with Dan's latest squeeze.  Then you have Stan spouting off in the cryptofresh video about how people are going to wish they bought bts back when it was under a cent, all while preparing to fork bts and create steem with no bts sharedrop.  BM is like one of those TV preachers that keep asking for more and more money while guaranteeing they will take you to the promise land if you give.

In all honesty though,  BTS being out of CNX's control and focus is probably a good thing.  After all the promises and announcements that did nothing to increase the market cap of BTS, having a new group of leaders might be what BTS needs.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: Pheonike on April 20, 2016, 02:09:50 pm

The point is, if people think that BM moving on will destroy bts, then it was already destroyed.  The main point is for bts to decentralised  and self governing. If one person or group leaving the project can destroyed it, it had already failed. BTS has the tools it needs to carry on. Being able to survive without its creator is the hallmark of any successful project or species.

Sent from my SM-N920T using Tapatalk

Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: Akado on April 20, 2016, 02:18:59 pm
It's the reasoning for CNX leaving that is dumb... They say there is no money available for development because of the anit-dilution (chinese) crowd.  Yet CNX hasn't even put forth a proposal for anything (MAS, Bonds, Rate Limited Transactions).

This is what I dislike as well.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: bitimaru on April 20, 2016, 02:24:27 pm
Mike Hearn killed the bitcoin too... right?
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: karnal on April 20, 2016, 02:45:26 pm
Mike Hearn killed the bitcoin too... right?

Completely different levels. By the time Mike made his statements, Bitcoin had been #1 crypto for a long time. Also there's a handful of other big names in the project.

I hope to be wrong, but at this stage, Bitshares without BM would be like Linux without Linus, or OpenBSD without Theo De Raadt, or ( ;D) Nazi Germany without Hitler.

While I 100% agree that eventually the Bitshares/BM dependency had to be cut, my concern as a shareholder is that this seclusion was very premature.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: Stan on April 20, 2016, 02:48:26 pm
CNX is not "leaving."
BM is not "moving on"

We are weaning BitShares to stand on its own feet as we have always said we would do (https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,14019.msg182310.html#msg182310).

CNX and BM will still do whatever we are able to make BitShares successful. 

BM is working (at his own expense) on what he feels is the best use of his time toward his overarching objectives of which BitShares is still the flagship project.

I continue to spend full time on BTS business development (at my own expense).
I just don't talk about what's in the pipeline any more because 90% of all leads don't pan out on schedule.

...but there IS that other 10%.  :)


Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: Empirical1.2 on April 20, 2016, 02:52:24 pm

The point is, if people think that BM moving on will destroy bts, then it was already destroyed.  The main point is for bts to decentralised  and self governing. If one person or group leaving the project can destroyed it, it had already failed. BTS has the tools it needs to carry on. Being able to survive without its creator is the hallmark of any successful project or species.

Sent from my SM-N920T using Tapatalk

BTS is a great platform, credit to BM & others for the pivotal role they played in it's creation.

Provided we stay competitive and don't let our community and investment dollars be leached into other projects, I think BTS will ultimately go from strength to strength especially once the expensive merger vesting period is over.


Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: tbone on April 20, 2016, 03:22:33 pm
It's the reasoning for CNX leaving that is dumb... They say there is no money available for development because of the anit-dilution (chinese) crowd.  Yet CNX hasn't even put forth a proposal for anything (MAS, Bonds, Rate Limited Transactions).

This is what I dislike as well.

Isn't @abit working on Rate Limited Transactions?   And if I remember correctly, @bytemaster did propose a bond market in some detail.  But if you were paying attention, you would know the anti-dilutionists are not interested in funding new features.  Given that, do you really think MAS would have a remote chance of getting funded?

I don't understand the people who keep saying bytemaster is "moving on".  Fact is, he said he's not going anywhere.  He still owns a large stake in BTS and will continue to support it, make sure it keeps running smoothly, be a resource for businesses building atop BTS, etc. 

But beyond that, there's no way for him to do any meaningful development work on BTS at this time.  The mandate at this point is for feature stability.  So cut the crap, people.  Especially you, @lil_jay890, you little nattering nabob of negativity.  How depressing it must be to go through life being you. 
 
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: lil_jay890 on April 20, 2016, 04:04:11 pm
It's the reasoning for CNX leaving that is dumb... They say there is no money available for development because of the anit-dilution (chinese) crowd.  Yet CNX hasn't even put forth a proposal for anything (MAS, Bonds, Rate Limited Transactions).

This is what I dislike as well.

Isn't @abit working on Rate Limited Transactions?   And if I remember correctly, @bytemaster did propose a bond market in some detail.  But if you were paying attention, you would know the anti-dilutionists are not interested in funding new features.  Given that, do you really think MAS would have a remote chance of getting funded?

I don't understand the people who keep saying bytemaster is "moving on".  Fact is, he said he's not going anywhere.  He still owns a large stake in BTS and will continue to support it, make sure it keeps running smoothly, be a resource for businesses building atop BTS, etc. 

But beyond that, there's no way for him to do any meaningful development work on BTS at this time.  The mandate at this point is for feature stability.  So cut the crap, people.  Especially you, @lil_jay890, you little nattering nabob of negativity.  How depressing it must be to go through life being you. 
 

If you don't like what I post then put me on ignore or don't follow.  I doubt you will quit following though.  But I do find it pretty ironic that you, @tbone, who constantly cuts down other forum members is saying how depressing it must be for me to go through life.  You seem like one of those people that needs to put others down in order to validate yourself.  Whatever though...

If you listened to the mumble and read posts by CNX members, they said it is impossible to get funding yet they have never even introduced one proposal other than the stealth thing (which ironically doesn't work).  The reasoning is bullshit.  All they do is dance around the question when asked or give some stupid reason like it takes too many resources to write a proposal.  News Flash,  who the hell is going to write a proposal if the creators of the system don't find it worth while??!

Bitshares is far from a feature freeze point.  It doesn't even have all the things that were originally promised when 2.0 was announced last June.  People would be willing to pay for a bond market or maker taker, but there is nothing to vote on.  Then they go and fork (with no sharedrop) their own chain and blame it on the shareholders for being stingy.

Also abit is no longer working on the transaction thing because Jakub disappeared and he has no access to the funds.

There are good people here who do care about and do good work for bitshares. Stan and BM consistently say they will do whats best for bitshares but the actions that CNX has taken have been contrary to that.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: abit on April 22, 2016, 09:19:57 am

Also abit is no longer working on the transaction thing because Jakub disappeared and he has no access to the funds.

To be clear, the Rate Limited Free Transaction feature has no relationship with Jakub. It's still possible to have that feature after the community taken over BitShares Github repository (or a fork or whatever the major exchanges and bridges would accept).

The BSIP10 thing which Jakub involved is paused though.
Title: Re: So what is everyone's thoughts on the Bitshares platform & ecosystem now?
Post by: gamey on April 22, 2016, 01:43:36 pm
It's the reasoning for CNX leaving that is dumb... They say there is no money available for development because of the anit-dilution (chinese) crowd.  Yet CNX hasn't even put forth a proposal for anything (MAS, Bonds, Rate Limited Transactions).

What is even dumber is how BM has basically screwed everyone who has ever followed his vision by making them jump from investment to investment.  Buy PTS, Donate AGS, Buy BTSX, Buy BTS, Buy Brownies, Buy Steem.  That's 6 different investments just to try to keep up with Dan's latest squeeze. Then you have Stan spouting off in the cryptofresh video about how people are going to wish they bought bts back when it was under a cent, all while preparing to fork bts and create steem with no bts sharedrop.  BM is like one of those TV preachers that keep asking for more and more money while guaranteeing they will take you to the promise land if you give.

In all honesty though,  BTS being out of CNX's control and focus is probably a good thing.  After all the promises and announcements that did nothing to increase the market cap of BTS, having a new group of leaders might be what BTS needs.

Don't forget DNS in the list.  DNS was live but not actively advertised.  It is my opinion that it is another thing that Dan didn't really have interest in, so he found a way to 'move on' before he even started.

Crowdfunding is all about having fun and doing stuff you want to do. The vetting of those people is minimal.  Some are the next Steve Jobs on a small scale.. and others... we'll find out...

Even Brownie.PTS are a bit LOL. His newest project he claims the reason they have to premine etc is for legality. I <3 whoever bought up BROWNIEs.  Maybe someone else will use them, but it makes more sense to just hand out your own version of brownies if that is the objective.

Really the only consistency I can see in the project is a rate in the volume of excuses put forth.

How vocal should one be about how they feel?  There are many hard working people and those who still have a large investment. I don't want to cause them to lose money or be unmotivated,  but on the other hand you feel like you have to point this out for people who have been half asleep the past couple years, along with those new.

I personally have been hoping BitShares comes up with another set of developers but it seems like China doesn't really produce many developers or people who wish to pay developers.  :P