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General Discussion / swiss bank move was what we waited for... its here
« on: January 16, 2015, 05:48:40 pm »
Alpari filed for bankruptcy. The move was caused by central banker and im sure his family and friends made out like bandits... A surprise move from central authority should never happen unless ur dead in the water anyway.


so banks force tier 2 liuquidity providers to fully cover each trade thus if client margins out broker covers... alpari was worth half a billion.

Fxcm which i hate is publicly traded lost 90% value as clients lost over $250 million...

All in all retail forex market lost about a billion. Thats prob a big chunk of all of it so big win for the blockchain.. especially bts.. would be harder to lose money on our platform

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General Discussion / scan failure? Bad address
« on: December 08, 2014, 03:35:14 am »
KEY9EZUvQjARsbqxC☻DQ261f6irmi1MxJj89 was found as a key and thus crashed my client... Stan also had scan failure just like me... I restarted my client and saw this assertion where the key was invalid.


How does a key like that get created? looks like a raw address... hacker?

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Stakeholder Proposals / Delegate proposal: dev.sidhujag
« on: December 05, 2014, 04:23:34 pm »
Hi guys,

I would like to introduce myself. My name is Jag Sidhu and I am a Software Engineer from Canada with around 15 years experience..My github is http://github.com/sidhujag I have a degree in Computer Science (specializing in Digital Image Processing). I've done some cool projects, including a 3rd person multiplayer 3d shooter coded in opengl/c++, image morphing and recognition(c++) and a dynamically simulated AI app (c++) which can train a robot (bunch of hinges/boxes/springs) to learn how to walk over time using a genetic algorithm/neural network..  in the workforce I have picked up skills in the following through a variety of projects including client/server applications, php/mysql driven websites for part management/electronic change order process, Javascript web clients for industrial embedded servers running in MQX/Windows CE, scriptable DirectX based video player system to demo locally dimming LED backlit TV's (Yes I helped bring that technology to your local bestbuy, we were bought out by samsung.):

c
c++
c#
learning F#
java
ada95
vb
.net
.net embedded compact
php4/php5
batch perl python scrpting
mysql, mongol DB
javascript(angularjs, jquery, dojo)
Graphics APIs: directx opengl
Android Development kit

IDEs:
Visual studio
Visual Studio embedded
Intellij
Netbeans
Eclipse (android development and able to debug bitcoin!)
Codewarrior mqx
Code composer for TI

OS/Architectures:
windows server 2008/2012
linux/unix
windows 98/2000/xp/7/8...
x86
arm

Source repos used:
Git
SVN
HG (mercurial)

I love the idea of bitshares and being able to work on it and be compensated for my time . It makes my work day go way faster and have something to look forward to every day :)
I have done coding in the following coins:

Maxcoin (helped with qt port for build system)
Devcoin (helped with android-app, bitcore port for insight block explorer, merged-mining, port to 0.8.6\0.9.2\0.9.3 versions of bitcoin)
Syscoin (helped with merged-mining, aliases, offers, certificates on the blockchain)

There might be some others too but not worth wasting your time reading stuff you probably don't care too much for.
I made an auction website called devcoinauctions.com( http://devcoinauctions.com/welcome-landing ) that I wanted to compete against something like quibids.com... essentially offering a better service (with crypto's integrated)... however I haven't had much time to keep it going I still have plans to put up some new auctions on there... I developed it to be turnkey. I learned some skills doing it:
wordpress with wp total cache optimization
varnish cache http accelerator (VCL scripting)
nginx webserver
General dealings with static/dynamic content of web served files, Content delivery via CDN, DNS issues
Experience with SEO, Social awareness (twitter/facebook/google plus) and ad campaigns through ad sense/facebook

Optimizing websites by increasing YPage and Google speed scores (devcoinauctions.com is 99% efficient with 0.4s load time (when it had 25+ auctions going): http://gtmetrix.com/reports/devcoinauctions.com/CEMqSFnF, it can handle up to 5000 users at once without loss of serving integrity on a cheap server (500meg ram single core).

Backlog of work to do:

I've started integrating e-commerce plugins for bitshares and have done OpenCart so far, with hopes to complete 10 others before moving on to other projects (see below), the list of plugins are:

1) WHMCS Bitshares Plugin (https://www.whmcs.com/)
WHMCS is an all-in-one client management, billing & support solution for online businesses.

2) OpenCart Bitshares Plugin (http://www.opencart.com/)
Opencart is a powerful open-source shopping cart platform for online merchants. Done

3) Ecwid Bitshares Plugin (http://www.ecwid.com/)
Ecwid offers the performance and flexibility you need, with none of the hassles you don't.

4) Zen Cart Bitshares Plugin (http://www.zen-cart.com/)
Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software.

5) Drupal 7 Ubercart Bitshares Plugin (http://www.ubercart.org/)
Ubercart is the most popular Drupal E-Commerce platform.

6) Drupal 6 Ubercart Bitshares Plugin (http://www.ubercart.org/)
Ubercart is the most popular Drupal E-Commerce platform.

7) osCommerce Bitshares Plugin (http://www.oscommerce.com/)
osCommerce has over 7,000 free Add-Ons and 12 Years of strong experince

8) X-Cart Bitshares Plugin (http://www.x-cart.com/ecommerce-software.html)
X-Cart allows you to: Sell Online. Anything. Anywhere.

9) Commerce:SEO Bitshares Plugin (https://www.commerce-seo.de/)
Commerce:SEO is an advanced cart that is focused on tableless templates in HTML5 and CSS 3 and continues to support the efforts of PHP 5.4

10) PrestaShop Bitshares Plugin (http://www.prestashop.com/)
PrestaShop comes complete with over 310 features that have been carefully developed to assist business owners.

11) VirtueMart Bitshares Plugin (http://virtuemart.net/)
VirtueMart is an Open Source E-Commerce solution that powers large online shops.

I hope to put these up in an e-commerce section of bitshares.org similar to how bitpay did.

This work is being funded by I3 funds based on a 7 week forecast (2 weeks in). I plan to support these and add WooCommerce/Joomla/magento  plugins after based on what community wants.

Some other projects that need to be worked on:

OpenBazaar - implement BitUSD processing here
Bitshares open market app - work on whatever here (maybe integrate the plugins I did above)

Basically I can work on anything.. I usually learn what I need to know. For me its always fun learning new things... I'm a can-do type of person usually never say "no can't be done". I usually just do it if it needs to be done.

Please vote for me as a delegate. I hope by the time that I finish the plugins I will be voted in and I can start working on other things.

Vote now!

dev.sidhujag

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the problem: We need a way to accept bit assets for merchants in a safe and easy way so that they know the order to sell something is fully paid for and the funds are in your registered bitshares account.

the solution: Enter bitshares checkout! It will allow payment in the fiat equivalent bitasset seamlessly ie: USD gets paid on the blockchain without changing your website software which displays things in fiat currency. You can also integrate other assets on your website like oil silver gold or any other asset you want to accept and when bitsharess checkout is called it will simply allow payment of that bit asset for your purchase order.

Ie: create a custom currency in your website with symbol gold(if thats the
bit asset symbol you accept) and it will allow payments with gold.

Src: http://github.com/sidhujag/bitsharescheckout


I am in the process of writing about 11 ecommerce plugins for bitshares using bitshares checkout by creating plugins for shopping cart packages somthey can natively support bitshares payments... The cool thing is current sites deploying these carts today which accept fiat can use the same system and simply accept the bit asset associated and get all of the benefits of dealing in a cryptocurrency instead of fiat...

Ie site uses usd eur and gbp... They install the bitshares plugin and enable it. Now people can pay via bitshares while no new currency has to be created.. They simply checkout with their curent fiat curency ie usd and pay in bitusd.. Once they select  to pay with bitshares the client is directed towards their bitshares wallet  to make the payment and a service monitors transactions on the blockchain and updates orders...



These ecomerce extensions will be a big step in attracting merchants to easily involve themselves with accepting bitshares assets without disrupting their backend processing or flow... Something not possible with bitcoin.

Edit:

Demo(Opencart): http://www.bitsharesdemo.com/opencart/
Src: https://github.com/sidhujag/bitshares-opencart/

Demo(WHMCS): http://www.bitsharesdemo.com/whmcs/
Src: https://github.com/sidhujag/bitshares-whmcs/

Demo(ECWid): http://bitshares.ecwid.com/
Src: https://github.com/sidhujag/bitshares-ecwid/

Demo(Zencart): http://www.bitsharesdemo.com/zencart/
Src: https://github.com/sidhujag/bitshares-zencart/

Demo(OSCommerce): http://www.bitsharesdemo.com/oscom/
Src: https://github.com/sidhujag/bitshares-oscommerce/

Demo(XCart): http://www.bitsharesdemo.com/xcart/
Src: https://github.com/sidhujag/bitshares-xcart/

Demo(Prestashop with Bitshares Login): http://www.bitsharesdemo.com/presta/
Src: https://github.com/sidhujag/bitshares-prestashop/
Src: https://github.com/sidhujag/bitshares-prestashop-login/

Demo(Magento): http://www.bitsharesdemo.com/magento/
Src: https://github.com/sidhujag/bitshares-magento/

Demo(drupal7 with Bitshares Login): http://www.bitsharesdemo.com/drupal7/
Src: https://github.com/sidhujag/bitshares-drupal7/
Src: https://github.com/sidhujag/bitshares-drupal7-login/

Demo(drupal6 with Bitshares Login): http://www.bitsharesdemo.com/drupal6/
Src: https://github.com/sidhujag/bitshares-drupal6/
Src: https://github.com/sidhujag/bitshares-drupal6-login/

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Technical Support / URI scheme?
« on: November 24, 2014, 06:38:36 pm »
Does bitshares toolkit support URI scheme's? ie: bitshares:\\address?amount=5&currency=bitUSD would open up bitshares with params passed as command line arguments?

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General Discussion / Providing good resources to learn about bitshares
« on: November 20, 2014, 06:01:19 pm »
Hi Guys,

I've been talking to two peers in my software team and been trying to convey the concept of the bitshares toolkit and a DAC/DAO or whatever. It seems there is not one page which sums up the entire ecosystem with the vision in mind. There should be a writeup which starts from the groundup and ties in ALL of the concepts together which will have a greater effect and this should be linked in, prominently right on our homepage of bitshares.org. (WHAT IS BITSHARES?) This can be also an infographic which shows how things work using images and examples analogous to concepts we know and use today.

As I tried to explain I found myself jumping around from topic to topic, each one I can spend 30 mins on alone as they would have profound effects if integrated into our societies.

I started off by explaining its a crypto-currency and how it compliments bitcoin, great there is a writeup of that here: http://wiki.bitshares.org/index.php/BitShares/Why_BitShares

I went how bitshares can replace crowdfunding, talking about how if someone wants to develop software or any kind of work that will aide in making life better for the environment that you can get voted in to do it, so the concept of delegate's, voting(and firing bad delegates here or those who don't do what they were voted in for), funding and developing all tie in here... was hard to explain these all at once.

I diverted to talk about how DAC's that are worked on by delegates will offer share's for their work and talked about the PTS/AGS consensus that were brought in from the initial IPO and how it will continue with future development. They can then sell those shares to fund their development, product. A decentralized funding mechanism tied to voting, sort of ties into our political system. So politicians are responsible for getting certain features implemented into the ecosystem and are voted in, they are funded and pay developers to develop such features. Only features that provide a direct/indirect benefit to shareholders get voted in. Ideas that are stupid to the majority don't happen.. society gains as we use the world's resources in a more efficient manor.

I found this writeup pretty good for SOME of the above concepts: http://bitshares.org/regulation-proof-self-funding-dacs/

It should be noted that any type of decentralized concepts should be driven home and things like turing complete scripts can be mentioned as a way to achieve true decentralization and what this means to our view of the world and how we live, really extrapolate here and make bold statements.

I then went into assets, earning interest and using bitshares as a replacement for stocks/bonds/currency transactions, and how it can replace stock market and the market peg:
http://wiki.bitshares.org/index.php/GettingStarted/ELI5

I didn't find any other resources to explain assets/stocks/bonds/currencies properly.

I ended off again stressing the new concepts of variable pay rates for delegates and voting leading to strong consensus driven development cycle's benefiting shareholders and increasing profits through feature's and transaction fee burning. Talked about a typical interest rate of 5-10% YoY to holding assets.

Can we come up with ONE place to put all of this and perhaps infographics? If we don't have anyone that can do them I can get those done just need the details.

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General Discussion / Prediction markets and/or marketplace DACs
« on: October 22, 2014, 08:41:17 pm »
Hi guys,

What's the status on prediction markets and/or marketplace DACs? I know of people working on these things for other projects, might make sense to collaborate to do in a DAC.

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