lol, I took the bait

You can't crowdhire yourself.....the crowd has to hire you

I do like the 'Crowdhiring, yeah its a thing' slogan, and it fits with the rest of the logo.  Crowdhire yourself is an oxymoron, and IMO, sounds dumb saying it.

The best female spokesperson would be cute, sexy, and nerdy.  The girl you want to marry, not the girl you call after midnight.  More like the women on G4, and less like the women of GoDaddy. Obviously the wine drinking was just a harmless, fun intro, and not a serious marketing production.  I think she fits the bill.  Welcome aboard Stacey.

Guys, the OP has enthusiastically shown support for BitShares.  Can we welcome him properly and not beat him down with trivial arguments over semantics??

thx all for your input… we are discussing all ideas now ... but i pls stay tuned next days...
i'll discussing with devs the content for dev section, like API etc... next days,
so we can get multistage content direction asap …

TRADERS MERCHANTS DEVELOPERS

I really like the TRADERS MERCHANTS DEVELOPERS landing page idea.  Don't be afraid of taking up too much menu space - the more I know about the actors in the system, the quicker I can evaluate it.  There should also be a Menu item for CUSTOMERS or INVESTORS or SAVERS or something that the average bitAsset user (who wants no part in risky activity) can identify with.  A How it Works section can then tie together each actors role into a clearer picture.

Quote from: sschechter on November 19, 2014, 06:53:05 pm

I think the practical reality is that markets don't care about inflation the way Austrian economists / goldbugs think it should.  This community as a whole has already realized that, even though it goes against many of our core beliefs.

I think the market already reacted violently negative to the BTS dilution.  In fact, I think it massively overreacted by assigning a 50% drop to an inflation of a few percent a year, probably only a couple percent.   This is a massive over-reaction in my opinion, but I think it is the result of all the investors out there having absolutely no idea whatsoever what was happening, how much the inflation would be, etc. 

I think had we only decided to dilute for delegate pay, the selloff would be minimal.  The whole consolidation and sharedropping led to much uncertainty, panic, and frustration.

I think the practical reality is that markets don't care about inflation the way Austrian economists / goldbugs think it should.  This community as a whole has already realized that, even though it goes against many of our core beliefs.

I think he meant that the USD/bitUSD ratio oscillates around a ratio of 1:1.  However, this doesn't factor in the volatility.  If today you get 1.10:1 and tomorrow its .90:1, that's a huge spread. It also doesn't imply that the average ratio is 1:1 - you need to calculate the price over time so see where its average is.  Even though most of the us here know the difference between the peg vs the spread, its a tricky thing to explain to outsiders.  Going with what toast has started, I think you can measure the effectiveness of the peg as following:

1. USD/bitUSD ratio that oscillates around a 1:1 ratio
2. An average price of $1.00 over any given slice of time (within reasonable min & max bounds...that the traders holding period fits inside)

If these conditions are met, the variance of the 1:1 ratio can be attributed to the spread - the size of which is determined by the liquidity of the market. Then what toast said about market making is true.  I think he missed my bolded point.