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General Discussion / Re: BitSharesTV #5 2015: The year of the decentralized bitcoin exchange
« on: January 05, 2015, 08:01:48 pm »
Front page of /r/bitcoin on a high traffic day. This is cool.
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General Discussion / BitSharesTV #5 2015: The year of the decentralized bitcoin exchange
« on: January 05, 2015, 09:15:18 am »
I think we should really push this theme in 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtCVRIwcBYU&index=1&list=PLjgfpSQFJTLqbgHm8mkgPdD-ma7t0bRhK
Hopefully Toast got my message and will post this to redit tomorrow morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtCVRIwcBYU&index=1&list=PLjgfpSQFJTLqbgHm8mkgPdD-ma7t0bRhK
Hopefully Toast got my message and will post this to redit tomorrow morning.
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General Discussion / Re: Why I am an Austrian Economist [BLOG POST]
« on: January 04, 2015, 09:21:12 am »I don't think you have insulted Roger Ver and Erik Vorhees yet. Perhaps you can call their wives fat in your next blog post and then all influential bitcoin leaders will be motivated to see bitshares fail.
Your seriously killing me right now.
I took out the criticism of their economic perspective out of respect for your opinion. I certainly tried very hard to attack the ideas and not the people, but obviously not everyone is able to separate an idea from their ego and thus could see this as a personal attack.
I could actually tell you were trying. I suffer from the same.... I am going to call it "I would rather be right than happy" syndrome as you, that is why it is so easy for me to spot. It is actually quite ironic given the post on subjective value.
I know you are right in that you attacked the argument.... but without understanding the normal persons perspective and how they value their ego, you won't be happy. In this case happy means getting the support of the entire bitcoin community so they are cheering for us in the same way they are cheering for open bazaar or Maidsafe.
Our technology is better.... We are right... but far too many people would rather see us fail because of this problem.
I think you are the smartest guy in crypto, but you are holding yourself back a lot with this little people skills thing.
I certainly do not mean to be condescending but if you own this learning, and make this correction in your mindset, instead of begrudgingly changing your post out of "respect for my opinion" you will notice the difference immediately. It will feel like the tide has turned and all of a sudden bitshares is swimming with the current.
Btw, I think Vitalik is like us and won't even think there was an insult in what you said, but his legion of loyal followers will think your a dick and cheer our demise and not our success.
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General Discussion / Re: Why I am an Austrian Economist [BLOG POST]
« on: January 04, 2015, 07:54:15 am »
I don't think you have insulted Roger Ver and Erik Vorhees yet. Perhaps you can call their wives fat in your next blog post and then all influential bitcoin leaders will be motivated to see bitshares fail.
Your seriously killing me right now.
Your seriously killing me right now.
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General Discussion / Re: [pre-ann] New BitUSD store, looking for feedback
« on: January 04, 2015, 07:30:00 am »
That is great. I bought the desktop image and it is a great experience.
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General Discussion / Re: Prediction: By March we will be in pos #3 on coint marketcap.
« on: January 04, 2015, 06:48:36 am »My prediction: Ethereum is launched around march and will reach $100 million, putting it in the number 3 spot.
I cant see Ethereum launching in Q1 and maybe not even Q2. Not that I have any information at all. I just know tech never launches on time.
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General Discussion / Prediction: By March we will be in pos #3 on coint marketcap.
« on: January 03, 2015, 10:29:25 pm »
Just thought I would throw it out there for fun. What do you think?
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General Discussion / Re: About Bitshares and the Network Effect - A call to arms.
« on: January 01, 2015, 11:41:37 pm »We have a user base (roughly 30,000 to 60,000 users based on bitsharesblocks data, 30k in the qt and 30k on bter/btc38/etc dont quote me on this and dont go to much into detail about this part its the useless part)
The part that matter is this (A call to arms):
Our network effect is not growing rapidly it user accounts are about 300 - 600 a month on the qt. We need the network effect to expand, we need a general advertising campaign BARING the fact that we do not have a blockchain.info type site. We need the snowball effect to occur. Once this happens we will be able to spearhead Ethereum, because frankly, our network effect may be thwarted if we do not act and act quickly.
I understand that 1.0.0 is coming out in Feb 2015 but means only 1 month before Ethereum is planning to come out. How do we gain traction if we have only 1 month before our biggest and our Goliath competitor comes out.
We need traction now! As Chairman Mao (a bad person) once said "Let a hundred flowers blossom" we need 100 paid delegates and now. It doesnt matter if they are not so skilled or so good we have the power to vote them out if they are not good. But we need 100 paid 100% delegates who are screaming at the roof tops "Hey over there come join the revolution, we are going to have all the money in the world, come over here!"
Somewhat agreed. We now have plenty of
bitshares.tv episodes
Bytemasters blog posts
bitcoin101 book, and
other items we can direct people too.
It is time to start spending some dollars on traffic. True, that without a web wallet or on/off ramp it will not be a great bang for buck, but urgency is a reality. Of course spending a bunch of bts on clicks means a lot of bts getting liquidated and driving the price down.
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General Discussion / Re: New Management of BitShares.org and Social Media
« on: January 01, 2015, 09:08:24 pm »How about a free copy of Bitshares 101 when people download the software? :-)
I am open to that.
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General Discussion / Re: Year End Developer Bonuses
« on: January 01, 2015, 02:47:21 pm »
What?? Not one person bitching and moaning? It almost like all these people from all over the world have a unifying goal and shared vision. That shit is powerful.
Well done everyone. 2015 is going to be epic.
Well done everyone. 2015 is going to be epic.
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General Discussion / Re: Please, avoid sexism in your (public) writing.
« on: December 31, 2014, 06:44:07 pm »Hi,
Equality and being inclusive is part of the bitshares that attracts many.
Yet, for example, a developer is often referred to as 'he' and 'his'.
Although, you might consider it as reflective,
it can easily become 'projective' as in the latest newsletter:QuoteAn artist can either go to iTunes or Spotify where he is just another drop in the ocean or he can come to PeerTracks where we can pretty much guarantee he will be listened to by a ton of incentivized users looking for a future star.
... the artist can up-sell his fans ...
thus excluding half of human population and violating equality and inclusive ideals of bitshares and scaring people off.
Some practices to avoid sexism:
1) use plural pronouns: "The developers have dreams. They want to bring equality to people."
2) use 'he or she': "A developer may easily be hired by the bitshares blockchain. He or she just need to ..."
Thanks.
Where is the vomit icon when you need it?
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General Discussion / Re: HolyTransaction loves BitShares
« on: December 31, 2014, 06:33:56 pm »Dear community,
My name is Francesco Simonetti and together with Nickolay Babenko and Andrey Zamovskiy we are co-founders of HolyTransaction.com , universal multicurrency wallet.
We started with the development for the integration of BitUSD as a deposit method.
We are looking for a 100% pay delegate to fund development of a BitShares Gateway.
Delegate funds will initially be used to pay a developer to implement bitUSD.
I started the Italian Public Chat for BitShares with Spartako
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=10286.0
Inspired by Stan's article, you can decrypt this story to spread the message of the blockchain era
http://www.bitcoinista.org/post/77172267406/bitcoin-e-le-tre-leggi-della-robotica
Short term goals are:
- Enable bitUSD deposits
- Have On/Off ramp with Bitcoin and supported cryptocurrencies
- Have On/Off ramp with EUR
Then 50% funds will be used to give a signup bonus (10 bitUSD) for all new customers who make their first bitUSD or bitcoin purchase.
We have bigger plans for BitShares in Europe.
Please, feel free to ask any questions.
Thanks
Francesco
Hi Darbon,
I love the initiative. Can you give us some more details please?
1. What is your and other team members experience/age/bio?
2. What connections do you have that will help you achieve your goals.
3. What banking relationship do you have? Is it Italian? Does the bank allow incoming and outgoing international wires. Why have you chosen them?
4. Do you have any website or infrastructure built?
Once again congrats on the great initiative and best of luck.
5. What is your timeline?
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General Discussion / Re: Bitshares tv video on reddit
« on: December 31, 2014, 03:26:32 am »
Front page. Well done guys.
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General Discussion / Re: Is there a new working faucet?
« on: December 30, 2014, 11:50:32 pm »It is built in to client now if you have 0 balance.
In the current client?
