Quote from: inarizushi on October 09, 2014, 10:06:33 pm

And it seems to me that in the cryptoworld, people are very ready to change : the network effect is clearly not the same as for IRL objects. You can't change your samsung into an Iphone, so once you bought it, you're fucked. It's not the same at all for cryptos. People have no reason to be faithful.

I think you are underestimating the extent to which people treat their choice of crypto as a religion.   For most bitcoiners, bitcoin is the way, the truth, and the light, and everything else is a shitcoin scam. 

Network effect and being first matters.


For this reason, I think the bitshares marketing plan to market to and onboard new people who ARENT currently interested in any crypto is an excellent one!  If they can successfully get a lot of new people who currently know nothing about crypto to look at and use bitUSD and buy BTSX, then we will be in great shape!

Brian, you've described bizdev activities or  "business development".  What is the marketing plan?   

Do you think Bizdev (strategic partnerships and personal relationships) and Marketing (messaging) are the same thing?

As for transparency, we are not sharing all the details of how or where we're going to get all the new users we expect to see into our system, or precisely what we are doing, for obvious reasons.  No one in the industry is doing what we are attempting to do
Thanks! B

Quote from: bitmarket on October 08, 2014, 03:30:57 pm

Thanks guys.   We need some more reddit upvotes if anyone has not yet voted.  Getting to 25 upvotes is the difference between front page and not.  That is the difference between 10,000 views like my last video and 1,000 views.

Click here http://www.bitsharesblocks.com/charts and scroll down to total number of accounts.  Unless there was some parrallel marketing event that I was unaware of that bump in new accounts on the 18th of September was a result of my previous video getting on the front page of reddit.

So click here and up vote on reddit if you have not already.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2inqi5/what_are_the_best_ways_to_hedge_bitcoin/

If you do not have a reddit account, get one.  We will need your votes for all future videos as well.

Really like this approach.  You start out explaining a problem, some different solutions and the obviously superior features of the BitShares solution follows naturally from the discussion.

Up voted on Reddit.

Quote from: bytemaster on October 05, 2014, 03:16:49 pm

Quote from: trader on October 05, 2014, 02:38:43 pm

Btw its best not to mention inactivity fees in your next video It makes everyone worried and I think Bytemaster cancelled the idea anyway.

I still think inactivity fees on at least BTSX are REALLY important to have for more voter involvement and thus better DPOS security. I would hate to see them not implemented. BTSX holders are shareholders and they have certain important responsibilities. If they want to be lazy they should hoard BitAssets.

Edit: Or alternatively implement BTSX dividends the way you implement BitAsset yields. That way we can deny dividends to anyone who hasn't moved their funds for more than a year. Either way we need some economic motivation for people to update their votes.

Quote from: MeTHoDx on October 06, 2014, 03:12:38 pm

Quote from: Empirical1.1 on October 05, 2014, 07:16:20 pm

No not imo. I like the general strategy here & I see the value of pegged assets for that market but there's also significant negative mainstream PR & other blowback risk - Think public perception of Bitcoin & Silk Road + other outcomes. However BitAssets are out in the wild so nothing to stop other people using and integrating them.

I see your point but lets not forget the entire Bitcoin community is behind OpenBazaar. For the time being, it doesn't have a negative stigma; quite the opposite actually. All I3 has to do is make it easy for BitUSD to be integrated into an OB merchant node. That means improving multisig and eliminating any other obstacles that may get in the way. Once that's out of the way...

a) We crowdfund the necessary development.

OR

b) An I3 dev anonymously commits the code on GitHub.

We can actually avoid all negative backlash if we frame this as "BitUSD allows OpenBazaar to attract non-drug users because they're the only people willing to put up with Bitcoins volatility". And it's true. OpenBazaar needs our product (or our competitors) if they want mainstream adoption and we need a solid showcase if WE want mainstream adoption. The good vastly outweighs the bad.

There it is.