My "gut" tells me that crypto-diehards are looking for an easy to use ANONYMOUS currency and those of us that are freedom loving actually want and need this.  Our current lack of privacy is a turnoff to many in the crypto and banking world.

I would prefer a proposal which brings bitshares core anonymity up to the state of the art, instead of just an 'also ran':

https://github.com/ShenNoether/MiniNero/blob/master/RingCT0.1_copy.pdf

As mentioned here:

Privacy/anonymity consists of:

A. unlinkability (can't tell two transactions are to the same recipient): stealth (or just not reusing addresses)
B. untraceability (can't trace paths between tranasctions): ring signatures (or coinjoin, coinswap, though with many complications and hazards, etc.)
C. content privacy (can't see amount being spent): CT (or limited ambiguity of which outputs are change)

Bitshares with CT gives you A and C, but nothing at all for B. Monero gives you A and B, and somewhat C (via ambiguity of change outputs). Monero with ringCT will give A,B, and C, for a comprehensive solution.

Everything should now be resolved

What's the chain size in MB?

50% of trading fees are used to buy back METAFEES on the open market, thereby distributing our profits to METAFEES holders.

Ok so you basically pay for expenses "from your own pocket" is that right?
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50% fees go to METAFEES holders, 25% go to our referral partners, 25% goes to us to cover costs

Metaexchange service outage: ETA resume operations 1am GMT 16/11/2015

One of our ISPs has a service outage due to be resolved at 1am tomorrow morning, sorry for the inconvenience. Any orders placed now will be pending until that point.

I can create an blockchain.info account thanks
How can I get a METAFEES address on Openledger? I'm new to this stuff
I created an account on Openledger and I saw METAFEES on the assets page but how do I create an address?

Sorry for silly questions but i'm new to bitshares and don't really know how it works. 

No problem - you just need your account name on Openledger

Is it ok to send BTC from exchange to buy METAFEES?
or do i need to download bitcoin client send through it?

It helps to have your own refund address in case something goes wrong with the transfer; have you not got a blockchain.info account?

what do you mean demo liquidity?  If there's no cost to obtaining demo coins, providing liquidity is easy.

We struggle to get general liquidity on the DEX with the maximum number of bitshares users - how we will get anything usable on the demo network with a tiny subset of the userbase?