I'm trying to find out how much it will cost to get an Indonesian translation as my brother lives out there....  I'll get back when I know more.

Don't forget trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent
WEBELOS!

Ha, absolutely ken......although I should probably add that of course we can't as individuals be all these amazing things all the time and it would be boring if we were.  The odd fracas and passionate debate is inevitable and healthy.  Also, i'm afraid I didn't make it into the shower this morning so I hope cleanish is acceptable for today.....

Quote from: DataSecurityNode on October 04, 2015, 08:19:36 pm

Quote from: godzirra on October 04, 2015, 08:08:47 pm

Personally I appreciate every peek into what's going on behind the scenes. I want all the info I can get. For better or for worse. I can temper my own expectations.

And a "peak" is the right word for it.. there is plenty more that just hasn't been announced on the forum.

To be blunt.. with some of the toxic demanding entitled attitudes that surround this forum, I don't blame any company who doesn't want to have their names made the play things of some characters here. Stan does his best to edify and be welcoming... but it is almost inevitable that the mobs first response is to demand name changes, get shared dropped, and tell them how they should be running their business to name just a few. Even I have gotten caught up in this backwards culture at times. Don't expect this forum to be where announcements are made in the future. Expect to see them first in Reuters and the like.

Any real company with real business plans shouldn't give a shit about what this community thinks or posts on this forum

Hahahahaha! Well that's an interesting point of view.

How about keep things quiet and not start more speculative bullshit. If it actually happens then talk.

OR this thread was designed to pump BTS

Working on developments and having an open discourse, despite the ill informed trolling and occasional attempts to manipulate the stupid, is one of this community's greatest strengths. Please try to join in constructively or just come back in 3-5 yrs once things are less interesting and more stable.

This is absolutely brilliant work and will help BitShares not only to reach more people, but also with political diversification.

Good luck guys! 

A good platform is the foundation to anything built upon, operating within it or reasoned from it....  For example a building needs a solid foundation, water is a universal medium in which biological processes take place and logic is the foundation to thought.  If the platform is sound, you can expect predictable and stable results.  That does not mean that everything coming after will work or be suitable, in fact over time, the platform may become unfit for purpose or present limiting factors. 

A platform might have a highly specific purpose and fulfill that function extremely well but will have no potential for changing it's scope......like a foundation designed for a two-storey building.  If you continue to build upwards, the foundation and building will fail.  The better the understanding of what you are building, the better the platform you are building is likely to be.

Water is a medium in which a plethora of biological processes can occur.  However, the processes have evolved in ways that are perhaps limited by the medium in which they must occur.  The fact that life is amazing speaks to the suitability and flexibility of water as a platform or foundation for building complexity.

BitShares is being consciously built and a great deal of thought has gone into it's design to make sure it is fit for purpose.  What purpose does BitShares attempt to fulfill that would make it a suitable platform?  It is a set of transparent, peer reviewed rules for managing and recording the exchange of digital information.  The nature of information and what we do with it requires us to TRUST that the information can be sent when and to whomever we choose, that the information will be identical between source and recipient and that the record of that information can never be altered.  BitShares, mindful of being an information exchange network that endures, seeks also to remain adaptable.  In order to maintain trust, there are rules for how the rules can be adjusted.  All of these rules ensure that over time, the platform can be trusted to resist changes that interfere with the core expectations of participants.

Other features of BitShares that make it suitable as a digital information exchange and record keeping platform are it's tx speed, ability to scale, software building tools, security, sufficient decentralization, transparency, support of personal privacy, utility as money, contract execution capabilities, ability to fund development.....etc etc.

Any project hoping to be such a platform must have rules and governance that inspire TRUST first, then maximum utility (a broad, scalable feature set) second.