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General Discussion / Re: A Rose by Any Other Name
« on: March 09, 2014, 03:39:13 pm »
Great article! Very well written
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General Discussion / Re: [Proposal] Bounty for First Third Party AGS/PTS Honoring DAC
« on: March 08, 2014, 05:32:25 pm »I don't quite get this discussion. The AGS funding was all sent in voluntarily based on trust that the BitShares team would use it efficiently to build the DAC ecosystem. Part of that trust is that the team would be receptive to the best ideas from the community, but which are best is subjective and determined by those with the private keys. If community members wanted to keep direct ultimate control of these funds, they shouldn't given up control of them in the first place. Pressuring those entrusted with these funds by the community to give direct control of a portion to a subset of the community against their better judgement would turn this into a redistribution platform rather than voluntary trust based stewardship.
There's a massive reward for building a truly successful DAC and being one of the earliest investors in it. Any sort of artificial reward based on contrived standards of success only incentivizes faking success well enough to meet the standards.
ANGELshares. I think it's important to uphold the perspective that AGS are voluntary angel investments because one believes in the future work of the Invictus team.
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General Discussion / Re: DACIndex.com now live
« on: March 07, 2014, 10:49:37 pm »
Who is this "we" that you speak of? I have read every one of Adam's posts, and although they contain some very interesting, informed and provocative ideas, I could not feel any less like leaving this community. In fact, the opposite, the complaining and fighting over the past few days has put a few areas and issues into better perspective for me personally, and now I want to contribute more actually as I have appreciated the responses from Invictus and their stance on these important matters.
This.
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General Discussion / Re: [Proposal] Bounty for First Third Party AGS/PTS Honoring DAC
« on: March 07, 2014, 09:10:11 pm »By advertising on LTBLike Nxt? It's not good enough. We need personal interview with him.
Agreed. Every time the NXT update commercial comes on, my brain shuts off; its just not... captivating. I'm really looking forward to the interviews coming out of the Texas conference.
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General Discussion / Educational Platform / I don't know what I don't know
« on: March 07, 2014, 08:22:09 pm »
I've been reading and hearing about an upcoming educational platform for all things crypto-currency related and I'm really excited about that. I might also suggest that perhaps some material covering the specific economics as related to the mechanics of BitShares would be appropriate too. Maybe even some focus on the basics of philosophical Libertarianism?
As I've been lurking and reading on the forums since November - I've only recently found myself becoming more and more interested, and active. But, I can't help but feel I have a disadvantage when it comes to an overall understanding in economics and computer science (mechanical engineer... I wrote a program in python once though, so I got that going for me..).
Daniel - I know you consider yourself a self-taught Austrian Economist. Can you (or anyone for that matter) point me in the right direction to resources, noteworthy historical figures, or any other materials where I can cultivate and mature my understanding of economics to better contribute to, and promote, BitShares? I too - am an entrepreneur, and have been looking for the next emerging industry I want to pour my obsessive focus into. I'm pretty sure this is it.
I want to learn. What are the things I need to know?
As I've been lurking and reading on the forums since November - I've only recently found myself becoming more and more interested, and active. But, I can't help but feel I have a disadvantage when it comes to an overall understanding in economics and computer science (mechanical engineer... I wrote a program in python once though, so I got that going for me..).
Daniel - I know you consider yourself a self-taught Austrian Economist. Can you (or anyone for that matter) point me in the right direction to resources, noteworthy historical figures, or any other materials where I can cultivate and mature my understanding of economics to better contribute to, and promote, BitShares? I too - am an entrepreneur, and have been looking for the next emerging industry I want to pour my obsessive focus into. I'm pretty sure this is it.
I want to learn. What are the things I need to know?
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General Discussion / Re: Long Term, Outcome Oriented Five Year DAC Bounty proposal
« on: March 07, 2014, 03:58:58 pm »Of course its always risky doing math in public, but you get the general idea. AGS holders will get so liquid they can go for a swim.
Stan - I can't help but love your posts, I always get a good chuckle and smile.
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General Discussion / Re: Brian Page quote completes NY Times article on Satoshi
« on: March 07, 2014, 03:48:13 pm »"A company called Bitshares." Excellent.
At least that wasn't on Brian.
What was actually quoted was a great response.
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General Discussion / Re: T-shirts/swag ideas
« on: March 07, 2014, 03:01:41 pm »Positive time!
I think the last iteration swag doesn't appeal to the types of people you would find at bitcoin conferences. In a recent conversation, another forumite gave these characteristics:Quote-95%+ predominantly male
-higher education than average
-at the very least they already know about bitcoin and probably have general idea of the implications of blockchain technologies and decentralized systems
-have philosophical and political views that align more with libertarian and anarchist perspectives
-more than likely have a monetary incentive; or some variation of self-interest
My opinion is that you need a clean, simple t-shirt design with a company or product logo and your favorite from among these:
* Decentralize Everything
* Decentralized Solutions to Centralized Problems
* BitShares X: Decentralized Bank and Exchange
* BitShares ___: _______
* Life, Liberty, Property
* Reimagine Everything, with some visual aid to tell you what kind of things to reimagine
Agreed!
However, I personally find **Reimagine Everything** slightly... confusing. It's an absolutely correct statement, but I think the context may be a bit too broad - especially for someone unfamiliar with the mechanics of BitShares and the implications of its potential.
Perhaps drilling down a little more specific, while still being broad:
"What economics should be."
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General Discussion / This picture... WHAT THE FUCK Brian Page.
« on: March 06, 2014, 11:11:14 pm »
Edit: double post
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General Discussion / Re: This picture... WHAT THE FUCK Brian Page.
« on: March 06, 2014, 11:10:08 pm »
Actually it does look legit - I just saw the I3 team wearing the "keep calm" shirts in pictures on the FB page
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General Discussion / Re: Texas Bitcoin Conference
« on: March 06, 2014, 10:11:27 pm »Looking forward to hear more about the event, how was BitShares received by the audience, interesting meetings, news etc! Thanks
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General Discussion / Re: This picture... WHAT THE FUCK Brian Page.
« on: March 06, 2014, 10:03:39 pm »
Ermagerd is right.
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Meta / Re: New DACs on Forum
« on: March 06, 2014, 06:14:18 pm »
Also list Social as childboard under General Discussion.
I'm willing to help out in the social media department.
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Marketplace / Re: 50 PTS - Lets Talk Bitcoin Radio Ad Bounty [ACTIVE]
« on: March 06, 2014, 12:18:20 pm »
I've got some ideas brewing for writing a script, if anyone wants to collaborate, PM me.
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General Discussion / [Proposal] BitShares-related-community-micro-tasks, for marketing, et al.
« on: March 05, 2014, 10:04:59 pm »
This idea was spawned from the recent "Priorities & Marketing" & "Bitcointalk Presence" threads; and comments made by toast specifically in regards to community-driven marketing:
What if a site were to be set up similar to http://bitcoinget.com/task for micro-tasks needed for marketing? My hypothesis is this could result in a single location for small, incentivized tasks to be carried out by the BitShares community. i.e. upvoting reddit posts, liking Facebook posts, creating tweets, checking spelling on sites, creating hashtags, memes, slogans, etc. etc. Perhaps the payment for each task could be approved in some sort of mult-sig authorization like toast proposed??
The problem I'm trying to address is for people like myself Those who want to help out as much as possible but don't have the computer science experience for coding projects, have a full time job, or other time/skill-constraining limitations. However, I do have time during my lunch break at work, or when I get home, to take care of a few small tasks - but searching through the forums and identifying something that can be done is incredibly inefficient. So a single location where people can go to assist in tasks that would not be as technical as bountiful bounties, to me - would make some sense. ..Maybe all tasks are at the sub-PTS level?
What do you guys think? Could this potentially be a DAC that handles all the transactions??
Just thinking out loud here.
What if a site were to be set up similar to http://bitcoinget.com/task for micro-tasks needed for marketing? My hypothesis is this could result in a single location for small, incentivized tasks to be carried out by the BitShares community. i.e. upvoting reddit posts, liking Facebook posts, creating tweets, checking spelling on sites, creating hashtags, memes, slogans, etc. etc. Perhaps the payment for each task could be approved in some sort of mult-sig authorization like toast proposed??
The problem I'm trying to address is for people like myself Those who want to help out as much as possible but don't have the computer science experience for coding projects, have a full time job, or other time/skill-constraining limitations. However, I do have time during my lunch break at work, or when I get home, to take care of a few small tasks - but searching through the forums and identifying something that can be done is incredibly inefficient. So a single location where people can go to assist in tasks that would not be as technical as bountiful bounties, to me - would make some sense. ..Maybe all tasks are at the sub-PTS level?
What do you guys think? Could this potentially be a DAC that handles all the transactions??
Just thinking out loud here.
