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General Discussion / Computation on the Blockchain- technical limitations?

« on: April 06, 2016, 04:06:43 pm »

I think it would be cool to see a project spring up that provides a substantial amount of computation on the blockchain(like a souped-up ethereum). to my novice computer-science aware mind, it seems like this could be done parallel blockchains that run a VM with perhaps other sidechains that could be spun up like threads, and the whole thing could have a ~1 millisecond block production time.

@abit
@theoreticalbts
@bytemaster

do you think such a project is feasible? would it be useful?
what do you think the limits of computation on the block-chain currently are?

General Discussion / Cheap actionable items

« on: March 12, 2016, 06:19:34 am »

work with exchanges to offer fastest funds transfers for any tokens, advertise this fact with the aim of influencing traders to consider bitshares their "home base".

This is voting season, let's have some fun polls on the blockchain and make shareholding fun again.

General Discussion / Roles

« on: March 09, 2016, 04:33:37 pm »

Bitcoin the reserve currency of virtual business, but it's main business is speculation on the future utility of virtual business. BTS, ETH, NXT are platforms for virtual business. ETH has gained first movers advantage and for good reason, its platform is incredible. I think a good and strategic use of development time would be to write interface to their api. That way when the next generation of virtual businesses take root, they can do so inside of the BTS ecosystem and still have access to Ether's VM. Also this would perform a marketing role, as it would cast BTS and ETH as allies and not opponents, while creating an impression of adaptability and inventiveness and possibly invite a friendly nod from ETH's capital.
Thoughts?

General Discussion / Cool Project CEPTR

« on: December 16, 2015, 12:03:19 am »

"Ceptr is a rebuild of much of the computing stack optimized for decentralized sense-making, computation and composability. This means semantics baked into the lowest levels of memory storage, self-describing protocols which let anything talk with anything else, blockchain-like abilities for decentralized data storage and computation."

http://ceptr.org/

http://ceptr.org/revelation/

https://github.com/zippy/ceptr

Stakeholder Proposals / Website front-end for bitshares

« on: May 05, 2015, 02:22:04 pm »

Basically, I'm proposing we build a social network. It would have built-in, value handling, namespace, voting, etc.

The bitshares tech stack behind it would allow for a lot of really interesting features. Features like contracts, transactions, banking, secure messaging, auctions, reputation system, voting, lending, escrow..... done securely over P2P

it could be branded on multiple levels for different users, kind of like stack exchange, but configurable and programmable with graph queries which bring about a specific subset of users which form individual 'sites', or whatever else.

Overall, it's architecture would be like Facebook, with likes, comments, walls, feeds, pages, friend requests, etc. It would just be very potent in the variety of ways you can easily interact with other entities on the network.

I would call it Joint.ly

would anyone want like to collaborate to make this happen?

If it's already in the works, great!, I'd love to help out :-)

General Discussion / Meatware v0.1.1

« on: May 04, 2015, 06:25:07 pm »

Hi community :-).

Just chiming in with some thoughts as to how things are going.

First, I would like to suggest that some re-framing is in order. Along these dimensions.

1. The bitcoin ecosystem.
bitcoin has been around for a while, it's ideas disseminated, it's value sustained. Meaning I believe that the space in which bitcoin tech inhabits is now less frontier, and more utilitarian. Meaning for Bit-shares is that something that works needs to be delivered in order to stay relevant in the space. Further, it needs to work for something in the world that is a tangible problem. Ripple is leading the pack on this, which is why it has sustained no.2 market status. Both Bitcoin and Ripple cast large shadows in terms of what markets are out there that Bit-shares could easily take dominance in.

2. Survival
This is dangerous territory. What bit-shares does while in danger, needs to be correct, else it will be devoured. These decisions about who will develop it, what it should do and how, how much of itself can it print, are all vital now. It would not take much to trip it up

3.Timeline
Along with the change in the bitcoin ecosystem, the manic nature and the absurd rate of change are both diminished now. It is now possible to make a reasonable long-termed plan, based on information that has reasonable odds of staying true.

4. How to invest.
It seems to me that the a lot of help is needed on solving Bit-share's essential problems, vs having people hold it's tokens.

Second, I would like to introduce an Idea. Meat-ware so to speak.

What if it was Just acknowledged that Bit-shares was more of a human-computational hybrid, and that emphasis needs to be put on how to run as a business is run? The Bit-shares service is a lot more like a regular company than other crypto-currencies. With that, I believe, comes the necessity to adhere to a company-like architecture on the administrative side. This might involve hiring some people for a diverse set of jobs. Just organizing the talent, delegating the tasks, and incentivising the people that have been drawn to surround it, would do a lot for Bit-shares as a company, as a service, and as a protocol.

Things I like lately.

1 the Bit-shares chamber of commerce.

2. the idea of long-term vested interest as a form of payment.

3. the price support at 1/3¢

General Discussion / Looking to become a programmer, insight appreciated!

« on: April 11, 2015, 08:04:44 pm »

Hi community :-) I've recently decided to renew my study of computer programming, and I'm looking for some opinions to help guide my way.

Which languages are worth learning?

Do I need a degree to land a job in the field?

if so, what type of program is best?

which ones are crap?

and to the devs of bitshares, what path did you guys take to become programmers?

Thanks in advance for any responses. :-)

Technical Support / I'm having trouble with the latest version of the bitshares wallet. (v0.4.27.2)

« on: January 09, 2015, 09:22:43 pm »

Hi there community,

I'm hoping someone here can help me out. I just cannot get the latest version of the bitshares wallet to run properly. First I ran into the problem where the wallet told me I already had an instance running. I followed the fix for that and the wallet worked for a short time. Next, the wallet app seized up while syncing, then the memory usage ballooned up to about 1.5 gigs, and now the app freezes on the loading screen and then just disappears after a while and nothing else happens.

I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium.

Are these problems common? Are there fixes?

I've tried resetting the database, re-installing the app, and clearing the blockchain, none of it works. :-(

General Discussion / Direct mail- old-school marketing

« on: November 18, 2014, 10:01:16 pm »

Idea: Use a direct-mail campaign to bring in new users to bitshares.

Start with a small budget to test the response.

Use a sleek, simple, post-card-like mailer that makes it easy to redeem $1-5 dollars in bitUSD. Clear, attractive branding. Straightforward mission statement. Offer should expire and be redeemed by bitshares after a time to avoid wasting capital.

Operation could target several segments, perhaps: 27-35 year old democrats, people who lost money in the housing bubble, ambitious college students, foreigners in bleak economic climates, digital subscription users, etc.

Should target potential savers or people who might spread the word.

What do you think?

General Discussion / What are some ways that Banks can be cut out of capital flows?

« on: October 30, 2014, 04:34:41 am »

Moving money always seems to involve a bank. How could the whole process be made peer-to-peer? I imagine some sort of nebulous cloud of users sending money to each other using darknets, reputation systems, secure messaging, ripple, bitshares, and bitcoin.

Would it be feasible to design a social-networking/secure messaging/reputation system/ledger DAC that could facilitate a nebulized exchange of value?

The hardest part of trying to do this would be trying to protect the exit nodes. How would you do it? Cash in the mail? checks from burner LLCs? burner banks?

The only form of money that is not lorded over by banks is cash.

General Discussion / Possible use case: bitUSD backend for centralized exchange

« on: October 29, 2014, 01:14:08 am »

Justcoin is shutting down, citing banking issues. Would it be possible to use the bitUSD as the backend for a centralized exchange? Liberating the exchanges from banks would make it easier to run an exchange by orders of magnitude.
so..

How close are we to having fluid ways in/out of bitUSD?
Is the Bitshares platform ready for such a usage case?
if not how soon?

KeyID / Questions for Toast

« on: October 26, 2014, 12:21:18 am »

Hey Toast,

What domain namespace will BTS be managing?

If development on DNS continued, could DNS compete with BTS since it's function is different, it doesn't need bitUSD, and one DAC can only manage one namespace?

Would it be possible to give a DNS style DAC multiple blockchains so it could manage multiple namespaces?

Just wondering.

General Discussion / Bitshares Simplification Ideas

« on: October 25, 2014, 06:32:26 pm »

Hello :-) I wanted to see if anyone out there had ideas for how to streamline the new Bitshares, and also I'd like to share some ideas i've had. In my opinion the key to adoption is simplicity. We need to provide people with certainty and cognitive ease when using our product. We should be striving to project a zen-like simplicity, a Feng shui of sorts.

So, since there are so many aspects to the new Bitshares, what if we made a "Use Bitshares As" function like in Facebook.

What if we dropped the "bit" in bitUSD? just a simple thing so simple users don't have to define a distinction between bitUSD and USD. maybe it could be .USD or bitbucks or just dollars (a dollar is a unit of measure). Just a thought.

Also it might be cool if someone created a pegged asset that was tied to the value of a dollar in 2014. That way people who want to hedge have something even more stable than the dollar or gold. There is some South-American country that has a unit like that Chile maybe? I can't remember.

what if we wrote in futures contracts?