I believe there was a budget document/page published somewhere about what was funded, donations received, VC received etc.
Struggling to find this.

I am looking to use it to try and work out a tangible value for the work completed thus far.

I was looking at how the fees worked on UIAs.
I see that a token can get transferred back to the issuer through transaction fees paid.

However, what if the issuer wants to take the token out of existence on receiving it.
Or simply remove tokens the issuer issued to himself thereby reducing the number of issued tokens.

Is this possible to do?

EDIT: I see the option to 'reserve asset'. Is this the equivalent of burning/destroying it?

I have not been following this very well.
Can anyone point me to a thread where this was discussed?
What was the outcome?

EDIT: thanks for the feedback, the information has been used in compiling a report 

Hi guys,

I am looking to set up a fund raiser of sorts for the start up I work for.
Below are a few of the technical things we would need help with.
If you are interested please quote in bitUSD the amount you would expect in remuneration.

Please understand that I am just getting a feel for costing and whether or not we move forward with this is dependable on a number of factors.

We would want someone with a decent Bitshares community reputation.

For now, just ball park quotes/scientific wild ass guesses are fine (more accurate estimates can be requested at a later stage). The work is to be done after Bitshares 2.0 release.

Thanks!   

1. Arbitrage trading bots that place and manage orders based on external price feeds from JSE OR NASDAQ. Basically we would like bots that would be able to manage trade orders based on external price feed data.

2. Bitshares client with control over the MPAs and UIAs that are displayed (this would be a nice-to-have and not an essential).

3. Assistance with issuance of UIAs.

4. Assistance with setting up dynamic account permissions and maintaining a secure wallet, cold storage of funds.

Can I purchase bitUSD and share drop it on users in proportion to how much of a particular UIA they have (akin to providing dividends)?

Alternatively, can I share drop a second UIA on users in proportion to how much of a particular other UIA they have (more indirect way of providing dividends)?

Also can I halt markets/prevent trading of a UIA I control (e.g if I want to do a share split I may want to prevent people from trading for an hour while the split is executed)?

boom! 3 questions, who has the answers 

1. I start up a service where I issue a UIA for dollar deposits 

2. I set up a transaction fee of 1% 

3. People can now make transfers to each other using the UIA (just like paypal) 

However, no one users my service because users have to pay 1% whereas if they pay via credit card they pay often pay 0% (the merchant pays 3%) 

Bitshares offers a feature where you can allow the receiver (the merchant) to pay the transaction fee 

Now merchant pays 1% instead of 3% and users have a cool payment app (which merchants would inventive users to use) 

I have made an attempt at comparing fundamentals of Bitshares and Bitcoin when viewing both cryptocurrencies as DACs.

The maths and thinking involved is explained in this paper I wrote (which is largely based on Daniel and Stan Larimer's ideas). Can be found here:
http://bitpaper.info/paper/5664248772427776

I have done this in an open Google spread sheet for anyone to change and edit:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Zd8gyzZqWz1uSbj2kTmGHYj2pNYaSI7KNoEJzo_WQMg/edit?usp=sharing

Here is another copy of the same which I have made un-editable in case the above breaks.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y9MlbSYXTb4VgUaACIQrLgefAUPpsYXJjUzW2AmE_PE/edit?usp=sharing

I have made some serious SWAGs when it came to Bitshares, but hopefully it can give us a wild ball park. SWAGs obtained from bitsharesblocks.com. An awesome website, but could not extract data from it the way I could for blockchain.info. Maybe soon 

Please feel free to edit and leave your comments regarding maths errors I may have made or thoughts on differing philosophies regarding how to calculate the metrics.

My main findings:

BITCOIN
Annual share inflation (YTD):   10.52%
Price/EPS (P/E ratio):   -7.8
Return on Equity:   -12.8%
Operating expense ratio (expenses/earnings):   278.4


BITSHARES
Annual share inflation (annualized): 1.275%
Price/EPS (P/E ratio):   -12.0
Return on Equity   -8.3
Operating expense ratio (expenses/earnings)   13.9

This could be an interesting way for us to monitor Bitshares for profitability, and in the future an interesting way to compare DACs for investment purposes.

Let me know if this is already discussed somewhere else.

So lets say I want to host a betting game for the next soccer match with Arsenal vs Man united.

So I issue a market pegged asset called 'Ars vs ManU'
I then function as the delegate and produce a price feed according to the outcome of the game.

I can allow people to bet that ManU will win or loose.
People can go long if they think ManU will win and Short if they think ManU will loose.
So if I price the asset at 1bitUSD to 1gameCoin. If the score is '1Ars : ManU 2' and ManU has won the match. I would change the price feed to 2bitUSD to 1gameCoin. So those who went long double their money. Vice-verse if ManU looses.

Have I got the basic idea or am I missing it.