Just saw Steem on coinmarketcap and saw the authors of the white paper are BTS devs.  Are they no longer developing for BTS?  Did their dilution payments get cut?

I thought Lottoshares died as it was not feasibly possible to integrate to the blockchain? This section may need a sticky differentiating itself.

Do you guys think your community is actively larger than Vertcoin?

I have no affinity to Vertcoin, it's a shit coin. I just chose it for comparison.

Bitshares is number 9 on coinmarketcap.com
Vertcoin is number 31 on coinmarketcap.com


BTS daily trading volume is $115K (today)
VTC daily trading volume is $15K (today)


Reddit.com is ranked at #32 globally and ranked #10 in the U.S.A. They have great accessible stats for their subreddits.

Here are Vertcoins subreddit stats:
https://www.reddit.com/r/vertcoin/about/traffic

and here is Bitshares subreddit stats:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bitshares/about/traffic

Then just for fun check out AskReddit's sub stats (largest subscribed sub on reddit):
https://www.reddit.com/r/askreddit/about/traffic

Why does this shitcoin have a larger community, assuming reddit stats accurately represent the communities beyond reddit too. Yeah, yeah, the Chinese community represents a huge part of Bitshares. Wouldn't that be true for Vertcoin and all altcoins for that matter?

Here is bitcoins sub stats:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoin/about/traffic

So why are we not advertising on this huge website? 1,000 impressions costs between $1-$2 on reddit. Why hasn't a measly $1000 been spent on this just to try it? All the marketing delegates and AdamKErnests BTS collected so far equals much much more than that.

Insert another altcoin in the top 50 and their community's will all be larger than the godsend of crypto, Bitshares. Hell, even Ethereum's( https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/about/traffic) stats are booming in comparison, despite all the problems they have and the lack of an actual GUI.

There was a thread that started with "The most important thing Bitshares...." has been deleted because it possessed posts that questioned CNX's ability to stay true to Bitshares. I only know this because my last post was a response to a well written post by Empirical1.2. I couldn't find my post or his and decided to search my history where I found the link to the thread here https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,17994.0.html
And it has been completely removed.

Hrm......

Are we already being controlled by the new central authority CNX? Or was this a lowly mod, jealous of all the power theymos and Co. have at BTCtalk and /r/bitcoin and wanted some satisfaction too?

Why in the hell would anyone lock those threads?

This is why I go to bitcointalk to post this stuff. Or you can let the discussion continue here.

Drop the 1.0, 2.0 crap please. If you can't even release a 1.0, marketing a 2.0 is just asinine.  You guys are funny.

Take the BTS that is supposed to vest into Adam K. Ernest's pocket, either 10 million of it or the remaining ~27 million BTS  and use it as incentive for a company or companies to adopt bitUSD into their websites via the shopping cart plugins.  Companies like Ting Mobile, Republic Wireless, thinkgeek.com, Digital Ocean, HushMail, Uber or one of the bitcoin friendly's like Overstock and NewEgg, give 1-3 of them 10 million BTS each that will still vest over the 2 years. 10 million BTS is $50,000 at these low levels. They would stand to make a lot of money and they wouldn't have to do much besides accounting for the new payment method.

You could give them a delegate to mitigate peg fluctuation against them too. It's a win win for whoever takes it and it can't hurt BitShares.

I think it has been proven that adoption has to come by large influential players that adopt the bitAssets and are able to push them marketing wise through their own funds funnels. This would have to be a whale who has skin in the game. Incentivizing someone with a large stake would give them the skin needed to push adoption through use of bitUSD on their products. Grass roots and timely adoption can't keep pace with bitcoin's power draw.  Hell, the moonstone thing couldn't even get 100 retweets and the ones they got were probably laced with a few dummy accounts made by various users here. It seems that the community has shrunk and there maybe 50-100 active users while everyone else sold off and goes back to bitcoin or dogecoin. Something like this would bring them back and a whole lot more.  It's too bad I3 never did anything like this a year ago with the millions of shares they had when they worth a whole lot more too.

It's a hell of a lot better chance than what Adam would bring us through FollowMyVote.