I thought piggybacking off of Bitcoins hashrate network effects would have been more profitable for us because:

a) Bitcoin is the largest Market and therefore is the most liquid.  With other alt-coins we have to deal with liquidity costs.  Sharing with the Bitcoin network would greatly improve our liquidity as well. 

b) According to laws of perfect competition-- miners seeking a higher return would come to our pool as we are offering a risk free percentage back that they can't achieve anywhere else.  As a result mining off of bitcoins network would provide the largest pool of investors directed towards Bitshares.  The more miners that come, the more marketed awareness that is captured for Bitshares.  Therefore the more capital (in the form of collateral and bitassets) would be kept within the Bitshares system. 

How is mining alt-coins going to benefit us?
Besides the profitability...many of us dont have sha miners...myself for instance I have grids that can run dual mode but the sha hash is hardly worth it.

Nice looking site.....taps into an internet staple...now someone needs to go into a video streaming dac.  Music and Video dacs are a no brainer...will work.

 I would be careful about coinfire...in another article he used exerpts from a completely unrelated situation....he is just another fudder
If Garza was really running a scam with all the publicity he would already be gone...when the investment was at its highest. If it is a scam it is not a very good one.
I would be intrested in knowing what makes it so incredibly obvious, other than some of his bravado"20.00 floor" which would be better spent on system improvements...not creating a false floor.
I dont think he needs the msb license yet as paybase does not do fiat currency.
I would love to hear some feed back in a forum that is not a War Zone, some of the bitcoin purists have taken a war approach and claim they are trying to "save the industry...and noobs" I believe they
are full of yu know what and are only concerned that his business plan might actually come together and take a chuunk of btc with it.
I saw copies of tweets to Moe Levin at the conference asking for a better room.....but they did not respond to it and Moe LEvin is an executive in BitPay, which would also have an intrest in Garza not realizing his plan.
This is just stuff I have dugup watching the situation.....there are alot of people that stand to lose alot of money, problem is the btc people for lack of a better descriptor would be the cause more so than Garza.
Just as there is room for a product like bitshares which I am a big fan of, there is also room for another coin with retailer support and commercial backing. Therre is plenty of money for all without the nonsense this has turned into.
So...fire away....tell me the scam, and evidence.

 I am getting a warning about the network tonight  My order is still unfilled(per my gui)  my order shows at 120........offer  and there is a sell for 112....... I went to the website you linked and it is totally different. Didnt even know that site existed. I dont know weather my order was filled or not.  Wallet tonight is having some sync issues...keeps getting caught up then falling back.

I was playing in the bitgold and noticed that everytime I placed an order the lowest ask would change.....same order but kept changing price....so I finally get a bid in and bingo it goes up again and my order is not filled. I also noticed that there was already an order there that was above the lowest ask and didnt seem to be getting filled.....is it my system lagging or what...it seems to me that order should have been filled and mine also. Or maybe I dont know what I am doing???....any thoughts as to why that was happening?

Is sparkle live or still testing...there is so much info to keep up with.......

These markets do not show any shares available, so how do you get them?

 Would sparkle be tradeable for bitshares or bitusd in the bitshares market?