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General Discussion / account keys lost. bter-deposit
« on: October 07, 2015, 05:33:30 am »

Ok, I have officially lost all and each way to access account 'bter-deposit'

Any accidental sends to this account will be an effective burn of such funds... not that before it was advised to send to random, good sounding account.

Just from now on such funds are officially unrecoverable.

Thanks.


[admins please move to appropriate sub-forum. Thanks]

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Random Discussion / Adsense Strugles
« on: September 30, 2015, 02:38:30 am »
Adsense is really really struggling what words to put on bitsharestalk.org. I sometimes wonder if they have a single click through already?


Below is an example of the last attempt I saw:

  ► Sample Proposal

  ► Proposal Template

  ► RFP Template

  ► Bid Proposal

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Stakeholder Proposals / Is this super cool?
« on: September 19, 2015, 11:59:27 pm »

I find this very exiting. The possibilities seem endless, just to name a few -Moving bitUSD to other chains (Music? are you interested), moving UIA between BTS exchange and their own chains.

Is BM and team aware of this, and what is his opinion if yes?


Verifying Program Executions Succinctly and in Zero Knowledge   http://www.scipr-lab.org/publications
CoinWitness - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=277389.msg2961736#msg2961736

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Do you think this is a good title ...for a book?

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General Discussion / Very disappointing BTS performance
« on: August 05, 2015, 07:04:06 pm »
BTS has not produced any results till October of last year. Yet its price is surprisingly stable…. Did you remember that the devs  stopped working on it (BTS 0.x.x) and started producing the next big thing with 0.001 blocks/sec time somewhere during the winter (north hemisphere winter of ’15, that is!)

Anyway, sometimes this summer the main team did came (like 2 mo. ago) with big news/promises. – 90% ready code…blazing fast, cute new floating percent signatures, affiliate program etc. etc. ( And by the way I am the winner of that thread – it was indeed great promises and nothing at the moment…but I am drifting to a thread that nobody read then or remembers now).
So, instead of working on those new great things the intellectual leader of “dream big deliver nothing” decided to not work on those great new things (90% ready, mind you) but count its followers/ass-lickers, depending on your take.

ANY way – I was a big (and still am ) …and I mean BIG fan of those brownies/brownnose stuff – so big that for the first time I sold all…and by all, I mean 100% of my BTS… (other stupied moves has made me, with my fan-boy heart, sell up to 30-35% at times)

What I am complaining about  is …well hard to grasp by most of the remaining on this (once great) forum… but by now those stupid BTS should have fallen by more than 50% in CNY terms ( aren’t they BM?) (alternatively BM should have come back to his senses)…but this were the good old days, I guess and I should have been able to make my 100% gain by now.

/End rant

PS
My sincere apologies to all summer-new (or otherwise) BTS partners… this of course includes all ‘volume-less exchanges’ and partners just  ‘14 delegates short’ with their 7 delegates to meet funding goals.
 

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Technical Support / NXT and BTS on a common Graphine blockchain
« on: June 11, 2015, 07:42:51 pm »
In this post https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1084460.msg11570492#msg11570492

Stan suggest it is possible NXT (and/or other interested coin) and BTS2.0 to co-exist on a single blockchain.

Assuming NXT or other coin is interested, how is this gonna work?  what are the next steps, conditions etc. Is such blockchain gonna have 2 tokens, or just one NXTBTS2.0 ?

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Technical Support / Half-baked Elements of Bitshares 2.0 [first read]
« on: June 09, 2015, 01:23:46 am »
I will leave most of the exiting new features to be praised by other fan-boys. Below are some the concerns I have after reading the proposal.



1. There is no more BTS burning. No more dividends

The BTS from fees are kind of recycled (put back in a ‘future spending fund’). The question is not anymore if Bitshares will ultimately has 2.5+1.5 bill BTS in existence, the question is only ‘when’. What we have given up is the dividend for the shareholders. I will not theoreticise  here if such dividends is essential for the shares to have value and what is the impact of having/not having dividends.
Anyway this matter is easily fixable – by setting 3 way split instead of the proposed 2 way (80%/20% for referral program/ future spending’s fund), by just adding % to be burnt



2. The bond market is clearly not well thought and developed. It will take far more features to actually work and work well.

Why? – Put yourself in the lenders shoes. You will require collateral equal to the loan amount + interest+ some amount to guarantee for negative price movement of the collateral. So if you are lending bitUSD and accepting say BTS as collateral you will ask for 100% + interest + some% to insure yourself if BTS goes down during the term of the loan. So say 125% of the loan amount in BTS at the current BTS/bitUSD price.

Now to the shoes of the borrower. If you have to provide $125 in BTS to borrow $100 in bitUSD, and keeping in mind that nature of the asset that one can own on a blockchain, the circumstances in which such loan sounds like a real loan is very very small. It is not like owning a house and taking a loan to start a business. Most of the blockchain assets are of such a nature that simple selling them at current price is the best way to go. The cases that are left are not true loans but more akin to speculation that the collateral will go up in value during the loan term.

Some form of reputation system (credit score of kind) and or insurance/guaranty third party is clearly needed for true active bond market.



3. The referral system is killing the product [while probably being very good tool to sell it], or very actively working on it.

In order to provide decent referral bonuses ($80 per account seems to be the target) the transaction fees are $0.20 for free account (and $100 + $0.04 per transaction for lift time one). Do you really thing the customers will come flying to the system at those levels. [Leaving aside how astronomically high that is for each placed/canceled order on the DEX…not filled just placed]. Do you think customers will jump on the system with $0.20 per transaction when the competition is 10x less? I know a lot of marketer will try to sell it to them to get their $80 bucks, but how many will really use it 10x higher transaction cost (or be happy to pay $100 for the privilege to try it and enjoy normal fees)


Recurring & Scheduled Payments as well as the enormous amount of transactions (TPS) that the system is promised to be able to handle are more than AWESOME but let’s address the problem areas and not pretend such do not exist.

Go BTS!

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Step #1 – lets collect 100% of the yield that she shorts are willing to pay… Yes, right now we are happy with 50% of it.

Step#2 – Let’s provide some security for those shorts aka BTSX bulls, by making damn curtain that crazy ideas suggesting dilution for ‘marketing purposes’ are a no go.  By marketing ideas here I mean - providing guaranteed interest to subsidize the yield. This does not bring confidence in any BTSX bull.


And 'yes' stop coming with fancy ideas like this one https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=10739.0
before we have working basic client.  Reducing the # of people able and willing to touch the client does not help. We all have great ideas for improvements...

0.02 BTSX [3 posts to go]

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Nothing else running on win 7/ 32 bit. Installing the new version 0.4.32 (same happened with 0.4.22, but I do not have pics for that)

At about 2 G memory taken, the client crushes... During indexing the program is taking 25% of the CPU resources. (in my mind it is just one thread running, one a 4 virtual core (2 physical one CPU).





Trying to restart the client.






Restarted the computer, copied the database as some of the client restarts managed to kill it. ( I do not remember which)






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Coinfire, never heard of them before this.

I'm wondering if this is even real or bullshit.  Are there better more reputable sources ?

CoinFire spends a lot of time on letstalkbitcoin.com in the forums.  Nice guy.  I'm read a couple other interesting articles on his site, long before this.

Spreading unsubstantiated rumors (and quite likely directly profiting from them) and hurting investors by such rumors , is something that SEC is supposed to go after....

I am really considering informing SEC about the matter.

Two of the major player are clear - LTB's head and rumor mill mastermind and his puppy CoinFire....



URSAY is here openly asked to provide more info or be bunched with the other conspirators...

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General Discussion / [RESOLVED] 0.4.21 not connected and other issues
« on: October 23, 2014, 09:36:29 pm »
0.4.21 on win 7 / 32 bit

'Not connected' while 8 connection

Code: [Select]
>> get_info

{
  "blockchain_head_block_num": 0,
  "blockchain_head_block_age": null,
  "blockchain_head_block_timestamp": null,
  "blockchain_average_delegate_participation": "0.00 %",
  "blockchain_confirmation_requirement": 202,
  "blockchain_delegate_pay_rate": "0.00000 BTSX",
  "blockchain_share_supply": "1,999,999,999.81923 BTSX",
  "blockchain_blocks_left_in_round": 101,
  "blockchain_next_round_time": null,
  "blockchain_next_round_timestamp": null,
  "blockchain_random_seed": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  "client_data_dir": "C:/Users/Toni/AppData/Roaming/BitShares X",
  "client_version": "v0.4.21",
  "network_num_connections": 8,
  "network_num_connections_max": 200,
  "network_chain_downloader_running": false,
  "network_chain_downloader_blocks_remaining": null,
  "ntp_time": null,
  "ntp_time_error": null,
  "wallet_open": true,
  "wallet_unlocked": true,
  "wallet_unlocked_until": "12 days in the future",
  "wallet_unlocked_until_timestamp": "2014-11-04T11:14:26",
  "wallet_last_scanned_block_timestamp": null,
  "wallet_scan_progress": "0.00 %",
  "wallet_block_production_enabled": false,
  "wallet_next_block_production_time": null,
  "wallet_next_block_production_timestamp": null
}


After
 
Code: [Select]
>> wallet_rescan_blockchain

OK
Code: [Select]
>> get_info

{
  "blockchain_head_block_num": 0,
  "blockchain_head_block_age": null,
  "blockchain_head_block_timestamp": null,
  "blockchain_average_delegate_participation": "0.00 %",
  "blockchain_confirmation_requirement": 202,
  "blockchain_delegate_pay_rate": "0.00000 BTSX",
  "blockchain_share_supply": "1,999,999,999.81923 BTSX",
  "blockchain_blocks_left_in_round": 101,
  "blockchain_next_round_time": null,
  "blockchain_next_round_timestamp": null,
  "blockchain_random_seed": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  "client_data_dir": "C:/Users/Toni/AppData/Roaming/BitShares X",
  "client_version": "v0.4.21",
  "network_num_connections": 5,
  "network_num_connections_max": 200,
  "network_chain_downloader_running": false,
  "network_chain_downloader_blocks_remaining": null,
  "ntp_time": "2014-10-23T21:33:06",
  "ntp_time_error": 2.6468579999999999,
  "wallet_open": true,
  "wallet_unlocked": true,
  "wallet_unlocked_until": "12 days in the future",
  "wallet_unlocked_until_timestamp": "2014-11-04T11:14:26",
  "wallet_last_scanned_block_timestamp": null,
  "wallet_scan_progress": "100.00 %",
  "wallet_block_production_enabled": false,
  "wallet_next_block_production_time": null,
  "wallet_next_block_production_timestamp": null
}

My accounts still show 0

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General Discussion / 0.4.20 Display bug that 'was not there yesterday'
« on: October 14, 2014, 07:54:05 pm »
This display bug was not there yesterday, I think (at least I did not see it yesterday).

Code: [Select]
QUANTITY (BITUSD) PRICE (BTSX/BITUSD) TOTAL (BTSX)
153,289.5846 36.1520 4,240.14320


and the actual orders seem to be for about $93K

Code: [Select]
>> blockchain_market_order_book  USD BTSX 10

                  BIDS (* Short)                                        |                                   ASKS                                 
TOTAL                     QUANTITY                                     PRICE | PRICE                                        QUANTITY                     TOTAL   COLLATERAL
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1,800.9293 USD            65,896.00308 BTSX               0.027329871550 USD | 0.027693083099 USD                       0.02001 BTSX                0.0005 USD
100.0000 USD              3,660.00000 BTSX                0.027322404372 USD | 0.028089887640 USD                       0.01035 BTSX                0.0002 USD
93,063.9968 USD           3,413,564.05384 BTSX            0.027263000000 USD*| 0.028089887640 USD                  71,200.00000 BTSX            1,999.9999 USD
640.2823 USD              23,560.10686 BTSX               0.027176544816 USD | 0.028169014085 USD                     497.00000 BTSX               13.9999 USD
75.0000 USD               2,801.83500 BTSX                0.026768171573 USD | 0.028424920389 USD                 102,220.00000 BTSX            2,905.5953 USD
15.2950 USD               575.00000 BTSX                  0.026600000000 USD | 0.028490028490 USD                   3,510.00000 BTSX               99.9999 USD
1,300.0000 USD            49,110.36000 BTSX               0.026470993086 USD | 0.028506271380 USD                   3,508.00000 BTSX               99.9999 USD
2,000.0000 USD            75,562.00000 BTSX               0.026468330642 USD | 0.028512522451 USD                   6,779.09015 BTSX              193.2889 USD
57.0000 USD               2,166.00000 BTSX                0.026315789474 USD | 0.028514399772 USD                 156,588.18954 BTSX            4,465.0182 USD
152.0000 USD              5,880.88000 BTSX                0.025846471957 USD | 0.028522532801 USD                  84,395.50290 BTSX            2,407.1734 USD
333.0000 USD              12,987.00000 BTSX               0.025641025641 USD |
4,500.0001 USD            165,663.45368 BTSX              0.027163505287 USD*|
49.9999 USD               1,899.99620 BTSX                0.026315789474 USD*|
49.9999 USD               1,849.97130 BTSX                0.027027392262 USD*|

Similar story for bitBTC

Code: [Select]
QUANTITY (BITBTC) PRICE (BTSX/BITBTC) TOTAL (BTSX)
1.00 14,629.1867 0.00007

PS this are the short orders BTW, which with the new color coding convention might not be apparent.

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If the theory in the OP of this thread https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=9603.0
 holds true, And I believe it does.

A company called UsersUnlimited II , creates a user issued asset called ‘New user worth’   
-This asset is actually a fund that distributes some of its gains to the ‘‘How much is a new user worth?” described in the link above

-‘New user worth’   actually shorts bitUSD using significant part (starting at close to 2/3) of all proceeds received through the sale (issuance) of its shares. With the rest 1/3 it buys bitUSD and uses those bitUSD to fund the cash-back bonuses (costumer acquisition bonuses) of the ‘How much is a new user worth?”

-If the theory that 1 dollar spent on costumer acquisition bonuses in the ‘How much is a new user worth?” is near the numbers expected, the climb in the price of BTSX and the consequent gains from the short position will allow the fund to make the distribution/donations to the  ‘How much is a new user worth’ and when this marketing campaign is over to actually return more BTSX to the ‘New user worth’ shareholders (to say nothing that those  BTSX will be worth many times more than when initially invested). 

Thoughts ….on my Perpetuum mobile?

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The new rule are:
- shorts only execute at the feed price;
- shorts are ordered by the amount of collateral they are willing to provide ( i.e. >2x)
- short orders are now placed with min price they are willing to accept (in BTSX per shorted bitUSD)

If there is a feed even bitAssets can be shorted providing collateral in other bitAsset (do not take my word on this!!!)

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