Speculations seem to be one of the main entertainments on this forum in last week or so.
So here is another one. What is the man, I work on cloning i.e. BM, doing in the last 6 hours?
Here are my guesses in no particular order:
1. Writing a trading bot.
2. Fixing bugs/improving the existing product (by mainly coding).
3. Taking a break/down with a flu.
4.Talking to Ripple/Stellar.
5.Talking to Overstock.
6. None of the above but…

Here is what I gonna do, if successful with the cloning gig:
Send 1/3 of them to 3. (i.e. take a break/sleep/relax).
Spread the rest 2/3 of them to any of the remaining 5 tasks
....

PS
Additionally I would like to speculate that, it would be better for toast if he switches from supreme (too much vegetables) to some kind of ‘meat lover’s’ pizza. [a good dose of 3. would not be bad for him, neither]

My wife has always has this attitude towards my crypto interests – "Oh you mean  your toys/play money/hobbies/”. That being said I managed on 2 occasions this year to give her a pretty long lessons on BTC, followed by such explanations about Bitshares. I finished those with my opinion that Bitshares X has a good chance to change the world. ..The first clue as what is to come should have been when BTSX finally launched. I told her about it, and reiterated my great expectations. She then ask – “Why don’t you put more money in?”. Well I did short of that suggestion, I just liquidated all other hedges, diversifications in other crypto and bought more BTSX .When my newly acquired BTSX (those that I bought after launching the chain) doubled in price last week, I let her know; as well as how many more times this doubling has to happen before we become millionaires….(I realize the potentially misleading way to put the info like that).

This leads us up to yesterday, when my wife drove me in a total state of surprise.  First during the day after exchanging 2-3 sentences about BTSX , she surprised me by saying – “I want my own money in this thing.” As surprised as I was to hear that, I selfishly though – “Well maybe I was way too convincing. I should dial it down…maybe”. We came back home, I checked the prices… up 55%... I went back and said “Honey, about those $2000 bucks… are you sure the price is up 60% again” hoping that this will make her think twice…but the next sentence put me in total shock - she said “I said, I want my money in!”
Now I do believe that the average woman is a better investor than the average man. Additionally my wife has a ‘solid’ financial background. First her graduation paper (it is not the same education system as in US so it is hard to explain what exactly it is, but it is generally a 3-6mo. research project at the end of a Master’s degree, although her degree was not in finance) was in financial derivatives. And since then she has also become a CPA, so definitely not below average financial background, in my book.

This morning, giving it a bit of more thought, while staring at BTSX’ price… Do you realize that among other things, BTSX is also changing the current men to women ratio in crypto. What is it now 9:1… 8:2, I doubt it is any higher than 20% right now. This forum for example says (as much as this statistic can be trusted) 50:1 men/women ratio.

Any thoughts?

I need some help with this:

https://nxtforum.org/index.php?topic=4702.0

I am really getting tired, but at the same I see light at the end of the tunnel.(or is it my blurred vision?)

And I do not mean help from the core development team, as they are busy enough as it is!

Thanks.

Most of you guys are too young to remember what the blue screens were in prior versions of window. ... They were daily occurrence.

Well today I saw 2 of them. And I believe the BTSX client is the reason for them.

Disclosure:

-I ran a 2+ old computer, as I just cannot buy a new one every 3 mo. Yes, I have couple newer ones, but they go to the more important users - wife, kid, other kid etc...

-I have 17 account in my BTSX wallet - Yes 17. And I still have them because: 1.I can not delete any of them 2. I can not export just one of them to a new wallet 3. I cannot run 2 client on the same machine (well technically I can do it, on 2 operating systems).

So, anybody else getting them old blue screens and/or any steps taken so the BTSX client can run on not so top-notch machines?

Best ask at 0.0000252 BTC/BTSX on BTC38;
Best ask at 0.00002575 BTC/BTSX on BTER;

 

Non tech person here. Tried many variants of the command 'wallet_asset_create' .

wallet_asset_create "ABC","ABCShares",acc1,"Real value!","null",2000000,100000,true;

wallet_asset_create 'ABC','ABCShares',acc1,'Real value!',null,2000000,100000,true

wallet_asset_create 'ABC' 'ABCShares' acc1 'Real value!' null 2000000 100000 true


etc.


None seem to work. All lead to the following error:
13 class boost::exception_detail::clone_impl<struct boost::exception_detail::error_info_injector<class boost::bad_lexical_cast> >: bad lexical cast: source type value could not be interpreted as target
bad lexical cast: source type value could not be interpreted as target:  => double
    {"i":"","what":"bad lexical cast: source type value could not be interpreted as target"}
    bitshares  string.cpp:104 fc::to_double

    {"command":"wallet_asset_create"}
    bitshares  cli.cpp:471 bts::cli::detail::cli_impl::execute_command

 Can somebody provide example...formatting mainly.

After failing to build Dry Run 12 on win 7, I gave Ubuntu a chance. But have not success here either.

So can somebody please post all commands I need to run to accomplish that – I. e. good enough instructions for 3.5 y old, hopefully will do 

The History of BitShares
Part Three

Bytemaster recognized that Bitcoin could be viewed as an unprofitable company and its coins as stock in that company.  Stock value was generally rising because demand for its services (efficient private money transmission) exceeded supply.   But, meanwhile it was bleeding red ink.  100% of its transaction fees were going to pay its employees (the miners).  But that still wasn’t enough.  It had to print more money (up to 12% annual inflation) also to pay its employees.  So Bitcoin is a company with annual losses near 12%.  (And the employees were only getting to keep a few percent of the money being wasted on them.)

He decided that eliminating those employees was a key objective that would inevitably lead to a whole new generation of profitable crypto-businesses.  Assets based on destructive mining would go the way of the dinosaur, unable to compete with profitable business models of second generation assets that could afford to pay dividends and interest to their holders.  It was just a matter of time.

What is the reason for abandoning this core, imo, idea?