Hi,

I've added an order there now, so please check again.

best regards,

Dan

As a side note, a couple of people have asked me privately if this shutdown signaled a movement away from the BitShares community on BlockTrades' part. Therefore, I wanted to clarify that BlockTrades is still a big supporter of BitShares: we will continue to help promote its growth via our technology and expertise,  and I personally believe it has a bright future.

This is unfortunately. Now, the only usable gateway is openledger, which is not good.

Well, I can say with certainty that no one was really actively using our gateway (admittedly we weren't promoting it either).

If someone does want to operate another gateway, we could always license the technology for the gateway to them for a price (or they can create their own, it's hard, but obviously not impossible to do, metaexchange has done it and I think transwiser as well).

best regards,

Dan Notestein

Hi everyone,

We are shutting down the BlockTrades gateway (not our bridge, just our gateway). We created it originally mainly as a prototype for the technology used by OpenLedger, and we think the OPEN assets adequately serve the community. I've left the TRADE assets operational just so there was a backup gateway, but it's really hardly ever used, so it requires us to maintain an entire gateway for little purpose.

Note that we will be continuing the operation of our bridge, which is actively used by the Bitshares community.

We'll be shutting down the gateway in stages. In the first stage, which has just begun, we've disabled deposits to the gateway. Inevitably, someone may still use one of their old deposit addresses, in which case we'll manually refund them. We also request in this stage that anyone who holds TRADE assets to perform a withdrawal on those assets.

Eventually, we will also disable withdrawals as well, but I will leave in place a 1-1 market order on https://bitshares.openledger.info/market/OPEN.BTC_TRADE.BTC for a while after that to allow users to exchange any remaining TRADE.BTC for OPEN.BTC. I'll place similar orders for any other TRADE assets that remain outstanding after withdrawals are disabled.

best regards,

Dan Notestein

I'm terribly offended by your use of the offensive sexual term "beaver". I hope you get banned.

Edit: beaver has been banned (upon his request).

What is going on with the price of the OL token? coinmarketcap.com has it down by 43%?

Someone sold ~1k shares into a high spread, low liquidity market. Now you can expect a big jump in the other direction as soon as there is a buyer.

Yes, noticed that Openledger working on their own gui and i like those changes. What about @svk? Do you know his plans?

I haven't spoken with him about it, so don't know. Hopefully he will create a new worker.

voted, hard to beat the price for good videos