Quote from: 麥可貓 on November 14, 2015, 06:01:30 am

Whatever it will be,  the most important thing is to be a simple stupid one for consumers,  not an  all in one giant trash.
As for me,  the client performance of bts2.0 is good for me,  but it is really hard to use comparing with other exchanges,  like poloniex,  bitoex,  cryptosy etc.

Here's an excerpt from someone (I won't name them, but they're HUGE and hope they don't mind me posting this) that I respect in the cryptocurrency ecosystem ...

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It's amazing how the most competitive, centralized space is the one that he [Dan] still is choosing to go after when the solutions offered by bitshares in any other market are revolutionary and not in need of improvement besides a real UI design.

My point boils down to this: currently we have a very nice balance between our offering for online merchants and our offering for online consumers.
Online merchants have their reasons to try us out and online consumers have their own reasons to be attracted.

So please let us not damage this. Let us not to try to "improve" the pricing policy based on our personal feelings and experiences like "talking to a guy on a plane".
Even if our pricing policy is non-standard. Let us have the guts to be different in this respect and see how it plays out.

At least not until we have a clear indication from the sales people that things need to be changed.

And one more thing: we are aiming for mass adoption but if we achieve just 3% of the online payments market - it will be a tremendous success. Even 1% will make us huge. So we are not aiming to satisfy everybody. We just need to clearly define our customers and it's never gonna be 100% of the population.

I think bitshares.org should target 3 categories of visitiors:

1. Cryptocurrency traders looking to eliminate counterparty risk
2. Libertarians that got fond of DAC idea that might be interested in investing into BTS and try to participate in BitShares self-governance
3. Developers looking to utilize all benefits of BitShares as a platform

The page should have clear call to action for each category with accent on #1 - it looks like BitShares as exchange can get some traction first, but we shouldn't ignore other categories.

I would suggest to have a big background picture with trading interface to make it to appeal to category #1 and have clear call to action for all 3 categories, it can be something like this:
- Don't trust centralized exchanges? Try first full featured decentralized exchange and eliminate counterparty risk.
- Looking to be a shareholder of first decentralized autonomous company? By shares and help the community to govern it. Get rich as price of your shares rise.
- Looking ideal high performance platform for smart contracts? Get started right now.

Reduce the transfer fee if you must, but do not reduce it to 0, you kill the the merchants, the normal users and the wallet providers with that. There must be incentive to use the referral program for transfers for a functioning eco-system.