How do we stop a person or group acquiring or merging a large group of shares in order to vote for short term profit?

This worries me because 10% is a great return on an investment, market manipulators with large enough funds could easily pump and dump the market enough times to acquire 51% stake then vote the full 10% for their delegates. They could even reinvest 2 or 3% back into the system to keep the price/development up.

Paid delegates is a great way to add value to the system but is there any way to ensure that this kind of attack doesn't happen?

Seems to me that the biggest weakness of DPOS is voter turnout. Im sure we will get a little more with the current proposal and again some more with a bug free and trusted client but with all the strength of DPOS it would be nice to put a nail in this one weakness and get some really high turnout.

I notice people are really engaged in the forum and the poles seem to greatly reflect opinion. Hence my question. I can see lots of merits for putting this forum on the client. I haven't loaded the client for weeks yet i log onto the forum two or three times a day. I'm sure i am not the only one. So, we would get increased traffic and targeted traffic to the client. Traffic that would read the forum vote on poles (which could be incorporated into delegate voting to increase participation). Also If we the community were loading up the client as often at they log on to the forum then they would be more likely to engage in the features, thus creating more transaction fees.

The only downside i see is that it would be a barrier to entry for newbies, however, this too could be turned to a positive.  We keep an online forum to attract newbies but, firstly they wont see the kind of potentially panicking discussions we have from time to time  . Also they will be incentivised to download the client and use it regularly if the want to engage further.
 

I think this part of the proposal is not being discussed enough.

The proposal is to allow BTS to be diluted by the issuing of more BTS. In the mumble session BM suggested that a cap could be hard coded.

As well as voting on what you think that hard cap should be can we also have a discussion about :-

1. what we would consider it acceptable to spend the raised capital on? Development? Marketing?
2. Who should have control of the raised funds?
3. how will the amount of dilution be decided upon on a call by call basis?
4. Who can make a call for more shares to be issued?
5. Will there be a maximum frequency of share calls hard coded?
6. If X% per year is decided upon as a maximum, will we also have a maximum individual share call hard coded? eg if 10% was decided as the hard coded limit for a year should we have a maximum share call within that year hard coded like 2%?

These are just a few questions to get the ball rolling, I just think that this part of the proposal is not getting the posts is deserves.
 

I saw toasts post today [DNS] ** LAST CHANCE TO CHECK ALLOCATION ** and I believe there has been some kind of lotto allocation with AGS PTS. Would it be possible to have a thread which only announced new snapshots, approximate release date (can be as approximate as you like) and small description of the DAC.

As more and more DAC's get released its going to get harder and harder to keep up. A thread in general discussion, where a lot of us skim to try to keep up to date, would be very helpful for those like me who don't have as much time as would be nice to study all that's here.

This seems a fantastic dac but i cant get my head round how you are going to make sure its fair?

Ive seen the little triangle reminding me i should vote, nice

So, I click on vote and then i am given four options.

Vote All
Vote None
Vote Random Subset
Vote as Delegates Recommended

What do they mean? How do i choose a particular delegate? When i select any of the options i seem to be being charged 0.5 btsx, do i pay to vote?

Seems to me that voting is imperative in DPOS, could there be a simple help page link for this?

I think it would be a usefull to make a video explaining how to increase your btsx holding by trading bitusd. This way, if i understand it correct, more people would put their btsx into bitusd when they see a price swing coming instead of returning to another coin.

Im guessing that most crypto holders aren't trained traders and don't understand how to go long or short or even what it means. I think we could increase the supply of bitUSD dramatically with a short video explaining if you think btsx are going up then do this, if you think they are coming down do this. 

Im sure its all explained here, but, theres nothing like a cartoon to make everything clear 

I have some PTS to redeem on a pc with windows vista and have had some issues.

1. when i tried to create a password it accepted that both passwords were the same but wouldnt move on. I then closed and restarted the client and it asked for my account as if it had worked the first time.

2. When i tried to copy the new key address right click on the mouse didn't bring up the copy box. I had to use ctrl A.

3. After a short amount of time the application crashes and asks me if i want to send an error report (which i did)