Would Cryptonomex, Peertracks or any other team have any chance of attending it? It's the biggest start ups event. Would you be interested in going? Do you think anyone from the team could earn a spot there?

It would be held in Lisbon, Portugal. Would love you to come here, would have the chance to possibly meet someone after all this time. Also, we seem to have a growing start up culture here but we have nothing crypto related, only a company who does Btc ATMs.

All the big ones go there, would be an awesome opportunity.

https://websummit.net/

I think you would have to apply for Alpha and try to get in, otherwise it seems too expensive. I'm basing on this year's prices in Dublin and also sales seem to end in 2 days so prices may be higher because of that.
https://websummit.net/tickets

Prices go from €19,950 to €149,950 and include:
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Lately we've been hearing a lot about Private Blockchains and it seems it's the theme right now. Financial Institutions want to use blockchain technology it can save them time and money. It's the most logical thing to do. However, they don't want to abdicate their power and privacy. This can create some kind of a dilemma for some of us. The first blockchain ever made was designed to be public and fully transparent. Could someone like a Private Blockchain even be called a blockchain? Or is it something else? Well, I say we will have to manage both.

Well, how could we do this? At first, it's hard to imagine a world where everything is fragmented. If each company had their own blockchain that could be a mess. However, we only need a way for them to communicate. Ideally we should have the lowest level of the protocol to be public and transparent but also a way for businesses to develop their own private networks on top of it. The easiest way I came up with to explain this to everyone is: See BitShares as the Internet and Private Blockchains as Intranets.

Everyone can navigate through the Internet - Anyone can use BitShares
However you need permissions to access a specific Intranet - Permission Based (Private) Blockchains

I think that analogy would suffice. Another one is kinda like how computer networks work

Each layer has it's own protocols. Each layer uses the one beneath to work properly and provides a service for the one above. Each layer gets into something more specific until you reach the application layer. We could see this as some kind of Blockchain Privacy Layers. At the base you would get the BitShares chain, which everyone can use, but as you go higher, chains get more and more private (see difference between Intranet and Extranet).

This would mean we could support Financial Institutions who wanted their own private ledger. They would get to keep their privacy and power on their chain and we would have more volume, more transactions, more profitability. Just random stuff of the top of my head that could be used to monetize this:

• stupid proof client where with one simple click you would create your own chain. by doing so you would also have to pay some kind of fee just like you do now for a UIA or become a delegate
  
• part of the fees generated by that chain would then be used to buy and burn BTS,
  
• tokens on that chain would need to be collaterized by BTS
  

This also seems to me that the future of BitShares would have a higher success rate if instead of targeting new DACs would target this Private Blockchains. At the end, every Institution using their own private chain would be using BitShares. In my opinion, this would need to be the next step we should take if we want to grow.

The thing about DACs and not having a chain to rule them all is, if Financial Institutions want to use BitShares (more specifically the Graphene Toolkit), BitShares' stakeholders will gain nothing from this as these chains would be designed to be private, meaning there would be no sense at all in Sharedropping on BitShares. Zero incentives at all. All they want is the toolkit. This would bring us back to the same old conversation about CNX gaining from the toolkit which was originally supported by AGS owners but I don't want to get into that. This is merely my vision of the future and how both - BItShares' shareholders and CNX - could benefit from this. They would still require a licence to build a private chain network on top of BitShares. If this is possible I would suggest for BitShares to adopt this as a business model if it is aiming to grow big.
Note: This doesn't necessarily mean we would have one chain to rule them all. We would have multiple chains, but each would grow to a huge network with private chains. BitShares for Financial Institutions, Music Chain for Music, Video, Media and overall Entertainment Industry, etc

All of this, assuming this is feasible. I'm only assuming so based on MultiChain and other random stuff and projects I have read, which aim to build Privatised Chains on top of Bitcoin. For reference:
MultiChain is an open source distributed database for financial transactions. It builds on the technology that powers bitcoin to enable private blockchains with managed permissions. MultiChain is optimized to help financial institutions and service providers accelerate their exploration of blockchain technology.

https://forum.ripple.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=15635
https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/08/07/on-public-and-private-blockchains/
http://www.multichain.com/

tldr:

• BitShares the layer-base of a big protocol
• Private Chains on top of BitShares to increase profitability
• BitShares shareholders and Financial Institutions who want privacy and power over their ledger, would both benefit.
• This was a random thought so I don't even know if it's feasible or makes any sense at all in a blockchain technology context.

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I'm not a trader, I'm not doing this in order to try and be one, meaning I won't take it seriously but I'm kind of curious and would like to educate myself so that I can at least understand what others talk about when they use technical terms and analysis.

I don't even know if I'll have time for this, but anyway, I'm sure someone will appreciate it. Does someone recommend some kind of book, article, in particular? Does by any chance even exist something regarding trading that is more crypto related since I've seen people mention it's different from actual stocks, even though I don't know if this is true or not, but would appreciate if it did exist something.

Open to any suggestions.

 

Dunno if we should have a thread for this or not, but...

That peg http://coinmarketcap.com/assets/bitusd/

Hope we can have something better when 2.0 is out

I found this thread from 1 year ago https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,7393.msg98368.html#msg98368 could we have one again? Since we're into Prediction Markets. Could be an awesome hangout for some discussion regarding that

Each time I see projects like these, I'm happier and happier of being able to presence all of this. Definitely worth checking it out!

https://morph.is/v0.8/
https://www.reddit.com/r/morphis/
Free open source peer-to-peer
high-performance distributed datastore.
The world's global filesystem.


I'm quite curious on the web of trust it aims to achieve.
Through a trust based system of reputation, this feature will enable reputation based searches (deprecating GOOGLE/BING/ETC, DNS, and so on), forums (bye bye disqus, etc!), and eventually deprecating democracy and stone age government (democracy via stone age paper ballots VS real time direct voting).

Also
Dead simple to run: Download, double click, and then your webbrowser automatically opens a new window viewing the root Morphis UI and you can already browse and upload to the next generation of the Internet - MORPHiS! There are 3 UIs: The most developed and supported is via your web browser, the next is via SSH client, and finally via the 'mcc' the command line morphis UI. You can upload and download with curl and wget as well! Fully scriptable already!

So, does anyone know this project? Has anyone used it before? What do you think about it?


NEXT STEPS IN MY PLANNED OUT VISION:
STREAM 1

Dmail (Dpush/TargetedBlock) Technology (COMPLETE)

• Web Page Comment deprecation layer (Deprecate Disqus!).
  Forum layer (Deprecate all forum software, also IRC).
  Rudimentary Search!

(This STREAM will implement things that would be better with WOT but are already possible to be better than the current WWW solutions just by using Dmail/Dpush Technology).

STREAM 2

Bitcoin Microtransaction and Mixing Layer (Add infinite cheap microtransactions to Bitcoin and anonymize it as well)!

Incentivization layer

• TOR replacement layer (traditional anonymous proxy deprecation layer)
  Distributed computation layer (ie, Alternative design to achieve what Ethereum hopes to do.)
  

STREAM 3

Trust layer (Web Of Trust)

Search (deprecating GOOGLE/BING/ETC, DNS, and so on).
WOT enhanced Forum layer.

• Democracy deprecation layer.
  
  • CEO, manager, BOSS deprecation layer.
    Stone age Government (democracy via stone age paper ballots VS real time direct voting) deprecation layer.
    The World Brain.
  • World Peace.

STREAM 4

Things that are already easily possible with current MORPHiS and are just application coding that anyone could do.

• Deprecate Dropbox by implementing native rsync/sftp support. Think sshfs!
  Deprecate ... (your ideas here! your help WANTED!)

Each tabbed line is dependent upon the less indented line immediately above it. All STREAMs will be and are able to be worked on concurrently. I will prioritize myself based upon feedback and requests. I would love for developers to join this project, and together we will seriously save the world! I'm not going anywhere, ever! This is my life until success or death; and I am young!

JOIN ME!

Is this possible? For example, integrating a tab for 3rd Party services or whatever and have Metaexchange and Blocktrades there? That way people could get real Btc from within the wallet. Would be a great marketing and selling point.

http://elemental-ui.com/
https://github.com/elementalui/elemental