Right after the replay, BitShares encountered an exception. I relaunched it and got another:

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Process:               BitShares [4396]
Path:                  /Applications/BitShares.app/Contents/MacOS/BitShares
Identifier:            org.bitshares.BitShares
Version:               .. (..)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           BitShares [4396]

Date/Time:             2015-04-20 21:30:07.859 -0500
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.10.2
Report Version:        11

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes:       KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000058

VM Regions Near 0x58:
-->
    __TEXT                 00000001040b4000-0000000105ed6000 [ 30.1M] r-x/rwx SM=COW  /Applications/BitShares.app/Contents/MacOS/BitShares

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   org.qt-project.QtCore          0x0000000109e6fc3e QMetaObject::activate(QObject*, int, int, void**) + 62
1   org.qt-project.QtNetwork      0x0000000109b4e2cc QNetworkReply::downloadProgress(long long, long long) + 76
2   org.qt-project.QtNetwork      0x0000000109ac8770 QNetworkReplyHttpImplPrivate::replyDownloadData(QByteArray) + 1280
3   org.qt-project.QtNetwork      0x0000000109b4ead4 QNetworkReplyHttpImpl::qt_static_metacall(QObject*, QMetaObject::Call, int, void**) + 1828
4   org.qt-project.QtCore          0x0000000109e69393 QObject::event(QEvent*) + 755
5   org.qt-project.QtWidgets      0x000000010686932b QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper(QObject*, QEvent*) + 251
6   org.qt-project.QtWidgets      0x000000010686c648 QApplication::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) + 8136
7   org.bitshares.BitShares        0x00000001040ebc6e BitSharesApp::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) + 14
8   org.qt-project.QtCore          0x0000000109e3ea5b QCoreApplicationPrivate::sendPostedEvents(QObject*, int, QThreadData*) + 971

Now I launched it for the third time, no problems logging in! A fleeting bug of some sort. On to more testing...

I had a similar experience. Crashed 3-4 times then made it through the replay to the login screen.

On the login screen, unlocking the wallet causes the program to hang at the loader. Wiping the app data and resetting the chain ended in a crashing scenario like above which eventually resolves but then the hanging issue happens.

OS X isn't stable but it sounds like this release is more stable for Windows users. That's a good sign at least.

edit: let it hang logging for about 10 minutes and it eventually authed me.

Thanks for the kind words everyone. This interview represents the culmination of what we have learned both participating on the forums here and traveling on the peer to peer road trip. JB really worked some magic to make it all sound so well from a recording on his iPhone.

I'm sorry we couldn't meet each other Thom. I had to fly out from Fuzzy's back home to prepare for taxes and get back to work. I would have really liked to join the guys on the last leg of the journey to St. Louis... maybe next time!

Looking forward to learning your perspective from the final cut Bitscape Media produces.

Check out http://whatarenotes.info.

Basically, a new DAC is launching to focus on entertainment startups that want to leverage the functionality of BitShares. This DAC won't have market pegged assets and will function autonomously from BitShares. Multi-currency wallets such as moonstone will act as the bridge between multiple chains, so one can still trade between artistcoins issued on the Entertainment DAC and bitUSD issued on BitShares.

The reason it is being launched separate dates back to the idea of multiple DACs using the BitShares toolkit- some of the projects started were merged into BitShares (VOTE and DNS for instance) while others (Play and Music) are still working on their own version of the code.

Quote from: liondani on April 15, 2015, 12:10:55 am

I like "bitshares" , and it makes more sense due our bitshares logo that is a "b" ...  (and not a "B")

Sent from my ALCATEL ONE TOUCH 997D

yup. capitalization is so 20th century. 

Agreed. IMO we should have "Bitshares" to refer to the DAC and "bitshares" to the shares themselves. I suppose it is too late for that? Camelcase for written words (as opposed to variables in a program) is just weird to me.

Also while we are on this topic, anyone opposed to declaring a bitshares symbol?

Latin lower case b with stroke for BTS currency symbol: ƀ

Append to market pegged asset: ƀUSD, ƀGOLD, etc.

Quote from: robrigo on April 11, 2015, 08:35:22 pm

This thread is a rabbit hole of whitepapers. Awesome!!

Read this report on a flight today. The report dicusses different ways to classify projects using blockchain ledgers in centralized and decentralized manners. BitShares was mentioned once (in reference to Pactum). Use cases in the financial system are described as well. Good job Tim.

http://www.ofnumbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Permissioned-distributed-ledgers.pdf

We're the guys behind Pactum btw.

The report says it is tokenless but also uses DPOS. Can you talk about what mechanism you use to vote for delegates in a tokenless DPOS?

Quote from: xeroc ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ on April 08, 2015, 02:05:24 pm

Quote from: Stan on April 08, 2015, 01:45:38 pm

This includes hours of off-camera interviews where Bytemaster has given them insights about what is coming later this year.  They are not allowed to disclose that information, of course, but they are free to tell you their general impressions and personal levels of interest in what is going on at Bytemaster Labs.

I'd love to hear/see/read about their impressions

  any shareholder, in any company, in this situation, would always want an insight.

 "In many ways this is the strongest the team has been. The only thing worse off is the share price."
-Vikram
 
Visiting the BitShares guys in Blacksburg was a real treat. When we first arrived into town, we drove the BTS mobile over to the office in a business complex owned by Virginia Tech. Stan greeted us outside the building and we followed into an office building that seemed to serve a start-up incubator, with many companies represented. We entered the BitShares HQ into a space with a small conference setup. Nathan, Valantine, Vikram, and Ben had their desks positioned in each corner around four tables arranged as a round table. The Follow  my Vote crew and Dan each have a small office off this space. The team consolidated into this room in a move of frugality to reduce costs incurred from using the offices accessible from the main space. A discussion around the tables followed, where we proceded to learn a little about the internal project road map and float ideas out in a free flowing brainstorm session. At some point Dan went into some details regarding efficiency improvements to the code that they have been experimenting with, some of the problems with multi sig, and other interesting topics. The devs wove snippets into the conversation as they worked intently from their desks. Sometime around 1 PM Stan came in with a boatload of pizzas and we all happily proceeded to devour it.

Stan put us up in a nearby hotel for next 7 days, and we proceeded to come to the office each day to work alongside the team; the Bitscape guys cycled through interviewing devs at their availability. I made some more in roads on the wikipedia page and got some feedback from Nathan. We many of the evenings meeting up with various members from the team for dinner, beer, or just to hang out and have some tea. Some events from the week were going to a BitShares meetup at NuSpark, and visiting the town of Floyd in search of a local spring and finding a local shop owner with Floydian scrip, a local currency. She seemed quite interested in BitShares!

We also partook in a tasty BBQ out on the Larimer compound. Pam makes a delicious potato salad. We enjoyed some more "talking shop" as Stan phrased it, soaking up some sunlight and knowledge.

The experience has impressed upon me that these guys have been working tirelessly to continue the pursuit of innovations that will make BitShares highly scalable, predictable, quick, and competitive.

"Most cryptocurrency projects are just blockchain toys, and none of the projects out there can scale to the transactional loads of banks if they were approached today."
-Bytemaster

"We are positioning BitShares to be the industrial blockchain."
-Nathan

Disclaimer: these quotes are approximations of what I overheard a week ago. They may not be exactly verbatim but they still convey the essence of the quote.

The answer was negatory! Thanks for the hospitality Fuzz, I had a blast meeting you.

 I am successfully operating on 1.5 hour of sleep. 

Looking forward to listening to the re-mumbling.