If third parties want to use the BitShares toolkit, do we still plan to have the social consensus in place recommending airdrops to BTS holders? If so, what is the new recommended percentage? Or will the social consensus just be for AGS and PTS holders?

I feel like the next bubble for BTS will be significant. As in, if everything is as awesome as has been teased, we could see an absolutely absurd rise in price in an extremely short time. But from looking at the historical chart, I feel like I should have sold some during the first bubble over $100 million cap, and increased my position on the fall.

But how do you call the top of the bubble? How do you know a quick fall is nothing more than a bear trap, and you sell some at a price never to be seen again? What if the price does rise exponentially higher than anyone is anticipating, if say an announcement really were that powerful?

Is it better safe than sorry, if you truly believe in BitShares long-term? Hold to the bitter end? Or risk some for that chance to build up your BTS base?

There's a wall of over 5 million BTSX over on the Chinese Yunbi exchange at 0.18 CNY...roughly $0.029 each or $148,000 worth.

Insane.

I was hoping I'd be able to keep my BitUSD shorts open for a few months...but hot damn is there a lot of Chinese sell pressure lately. At the rate we're going, I'm fairly sure all my shorts will be wiped soon. Fingers crossed...

Some super exciting news in the next few days would be much appreciated, lol.

From a BitcoinTalk thread earlier today:

The proto-shares Bitshares thing for us was a mess. I mean snapshots were a new concept at the time. Cryptsy was hit by the wall street journal article rush 5000 new customers a day at that time. Support was swamped we could not hire fast enough! When we were contacted the time frame to implement was just to short. The only fair thing we decided we could do was announce that we would not be participating and that folks would have to withdraw.

I finally met Daniel Larimer at inside Bitcoin in NY where he broke it all down and I expressed to him that if only we could have gotten together sooner...

So love the concept of Bitshares! But as you can see we have yet to add it as an option since we could not credit the customers from the first snapshot.

I mean should we at this point? I get requests for bitshares and all the variations we just have not felt right adding them after the missed snapshot.

*One additional note if your a developer to properly integrate a massive coin/wallet change and ensure security we need more than 24/48 hours.

Should we try to get them to add Bitshares?

Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=810399.msg9075358#msg9075358

Alright, so I'm thinking to myself that Bitcoin aims to be the world's currency, while BitShares' approach is much broader: to be the world's investment (more or less). Based on this alone, isn't the market BitShares is trying to grab much greater than Bitcoin's, and thus the potential future market cap much, much higher? As in, BitShares seeks to take down banks, stock exchanges, forex, gold markets, USD, etc etc etc...is a trillion dollar market cap reasonable say even 20 years into the future, considering the vast sums of wealth contained in these markets??

Am I delusional??

I'm watching the BTC38 exchange for BTSX/CNY, and it's looking kind of rough. Buy support looks to be minimal, while huge walls are forming from 0.2 CNY and downward. I've seen a few walls over nearly 900,000 BTSX appearing at 0.2 and below. Is this correlated with the recent drop in BTC? People becoming impatient over lack of exciting BTSX news recently? Will we continue the downtrend below 0.18 and cause me to get margin called? Is it a concern that over 80% of our volume is directly from CNY as opposed to BTC? Am I being overly concerned with the moment-to-moment price and need to get back to work (lol)? This feels like a pivotal make-or-break moment for crypto right now...

Discuss.

I've been trying to short BitUSD for the past few days now, but I'm finding it impossible to stay above the peg while at the same time attracting bidders. All the asks below me get filled until the peg moves lower, making it very hard to fill a short. I heard mention of being able to short below the peg if you pay some fees, but I'm not seeing any options for this. Am I missing anything obvious?

While doing my usual perusal of "anti-Bitshares" posts on the forums, one remark caught my eye. Some are of the opinion that the SEC will be ready to crack down on Bitshares as soon as it grows large enough to catch notice, due to illegal securities trading. My thought had been that since Bitshares is more of a "prediction market" in that the underlying assets are not truly being bought or sold, that this would not be a problem. However, I am not well versed in securities law nor am I sure that I entirely understand what is being bought or sold in these prediction markets, so I would definitely like to hear some thoughts on this matter from those more knowledgeable than I. Is the SEC ban hammer a threat?