Quote from: sumantso on August 11, 2015, 03:04:37 pm

Quote from: xeroc on August 11, 2015, 02:10:10 pm

I would even go as far as stating that brownie.pts holders are most active in the community

You can't claim that, there will be active members whom BM doesn't appreciate.
......

What is EVM?

I have brownies and I strongly disagree that they should be a sharedrop target for anyone except bytemaster or crptonomex... They are given out at the discretion of one person who has already admitted that he is too busy to properly oversee who/how many should be given out.  They are mostly given out for tasks that bytemaster deems important... there is plenty of work being done by other people that is beneficial to bitshares that isn't necessarily sanctioned or promoted by Dan.

Agreed. Also, brownies are actively traded on BTS right now. Wouldn't be hard for someone that BM doesn't like/approve of with deep pockets to just buy a whole bunch. And be super-duper "appreciated". lol.

As an aside, I'm not sure what to make of ETH right now. I keep hearing things like the project could take many more years to reach a stable status, dev money seems to be running out, etc. But we have guys like Toast and Rune singing its praises, and people in general seem to just be super hyped and positive about the whole project.

Basically, I guess the question is -- should I be invested in ETH instead? Just not feeling the BTS love lately, from any angle. Maybe it's just the hype of something new and shiny lol. Feels too quiet lately.

Quote from: Stan on November 08, 2014, 12:43:27 am

Here's a face we think you'll be seeing a lot of in the coming year.  John Underwood, an accomplished Aussie entrepreneur currently based in the Philippines, spent a couple of days with us in Virginia.  He's got Big Plans to extend our technology into the remittance industry.  You are going to like it.

Back Live

Hi guys good to be back, my apologies for my silence but I promise you this duck, whilst silent, has been paddling 24/7 beneath the surface.

In summary, after considerable due diligence we came to believe that the dynamics of the market were so restrictive that unless we focused on the root cause we could neither speak nor execute with conviction.

As a consequence we went back to first principles and worked through the issues as we saw them and now after many months of back and forth on how and why, we are getting ready to reveal our plans to the community.

We have a few conversations to go over the next few days but I am pleased to say that we are close to becoming more vocal...

Take care and maybe grab a seat, life is too short to bet on a hope

Underwun

Wow, nice. I thought for sure you guys just kind of evaporated away after not hearing anything all this time. Glad to see I was wrong. Can't wait to see what you have in store.

  and good luck!

Quote from: Empirical1.2 on July 09, 2015, 06:54:19 pm

-snip-

There you go empirical.  It was all false.  No real rationale except lit coin was a pump n dump

I have to agree with this. Too often we all want to put a reason behind every price jump and drop, but in the end it's all just smoke and mirrors, big players playing on smaller players' hypes/fears and everyone just going all out nutso looking to make a profit any way they can. It's literally chaos in its purest, most free-market form. Truly a beautiful sight to behold.

Hopefully someday we can get really really profitable and actually get back down to 2 bil shares. Then I'll have 0.01% and be a "whale" (at least in xeroc's eyes). 

Quote from: lil_jay890 on June 20, 2015, 01:29:27 pm

I'm just hoping one day bts surpasses bitcoins all time high of approximately 12 billion market cap. Anyone think that is feasible in the next few years?  I look forward to that day so I can finally walk out of my day job and not have to go back the next morning...

Anyway I think a whale should be classified by having the ability to move price say 5-10% on liquidation

It's not feasible.. its inevitable.

12 bil would make me a millionaire. If it's "inevitable" I might as well quit my job now and wait for that BTS paycheck to come in the mail. 

Why not SmartMoney? Is there a legal issue with using "money" ?

Meh. Just doesn't sound...sexy enough.

 

Every 10 seconds someone is mass producing account names using random-as-all-hell words from the dictionary. Even now it's continuing. Here's a list of the most recent batch:

Account Name   Id   Registration date   Registration block   Last update   Wall total   Delegate   Sub-accounts
dieterich   50099   Jun 17, 2015 6:11:40 AM   2,826,160   Jun 17, 2015 10:11:40 AM   
0.00   No   No
amazonite   50098   Jun 17, 2015 6:11:40 AM   2,826,160   Jun 17, 2015 10:11:40 AM   
0.00   No   No
acupressure   50097   Jun 17, 2015 6:11:40 AM   2,826,160   Jun 17, 2015 10:11:40 AM   
0.00   No   No
braunschweig   50096   Jun 17, 2015 6:11:40 AM   2,826,160   Jun 17, 2015 10:11:40 AM   
0.00   No   No
serpentin   50095   Jun 17, 2015 6:11:30 AM   2,826,159   Jun 17, 2015 10:11:30 AM   
0.00   No   No
paragliders   50094   Jun 17, 2015 6:11:30 AM   2,826,159   Jun 17, 2015 10:11:30 AM   
0.00   No   No
goldfinger   50093   Jun 17, 2015 6:11:30 AM   2,826,159   Jun 17, 2015 10:11:30 AM   
0.00   No   No
intertraffic   50092   Jun 17, 2015 6:11:30 AM   2,826,159   Jun 17, 2015 10:11:30 AM   
0.00   No   No
catskills   50091   Jun 17, 2015 6:11:30 AM   2,826,159   Jun 17, 2015 10:11:30 AM   
0.00   No   No
amoxicillin   50090   Jun 17, 2015 6:11:30 AM   2,826,159   Jun 17, 2015 10:11:30 AM   
0.00   No   No
marinduque   50089   Jun 17, 2015 6:11:30 AM   2,826,159   Jun 17, 2015 10:11:30 AM   
0.00   No   No
downsizing   50088   Jun 17, 2015 6:11:20 AM   2,826,158   Jun 17, 2015 10:11:20 AM   
0.00   No   No
handcrafts   50087   Jun 17, 2015 6:11:20 AM   2,826,158   Jun 17, 2015 10:11:20 AM   
0.00   No   No
mcclelland   50086   Jun 17, 2015 6:11:20 AM   2,826,158   Jun 17, 2015 10:11:20 AM   
0.00   No   No
wristwatches   50085   Jun 17, 2015 6:11:20 AM   2,826,158   Jun 17, 2015 10:11:20 AM   
0.00   No   No
paychecks   50084   Jun 17, 2015 6:11:20 AM   2,826,158   Jun 17, 2015 10:11:20 AM   
0.00   No   No
molecatcher   50083   Jun 17, 2015 6:11:20 AM   2,826,158   Jun 17, 2015 10:11:20 AM   
0.00   No   No
uplifting   50082   Jun 17, 2015 6:11:20 AM   2,826,158   Jun 17, 2015 10:11:20 AM   
0.00   No   No
coulommiers   50081   Jun 17, 2015 6:11:10 AM   2,826,157   Jun 17, 2015 10:11:10 AM   
0.00   No   No
irishwoman   50080   Jun 17, 2015 6:11:10 AM   2,826,157   Jun 17, 2015 10:11:10 AM   
0.00   No   No

Looks like someone really, really wants to take over 8+ character names. Heh.

Yup, I always had trouble figuring out what exactly the hell was happening when a short was opened, etc. I mean I had a general idea, but the way it was presented was intimidating for newbie traders. I'll support anything to make it less intimidating/confusing to the noggin.

 

could we please not reply to the trolls on the thread? otherwise it will turn into a joke. If they don't get a reply they will eventually get tired and stop doing it.

This. The petty squabbling looks ridiculous. Just ignore it and they will eventually go away. Seemed to work on the communist thread after a while, hah.