I hope the price continues going up so fast that bears in this thread cannot get back in.

Lol ander you're loving this right now. 

Quote from: roadscape on May 21, 2015, 04:41:00 am

Yeah, all we're missing is some juicy specs and blurry photos of the supposed product.

Fortunately, we have a receptacle for such materials: bitshares.leaks@gmail.com

No need for that, I have the inside scoop for everyone. I found a sekrut repository on teh github's and here's a screenshot of v0.9.9 along with the top 3 new features Stan & Dan won't talk about.

That's hilarious. My sides.

Quote from: role on May 10, 2015, 02:20:23 pm

Quote from: BTSdac on May 09, 2015, 01:19:44 pm

this idea maybe is good , but we cannot change any rule, so it is useless, stop to discussing it , I had loss much, I don`t want to lose all

 

We need to distinguish between property rights (which should always be secure) and system functionality which must continuously advance, or die.

The minute we decide that we cannot change to stay the best, a competitor will emerge that does not suffer under those constraints. 

Would you really want the results of our latest R&D to go to a competitor because BitShares cannot change to incorporate it?

Otherwise, BitShares would suffer the ultimate fate of Bitcoin.  Stuck roaring in the tar pits, failing to adapt, unable to compete.

Ultimately it is for the shareholders to decide.  But the choice is never simply whether to adopt a new technology or not.  It is always whether we want to allow some competitor pick it up and use it against us!

This. Adapt and evolve, or stagnate and die. It's that simple.

Gotta do what you gotta do.

Plenty of code being developed off line to maximize the huge lead BitShares is building on its competition.

All of the concerns people keep expressing are being addressed in a far, far more comprehensive way than an outside observer could possibly imagine.

Would you really want us to abandon our carefully designed comprehensive solution to run off after every angry demand someone posts in bold print? 

This is a chess game and sometimes a player needs to make a few "pointless" moves in advance that the average kibitzer doesn't fully appreciate at the time.

 

Sure have been a lot of hints lately at something huge in the pipeline...hope the wait (and cheap BTS) are worth it.

YES! It feels like the first morning in a week that I didn't wake up to see the price crash down to oblivion during the night!

BULLISH! We've reached the trough of sorrow! The bottom is in! The time to buy is NOW.

 

Quote from: bobmaloney on April 29, 2015, 08:42:38 pm

Quote from: Akado on April 29, 2015, 07:44:53 pm

It's true ahah maybe because of that I don't worry about the price too much, because I don't care about short term profits and invested ready for the long term.

To be honest I only worry about one thing with these low prices, is how can they affect delegates and development. As long as delegates have enough money to accomplish what their milestones I'm at ease.

This most accurately parallels my position as well.

Quote from: bytemaster on April 29, 2015, 06:33:09 pm

I was just talking with a VC today who is in the process of buying a fiat exchange and is interested in funding us to integrate.   Funding developers is not going to be a problem. 

In reality these low prices are HELPING us attract VC money because they can buy in and capture a stake.   

While this is what I would suspect to be the case (and for those that care about $$$ ROI first and foremost - consolidation of holdings into a handful of big guns might be beneficial)

What I worry about is how much ideology we might lose in the transition.


I believe in the ability and integrity of bytemaster and the rest of the Dev team, but I am also bothered by the relative absence of Toast, as I viewed him as the Bitshares Devs most transparent ideological indicator.

Toast may be coming back to the fold this month... stay tuned.

If that's not something to get bullish about then I don't know what is!

 

BTC is even bigger disappointment than BTS. It's failure reflects on all altcoin projects.

And now it's super hard to raise money for such cool projects like Moonstone. Alas, just a half and a year ago people were giving away 100+ BTC to scammers at BTT and now they can't spare a few for a killer wallet, wth. 

This. It's bitcoin's massive bleed-out over the past 1.5 years that's truly at the heart of all this bearishness. And honestly it only looks like the trend will continue downward with bitcoin. The only things left to look forward to are the ETF and halving next year, but I'd say there's a good chance those are already priced in anyway. These events will probably be used as an excuse to pump the price up a bit, but will be followed by a long bleed-out period all over again.

BitShares has the potential to be everything bitcoin wants to be and a hell of a lot more. That's why I'm still here, and hodling to the bitter end.