Love what you're doing.

I can't remember exactly how the referral program works now, but I would like to know whether you will be in a position to share referral commission, as the registrar of new Bitshares accounts, to affiliate marketers who send you new users? I for one would be interested in promoting your service if this was the case.

I guess their main purpose is for people to use them to pay for things, so calling them coins rather than assets makes sense to me.

Quote from: profitofthegods on June 14, 2015, 07:26:11 pm

Please don't call this kind of thing FUD - these are legitimate concerns whether you agree with them or not.

C'mon, claiming that the supercoolest proposal ever is going to destroy BitShares is totally absurd.

Anyway, if somebody thinks that BitShares doesn't have a future with now proposed 2.0, then maybe he should just sell his shares. This is DAC, so this is like a company. And what you do when you think that company is doing something stupid? You sell your shares and invest your money to something better.

Good shareholders don't use their empoylees time on discussing on the forum about far-fetched worst case scenarios. Good shareholders let their employees do the job and ship the product.

Well as a matter of fact I did just dump a few dozen thousand. But I still own >100k because I don't think this will definitely destroy Bitshares by any means, but there is a whole lot of ground between 'destroying bitshares' and 'this is total FUD with no valid point' which you seem to just want to ignore.

And the idea of 'good shareholders' is very strange to me. Shareholders are self-interested parties, not members of some kind of cult who must adhere to rules laid down by someone else. There are no good or bad shareholders, other than that shareholders who make a profit are good at being a shareholder and those who don't, aren't.

Cryptonomex is just another entity working for BitShares like all the other delegates we had so far.

If Cryptonomex owns the IP to the software which Bitshares uses then Cryptonomex doesn't work for Bitshares, if anything Bitshares works for Cryptonomex.

After a while the community may not even have the option to get other developers if they don't like what Cryptonomex is doing, without stripping back to 0.9 and starting over. As soon as BTS moves to 2.0, it no longer owns the product which its business model is built on.

I'm really going back and forth on this.

On the one hand, the changes make Bitshares a fully fledged DAC rather than being fully controlled by BM etc. in terms of its code.

On the other hand, the end of open source and the social consensus make the whole thing less appealing to me, and unless other developers do come along to compete with Cryptonomex (which I hope does happen) its hard to see how BTS can succeed when its developers could be working for the competition at any given moment (and wouldn't even have to tell us about it). Also it does feel a bit like the devs have given up on this thing succeeding and now want to strip its assets to move on to other things.

Uhh, so much FUD.

But I have to say that I'm not really surprised. This is what you get when you choose to use IP. It's unethical and typically used in harmful and evil ways so people will assume that there is something bad also this time.

Please don't call this kind of thing FUD - these are legitimate concerns whether you agree with them or not.

Most of all you need people willing to short them into existence, so I'd suggest focusing on one index at a time in order to build some liquidity..

I would like to short NASDAQ

Quote from: bytemaster on June 10, 2015, 04:52:06 pm

In the user interface, when the user says they want to send $100, the transaction that it will create will be a send $99 and pay $1 fee.  The receiver will see "receive $100 and pay $1".   

How do you pay for anything at a store if you always send less than the amount you specify?

However, if you provide an option to do both, you will confuse users. IMO better to stick to the original method.

How do you buy anything with a credit or debit card? They do the same. When a merchant sets up their systems to accept Bitshares they will know that there is a fee taken off what they receive, just the same as if they were accepting cards or paypal or pretty much anything else.