Update time again!

Very close to adding a bitUSD market now - all the technology is in place, just need to get it set up. The architecture of metaexchange has evolved as well; it was always designed to run a daemon (which processes the actual orders) as well as the site itself with the daemon on a totally different piece of hardware from the site, but now there can be multiple daemons, in different locations around the world!

What this means is that we can start to build business relationships with 'liquidity providers', who will host one (or more) metaexchange markets. The API will route orders to whichever liquidity provider is running the market in which the trade is placed. This means zero counterparty risk for the liquidity providers and the same low to none risk for our customers!

Cheers, Paul.

It seems like the very place I have to be !!!

Here it's very late saturday night and it's really time for me to hit the blankets. I will defenitively take a very interesting look at it tomorow as soon as I have my brain back fully fonctional again.

Thanks again OnceUponATime !!! You helped me a lot since the very begenning !

Quote from: Akado on February 21, 2015, 08:43:22 pm

maybe setting up a delegate to give support via skype. this delegate would be always or most part of the time, available to help people with technical stuff. could even make skype sessions. people could apply on a thread and the delegate would schedule each session. kinda like a call center but since the delegate probably won't have multiple people working for him (at least for now), instead of people calling up via skype, he could schedule each session. basically his job would be constantly helping people out on the Technical forum section and doing those sessions on skype.

This is the wrong approach. The reason we feel the need for something like this so badly is because the client needs to be more usable. I'd much rather put time and money into usability than customer support.

We need to strike at the roots, not hack at the leaves.

So that's a lot of text to read, but most people who have read it seem to respond positively to your passion, motivation, efforts and video/content skills. I think this is a success by all measures. 

What is worrying is what is always worrying when a passionate, motivated entrepreneur gets pitching: There is too much going on, you're trying to do and say too many things simultaneously. Obviously you have a lot of ideas brewing, but not all of them are relevant right now.

As I see it you have three main things you need to focus on right now. 0) Getting a BitShares Delegate up, get it voted in, and keep communicating with and learning from the community. 1) Marketing your YouTube channel to get a viewership in the tens of thousands. 2) Refining your ideas on a MVP to the point where a fundraiser will be effective and get you enough money to build it.

When it comes to the first point you can do this independently and collaborate with the marketers over at Nullstreet. Instead of defining your demographics in advance I think you should do exploratory marketing with your Youtube videos. Do what you do best, and see what subscribers you attract: That's your demographic, it's the concrete people who are interested in your ideas and style.

As for the second point, you should focus on explaining as clearly and concisely why your MVP will make money for the investors who buy into it. In addition viral incentive structures of your MVP need to be in place before we even talk about the grand experience; think through a) why users would use it, b) why investors would invest, and 3) why content creators would produce content on there.

Finally, don't underestimate the time and resources that are required to do things that in abstract sound pretty straight forward. We all know this common advice, but underestimating the time it takes to resolve and deal with minute issues is usually what gets people trapped.

To sum up:
- Zone in on what you need to do instead of what you can do.
- YouTube is best way to explore demographics, build reputation and refine branding, voice and vision.
- Focus on simplifying your MVP pitch and learn in detail how to raise funds safely with BitShares.
- Don't underestimate the time and resources you need to do even "simple" things.

Looking forward to see you develop and grow boldly! In 2015 the speed of evolution is only bounded by the speed at which we transcend our own limits again and again 

Quote from: yellowecho on February 21, 2015, 01:05:14 am

Bump.  What's the status on this?  I've been out of the loop 

At the console type in the command:

wallet_collect_vested_balances <account_name>

and you will get your vested balances up to the time you enter the command. Then, thereafter, anytime you enter that command you will get the amount of shares that have vested since last time you entered the command.

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Quote from: delulo on February 21, 2015, 12:51:50 am

gentso-biz-dev.poweredby-thom ?

hehe

When you say it like that delegate.verbaltech just rolls off the tongue.

haha true. what bitshares needs is a name plus a little subtitle discription for delegates!!

I think this is a great idea.

Their has been a point of suggesting the delegates work in a pairs  or as members of a team. It would be nice if, at the very least we could link our accounts to a delegate in order to show team members. Even better would be if their was a little about me button where a delegate could do a quick 2 line write up on what they hope to do for the community.