My god, she's unstoppable.

I was impressed with the measured responses on Polo last night concerning BitShares. When the FUD started rolling, community members just focused on what BitShares can deliver. Hopefully more spend time on their addressing BitShares concerns.

  agreed

Quote from: BunkerChain Labs on March 10, 2016, 04:31:49 am

Quote from: lil_jay890 on March 10, 2016, 04:27:35 am

So dumb question... What advantages does Azure give to bitshares other than being associated with the Microsoft name?  Is Azure BaaS a market place?  Can people develop for BTS through Azure?

The general idea of the BaaS is that when some company is looking to build a blockchain they can shop through Azure and spin one up.

As far as the crypto-traders are concerns though.. another reason to buy on the hype and sell on the news.

Thanks Data,

So will Microsoft have any affiliation with BTS?  or is this kind of like the Craig's List of blockchain business's?  Are they trying to promote business's building on top of one of the blockchain's within the Azure offering?

Microsoft has no more association with any of these blockchains than Linux has with any host provider.

Microsofts motivation in promoting this is largely due to their entire business strategy of going back to the 80s and focusing in their cloud offering at all costs. Blockchain is edgey and hot as a buzz word for innovation.. its good for them. It's working too.. they keep getting themselves out there like they are the go to place for launching blockchain whatever now.

In cryptoland though.. stories of associations are often overstated if not misleading. There is a reason all the PRs only ever show up on places like Coindesk and never in Bloomberg. The association has been conflated and doesn't denote anything more than being included in a repo that adheres to their template environment.

I might sound like I am dumping on this but I'm not. It is another pathway for adoption, and a good one.

I think though most people who are following this news only view the potential market cap growth out of it and don't really understand what happened. Microsoft was heard and everyone gets stary eyed.

I'm glad Fox managed to get the template in their repo. Now he gets to have real fun... maintenance! I am hoping we can help out with that in the future.

  to Fox!

On top of the Get listed on the Bitshares DEX, we should also have "BitShares is looking for business partners" or "Looking to help new businesses/services" and then we show multiple use cases and how our tech can help, ie: exchanges, crowdfunding, etc

That should help attract new businesses, people will immediately know they can use BitSHares for

Tough to make that case when just last week the community decided to remove the partners section of the forum claiming we should have no partners.

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,21699.0.html

Thanks for your fast response - metaexchange has now re-enabled our IOU markets:

https://metaexchange.info/markets/METAEX.BTC/BTC
https://metaexchange.info/markets/METAEX.ETH/ETH
https://metaexchange.info/markets/METAEX.NXT/NXT

  .. Time for Metaexchange volume to go TO THE MOON!

People are apprehensive about paying for marketing ever since Brian page fucked us.  Not saying that pay for marketing wouldn't work, but the last attempt set bts back massively.  It was false promise after false promise.

We also paid delegates like method-x to do marketing, in which he did absolutely nothing.

Fool me once, shame one you. Fool me twice shame on me. Fool me three times, kick me in the balls and tell me not to be so dumb.

Yeah... but I think you can agree that some of their lack of performance had to do with a less than marketable product. Or at least not being able to find a market that wanted/needed/could use that product other than those that invested.

What we had then to what we have now is like night and day.

We do not need to pay a marketer.. what we do need are tools to allow people to better market what we have and a roadmap to how people can profit for themselves using the refer program. Now mind you someone can design a program like this themselves and host their own wallet and then in turn be able to profit based on their performance. It's just that the barrier to entry on that front on the technical end is a bit more than most marketers are willing to stomach.

So there are two or three items I see that we could potentially consider if we were going to use a Worker in this regard:

1. Market research to better identify our target audiences so that we can target our messaging accordingly - intelligence
2. Develop the process/app of launching customized wallets to be more adoptable for marketers - tools
3. Have a management and development department with these tools to promote/manage/support marketers - execution

There is literally the largest army on earth of work at home affiliate marketers that can be employed if the right type of alignment is put in place as i have outlined.

That is where we should be focusing as a DAC platform.

To enable the masses with opportunities to prosper through Bitshares.

We can put together such a proposal for a 'roadmap' in this regard along with budgetary requirements and proposal to execute.

Perhaps with the introduction of no negative voting it might have some legs.

This all really depends on if you want to see Bitshares brand itself grow. Leaving it to anybody else only will result in the promotion of their own brand. Take for example Ronnie.. Openledger is the brand being promoted along with Obits... his efforts affect the price of obits, not really Bitshares.

If you want to see market cap and branding of Bitshares grow, then these are my recommendations based on 20+ years in business.

Thoughts?

Nice to see a lower fee schedule for some functions.. and reasonable fees for the Asset-specific operations..

Except when one withdraws vesting balance with a minimum fee of 467 right now.. quite a large jump from 2 BTS... I didn't notice that yesterday when I withdrew 139 bts with a fee of 467 bts... losing 328 bitshares in the process...Also looking at the fee schedule, since I'm a lifetime member... shouldn't that charge me 93.54571 BTS? seems to have charged me a standard fee...

The everyday transactions were drastically reduced while occasional or one time transactions were increased. Vesting balances were among them as they are generally used only once or twice a month generally per user on the high frequency end.

Quote from: BunkerChain Labs on March 05, 2016, 03:06:58 pm

Ah no.. I am trying to remember the user... but he has been around for months.. a while back he was giving away his asset.. I believe it was BRICKS.

He is out of south america somewhere I believe. I want to say Columbia but I might be off on that.

He's passionate about Bitshares.. and has nothing to do with Rune or Toast.

BRICS , you are off just a 10k km though   - istanbul , and I wish I was as artfully talented as that...

I was off on having nothing to do with Rune too