What was the 'silver bullet' in case of bitcoin? There was none. It took years of hard work, polishing the clients, services and message. Gradually making things usable.
There is no 'silver bullet': not any single wallet, not "1.0", not one marketing push.
I recommend this presentation from Mike Hearn aspecially the bit about Google maps:
https://youtu.be/2MtUKr05Y3I

Guys, among all the bitching and moaning on this forum, I just wanted to share my Bitshares experience lately.

The Bitshares experience is so quick and easy that I find myself NOT using Bitcoin anymore. For example, I used to buy every Humble Bundle for Bitcoin and thought that it was easy and fast, but lately having to launch and sync that monstrosity (Bitcoin Core client) made me not want to do that. I don't trust any other wallets and syncing alone takes several hours.

Then suddenly I realized that I can spend BitUSD using Shapeshift! It took like two minutes and I spent like 10.30 BitUSD for a $10 game.

Then today I wanted to buy some factoids (factom presale tokens). I registered on koinify and instead of launching and shuffling my BTC around (witch would again take half a day) I decided to try Metaexchange. To my surprise it was even faster and easier than shapeshift! I made the transfer in the Bitshares client and BOOM the koinify page immediately says 'Congratulations, you've got yourself some factoids'.

Shuffling my assets around on the internal exchange has been a blast too. If BitBTC had any liquidity I'd happily convert most of my BTC to it.

I also just reactivated my Neteller account and the Net+ mastercard and loaded it with some BitUSD via shapeshift lens and after 7 days I will be able to take it out from any ATM for free! (not available in the US though). BitUSD really is like having an untouchable bank account in the cloud without having to worry about all the price nonsense. It's secure and accessible and you can spend it wherever Bitcoin is accepted. Pro poker players, dark market vendors, entrepreneurs in unfavorable jurisdictions, investors in unjust tax jurisdictions... Thinking how many people are DESPERATE for this product just makes my head explode.

Fees need to rise to make the referral program worthwhile for big marketers. 1.5 grand from a lifetime referral vs. $500 can make all the difference.

As far as implementing this though... Would this be something we want before 1.0 or maybe a version afterwards?

Having this ready for 1.0 would let us do a big official launch with legend-level marketers pushing bitshares to their armies of lesser marketers who in turn sell to their individual niches.

The trend in consumer facing technology is to gain mass adoption as quickly as possible and that is even truer in mass market financial tech. When it comes to gaining critical mass of users, a coordinated MLM product launch is a force to behold.

I've had to re-download the entire blockchain at least 6 times now, excluding the next one (upon upgrading to 0.7.0, most of my balance simply vanished..), had the program repeatedly crash, it's hung on some random block while syncing countless times...

You're doing something wrong.  I've had Bitshares installed since release and I never had any issues. there were maybe 3 minor releases where it wouldn't sync and they were patched within a day or two.  The transition from 0.6.2 > 0.7 > 0.8 was flawless too. Maybe you're using unsupported OS?

Because of that, I have like 120 names...which has basically made my wallet unusable.  Lesson learned...the hard way.

Fuzzy, is this purely a performance issue? If so you can try the following: sign up for a trial Azure account, spawn the biggest meanest  Windows Server 2012 R2 machine there is, install bitshares and sync. Don't worry, they won't charge you. Copy over your wallet and send everything to a new one on your machine.

I've never used a trollbox but I assume it's something people do when watching live charts on an exchange. Since bitshares.org doesn't have charts the trollbox would be best suited for the client itself (and web wallet of course).