counter party has Gems, nxt has nxtty, what about us?  It would help spread the word about BitShares without a doubt! We could even do the referal program within our own social network!

revenue could come from:

- ads? (although that would be just like Gem)
- creator content. user could subscribe and pay to have access to someone's content like small articles, entertainment pages, etc. Tbh I think an user would pay for high quality content
- unlocking speacial features? certain emoticons, app skins/themes, games, etc
- dividends from burnt fees everytime a transaction is made (trading our social network crypto coin with friends or spending it on special features)

Just seen this: https://github.com/BitShares/bitshares_toolkit/wiki/BitShares-Mail

Thread here: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=10306.0

Nice! Another story today on Coin Telegraph too: http://cointelegraph.com/news/112779/peertracks-will-allow-cryptohipsters-to-profit-by-discovering-a-band-before-anyone-else

Quote from: edilliam on October 22, 2014, 04:49:43 pm

I'm currently working on some design ideas for the branding for MUSIC. See here: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=9930.msg132485#msg132485

With all the talk or mergers etc, can anyone confirm whether or not I should continue work on this area or hold off until we are 100% sure that MUSIC will be branded differently to BTS?

Music will have plenty of separate branding. They have their own front end site and that will continue. This merger question is just about the back-end DAC, which most PeerTracks users will never even know exists. I'm sure some of the marketing will apply to all DACs, but Music definitely has its own branding going on with PeerTracks.

OK thanks, I'll continue working on these designs then. 

Quote from: edilliam on October 19, 2014, 04:44:35 am

Mmmmm Technotronic...

Are you suggesting that Bitcoin may have been set up for the very purpose of appearing to be anonymous, decentralized, Libertarian etc while actually being the antithesis of this?

It is certainly a possibility in my mind.  I'm reaching out to all of you to get everyone thinking about the potentials and to give reasons why/why not.  If you look at the top cryptos...the top 3 seem to represent this "antithesis".  Now with Peercoin, Nubits seems to be in this camp as well.  NXT is the only one in the top 10 (other than, of course, btsx) that does not seem to follow the same, or similar, pattern.  However, there are many ways to co-opt movements and attempts to co-opt them is a rule--not an exception--throughout history.  So the question is out there for two-fold purposes: 
1) to get opinions and
2) to get people thinking of the potential misuse of this tech as we move forward. 

A ledger that documents details of a citizen's every single transaction is a wet dream for an authoritarian state. I agree it's certainly a possibility...

I really like cass's "flat ui" style branding ideas for BitShares MUSIC and this seems to be the popular opinion too. I have taken the liberty to "fork" cass's ideas and add my own. Let me know what you think. Shout-out to the Fuzzy one for making me feel super welcome at last Friday's dev hangout (as always) and inspiring me to do some work. More to come soonish...

Sorry to drag this thread back up, but I'm getting a similar "insufficient funds" issue and perhaps it's related.

"client_version": "v0.4.20"

When attempting to add a sell BitBTC order, if I own 1.12345678 BitBTC and I attempt to create a sell order for that exact amount I get the "insufficient funds" error. Trying 1.1234567, 1.123456, 1.12345 and 1.1234 had the same error. However, if I try to create a sell order for 1.123 it goes through fine.

Is there maybe some data stored somewhere that is a reference to a users balance that only goes to 3 decimal points and is therefore making the system think that users have slightly less funds than they really have? Although, looking at the order book there are several orders that are for amounts with more than 3 decimal points. Perhaps these orders were put through with different versions of the client? Or perhaps this issue is unique to me?

http://www.reddit.com/r/Rad_Decentralization/comments/2j41tk/a_decentralized_way_to_hedge_your_bitcoin/

Also I highly recommend subscribing to the /r/Rad_Decentralization subreddit. Lots of great content and people there that will love BitShares they just don't know it yet!