It can certainly often feel like a thankless task working in a decentralized environment. You don't necessarily get the same supporting feedback that you would get in a more traditional workplace with periodic reviews from your manager and coworkers beside you to support you through tough times etc. One thing we as a community seem to be very "good" at is mistrusting people, criticizing them, forcing them to prove that they are delivering etc. That's unfortunately important to protect our projects. But, for the workers it can then be easy to focus more on the negative stuff and not the positive.

I've personally always appreciated Method-X's hard work and commitment. He was one of the first to stand up and take the reigns when the original western marketing division faltered. I've watched a bubbling enthusiasm over at Nullstreet do amazing stuff and spawn multiple amazing projects. I think Method is appreciated by a lot of us in the community, I just think we are a bit crap at showing it sometimes and perhaps we need to figure out better systems of motivating each other.

You guys should stop salivating over one low volume trade where some guy fat fingered an order and was off be a decimal place.

Pegs don't prevent the price from ever going away from the peg value for a short time due to things like this, they just ensure that it will go back.


The same exact thing could happen in bitUSD and the Nubits people could laugh at us, but you guys would point out that it was just a brief blip.  Give them the same amount of credit.

Not really salivating, just curious to know what was going on with them. We're all really into this stuff, it's not like we are just going to sit here and not talk about a giant elephant in the room. It's how we talk about it that's important.

Edit: Well I'm not salivating anyways. Can't talk for others.

Just started: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2uvtt1/okcoin_aua_with_ceo_star_xu_and_okcoin_team/

bts: edilliam

Thanks guys 

I'm trying to find out how BitShares work but some things are not clear to me. Unfortunatelly, these things are fundamental and I can't move ahead without understanding them. Could anyone answer two simple questions, please?

Do the shareholders have the same list of the delegates? If they do then how the consensus is achieved?

There are both unelected and elected delegates. BTS represents stake ("shares") in the BitShares DAC. Anybody that owns BTS can vote for their choice of delegates with their BTS. The more BTS a user has, the more votes they effectively have too. The 101 delegates that receive the most votes from this process become the elected delegates for the BitShares DAC. Users have to pay a fee to become a delegate, so not all users are necessarily delegates. Does this make sense?

Great initiative guys 

Cool! I have some questions:

How long before the data center is set up?

How many racks are you planning?

How much potential space for expansion?

Is it powered by the grid? What are your redundant power supply options?

How are you going to keep everything cool? How good is the existing ventilation? Will you need to install a new system?

Fire suppression system?

What will physical security be like in terms of physical access?

Do you live down there?

How zombie proof is it?