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:~/bitsharesx# git checkout 0.4.15
error: pathspec '0.4.15' did not match any file(s) known to git.

The correct name is v0.4.15-RC1.

Hey delegates,

some people around are eagerly awaiting the bitGLD
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=8759.msg114934#msg114934
and the bitEUR
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=6406.msg114296#msg114296

Bytemaster and I3 gave a "green light" for the community to freely publish any feeds.

Gold prices declined to their 3-month low this month and many are interested to get some gold.  With the timely introduction of bitGLD, we are entering into an exciting time! 

BM just promised to downvote those two on the next vote ... thanks for joining the first ever downvote-party :-)
I will probably sleep much better with running less delegates ..

Great job, xeroc.  I will make sure the said delegates are in the downvote list.

Quote from: cube on September 08, 2014, 02:59:15 pm

1. what for do you spend your delegates income?
Efforts towards the adoption of Bitshare in South Asia. 

thanks cube - I think right now the role of the delegate is to basically help foster the initial bitsharesx infrastructure. But in the future, business plans will count for more. What specifically are you planning on doing to help adoption of bitshares is south asia? There's probably not enough income to do much yet, but sharing ideas and best practices will help everyone.

The main role of the delegate is to help foster the bitsharesx infrastructure indeed.  My understanding of bitsharesx plan is that there will be trust-worthy and competent individuals running a few delegates initially.  But eventually there will be 101 individuals, each running just one delegate.

The earnings from a delegate may not be much but it would be good enough to start off the adoption push.  People in South Asia come from a diversity of cultures, languages and norms.  The goal of delegate bitcube is to reach out to South Asians who are open to new forms of trading and investment instruments (such as Bitsharex!), working with their own diverse languages and norms.

Hello cube.

Thanks for posting here and getting involved.  Sounds like you've made great contributions to other areas in crypto-currencies in the past.

There is another post here that polls delegates with some basic questions, submitting your answers might encourage others to vote you in: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=7175.0

I'll toss some votes for you, but would like to know if you have any plans for the 80% pay rate funds you are keeping.  If it's just to pocket for yourself that is fine, but if you plan to fund things within the community that would be extra incentive for votes edging you over others that don't disclose the plans for their payouts.

Good luck!

Dear amencon

Thank you for your kind words and support.  You have given me valuable advice.  I like to thank you with my votes and support.

You are right to ask my plan for delegate bitcube.  No, I do not intend to pocket the fund. Not at all.  If you look at my work for the Vertcoin community, you would know that I have been doing it for free.  The Vertcoin P2Pool real-time node finder was fully funded out of my own pocket.  It has been drawing a lot more miners and I believe it plays an important role in helping to make Vertcoin's vision of Decentralisation possible.  And the Vertcoin ProxyPool has a pool fee of 0.25% (market average is 2%) which barely covers the cost.  I was not doing it for short-term/immediate gain.  I was planting a seed for long-time growth.

I am now part of the Bitshare community and I would like to call it my new home.  I intend to contribute to and grow with Bitshare for the long haul.

I am from Singapore, a vibrant trading hub for South Asia.  Bitshare is a wonderful new technology for trading and investment.  But it is relatively unknown outside the crypto world.  I believe the 'first step' for Bitshare is adoption.  We have massive opportunity for Bitshare to gain adoption in South Asia - namely Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.  My goal for delegate bitcube would be to put up efforts towards the gaining of adoption in this part of Asia. 

Edit: With the successful launch of the Get Free KeyID faucet, the effort towards mass adoption is now extended to the whole world.   

I would try to answer the rest of the questions:

1. what for do you spend your delegates income?
Efforts towards the adoption of Bitshare in South Asia. 

2. whats your burn-rate and why?
80% pay-rate. 20% burn-rate.  I believe part of the fund, 20%, should return to the shareholders.  The major part of the fund (estimated 60%) would be to use for actual adoption activities.  The rest would be to cover cost.

3. where is your delegate located?
Singapore, the trading hub of South Asia

4. whats your machine/connection/redundancy specs?
Intel Xeon E5-2630L, 4GB RAM, residing in a data centre in Singapore.  Backup power is taken care by the data centre.

5. "short" up to 300 character description why are you running a delegate or many of them
I am runing one delegate called bitcube. Please see above for description.

6. are you related to other delegate operators?
No.

7. how many delegates are in your control?
One.

Please support Bitshare adoption in South Asia. Please vote for delegate bitcube.

wallet_approve_delegate bitcube true

I also massively oppose requiring delegates to provide their real life identities. It straight up goes against the point of titan, and comes across as heavily suspicious why you're so interested in  this information. Btsx is in an extremely grey area legally, no doubt it will be under the gaze of governments before long, and I don't want to be dragged away and thrown into guantanamo Bay for hosting a decentralized banking/exchange system. Anyone demanding real life information should first provide their own real life Id to prove they don't work for an intelligence agency/government.

I believe this is a very valid concern for many people. There are also those who like to keep their privacy from some strangers who may disturb (eg stalking, spamming) their real life in person.  On the other hand, the bitshare community needs to know their voted delegates are reliable and do not suddenly 'disappear'.  Perhaps one approach is for the delegate candidate to provide information that the community can use to access his/her reputation and/or track records.  What do you think?

Feel free to add to the discussion!

http://bitcoinist.net/bitshares-x-i-attempt-to-profit-from-the-grand-experiment-part-2-of-2/

Thanks again for all the help.

Very nice read.  You forgot to mention which exchange to avoid.