Quote from: Ander on January 22, 2015, 01:42:10 am

Quote from: LRENZ on January 22, 2015, 01:34:39 am

Yeah nice but it doesn't even say what its counting down to really. Very vague.

I think a lot of you have forgotten how to look at all this from a normal persons perspective that is new to this technology.

It is counting down to the relaunch of the website, and some PR campaign stuff.

1.0 should release a few weeks later probably.

I know that because of digging around in threads on here. My point was people that don't have time to visit to forum for hours don't have a clue what's going on and planned for the future.

I'm not hating I'm just pointing out this area needs looking at from marketing perspective asap.

This is valuable feedback. Thank you. I think this is one of BitShares main marketing problems.

Despite its complete transparency, BitShares works like an insiders only club where only a 100 or so people really know what's going on.
 
The forum stats (new members, posts, topics) are steadily declining month on month as it's hard for new people to try grasp everything or feel like they want to get involved and contribute.

Possible ideas -

- What is BitShares? A 5 minute video or few pages that clearly explains what BitShares is & gets people excited about it.
- A delegate site that makes it easy to see who the currently paid delegates are, even those in the top  200 and what they are working on.
- BitShares News. A weekly news show < 5 minutes, that lets you keep up to speed with what's happening in BitShares without having to navigate the forums and try to extract the nuggets yourself.

It's not an easy task though, NXT have tried to create a visual overview of their system on one page and it is still incredibly complicated and confusing to an outsider trying to make any sense of it imo.

http://www.nxttechnologytree.com/

They also have NXT magazine I see

http://nxter.org/

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My approach I think is to try present BitShares as a holding company for various business models.
I think new investors will be able to better understand BitShares & its value by seeing sites that vastly undercut and outperform existing options such as Dwolla, UBS, BullionVault, IG etc. and I think customers need to be taken to a site that fulfills their specific needs too.

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=13325.msg174295#msg174295

Is just speculation,What also doesn't explain,Don't have any good news
Will fall down soon

No, it is not speculation imo.

A lot of people expected the BTS price to drop when a lot of vested balances became available at the same time.

So a lot of people have kept some money on the sides waiting to buy BTS on the dip.

If the vested balances don't cause a dip then we'll see a spike as all that side money still wants to buy BTS.

It's also very good for BTS in general as if this large vested balance release doesn't cause a dip, it likely means the next two years of release shouldn't cause downward pressure either.

So this could be the start of a strong uptrend, we'll just have to see the next few days how many people sell their merger allocation.

 

What are you contributing? Wallpaper backgrounds? I am really confused

If you look at our forum stats https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?action=stats we've only had 5 topics with more than 30k views and they're all about mining.

They're getting 30 000 views for BTS related subjects and getting top topic on the top crypto-currency information site in China, that's huge, no-one has produced anything like those results in the Western/English market yet.

  Great work! 

Charles wasn't trolling, check out his updated response:

https://twitter.com/nprojectcharles/status/556305652281139202

'Major Bitcoin news coming very soon. Hope you're long. '

Imo. Major News/Very soon/be Long and just before Miami - meant imminent market moving news.

Deferring to tech coming out and saying lets see how the next three months play out, is completely different to that imo.

As I said on Nullstreet, Indonesia and the Phillipines is more in the market for remittance imo.
Our biggest market would be a blockchain.info site in multiple languages that made it easy to keep BitUSD & other Bitcurrencies. (Blockchain.info is the most popular Bitcoin site for a reason. It is also the 546th most popular site in Ukraine and 636th most popular in Russia. (BTC-e also ranks much higher in these countries (Top 1000) than English exchanges do in any country - This tells me those guys are actually using crypto-currency.)

Re-post...

My sense is the Phillipines is in the market for a remittance solution something like John Underwoods remitabit.com or a site/page we make that is targeted at remittance.

My sense is as Ukraine, Russia, Turkey,  Brazil, India, Argentina all had >7% inflation in 2013 and they're looking for exactly what BitAssets like BitUSD offer, an inflation hedge solution. Something simple like blockchain.info for a BitAsset wallet would probably be ideal for this market. (Or a page with just BitUSD local language description, BitUSD video and wallet - otherwise we actually risk losing a lot of the main BitAsset market to NuBits type offerings.)

Our exchange site BitShares.org though will probably appeal to English 1st language speakers who currently use Cryptsy/bter/Coinbase/BitStamp, hopefully alternative language BitShares.org versions will also have some wider appeal and not miss the actual target market for BitAssets.

I think this is the NXT version https://wallet.mynxt.info
If you google 'online wallet' they come up on the first page, pretty good.