Here is the current numbers on btc and is pairings

#   Source   Pair   Volume (24h)   Price   Volume (%)   Updated
1   BitcoinAverage   BTC/USD   $ 9,511,380   $ 481.41   59.92 %   Recently
2   BitcoinAverage   BTC/CNY   $ 5,399,340   $ 477.96   34.02 %   Recently
3   BitcoinAverage   BTC/EUR   $ 597,300   $ 485.14   3.76 %   Recently
4   BitcoinAverage   BTC/GBP   $ 164,622   $ 489.51   1.04 %   Recently
5   BitcoinAverage   BTC/RUB   $ 104,037   $ 498.83   0.66 %   Recently
6   BitcoinAverage   BTC/CAD   $ 96,500   $ 481.65   0.61 %   Recently

as you can see USD is the leader followed by CNY then EUR
This above chart looks like a "healthy" global interest. It is not bad that we have great Chinese interest but I am pointing out why the lack of interest from the rest of the world. Perhaps its because we are young? Different marketing strategy between what is done on the Chinese side vs the rest of the world?  I am trying to identify a possible short coming then perhaps we can focus on correcting it.

BitcoinAverage excludes two very large BTC exchanges because they have a 0% trading fee.

Here's a recent article: CoinDesk: Yuan Trades Now Make Up Over 70% of Bitcoin Volume

I get everything you are saying but WHY such high high Chinese interest and a complete lack of interest from the rest of the world btsx/cny trading make up between 70-80% of total total 24hr volume. When you look at the second highest 24 hour volume(btsx/btc it changes exchanges to bter(a high fee exchange). Btc transaction's are how most of the rest of the world gets into btsx. What I am trying to say is the market seems almost totally supported by one Chinese exchange exchange(btc38) and one pairing btsx/cny.Am I concerned about nothing, does this bother anyone else?
 

Which parts of the world are lacking BTSX interest?

China has 4x the population of the U.S., and worldwide, Mandarin has 2.5x more speakers than English.

They have a fairly lively community here: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?board=4.0

And if you look at Bitcoin markets, you'll see that approx 70% of the BTC trading volume is in CNY.
https://bitcoinwisdom.com/

Doesn't seem crazy to me.

that is, too, an issue with the GUI.
all those indices are basically variables that should have been replaced by the underlying framework ..

don't ask me why they weren't

the assert exception might be solvable by an update to 0.4.14 ..

Are the variables localized? Perhaps they are missing translations for bitsharesrussia's (presumably) Russian OS environment?

Question about bitUSD.

I read that a fixed value requires variable supply (and vice versa). This makes sense.

So how is the supply of bitUSD controlled? Is it in the market's hands somehow? Is it that anyone can "create" bitUSD by borrowing it against BTSX? And then it's essentially "destroyed" when you return it?

On a related note--bytemaster was talking about price feeds for bitUSD a while back. We aren't still using these, are we? And are there any similar "crutches" in the BitSharesX system currently?

Soo... volume on bitCNY is a little bit miserable and there are bids above the peg. Anybody out there? Anybody want to short into my overpriced bids?

If bitUSD:BTSX is 25.65 and CNY:USD is 0.16, does that mean bitCNY should ideally be at 4.104? What's the best way to determine the true value?

It's starting to make sense, thank you!

So if I simply want to invest in PTS, it doesn't really matter if its in PTS or bitPTS, except that:
 - Keeping PTS I'll be eligible to receive equity from new DACs
 - Keeping bitPTS I'll be able to earn dividends/rewards

Do I have it correct?

Ok, created a Bter account and bought/transferred some BTSX to my client.

I managed to buy some bitUSD! Exciting 

So it seems at the very least, the BitSharesX client allows me to store a BTSX and bitUSD balance.

But aren't they separate blockchains? Where is my bitUSD address?

I downloaded the BitSharesX client, created an account, and kindly received 30 BTSX for doing so.

I've spent a few hours reading about BitShares and I'm impressed!

I'm also confused. I bought PTS on Cryptsy and want to withdraw it. The BitsharesX client appears to be an exchange, but from what I've seen it only handles BTSX. So I downloaded the BitShares-PTS client and am waiting for the sync. But how then do I exchange PTS for BTSX?