I found this list.  Its a start:

http://www.techradar.com/us/news/gaming/top-40-best-free-games-you-should-play-today-695473#null

1) Like Bitcoin, it is an implementation of the Blockchain technology: A decentralized ledger.

2) DPoS.   DPoS doesn't waste money through inflation in order to secure the network.  DPoS > PoW.

3) BitUSD.  BitUSD provides stability and solves bitcoin's problem where merchants dont want to hold it due to price volatility.  It even provides yield!

4) Paid Delegates.  Bitshares has the ability to fund its own development through paid delegates.  This allows Bitshares holders, by majority vote, to elect someone to be paid (through inflation) to do whatever we are hiring them for.   This gives us the ability to hire developers to improve Bitshares.  It could even result in us hiring many developers away from other projects where they wouldn't get paid, poaching the talent from any competition.

5) Speed.   10 second transaction times (or even lower) with DPoS is greatly superior to bitcoin's 10 minute transaction speed or Litecoin's 1 minute.

6) BitAsset Exchange.  Other BitAssets like bitGLD are useful to allow exposure to whatever price volatility you want.  Bitshares is an exchange, not just a currency.  Additionally, trading fees are used to burn shares of BTSX, reducing the overall supply (counteracting dilution!)

7) Other features.   Anonymity (TITAN), upcoming features such as VOTE, DNS, Turing complete scripting.

If we were to dilute in order to pay a higher interest rate, that would make Bitshares look like a scam to me.  A ponzi, taking the funds of new investors (those who bought diluted shares) and paying it as interest to old investors.

This is exactly what we dont want to do, imo.

We need to increase real, legitimate, sustainable demand for bitUSD.  Which is hopefully what the coming marketing campaign will do.

Dota is more well known though!

Oh, I see, you are a time traveller from 2005!

Quote from: Rune on October 27, 2014, 09:11:52 pm

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1. I3 wants developers on site, and for valid reasons.  It makes the project more cohesive and easier to manage. However, the demand for developers looking to move to Blacksburg, VA is, unsurprisingly, very low. Either I3 needs to move their office, or they'll need to effectively manage remote employees.

This is a joke, right?

Please tell me this is a joke.

I3 will hire someone anywhere in the world for one off / freelance projects, but as far as I'm aware, the core toolkit developers they've been bringing to VA. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong or this has changed.

Once we get a stable release build, plus the marketing campaign, we will be past the point where Bitshares needs to be developed by a core team in one location, imo.  At that point, the ability to hire developers as paid delegates for particular 'freelance' tasks will be incredibly useful.  (Also, hopefully we will have an order of magnitude higher market cap at that point, allowing bitshares to hire many devs to fill out its functionality without a high % of dilution).

After the words "midnight UTC" you should add "Nov 5".

Quote from: trader on October 26, 2014, 12:37:51 pm

I should probably be buying more.

Lol hopefully this will be the understatement of the century in a few years' time...

Yes.

I should have bought bitcoin in 2012 when I first heard of it. 

Didn't make that mistake with Bitshares, I bought absolutely all I could and still sleep at night.     (And then even more when we went down to 2 cents recently).