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Messages - matt608

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I contacted South African bitcoin exchange https://ice3x.com/ about BitShares integration and after some consideration they decided it wasn't for them at the moment, just so people know there's no need to contact them again.

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This is a great idea and a major project.  Excited to see what comes of it.

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delegate.verbaltech is vital to the BitShares ecosystem
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中文 (Chinese) / Re: 宣传达人Chen.Haonan的竞选宣言
« on: March 05, 2015, 09:30:00 am »
This is great  +5%

I noticed you don't link to BitShares.org, is this because it's in English?  If a Chinese version was put up would your articles link to it? 

Also, what kind of things do the articles say about BitShares?  It's hard to tell what is being said about it from the English side. 


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General Discussion / Re: BitShares Needs You... To Vote!
« on: March 05, 2015, 09:17:32 am »
I want to emphasise the work delegate.verbaltech is doing is vital to the BitShares ecosystem.

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General Discussion / Re: Sold all of my Bitshares
« on: March 05, 2015, 09:14:22 am »
Bitshares has done many things right, perhaps even most NECESSARY things right. However for its potential to be realized it has not done the SUFFICIENT thing yet ... which is achieve high liquidity of trading and ease of inbound and outbound flows ...

The great lesson to be learned form Ripple Labs is as follows: ONLY after they pivoted to target BANK settlement and NOT consumers Ripple adoption has taken off:

TL;DR:  Liquidity liquidity liquidity ... onramps, onramps, onramps ... offramps, offramps, offramps

:-)

Cheers

Right on point.  This is why the work Gentso1 is doing is so important.  We need 5 more of him.

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Excellent work! How are you not voted in yet!?

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For the animated explainer video I imagine using an image of a globe and images of the physical assets that BitAssets represent.  They could be shown to be 'switched' for the BitAsset equivalent (BitAsset icon used + pleasant sound effect), liberating them from their existing limited transmission channels.  Physical gold is now tradable as a digital currency.  USD in a bank is now tradable as a unrestricted cryptocurrency.  They could be shown to flow around the world in an unrestricted network looking a bit like a cloud but with legs (lol).   It's about showing that BitAssets are a parallel financial system running free and global, alongside and in comparison to existing more 'compact' networks where there are lots of rules and lack of service to half the world (visualised also as more limited + rigid networks on the same globe).   The national lines on the globe could then then erased, or shattered, symbolising the world gaining financial freedom.  It could zoom in to a location and say 'now you can send money from x location to x location as easily as if you were neighbours.' (or something) Then it could out again and the globe image could change to become a brain, where the BitAssets are a new layer of a brain being grown, where the 'matrix' of the financial system is thickened, as a service for all humanity is born.  'Money just got smarter'.

The BitAssets could be portrayed as a shiny new asset class, they could be put on flags and show images of crowds marching under them (a civilian revolutionary "march" rather than military), to symbolise the 'it's a movement' aspect of crypto.

Just some ideas.  I'll put this in the video production thread on nullstreet.

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General Discussion / Re: Minneapolis / St. Paul (Twin Cities) Meetup
« on: March 03, 2015, 10:31:34 am »
Great!  +5%

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I thought the same thing +5%

(but Brian is long gone)

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General Discussion / Re: PR opportunity on WSJ...
« on: March 02, 2015, 02:16:41 pm »
Nice find.  I tried in 4 different browsers but the commenting won't load.  Seems like it has to be a paid account despite having social login options.

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General Discussion / Re: Bytemaster and Mumble - A Proposed Solution
« on: March 01, 2015, 09:24:36 pm »
The solution is not about limiting ideas or the channel where the ideas flow.  There are great values in transparency and the free-flow of ideas.  Rather it should be how the ideas are to be taken up by the sharesholders.  We need a way for the sharesholders to VOTE on those ideas.  If the shareholders VOTE for the ideas, they will have no reason to panic or sell bts as a way to 'vote with their legs'. 

- Client voting proposals so we hear from the larger holders, not just those that have time to hang out around the forums.

Fuzz, you may be right this ability is another year out, but IMO it's a year overdue. If the whole point of this DPoS ecosystem is to empower the shareholders this should have been a high priority to implement early. The fact it's still not considered important is clear testimony to how comfortable "the leaders" are with being in control. For all the "talk" about principles and giving people a voice thru "honest voting" why is it we don't have this extremely important functionality for our very own community?


It's a matter of resource management while in the early stages.  Which would you rather have, a stable client or proposal voting?   An unuseable product would render us voting over how to best use a pile of ashes.  What is it that people want to vote on anyway?  I've not seen any proposals considered urgent other than the proposal to be able to vote on proposals, which I agree is needed in the future.  It will be vital for the governance of the DAC.  But people seem to want to have a say just for the sake of having say, without actually having anything to say.  If you can tell me which development branch you would axe in order to develop proposal voting I am all ears. 

What we should be aiming for is the success of the project, that is BitShares BTS, for the sake of bringing financial freedom to the world and enriching those who believe in it enough to invest in it.  Handing over full power to the shareholders with proposal voting may be a beautiful principle, and inevitable, but it's worthless if it doesn't result in success of the project and could even be harmful if done in a rush or with the sacrifice of other vital features.

Having said all this I am not a developer and don't know if implementing proposal voting in a useable way is even very difficult.  Toast demonstrated it can already be done in a primitive way by starting up 0% delegates.  However, the full client is still very slow for many people so you can't have a representative proposal vote anyway without increased client usability, backing up my argument that basic functionality must continue to be improved first.

If a dev wanted to step in now and say 'actually, we can get it done to a reasonable standard in a week', then that is great.  But these things have a way of taking far longer than anyone estimates, and we know it will take months for the full client to be very stable and useable for everyone.  We cannot afford delays.  Also proposals ideally need to be voted on anonymously as some may be controversial and I know that is a not an easy feature to develop.  We can still vote for delegates to get paid via dilution.  That's a pretty big innovation right there, let's not forget the power we have already been given.

I'm always open to rational argument and could change my mind.  Cube's argument of investors 'voting with their legs' if this feature isn't implemented is compelling.  What makes it difficult is that I envision a very large overhaul being needed, rather than quick and messy proposal vote system being slapped together without anonymity and without access to all voters due full client usability problems (which are improving but still have a fair distance to go).  This makes me think more time is needed before this becomes top priority. 

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General Discussion / Re: BitShares 101 is now on youtube.. (mostly)
« on: March 01, 2015, 05:05:50 pm »
Content rich, highly educational, great stuff!
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