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General Discussion / Re: Mobile Wallet - Testers needed
« on: December 01, 2014, 10:12:50 pm »100% pay is good for now.
100% pay rate for nowThis^^^^
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General Discussion / Re: Hard Questions for Bytemaster
« on: December 01, 2014, 09:39:52 pm »An example is, if it was possible to give $10 BitUSD to existing customers of Bitcoin exchanges in Argentina who have reasonable balances, then that might be something worth attempting. As Argentina could be huge for BitUSD and getting it into the hands of people that already understand crypto and can communicate it to family and friends would be ideal. (I would prefer to recruit potential marketers like that. People or businesses that have the ability or platform to advertise and promote BitAssets to a much wider audience if they like it.)
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General Discussion / Re: Hard Questions for Bytemaster
« on: December 01, 2014, 09:31:15 pm »I am using a 800$ laptop, i5 CPU, 500G SSD HD, Windows7. It usually takes about 3 minutes to open the wallet, and 30 seconds to open the market. Better than yours, but still far from satisfying.
BTW, the above description is the common case. If I don't open my wallet over 3 days, it sometimes takes over 10 minutes to open the wallet, and no connection. I have to restart many times to resolve the no connection issue.
However, my point is that, although the current windows wallet is not good enough, the linux wallet is quite stable, and the security and functionality of system can be guaranteed. For enterprise-level application, usually linux version wallet is used. So I don't understand why the wallet stability affects the marketing...
I don't open my wallet everyday that's probably why it takes so long to launch. I have a FX-8350, 32 GB of memory, and a 480 GB SSD, running on windows.
It effects marketing because we are not exclusively marketing to linux users. If we put out a marketing campaign some windows users are bound to see it, download the wallet and have a bad taste left in their mouth. Even if you are talking about marketing it to merchants it's still a bad idea. Merchants are not going to want to implement something that works flawlessly for them (if they are using linux) while the customers who are using windows don't have a similar experience.
Unless you are talking about something completely different, in that case please do elaborate.
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General Discussion / Re: Hard Questions for Bytemaster
« on: November 30, 2014, 09:40:53 pm »
The no product argument is rubbish. Also saying look what we have achieved with no marketing is just silly.
We have now merged.So the message is much simpler.
The market cap has for the most part settled.
BitUSD now has hit the million dollar milestone.
The platform has (at least for me) been very stable and preforms exactly as described
To say their is no product is completely discredited by everyone that has been trading on it and moving 100's of thousands of bts and bitUSD safely and securely.
I am completely bull/rocket ship to da moon but marketing needs to start.If it doesn't start in the time frame that has been mentioned so many times(nov,dec) investor's confidence will be rattled yet again in what has always been our weakest area.
I have a $2,500 pc and the wallet takes at least
If you think this is a marketable product then you are in for a shock.
Also from what I understand Brian is targeting a different audience from what MeTHoDx is going after. The audience that Brian is going after will not be as patient with the wallet.
No offence to the dev team but I wouldn't even call this an alpha product. At this stage I am not even willing to recommend it to family and friends for fear that the wallet will turn them off for good.
Edit: As I was writing all that the wallet crashed and I sent a report.
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General Discussion / Re: Hard Questions for Bytemaster
« on: November 29, 2014, 11:32:46 pm »A better question to ask is...
"Will a nice wallet and protocol v1 be done before the end of this month?"
Not a chance. Unless you mean december.
I'm assuming he meant December.
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General Discussion / Re: Hard Questions for Bytemaster
« on: November 29, 2014, 11:22:09 pm »Will the official marketing team be allowed to start before the end of this month, as has been quoted so many times in the past?
A better question to ask is...
"Will a nice wallet and protocol v1 be done before the end of this month?"
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General Discussion / Re: Why is BTS suddenly shooting up?
« on: November 29, 2014, 11:05:30 pm »Is it worth it to sell out now and try to buy back in later?
If you don't know the answer to that question then I suggest you HODL!!!
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General Discussion / Re: Hard Questions for Bytemaster
« on: November 29, 2014, 11:03:17 pm »
I can understand people's impatience but I really hope it doesn't cause the marketing team to rush when things are not in place. In the end it should be up to the marketing team to determine when everything is ready (easy enough) for the masses. It is of critical importance that people's restlessness doesn't cause a rush in the marketing campaign. I'm just saying this because there has been so much pressure on them from people who want to see "results".
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General Discussion / Re: Why is BTS suddenly shooting up?
« on: November 29, 2014, 10:03:57 pm »
I think it's a pump and dump but I do think it will retain some of these gains with all this positive stuff happening.
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General Discussion / Re: Why is BTS suddenly shooting up?
« on: November 29, 2014, 10:02:46 pm »Americans using chinese exchanges still wouldn't trade CNY.I do unless it's illegal or something (in that case forget I said anything)
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General Discussion / Re: Imagine
« on: November 21, 2014, 09:30:16 pm »Remember the TED video... we are still small... if we can win over the 10% of the 3% that voted for Ron Paul we will have a huge user base. Bitcoin was born on the backs of these users and has gone astray. If we can recover and convert the original Bitcoin believers then they can do for us what they did for Bitcoin.
I think we sell the GOAL and not the MEANS. BitShares is an imperfect attempt/compromise to realize a universal goal: non-violence and world peace and prosperity. I am just uncompromising in my pursuit of those goals. As long as we are careful to separate the goal from the means we can gain support from everyone.
I was under the impression that we were going after a more mainstream audience? I must have missed the thread where this plan changed.
I'm fine with focusing on a libertarian audience and I guess having a politically charged "leader" works in that case. Just keep in mind that if we were to go after a mainstream audience it would hurt us (unless going after a mainstream audience is out the window?).
P.S. to anyone who thinks I'm talking about the song, I'm not. The song is fine. I'm talking about BM's political comments that don't directly have to do with BTS.
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General Discussion / Re: Imagine
« on: November 21, 2014, 05:51:51 pm »Agreed ... although .. from blockchain perspective .. BM can be "replaced" as a developer ... just saying
The blockchain is independent of the devs!!
Yes but from the public's perspective BM is the creator and founder--->therefore anything he says or does can and will be held against the blockchain in the mainstream media.
I think that might have been one of the reasons Satoshi wanted to remain anonymous and left bitcoin after it could walk on it's own.
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General Discussion / Re: Imagine
« on: November 21, 2014, 05:25:51 pm »Lets say you get burgled and have to defend yourself, and prosecutors argue that you used excessive force (which people often do). How is a blockchain going to help you there? You need a lawyer.
And I cant imagine a world without prisons either. I especially think rapists should be imprisoned for far longer.
Imagine means "be creative" and look for a solution. In my opinion just because someone is raped they don't get a free pass on robbing someone else at gunpoint to pay to put someone in prison who has a non-0 % chance of being innocent. A significant number of "rape" cases are fraudulent charges or they accuse the wrong man.
I could go into an economic analysis of the situation... but imagine a solution exists that does not involve stealing from innocents to punish possible bad guys.
Better 100 guilty men go free than 1 innocent man rot in jail.
As far as immediate self defense goes... that is up to public opinion. If jail is off the table then lawyers are optional.
Honestly BM you and I (and most people on this forum) have a very similar political stance... but if we are trying to market this to the "mainstream" you can't be so political. What you are doing right now is the equivalent of running into the matrix and shouting "THIS IS A FAKE WORLD WAKE UP PEOPLE, YOU'RE BEING CONTROLLED BY THE MACHINES!"
You would be right but in most other people's eyes you would be crazy.
I could imagine 3 years from now when bts is larger, a random news outlet using your political views as a reason not to use bts (I know it doesn't make sense but the media has done worst)
If I were you I would try to be a lot less political. But that's just me.
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General Discussion / Re: Coinmarketcap has updated
« on: November 20, 2014, 10:03:46 am »Now everything is ready for the big pump to number 2Don't call it a "pump" because two word inevitably follow pump...
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General Discussion / Re: bitcoinmagazine.com disaster!
« on: November 19, 2014, 01:40:37 pm »http://bitcoinmagazine.com/18467/dacs-vs-the-corporation/Eh I wouldn't call it a disaster.
That article could have been a nice read .. wasn't it for the huge amount of non-sense about BitShares ..
Not only does the author not know how to "write" BitShares correctly, the author also doesn't seem too interested in BitShares though want's to given in overview of the DAC/DAO technologies ..
Why can't I drop a comment there?
Can we fix this?
I agree. Not so much a disaster. The problem I see though is that there are several technical mistakes in the writer's description of BitShares. If appropriately handled by marketing/PR and done in a friendly way, the author might accept to correct his article.
I see no issue in the author having an opinion about a product compared to another, but it needs to be based on verified facts, and several of his assertions aren't right.
I would say some of those mistakes are just as much our fault as his. Bitshares has changed an extreme amount over the passed few weeks and a great deal of the info out there is currently outdated.
