So the volume of NXT on BTER is off the charts (315 BTC in 24h) with little to no movement in price.  Is this just the bag holders selling coins to themselves to keep it on top of the list?

Quote from: Empirical1 on August 11, 2014, 06:13:41 am

Quote from: Pairmike on August 11, 2014, 04:50:21 am

Charles, Dan, and Stan should work together along with Brian to devise a effective marketing plan.  When I look at Stellar's launch a week ago, I believe Bitshares could learn from its launch.  Do you guys agree?  Let me know your thoughts.

Hadn't heard of Stellar. Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole myself. Huge Sharedrops, which so far have only crashed coins, and often seem to be a mechanism to reward devs while trying to appear fair, such as NEM, even sceptical of some others...

This is probably the funniest thing I've read in a while -

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The Foundation received a loan of $3,000,000 from Stripe which was subsequently repaid with 2% of the stellars. The Foundation is allowed to use up to 5% of the initial stellars to fund operations (including the loan repayment). 

That would mean Stripe needs Stellar to be worth $150 000 000 just to break even? Like hell they made that initial investment on those terms imo.

The Stellar share drop via Facebook was a great way to market.  The clean interface and straight forward signup process gave ordinary people the opportunity to obtain the new currency.  As a result, many people outside of the crypto community now has Stellar.  I don't think we can say the same for Bitshares.  See the Stellar statshttps://www.stellar.org/stats/.  I just hope we can borrow some aspects from this project and leverage them to our benefit.

I just want BitShares to succeed and adoption is critical to accomplish this end.

'I know that out of this event all kinds of opportunities are going to be opened up to me that I wouldn't have otherwise had' 

Quote from: Empirical1 on June 10, 2014, 03:25:03 am

'The revolution will not be centralised' seems a bit long to me for a T-Shirt but I see it's really popular and I can't think of anything better.

For BitsharesX, what about Andrew Jackson's famous quote (which is also on his tombstone I believe.)

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'I killed the bank'

- Andrew Jackson

I think that written on the back of a shirt will get a lot of attention. The quote stems from the fact that he destroyed the predecessor to the Federal Reserve...


Andrew Jackson said/did some cool stuff and 200 years later not much has changed....

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Gentlemen! I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out!     

The 2nd quote while amusing is too long for a tshirt.  I like the "I killed the bank" with andrew jackson.  Then on the other side you have a picture of Dan and it says ? 

This isn't a terribly serious idea btw.

we can not make it transferable. in this case everyone who did this, will profit from this. a name is a nice feature but with 6 billion people and millions of companys out there it will a much bigger problem in the future.

Quote from: Empirical1 on August 10, 2014, 06:00:57 pm

Quote from: Brent.Allsop on August 10, 2014, 05:54:39 pm

I just tried to create an account with the name canonizer.  But it looks like someone is already squatting on that name?

How do I find out who owns that name?  Can I get it?

Is that legal for someone to jump on a name they know someone else will need?

And are periods legal in names?  Can I register canonizer.com?  I just tried, but my wallet gives me this error:

"RPC server error in 'wallet_account_register' unknown account (20006)"


Brent Allsop

I think you're talking about BitShares X?  Yes anyone can register any name & they're not transferrable.

It's a great point though. You'd like to use canonizer as your name, so people can just pay 'canonizer' right?

this is the point Empirical1. The name was already taken.
you will have to use a different name. Toast had the same issue.
i don't know if you can register something with a dot in the name