Tony's input was useful and had substance. Lzr whined like a 4 year old every time the price dropped and looked for the first delegate he could find to blame it on.  We are worse off without people like tony, but better off without lzr

Quote from: roadscape on May 15, 2015, 06:01:19 pm

There's also https://blocktrades.us/
Suggested deposit limit: 6.61478521 BTC
(this limit represents a "safe fraction" of their reserves)

Whoa, why is blocktrades able to transfer so much more than MetaExchange?
Are they a BitShares based DAC?
Do they have huge fees or something?
Sorry for the barrage of questions

I would strongly recommend using blocktrades for larger transfers.  I have used them myself for bigger blocks of bts.  Contact dannotestein for further information on larger trades (Greater than 10 btc). 

Quote from: bitsharesblog.com on May 13, 2015, 07:31:08 pm

How can we be an exchange if we do not have charts that show active trading happening? Our exchange should have charts on the website, I might know that I can go to an external site like bitsharesblocks to find a chart of BitGOLD, BitUSD, or the relevant UIA's like NOTE, but the average user and first-time visitor do not know that. This has been discussed many times, but it does not happen and it is probably keeping us from closing our visitors by getting them to sign-up and become users.

 
@bitsharesblog.com
Bingo! Now that's a great idea! A real-time candlestick chart(s) ticking to the left every couple of seconds so the page has some motion on it. tickers are great, but colorful charting action, ie: https://www.ripplecharts.com
 
Motion creates emotion, like I mentioned twice above. It doesn't have to have a full window video background, but if there is always some motion and color, the emotion that comes from that entices the visitor, starts conversation, lures click-throughs......
 
also, these catch phrases are just me thinking out loud, but you get my drift:
"Buy 1 ounce of bitSILVER and you can earn over 5% returns every, single, day."
"Put your bank to shame- Owning even 1 BitAsset can pay out over 5% every, single, day."

Sounds very sales pitchy with that kind of lingo, and it sounds like your saying that every day you earn 5% on bitSilver... Maybe something closer to "Find out why bitSilver needs to be in your portfolio"

Quote from: profitofthegods on May 13, 2015, 12:28:39 am

I do a little bit of SEOd writing, and I have a blog which ranks reasonably well called Cryptorials.

Coincidentally, I rank higher than Bitshares' sites for 'decentralized crypto exchange' (page 2) and 'decentralized exchange' (page 3), although that's only a glossary page (and yes it does link to Bitshares)

It is also on page 1 of Google for competitive terms like 'how to mine cryptocurrency', 'make money trading bitcoin', 'bitcoin games' and others.

And I would be open to suggestions for topics to write about or search terms worth targeting.

@profitofthegods - I would like to recruit your help, please. I'm still pretty good at seo/sep myself, but I just don't have the time right now with the other stuff I'm working on, the wiki's, ddns, disqus and social media threads, etc. Is dmoz still worth it? Other dir's? I can't afford to pay out much more right now, but with an army of people in this community, I think we could ALL post a link to https://bitshares.org on 2 or 3 different sites and bump our alexa quite a bit.
 
At least get us onto page 1 for the 18 search strings I listed above jesus christ.
 
The owner of bitshares.org needs to completely revamp that site though, it's boring as hell and the bounce rate is insane- see my comments above. We can bring'm, but if we're not closin'm, then we're burning hours for no reason. I want someone to build us a REAL website, something exciting, something that tells me WHY I need to register and fund a BitShares account, and why I need to do it RIGHT NOW.
 
QUESTION: Would the community here like to see the Accountability Roster integrated with the bitsharesblocks website? Coingecko.com is a great example of what our Delegates table could look like. Let the world see who they can contact for marketing, sales questions, HR, technical support and puppies.

Cass and Bytemaster worked directly on bitshares.org if I can remember correctly.  They said the goal was to make it look professional and like a crypto exchange website.  We had flashier websites prior to the current one, but they felt gimmicky and were difficult to navigate.  I like the current bitshares.org as it is clean and to the point like many forex and stock trading webpages.  I'm sure it will be updated to include more content and resources once more of our core products come out.

Most of the devs don't run their own delegate. Another community member runs it and sends 90% of the pay to the devs

I would like to get some opinions on this.  Say I have $10k to invest.  I want to invest in bitshares, but the lack of liquidity on exchanges is going to make aquiring this much bts difficult.  What do you think would be the best option?

-buy bts through exchanges with a resting order and let it hopefully fill?
-buy 10k worth of moonfund and get the 15% bonus.  Is the 15% bonus and ability to aquire instantly worth the risk of not being paid back?

I think we should add code that doesn't allow bitshares to fall in price.  Bytemaster, code this now and then release a version that takes bts to 10bil market cap in 30 days. Thnx in advance.

Quote from: svk on April 22, 2015, 11:00:03 am

Well done Ken, you do a good job of explaining Bitshares!

Bitcoins and Gravy was easy compared to this Cointelegraph interview.
 
I had a lot of help from Stan on this one but over the last month my verbage has gotten WAAAAAY better when explaining bitAssets (that was my weakest point). Amanda and I discussed quite a few topics actually and I never called myself the pr manager, but whatever, I do this (basically) full time now, so I may as well be.
 
I have 2 more major interviews coming with different media people I know and another smaller one that I am working with Bitsapphire this week too.
I'll keep everyone updated as usual... You know us "overactive forum members" lol

Great job Ken,  You have done more for bitshares in your short time here than most have over the last year.  Keep up the great work.