so for these  reasons, web wallet is  not 100%  secure unless u fully trust the web wallet provider.

the better bet is lightwallet .

we could never know if the web wallet provider turned bad because websites are not open sourced

this is the block explorer i have been using these days.

https://btsbots.com/

it's not as fancy as cryptofresh.  but it's good for most usage.

also, having a lib does not make a block explorer.  the lib deals with datas, whereas blockchain explorer gathers and shows datas in a organized way.  you still need people who can do front-end (someone like cryptofresh) to build a explorer even you have said lib.

so your title is not correct . in fact, as far as blockchain explorer is concerned, if you don't have expertise like cryptofresh, you can not fire up your own blockchain explorer with this lib.

i like the idea about not putting a entire "employee paycheck" on the blockchain, but rather a "subsidize request" from a community player.


i feel more comfortable to pay someone who is willing to take financial risk with bitshares to perform work on bitshares rather seeing it as a work place.

  kencode

Quote from: btswildpig on January 07, 2017, 02:56:52 am

I start to see the attractiveness in Bitcoin.

Miners have to put in chuck load of money to fight for the job of block production without demanding "reasonable market fee" because market principle and competition are the only factors that matters .

You think you can be be guaranteed fixed incomes ? Fine , don't do mining, others will do it .

There is no job security in Bitcoin. No guaranteed  status, even the big miners have to purchase more advanced mining machines from time to time to be at the top of the food chain.

As for technical advancement, I think seg-wit will come to fruition. Once you have enough capital in the field, all "issues" will be fixed overtime as time have shown.

It's not about how many dilution you can give to developers that matters.
It's about how people and capital keep rushing in regardless of the slim the chance of guaranteed of profit in the field. When you buy a mining machine, no one in the network will promise you that it will  be worth your while, but you know in your heart that the potential will be well worth the risks and efforts . 

BTS is not growing rapidly is not because we don't have enough worker dilution to pay for this and that .
It's because despite of having a suppose "high pay market salary" daily in their respective jobs , developers still feels like if you don't take BTS from the system fast enough and sell it fast enough , the ship may not be there, and it will be stupid to buy BTS with actual money while the price is low to bet on the potential of its future like the rest of the market participants.

If you trust your work will be beneficial to BTS, buy it more than the ordinary folks who have no such "in sight", hold it , develop your work , and enjoy more potentials than the ones who are not aware of the huge significance of your work.  if you are thinking about risks , sorry , that means all the talk about your work's value is pure fiction. 

Imagine if Bitcoin miners were to ask at day one to be compensated for their mining cost and guaranteed  income, will Bitcoin be where it is today ?

The same goes to witness who want to be compensated for providing a good price feed

Those are some interesting observations.. but they have nothing to do with my assertion that if you want to have any kind of professional trading going on Bitshares then we better have reliable feed data. Witnesses are not the source of that data. They can only provide as good as what is available. Taking a median of a few free sources that can and do come and go works sometimes but not all the time, and that is the issue.

I'm calling for raising the bar... I think everyone might have even forgotten when 2.0 launched that bytemaster talked about the need for more feed providers. He envisioned it as being another element in the network that would be a paid opportunity, similar to how being a hosted wallet provider was supposed to be.

Nobody ever created one though. So 'good enough' became the montra for what few free datafeeds are available. Now though, nobody would dream of creating such a service because the response would be similar to this volunteerism expectation of providing critical always on data to the price feeds.

Do high pay professional price feed compensate for the losses of traders if their feed were wrong ? Or just simply getting voted out like the low pay ordinary feeds ?

This topic has been discussed in the Telegram channel and mainly debunked. The source "China research agency" is not a credible source. The report also does not mention any details about the security issues, how the code was tested and what really was found.

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669 issues in main program.  (most medium danger level)
21 issues in bitshares-2-ui


though it's a static code issues check.

dogecoin with 282 issues .
EthereumJ 127 issues (most are high danger issues )
Ripple with 230 high danger issues.
BitShares0.x version:  1261 issues

asking for a friend:

So since the BTS snapshot day , he has done no operation regarding peerplay. How should he get his sharedroped peerplay in the future ?