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General Discussion / Re: Update on Chronos Videos
« on: December 22, 2016, 07:09:51 am »
how many referral sign-ups did you make via your videos?
Four referrals so far, linked on the blockchain. We can't detect referrals that didn't use the suggested referral link, so there are likely more.

See http://cryptofresh.com/u/chronos-youtube for the details (remember to exclude my test referrals).

If i'm reading correctly, that's four referrals.


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General Discussion / Re: [Evaluation] Need for a better python library?
« on: December 16, 2016, 02:58:26 am »
whoever is in need of this library should hire developers and code the library according to the specifications of their needs.

BitShares has gone this far without this better python library .

And your proposal is vague as to what this library does and how it will be technically helpful to those who actually need to implement BitShares in their system compare to existing library or code themselves.

All in all, judging by your working plan, I think it's more of a hobby work instead of serious development that matches industrial wage standard .

Just FYI, businesses that actually need to use BitShares will more likely to write their own library for obvious security concerns, including but not limited to "it's a hobby work that made from 10 hours a week " , so most of them will still repeat the work themselves.

I think the non-technical stakeholders need to be aware of this perspective - not every public code is useful for many reasons, especially APIs and libraries , which are mostly business and environment specific with special concerns in mind, and " a hobby work that made from 10 hours a week " could not have covered them. What happens if business do not want to use python but node.js ?  Another proposal to satisfy the imaginary businesses that would somehow bring value to BitShares but can not even pay for 1 developer who works 10 hours a week themselves ?

 

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General Discussion / Re: BitShares administrative and maintenance tasks
« on: November 02, 2016, 02:07:29 am »
I was going to +5 % , then I saw "Agent86"   :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[


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it says it's a blockchain as a service cloud platform . which contains a BitShares,factom,ethereum,bitcoin image environment  .

nothing related to smart city .

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Random Discussion / Re: Monero
« on: September 05, 2016, 02:09:16 am »
Hi Ander,

In your opinion which technology is better all around Bitshares or Monero?

Monero. :)

Doesnt mean i dont like bitshares though.  But it does seem to be in an eternal funk. :(
I looked at the Montero site and could not get a good indication as to why the tech is better. All I know is the basic knowledge that it is better for stealth transactions. Why would you say it I had better tech than Bitshares?

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Apparently, anonymous transactions are in high demand among crypto punks. Bitshares could just copy XMR implementation and become a better technology in their eyes.

It's not really that apparent since you didn't buy a lot of monroe when it's low .
you're only convinced that it's in high demand when the price go up 10x in 1 month.

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Note that STEEM's payout in STEEMUSD can only be withdrawn slowly in 2 years.

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I think you miss the point. I don't think we need a new web site that looks better. We just need to explain better what BitShares can do the regular guys, the trader, the small and big entrepeneurs, ... That would one part of the change apply to it, the other part would be to show the projects already running on BitShares and feed the news in the ecosystem there.

People visiting BitShares could see, in one place, what is Bitshares, what is build on it, what you can do with it, what is happenning and what would probably happen soon.

I don't mean to be aggressive toward you but this is the same kind of conversation we had with the China anti dilution movement. People gave good arguments toward new evolutions of BitShares (worker through dilution) and you seem to try to counter argue with any argument you can find, even if it doesn't fit the debate.
Chris explained he doesn't want a new image of BitShares, he just want more and easier to understand information and use cases, which is, IMO, a very good thing. You come here and basically say "a prettier web site doesn't solve anything", you are right, but it's not the debate at all !

Do you even listen what Cris said during the hangout ?

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it's easy to explain what bitshares can do . it's hard to convince people that they won't suffer financial lost using this shinny new technology that seem to be protected by no court in the world to handle their assets.

That's the real rock in the road forward .

you can try something . try to convince one of your friends who has no relationship with crypto before and ask him to convert even 5000 USD into BitUSD and hold for a year .

Normally you'll hit a rock with the most better explained material in the world .

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I recommand to everyone to listen the hangout. Chris explain why the new website. It starts at the 20th minuts.

Looks like a no brainer when you listen to him. The money spend in the new website is nothing compare to what it can brings.

Just one guy visiting the website and having the idea of creating a smartcoin that bring 100 ppl with only 50$. These ppl buying in bts to reach the smartcoin and that's it, we have a positiv ROI.

Even if you have only 1 more % visitor digging in BTS instead of leaving (much of bitcoiner and steemer are probably doing that right now) would be worth it. Within the corse of the next year is a lot a ppl, that would speak to other ppl and so on. Only one of them beeing a small whale and boum ! We gain 5 stable % of MC and everybody wins.

Network effect is very important in cryptos. Right now our shop window is displaying the blueprint of BitShares, is way too technical to grap the attention of small entrepeneurs and general public.
To make a simple analogy, Tesla is not selling its cars with a photo of the interior of the electric motor and technical specs of the diferents parts of the car. They sell a very nice, low cost, fast electric car. If you want the specs, you dig ... Why ? Because you represent 5% of the visitors of the website.

Don't invest anything in BTS and hope it will take off is not the way to go.

There is two way this experiment can go.

1) we invest in every positive feature BTS can implement, we may lose a few % of MC now but when it takes off, we will be one the giant crypto projects in the future (every body here probably very rich). If it never takes off, it won't matter to have lost a few % at the begenning anyway. (No brainer)

2) we don't invest anything, we cross our fingers and wait. If it takes off that way, it won't matter to have lost a few % at the beginning because we will all made a big return on our investment BUT with no develoment we will be a the verge of beeing overtake by the tech, investors will run away considering their ROI and the danger of competition and the MC will fall back quickly. If we don't invest anything and it never takes off, it won't matter to have kept a few % of MC at the beginning by no diluting because the BTS won't be worth anything anyway.

I don't see any other possible evolution. When considering that, why not chose the only reasonable way ?

Let's start by upvoting the web site worker ;)

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Sound like the same reason every time the website has reinvented again and again .
Well ... this is called evolution, you analyse what is wrong, what can be better and you make the change. If not, you disappear ...

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what is wrong is than you can not sell something as new and risky as crypto  through traditional means of promotion .
Even with pegged assets ,it's still a very risky concept to most people who knew only about traditional banking system .
 
There were only few people who would've brought Bitcoin or used a Bitcoin related service back in 2010 even with a beautiful website. That's where BitShares is at .

If you like great looking websites,  there are few more with other cryptos , most look fantastic , but I have not paid a dime for their service or asset .
Because it has been clear :  On the service/utility part , the trouble is too much(both from a customer protection and user experience stand point of view ) , so people won't use the service regardless of how you website looks ;

Comparing to Paypal , most crypto project and its service is highly risky for ordinary people . Unless you change that somehow ,or the financial benefit outweigh  the trouble,  I don't see a great looking website could change that .

On the coin part , great looking website doesn't change the fact that I would suffer financial lost after buying it .

I would love to pin the status of BitShares on the website designers , but it ain't it . The first and second and third looked really bad , but the current one looks nice .


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I recommand to everyone to listen the hangout. Chris explain why the new website. It starts at the 20th minuts.

Looks like a no brainer when you listen to him. The money spend in the new website is nothing compare to what it can brings.

Just one guy visiting the website and having the idea of creating a smartcoin that bring 100 ppl with only 50$. These ppl buying in bts to reach the smartcoin and that's it, we have a positiv ROI.

Even if you have only 1 more % visitor digging in BTS instead of leaving (much of bitcoiner and steemer are probably doing that right now) would be worth it. Within the corse of the next year is a lot a ppl, that would speak to other ppl and so on. Only one of them beeing a small whale and boum ! We gain 5 stable % of MC and everybody wins.

Network effect is very important in cryptos. Right now our shop window is displaying the blueprint of BitShares, is way too technical to grap the attention of small entrepeneurs and general public.
To make a simple analogy, Tesla is not selling its cars with a photo of the interior of the electric motor and technical specs of the diferents parts of the car. They sell a very nice, low cost, fast electric car. If you want the specs, you dig ... Why ? Because you represent 5% of the visitors of the website.

Don't invest anything in BTS and hope it will take off is not the way to go.

There is two way this experiment can go.

1) we invest in every positive feature BTS can implement, we may lose a few % of MC now but when it takes off, we will be one the giant crypto projects in the future (every body here probably very rich). If it never takes off, it won't matter to have lost a few % at the begenning anyway. (No brainer)

2) we don't invest anything, we cross our fingers and wait. If it takes off that way, it won't matter to have lost a few % at the beginning because we will all made a big return on our investment BUT with no develoment we will be a the verge of beeing overtake by the tech, investors will run away considering their ROI and the danger of competition and the MC will fall back quickly. If we don't invest anything and it never takes off, it won't matter to have kept a few % of MC at the beginning by no diluting because the BTS won't be worth anything anyway.

I don't see any other possible evolution. When considering that, why not chose the only reasonable way ?

Let's start by upvoting the web site worker ;)

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Sound like the same reason every time the website has reinvented again and again .

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General Discussion / Re: What bitshares should learn from steem
« on: July 17, 2016, 05:22:15 am »
Dilution would only come from forced settlements.

they will force settle for sure because they need to eat and pay rent .
They said it out right : They didn't sell BTS because of they think it would drop . They need to sell because they need to pay rent and eat .

So it doesn't matter if you give them BTS or BitUSD , they will need to sell it to FIAT and cause actual dilution every month .

It's still the same thing . And it will cause the false sense of "less dilution" and led to more dilution .

Strongly AGAINST this .

Unless there is a vest in period , dilution is still dilution no matter it's in BitUSD or BTS.


Besides , the whole peg scheme is regulated by one's own risk assessments about how BTS price will go in the future , but using "dilution" to generate BitUSD , you removed the "risk assessment" part from the equation , and you'll add extra unstable supply of BitUSD out of thin air and make the whole thing break apart .

 

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what is mockup? the non-html stuff like graphic ?

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to my knowledge , the budget is very cheap for a website .

However, this is the budget for the same website that has cost tons of budget that i can't count from the brian page era and has changed multiple times , each time people says good good good .

I don't know what is wrong with this website , really .

Sooner or later this website would cost more than 0.5% of the total supply of current circulating BitShares .  (maybe already have)

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Yea, that "little fish" problem is my biggest complaint with STEEM at the moment. If you're not already an established "high-earning poster", whales will miss your post among all the noise and good posts just get buried. People with track records of high-earning posts are the ones that are immediately picked up by whales/bots (oftentimes regardless of the post's actual value), so they're the only ones able to really get time in the spotlight. It's a self-promoting cycle that really only benefits those that are already whales.

"this summber , when "our marketcap" catch up with Ethereum"......

oh well , he surely wasn't talking about BitShares after all ....

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General Discussion / Re: Bitshares price discussion
« on: July 14, 2016, 01:38:34 am »
Looks like this Steem bull run might be good for Bitshares after all...


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lol, I brought tons of BTS just by judging the candle chart before STEEM even come online .

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Can someone please ELI5 Dan/STEEM/BTS for me?

I noticed STEEM going parabolic on CMC today, thought I'd check out the latest epic pump'n'dump and found Dan at the bottom of the rabbit hole. Not something I expected.

Then I hit Bitsharestalk and find a whole lot of pissed off folks with a pretty consistent sentiment that Dan has absconded with knowledge/experience/ideas funded by the PTS/AGS investors (of which I am one) and is using them to enrich a small, centralized cadre of "Steemit"(?) developers/investors via a heavily pre-mined coin apparently designed to game CMC. Also not something I expected.

Finally, it appears that although Steemit would not exist without Bitshares technology/codebase and substantial contributions from Bitshares lead developer (Bytemaster), there is currently no clear roadmap for a share drop on the PTS/AGS/BTSX/BTS folks. Definitely not expected!

I'm currently trying to maintain an open mind, as I continue to believe in Dan's vision and talent, but from where I'm standing this situation is pretty much ass end opposite of everything Bitshares stands for.

Help an old guy out, thank you!

in the beginning, it was told it is bytemaster alone, but if you look into the whitepaper you find any bitshares CNX codername i know, so he took the whole team with him and left bitshares without preperation on his own. only svk is left as a sole contributor to the codebase and the guys from blocktrades (and they are also heavily in steem).

because they promised to give away 10% for every future project, they gamed the words and just frontmined the whole steem project and they will tell you "there was nothing to give and you could mine by your own" - true - but every none technical guy was thrown away.

 to my knowledge , even for technical people, the process was still a pain in the ass.

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