https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasdaq_Composite

And a DAC index while we are at it?

We have not enough index funds and most people don't know enough about currency to want to trade it. The people who do know a lot about it probably already use Forex professionally so why would they be here?

On the other hand people can trade on stuff which wont ever be on Nasdaq or Forex.

Bitshares needs more utility if it wants liquidity.

https://moonstone.io/

Suppose China, the USA, and other governments were to pass laws for mining subsidies similar to what we have with food subsidies? Would that be an attack on PoW?

"Blocking the Property of Certain Persons Engaging in Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities"

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/01/executive-order-blocking-property-certain-persons-engaging-significant-m

Dan? Stan? Any comments? Will Bitshares find itself in the crosshairs somehow?

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/30cx99/gbtc_is_now_green_yesterday_was_pink_and_defined
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While the competing Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust is going through a lengthy Securities and Exchange Commission process to register a formal exchange-traded fund, the BIT has taken a backdoor route to public listing.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-investment-trust-gets-finras-ok-to-become-public-bitcoin-fund-1425242094

Money is about to pour in. We've been waiting to hear news like this since 2013 and we may be at a tipping point.

Once Bitcoin is listed it can be treated like and marketed as if it's a stock. To put it into context Facebook market cap is 237 billion dollars http://ycharts.com/companies/FB/market_cap

Facebook is just a social networking company.

If Bitcoin has a market cap similar to Paypal http://heavy.com/tech/2013/12/how-much-bitcoin-worth-value-btc/

Convert spare change from our purchases into BitUSD immediately.
This way we spend $ in a store and the change goes directly into BitUSD.
https://lawnmower.io/

Who wants to create a delegate and start that business?

Of course no one believed me when I called bottom some days ago.
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=15021.msg194235#msg194235
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=14862.msg194026#msg194026

BTS is still overpriced right now but not by much. It's close to bottom but in my opinion could dip to $15 million or below near the launch of Ethereum.

I admit the Darkcoin rise I didn't predict but Ethereum is launching soon along with Maidsafe which both could decrease the market cap of BTS to $15 million or even as low as $13 million.

These dips to $15 million or $13 million will likely be temporary and anyone who is wise already has their BitUSD or BitGLD in expectation of these coming events.

We are in for a rough summer where the price of BTS is now lower than what most of us paid for them during the PTS era. This means if you haven't stored in BitUSD or BitGLD you may actually be losing money right now with the hope and gamble that Bitshares will remain competitive.

Now would be a good time for a sober and realistic analysis of the BTS price.

I stumbled upon this article: http://www.wired.com/2015/02/infoporn-proof-fda-isnt-protecting-americans-health/

And this article: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-02-bmj-reveals-network-links-health.html

It should be apparent to all Americans that the FDA cannot be trusted due to regulatory capture. As a result we have a function which is clearly necessary but which may benefit from being turned into a distributed autonomous corporation.

I'd like to ask Bytemaster to take some time to share his thoughts on the feasibility of doing this. I also think it would be a good blog topic which could draw attention to the utility of DACs and Bitshares technology.

The way I could see to do this would be to have the incentives set up so that we can create a distributed consumerlabs style service where you "mine" by producing verifiable test results using your personal lab. The cost of doing these tests should get cheaper and it's something which actually makes sense to use the mining metaphor on because of the scientific utility of producing test results. Additionally people could blog about their own trials of products and get paid to review different products.

This might be useful for the supplement industry which isn't regulated by the FDA and doesn't want to be regulated. At the same time we need ways of knowing which supplements are actually effective in practice, which are safe or not safe, etc. I also think prediction markets could help a lot here because a lot of scientists will give certain information in public about how for example high fructose corn syrup is just sugar but then we also know the sugar lobby has a lot of influence. Prediction markets allow for free anonymous speech.