Quote from: bytemaster on December 11, 2015, 10:36:08 pm

Millions of Features, Features for Me!

There are far too many opportunities out there and prioritizing new features for BitShares becomes very challenging. 
Profit is perhaps the most important means of prioritizing.

So I would like to take some time to outline a plan I am devising for getting features lined up and prioritized based upon the concept of Fee Backed Assets (FBA). 

5. Gambling Systems

In terms of profit potential blockchain based dice would the most investable FBA imo.

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After you deposit bitcoins into Just Dice you have the option to invest all or part of your balance in the house bank. Just Dice takes 10% of the profit and distributes 90% to the investors in real time, every players losing bet makes your investment go up instantly!

Every players winning bet makes your investment go down but the odds are always in your favour and no one could ever send the house broke because the maximum profit per bet is 0.05% of the house bank.

Never has a feature that allows anybody in the world to put themselves at an advantageous position in a gambling operation been offered. That is normally reserved for those rich and politically connected enough to own a gambling operation or for the investor class with barriers to entry that preclude most of the world’s population.

On average your investment will increase 0.9% as often as the house bank is turned over. For example at the moment the house bank is ฿42,500 so every time that amount is wagered by users the site should make on average 1% profit with 0.9% of that going to investors. The house bank turns over approximately every 14 days on average! I first invested in Just Dice 3 months ago and the investment I made has risen 22.5% since then. So far the site has paid out ฿18,000 to investors.

The only risks are government seizure and shut down and hackers or the site operators disappearing with the money. This is sincerely the best passive investment I have ever found.

http://www.bitroll.co/just-dice-a-gambling-investment-revolution/

Unfortunately centralized sites are more prone to closures or hit and runs...

http://www.bitroll.co/just-dice-closes-due-to-canadian-bitcoin-regulations/

JustDice's bankroll was >  ฿50,000 (Double the CAP of BTS) & from the above, appeared to be making >$300 000 profit a month.

Yet one more use case out of a nearly inexhaustible supply of them for the ShareBot is that of Faction Tokens. 

An individual or group of individuals could create a common token that represents something they believe in.  We could have Libertarians, Republicans, Democrats for instance, and could pass them out to individuals who identify as a member of that faction by completing political tasks for their chosen faction. 

The ShareBot would allow a transparent means of showing the active distribution of these tokens and those who participate in certain faction initiatives could very easily post all distribution openly in the initiative's primary thread along with the individuals to receive them.  This would provide yet another layer of transparency in each initiative as well as provide a real level of trust for those who are in the faction that they are not being underpaid compared to others. 

This is such an amazing use case that I was not going to open up until later...but seeing as the bot and its creators seemingly get attacked every week, I figured I'd show people who are not quite there yet in the vision just a taste of what is possible with this tool.

So if Mr. Duke has 100,000 BTS to wager and Mr. Valentine has 100 BTS to wager, it is the Mr. Dukes of the world who will control the agenda. This sounds like pay to play. Am I mistaken?

THE GAME
Buy A FeatureCreate a list of potential features and provide each with a price. Just like for a real product, the price can be based on development costs, customer value, or something else. Although the price can be the actual cost you intend to charge for the feature, this is usually not required. Customers buy features that they want in the next release of your product using play money you give them. Make certain that some features are priced high enough that no one customer can buy them. Encourage customers to pool their money to buy especially important and/or expensive features. This will help motivate negotiations between customers as to which features are most important.

This game works best with four to seven customers in a group, so that you can create more opportunities for customers to pool their money through negotiating.

Quote from: luckybit on December 11, 2015, 03:20:16 pm

Quote from: monsterer on December 11, 2015, 08:58:39 am

The only way to bring this into bitshares (which makes any sense) is to do nothing and wait for proper anonymity to be implemented in bitshares transactions. Then you just send a memo and you're done.

But does it scale? How much data is contained in a memo?

If it doesn't scale, then bitshares doesn't scale either.

Using the "drop box" approach does not solve the "routing" problem unless you use the same drop box over and over.  In which case the problem can be described as:

How do I put information "X" into public mailbox "Y" without anyone knowing I was the one putting the message there. 
A second question is how do I check mailbox "Y" without anyone knowing I am the one checking it.

The solution is for me to put my message in an envelope, then put the envelope inside another envelope, and lastly put that inside yet another envelope.  I then mail the message, the first recipient opens it and "re-mails it", the second recipient does the same. This is how remailing works in the physical world (where it is grey market / illegal).   

The only difference here is that the remailer batches messages and then adds bogus messages into the mix.  This means that second remailer cannot correlate inputs to the source with outputs. 

The final destination for all mail would be the blockchain which is replicated in such a manner that users can check their mail without revealing which mailbox they are looking at.

The challenges posed by this protocol include:
1. How do the remailers get paid?
2. How is payment made in such a way that doesn't compromise the intended goal?
3. How do you verify the remailer doesn't just drop your message after taking payment?
4. What size should every message be, they must all be the same size or patterns can be detected / correlated.

Lastly, and most significantly, how much does this degrade the user experience? If it degrades it much at all then your target audience is greatly reduced. 

In fact, I would argue that BitMessage is already sufficient for this market (with a better UI perhaps).