What are the broadband requirements for running this at the moment? How might this change as delegates become busier? Just wanting to know how important connection speed is / and what the data volumes are likely to be eg in Gb / month.

It seems to me that we still may have one nagging barrier to entry for delegates:  technical know-how.

I've noticed a few wistful postings on the delegate billboards indicating an interest in being a delegate "if it's not too hard" or "too fiddley".

It seems to me that some of our best delegate candidates (those with the ability to grow the industry, advocate a vision, engender trust, and/or represent constituencies) may be shut out, intimidated, or just too busy to keep up with the technical side of things.

I wonder if there are many who feel that way?

I suppose one solution might be to partner with a geek and become a formidable winning Delegate together.

Is anyone else thinking along this line?  Other concerns or ideas?

100 delegates seems a low number, and my gut feeling is that would be a good move to let more people have a chance of participating in the network in this way. I always assumed PoS to mean that everyone who wanted to would have a chance of participating / being rewarded for being in the network - but the PoS is currently limited to 100 delegates, right? (many of whom have spun up many VPS instances). I like the design with voting though, but limiting it to 100 seems top-heavy. Should the PoS not be a proportional system, with no upper limit on the number of delegates? This would have the effect of making it more distributed. I think more instructions are needed as a priority to make the process a little easier.

http://text.vericoin.info/
^ alpha system for receiving coins via text

http://www.vericoin.info/
The POS returns increase in relation to the total amount of people using the network.

See what he did, a thought experiment about thoughts. The camera thought experiment might be analogous to the difference between photoreceptors in the eye and the visual cortex in the brain, the clear difference being that consciousness is defined by "integrated information" of visual imagery perceived in the cortex and not from the outputs from each photoreceptor. This example, though, only makes a reference to low-level consciousness.

There are lots of models for higher levels of consciousness, undoubtedly necessarily pseudo-scientific, and some try to merge age-old theories: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-Circuit_Model_of_Consciousness

The eight circuits there could at a stretch be revised as a model for evolving DAC features.

1. Biosurvival: DAC programmed to trust (trusted datafeeds are fundamental to survival)
2. Territorial: DAC programmed to destroy another DAC (important to know what others might try)
3. Symbolic: DAC conquering prediction markets (overall 'mind-map' perspective required)
4. Reproductive: DACs that spawn DACs (essential for evolution)
5. Neurosomatic: Self-awareness (tricky but essential to code for decision making)
6. Neuroelectric: DACs that reprogram themselves (and market themselves)
7. Neurogenetic: a DAC influenced by the collective unconscious of the 'DAC-sphere' (inter-DAC communications)
[8. Overmind: being God-like. I would take this to mean knowing what happened before the Big Bang. Probably not applicable!]

Let the games begin!

Unwavering supporter of Bitshares from the start.

Details of VPS node

2GB Ram
40GB SSD
Amsterdam
Ubuntu 14.04 x64

Where is the website / client / instructions for claiming?

Lottoshares hasn't been released yet. Once it's released then it will be relatively simple to claim and instructions will be posted. Keep eye on this thread!

"Distribution date for ProtoShares and MemoryCoin will be the last block before the end of May 2014 UTC."

In view of the ? launch delay, are snapshots being taken still in 2 days?

edit. OK. I need to read the right thread. https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=4774.0;topicseen