Sovereign Man / Simon Black is very tight with his email list..  He does not promote any affiliate offers.  He is however pro bitcoin and there is a slight chance.   Doug Casey is affirmatively anti crypto-currency.

Thank you Captain Literal chip.   

I think the angle here is .   "Be you own payment processor empire."   Tagline.... And put visa and mastercard out of business

Here are the big ones as I see it that are not obvious from the list of features.

1. Bitcoin has not governence model we do. 1 Larimar 1 vote.

2. The primary benefit to a bitcoin payer (not merchant) is during a black swan event, but can rarely be used.  Let me explain.  From the payers perspective credit cards are better and more established than bitcoin. Both are inexpensive, easy to use, and easy to obtain, and CC's even give you points for using it so you get a free flight every year.   The magor benefit of bitcoin to the user is protection in a blackswan event.  Ask the people of Greece and Cyprus if they would trade their free flights for access to their money.  The catch is, sending money is a very small part of our financial lives.  We borrow, we lend, we trade, we do lots of things.  To use bitcoin in any way other than sending money is to lose its primary benefit which is protection in a black swan event because you have to give up your private keys to third parties.   IF you want to hedge its value you have to let Coinapult hold your coins, IF you want to trade your coins and let them sit on an order book you have to give up your keys to Bitfinex, if you want to do something as elementary as set up a recurring payment you have to give up your keys to coinbase. The list is endless.  Anytime you want to do anything with bitcoin outside of send from A to B you have to jump back in the fire and deal with hokey third parties and trust them with your wealth.   The exact opposite of bitcoin stands for.  Bitshares turns that on its head.   Its primary benefit is the same protection during a black swan, but its sphere of benefit is orders of magniitude better than bitcoin because you can do all of the above things and keep your private keys.

3. Although bitcoin is growing much faster than bitshares ATM it has s short circuit which is holding it back, that if bitshares achieved the same level of support would see it grow much faster.  All crypto's are not particularly attractive for users (not merchants) when compared to credit cards or paypal.  It makes little sense to go to the effort and pay spreads just to send the money away.  Bitcoin used to have a cool way to get some coins in peoples hands.  It was mining with your PC.  Those days are over.  the next obvious way to get bitcoin into peoples hands is since bitcoin is so attractive to merchants compared to bitcoins then eventually more and more merchants will have bitocin in their hands and so it will spread from the merchant side.   Enter the short circuit.  Merchants do not hold bitcoins.  They liquidate them immediately through bitpay and others because bitcoin is volatile.  Bitassets does not have this short circuit.  A merchant need not liquidate them immediately because it is stable and in fact is incentivized not to for black swan protection.   He can hold wealth in bitUSD and only transfer out if needed later without currency risk.   The avoidance of this short circuit cannot be understated.   Cryptos would grow way more if it were absent like it is with bitassets.   IT should be noted however that bitcoin does have an advantage that bitUSD does not have.   bitcoin can attract users because of speculation, bitassets cannot.  In the long term I Would choose bitassets advantages but in the early days bitcoins advantage is pretty sweet.
4. Enhanced security through easier to use multisig and even more importantly limited withdrawals from nominated accounts.  That is a big one.

Where is the wallet access, because doesn't the wallet provider take a cut? For example, if it is on bitshares.org, would you be funneling to bitshares.org and thus we would end up with only the 50/50 commission?

No commissions split others.   BM/Cryptonomex will host wallets and not take a cut.

Thanks G Chicken.

Today BitShares 101 book translated for following languages:

• French
• Greek
• Russian
• Spanish
• Korean

My idea to publish these translation at GitBook and make them available for free.
If Max will allow me, I will publish English version of the book also for free.

So I just need permission from translators for translated versions and translated book source, all rest I will do alone. Sure if translator can publish his translation at GitBook it's will be even better.

Russian version of the book from begining available free of charge at:
https://www.gitbook.com/book/testzcrypto/bitshares101
and Google Play.

PS: If I miss some translation please post info here.

Great Suggestion TestZ.

Thank you for it and yes you are welcome to upload the english version to gitbook.    Does that mean that others can update it?

Is there an authority to can "ok"commits?

Will that be me?

Max.

Periscope hilariously doesn't work on my Note II. Any chance you will join the mumble server at the same time?

Afraid not.

Ask anything you like.
Get your stupid questions answered.
Stump me with hard ones.
Criticize comments I have made in the past.
Brainstorm your business idea.
Wednesday is all about you and how I can help you in anyway.
Bitshares, bitcoin, crypto, gold, silver, Austrian economics, Libertarian philosophy, Ancap, Its all on the table.

Here is the selfish background to why I am doing this.
On Wednesday the 12th of August I will be driving for 12 hours from Kansas City to Denver with only my dog 'Liberty' for conversation.
I want you to keep me company. Tune into my live broadcast and ask me anything you want, Good bad and ugly.   I also have some topics prepared that you will love and that no one is talking about.

Who am I?
I am the host of BitsharesTV. I wrote the one and only book on Bitshares available on Amazon and in 7 different languages called Bitshares 101. I wrote a top seller called Bitcoin revolution in 2013. I work with Bitshares and Cryptonomex on marketing and messaging.   All the things you like about Bitshares marketing... that was me. All things you don't like... that was Dan not listening to me   
Associate producer of the newly released award winning Bitcoin Documentary "The End of Money as we know it" and  self-proclaimed expert at all the topics mentioned above.

How do you join me?
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