If a customer pays in BTC and then gets a refund after their money was held in escrow as BitUSD, they could get less BTC back than they expect. How would this problem be resolved?

Wouldn't it be so much easier if our dreams came true and everyone just used BitAssets?

It's not the value of BTC that matters to the vendor, it's the price in equivalent USD. If someone paid 300 dollars and I received less BTC but still at 300, it's a benefit.

I apologize for the newbie question, I never dealt with snapshots in the wallet.  Is it possibly to export keys from BTER that would allow snapshots to be imported into the wallet?  I kept 95% of my coins off the exchange but did have slightly larger snapshots.

I worry about snapshots.

Priority 1

1)   Light Weight Client
2)   Web Wallet
3)     BTS wallet improvement

- I'd include Hedgewallet and the Mobile wallet in this list
    * It's a shame core development wasn't involved with this earlier as a reason to use BitUSD. We could have used Bitcoin's network effect to help show an immediate use for BitUSD.
- Tool tips
- A walkthrough button in the client explaining how to use each option with arrows and screenshots
- Link to video tutorials
- Recommend putting the delegate voting information in advanced until it is much easier to understand


Priority 2


12)   Marketing

Marketing is doing fine building infrastructure and building processes.  Once the clients are ready, this give marketing exactly what they need to start pushing the BitShares message.  If you look at the feedback we're receiving in BCT, even those that are in crypto have a real hard time understanding BitShares. An optimized wallet sets them on the right path.

13)   Widespread media coverage

If Nullstreet can pull off the coordination of Hedgewallet (moving between Bitcoin and BitAssets in 1 wallet), we can push it to every Bitcoin friendly publication.  We immediately tap into their large network. We provide a strong funnel to use BitUSD which will help us with merchant/user option down the road.

5)    Easy to use multi-sig for cold storage

The only way we convert the large Bitcoin holders is to make sure they feel safe with cold storage.


Priority 3


7)       User-Issued Asset (UIA) features

   Lots of quality documentation (ie: BM's blog)

9)   Whitepapers (Same as 3?)

- UIA features give marketing a second push
- Documentation will help us attract additional development help
- Integration documents for exchanges and other services make that conversation much easier for our business development delegates


Priority 4

17)   Getting listed on one of the top exchanges (BTCChina, OKCoin, Bitfinex or Bitstamp)

18)   Getting bitUSD accepted on one of the top crypto marketplaces

19)   Workable debit card for bitUSD

20)   merchant adoption 

15)   Gateways

16)   Easy fiat onramps from USD into both BTS and bitUSD  (same as 5?)

- Obviously many of these options are already being investigated one way or another
- By time the first 3 priorities are complete, Priority 4 should be a natural progression


Priority 5

- Prediction markets, bond market, margin etc


Currently

- In the last weekly update, BM mentioned gateway infrastructure development is already active
- I know there was talk of a press kit direction on Nullstreet, need to get an update if that's still an active project
- I've been sending Gentso contacts, he's been actively going after payment processors, debit cards, gateways etc.  That won't happen overnight.
- Bridges are currently deployed, I saw a post about a gateway being worked on in the BitShares community.
- Jsidhu is working on different ecommerce plugins
- Video production is being outlined on Nullstreet

I've read reports of sluggish behavior, modern pc requirements and the blockchain taking hours to download.  I would recommend some type of warning during the installation that would cover the following points:

- The full version of the client is recommended for (the target such as exchanges, delegates etc)
- The minimum requirements for the full experience are (ram, cpu etc)
- The first time downloading the blockchain may take ...   For a more responsive experience, please install the (point to the download page for lightweight and web clients)

Setting the expectation will save us pain down the road. I'd like to hear your thoughts.

Who knows, the market will figure it out. We can't be surprised that some larger holders are looking to liquidate with our huge delays. It's always a good time to buy until we hit a new low.
I'm holding. With the lightweight and hedge wallet being developed, I'm counting on big gains in the next 6 months.

Quote from: fuzzy on February 11, 2015, 11:58:29 am

Quote from: MrJeans on February 11, 2015, 11:04:32 am

The community, ie. your network effect, is being completely ignored.
What a way to loose your good will which you paid 50% of the share supply for! I am sure you did not pay 50% share supply for a mailing list. Because now thats all you will have.

The community was also responsible for the toolkit used to bootstrap bitsharesMusic. You paid 20% of your share supply for the use of the toolkit.

Don't worry Mr Jeans, I can't say much, but I will say that competition to MUSIC is not too far off and it seems it is based in a different philosophy with respect to a number of things, but community involvement is one of them. 

I support Cob's efforts.  He is doing what he thinks is best.  However, I too am philosophically inclined to support more grass roots initiatives that reach out to our community.  BitShares is going to be one heck of an awesome place to be a foundational member in the next couple years...