Just wanted to state this..

If anyone knows about blockchain technology, when a traditional chainfork happens, it's because there's PoW blocks created on a different chain because of some quicker blocks, and nodes accepting the blocks.

Eventually these small forks "reorg" as part of chain reorganization

What we're witnessing now in my opinion, is a Bitshares "reorg" in the way of people who bought in to get rich quick and are selling vs the people who understand what Bitshares can and will do in the future and are buying the low.

So while we're in this transition, my recommendation is to either buy or sell in a way that makes you feel comfortable.  I sincerely feel that I'm on the right "chain" by buying.

We'll see what happens, but I fully believe the current low exchange price of BTS is something we won't see ever again.

Keep forging ahead those of you long and strong.. this isn't wasted technology. It's very methodically designed and I think people a couple years from now might see these old stale dated May 2015 posts and wish they could have bought at these prices.

I don't know what spawned this post, other than the realization that we're going through an investor "reorg" akin to blockchain reorganization like Bitcoin has gone through with it's PoW mechanism.

I also agree with the vesting situation that is designed into the system. I never understood it until now.

Perhaps I'm seemingly coded in the way I'm expressing this point. Perhaps someone else can use better layman terms to explain what I'm trying to say?

For those of you who have knowledge of a chain reorganization, doesn't this feel similar?

A good video for this (before it's taken down) is this one from Dragons Den Canada (S09E18, Mar182015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SratSgODX84

At 18 mins, 20 seconds, to 19 minutes the lesson is.. "I've done this for 33 years. The only way to make money is to buy fear and sell greed"

I think we're in the buy fear stage.

..he goes to to say "wanna know how you get 30 years of experience? 30 years. I've lost a lot of money to make a lot of money"

So I agree with his 30+ years of experience "buy fear, sell greed".  Right now it's a buy fear market at these BTS prices it appears (my opinion only)

Why don't we have a Bitshares forum devoted to DNS?

v0.1 beta of the DNS can be something as simple as a taskbar widget that someone clicks, enters in a URL, it does a p2p query for the latest IP address for that site, and then displays an HTML link that the user clicks.

This way, you don't have to have any browser extensions.

You don't have to bind yourself to the dns resolver or network interface

This allows site names to map to ever changing IP addresses, from a p2p database.  It's a very "lite" client, that doesn't need a huge download.

Microsoft never shipped with utorrent or ICQ, but look how popular those were.  A little taskbar widget for Windows could really work.

v1 could be a browser plugin

v2 could be something that binds to the network interface almost like hotspot shield does..

By the way, if you expect the client to have to process regular BTS blocks, with all the other non-DNS traffic, I highly recommend against that.  You need this to be as lean and mean as possible, as a separate dedicated sidechain.

If you're worried about getting BTS to gain benefit from this, all you have to do is make registering names happen via BTS only.

But clients need to do minimal processing in order to resolve a name.  Right now, you type in a name and in milliseconds you get your answer from the root servers with only a  less than 1 kb of traffic in either direction.

That's going to be the hard part.  Designing a dedicated blockchain that hardly ever hard forks that is simple and quick, and stores very little resources on the client so it can work on phones and other small devices.

DAC Sun Never Set.

Introducing the opensource decentralized game platform PLAY.
http://www.dacsunlimited.com

The latest official release can always be found at this URL:
https://github.com/dacsunlimited/dac_play/releases/latest

Upon unleashing, decentralized technology runs on its own, just like the Internet. The power of decentralization crashes any bureaucracy or censorship that tries to stop it.

WELCOME TO THE DACPLAY WORLD!
-DACSunlimited

There's a lot of spelling mistakes and poor english all over dacplay.org.  I suggest running a spell check and getting a native english speaker to help.

ie: LEARN ABOUT DETAIL  (English people don't talk like that, they would instead say "VIEW DETAILS")

It says this:

"which can be consider as the door opened to the crypto world and than the entire world."

which means this:

"which can be considered as a new door opened to both the crypto world, as well as, the entire world".

It says:

"Provable fair game and truly random number generation is always be a problem for games, the algorithm from BitShares DPOS, we first can use this service based on blockchain in games."

Instead it should say:

"Provable fair game and truly random number generation has always been a problem for games. Now we can use the algorithms from BitShares DPOS, and use these blockchain features in games today."

There's more.   Anyone else want to take a crack at this?

When launching any site you want to have your best foot forward. There will be no second chances to make a first impression.

We agree DNS is important and it is integral to our current design.

But it doesn't double the value of our shares immediately like getting a ready-for-prime-time minimum viable product that the marketeers can market.

Sure would be great if we could move everything to the front burner.  All it takes is cash.  So increasing the value of delegate pay streams must be priority number one.

Agreed.  This is why I suggested 10% towards DNS, and 90% towards what you just said.

Even if there was a golden hour once a week, just for DNS, and the remaining part of the week was "what you just said", I'd be happy.  Every Wednesday between 8am-9am is DNS dev hour.  Then put it all away and forget about it until the next Wednesday [for example]

P.S. In that one hour, if we could investigate CJDNS and see if there is any way we could piggy back on that without doing any major dev work, that would give us a stepping stone until our own implementation was funded.

Just wanted to say...

A lot of people are about money, it's how we're designed by the status quo and social upbringing.

I saw things said from toast and Bytemaster this year that proved to me, that they actually aren't chasing money as much as they want to do the right thing with their talents and leave a legacy behind them.

For that, I am very supportive and appreciative of their efforts.   We don't need to ride them to perform. They're putting their sweat equity in this not just for profit, but to create something they're proud of... For that, they have my upmost respect, and it's like a new sun shining bright on all of us.

Congrats to all developers working as hard as you can. All of you deserve the same respect. Be proud of your contributions to this.. It's more than profit. It's changing life for millions of people if it works.

Happy New Year.