Definitely agree. Bitshares wallet with bitcoin and shapeshift features is a killer app. https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=13882.0;all
Bitshares can do shapeshift without counter-party risk too! https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=13711.0

The race is on for the first smart wallet with bitUSD or equivalents wins. Bitshares should focus on winning this race.


 

I am using these startup sh commands on linux to start bitshares via Tor. The client appears to be working fine and fast, do you think its working correctly via Tor? Are there any other key considerations to keep in mind running bitshares via Tor like this?

export https_proxy='socks://localhost:9150'
export http_proxy='socks://localhost:9150'
BitShares %u

May I make a suggestion....

You are looking at the wrong end of the horse.

A bitshares wallet that does X attracts about 500 eyeballs.

A bitcoin wallet that does X attracts 100,000's of eyeballs.

We need to build a bitcoin wallet.  branded as a bitcoin wallet, that allows hedging of bitcoin with no counterparty  risk.   Bitshares is never mentioned.  perhaps bitusdis mentioned, but it is certainly not front and centre.   IF we do that then we begin a stampede into bitUSD on the next bitcoin price drop.   And we dont have to pay a penny in advertising.  Coindesk, word of mouth and reddit will do all the work for us.   You won't be able to get Barry Silbert and every other pundit to shut up about how bitcoins volatility problem has been solved on CNBC.

Not one penny of advertising needed.

And the good news is it is 90% done.
bitshares lite wallet is in final testing.
shape shift API and lens code is open source and ready to use.   And I have a friend with an established bitcoin wallet that is open source. He cannot dedicate developers to doing this but is happy to pus it live in his existing wallet with thousands of users.   We are talking a month or two tops of development if someone from this community can do that.

Anyone?

This!!!! If Bitshares  is the first "smart wallet" with bitcoin and shapeshift features built in then it should booooom. Consider though that Shapeshift includes counter-party risk so it could be a weak link if the service is hacked. The final objective therefore would be shapeshift functionality managed via bitshares delegate escrow to remove counter-party risk.

As mentioned here its possible with bitshares! https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=13711.0

I think we need someone willing to "make the market" here to boot strap it.

Ok so the answer is patience. Perhaps the early adopters of bitshares have similar economic outlooks and so atm most like me want to go long gold and silver.

My bitshares client is showing close to zero supply atm for bitgold and bitsilver.
Is this an error or is there actually no supply atm!?

Can anyone help? My sync is still stuck. Here is how I updated my client:

cd <BitSharesDirectory>
git pull
git checkout bts/5.0.3
git submodule update
make
make forcebuildweb
make BitShares
sudo cp programs/qt_wallet/bin/BitShares /usr/local/bin/
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/icons/
sudo cp programs/qt_wallet/images/qtapp80.png /usr/local/share/icons/BitShares.png
sudo cp programs/qt_wallet/BitShares.desktop /usr/local/share/applications/

Perhaps I can easily roll back to an earlier version with a few git commands?

"I hope that when the collapse happens, I'm only going to lose 50% of my money." Marc Faber

Marc Faber is very informative and he has been talking about diversification.
http://www.marcfabersblog.com/
http://www.marcfabernews.com/2014/09/diversification-what-marc-fabers.html#.VMgj66PLfnk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRXvetY24hU
http://kingworldnews.com/new-marc-faber-warns-unprecedented-distortions-in-global-markets-buy-gold/

Diversification is the big theme for 2015 and just in a nick of time bitshares puts the right crypto-platform at our fingertips.

bitUSD, bitGOLD, bitCHF, And imagine when we have even more bitAssets: bitOIL, bitDOW, bitHUI, bitCHINARealEstate? !!

And bitINDEXES!!!! With Bitshares its never been easier to diversify!

  Sorry I didn't mean lock I just meant "exchange" for the purpose of avoiding bitcoin volatility. So a counterparty is definitely required but thanks to bitshares there would be no counterparty risk.