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Technical Support / Re: Why annual memberships are going away
« on: March 16, 2016, 04:45:49 am »
Hey thanks for the post in addressing this issue @theoretical .  I understand some features are not worth keeping if the cost is prohibitive.  However there are a couple things I would like to note:

1. Coming from the marketing standpoint, I think annual membership is very important.  Using current membership numbers skews  the ratio in favor of LTMs because most of the people who even know about memberships are long-time community members and HODLRs. (BTW great to hear there are that many strong Bitshares supporters!)  Anyways the ratio of annual to lifetime members will be much different for new users.   The current referral program is hardly being used for growth because we don't have many businesses using our ecosystem yet.  We at Bitcash plan to take advantage of the referral program and annual memberships.

2.  Secondly and most importantly I've followed the Github issues and the code seems to behave as designed and documented  last year before the big upgrade and after.  There was some confusion about the referrer/registrar split because most people, myself included, didn't understand that the registrar would be able to decide the split and that may not have been clear during the big announcement in May/June of last year.   However the mechanics make sense and everything seems to be behaving as expected.  Note: Wouldn't genesis accounts just have to upgrade using a registrar that set's the referral percentage to 100%. 

If you can clarify if there are any additional issues I'm missing other than the confusion from the referrer/registrar split that would be great @theoretical.  Thank you. 

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General Discussion / Re: Why are we deprecating Annual Membership?
« on: March 16, 2016, 03:53:22 am »
Quote from: Brekyrself on March 16, 2016, 03:48:17 am
Quote from: merivercap on March 16, 2016, 03:05:25 am
Per mumble at 3:41 : https://soundcloud.com/beyond-bitcoin-hangouts

Why?  I think annual membership is important.

Shouldn't there be a process for making a change to this feature?


See explanation here:
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,21846.0.html

Thanks @Brekyrself .   Searched the forums, but didn't catch the thread.   Will respond there.  Cheers.

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General Discussion / Why are we deprecating Annual Membership?
« on: March 16, 2016, 03:05:25 am »
Per mumble at 3:41 : https://soundcloud.com/beyond-bitcoin-hangouts

Why?  I think annual membership is important.

Shouldn't there be a process for making a change to this feature?


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General Discussion / Re: Of all the worker projects on the table, making the DEX faster should be #1
« on: March 09, 2016, 07:14:46 am »
@cylonmaker2053  Yeah I had some delays before as well and assumed it was my computer/connection.  Can you test trading a little bit on: https://bts.bitcash.org and let me know if you experience the same lag?  It's our faucet wallet.  Thanks!

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General Discussion / Re: Percentage based transfer fee [BSIP10] implemented
« on: March 07, 2016, 01:19:39 am »
So just to confirm.  With %-based fees regular users will pay up to the maximum fee for transfers and lifetime members will always pay the minimum fee correct?

Also how will the no-fee/rate-limiting feature effect this proposal?  I assume Smartcoin fee structures remain the same after rate-limiting is implemented.  What is the expectation for fees for bitCNY and bitUSD/bitEUR? 

Also does it make sense to have more than one option for % fees that the committee can decide on (ie.  higher fee & lower fee options)?

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General Discussion / Re: Payout Referral Commisions in Smartcoins
« on: March 06, 2016, 11:44:51 pm »
Quote from: abit on March 06, 2016, 11:01:44 pm

I was proposing NOT to use other assets to pay referrers, but let the BTS be there (as is), and make use of it in your client software (you can show it as something else, not a "share"). Paying non-BTS assets to referrers is not possible with current design, and hard to change (not impossible though). Only BTS in pools, no other assets, so the system can't sell them automatically. Automatically borrowing is too risky for the system. Automatically buying smart coins from market is expensive due to illiquidity, unless you setup a huge sell wall there by yourself. You can also setup a service, so your users can exchange their BTS to other smart coins from you (you buy from market for them or whatever method).

I'm not going to set up a worker if only you need a feature.

I remember puppy is helping you with something. If you're not too familiar with how BitShares works, best ask puppy to join the discussion.


Thanks for the reply @abit .  Since it will be difficult to pay in non-BTS assets, what about a feature to allow any user to pay for another user's membership?  That doesn't seem as complicated.  It will 1) allow businesses to have a roundabout way to pay referrals in non-BTS assets. 2) allow users to pay for other people's membership dues as gifts.

Do you have an estimate of the cost to implement a feature that enables users to pay membership dues for others?  I can create a worker proposal and try to rally people or raise enough funds to implement this as long as it's not too complicated or expensive.

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General Discussion / Re: Payout Referral Commisions in Smartcoins
« on: March 06, 2016, 04:11:38 am »
@abit
Had a question.  We want to pay out referral commissions in our Privatized Smartcoin called CASH.USD.  Can you think of an easy way to enable this?

One option is just for our company Bitcash to take 100% of referral revenue from our faucet in the form of BTS and create our own referral program by sending the referrers  CASH.USD instead of BTS by keeping track of referrers ourselves.  The only problem is that users can only upgrade memberships by paying BTS instead of CASH.USD so they won't be able to upgrade  using their own CASH.USD-only wallets. 

Could we create an operation to allow someone to pay for another user's membership?  Then we can pay for the upgrade using BTS if they send us CASH.USD.  This operation can also be useful for allowing any user to gift membership dues to others.    Let me know.   Thanks. 

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General Discussion / Re: Trading Contest on the Testnet?
« on: March 03, 2016, 01:00:08 am »
Congratulations @cylonmaker2053 !   You are the first ever Bitshares Testnet Trading Champion!

I forgot to screen shot what I had yesterday.. but it was probably around 970k test and around 960k right now.  I just took a bunch a losses on round trip trades just to make sure to get $1,000 for the day.  I was pretty much 100% long TEST on borrowed PEG.FAKEUSD and that didn't work out.  Overall there seemed to be good market depth and spreads in the market.  Good job helping to make the market!  There seemed to be others helping to provide market depth.

As for the UI:
-The issue where you had to increase the bid after clicking on an order and auto-populating the form to actually make a transaction go through seems to have been fixed.  Great!
-It's probably better to have the buy/sell order section right below the charts and above the order book on both horizontal & veritcal modes
-You used to be able to click on an a limit order deeper in the book and it would calculate the total amount to purchase.  It would be great to have that feature back. 

I learned:
The value on the upper right is based on the last trade price of PEG.FAKEUSD/TEST, not the price settlement.
The formula is TEST + PEG.FAKEUSD + TEST Collateral - PEG.FAKEUSD borrowed.
For the real network it's: BTS + bitUSD + BTS collateral - bitUSD borrowed.  (bitUSD is based on last trade price)

The contest:
-It's a great way to practice and simulate trading. 
-The $1000 per day rule is good, but to be effective you probably have to trade at least twice a day so you don't have to roundtrip at a loss to get to the quota.

Other than more people anything else you think will make this more fun?

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Technical Support / Re: Accessing regular webwallet on mobile?
« on: March 01, 2016, 03:44:11 am »
Quote from: xeroc on February 27, 2016, 05:54:46 pm
The web wallet doesn't not work well with Safari ..
As far as I know this has to do either with the websocket implementation or the local database store ..
We had a warning for those browsers earlier .. not sure what it has been removed.

Could you try Safrai on a Mac and open the development console to see if there are javascript errors?

Thanks @xeroc.   I wish I had a Mac to test on. 

I don't think it's entirely a Safari issue because from what I understand the iPhone6/Safari works fine.

As you mention it may have something to do with websockets and particularly on ios7 devices.   It doesn't initialize correctly.  The url always goes to: https://bitshares.openledger.info/#/init-error

Here are some links to resolving similar Safari/iOS websocket  issues. Hope it can help:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5574385/websockets-on-ios?answertab=votes#tab-top

Matthew Levine's fix:
me = this // strange javascript convention
this.socket = new WebSocket(url);
// put onmessage function in setTimeout to get around ios websocket crash
this.socket.onmessage = function(evt) { setTimeout(function() {me.onMessageHandler(evt);}, 0); };

Mobile Safari crash when returning to WebSocket page
https://gist.github.com/mloughran/2052006

Safari (IOS and osx) crashes when connected to websockets
https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR/issues/2650

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Technical Support / Re: Accessing regular webwallet on mobile?
« on: February 27, 2016, 07:49:22 am »
What phone do you have @ebit?

Also do you know a lot of people in China using 2G?  Just curious.  I know there are less and less people using 2G, but just wondering how long  it will take before everyone is on 3G/4G there.  Thanks. 

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Technical Support / Accessing regular webwallet on mobile?
« on: February 27, 2016, 06:38:37 am »
I have issues accessing the webwallet from the mobile browser.  I get a blank screen on my iPhone5. 

Does anyone know what the reason may be?  I heard others are able to access it fine with an iPhone 6 or android.

Does anyone else have the same problem or know what the reason can be?  Thanks!   

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General Discussion / Re: STEALTH Status Update
« on: February 26, 2016, 06:47:39 am »
 +5%

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General Discussion / Re: Trading Contest on the Testnet?
« on: February 24, 2016, 07:22:55 pm »
Quote from: cylonmaker2053 on February 24, 2016, 06:41:34 pm
Quote from: merivercap on February 24, 2016, 06:20:37 pm
Great!

It should include open orders.  I believe the value change is probably because the PEG.FAKEUSD value fluctuates based on the last trade.

cool. are you using a trade bot, or doing it manually? i'm unfortunately still manual these days. i'm also trading the same way i do for my real BTS account, so this is a great test case for me too :)

Yeah I'm trading manually, but just a few times here and there to make sure I trade $1,000 for the day.. I was hoping there would be other bots running, but we can eventually get @xeroc or @clayop to run their bots on the testnet and also hopefully help us get our own so we can have a bot battle. 

BTW the value of PEG.FAKEUSD may be based on the pricefeed instead of the last trade.  I haven't crunched the numbers yet to confirm. 

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General Discussion / Re: Trading Contest on the Testnet?
« on: February 24, 2016, 06:20:37 pm »
Great!

It should include open orders.  I believe the value change is probably because the PEG.FAKEUSD value fluctuates based on the last trade. 

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General Discussion / Re: Trading Contest on the Testnet?
« on: February 24, 2016, 05:24:27 am »
Quote from: cylonmaker2053 on February 21, 2016, 08:07:55 pm
Quote from: merivercap on February 21, 2016, 07:25:05 pm
Awesome!  You can go to: http://testnet.bitshares.eu/ and create a new account and the faucet will give you an initial 1,000,000 TEST.

Let's get ready to rumble..!!! :P

Done! see you at high noon Wednesday. I'm your huckleberry!



btw what is your account name @cylonmaker2053 ?

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