bm change the total supply of BTS without consent too

What the hell this is supposed to mean?

First, we have now changed to Bitshares 2.0 where Bytemaster has no power to change the supply anymore. Didn't you know that? We made the change last year!

Second, if you didn't like the supply change, why didn't you sell everything and leave the project? If you don't believe in Bitshares anymore, why you are in the forum still? Remember, Bitshares is a DAC so it's like a company. If you think that company is doing badly, you either try to get it to work better or sell your shares. So far anti-Bytemaster gang hasn't offered any improvement proposals so I guess that you don't have any idea how to make Bitshares better.

Attacking against Bitshares with exchange votes to stop the development is probably the most retarded way of action in this situation. It will make the BTS price go down when markets realize that Bitshares development is in danger. Why do you want BTS price to go down? Please, explain.

you have a thief as your comminitee
your man always want get more and more money,
never want to clear the thief,
and said sorry to BTER

Mindphlux doesn't have anything to do with this situation. Pretty much everybody agrees that what he did was wrong.

Has anybody got any explanation? My email was replied just:

"Our opinion on voting is based on our community and our customers.
If you don't agree with us, you can withdraw your BTS from yunbi."

WTF? They don't even bother to explain why they are doing it?

Is this some kind of bigger project, with dividend worker, to make BTS price drop dramatically? More attacks coming? So they can buy more BTS with cheaper price? Even that doesn't make any sense, because most of the antidilution gang don't want to continue development on themselves. If markets stop believing that Bitshares can develop to a profitable DAC, how they are planning to get confidence back?

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Recently there was a hangout with a guy from Dash. One really interesting concept was masternodes that Dash has. Especially the collateral that is demanded for masternode seemed to be very successful idea.

Every masternode has to have 1000 dash that they lock for so long as they are a masternode. This has been very helpful for dash price because it has sucked a lot of dash away from market liquidity.

It's more profitable for dash owners to lock it up and get rewarded rather than trade on exchanges: they get an interest for the collateral and dash price goes up because there is less to sell.

What would be the best way for Bitshares to implement something like this?

First and most obvious option is of course that we will have a worker that will pay interest for accounts that have locked a certain amount of BTS. And of course there will be the old antidilution argument... but in this case, the funds from reseve pool are not going to liquid markets, they are going to be locked away from markets.

Those funds are not increasing the current supply and they incentivize people to reduce current supply. That would be pure win for everyone. In addition that will incentivize people to move their BTS from exchanges to their own wallets. So the "antidilution" argument doesn't apply in this case.

Couple of questions:

- Should there be a minimum amount of BTS that is entitled to the interest? 1000 dash is approximately 1 000 000 BTS.

- How often interest is paid? Once a month? When funds are unlocked?

- How much is the interest?

- Is there some minimum time for locking? If user unlocks before that, they need to pay a fine, which is added to the interest pot and divided for those who keep their funds locked?

Another possibility is "savings club" that @Empirical1.2 suggested a while ago.

Users will deposit assets to an account where they sit for a year (or some other time). When year is over, they need perform "proof of life" to get their assets back. If they don't, they lose the assets and those are divided for other users as an interest. So it's like a mild form of gambling.

Originally Empirical proposed that this would be for BitUSD but I think it would work best with BTS. We want BitUSD to be liquid, so there is not much reason to lock it away from markets. Instead we want BTS to be locked away from current supply to make it more valuable.

This could be funded with fee backed assets so there is no need to use reserve pool funds.

I'm thinking about this from a DAC and community point of view.

This is totally shitty move and our community should decide some guidelines how we will deal with stuff like this.

Forum should be reserved only for productive efforts. We really shouldn't have to deal with shit like this here. Just remove the cancer before it gets too big. I've seen too many times that communities start to suffer when they don't get rid of bullies and antiproductive persons soon enough.

This is the stupid questions thread, not the stupid answers thread

Of course I started there. But when I landed on the homepage, I read about the technologies. But, I really miss a general path on how to start with things. As a user, but also as a possible contributor with a tech background. What is there to be done and how to start learning it so it it will be possible to contribute later.

Thanks

Unfortunately the newbie friendly information is still mostly missing. But this documentation page will probably help you to get started, and then you can ask here on this forum more spesific questions: http://docs.bitshares.eu/

If the worker doesn't get voted in I'll keep it and monetise it myself but it's obvious to most it would be better controlled by the comittee or cryptonomex.

I don't think that committee members should be required to take any part in marketing. Their job is to set blockchain parameters and that's enough for a nonpaid work.

Also Cryptonomex seems to be uninterested in marketing so accounts might be left underused if they are given to them.

Right now the best option might be that you'll gather a group of people who are interested and can post relevant stuff every now and then. I use Facebook quite regularly so I can be admin there if needed.

Maybe you could first ask donations to cover you expenses before you make the worker proposal? All donations you collect makes the worker less expensive so it gets voted in more easily.

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Delete Payrate (not in use anymore)

Add Proxy (all who are proxies should be better known)