Even a 30,30,10,30 split might be a hard sell, because to outsiders it will look like 60% going to privileged investors and the people actually paying for it getting a measly 30%. How would you feel about crowdfunding a project like that, where you pay all development and startup costs for 30% of the stake. Just see the bitching about not getting 70% for providing no funds at all and talking about dilution and all that, if anything that only proves the validity of my point of view.

I agree completely.

Unless there is something really new and interesting that can be done with cryptocurrency.  And no, reduced stock trading fees is not going to do it.

I tend to agree that to have mass adoption it will be very difficult indeed, you right about that.
I think people are coming wherever there are money to be made. That's one of the reasons why, I'm thinking, the market behind BitshareX can attract a lots of people, maybe not the average Joe not at the beginning at least. One step at the time. Forex is 5 trillions dollars, how many average Joe do you know that are trading there ?

There is one thing tough that could attract masses of people and that is Bitshare Music. In my opinion this is the blockchain that could get massive adoption right away. Average Joe will not need to deal with bitcoin,btsx, blockchain cryposuff he'll just use it.  Bitshare Music it is the perfect way to educate people to the beauty of blockchain .  That of course if Bitshare Music would be working as intended, if the execution it perfect and if there will be enough money after IPO that they could deliver the best experience for the user. 

Merchants are already using Bitcoin.  How many of them are experiencing double spend problems by accepting zero confirmation transactions?  Almost none?  If they end up losing 0.05% of income to double spend attacks do you think it's that big a deal?  No.  What they are excited about is not having to pay 3% transaction fees, and losing 5% in charge backs.  7% improvements are a big deal.  0.05% improvements hardly even register.

A business account with Bitpay cost 300$ / month that 3600 $ a year. With BitshareX this could be much much less. I'm pretty sure merchants will care about that.

User doesn't care about any of that.  They just go to Circle and click the "peg to USD" button

Unless I missed something there is no "peg to USD", Circle is doing what Coinbase does, exchange between bitcoin and usd nothing much nothing less, yeah you may be able to use a credit card to purchase bitcoin that's about it.
Circle is a US company that offer 100% insurance on your found.  A guy for China or Greece has no access to it .  Circle is a company that can bankrupt like any other company, or can be closed bu the government, or if US dollars goes crazy well you are screwed, What users will do when they'll know there is a better solution out there and you can eliminate those risks ? 

You seems to underestimate the power of  bitAssets, there is nothing out there that can replace that. Now imagine if you tell a user, in your bank you can keep : 1 once of gold , 1 barrel of petroleum, 1/2 Google action, 1000 CNY etc., you can trade them when you want, you can sell them, you can do whatever, without  the need to go on Stock Market, Exchanges etc and it is global and almost no fees.  This has so much value even without yield. 

 Bitshare X versatility it is unparalleled because is decentralized and is universal(no Circle need it). Anything could be pegged that's extremely practical, imagine some things are only of interest in some country if there is enough demand you can put it on the market right way, with  no wait.

If you invest in bitcoin you expect to make money if the price it goes up. If you invest in Bitshare X  you can make money on so many ways.

Bitcoin stopped innovating a long time ago. Bitshares X is just getting started.

And yes P2Pool could help Bitcoin but very unlikely to happen : https://blockchain.info/pools

So yeah we don't really know how all will pan out but I believe there are enough advantages in favor of Bithsare X  that, even for ignorant user perspective, are enough to make it more attractive then bitcoin ecosystem.

Bitcoin security cost  about 600 millions dollar a year, that's one of the reason bitcoin price is going down.
51 attack it is a very real possibility
No price stability whatsoever(unless of course you pass by centralized  company Circus  Bitpay. Yes user care about centralize or not remember MtGox ?  )
Fees are likely to go bigger and bigger on bitcoin
10 min transactions ( yeah I know not a big issue for you or the users but still ..)
Discus fish and ghash.io controls at least 40%-60% and it getting worst  (p2pool will never  be competitive with ghash.io)


BitshareX  has none of those problem.

-With BitshareX you don't need Circle or Bitpay, so for starters you have very low transactions fees  in BTSX  and  you pay  ZERO fees to Circus or bitPay. Now  what bitUSD you'll use ? 
-bitAssets give users yield.

Yup indeed his philosophy is very different...
 
"What we need is an alternative, something cheap, plentiful and fast. Turns out there are quite a few options out there that meet this need, but my favorite by far is Dogecoin."
"LTBCOIN is not moving to Doge... yet... But as I've always said, LTB is focused on solutions in the new digital economy more than being a ra-ra we're all going to be rich about Bitcoin. If there is an obviously better solution to accomplish a given task, we'll use it."

Adam B. Levine

But why would they do it now in 2014?

In a way he's deleting history. This could not be.. Something more is happening!! I'm mean you don't just go back to 2010 and start deleting posts .. Why ?

Looks like there are a few grams of BitGLD circulating...

That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”