I think PoW should no be more than 50% share of block generation, otherwise the "soul" of Bitshares is become PoW.

What about BTER? have they confirmed the snapshot?

Sounds great, good work.

Thanks for running this giveaway, my major contribution are as follows:

* been running a delegate for bitshares, under my delegate id "kokojie", with 25k+ blocks produced so far

* spreading bitshares awareness on bitcointalk forum, for example this thread with 35 pages of replies and 23k+ views on bitcointalk.

* reporting bugs on price feed scripts

You could send the brownie points to my "koko" account. Thanks

Quote from: kokojie on May 28, 2015, 02:58:48 pm

Why are you running 6 delegates. A lot of voters would be turned off by such large number of delegates run by the same person from the same location.

Low market cap, low transactions, low liquidity, and low user adoption are even bigger turn offs I think.

Our Delegate bid hits on raising all that among other things. You are welcome to explore the why at http://vote.bunkermining.com that is stated at the very beginning.

The need for 6 is was only driven by community support and the ow market cap reality of bitshares for what is required of this operation.

Voting for our delegates means a vote for higher market cap and raising BitShares standing in the crypto space overall.

I also think having delegates elected that don't even have servers operational is far worse, which was what this thread is about.

If the idea that someone operating 6 delegates who is building up bitshares and maintaining responsible delegate infrastructure for the network in contrast to that is somehow a turn-off in contrast to having delegates in the 101 that dont' even exist, then I can't argue that.

Keep in mind we already have someone (btsnow) with 4 delegates for a long time now, and Bitshares has survived.

Moonstone has had designs to get 5 Delegates elected as part of their crowdfund.

Our bid is quite different though.. everything we do flows back to BitShares and creates a buy/sell market pressure that is consistent day to day. We need to expand.. now.

Not sure how having Bitshares eco-system buying PoW waste is beneficial to Bitshares, I thought the whole idea of PoS is to avoid such waste. The entire idea of "minebitshares.com" is ridiculous to me.

Six 100% delegate controlled by one person from one location, if elected, would be an example of failure of DPoS. In this case, yes two non-operational delegates would be preferable to six 100% delegates controlled by the same person. Especially this person is spending the money on buying PoW waste.

Why are you running 6 delegates. A lot of voters would be turned off by such large number of delegates run by the same person from the same location.

Any gold investor would refuse to invest in such fund, because you don't own any gold, only a "promise" to maintain the peg to gold.

I had an idea to do passthru UIA for high dividend stocks in the US, the dividends would constantly increase demand for BitUSD since I'll have to buy BitUSD and pay to investors, but there's currently no way to issue dividends in Bitshares, so I can't do that.

I think there's some amount of doubt in the community, especially regarding 100% delegate performance, or whether some of them are just selling their delegate income immediately not holding any BTS.

I'm thinking, since the merger required investors (PTS/AGS holders) to have a vesting period. Shouldn't delegate pay also have a vesting period? Let's say delegate still get paid the same amount, but the BTS you get paid today, will be unlocked in 6 months time. So at any time, the delegate have at least a stake in BTS valued in 6 month pay, so the delegate is more motivated to increase BTS's value.

This move should immensely boost community confidence in the 100% delegates.