The thread below got me thinking about killing two birds with one stone and getting some new investment at the same time as getting some cheap expert consulting for bitshares

I'm thinking a ~$5 bounty (enough?) from a crowdfunded pool could be paid to any forum members who can get their business-connected friend or financial expert to introduce themselves on the forum.
It would then be up to the community to answer their questions and convince them to buy stake.
Once they have stake they are incentivized to contribute to discussions and help get BTS a foot in the door of some influential places.
Proof of their knowledge or some such could be required to pay out the bounty

"Hello friend, I think BitShares is something that will interest you, make a post on bitsharestalk.org introducing yourself and I'll split the bounty with you. If you are convinced of the potential you may wish to help increase the value of your stake by contributing on the forums or sending a few emails to your influential colleagues."

Thoughts?

news in http://elbitcoin.org/noticias-bitcoin-del-dia-14-julio-2015/

Say that http://www.swiftinstitute.org/ is seeking the best purpose to translate assets market to the block chain and will pay 15k

http://www.swiftinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Call-for-Proposal-Business-Case-for-Intraday-Liquidity-Reporting_v3.pdf

http://www.swiftinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Call-for-Proposal-Blockchain-in-Securities-Transactions_v7.pdf

Maybe easy 15k and good marketing for BitShares ,, maybe not  just wanna keep informed about this.

What type of 'expert' would most benefit bts?
Securities lawyers?
Market makers?
Wall st. traders?
"Old boys" with political connections?

Interesting read: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-06-23/this-is-how-uber-takes-over-a-city

In this article it talks about how Uber has been lobbying all over the US to get local governments to back them, I'm thinking BTS could benefit from doing something similar with "experts" lobbying financial gurus

thanks! I'll test it later, setting it up for 2 bts ids /cc @Permie

How do you find people's member ID?

 

Quote from: Pheonike on July 13, 2015, 02:10:44 pm

After a proposal is voted for to determine its importance level to the community, there should be a second phase where potential workers bid for the project. They should give their price, time to complete, and reasons why they should be voted on to do the job. The community votes and the winner is awarded the contract.

This approach cleanly splits the proposal approval from the choice of workers to implement it, and that is very good. It also provides the most efficient path to implementation, and focuses the worker implementation bid primarily on implementation concerns and not on financing.

Should both phases be approved by a vote of shareholders at large or only the proposal phase, with approval of the contract award based on a multi-sig vote of the delegates? I pose that question because the delegates may be better informed about developer qualifications and it may thus be easier to reach a consensus of the best dev team to implement the proposal.

Quote from: starspirit on July 13, 2015, 12:44:00 pm

What I imagined here was that a project concept can be promoted by the community and then outsourced to developers, rather than having to be initiated by the developers themselves. For example, if the community was keen to pursue a particular strategic direction in development. Whereas there's a risk that an eclectic mix of individual developers coming to the community may simply promote ad-hoc improvements. But it would take time for the community to develop such coherence of thought.

I still think the project proposal format is the most appropriate for the community to vote on though, backed up by the skill of the developers proposing to implement it. This moves beyond a simple job application format.

 

The community could write their own proposals, with the initial benefactors of the funding to be a multi-sig of delegates - who then pay out the funding to workers who prove that they are willing and capable to actually implement it.

We have all these low-trust tools, we should use them and show others what can be done

When I mentioned the word "democracy" Pernie jumped in and spoke about anarcho-capitalism..In the beggining I was what is he talking about..Now I understand..

I never felt so stupid living in "democracy"...My God democracy apparently is an illusion..I realise that now...

The Greek referendum will remain in history as the world's most unnecessary and  useless and pointless referendum..I never felt so ashamed beeing Greek in my life..

People voted clearly NO. and by voting NO it was obvious that they

1. Do not want new austerity measures
2. Do not really care if we left the EURO

And the fucking loser politicians, turned a NO vote to more and more and more austerity measures. Not only that but they are clearly negotiating of selling and giving the national property.. Let's give a couple of islands in order to stay in the Euro...OOOhhh my God...I really can't believe this is happening in my country...

I am so pissed off right now..I can't believe how someone is urging people to vote NO, says for the last 6 months that Greece will not stay in Euro at any cost, people clearly vote in favor of not giving up and then he turns a NO vote to the biggest "mnimonio" ever just because Markets didn't react very negatively to a Grexit and is he is afraid to take the road he was preaching for the last 6 months..Of course the markets would not react unless Grexit really does happen you f..ing moron...

He is planning to destroy the farmers, agriculture, tourism, shipowners, retirements, health and insurance, sell the national property, increase immensely the taxation..He really hasn't left anything not to destroy because he is afraid to issue IOUs and get out of the EU..

I will never ever keep another Euro in my bank account and I refuse to be part of this corrupted system..Go Crypto Go!!

Are you seriously saying that I've convinced you of anarcho-capitalism >> democracy??
When I wrote it I remember thinking 'this isn't going to change anyone's view but I'd like to be able to say I put my reasoning out there'

I'm afraid that bankrupting Greece and then raiding it's public resources was probably the plan all along. It's really terrible.
If people don't start to take notice or care what's happening to PEOPLE JUST LIKE THEM in other countries then I think a few small islands may seem trivial compared to the landgrab that could be coming.
"That debt we gave you looks pretty hefty... How about you give us all your land-rights and veto-power over any laws you make and we'll call it... not 'even' but yknow, we'll go and fuck someone else for a bit"

I adapted Stan's great post and sent it to a few online ticket sellers.

Hello Vivid Seats,
Do you know much about cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and BitShares?
BitShares can allow Vivid Seats to increase their profits selling tickets and gain up to $80 per new user they sign up to use Vivid Seats.
BitShares can also allow you to increase the efficiency of your affiliate program.
Peak Venture Group have recently integrated with BitShares and they are an affiliate/marketing based company. Perhaps their press release will be of most interest to you (below).

The BitShares ecosystem is open to all and allows businesses to set-up shop, using the Bts network as their back-end and earn the lions share of the fees generated by your business. For detailed info, see: https://bitshares.org/blog/2015/06/08/announcing-bitshares-2.0

Think the internet and having a website, but for finance and asset (e.g sports/gig tickets) exchange.

Here are some companies that have already integrated with BitShares, and their press releases:

Startup incubator and marketing firm Peak Venture Group: http://www.fox5vegas.com/story/29458521/peak-venture-group-adopts-the-bitshares-network

Financial exchange CCEDK: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/2586995

Cryptocurrency investment group Banx Capital: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/banx-capital-joins-bitshares-exchange-162900334.html

BitShares is a decentralized ecosystem and financial exchange that would allow you to reduce your costs, reduce your risk and increase your profits by earning referral income for every new user you on-board to your business, and will allow you to issue tickets in a more efficient way. Your tickets could become tradable, you have the option to retain full control to revoke tickets, and you will profit from the fees generated every time your tickets are swapped in a secondary market.

Everybody wins: The issuer of an asset (tickets, in your case) gets the fees from the use of that asset by everybody else's users on the BitShares network. The recruiter of a user gets the fees from the use of the network for everybody else's products.

... and we all benefit from greater economic volume - which itself attracts more users and service providers.

So, bottom line: Network members compete to win and retain customers - usually drawn from completely different demographics. Our affiliate incentive program gives them credit for everything those customers do on the whole network - by introducing them to products and services offered by other network partners. They gain by having their own products and services marketed to the customers of other network members. They gain by sharing market depth and liquidity in a single global marketplace. They gain by sharing in the "unhackable" and "transparent" set of order books that protect the consumers for the first time from exchange counterparty risk.

BitShares also allows the asset-issuer to comply with KYC and AML laws, you get to decide who can hold your tickets, and if they are allowed to trade them with other users, the whole world, or just with yourselves.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask them and if you are interested in exploring the possibilities of integration I will start a forum thread and introduce your company to the community on http://www.bitsharestalk.org

We hope to hear from you soon,
BitShares user Permie

Quote from: Permie on July 10, 2015, 05:55:25 pm

Quote from: MrJeans on July 10, 2015, 04:57:53 pm

Quote from: Permie on July 10, 2015, 04:51:52 pm

Can you afford the liability, banking relationships and risk of imprisonment for 1%?

If you trade in an authoritarian market you'll also have to pay for the privilege, either in capital or in data-farming your users

If that were the case I suspect it would have been done a while ago

This is just a theoretical idea where I am trying to think of features that could be added to allow for many different business scenarios.

All users would be white-listed and can only trade with each other. So all transactions can be monitored. AML and KYC can be complied with. There shouldnt be any legal issues there.

The idea would be to just be a slightly more efficient version of paypal because you are not worrying about processing transactions.

That's true, I suppose it could work

But if you can only send user-user who both have to sign up, you may as well sign them up to BitShares and take the referral income, no?

Thats true, but then they would need on/off ramps, bitAsset may not always peg exactly and is unregulated.
There also may not be a bitAsset for the local currency.

I am in South Africa, where crypto trades at a premium and is not at all liquid, thus any user would have to pay 1.15USD for one bitUSD. And they wont be able to trade bitZAR.

Would it not then be more profitable to just set up a bitshares gateway in such a jurisdiction?

What is easier/better about a bts-paypal than 'just' opening a gateway?

Thanks to the BitShares’ high capacity network, the BunkerDEX will enable anyone with a SmartPhone to cash their cheques, pay bills online, and send money to their friends and family in any SmartCoin they choose.

Is this referring to becoming a gateway and letting Canadians use the BitShares network easier, or is this about SAFE where third parties will cash their cheque and share the risk/reward with their investors via SAFE or something?