Later in the same video, Max interviewed the actual central human counterparty that you must risk your money with when you purchase Bitreserve brand Bitgold (a "dumbcoin" for lack of a better term)(no offense):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaU_dsXTsxM#t=18m14s

Don't you think that Max will now want to interview a human who can inform the Greeks about a counterparty risk free on-blockchain "actual Bitgold smartcoin"?

Max is no dummy.  He comprehended bitcoin pretty quick and became the greater fool (that you wish you were) immediately, do you think that he is too stupid to understand smart contracts?

He owns BitShares anyway because I heard Stacey mention Protoshares years back, and Max is always talking about being diversified in crypto.  I bet dollars to doughnuts that he is already a BTS whale.

 

Correct, and what is it that we specialize in here at BitShares?

We just happen to sell the world's greatest (most counterparty-risk-free) smartcoins.

and for a small fee, I would be happy to personally interview Stacy Herbert for the good (very good) of the company.

He is far too valuable to be wasted on marketing.

What would you rather have :

A decent Max Keiser pump or another order of magnitude scalability upgrade.

Keep him focussed on code.

The product is obviously selling itself.

Woz never marketed.  It was beneath him.

Plus we don't want BM to get BR'd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlwwVuSUUfc#t=37s

Keiser will just want to BR BM just like Adam Levine did the other day.

I am looking forward to getting my hands on Graphene powered Bitshares custom blockchain for Tokenly

Or an identical functioning custom UIA for Tokenly on the BitShares bockchain for a fraction of the cost at a fraction of the total development time..

It looks like Crypronomex just landed another gig.

I wonder if Pat Byrne of Overstock will change his mind about contracting Cryptonomex when he sees that Graphene just blew Medici out of the water performance-wise

Who will be the next businessman floored by Graphene?

It looks like Cryptonomex might need to expand their operations due to exploding demand.

1. How would then longs be collateralized? 

Their investment plus the collateral put up by the shorts

Who's providing the upside gains if shorts are no longer doing that?

gains by whom?

How will Smartcoins come into existence then?

Shorts borrow any amount by locking up collateral (remember that least collateralized shorts get called first during arbitration).  Actually, there would probably be a leverage limit here based on the feed price to total amount requested to borrow ratio, eh BM?

Send it to the reserve pool.

It's the easiest and fairest (perceived) option.

And the Cryptonomex devs will just get it all back after they price gouge us on their next proposal following the "perfect privacy for 2M BTS" gets implemented.

It's all going to the same place.  Let's at least keep up the illusion of fair play and free market competition.  We all know that no dev team is just going to step in here and convince us to spend money on a feature that Cryptonomex can code better.

In fact, if another developer was implementing a feature, I would pay Cryptonomex to proofread the code for us, because right now, they are the only team that I trust.

Why?  Because I am a fanboy?

No, because I use the tools.

Keyhotee founders received an entire day's worth of AGS.  BM said that this was more than was promised, and the rest of the mumble crowd agreed.

If we can't use them to pay for development, then how about if we just burn them?