Quote from: Erlich Bachman on March 26, 2016, 08:47:42 am

Oh shit, we should be more like expanse!

Quick let's raise our blocktime to 60 seconds!!

to the moooon!!!!!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1173722.msg12356869#msg12356869

a strawman is an argument with no real validity.  Thus the term "strawman"

I tend to agree 100% with Eric.  From a tech side, users do not EVER want to wait 1 minute to trade.

A straw man is a common form of argument and is an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not advanced by that opponent.

Ok, so neither one of you actually read my post, then created a comparision I didn't make, as if I did make it, between Expanse and BitShares, then you both address a non-point to my argument as if it's a real point that someone's arguing.

Yep, no straw man there. 

This is another problem.

This forum doesn't want to listen to any real criticism at all.

It seems to ignore most valid criticism and make up some other topic to argue against (that no one else brought up or made a comparison to) that you know you can win and never actually address, much less fix the problem that was brought up.

If you like, please actually read my post and address the actual topic instead of addressing the straw man EB created that you know you can beat.

But per usual, this forum will most likely prefer to attack the person bringing up valid points instead of attacking the issue and fixing the problem. 

Which is a problem in itself that doesn't seem to want to go away.

It seems like it doesn't really matter how good BitShares is, what features it rolls out, how far ahead of XYZ it is ... the crypto-masses are simply avoiding it and have a predetermined bad impression of the platform.

"Block time!!! We're faster!! LoLZ!!! Summer!!! 3 Years!!! 100%!!! m00n!!! Straw Man!!! We win teh internets!!!"
 

I like to know where you heard this.

I guess what you're asking is, from what information is my opinion based?

If that's what you meant by "where you heard this" ... from discussions with many people, many respected people, some who host shows, some who participate as guest on shows, on forums, in trollboxes, in private chats, in slack channels, in private messages, on blogs and from mathematicians ().

That anyone here is doubting the difference in opinions of BitShares inside versus outside this forum is surprising to me personally and perhaps should go on the list of problems or one of the reasons why the problem persist.

The fact that BitShares own subreddit can't get into double digits for most all post is very telling.

Factor in that the 5-9 upvotes that are received most always come from the same people (wild guess) is as well.

How many retweets does a BitShares tweet get and by how many different people? 

The point being, even the core BitShares forum members don't/won't participate, much less outsiders.

If you can't see the issue, you're simply not looking or choosing to ignore it because you simply don't want to face the reality of the ramifications and that's an entirely different issue.

But hey, what do I know?

Summer is coming and everything will be just fine because happy post with few no details say so.

Which brings up another issue.

Have you ever noticed the difference between BitShares hype and Ethereum hype?

Everyone outside of this forum has, which probably explains 2 of those 3 commas.

Edit : Here's some study material, now go find some more on your own and wake up!   ... https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,22064.msg287281.html#msg287281

Here's my updated ETH outlook ...



One of them will be right.

Quote from: puppies on March 25, 2016, 09:21:48 pm

What do you guys think the problem is?

A distinct lack of "shiny" and "newness"...

It's that or we don't have enough Summers in the year.

Expanse is a coin where the dev premine is 10 million and the "current supply" is 2 million.  I got hyped 100x already because ETH got hyped.

And yet way more daily volume than BTS. 

That should never happen, even on a pump & dump.

I think it's a clear signal of the impression of BTS outside of this forum when two projects few have heard of can get 5x the daily volume of BTS going at any point in time.

I think BTS should be trading in the millions daily and the fact that it isn't speaks volumes and clearly shows something is (still) wrong and something (still) needs to change.

That's just my observation and opinion.

I think Monero makes up for my whole BTS loss at this point, amazing.

How did you lose money on BTS?

All I can picture is this ...