somebody who could do the backend stuff for this bounty!?
I would love to design the frontend if needed.. pls contact me via PM or directly here if you have interest to finish this bounty task.

Cheers
cass

Announcing BitShares PTS2

Shortly after we released PTS in November, Bytemaster reserved the right to release an upgrade when the technology was available.  That time has arrived.  As soon as DPOS finishes its validation trials and BitShares XT is released, we will turn our attention to PTS2 (which, thanks to the new DPOS toolkit, should be rather easy to do.)

PTS2 will honor all shares of PTS one-for-one, with the remaining unmined PTS shares mapped to a "reverse angel" marketing fund to help grow the value of PTS2 - and all its children.

The value proposition PTS2 has over PTS is as follows:

• Much faster transaction times.
• A profitable business model.
• All the other benefits DPOS has over mining.
• A million dollar promotion fund to help grow its value for those who hold its shares.

(Of course, the dollar value of this fund depends on whether the market value of PTS2 is greater or less than the value of PTS.  Assuming that it is the same, the fund will be worth over a million dollars. As the use of this promotional fund begins to take affect, the value could increase to, say, 2 million dollars.  Or it could be worth zero.  It depends on what we come up with together.)

PTS and PTS2 will compete in the free market. 
Every PTS share holder will get a PTS2 snapshot share as well.
It is up to the free market to decide which shares to hold and which to sell.
It is also up to each developer to decide which PTS version they will honor.

We plan to sell PTS and honor PTS2, but everyone is free to choose otherwise.

This is all we have settled on so far.  We turn to the community for ideas about how to best use a genesis block "reverse angel address" to grow the value of a new DAC - especially a Grand ProtoDAC that is likely to get you shares in many other DACs that you can already see being developed in real time.  Clearly, anything we do to increase demand for any of the children also increased demand for the parent - so there are many, many ways to do this.

We will be sharing some ideas of our own, but are very interested in getting community ideas and buy-in.  The final plan will undoubtedly be a hybrid of the best of the best.

A lot of ideas have been discussed and debated over the past few months.  Here's where we all can post the ones we like liked best - and hammer out a promo-plan that most of us can whole-heartedly support.

Today I decided to focus on the JSON-RPC API so that people could start building block explorers, web wallets, and other user interfaces that interact with my backend.  To that end there is now a relatively complete JSON-RPC interface for communicating with the wallet, though the documentation on how to use it is sparse.   Perhaps someone can update wiki.invictus.io with information on this RPC interface?   

I am pleased to announce an alpha test period available to anyone who can compile the code.   If you generate an address I will send you some test BTS to play around with.    At this point it is very likely that we will find many bugs so I may reset the chain every day while I get the bugs fixed and this is why I am not releasing binaries right now.

Margin calls, trx fees, and interest are still left to be implemented and the only BitAsset right now is USD. 

Let the testing begin