BTS can be very disruptive. I just don't see why would anyone get out of BTS at these prices unless they absolutely need to. I think the upside potential especially with the new direction is so huge, that NOT being in BTS is a huge risk.

The argument against inflation is really stupid. This is so powerful - stakeholders have the ability to hire and fire and vote with their money. It is SO much better than the politics and drama surrounding the Bitcoin Foundation elections.

I say - fix the bugs, deliver thin idiot proof client with deterministic wallets, do marketing and find partners. It is clear now that ALL crypto projects take much much longer to grow to their full potential, so BTS is not really "behind".

BTS will be explosive at some point, but probably more like 2016. At this point I'm just laughing at the low prices and hope elected developers can cover their bills.

DSUtib

Just when I started giving up on BitShares... Your proposed changes are excellent.

Specifically - promise of liquidity, I've proposed the blockchain to be a market maker many times before, but stakeholders didn't want to take the risk of losses turning into dilution.

Whatever you do - can you please KISS? There is so much confusion as to how this works, and it keeps changing. Make sure you put together a nice infographic showing how things work.

Would love to see synthetic depth of market as well - e.g. BitUSD:BTS <-> BTS:BitGold should automatically populate BitUSD:BitGold. And UI should have a "base asset" mode, so traders can think in terms of BitUSD, or BitCNY, or whatever.

Knowing that toast is on that team gives me great confidence.

9.28 million at current price is like 41K USD .
Maybe the guy earns 10K USD per month as a lawyer or whatever , who knows , it would be like pocket change for him .

Trust me, even when you earn over $20K/mo, $41K will not be pocket change to you.

In fact I think the lack of adoption is lack of certainty in the protocol, and it's hard to innovate if you set the protocol in stone.

I would highly advice to have deterministic wallets, that don't require saved file. For some people restoring a backup is just way too stressful. In fact many thought that password was all that was needed and got burned when not also backing up the wallet file. I still think a big deterrent is the lack of good user experience. I've ran it on all 3 platforms and have various problems that I could manage as a power user, but know would scare the crap out of a newcomer. I think fixing the bugs is definitely a major step in the right direction of reducing the cost of user adoption