Regarding mining, I heard Bytemaster mention in his earlier talks that the time to mine an identity would be targeted at 1 hour on a regular desktop machine. Where does that leave keyhotee cellphone clients?

Will we have to mine on a desktop and then transfer our private keys over to phones (nasty solution)? My assumption here is that 1 hour mining time on a desktop is equivalent to many hours on a phone.

There could be lots of mobile social apps that sit on top of the keyhotee blockchain (i.e. a properly secure WhatsApp), but this couldnt work if mining an identity is too expensive on mobile.

I am anxiously waiting for an easy to use & secure Skype replacement.

As I understand it Keyhotee has almost got distributed identity ownership working in a blockchain, but it doesnt have any VOIP implemented yet. Why not just integrate/fork the code from Tox? Their user interface looks really good, but Im guessing they have a centralized username registration scheme.

Too many open source projects try to reinvent the wheel, when they could be leveraging other people's work.

It seems like every week we keep hearing changes from Bytemaster (such as trustees) that seem to be quite fundamental to how the system works. This makes me think that BTS X still has quite a long way to go before its release.

I respectfully submit the Keyhotee moniker is inadequate and may hinder widespread adoption.
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Im glad someone has raised this issue - I was about to raise this as well.

Here is a list of communication networks that are extremely popular:

-Twitter
-Skype
-Whatsapp
-Facebook

Now here is a list of communication networks that only techies have heard of:

-Bitmessage
-Torchat

Ignoring the fact that the second list require users to share hashes of public keys, there is another pattern there - successful product names are catchy, don't include techy jargon, and can often be used as a verb. I would assert that Keyhotee is NOT catchy, and is borderline jargon. Whilst you can say "Skype/Tweet me", the phrase "send me a Keyhotee" is never going to catch on.

I dont want to have to go around my family evangelizing a product with the word "Bit" in the name either - its extremely geeky, and most people are not interested in the technology, they are interested in the social experience. For a communication system to actually get any momentum, the branding is just as important as the technology.

That is supported in the first chain.

Wahoo - Bitshares X is going to be useful for so many people

Sorry if this has been addressed before, but if I swap some BitUSD for BitGold, but I dont have any BTS to pay the transaction fee, do I pay the transaction fee out of the assets instead? Or am I always required to have at least some BTS to swap the BitAssets directly?

I think it will be small companies that will start accepting BitUSD first. Big companies need to be convinced that the system works.

The community here should be asking how we can promote the BitUSD economy, for example someone should make a BitUSD version of http://pizzaforcoins.com

I agree there is all sorts interesting different domains you could predict with the powerful & disruptive technology that is Bitshares X. Speculating on RAM wouldn't be my thing, but personally I would find this hilarious:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_Analysis_Market

For a messaging system to really take off it needs to be ridiculously easy and free to use, therefore having to pay for a name in the namecoin system is too high a barrier.

So IMHO Bitmessage provides no competition to Keyhotee. Once Keyhotee can do free distributed name registration, VOIP, online as well as offline messages, it will blow everything else out of the water.

Oh it needs mobile app versions as well.

Edit: Tox looks good - Im not sure how they do name registration.