Markets have already discounted the halfing... Price won't double because of the halfing, i will guarantee that

If existing traders think that the halving is already priced in and therefore think that the current price is fair value, they think that because the halving will increase the price later and therefore Bitcoin is worth holding onto now for future returns.

Litecoin more than doubled because of its halving. You cant guarantee anything.

Except that you are double, no, quintuple dipping. Owning a BTS was what was to produce a profit and still is for everyone not I3 related. Now I3/Cryptonomex/Larimers/Devs get to profit off the code by selling it and "plug ins" to the highest bidder for extra dough in your pocket plus keeping your BTS. It's a win win for Cryptonomex and a win lose for everyone else.

Its a win win for a Cryptonomex and BTS holders. Why would you not want the core developers to have multiple revenue streams? The more money they can get, the more motivated developers can be hired and the less dilution is needed.

Newmine have you ever said anything positive here? Youre a waste of oxygen.

31 pages including:

Applicants must also provide an investigative background report prepared by an independent investigatory agency for each individual applicant, including information such as credit history, employment history, and motor vehicle ownership history. Three personal references from non-relatives are required for all applicants.

http://cointelegraph.com/news/114681/new-york-releases-31-page-bitlicense-application-form

What a total waste of time. They want to know what your old cars were? Why not ex-girlfriends too?

So IIUC BANX issue a UIA on the BTS blockchain and share drop on all existing BANX holders. Im wondering how a big a transaction fee do they pay to do that? Is it proportional to the number of bytes to store all those BANX addresses on the BTS chain?

So does this mean I can trade (from my wallet of course) BTS for CCEDK.USD, even if I havent sent them my ID first? Or will their fiat IOUs take advantage of the whitelisting features?

Quote from: jonnybitcoin on June 09, 2015, 11:34:34 pm

Someone else will make a bitcoin collateralised BitUSD if bitshares doesn't.
That will be the one people use.

So you are saying that everything this community has been trying to do since day 1 is pointless, because bitcoin is the one true chain and its useless to make any other cryptocurrency.  Everyone should do everything with bitcoin instead because it was first.

Its not pointless to make another cryptocurrency, only because the BTC core developers are too comfortable with being the incumbent. As soon as the core developers realise how tying up BTC collateral in BitAssets could be huge for Bitcoin, they will rush to implement BitAssets into the BTC protocol too (I would).

I personally hope they do, because Bitcoin is not going away - check out its growth in transactions: https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions?timespan=all&showDataPoints=false&daysAverageString=1&show_header=true&scale=0&address=

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Charles Hoskinson (9:02 PM - 28 Mar 2015): "let me be clear, bitshares does not work as executed."
https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/581909208435556352

He wasnt saying that here when his forum account was still active. I used to think he tries to be constructive, now I just think he likes to make noise. BitShares works at what it was intended to do, as anyone can clearly see if they look at the block explorer.

I havent been keeping up with all the latest revisions (too much day-job) so sorry if this idea has been discussed before, but...

At the moment no one is shorting BitUSD, IMO because shorting requires too much commitment.

Shorters have to:
-Put down twice as much collateral as the longs
-Are not guaranteed that they can easily/quickly get any BitUSD to cover
-Their collateral cant even be used to cover, they have to buy more BitUSD to cover (is that still the case?)

The result is that shorting is just waaay too stressful (I have never shorted BitUSD).

So how about reusing the price feeds to allow very short term CFD bets that are totally symmetrical to both sides? Both sides put in 100% worth of collateral, and the CFD is closed after 24 hours. The CFD is not tradeable so no covering is required, and you dont have to constantly monitor your position because you know that it will be fairly settled after 24 hours anyway.

You could possibly mix the markets together for extra liquidity: some BitUSD longs might not care about fungibility or not, so they could either get matched by a 200% BitUSD shorter for a long term BitUSD, or just a 100% shorter for a short term CFD.

Good idea? I personally would love to take short term bets on BTS/BTC - there's just no way in hell I am willing to go through the stress of putting down twice as much collateral and then desperately looking around to find BitBTC to cover afterwards.