This is an excellent marketing line for the masses due to western media/Hollywood hype (though most investors know Swiss banks are no longer 'safe' in the sense of being private or solvent).

"Safer than a Swiss Bank" is guaranteed to get attention, grab headlines, cause controversy etc.

But Bitshares (as mentioned previously, Bitshares 1.0 or 2.0) is the real deal and is absolutely a better place to store wealth than a Swiss bank (or most any Western bank practicing fractional reserve lending).

I think it would be great to throw this out via some careful plants in interviews, forums and a few banners once 1.0 is out and the mm bots have created some depth on the books.

To those calling Stan 'delusional' and using other derogatory language - back the sweet fuck down, please. This forum is no place for ignorance.

Everyone is getting a bit edgy as the cap is dropping and the devs have stopped babysitting the community in favour of, well, developing.

We are, presumably, all adults that have completed appropriate due diligence prior to investing a dime in this project.

If so, we all know Bitshares will succeed or fail on a 3-5 year horizon, not a 3-5 day/week/month horizon.

Devs are working their assess off and laying down code like crazy.

The seed was planted, now the roots are growing. Patience.

 

Why can't we make "money drops" a literal concept?
A delegate (or individual for UIAs) could literally "drop" bitUSD, bitEUR, bitCNY in the streets of major cities.  A geocaching-style GPS-driven augmented reality-type game could be made so if a mobile app is within proximity of "dropped" bitUSD then it would be picked up automatically.  There would literally be money in the streets.  I mean.. why wouldn't someone want to play? 

It seems totally do-able, fun, and highly marketable.  In fact, it could even be marketed as an alternative to coupons for business owners since they could drop redeemable UIAs at the doors of their establishments.  To elaborate even further, a DAC like Peertracks could utilize it for dropping ArtistCoins at a venue on a particular night. 

IMO crypto is lacking interaction with the physical world.. it doesn't feel real to people.. so why not turn that weakness into a strength?  There could literally be gold lined streets funded by a faucet and all it would require for people is a download.

 

I'm not a techie, but on MacBooks there is a command in the terminal window to prevent the laptop from sleeping, "pmset noidle". Worth looking up. Not sure about windows.

I use an app called Caffeine which essentially does the same thing without having to go into the terminal.. and it lives in the menu bar for easy access
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/caffeine/id411246225?mt=12

With that said, when my computer sleeps or turns off the blockchain syncs so quickly that it's nearly immediate.

I booster my RAM to 16GB and smooth sailing except for a recent GUI bug on the 0.8.0a update.

Quote from: yellowecho on March 30, 2015, 10:03:33 pm

Quote from: donkeypong on March 30, 2015, 04:48:18 pm

I moved here from NXT a little over a year ago. Every time I've checked back into it since then, there hasn't been anything there I've wanted to use or own. BitShares is superior in every way.

I was an early adopter of NXT on the original DGEX but sold everything and came here too.  In my experience, NXT offered a lot on the surface but the overall execution always seemed poor and unpolished.  I realize that the BitShares client has had bugs here and there but the first iteration client was far better than anything I experienced with NXT and I've been active in the internal exchange since day 1.

Exactly same situation with me. NXT in the beginning was just unhandable...I was so afraid of loosing my NXTs they way the whole thing was working so I sold everything within the first couple of weeks. I didn't have any difficulties with BTS from day 1 in handling things and never felt the same insecurity of loosing my BTS..

However...NXT clients were stabilized much faster and are stable now. BTS is far from a stable version yet. I do appreciate though that this is comparing two completely things and that's why I have moved away from NXT to BTS from the start.. But I feel that we could have done things much better and we shouldn't be where we stand today...

Agreed.  I was afraid to lose NXT as well... the interface and brain wallet just felt unsecure and amateur.  I've played with the new NXT client and it is more stable now but I'm still not attracted to their execution or community... and it seems to lack cohesion.  In fact, I think the current state of NXT is exactly where BTS would have gone if the merger hadn't happened.  And I feel you on the stability of the BTS client but most of it is in the GUI which shouldn't be a big deal and Moonstone will likely bring a lot to the table so I'm optimistic.

-After a successful launch here in the US I will begin working to allow international orders.

Would this not give our Chinese friends direct market access to precious metals bypassing tariffs associated with the yuan?   How competitive are these prices compared to other shops for the international folk?

I think we should be cautious here.  We don't need to do anything that would scare our shareholders or disrupt already low volumes on the internal exchange.