Thank you fuzzy.

I've just seen Cob's demonstration videos and I feel quite honestly taken aback by how impressed I was with the the work that appears to have been done. Obviously some input in a mumble would still be great and comms in general could always be improved.

Do you also feel reassured TravelsAsia & Marky0001?

Quote from: Ben Mason on March 10, 2016, 12:26:11 pm

I also think this is a good idea TravelsAsia.  I've tried to be nothing but open-minded and supportive of this project, however, my patience is finally wearing thin.  There is nothing of substance ever put before the investor community.  Time flows by with the hope that the team are getting organised into something resembling a true project with a clear definition, clear business model, clear objectives, clear accountability and evidence of development.  That hope is dying and it is very sad & frustrating.

This project is too important to fail as a result of poor custodianship.  Perhaps we should consider damage limitation and using whatever investor funds have produced thus far and putt a new team together in order to achieve our objectives of building an entertainment / social networking platform?

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This is exactly why I need to speak to Eddie. I want to get a better idea if it's worth staying involved with the project. Not only for myself, but others I encouraged to  invest.  Until then, it feels more of a hobby than a serious project with measurable objectives for investors.

I do accept that there is an important distinction between Peertracks and the muse blockchain and it's mostly understanding of the progress in building functionality of the platform  and kick starting it's marketing, use and growth that I'm looking for.

I also think this is a good idea TravelsAsia.  I've tried to be nothing but open-minded and supportive of this project, however, my patience is finally wearing thin.  There is nothing of substance ever put before the investor community.  Time flows by with the hope that the team are getting organised into something resembling a true project with a clear definition, clear business model, clear objectives, clear accountability and evidence of development.  That hope is dying and it is very sad & frustrating.

This project is too important to fail as a result of poor custodianship.  Perhaps we should consider damage limitation and using whatever investor funds have produced thus far and putt a new team together in order to achieve our objectives of building an entertainment / social networking platform?

Thanks Fox! There are important boxes we can tick that encourage a sense of legitimacy and this happens to be one of them. Fantastic work!

Amanda is pure awesome.  Excellent video.

Thank you Bhuz, I'll give that a try.

Hi, I've followed the import instructions but when I select the 0.9.3c backup file for import....the Muse client give the message to use a BTS 1.0 export file instead.

I'm running the 1.0.160208 version of the Muse windows client and the file I am trying to import a .json exported from BTS 1.0

Please could someone recommend anything else I might try?  Thank you.

We have made the sound assumption that given access to absolutely secure storage and transmission of value, everyone on the planet would be interested. So what is stopping BitShares from spreading like a virus? It currently targets the wrong people....a niche within a niche. That's not an accusation because it's a highly motivated niche that has taken us this far.

I complete agree with everyone's comments about ease of use and simplicity of pitch being the biggest stumbling block. The fact is, BitShares is not particularly valuable because despite its promise, hardly anyone can use it. BitShares has the highest ideals for a secure, open transaction & value storage network but even if people can get to grips with the technology, their use of its native units can only be achieved with significant risk and complexity given that it is completely reliant upon other units, networks and exchanges as intermediaries.

We need to sell the vision of BitShares to communities of normal people and when we do, we need to show them an unbelievably simple method for changing FIAT to bitAssets or BTS and back again. At the same time the tools we introduce them to need to be highly targeted to them and very simple.

In an ideal situation we need teams of people who are all able to specialise in the marketing and refinement of major tools within the BitShares platform for particular groups of people or businesses. The most important group in my mind is ordinary people who could benefit from the most basic application of the BitShares tools.  It is the one group we seem currently to be the furthest from serving and in turn benefiting from gigantic network effect that would immediately drive everything else. I hope (so hard diamonds will be dropping out my butt soon) that we can adjust focus in this direction because we can still out-compete our competitors and those with far smaller dreams and make Bitcoin (with all due respect) look like a firework compared to our space-ship.

We should attempt to partner with anyone trying to do a similar approach. I know there is already a huge amount of effort going on within BitShares to accomplish these goals all the time. Massive respect and thank you for the hard work.