Either way, I don't see a lot happening in terms of alternative DACs. That part of the forum hasn't seen a decent new idea in months. IMHO, no reason to own PTS unless/until there are any signs of intelligent life beyond these initial DACs.
As a counter point MUSIC and PLAY came out of nowhere compared to what we knew on Feb 28th.
Good point. At this stage, most people are understandably concerned with the big killer feature sets and rapid network building. But the degree of certainty that has been expressed with regard to the limits of innovation and the shape of things to come in this developing economy is surprising. It is perfectly possible for the Bitshares toolkit to be used to build a blockchain that is useful to a specialized community, has great value, but is not useful to the super DAC. It is also possible that holders of Protoshares may be a better community to support the development of such projects.
DPOS protoshares or any other niche experiment is absolutely no threat to the potential of BitShares given that Bitshares developers will be able to add anything useful to it's code at any time.
Everyone has been as fairly treated as possible. Everyone can buy or sell Protoshares at their leisure. None of our predictions have been or ever will be perfect.
We need to stop assuming we know the future and stop being afraid of letting the free market decide if there is a place for any particular strategy.