I like decentralized application

Bitshares is a decentralized application enabling a global community to free world markets

Bitshares is decentralized software that records the transactions for a global community

Excellent.....allow the free market to act.  Allow currencies to compete.  Correct the economic incentives.....away from monopoly and fraud.

So here's a question I'm curious about because I think it strikes at the core of this issue.

Let's say Dan et al (toast, Vikram, Nathan, etc.) decide that Bitshares DAC is good enough to grow on its own so they find some new devs for it and move on to, say, Lending DAC.

1) What would your allocation expectation be for Lending DAC?
2) Once Lending DAC is done and they move on to Insurance DAC should Lending DAC get an allocation?

I guess my question really is: did you like the concept of a ProtoShare or just want a piece of whatever Dan and team is currently working on? There is no wrong answer to this. I've always tried to invest in people and not products.

That's a good question.....  But why would there be a Lending DAC?  Surely Dan et al would simply develop and integrate the code directly into the super DAC.  There would be no need to snapshot.  The same for Insurance DAC.

The interesting point is a third party developer may wish to take the barest implementation of the Bitshares Toolkit and take the technology in a totally new direction.  The Protoshares community may harbor a different kind of support more conducive to supporting more experimental, riskier tech.....i'm not saying that is the case but could be.

Some successful innovations may be incorporated into the super DAC but maybe not if it's niche or specialized enough.....who knows?

I love the ideology, competency and depth of this growing community.....i'm already happy with my piece so my arguments are more for the health and development of the ecosystem which is evolving so some calls are difficult....  I'd rather support Alphabar in his efforts than shoot it down, whatever happens.

Could Protoshares be like Junior miners?

As v0.4.23.1 will not start, shall I just wait for a new release? 

Which file do I need to protect before deleting/uninstalling everything?

Yes i left the app on the start up screen for several minutes

I will try using the 0.4.23.1 release then get back to you....will have to wait until after work.

Thanks for the help guys.

Quote from: Ben Mason on November 02, 2014, 06:03:29 pm

Can someone stock up the keyid faucet please?  I need to register my account key so I can send my DNS on BTER to my KEYID wallet.....

thanks

Just put in some fund. You may try again.

that did it!  Thank you cube

Regardless of how good any particular idea is, if you keep making 90 degree turns with little to no warning, people are going to lose confidence. Why should I believe the direction you are promoting for BitShares today when in less than two weeks, there will be a whole new twist to adopt?

And how will there ever be an effective marketing campaign when the "company" and "product" are constantly being described in different ways?

There is no 'regardless.'  If an idea has merit, it has merit.  The marketing push will not happen until things have stabilized.  Try to think on a slightly longer timeline, though I appreciate that it's very easy to be swept along by this rapidly evolving technology.

Speaking of evolution, we need Bytemaster and friends to build us the equivalent of a shark as quickly as possible.  Something that's going to thrive in these primordial waters, reach apex predator status with a design that's good for 350 million years.