I am pleased to approach the community today to outline a wonderful opportunity to donate to and own a stake in yet another foundational BitShares project: the BitShares Powered ShareBot and its associated token, the ShareBit. Beginning humbly on our own Bitsharestalk forums, enabling each community member to send and receive both bitAsset and UIA shares to one another, the bot and its bits are planned to expand into other social media platforms in various nooks and crannies on the internet.  This is just the beginning however. 
There are many steps/phases to what is planned to be constructed, but this is one of the foundational components necessary to construct them.  And you are here for the groundbreaking ceremony--how wonderful it will be to know you were part of history!
The power of the ShareBot makes it possible for real grassroots referral gathering by enabling our community to bring on referrals via tipping on social media and nearly anywhere else, including email lists and many others.  When gaining adoption, this UIA and the entire ecosystem around it will enable individual community members to gain cashflow income from transaction fees directed toward ShareBit holders.  For this Crowd-Donation Drive, we will be distributing 50k ShareBits (20% of total supply) to raise $9k in funds.  When this goal is reached, an additional 100k ShareBits (40% of total supply)will be distributed via sharedrop to Brownie and BTS holders.  Please read specifics below.

Total Supply of ShareBits will be 250k (40% Founders, 40% Community, 20% Crowd Donations).  This will be split up as follows (see diagram 1.1): 



Founders (Seed Funders)
Founders were the initial individuals who put together their own funding to ensure the beginnings of the ShareBot could be shown to the community before asking all of you to participate in the funding of this project.  They felt it was important to take the risk to show you the value of the bot before asking others for donations.  Total Supply of ShareBits for Founding backers is 100k (40% of 250k total--see diagram 1.1).  This will be split between CCEDK and Beyond Bitcoin as follows (see diagram 1.2): 
40% Beyond Bitcoin, 60% CCEDK


BitShares Community ShareDrop
Total Supply of ShareBits for Community Sharedropping is 100k (40% of 250k total--see diagram 1.1). 
This will be split between BitShares (BTS) and BROWNIE.PTS as follows (see diagram 1.3): 60% BitShares (BTS) and 40% BROWNIE.PTS.  This ShareDrop total is conditional on full funding[/i] (see diagram 1.4).  The higher percentage of funding reached, the higher percentage of the 100k Community “ShareDrop Pool” will be ShareDropped on BTS and Brownies.  This will be up to 100% see diagram 1.3.. 
Full Funding is nearly guaranteed as we have intentionally started out smaller.  In fact, we are already roughly halfway to completing funding at present, so it is highly likely the ShareDrop will occur, as seen below in Diagram 1.3[i/]:


Crowd Donators
Crowd Donations are a means for us to open the funding (and future expansion of the platform) to the community. We are putting up 50k of the ShareBits up for sale for a total of $9k ($.18/each).



The beautiful thing about the Sharing Economy is that it enables us to Share with one another and earn capital from empowering ourselves with p2p Sharing/Tipping/Funding solutions.  As the ShareBot is one of the foundational elements for many of these solutions, we have approached this task as a means of empowering our community and incentivizing participation through the distribution of fees earned by the service. 
Fees will be earned in two ways:
1. Account upgradation - we get 80 percent of the transaction fee (don't we? )
2. Transfers (withdrawals and deposits)
The ShareBot fee distribution is intended to be sent out with the following breakdown:




How can I donate??
We look forward to working with you and opening up the avenues for grassroots marketing and referrals in a way that empowers everyone--including ourselves--to leverage the Referral Program in a way that will ensure the ecosystem grows to be robust and lean, while enriching everyone who has supported our efforts to turn a single-tier referral system into one that will kickstart grassroots adoption of the Fastest Blockchain in the world:  BitShares.  Our efforts will bring a new angle to the term “Share” with respect to the BitShares economy, however.  ShareBits are intended to be the foundation of this extremely important (yet often overlooked) perception of the term “Share” in our ecosystem--as an action and a foundation for the “Sharing Economy”.  We look forward to bringing fellow “Sharers” onboard, and helping ensure profitability to those involved. 


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We can accept bitUSD, bitCNY, BTS and BTC at present (bank wires acceptable on a case by case basis). 
Please send all bitUSD, bitCNY, BTS donations to acct: browniedistro w/ the following memo format:
From (enter forum name here) for ShareBits Donations, (enter date)
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Please send all BTC donations to acct: 18Eby3193CizDMPb9cHE2q7GDWuj5V36Xj 
And a pm with the link to the tx (for BTC) with the following Subject: ShareBits Donation, (enter date)
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Can I use it before I donate so I know what I'm getting? 
-Yes.  This bot is currently being tested on the forums:
-For help setting up and funding the bot, please see Tutorial 1 and Tutorial 2

When will I get ShareBits?
-Our first priority is giving the bot the testing and core functionality it needs.  During that period I ask that everyone consider making their own UIA and tip it to people to help us test.  The faster we debug, the faster it gets polished!  We will not be giving a specific date on the release of the token, but we will be pooling the tx fees that are going to token holders and will release them as a lump sum (or buy them at a certain price) when the token is distributed. 

We will be testing the tipbot/sharebot today  @12 est

Everyone is invited to come join us in Mumble.  While there, please feel free to ask for help setting it up and using it, giving us feedback on new features and various other valuable input we have not yet considered.  You all have valuable input so we want you to join us and help us with the Open Beta! 

Who knows, maybe a great opportunity will even present itself to those who attend.  Or maybe not...I guess the value proposition is up to you to entertain, but I personally know I will be there because I believe it is high

Please click on the image below to associate your mumble and forum names.  This will help us and future hangout moderators/hosts to be able to easily get project UIAs into your hands for participating in our hangouts. 

Please post here along with the thread and level of access.

Should committee member spots go to those with the most valuable tokens trading in the BitShares ecosystem?

Are there too many Downsides to do this? Too many Upsides not to?

Lately I've been thinking of alternative ways to keep BitShare's oldest movement. 

We at Beyond Bitcoin have worked tirelessly for nearly 2 years and have become a foundation for all the bitshares community to join in and get "inside information" as though they are part of the core dev team.  This is the only place where anyone can join and have a voice that is on level ground with everyone else--and a place where they can record and report live without being forced to show press credentials.  Or charged outrageous fees to join.  But these are not the only benefit offered.   

Over these years, we have had some who have worked with us for long periods of time and still others whose efforts have been interspersed and inconstant.  Yet they have worked and volunteered their time nonetheless.... 

Multiple volunteers have run beyond bitcoin since the very beginning of bitshares, and some were given small sums of bts funding via a delegate, but the delegate's pay did little to actually compensate them.  In fact many of those volunteers then even gave a substantial portion of their earnings to other initiatives, like minebitshares (now bunkermining). 

So we are the types of people who are not afraid to help others who are not part of "Beyond Bitcoin".  We represent a demographic that looks to Uplift Everyone! These selfless people have asked for very little and have given back far more in return...and for this reason, I have recently begun paying volunteers of bitshares' beyond bitcoin movement in brownies.  Not only this, but it is my full intention to work with project leads to begin looking at brownie holders as one of the most potent sharedropping targets in the ecosystem...perhaps second only to bitshares itself. 

With brownies, however, I no longer need to worry about paying our community with funds from a delegate or worker proposal and asking them to put those limited funds back into the community.  We can simply create value together...and the brownie supply will expand to reflect that value.

So if you are a person who has done a great deal of work for bitshares, and feel as though you sacrificed at great opportunity to yourself (aka working on something else with lower risk and higher reward) I see you as the foundation of bitshares...and I'd like to recruit and compensate you to help bitshares itself become a place where volunteers do not have to worry they will be overlooked. 

That is why brownies exist...for people like you. 

So now that I have opened a discussion to identify brownie holders, the next step is to for the first time open a discussion to identify those who would be interested in doing volunteer work for brownies(pts). 

If you are interested in this proposition, please post a reply here to let me know.  Shortly after you have done this, I will ensure to reach out to you personally to find out more details regarding your ideas and options.  Some people with big ideas that the community backs might even be given brownies to distribute for their own cause! Many quests will need done for many people in the bitshares ecosystem, after all, and I believe brownie lovers are in the perfect position to help all of bitshares--because they are its most selfless servants...they are a silent guild filled with the ranks of our heroes.   

So please post in this thread if you are interested in volunteering to help us, and we will coordinate to ensure you can--and will ensure you are given many hugs for doing so.  It is time to bring this to the next level everyone---and we only do this by leveling up every hero bitshares has...not by ignoring them and hoping they will force others to compensate for their work.  A free market is necessary, but taking care of those who generally work for a higher cause is also essential...and those people tend to be the ones who never ask.  I want to change that paradigm...because I think it is an important step in changing today's more macro level paradigm.

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