Bitshares had its prime time too. As I can recall, it passed ripple and became the no.2 highest market cap. To take a long story short, what happened then caused bitshares fell to the market cap of today. I couldn't tell if the same thing will happen to steem, but I strongly feel that we should keep going on the current route, and make bitshares more appealing in more practical use cases, and never look back.

This is actually historically inaccurate.  Bitshares never made it past ripple because when we were approaching it, Ripple's leadership decided to release all the locked up Ripple held by the foundation to become part of ripples marketcap...manipulating coinmarketcap in such a way as to make them skyrocket in value...

From that day on bitshares never got close to #3 again.  If it had passed ripple, I suspect it would have garnered quite a bit of attention and likely would have had many more eyeballs on it as it was and still is in most ways superior to Ripple.

This is the reason why you will see the term "pulling a ripple" on these forums from time to time.

I say this because if circumstances were different and the ripple defensive maneuver hadn't occurred, we would be in a completely different ballpark most likely.  This is a pretty important circumstance to consider.  I only hope you guys all really consider joining and using steem...I don't want people left behind when they can earn (and maybe put earnings back into bitshares??).

Please join in on the discussion and add anyone to the list on this steemit post as a reply. 
https://steemit.com/beyondbitcoin/@officialfuzzy/the-block-explorer-community-allstars-initiative-bts


This will be the last chance to give credit to those in this community have directly helped you and others or participated in other outstanding ways.  Help us reach for the stars...and beyond.

starting now!

It will be another powerful tool in our toolbox

 

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post it to steemit too?  I would gladly upvote it

I have a small list of requests for everyone...that I think you will all appreciate greatly.  This person is obviously a scholar, a teacher and financial guru....and he is introducing bitshares and steemit to his classes! if this catches on...it could be (you guessed it) HUGE!


1)  Please upvote the following post on steemit:
https://steemit.com/bitshares/@cylonmaker2053/integrating-steemit-and-bitshares-into-an-investments-course-i-m-teaching#comments
2) Then please upvote my comment asking him to RSVP to our hangout 
3) Ask him to RSVP for our hangout so he can talk about his class and how he is including bitshares and steem in it.
4) Post the link to your request here and ask us all to upvote it!

Thanks everyone


Here is a quote from his post:

I’m teaching an Intro to Investments course at my university and plan on integrating both Steemit and Bitshares into the curriculum. The plan is to have each student create a Steemit account and base part of the participation grade on their interactions in the #finance, #economics, or #investing tagged posts. The goal is to get them actively thinking about current events and contributing to a thoughtful community discussion.

The plan with using Bitshares is to give each student about 10 USD worth of BTS, have them set up accounts on OpenLedger, and instigate a trading contest. I’ll have them run through some basic exercises, like borrowing smartcoins, playing market maker, and taking directional bets on whatever assets they find interesting.

this is probably an issue with the objectIDs...maybe infamous would be willing to give his advice.