As an active committee member of BitShares Blockchain and a core developer I am announcing the below:

1 ) New Logo: https://bitshares.github.io/images/2020-10-logo_bts4.png

2 ) BitShares Description:

## About BitShares

BitShares Blockchain is a decentralized “Blockchain As Organization” (BAO); an industrial-grade decentralized Web 3.0 platform built for high-performance financial means and smart contracts. It represents the first decentralized autonomous community that enables its core token holders to decide its future direction and financial products. In contrast to other smart contracting platform, its strictly focused on security and reliability which allowed BitShares Blockchain to become the largest host of decentralized exchanges worldwide.

BitShares Blockchain is similar to a publicly owned company or open joint-stock companies. Yet, unlike traditional entities, BitShares Blockchain does not require registration in any jurisdiction, because trust between it’s users is mediated by an (AI) technology over the internet.

BitShares Blockchain is reinventing the global equity blockchain – that is secure, smart and easy-to-use platform, and completely disrupting the way businesses raise capital and the way investors buy and sell shares.

BitShares Blockchain, as it exists today, was launched on 13th October 2015 with its community being established already in 2013. It implements an industrial-grade decentralized platform built for high-performance smart contracts with focus on the financial technologies sector, BitShares represents the first decentralized autonomous cooperation that lets holders of its core native token BTS decide on its future direction and governance aspects.

Even though BitShares Blockchain comes with over 50 already implemented operations which deserve to be presented, this document focuses on the description of BitShares Blockchain as a platform, its architecture as well as its governance system using the core native token BTS.

BTS - BTS is the core asset utility which is needed to submit transactions on BitShares Blockchain; it is also used for BitShares development purposes; while BTS asset shareholders are in power to manage and develop BitShares and influence its future using several decentralized integrated functions and tools such as decentralized worker and voting system.

BitShares Blockchain runs on an open-source blockchain implementation known as Graphene, which is reportedly capable of processing up to 100,000 transactions per second (TPS) — making it faster than both MasterCard and VISA combined.

### Development of BitShares Blockchain

BitShares Blockchain was developed through an agile teamwork, some of the participants are well known to the Blockchain industry, such as (Daniel Larimer, Charles Hoskinson and Abitmore) who'd accomplished software engineering and had co-founded several other prominent blockchains and ventures including EOS.IO, Block.one and Steemit.

#### BitShares Blockchain Features

BitShares Blockchain enable several financial innovations such as: User Issued Asset (UIA), Market Pegged Asset (MPA), Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT), Decentralized Exchange Engine (DEX), Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Automated Market Maker (AMM) and Hashed Time-lock Contract (HTLC).

Decentralized Exchange (DEX):

The decentralized exchange (DEX) of BitShares has a similar look & feel as traditional centralized exchanges. However, trading in the DEX can have many different appearances, depending on what user-interface is used.

Smart Assets (Smart Contracts):

The benefit of price-stable cryptocurrencies is that they are fully collateralized, and the issuer only needs to be trusted to appoint an honest set of independent (non-collusive) feed producers. Unlike deposit receipts, the value of a Privatized Smart Assets is secured.

Decentralized Finance (DeFi):

DeFi cryptocurrencies are fully collateralized, and the issuer only needs to be trusted to appoint an honest set of independent (non-collusive) feed producers. Unlike deposit receipts, the value of a Privatized SmartCoin is secured even if the issuer disappears.

Decentralized Liquidity Pools (LP):

Instead of traditional markets of buyers and sellers, many decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms use automated market makers (AMMs), which allow digital assets to be traded in an automatic and permissionless manner through the use of liquidity pools.

### Buying BTS of BitShares Blockchain

BitShares token (BTS) is currently available to purchase or trade over several of the most prominent cryptocurrency exchange platforms such as (Binance, Poloniex, Huobi, LATOKEN, gate.io, mexc, and bittrex) and many others.

3 ) Homepage: https://bitshares.github.io (Hosted over Official GitHub Account https://github.com/bitshares)

4 ) White paper link: https://github.com/bitshares/whitepaper (Hosted over Official GitHub Account https://github.com/bitshares)

5 ) Community Official Casual Chat: https://t.me/BitSharesGroup (Useful resources: https://github.com/bitshares/awesome-bitshares)

6) Community Official Development Chat:https://t.me/BitSharesDEV (Useful resources: https://github.com/bitshares/awesome-bitshares)

7) News Telegram Channel: https://t.me/BitSharesNews (Useful resources: https://github.com/bitshares/awesome-bitshares)

8 ) Twitter link to: https://twitter.com/BitSharesGroup (Hosted over Official GitHub Account https://github.com/bitshares)

9 ) Only Active Explorer: https://blocksights.info

10 ) Total supply of BTS API through: https://api.bitshares.build/current_total_supply

As a committee member; I had submitted the update of BitShares information at Coin Market Cap [coinmarketcap.com] as per the following:

1 ) Changed old logo to the new one: https://bitshares.github.io/images/2020-10-logo_bts4.png

2 ) Changed the description of page https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitshares to the following:

## About BitShares

BitShares Blockchain is a decentralized “Blockchain As Organization” (BAO); an industrial-grade decentralized Web 3.0 platform built for high-performance financial means and smart contracts. It represents the first decentralized autonomous community that enables its core token holders to decide its future direction and financial products. In contrast to other smart contracting platform, its strictly focused on security and reliability which allowed BitShares Blockchain to become the largest host of decentralized exchanges worldwide.

BitShares Blockchain is similar to a publicly owned company or open joint-stock companies. Yet, unlike traditional entities, BitShares Blockchain does not require registration in any jurisdiction, because trust between it’s users is mediated by an (AI) technology over the internet.

BitShares Blockchain is reinventing the global equity blockchain – that is secure, smart and easy-to-use platform, and completely disrupting the way businesses raise capital and the way investors buy and sell shares.

BitShares Blockchain, as it exists today, was launched on 13th October 2015 with its community being established already in 2013. It implements an industrial-grade decentralized platform built for high-performance smart contracts with focus on the financial technologies sector, BitShares represents the first decentralized autonomous cooperation that lets holders of its core native token BTS decide on its future direction and governance aspects.

Even though BitShares Blockchain comes with over 50 already implemented operations which deserve to be presented, this document focuses on the description of BitShares Blockchain as a platform, its architecture as well as its governance system using the core native token BTS.

BTS - BTS is the core asset utility which is needed to submit transactions on BitShares Blockchain; it is also used for BitShares development purposes; while BTS asset shareholders are in power to manage and develop BitShares and influence its future using several decentralized integrated functions and tools such as decentralized worker and voting system.

BitShares Blockchain runs on an open-source blockchain implementation known as Graphene, which is reportedly capable of processing up to 100,000 transactions per second (TPS) — making it faster than both MasterCard and VISA combined.

### Development of BitShares Blockchain

BitShares Blockchain was developed through an agile teamwork, some of the participants are well known to the Blockchain industry, such as (Daniel Larimer, Charles Hoskinson and Abitmore) who'd accomplished software engineering and had co-founded several other prominent blockchains and ventures including EOS.IO, Block.one and Steemit.

#### BitShares Blockchain Features

BitShares Blockchain enable several financial innovations such as: User Issued Asset (UIA), Market Pegged Asset (MPA), Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT), Decentralized Exchange Engine (DEX), Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Automated Market Maker (AMM) and Hashed Time-lock Contract (HTLC).

Decentralized Exchange (DEX):

The decentralized exchange (DEX) of BitShares has a similar look & feel as traditional centralized exchanges. However, trading in the DEX can have many different appearances, depending on what user-interface is used.

Smart Assets (Smart Contracts):

The benefit of price-stable cryptocurrencies is that they are fully collateralized, and the issuer only needs to be trusted to appoint an honest set of independent (non-collusive) feed producers. Unlike deposit receipts, the value of a Privatized Smart Assets is secured.

Decentralized Finance (DeFi):

DeFi cryptocurrencies are fully collateralized, and the issuer only needs to be trusted to appoint an honest set of independent (non-collusive) feed producers. Unlike deposit receipts, the value of a Privatized SmartCoin is secured even if the issuer disappears.

Decentralized Liquidity Pools (LP):

Instead of traditional markets of buyers and sellers, many decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms use automated market makers (AMMs), which allow digital assets to be traded in an automatic and permissionless manner through the use of liquidity pools.

### Buying BTS of BitShares Blockchain

BitShares token (BTS) is currently available to purchase or trade over several of the most prominent cryptocurrency exchange platforms such as (Binance, Poloniex, Huobi, LATOKEN, gate.io, mexc, and bittrex) and many others.

3 ) Changed the website URL to: https://bitshares.github.io

4 ) Changed white paper link to: https://github.com/bitshares/whitepaper

5 ) Changed chat URL to: https://t.me/BitSharesGroup and https://t.me/BitSharesDEV and https://t.me/BitSharesNews

6 ) Changed twitter link to: BitSharesGroup

7 ) Removed Explorer: https://bitsharescan.com

8 ) Add Explorer: https://blocksights.info

9 ) Changed total supply of BTS from manual to API through: https://api.bitshares.build/current_total_supply

10 ) Changed Self-Reported Circulating Supply from manual to API through: https://api.bitshares.build/current_total_supply

Would like to thank whoever had participated in bitsharestalk upgrade.

Quote from: blockchained on September 29, 2020, 02:55:47 pm

After abit trojan took place yesterday we've stopped our witness infrastructure for bitshares.

We have a capable team of core and UI devs, so we're preparing a fork of bitshares code base, back to the consensus rules that was before the abit abuse on github.
It will be a new distribution, a new chain, and a new genesis.
 
News will come latter with announcements.

Hello everyone!

Those of you who are following the Bitshares platform certainly know about the recent event, that caused a lot of debate. During the BTS4.0 protocol upgrade, one of the hired core devs (abitmore) added a community unapproved backdoor to the code, which led to the change of the voting rights, and a major change of the consensus procedure. As a result multiple conflicts ensued with a significant portion of chinese community leaving Bitshares.

After thoroughly analysing the consensus changes, that were made without voting or any discussion by community members, we verified that the resulting system is unscalable and doomed to stagnate. As a result our team decided to launch a fork of stable and time tested Bitshares3.0 consensus code using Graphene — the original name of the technology.

Graphene is the industrial grade technology, adapted both for private and company use. For years it was a foundation for the unique ecosystem and market economy. Its open source code and MIT license allow for creation and maintenance of different decentralized blockchain applications with workers system, that allows core token holders to elect which development to support.

To avoid the mistakes that resulted in the current status quo in Bitshares, we’ve reduced the maximum supply of GPH tokens, and decided to hold the initial distribution of Graphene tokens via all win and provably fair lottery.
The lottery would distribute 40 out of 100 million tokens, with further 60 million used in the reserve fund. The distributed tokens will form the genesis block of the Graphene blockchain, and all undistributed tokens from the 40 million will be burned.
Final supply will be formed out of the resulting sum (reserve fund + distributed tokens); 6% of that supply will be vested to the launch team with the following ratio: 1% will become available to the team within the first week of the launch, and the remaining 5% will be vested over the next 10 years.


GPH token has a limited supply, which differs from the liquid circulating supply. 60 million tokens are set aside for financing projects and block producer rewards. These funds will be available to the worker system only from GPH token holders approval. This working budget is known as “reserve pool”.
It is worth mentioning that transaction fees are not distributed among the GPH token holders, but are returned to the worker budget to pay for further development. There is no reward for holding the GPH core token in your wallet.

## About lottery

The lottery starts on the RuDEX platform concurrently with the publication of this announcement and will last for 40 days. Every days only 100,000 lottery tickets will be available, and with the end of the lottery period all undistributed tokens will be burned, with the final supply and genesis block of the new blockchain being formed as the result.

To participate in the lottery, you will have to buy a lotto ticket and register it.

Every registered ticket will allow you to win from 1 to 30 GPH tokens. For ease and transparency the lottery will be held on the Bitshares blockchain.

There are only 5 possible winning combinations with a fixed amount of tokens for each combination, as follows:

0 - 1
1 - 3
2 - 6
3 - 10
4 - 30

The combination number (0-4) will be calculated from the transaction hash on the ticket registration.

To demonstrate how the lottery works we will use RUDEX.LOTTERY token as an example.
As you can see in this block https://bts.ai/block/53159405 bot-11 account “registered” 1 RUDEX.LOTTERY and got a transaction number TXID of d60c7ce9467043cf81acd5fdb1c5bc851d20faed.
If this value is divided by modulo 5 (number of combinations), then the remainder of the division will be the combination number of this ticket. You can verify the division remainder using, for example, the following service: https://defuse.ca/big-number-calculator.htm
In our case you need to insert the following line into the calculator 0xd60c7ce9467043cf81acd5fdb1c5bc851d20faed  % 5, which is equal to the value of 4, which is a combination for 30 GPH token win.

It is possible to register any number of tickets concurrently, which results in cycles of combinations (0-4) are counted from the division reminder value of the transaction hash until all tickets are given the result.

For your ease and convenience the lottery page display the transaction hashes and results for all of your registered tickets. Every lottery result is available for a public review.

So if you are as tired of the unfair games and underhanded intrigues as we are, we are inviting you to start anew and open the Graphene technology in its original balanced and transparent nature

https://market.rudex.org/#/lottery

Your opinion about BitShares isn't credited; I don't see your initial distribution making any sense, I suggest you do some MLM schemes like selling replica watches for your GPH so it might have value.

Adding your API node: wss://eu.nodes.bitshares.ws

Thanks guys.

Quote from: Ammar Yousef (ioBanker) on October 04, 2020, 05:23:43 am

His CEX orderbook is not even 1% of daily volume coinmarketcap

Your CEX iobanker is even not on cmc, boy

ioBanker isn't CEX nor a gateway; stop comparing your poor startup with ioBanker, kid.

After abit trojan took place yesterday we've stopped our witness infrastructure for bitshares.

We have a capable team of core and UI devs, so we're preparing a fork of bitshares code base, back to the consensus rules that was before the abit abuse on github.
It will be a new distribution, a new chain, and a new genesis.
 
News will come latter with announcements.

We haven't seen your capable team of core and UI participating in any development related to BitShares as organization; your developments were obviously self-interests and private use cases ONLY; you were using the platform UI and the blockchain as a free database and application server for your CEX/Gateway use case; you never implemented new features nor fixed a single bug effecting BitShares.

There is no problem with utilizing BitShares as a free database and application server for CEX business use case; but BitShares isn't ONLY "CEX" business use case; we haven't seen any positive approach from your side nor a vision to support the ongoing development of BitShares; I had witnessed myself your FUD and attack on BitShares as if you were BitShares's competitor or enemy; spitting inside a plate that you were eating from in daily bases on Telegram with your team and supporters.

You were abusing your position as an admin on telegram, FUD, bad words and harassments; you were driving the masses to give up on BitShares while others were working on new features to change and to fix specific issues that was preventing the platform from growing.

Your failing strategy of attacking the network community, FUD, attacking developers and personalizing discussions isn't the strategy that is needed to change any facts on BitShares; BUT civilized discussions with community members which obviously you were lacking.

Some are really thinking BitShares is only a gateway/CEX application server and database engine; "CEX" decisions are self-interest naturally; BUT it isn't BitShares development. perhaps CEX voters are being paid back under the table by corrupt workers, WHY NOT; thanks to BitShares 5.0, this wouldn't be a case when voters are locking their BTS.

I believe you should stop acting as if you were important to BitShares Organization and I believe "alt" should rethink his mind about you.

Quote from: Ammar Yousef (ioBanker) on September 16, 2020, 07:06:27 pm

insulting the only last active core developer on this blockchain

LoL this kind of developers as abit must be kicked out from the job as fast as possible

But I'm not surprised why you are supporting broke of the consensus and abit scam



When I look to your company I laughed hard:

https://www.e-krediidiinfo.ee/14386003-IOBANKER%20O%C3%9C

you have nice office in the middle of the forest, very "trustworthy"

Männimäe, Pudisoo küla Kuusalu vald Harju maakond 74626

did you google yourself where you registered? Take it easy I made some screenshots for you





with such "office" no surprise why you support fraud =)

I had a couple of companies in Estonia lived there for a while and when I saw the place of your company registration I laugh out loud, just FYI if it not Tallinn or Tartu 9 from 10 it is a scam, and then I google it and found your office in the middle of nowhere)))

When you don't find anything wrong with me; you will make it.

The Estonian government is controlled by an intelligent race; your kind wouldn't understand.

First of all you need classes in using Google of course; this is the official Estonian government Centre of Registers and Information Systems: https://ariregister.rik.ee go and type iobanker and hit enter to see our address; government wouldn't register us without proofing we exist there; why don't you come and give a visit? or be brave enough to write your RuDex underground address here so perhaps intelligent race would give you a visit and teach you Google

I'm aware that your kind wouldn't be happy when they see our work here: https://e-estonia.com/why-is-estonia-a-startup-paradise/

"TIME WILL TELL".