Quote from: cob on March 05, 2015, 03:59:45 pm

We are attending the Texas Bitcoin Conference in Austin on the 27 -29th of March.

Notes will be liquid by then (on the BTS blockchain) Expect news then, last week of march.

Thanks to everyone for your patience (:

I remember you said you would also attend SXSW before Texas conference. Why not announce the launch at SXSW, the people attending Bitcoin conference won't show much interests in the projects that don't rely on Bitcoin, and also they may not know much about music business.  IMO SXSW is a better place to attract attentions from fans and artists.

Maybe. It is showing 21.6 bitcoins for today if that helps you out.

I don't put much store by this commentary.

Dowd (along with others) dismisses so many elephants in the room with this view that it borders on the foolish.

First of all, Bitcoin is still here and gaining huge traction with every week that passes. There is an entire industrial sector evolving around it including retail technologies, financial derivatives and more.

Dowd (and others) are highly selective in picking out a single dimension of Bitcoin's existence and projecting that into a catastrophic challenge that's insurmountable. It's not insurmountable. To me they are a bit like the people back in 1994 who said the internet wouldn't take off because http protocol is no use for video. Or it would die because it was it was impossible to find anything. All that happened was that Google got invented.

Secondly, dismissals of Bitcoin's viability based on hypothetical scenarios like this completely discount the concept of a "rights of passage" phase that a technology such as this has to endure to become trusted. Bitcoin "warts an' all" is becoming the accepted reference standard for cryptocurrencies *because* of it's troubles, not in spite of them. People are seeing that it's survived hacking attempts, a near-death by a 'media storm' of fud, competition from a flotilla of alt-coins numbering in their hundreds if not thousands, competition from more advanced blockchain technology.......and survived with barely a dent. After all that, the nearest competitor does not even exceed 1/30th of Bitcoin's marketcap.

All in all, these are hypothetical - not catastrophic - issues which just get solved the more people have an interest and a stake in its future.

Great work! 

A wordpress plugin would boost bitUSD/BTS enormously!

Quote from: monsterer on November 25, 2014, 08:28:08 pm

Quote from: Rune on November 25, 2014, 08:15:11 pm

Release 2 is bitcoin IOU gateway functionality, but the trades still have to be done in the local client?

Release 2 is person to person bitcoin / bitasset on/off ramps, so cross chain with metaexchange acting as the escrow agent.

I'm asking you to prioritize an open source gateway daemon over your other services because it will allow many people to offer gateways and thus help the community greatly.