Now all we need to do is get the power of Bitshares into the hands of Bill Gates, Richard Branson and all the other cash rich millionaires, multimillionaires and billionaires and get them sinking money into decentralized autonomy and get them saying the same thing. Aim Bitshares at the insanely rich and market Bitshares to them the power, flexibility, privacy, self control and anonymity  and freedom from central control where BTS is going to shine.

Here's an idea. Since @IOHKCharles  did his interview on Dominic Frisby's interesting Virgin Podcast, I've been listening to the rest of the podcasts. They're very good, and obviously linked with Richard Branson, who is already well aware of Bitcoin. Take a look here to see what Dominic Frisby is about (with his books "Life After The State - Why We Don't Need Government" and "Bitcoin – the Future of Money?").

Dominic said Richard Branson himself will be on the podcast (I don't know if it's been recorded yet). I wonder if we could get Dominic and/or Richard Branson to take a look at BitShares...

Add me to the list of people with a positive opinion of the wallet.
Thank you!

It's a luxury to have a GUI which is responsive enough to take advantage of the great speed of the BitShares backend!

The whole thing really puts the user experience of other cryptos to shame...

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The application model needs to change.. Instead of one gui to do it all you would offer a gui for the cryptqo stuff like sending recieving, privacy, referrals and account management, which the current gui is great for.

Then youd offer the dex over the cli which it does but do a metatrader4 bridge to the api for dex trading. You simply point people over to the client download for the dex and the wallet gui for crypto stuff.

Forex traders would be all over it especially since they can do their own account management, deposit withdrawls without trusting a broker!

I was thinking the same thing... All we would need is to get a metatrader license and may have to do some basic programming to access the API with the metatrader platform.  As far as deposits and withdrawals, I think we would have to point the trader to a deposit page on the openledger wallet.

I was thinking they dont need another broker, unless processing fiat, but once in crypto they can do their own account management in the bts crypto wallet. Whatever their crypto wallet balance is, would show up in metatrader4.

I have contacted metatrader in regards to setting up and licensing the terminal for bitshares.  I know a license can cost upwards of 100k, but there are companies offering to sell their licenses so there may be a cheaper option.

What I envision:
-website that hosts the metatrader introduction and download page.  Also has a link (with referral code) to create a bts wallet.
-newly created wallet links to downloaded metatrader platform
-password and credentials created for accessing account in metatrader
-user sends funds(crypto) to bts wallet and metatrader reflects those funds
-user trades markets in metatrader through bitshares API.  Metatrader get price data from bitshares API.
-users can cash out or access their funds by going to the original website and logging into the wallet through there.

Does this sound possible with the current API offered by graphene?  I am considering setting this up, but I think it would be an incredible tool for metaexchange or bitshares blocks.

Sounds like a good enough plan for a thread of it's own. Perhaps you could create a thread and link to it back in this thread?

I thought Dan communicated ideas very clearly. I'd love to hear a series of follow ups because the BitShares platform opens up so many possibilities, that the surface was barely scratched. We all know that here though... we just need everyone else to catch on!

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-02/reason-bitcoins-recent-surge-revealed

i HATE those audio ads on zerohedge that always auto-start and scare the livin crap out of me, how do i disable those damn things?

Firefox with Adblock Edge plugin may be.

Screw Adblock, they're sellouts.

Try uBlock.

Or uBlock Origin

Sometimes I imagine it in this (oversimplified and exaggerated) way...

• There is a limited supply of BTS, held by a variety of people.
• 90% of the supply is being HODLed, and would never be sold at silly prices such as those we are seeing currently.
• 7% of the supply is being used by people internally for various purposes.
• 3% of the supply is churning around being traded on external exchanges, bringing profit to some , and losses to others as it gets pumped and dumped. All the while the prices at which this 3% are being exchanged have been dropping.
• This 3% of churning BTS started out at 40% of the supply, but has gradually been absorbed into the pockets of HODLers. Maybe in reality there is solid support building for BitShares, but it is being obscured by a small percentage of BTS cycling around between traders/poloniex 'margineers'/non-HODLers...

Does anyone think there could be elements of truth in this story?

Yes