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BitShares PTS / Re: To buy or not to buy PTS, that is the question.
« on: December 26, 2014, 04:48:01 pm »
To summarize: there was no change to the social consensus and there was no "buyout" of PTS (confirmed, yet again, in today's Mumble session). PTS and the social consensus live on.

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Hi,

I dont want to start a new thread, but I have been out of this for a couple of months. Now all my PTS is in the old wallet and I need to transfer to the new one. How do I do this? And have I lost out on something?

Replied here: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=12551.msg166976#msg166976

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BitShares PTS / Re: [HOW-TO] Fund/register accounts
« on: December 26, 2014, 04:19:35 pm »
Hi,

How do I transfer my old PTS here?

There are 2 ways to import. Here is the easy way:

Code: [Select]
wallet_import_bitcoin <wallet_filename> <passphrase> <account_name>
FYI - the "bitcoin" name in the command is there because it refers to Bitcoin-style wallet.dat files, including old PTS.

The second way is to use our new "import by signed message" feature: http://pts.cubeconnex.com/index.php?topic=37.msg421#msg421

The second way does not require you to expose your private keys to the client, but requires you to import each address separately. Let me know if you have any trouble.


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General Discussion / Re: The end of POW approaches...
« on: December 26, 2014, 03:40:34 pm »
Yes please let PTS die like it should have. We paid millions during the merger so PTS should no longer be included in anything. I am confident that the shareholders are going to revolt against anyone supporting PTS through sharedrops.

What you are implying (that the merger was a "buyout") is simply a distortion of some early draft proposals. Stan and Dan have both consistently stated that PTS and the social consensus will live on. This anti-diversity view is bizarre and hurtful to BTS, which depends on the success of DPoS to gain wide adoption. We, as a community, should be glad to own the most advanced crypto-coin (BTS) PLUS a share in all future DPoS implementations (via AGS/PTS and the social consensus).

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General Discussion / Re: You guys don't understand devshares.
« on: December 26, 2014, 08:13:15 am »
ok , I guess all the people that view 11.05 as the final snapshot have issues with denial .
Rest assured , I can accept that I was the only one misunderstood the whole thing .

But what about others ? Can you help clear that , first with all the western members here with denial issues , then I can learn from you and see how that goes .

Because , simply "you were wrong" is not a answer . There are too many people out there won't accept that .

Look, I don't want to contribute to antagonism and division among our community. In some small way we are all united here. The most fundamental point I will make is that PTS can never be a competitor to BTS. It is absolutely illogical to assume that this could be the case. If we agree on this then there will be no issue with the continued presence and support of a strong PTS/AGS. PTS does not have the developers nor the features of BTS. On what basis could PTS possibly compete with banking, exchange, DNS, and all of the other features of the BTS chain? None.

That being said, the crypto wars will not result in a single consolidated token used by every person and for every application. Multiple tokens, multiple applications. If one consensus algorithm proves to provide superior security and efficiency then it will be shared by a large number of these tokens. I think we all believe that the best consensus protocol available today is DPoS. If we believe this, and we know that other chains (both complementary and competitive) will exist, then why in the world would we not support the social consensus??? A rising tide lifts all boats, but that will not help us if we can't launch our boats in the first place.

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General Discussion / Re: PTS - the insane gift that keeps on giving!
« on: December 26, 2014, 08:01:16 am »
..
* The reason that 11/05 was going to be the last "official" (non-3rd party) snapshot is because there will be no future "official" snapshots. Neither Dan or Stan ever
..

To be precise, and to avoid further miscommunication,

"The reason that 11/05 was suggested/proposed/drafted going to be .. snapshot ...".  I3 (or ex-I3) eventually decided to go with Dec-14  snapshot for Devshare.

Agreed:

* It is a misrepresentation of a proposal, not even the final consensus. In fact Stan and others have made it crystal clear, **repeatedly**, that the social consensus remains unchanged.
* This isn't even about a real sharedrop, it is about Devshares which is a worthless testnet.
* Worst of all, we're only hurting ourselves. PTS is not a competitor to Bitshares - it is an opportunity to own the entirety of the market for DPoS (including 3rd party DACs, competitors, etc). Just baffling that anyone would argue against this... My post from BTT on the matter:

Quote from: alphaBar
... BTSX is now rebranded as just 'Bitshares' (BTS) and Invictus (the "company" that created the Bitshares software) is now disbanded. The original core developers are still working hard on BTS, but are now employed by the blockchain rather than a centralized corporate entity (this was done for obvious reasons). The new Bitshares uses an inflationary protocol that enables delegates to be paid for supporting the network in ways other that just block production. This new funding model enables the currency to incentivize rapid development and innovation. So, we are left with both BTS and PTS. These two tokens are not direct competitors, and are rather symbiotic for at least the following reasons:

* Both tokens promote DPoS as the most secure, innovative, and efficient consensus algorithm in the world.
* BTSX was sharedropped 50% to PTS and thus represents a largely overlapping demographic.
* They use slightly different implementations of DPoS. BTS uses targeted inflation to raise funds for development/etc, while PTS is deflationary. In PTS, a delegate with a 100% pay rate receives 100% of the fees in the blocks that they produce. A 0% pay rate would simply burn those fees, thus reducing the supply and increasing the value of everyone else's shares.
* BTS is a true 'DAC' (distributed autonomous corporation), and is designed to rapidly evolve and to disrupt a variety of industries (DNS, Vote, Banking/Exchange, etc). BTS is the Ferrari of crypto-currencies and has cutting edge features found in no other coin.
* PTS is a stable 'currency-DAC' and sharedrop token. It is designed primarily to provide a stable unit of account with fair distribution, and to be a launching pad for feature-specific DACs (some of which may compete directly or indirectly with BTS). PTS is a reference implementation of DPoS and is the original and preferred sharedrop token. It cannot and will not compete with BTS on specific features or within specific industries. Rather, PTS is an investment in the protocol and the ecosystem of future BitShares DACs.

I think at this point most people realize that the crypto wars will not result in a single consolidated token used by every person and for every application. Rather, as Andreas puts it, there will likely be a few or a handful of tokens that take a majority of the marketshare. The rest will make up a long tail of tokens directed towards increasingly niche applications. If you believe this to be true, then it stands that both BTS and PTS can be enormously successful without competing directly for market share.


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General Discussion / Re: You guys don't understand devshares.
« on: December 26, 2014, 07:45:52 am »

This is absolutely wrong. The reason that 11/05 was proposed to be the last "official" (non-3rd party) snapshot is because there will be no future "official" snapshots. Neither Dan or Stan ever argued that the social consensus would be arbitrarily mutated to make the 11/05 snapshot the perpetual sharedrop instrument in place of the live PTS chain. Devshares is not a production coin - it is a worthless testnet. It makes sense to use the live PTS chain in Devshares because the social consensus is and always was based on a liquid PTS. The fact remains that the last "official" snapshot will remain the one that took place on 11/05. Just an amazing twisting of facts to imply that this was somehow a modification of the social consensus (it wasn't).

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=10608.0
You'll have to convince people to forget this first before accusing them being twisting the facts .

From your link:

Quote
PTS will continue to circulate and trade; however, without I3 planning any future snapshots its value will be based upon the speculative value of 3rd party DACs such as Music, Play, and others. 

Where is the confusion here?

Edit: confirming that even the 11/05 comment was a proposal, not final consensus

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General Discussion / Re: You guys don't understand devshares.
« on: December 26, 2014, 07:32:46 am »
Thank you for that , just want to let the others know that those who thought 11.05 was the final snapshot for I3 related product are not crazy and suck at reading information at all .

The issue here is that I3 is not claiming this is not  a I3 product , instead they are claiming that those who thought 11.05 was the final were mistaken .

This is absolutely wrong. The reason that 11/05 was proposed* to be the last "official" (non-3rd party) snapshot is because there will be no future "official" snapshots. Neither Dan or Stan ever argued that the social consensus would be arbitrarily mutated to make the 11/05 snapshot the perpetual sharedrop instrument in place of the live PTS chain. Devshares is not a production coin - it is a worthless testnet. It makes sense to use the live PTS chain in Devshares because the social consensus is and always was based on a liquid PTS. The fact remains that the last "official" snapshot will remain the one that took place on 11/05. Just an amazing twisting of facts to imply that this was somehow a modification of the social consensus (it wasn't).

Edit: confirming that even the 11/05 comment was a proposal, not final consensus

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General Discussion / Re: PTS - the insane gift that keeps on giving!
« on: December 26, 2014, 07:29:48 am »
Unbelievable amount of misinformation in this thread. Here are the facts:

* Stan explained clearly that PTS/AGS "buyout" was simply a proposal that was discussed and rejected.
* The reason that 11/05 was proposed to be the last "official" (non-3rd party) snapshot is because there will be no future "official" snapshots. Neither Dan or Stan ever argued that the social consensus would be arbitrarily mutated to make the 11/05 snapshot the perpetual sharedrop instrument in place of the live PTS chain. Devshares is not a production coin - it is a worthless testnet. It makes sense to use the live PTS chain in Devshares because the social consensus is and always was based on a liquid PTS. The fact remains that the last "official" snapshot will remain the one that took place on 11/05. Just an amazing twisting of facts to imply that this somehow affects 3rd party DACs or modifies the social consensus (it doesn't).

The even bigger problem here is a fundamental misunderstanding of the business case for "Sharedrop Theory." It is absolutely absurd to think that the bare-bones PTS chain is somehow a "threat" to BTS. It's like saying Lamborghini faces a threat from the Toyota Corolla. They are targeted to completely different functions and demographics. There will be many winners in this race. We, as a community, are better off having a horse in each race. PTS gives us a piece of all DPoS chains, even those who may directly or indirectly compete with BTS. They will exist regardless of whether or not we get a stake in them. And by the way, I have no problem with people who choose not to invest in PTS or do not see value in PTS. My problem is with those who are twisting Stan's words to create the illusion that I3 decided to kill PTS or to alter the social consensus. That is not a disagreement on value, it is a categorical lie.

Edit: correction per cube

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General Discussion / Re: You guys don't understand devshares.
« on: December 26, 2014, 06:48:46 am »
I think Stan clarified his position on the merger very well. It is true that there were a variety of proposals and that one of them was the idea of a PTS/AGS "buyout". That proposal failed for a variety of reasons. It was clear to many of us that there is a place for PTS and AGS in the world along side BTS. Here is a quote from a post I made in BTT that explains my position on the relationship of BTS to PTS/AGS:

Quote from: alphaBar
... BTSX is now rebranded as just 'Bitshares' (BTS) and Invictus (the "company" that created the Bitshares software) is now disbanded. The original core developers are still working hard on BTS, but are now employed by the blockchain rather than a centralized corporate entity (this was done for obvious reasons). The new Bitshares uses an inflationary protocol that enables delegates to be paid for supporting the network in ways other that just block production. This new funding model enables the currency to incentivize rapid development and innovation. So, we are left with both BTS and PTS. These two tokens are not direct competitors, and are rather symbiotic for at least the following reasons:

* Both tokens promote DPoS as the most secure, innovative, and efficient consensus algorithm in the world.
* BTSX was sharedropped 50% to PTS and thus represents a largely overlapping demographic.
* They use slightly different implementations of DPoS. BTS uses targeted inflation to raise funds for development/etc, while PTS is deflationary. In PTS, a delegate with a 100% pay rate receives 100% of the fees in the blocks that they produce. A 0% pay rate would simply burn those fees, thus reducing the supply and increasing the value of everyone else's shares.
* BTS is a true 'DAC' (distributed autonomous corporation), and is designed to rapidly evolve and to disrupt a variety of industries (DNS, Vote, Banking/Exchange, etc). BTS is the Ferrari of crypto-currencies and has cutting edge features found in no other coin.
* PTS is a stable 'currency-DAC' and sharedrop token. It is designed primarily to provide a stable unit of account with fair distribution, and to be a launching pad for feature-specific DACs (some of which may compete directly or indirectly with BTS). PTS is a reference implementation of DPoS and is the original and preferred sharedrop token. It cannot and will not compete with BTS on specific features or within specific industries. Rather, PTS is an investment in the protocol and the ecosystem of future BitShares DACs.

I think at this point most people realize that the crypto wars will not result in a single consolidated token used by every person and for every application. Rather, as Andreas puts it, there will likely be a few or a handful of tokens that take a majority of the marketshare. The rest will make up a long tail of tokens directed towards increasingly niche applications. If you believe this to be true, then it stands that both BTS and PTS can be enormously successful without competing directly for market share.

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BitShares PTS / Re: Would need some PTS to register my account
« on: December 22, 2014, 06:44:02 pm »
need some PTS too to register ...

PTS5civCG4YdjLZbn6m3JTx65Z8P1nQvEb4Sw1Dh8yjsh7e9EK7jd

Client is telling me the account name is invalid. Are you a keyhotee founder? What version of the client are you using?

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BitShares PTS / PTS Exchanges (where to buy/sell PTS)
« on: December 22, 2014, 04:48:31 am »
The following is a list of exchanges that support PTS:

* www.bter.com
* www.poloniex.com

Please PM me with updates.

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BitShares PTS / Re: [HOW-TO] Fund/register accounts
« on: December 22, 2014, 03:57:42 am »
reserved

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BitShares PTS / [HOW-TO] Fund/register accounts
« on: December 22, 2014, 03:56:56 am »
When you launch your PTS client you will be asked to enter an account name. This account will remain 'unregistered' until you fund the account and then optionally register the account. Once you register the account name, you can use the account name to receive funds. Until then, if you want to send money to an 'unregistered' account, you need to do the following:

1) Click 'My Accounts' in the left menu bar
2) Click the name of an existing account on this page (or click "Create New Account" to create a new one)
3) On the next page, under your account name, you will see an 'Account Key' which is a long hash address starting with the letters 'PTS...'. This is your account's public key. You can fund your account by sending PTS to this account key.

Post your questions here.

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IDentabit / Re: John Underwood Visit
« on: December 20, 2014, 10:39:46 pm »
+5% This could be big.

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