I will look at the votes at approximately 12noon.  BM and Stan would obviously be invited but this would be a community hangout so it would not be necessary for them to attend. 
I actually think newmine brought up a line of thinking that everyone should take into consideration though...and trust me I am probably one of the biggest BM and BitShares around.  I say this not because I distrust BM and the crews intentions...but we also should not be naive and think that the possibility of something unforeseen could occur and cause great damage.  It is for this reason we should always try to consider ways fto protect ourselves. 
I still hold my original PTS precisely because I never liked the idea of putting all my eggs in one basket.  It just doesn't make sense from a risk mitigation perspective.  Considering everyone here is at least somewhat a technophile, I'd imagine they should all be able to appreciate the value of risk mitigation strategies that diversify us and make the risk/reward ratio more pallatable.

Now as for my beef with newmine--he acts like bitshares' team has completely screwed us and cannot be trusted. Everytime he posts he does so provocatively almost as though he wants to cause division.  That is frustrating.

Quote from: bytemaster on April 29, 2015, 06:33:09 pm

I was just talking with a VC today who is in the process of buying a fiat exchange and is interested in funding us to integrate.   Funding developers is not going to be a problem. 

In reality these low prices are HELPING us attract VC money because they can buy in and capture a stake.

This is the best news I have heard for a long time.  I hope this time it does not end up just talk (reference 'the coming-soon bts debit card', 'exchanges eager to become gateways, 'secret sauce',  ...).

3天一个新版本啊？ 有金融系统像BTS那么不严肃的吗？ 就算是游戏那也得等用户捂热啊。

Quote from: wallace on March 19, 2015, 03:03:29 am

你所谓的货币属性是指什么？请教下阁下是怎么根据BTC市值得出货币属性的结论的？

我所谓的货币属性就是：哪怕这东西再怎么没用，大家就是脑残粉，只要这点是公认的，那他就具备较高的货币属性。
你看那么多山寨币，哪个不是针对比特币的改良，如果论易用性，早就有超越比特币的了，但为什么还是比特币市值最高呢？
就像黄金白银一样，炒白银的都说白银工业价值怎么怎么高，每年还要消耗多少多少吨，未来价值肯定超过黄金...balabala....，
但一到关键时刻，嘿，大家还都是去买黄金，这就是脑残粉的力量，就是高货币属性的体现啦。