Cryptosmith http://cryptosmith.info/index.php would like to start outside testing by accepting a limited number of customers before a launch to the general public.

Couple of things to keep in mind.

-Bitsilver and Bitgold are currently the only accepted forms of payment. Their are other options listed but you will be kicked back to the start page if trying to pay in anything other then Bitsilver and Bitgold.
Cryptosmith now accepts Bitusd,Bitcny,Biteur,Bitsilver and Bitgold

-All packages are shipped USPS tacked,insured and signature confirmation required. I am thinking of allowing tracked but not insured, no signature confirmation so that users can save on shipping cost's, please feel free to weigh in with your opinion on this.

-After a successful launch here in the US I will begin working to allow international orders.

If you are interested in purchasing physical gold and or silver in any amount please PM me thanks.

 

We are a team of crypto-enthusiasts that have been working on solving one of the biggest problems facing mass-adoption of the blockchain: entry barriers. The absolute largest hurdle to gaining a steady stream of new users is the lack of a fiat-gateway and so this is the one problem that we have set out to solve. Currently we are partnered with a central European bank that will enable instant deposits and withdrawals of Euros and also allow for USD deposits and withdraws via wire-transfer. Additionally we are currently in talks with banks in two other countries to create a more robust environment and enable more people to transfer funds through us instantly.

What we are offering is the greatest way to lower the entry barrier for Bitshares and enable users to buy and sell  Bitshares and BitAssets near instantly with their fiat funds. This will open up new opportunities for the entire Bitshares community and attract many new users as well as merchants.

On board we have a solid development and legal team that has created the infrastructure for a Fiat Gateway for Bitshares. We are now seeking funding to bring this platform to the Bitshares community. We are looking for investors with $50,000+ in capital ready to invest in such a project. Interested parties will be presented our entire business plan, legal documents and a preview of the exchange and past projects we have worked on as well as projected estimates of rate of return on their investment.

At this point in time I feel its important to inform everyone I am no longer apart of this project. I had a disagreement over what I see as a transparency issue with the gateway owners and we deiced to part ways.

This in no way means that it is a bad investment just that I didn't feel comfortable going forward. If anyone would like to get in touch with the owners they are still welcome to PM me and I can pass their contact info to you. Thanks.

I would like to start this thread to post project updates on Lamassu bit asset integration. My goal is to get https://bitsharesblocks.com/delegates/delegate?name=delegate.verbaltech voted in, and to continue projects like this while providing a format for regular updates on said projects.

December- Contact made in with a soft yes to integration.Bit assets (cny,usd and eur) were mentioned and welcomed but project stalled out due to lack of a developer.

January- Contact made with a non core developer who wishes to remain anonymous, I agreed and respect his choice as long as work is published on Github during development.

February- Reach back out to Lamassu now armed with a developer to work on the project. They have been very fast to respond and a meeting is scheduled for our and their developer to meet so that work may actually begin.

2/8/15- Meeting held today between my self,a bitshares dev and a dev from lamassu. This was a important meeting because it gave us some specific details on what they expect from us and gave us another opportunity to push the assets and assets only for a listing option. We are waiting on word from their ceo about menu changes and out of the box support.

2/23/15-Heard back from Lamassu, If anyone has any knowledge how the problem stated below could be over come I would love to get back in touch with them, with a solution. Please pm so the information doesn't get lost, thanks.
"we weren't able to see a way of parsing BitShares account QR codes to pass along to the server. At the moment, our development resources keep us from actively developing support for other projects. If you do have recommendations for how to enable parsing on the machine of other coin addresses, such as a more extensible npm package than https://www.npmjs.com/package/bitcoinaddress, we'd be happy to take a look."

Stay tuned for future updates including progress on talks. No secret sauce, just the facts as they come.

Over the past month and a half I have been working with the BitShares marketing team. My goal has been to convert cold call emails into meetings so I may present solutions to their business needs. They can be merchants looking for a better payment system, exchanges asking about what makes BitShares, and our bit assets, different, and emerging technology companies. More than just promoting the protocol, a hardware solution may be the best answer to their need to secure stake and promote voting. I scour the forums here and on Nullstreet on a near daily basis to gather new insight on how to approach the many different target markets. I have personally reached out to 30+ companies and have been able to convert four to meetings. Of those four, three have lead to integration or a partnership in some way. Another five resulted in potential leads.

过去的一个半月时间里我与比特股市场团队一起工作。我的目标是将冷冰冰的email请求转换为会议，这样我可以为他们的商业需要提供解决方案。这些商业可以是那些寻找更好的支付系统的商家，交易所寻找比特股和比特资产与众不同的答案，以及新兴的科技公司。不只是推销这个协议，一个硬件的解决方案或许是更好的答案去满足他们保证权益和推广投票，我每天都在这个论坛和nullstreet论坛里面寻找去接近不同目标市场的新观点。我个人已经向30多个公司伸出橄榄枝，已经成功使四个公司与我们进行了会议。这四个公司，其中三个已经达成了整合或成为某种意义上的合作伙伴。剩下的五个或许会有希望。

   I would like to continue doing the above as a paid delegate. This would allow me to increase the amount of time I am already devoting to the business development front.  Helping to forge important partnerships is very time consuming, yet also required to ensure the success of the BitShares platform. I am therefore campaigning for a 100% paid delegate position. Such a position enables me to increase my availability for meetings that I setup or to act as a backup or a lead for those who may be uncomfortable or unavailable to speak to potential partners.
我会想作为一个付费的受托人继续做上述这些事情。这会让我增加时间去做那些我已经在商业发展领域做的事情。帮助促成合作关系是非常耗费时间的，但也是比特股平台成功必须的。我因此申请一个100%受托人的职位。这个职位会让我有更多的时间去参加我设立的会议，或者是为其他一些不善展开商业会谈的人当副手。


   As a delegate, I promise not to “share price watch” - using the excuse that because share price is down, it only buys half the time that it used to. The importance of having someone experienced in sales and business development on hand and accountable to help present the message to a potential partner cannot be overstated. Many potential partners do not have the time to read a white paper or check the forums.


作为一个受托人，我承诺不关注股价。我不会用那些“因为股价下降了，所以只能支付我过去一半的时间了”。有一个在销售和商业发展领域都有经验的人去帮助提供信息给潜在的合作伙伴，这个重要性怎么说都不过分。很多潜在的合作伙伴并没有时间去读白皮书或者检查论坛。

It is because of everything stated in this platform that I ask for your support. Please vote for delegate.verbaltech.  Thank you!
所以我请求你的支持。请给delegate.verbaltech  投票，谢谢。
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You know me here on the forums as Thom https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=21490, and I'll be handling the technical side of gentso's delegate. My business plan is to support gentso in his efforts to sell the advantages of the BitShares platform to as many organizations as possible, so we all benefit.
我是论坛上的Thom，我会负责技术方面的支持，我的商业计划是协助Gentso去让更多的机构接受比特股，让我们都受益。

I've known gentso from my earliest posts here on the forum, and recently he reached out to ask my help with the technical issues of running a delegate node. I have over 3 decades of software development experience in a wide variety of fields, and am very comfortable with most operating systems, be they Mac, Windows or *nix (linux/unix). My focus will be on the reliability of the delegate node, which involves decisions about which VPS to use, where in the world it's located, a backup VPS, and monitoring so that in the event of a failure for whatever reason the backup can be activated to keep block production optimal.

我在论坛早期的帖子中了解到Gentso，最近他让我帮他运行受托人节点的技术方面的事。我有30年的多个领域的软件开发经验，熟悉大多数操作系统，MAC\WINDOWS\UNIX等。我的关注会在受托人节点的可靠性上。这包括如何选择VPS，放在哪里，备份VPS，监视失效情况等，并及时用备份激活。

Although I've been a software developer in the past, I do not intend on getting back into the thick of software development or providing tools such as svk's most excellent BitSharesBlocks.  However, if I need to adjust some scripts or build a custom linux kernel to optimize reliable and trustworthy block production, I can and will do so. I quite expect though, that such tweaking will not be required or will be relatively minor, but I will do whatever it takes to run a dependable node, including providing timely price feeds.
我过去也是个程序员，我不会像聚合网作者那样开发软件了，不过如果让我修改一些脚本或者定制Linux内核去优化区块生成的可靠性的话，我照样能做。反正我会尽量让这个节点运行的可靠，而且及时发布喂价。

You may have heard that I'm writing a book, The Coming BitShares Revolution. I will soon be posting details in the forum about my plan to promote the book. I mention this as a way of introducing my technical skills and personal perspective -  which I write about in the Preface to the book. Until I'm ready to post those details, you may read the preview at this URL: http://www.thecomingbitsharesrevolution.website/media/tcbrPreview1.pdf
你们可能也听说我在写一本书，“正在到来的比特股变革”，我会很快将详细情况以及我对这本书的推广计划放在论坛上。我提到这个主要是介绍我的技术能力和个人观点，我在这本书的前言里就提到过。直到我可以发表这些细节之前，你可能想在这个链接里看看预览。

I strongly believe gentso and I will make a great team and so I encourage you to vote for delegate.verbaltech to support gentso's sales efforts but also to support a well managed delegate node by a dedicated and competent software professional.
我很强烈地相信Gentso和我会成为一个很好的团队，所以我鼓励你给 delegate.verbaltech  投票去支持Gentso的销售努力，也是支持由专注和有能力的软件开发者去维护的一个受托人节点。

Big thank you to btswildpig and the team at BTServiceGroup show them support market.cn.group101

Just in case this article snuck by anyone  http://www.coindesk.com/one-startup-will-use-blockchain-disrupt-online-gaming/
I think it was a bit poorly titled, it should have mentioned play but it does outline it use and over all value.

I have been actively talking with partners for over a month now. Everything from crypto to crypto exchanges, gateways,merchants anyone who will listen. I have noticed that everyone wants to add bts but no one wants to add the assets.

Lets take a recent partner for example. When talking to the head of their marketing department they immediately asked what features make bitshares different then other crypto's. To be honest I was a bit taken back and this question prompted me to ask if they were adding any bitassets. They paused for a min and I could immediately tell they had no idea what I was talking about. They then confirmed that they are not but that they would seriously consider adding them in the future.This is a nice way of saying probably never.

I suppose the funniest part of the above is that nubits which has nushares and is comparable in this case, has nubits (their product/asset) listed for over a month. I am pretty sure they didn't even know nubits was a asset and tbh doesn't care. The fail is on our part and the presentation of our products or lack their of. You see the truth of the situation is this, these partner businesses don't have the time or will to research every alt beating down their door to be added. They (often times) will not list many pairings (bts, bitUSD,bitBTC,bitCNY) etc.... They expect that when we come to them, the asset or share that we promote or suggest right out of the gate is the one they are going to add simple as that.

How do we fix it? If you read the above and agree that their is a problem then you should now be asking that very question. The answer is surprisingly simple. DON'T TALK ABOUT BITSHARES TALK ABOUT THE PRODUCT. Bitshares is for investors and investors will find us IF we have a good product that is being used. We do have a good product, it is not being used. Who wants to invest in shares of a company if they have no one using their product? A open email, reach out to a partner should be along the lines of

Hi such and such I am blah from blah and I would like the opportunity to sit down and talk with you about bitUSD and what it can do for you. You then meet with them on skype and talk their ear off about the assets not the company.......or let gentso sit and talk their ear off, your call.

Am I beating a dead horse yet?

I was recently talking with a exchange about adding BTS and some of its market pegged assets. Adding BTS was of course a no brainier for them but the market pegged assets are a slightly trickier sell.With many 2.0's their has been a clear shift, from creating coins of different flavors to the creation of assets. Every one has a asset and we all want to explain why our asset is better then other players.

The idea that the MPA are backed by 300%bts was easy to understand and accepted by the exchange. Delegates, price feeds and the creation of the MPA's through the matching of shorts and longs were also easily understood by the exchange. The question then became, What happens to MPA's if BTS loses alot of value very quickly? How does the internal exchange handle the MPA's and how would this effect a external exchange that allows trading of these pairs?

Or am I completely off the mark and should be pushing a exchange to use UIA to trade IOU's of our MPA's? Thought's?