Is anyone seeding the 0.9.3.c. chain data?  There is a torrent link in the documentation but there don't seem to be any peers seeding it.  Any other options for getting the full 0.9.3.c. chain?

Well, it is increasing.  Two weeks ago it was @ 10M, now it's around 15M.

This would be incredible!

I think the Steemit forum experiment failed and killed most of our forum activity. It is harder to discuss an idea or project in a Reddit forum style.

seems consistent.

That is a superficial perspective IMO. You must not have read much of Bytemaster's Blog, read the Satoshi Nakamoto paper or paid attention to how this entire field has come about.

What is superficial, is to assume things about strangers.

I will only add, that words and deed are quite different things.

have a positive effect on Bitshares .. as has Steem(it)

By what measure, pray tell?

Also I don't think you are saying the whole truth about transwire fees, in most curencies they are much higher than what you claim
https://transferwise.com/pricing#?from=USD&to=EUR

I didn't make a claim about "most currencies". I gave a specific example. Using the link you provided, a EUR to USD transfer of 1000 EUR is charged 0.5% and that's it.  No other cost. But I appreciate that you pointed out that it is not the same for all the different conversions.

How much btc and bts will the recipient get if you sent him 1 btc and 1.000 bts with transferwise?

This is funny, but I am talking about the remittance market.  Here is a quote from the Remittio webpage:

"Created for the unbanked and underbanked who need an affordable and reliable banking alternative"

How many migrant workers do you think are being paid in BTC?  How many are being paid in BTS? If a peruvian house-cleaner in Rome is being paid in BTC or BTS then this service is still just an average service on a cost-per-remittance basis.

As it is, potential remittance customers must be incentivized not just to use your service, but to enter crypto altogether, and that also has an exchange cost associated with it - making the whole process even more expensive. If you can offer remittances at prices of which crypto is capable - like 10 cents per transfer or something - then remittance customers will flood into crypto, because it is that much cheaper. Otherwise remittance customers will stay in fiat even if your remittance product is slightly more competitive, because there is also a time/hassle-cost associated with the conversion to crypto.

And a wall one brick high won't keep out a single wascally wabbit.
But add another brick or two in the wall and, who knows?

This doesn't make any sense to me. You're trying to keep people out of your service?

Ok.  I understood it was to be another exchange.