[ANN] Moonstone.io development and crowdfunder diary

[kenCode]

That is because bitAssets have a chicken and egg problem: They need high liquidity to attract liquidity.
However, IOUs/UIAs don't have that problem and it is obvious that there is a huge unmet market out there of people and companies who want to have a combined, automated, and secure order book like that (BitShares). This is why we position Moonstone not primarily as a bitAsset wallet but as a wallet where you can manage your IOUs/UIAs.
In the mid-to-long term Moonstone will hopefully start supporting the Bitshares market value by providing the on-blockchain ID verification for third party gateways. That way you can easily sign up to gateways around the world and trade all kinds of stocks/bonds legally. This is definitely part of our plan for 2015.

  I've got a wood.

[bitsapphire]

This reply on another thread might be of interest to you:

1.0 isnt going to be some magical fix.

Back last winter, we had been told that there were fiat onramps and corresponding marketing campaign coming, and that these were just waiting on a 1.0 release.  That has since been revealed to be not true at all, and was likely just a cover by Brian Page for why he didnt accomplish anything.   ("Oh yeah, I'm totally working on things!  As soon as you guys get 1.0 released its ready to launch").   

So don't expect 1.0 to do anything magical to the price.  Moonstone might do some good however.

Contrary to what some people believe now I think that 1.0 (though a true 1.0!) is important for market adoption. Potential gateways are hesitant to integrate with unproven software which handles some sort of value exchange. Bitcoin only got away with it because its user base grew faster than the code quality.

As for Moonstone, we think of Bitshares as the potential combined order book and price discovery mechanism for tons of assets which could be issued in the near future via gateways (primarily stocks and bonds, secondarily fiat IOUs). BitAssets, the one feature the core team is currently pushing, won't be in our opinion the main driving factor for some time to come. That is because bitAssets have a chicken and egg problem: They need high liquidity to attract liquidity.

However, IOUs/UIAs don't have that problem and it is obvious that there is a huge unmet market out there of people and companies who want to have a combined, automated, and secure order book like that. This is why we position Moonstone not primarily as a bitAsset wallet but as a wallet where you can manage your IOUs/UIAs.

In the mid-to-long term Moonstone will hopefully start supporting the Bitshares market value by providing the on-blockchain ID verification for third party gateways. That way you can easily sign up to gateways around the world and trade all kinds of stocks/bonds legally. This is definitely part of our plan for 2015.

[bitsapphire]

The Bitshares.tv interview is out! Lots of great details about Moonstone in here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sDU-ooXq-E

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Saturday 28.03.2015 Update

Dite, one of our team members is with the Music/Peertracks team at the Texas Bitcoin Conference.

You can now watch the initial UI/UX of the Moonstone wallet on YouTube! This is an earlier version which we deemed stable for presentation purposes. The market interface will be presented in a more lengthy video in 1-2 weeks as it requires some more polishing.

Very nice!

   Looks great!!!

 

awesome!

[cass]

Saturday 28.03.2015 Update

Dite, one of our team members is with the Music/Peertracks team at the Texas Bitcoin Conference.

You can now watch the initial UI/UX of the Moonstone wallet on YouTube! This is an earlier version which we deemed stable for presentation purposes. The market interface will be presented in a more lengthy video in 1-2 weeks as it requires some more polishing.

Very nice!

   Looks great!!!

 

[merivercap]

 

Saturday 28.03.2015 Update

Dite, one of our team members is with the Music/Peertracks team at the Texas Bitcoin Conference.

You can now watch the initial UI/UX of the Moonstone wallet on YouTube! This is an earlier version which we deemed stable for presentation purposes. The market interface will be presented in a more lengthy video in 1-2 weeks as it requires some more polishing.

Very nice!

   Looks great!!!

[mdj]

Saturday 28.03.2015 Update

Dite, one of our team members is with the Music/Peertracks team at the Texas Bitcoin Conference.

You can now watch the initial UI/UX of the Moonstone wallet on YouTube! This is an earlier version which we deemed stable for presentation purposes. The market interface will be presented in a more lengthy video in 1-2 weeks as it requires some more polishing.

Very nice!

[bitsapphire]

Mandarin version of our the crowdfunding website is up https://moonstone.io/mandarin.html

[wuyanren]

Moonstone development is continuing in great steps.We will be presenting the frontend for the first time at the Texas Bitcoin Conference March 28th. You'll be able to see the initial screenshots in our upcoming bitshares.tv video interview (thanks Max!).

and
Taulant, your comments on the mumble today were awesome too, great work guys!!!!!!!

Why don't you go fishing? Rare holiday

[kenCode]

Moonstone development is continuing in great steps.We will be presenting the frontend for the first time at the Texas Bitcoin Conference March 28th. You'll be able to see the initial screenshots in our upcoming bitshares.tv video interview (thanks Max!).

and
Taulant, your comments on the mumble today were awesome too, great work guys!!!!!!!

[wuyanren]

gu ji hui tiao piao cheng xu yuan de shi jian........

[bitsapphire]

Saturday 28.03.2015 Update

Dite, one of our team members is with the Music/Peertracks team at the Texas Bitcoin Conference.

You can now watch the initial UI/UX of the Moonstone wallet on YouTube! This is an earlier version which we deemed stable for presentation purposes. The market interface will be presented in a more lengthy video in 1-2 weeks as it requires some more polishing.

[Chronos]

Are there any UI prototypes/demos available of moonstone? Would be great to see some samples of the dev progress so far!

Opening post contains this:

Moonstone development is continuing in great steps.We will be presenting the frontend for the first time at the Texas Bitcoin Conference March 28th. You'll be able to see the initial screenshots in our upcoming bitshares.tv video interview (thanks Max!).

So, I guess we might see something today?

[mdj]

Are there any UI prototypes/demos available of moonstone? Would be great to see some samples of the dev progress so far!

[kenCode]

Moonstone.io is currently being translated to Mandarin Chinese. The video is already available with Mandarin subtitles.

Need assistance with German translation?

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