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Dilution is massively overrated by most people. Mostly irrational fear. Let's look at the numbers for a second here:

Current annualized inflation is about 1.451%. At a market cap of 16 million that amounts to ~ $232k worth of BTS each year. That's merely ~ $636 daily. (Assuming that every delegate immediately sells all BTS.)

Now let's take a look at cmc. Currently we have 24h volume of over $40k. And that is on the low side, we often have $100k+. At $40k daily volume about 1.59% of volume could be caused by delegates selling off BTS. At $100k volume just 0.636%.


I hope people stop blaming dilution and the merger for everything that isn't going according to plan.
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I see... 'feed them cake' logic....

Anyway at exactly 0 adoption... 800K new BTS coming to existence every day having exactly no new buyers  might be a very small percentage of some number but still remain 800K new BTS every morning ready to be dumped...

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I do not get to whom you think you are guys selling this crap, guys. New comers? Sure, all they need is to be fed cooked numbers....
« Last Edit: March 26, 2015, 05:49:42 pm by tonyk2 »

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These folks aren't:

http://bitsharesblocks.com/delegates

Piling on... on top of dilution being on the order of 1% of the total volume, a 3% delegate is making ~$20 a month (barely enough for a VPS) and 100% delegates (who are supposed to be full-time developers) are making $700-800 a month.

So yes, when you include the time invested, they are probably also selling at a loss

Has anyone looked into outsourcing some of the bull work to freelancers in Vietnam/Phil/SE Asia?

$700/month can rent some surprising talent in those areas - opendesk etc.

Not sure if this is worth pursuing but it's a thought.

You won't find serious development talent in Asia for 800 per month. They flock to Shanghai, HK, Tokyo. $800 per month is a joke salary for an experienced developer, even in Shenzhen. So BTS is probably best off hiring diehard BTS supporters (as it is).

I am sure Dan alone could pretty much name his price and move to work with just about any company interested in Blockchain tech for a very very handsome sum.  It literally blows my mind that people actually complain about paying the dev team when they are basically working for free when all is said and done. 

Can't give enough respect and they deserve as much as we can give imho...
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Any paid delegate who is selling put in work to get those shares, at a below market rate for their services.  So in a way they are also selling at a loss. 
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These folks aren't:

http://bitsharesblocks.com/delegates

Piling on... on top of dilution being on the order of 1% of the total volume, a 3% delegate is making ~$20 a month (barely enough for a VPS) and 100% delegates (who are supposed to be full-time developers) are making $700-800 a month.

So yes, when you include the time invested, they are probably also selling at a loss

Has anyone looked into outsourcing some of the bull work to freelancers in Vietnam/Phil/SE Asia?

$700/month can rent some surprising talent in those areas - opendesk etc.

Not sure if this is worth pursuing but it's a thought.

You won't find serious development talent in Asia for 800 per month. They flock to Shanghai, HK, Tokyo. $800 per month is a joke salary for an experienced developer, even in Shenzhen. So BTS is probably best off hiring diehard BTS supporters (as it is).

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$700/month can rent some surprising talent in those areas - opendesk etc.

Not sure if this is worth pursuing but it's a thought.

Yes, at $700/month ($17,5/hour) you can rent some surprising talent at opendesk for one week, and will wait 3 weeks for next rent?

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Very good responses in this thread. Dilution is not the problem. But I'm a bit disappointed to hear that it's not the problem.

1) If dilution were the problem, it could be easily fixed.

2) If oversupply is not the problem, that means that demand is the issue.

3) Lack of demand means a failure to attract investment and use of bitAssets.

4) Cryptocurrency in general is in a long-term bear market. However, Bitcoin, Ripple, Darkcoin, and others have moved up and away from their 6 month lows. In some cases they are double or nearly double their 6 month lows. Therefore BTS, is performing significantly worse than its peers, even with organized, self-funded marketing and development delegates.

In your opinions, is this just an amazing buying opportunity?
« Last Edit: March 26, 2015, 04:46:46 pm by Volker »

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These folks aren't:

http://bitsharesblocks.com/delegates

Piling on... on top of dilution being on the order of 1% of the total volume, a 3% delegate is making ~$20 a month (barely enough for a VPS) and 100% delegates (who are supposed to be full-time developers) are making $700-800 a month.

So yes, when you include the time invested, they are probably also selling at a loss

Has anyone looked into outsourcing some of the bull work to freelancers in Vietnam/Phil/SE Asia?

$700/month can rent some surprising talent in those areas - opendesk etc.

Not sure if this is worth pursuing but it's a thought.

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No one says if you have profit you must sell .
No one says if you lost money , you can't sell .

In the end ..... you can't predict who is selling and who is not .
Maybe a guy who earned 10X profit won't sell , and a guy who lost 90% of his investment still sells .
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These folks aren't:

http://bitsharesblocks.com/delegates

Piling on... on top of dilution being on the order of 1% of the total volume, a 3% delegate is making ~$20 a month (barely enough for a VPS) and 100% delegates (who are supposed to be full-time developers) are making $700-800 a month.

So yes, when you include the time invested, they are probably also selling at a loss
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Dilution is massively overrated by most people. Mostly irrational fear. Let's look at the numbers for a second here:

Current annualized inflation is about 1.451%. At a market cap of 16 million that amounts to ~ $232k worth of BTS each year. That's merely ~ $636 daily. (Assuming that every delegate immediately sells all BTS.)

Now let's take a look at cmc. Currently we have 24h volume of over $40k. And that is on the low side, we often have $100k+. At $40k daily volume about 1.59% of volume could be caused by delegates selling off BTS. At $100k volume just 0.636%.


I hope people stop blaming dilution and the merger for everything that isn't going according to plan.
+1

As far as dilution...it barely registers as dilution and most all of it is going to "pay" people who could make far more if they simply stepped away from the project and chose to another job over

As for the merger...I still think it was a mistake.  There really is no reason I can see why the separate chains could not have competed, built up their own separate dev teams using their delegate slots to build onto the broader ecosystem in a way that lifts all boats. 

Just having 5 DACs that are powered by BitShares in the top 20 on Coinmarketcap would have been huge advertising.  And there would have been nothing (to my knowledge) that would have kept BitSharesX from later on hiring devs to implement DNS and Vote features into its structure just like BitShares currently has done.  In fact, by the time BitSharesX had matured to that level, DNS and Vote would have already done most of the hard work, so implementing the code on other chains would have likely required far less in terms of time, energy and manpower.  Alternatively, the same could be said for Vote, DNS, and a number of other chains.  Just ask BitShares PLAY and PTS...I know for a fact that they saved a good bit of time incorporating the main BitShares chains' work. 

The merger was a case of making a decision without really getting the feedback from the community before doing so.  I had reservations, but held them back at the time because I didn't want to make things worse.  More and more though I find myself realizing that the community keeping relatively silent about these types of decisions has caused more harm than good.  I suspect that if the PR initiative goes the wrong direction, the merger decision will not be our last headache. 

However, even with those hiccups...BitShares and the ecosystem that is growing from it (of course, with a few growing pains) is still a beautiful thing.   

I'm not trying to argue that the merger was absolutely necessary. But I still think that the implications of it are widely overestimated. It has advantages and disadvantages but imo both ways have the potential to bring us to our goal.

This has all been extensively discussed. My point is just that its influence on the project is probably overrated, just like the dilution.

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Dilution is massively overrated by most people. Mostly irrational fear. Let's look at the numbers for a second here:

Current annualized inflation is about 1.451%. At a market cap of 16 million that amounts to ~ $232k worth of BTS each year. That's merely ~ $636 daily. (Assuming that every delegate immediately sells all BTS.)

Now let's take a look at cmc. Currently we have 24h volume of over $40k. And that is on the low side, we often have $100k+. At $40k daily volume about 1.59% of volume could be caused by delegates selling off BTS. At $100k volume just 0.636%.


I hope people stop blaming dilution and the merger for everything that isn't going according to plan.
+1

As far as dilution...it barely registers as dilution and most all of it is going to "pay" people who could make far more if they simply stepped away from the project and chose to another job over

As for the merger...I still think it was a mistake.  There really is no reason I can see why the separate chains could not have competed, built up their own separate dev teams using their delegate slots to build onto the broader ecosystem in a way that lifts all boats. 

Just having 5 DACs that are powered by BitShares in the top 20 on Coinmarketcap would have been huge advertising.  And there would have been nothing (to my knowledge) that would have kept BitSharesX from later on hiring devs to implement DNS and Vote features into its structure just like BitShares currently has done.  In fact, by the time BitSharesX had matured to that level, DNS and Vote would have already done most of the hard work, so implementing the code on other chains would have likely required far less in terms of time, energy and manpower.  Alternatively, the same could be said for Vote, DNS, and a number of other chains.  Just ask BitShares PLAY and PTS...I know for a fact that they saved a good bit of time incorporating the main BitShares chains' work. 

The merger was a case of making a decision without really getting the feedback from the community before doing so.  I had reservations, but held them back at the time because I didn't want to make things worse.  More and more though I find myself realizing that the community keeping relatively silent about these types of decisions has caused more harm than good.  I suspect that if the PR initiative goes the wrong direction, the merger decision will not be our last headache. 

However, even with those hiccups...BitShares and the ecosystem that is growing from it (of course, with a few growing pains) is still a beautiful thing.   
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Dilution is massively overrated by most people. Mostly irrational fear. Let's look at the numbers for a second here:

Current annualized inflation is about 1.451%. At a market cap of 16 million that amounts to ~ $232k worth of BTS each year. That's merely ~ $636 daily. (Assuming that every delegate immediately sells all BTS.)

Now let's take a look at cmc. Currently we have 24h volume of over $40k. And that is on the low side, we often have $100k+. At $40k daily volume about 1.59% of volume could be caused by delegates selling off BTS. At $100k volume just 0.636%.


I hope people stop blaming dilution and the merger for everything that isn't going according to plan.
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Dilution is massively overrated by most people. Mostly irrational fear. Let's look at the numbers for a second here:

Current annualized inflation is about 1.451%. At a market cap of 16 million that amounts to ~ $232k worth of BTS each year. That's merely ~ $636 daily. (Assuming that every delegate immediately sells all BTS.)

Now let's take a look at cmc. Currently we have 24h volume of over $40k. And that is on the low side, we often have $100k+. At $40k daily volume about 1.59% of volume could be caused by delegates selling off BTS. At $100k volume just 0.636%.


I hope people stop blaming dilution and the merger for everything that isn't going according to plan.

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Some people argue that this must be the bottom because "everyone is selling at a loss." My point is that not everyone is selling at a loss.