Where is the wheel of the bike ..........
Is it lack of incentive to promote the bike , or it's really hard and deep labor cost to promote a bike without a wheel ( hence higher customer support cost) ......
Let's not forget someone had huge marketing bonus incentive before .......
BitShares does not have a solid product that needs advertising. There is a
long list of reasons why people prefer to use VISA, Paypal, Bitfinex, Huobi, Paypal, ApplePay, Square, gold ETFs, etc. more than BitShares. It's not just a chicken and egg problem. Those services have better user interfaces. better leverage/borrowing and lending, advanced order types, working mobile wallets and point-of-sale technology, easier access, etc.
Bitassets provide a yield, sure, and less counterparty risk, but that's not enough. I'm not trying to be negative, but the product isn't finished. It's alpha-stage software that crashes often on two of my machines.
Marketing an unfinished product might actually hurt BitShares. The last thing we need is 1337usd and sexUSD and dozens of crap, failing currencies cluttering the client.