https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,22317.msg290945.html#msg290945
I think the future is pretty clear for BTS:
1. work out the kinks with Steem
2. merge best parts of steem + BTS into a next generation DEX
3. sharedrop + dev allocation
It is just a much longer roadmap.
what do you guys think, bts buy out steem?
The last buyout of DNS + VOTE lead to none of their features being introduced to BTS. I don't think merging Steem into BTS to create a next gen rebranded BTS is a good idea, it's a digg clone that pays users for content.. I don't see how it has a place within a decentralized exchange platform?
If I can be 100% serious, the STEEM announcement was posted on April 1st and I legit took it for an april fools joke... whoops.
"[ANN] [STEEM] Introducing Steem, Looking for Witnesses / Miners «
on: April 01, 2016, 05:04:47 PM »"
"We have secured ~80% of the initial STEEM via mining. Our plan is to keep 20%, sell 20% to raise money, and give away 40% to attract users / referrers." So STEEM is premined and is being distributed by a central issuing authority? Where was the snapshot/sharedrop? Is Bitshare's past sharedrop theory/spirit dead? I think this is the bit that made me think it was an april fools joke, the terrible initial distribution model they chose lol.
RE: "3. sharedrop + dev allocation"
These proposed dev allocated funds, are these outwith the allocated shares for BTS/STEEM? Ie 90% BTS 7.5% STEEM and 2.5% dev funds? Isn't there already a sizable quantity of dev fund reserves in BTS? Considering STEEM has allocated themselves 20% are more dev funds neccessary?
Steem isn't present in the roadmap laid out for BTS, so how its future inclusion in BTS clear?
https://bitshares.org/roadmap.html