No Sommer Announcements for the week?

[Akado]

So we might have something from John Underwood, an update from DACx, still, I would be satisfied with 2 - 3 more announcements from other entities getting involved with BitShares but to be honest I don't know if that's asking too much

[CLains]

"Confidential / Stealth Transfer Support Implemented and Passing" was insanely good news:

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,17687.msg225387.html

We just went from "utter shi-" on privacy to "top notch" and that's one of the key selling features in this space.

[topcandle]

Another week gone without announcement.  We need to be better at filtering fraud talk and actionable talk.  Just had to point out. 

[Chuckone]

it was very encouraging to have both Bytemaster and Stan respond to this post.  As a community member, I felt incumbent to push us and those around us to achieve more than we at first thought we could.  Its a duty and a privilege.  That was my goal of this post. 

Though, I feel that I need to share my opinion.  We should always be skeptical in what we see, hear and do.  We always have to be weary of the possibility that CMX and the other teams raise big expectations, and when they can't fully deliver, they compromise, giving the community less than what they get as a payoff from jumping ship.  If you don't mentally or financially prepare for this, I tihnk your opening yourself to big vulnerabilities.  And big losses. 

CMX will be working for another company, another bank, another Fortune 500.  The fact that they are a consulting group is very concerning.  Consulting don't have as much skin in the game because they have various income streams.  The Dev team are free to disagree.  But these are the facts.  They are diversified from the risks, unlike the community.  When it comes down to bottom line budgets and numbers, they can only give their attention to the community, only what is worth their time. They will have to prove (and I certainly believe they will) that its overwise true.  That you can have a world-class software consulting group, profitability operating within a self-organizing system. 

These are just my thoughts and I mean no hard or fault.  I'm just seeing things for what they are right now.

I'm not talking in the name of anybody else than mine, but here's the way I see it from the info I was able to gather while reading through the forum.

From my understanding, the objective of creating the consulting entity "Cryptonomex" was for the dev team to continue to be able to work full time on Graphene based solutions (or any other project related to blockchains) without having Bitshares to pay for the whole team full time. So basically CNX will work on a projet by project basis on Bitshares' features after 2.0 release. These features will be voted by the community and CNX will be paid according to the contract they propose and the Bitshares shareholders approve.

If for any reason Bitshares shareholders vote for less dilution, then there will be a reduction of the contracts awarded to CNX by Bitshares. But those guys still need to work. That's why consulting for blockchain based solutions in general is good. Because instead of having to get another day job somewhere else, they can still work for CNX. Otherwise CNX would lose some devs by lack of work load.

And saying CNX don't have skin in the game is not that true. The payment for CNX work on Bitshares will be shares that will have to vest during an extended period of time, as explained in the initial worker proposal by BM. So basically CNX will only have a big payday if Bitshares is successful in the next few years.

And as for risk diversification... Any investor is responsible for their risk management. If you feel having a consulting company leading Bitshares' development instead of a dedicated development team is bad in the long term, then you should invest accordingly.

[cass]

CMX   ---> CNX

[topcandle]

it was very encouraging to have both Bytemaster and Stan respond to this post.  As a community member, I felt incumbent to push us and those around us to achieve more than we at first thought we could.  Its a duty and a privilege.  That was my goal of this post. 

Though, I feel that I need to share my opinion.  We should always be skeptical in what we see, hear and do.  We always have to be weary of the possibility that CMX and the other teams raise big expectations, and when they can't fully deliver, they compromise, giving the community less than what they get as a payoff from jumping ship.  If you don't mentally or financially prepare for this, I tihnk your opening yourself to big vulnerabilities.  And big losses. 

CMX will be working for another company, another bank, another Fortune 500.  The fact that they are a consulting group is very concerning.  Consulting don't have as much skin in the game because they have various income streams.  The Dev team are free to disagree.  But these are the facts.  They are diversified from the risks, unlike the community.  When it comes down to bottom line budgets and numbers, they can only give their attention to the community, only what is worth their time. They will have to prove (and I certainly believe they will) that its overwise true.  That you can have a world-class software consulting group, profitability operating within a self-organizing system. 

These are just my thoughts and I mean no hard or fault.  I'm just seeing things for what they are right now. 

[Stan]

I have the impression that this topic is worth being considered as a summer announcement:
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,17608.0.html
which is a continuation of an older thread:
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,16490.0.html

@Stan, are you in contact with these guys?
IMO they are doing an amazing job and it looks like they are going to deliver on their promises pretty soon.

I agree.. it might be a good idea to get them onboard with coordinating your announcements. They slipped in yesterday on the forum almost unnoticed!

Yep.  Never saw that one coming.

However, they are arguably the biggest announcement of last week and would certainly seem to qualify as a nice addition to the BitShares ecosystem.

So, at the risk of the usual suspects crying "foul!" at the mere technicality that we are announcing it ad hoc, ex niliho, ex post facto, carpe diem, e pluribus unum and caveat emptor, I hereby declare that this is officially Summer Announcement Number Six.

If someone provides us the text of a nice article, perhaps with a suitable picture, I'll pass it on to Murderistic for potential syndication, and even link to it on bitcointalk.

So has it been written, so let it be done!

[BunkerChainLabs-DataSecurityNode]

I have the impression that this topic is worth being considered as a summer announcement:
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,17608.0.html
which is a continuation of an older thread:
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,16490.0.html

@Stan, are you in contact with these guys?
IMO they are doing an amazing job and it looks like they are going to deliver on their promises pretty soon.

I agree.. it might be a good idea to get them onboard with coordinating your announcements. They slipped in yesterday on the forum almost unnoticed!

[Akado]

We already know the involvement of dacx but could could/Will we have an annoucement for them? Would be nice to get an update on that

I've passed the suggestion along... 

That's great, thanks Stan!

[Stan]

We already know the involvement of dacx but could could/Will we have an annoucement for them? Would be nice to get an update on that

I've passed the suggestion along... 

[jakub]

I have the impression that this topic is worth being considered as a summer announcement:
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,17608.0.html
which is a continuation of an older thread:
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,16490.0.html

@Stan, are you in contact with these guys?
IMO they are doing an amazing job and it looks like they are going to deliver on their promises pretty soon.

[speedy]

(b) a car accident leaving someone's father in critical condition

Im sorry to hear that - hope everything works out.

[MrJeans]

We already know the involvement of dacx but could could/Will we have an annoucement for them? Would be nice to get an update on that

[EstefanTT]

Even if I'm here for the long term, when the bts price brake a support and go down, my happiness take a hit.

It's great to know that you are not giving news as they come but you have a maser plan to difuse them.

It's gonna be a great summer ! I'm impatient to discover the next ones  !!!!

[Akado]

We already know the involvement of dacx but could could/Will we have an annoucement for them? Would be nice to get an update on that