Regarding MAS and my Vision

[donkeypong]

I like the subject, "my" vision, instead of BitShares vision.

IMHO, DEX is almost done except two things. 1) Better API for third party developers/market makers. 2) Percentage based fee for greater network/referrer's profit

Can you wrap up these two things before diving into MAS vision?

I endorse this post and also would like to know your responses.

[Empirical1.2]

Not necessarily for your vision but for your goal of generating recurring and non-linear income, the question may be 'What is fairly quick/simple to code that will generate ongoing income for very little management, maintenance and promotion?'

Out of the options listed there Market Maker seems the most lucrative & least time consuming for you personally to get out the way because it can be outsourced.

Uphold/BitReserve, NuShares/Tether & numerous others are all building their businesses around BitAssets, unlike Bitcoin there is no large established market leader, yet...

All these businesses are doing nothing else besides trying to establish, often at times a single BitUSD.

BTS is in a great position here, it has already developed the best blockchain and a good BitUSD and has access to dilution to incentivise liquidity providers.

It also doesn't require large amounts of capital, only enough dilution to provide an incentivising yield for others to provide capital.  It seems liquidity operations on external exchanges can be outsourced to NuShares liquidity pools or others like Alt.

It seems like very little work and a worker contract paying a few thousand dollars a month could bootstrap BitUSD/Gold liquidity on external exchanges to see if increased liquidity increases BTS value and Smartcoin adoption.

I'm sure it can be done independently but once that most likely to complete BitAssets action & increase BTS value is out the way it requires very little more of your time.

Gambling might not be do-able for the reasons you mentioned but if a third party added a game of chance FBA to BTS that would be an immediate earner that would bring in income everyday for very little upkeep.

Starting a new business like MAS, as you've experienced with BTS, is a hard process that always takes longer and costs more than you think and has a high probability of not finding a market easily. It also requires expertise & or collaboration in other areas like management and promotion which are time consuming & perhaps not your strong suits.

Stealth also fits the profile as there's money on the table and perhaps opportunity to earn recurring income.

The BitUSD savings club may be relatively simple to code, but requires very little maintenance/management. So if 0.X% went to the creator and new club started every month and could be applied to multiple BitAssets then that would provide a constant income stream from day 1. https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,20648.msg266463.html#msg266463

[jakub]

Those investors who gave you millions of dollars are dilution for you? How much money you spend in 2014 and 2015? Where is the money from? Now you don't want to work for the "dilutions" and want to make more money.... YES we are the 95% dilution. Leave a half-cooked product and make more money, GO!

Those "millions of dollars" are already spent. You can argue if they were spent wisely and effectively (I believe they were) but those funds are already gone and it's a known fact for almost a year now.
If you want BM to fund further development of DEX with his own private money - well, you might keep wanting it but it's not going to happen.

[jakub]

I fully understand your position, BM.

I have just one favor to ask you (and I consider it a favor, not an obligation): please actively help us to open up BitShares for third-party development so that we can have a smooth transition from the current state (where CNX is the only player capable of protocol modifications) to the desired state (where there are multiple companies with those skills).

[wuyanren]

I think it's time to think about how to attract more new users, and a more convenient wallet.

[Stan]

Those investors who gave you millions of dollars are dilution for you? How much money you spend in 2014 and 2015? Where is the money from? Now you don't want to work for the "dilutions" and want to make more money.... YES we are the 95% dilution. Leave a half-cooked product and make more money, GO!

Again, we are talking about personal investments in ways to make money to continue to advance the cause.

2014 efforts were paid for by donations and delivered the best product possible with those funds.

2013 and 2015 were paid for by Cryptonomex stakeholders and delivered a far better self-sustaining real-time decentralized platform for 2014 donors.  That platform has everything it needs to continue to grow and evolve - except more products and services to attract users and generate market depth.

In 2016, Cryptonomex plans to drive more business to BitShares while meeting its need to earn a rate of return for its stakeholders who gave you BitShares 2.0.  That business will in turn generate the funds BitShares needs to continue to add polish and features.  Without those stakeholders, there would be no BTS 2.0 and we naturally need to be just as faithful to their investment as we are to BitShares.

It's how we plan to kill two birds with one stone - i.e. our remaining personal resources.

You are arguing simply for using our one stone on just one bird.  You seem to think it is ok to ignore the contributions and interests of 2013 and 2015 stakeholders.   We have to consider how to do our best for all of them.

[BitShares News]

IMHO, DEX is almost done except two things. 1) Better API for third party developers/market makers.

Can you wrap up these two things before diving into MAS vision?

"I’d like to let everyone know about some of the other things that we are doing. A new guy Michael has been working with us the past two weeks and he’s already implemented significant improvements to the API to be very similar to Poloniex’s API for getting the order book as well as placing and submitting orders. We hope to roll out those API changes probably after Christmas, he’s gone on Christmas break right now. Early January the new API’s should be available."

 - December 18th Hangout : http://bitsharesnews.info/post/135449076823/bitshares-dev-hangout-plasma-episode-124

[rajarush]

The so called community is just a group trap for BM, I like the vision. And honestly it is very important for us to know.

[rajarush]

Those investors who gave you millions of dollars are dilution for you? How much money you spend in 2014 and 2015? Where is the money from? Now you don't want to work for the "dilutions" and want to make more money.... YES we are the 95% dilution. Leave a half-cooked product and make more money, GO!

[JonnyB]

"1. Become a licensed money transmitter and host our own wallet.  Under this model I would be competing with OpenLedger and others."

I think you should run your own DEX that competes with openledger. You are in a prime position to do so and everyone would trust you and use it.
then you could sell shares in it once its built and well established in a year or so.

[clayop]

I like the subject, "my" vision, instead of BitShares vision.

IMHO, DEX is almost done except two things. 1) Better API for third party developers/market makers. 2) Percentage based fee for greater network/referrer's profit

Can you wrap up these two things before diving into MAS vision?

[bytemaster]

Obviously I haven't fully communicated everything there is to know about MAS and why I am excited about it. 

It all boils down to the fact that I need to create a business that I can enter and generate recurring and non-linear income.  Doing worker proposals for BitShares or even work-for-hire is not a business, it is a job.  Selling time for money is not a winning strategy. Even if BitShares stakeholders were able to fund 100% of my time, it wouldn't make sense for me to take that job unless it was part of a larger income generating strategy.  Most people want a job, I want to create a business that generates non-linear income opportunities where there is no upper limit on what I can earn per hour.

In some sense I have a large stake in BTS and anything that grows the value of BTS produces non-linear income for me.  But considering my personal stake in BTS is well under 5% it means my own efforts are diluted by 95%. This a long standing economic issue, a problem known as the group trap: http://www.ultimatefreedomquest.com/group-trap/

Within the realm of a DEX there are several business opportunities I could pursue:

1. Become a licensed money transmitter and host our own wallet.  Under this model I would be competing with OpenLedger and others.
2. Create, Market, and Promote Prediction Markets.  Under this model I would be operating something that could be perceived as gambling. This is a business area that is not safe to enter in the US. 
3. Attempt to become a market maker.  This is not my area of expertise and requires significant capital and liquid markets.
4. Build another business on top of the BitShares network.

I have looked at my own options and concluded that building another business on top of the BitShares network is the most profitable avenue for me.  It may (or may not) be the most profitable for BitShares in the short term.

I also know that I didn't create BitShares so I could work a job I wasn't passionate about.  I created BitShares because I saw that price-stable cryptocurrency was the foundation of something bigger.  The MAS idea is something I came up with long before BitShares and was originally introduced... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=201297.0   I didn't know it was called a MAS at the time, but I do now.

More information will be coming.   Those who want to see the DEX grow can see it grow by funding work to make it grow and starting businesses that would be profitable because of the DEX.