bank have many real business to pay the divident.
where is the business based bitshares?
I believe we'll get divident too after we have some real business.
pay divident is the result, not the reason.
But Bitshares is a business. It creates value for its clients by providing:
-decentralized market place
-mechanism to create and maintain collateralized crypto fiat and crypto precious metal asset
-mechanism to create and maintain user issued asset - business or scam collateralized asset
-it provides various tools for a business to leverage blockchain technology
-etc...
-etc...
-hopefully - provides dividend for their share holders
Lets take just one of these, decentralized market place. What is the value of Poloniex? Does it provide value?
If not, why people go there anyway and pay for their services. If does, how about additional value in organizing decentralized market place?
Should I elaborate on value of decentralized market place on top of blockchain?
What is the value of Coca Cola? Its a brown, carbonated, oversugary drink with serious health implications. It is more of a scam then many things in crypro. Just to remind you, at the moment of its introduction, it was snake oil type of a product, promising various health benefits.
Now back to Bitshares. Take all above value quote , put it on speed bullet platform and put negligibly small price tag on it (which it did in form of transaction fee). Now this is a VALUE. Who else has did it? This is "Coca Cola moment" we all hope for.
Bitshares is a DAC or DAO with huge value unlike the others that use that acronym. I would also call it decentralized autonomous business DAB with healthy revenue stream in form of transaction fees.