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it has become imperative that we create bitMarmot as soon as possible, and peg it to the actual real world value of a live marmot.

lol...so glad to have posted this. 
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The blog post was not very informed of course.
But I think it is provoked by too steep claims (With an effective yield on BitUSD of 20% per year you must compare it against other USD investments, such as lending it to the bank at 3% per year).
People find things suspicious that are too good to be true. And that is a healthy reaction in almost all cases. 
We can learn something from it too.
« Last Edit: August 19, 2014, 09:22:31 am by delulo »

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It will be easier to just peg the author to bitMoron... At least we know that this peg will hold  :)

hahahahahaha!!! :)

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We just need to get him to send some links to bitshares.org ?  (naw, haven't read it..)
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it has become imperative that we create bitMarmot as soon as possible, and peg it to the actual real world value of a live marmot.

It will be easier to just peg the author to bitMoron... At least we know that this peg will hold  :)

Lol, you just made my morning tea come out my nose....

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it has become imperative that we create bitMarmot as soon as possible, and peg it to the actual real world value of a live marmot.

It will be easier to just peg the author to bitMoron... At least we know that this peg will hold  :)
Lack of arbitrage is the problem, isn't it. And this 'should' solves it.

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it has become imperative that we create bitMarmot as soon as possible, and peg it to the actual real world value of a live marmot.

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Good morning,

enjoyed reading with my mornin coffee :)!
Thx for entertaining me.

thx for sharing
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I thought the article was quite entertaining... it has been a while since I read such a scathing review that said more about the author than about BTS. 

It was like someone trying to argue that Bitcoin is "impossible" simply because there is nothing behind it.    To understand BitShares and BitAssets all you need to know are some very fundamental facts:


I am proud and happy when BM thinks like me (OK, I think like him). That is because, as with the times that we disagree, least one of us is correct.  :)

I do not know why but this reminds me of TV segment on my local TV, about a café accepting bitcoins.
I will never forget one of the viewer's texts, expressing his/her opinion:

"Bitcoin is great, but what if it gets hacked? You then have nothing, because there is nothing behind it"
« Last Edit: August 19, 2014, 06:04:37 am by tonyk »
Lack of arbitrage is the problem, isn't it. And this 'should' solves it.

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I thought the article was quite entertaining... it has been a while since I read such a scathing review that said more about the author than about BTS. 

It was like someone trying to argue that Bitcoin is "impossible" simply because there is nothing behind it.    To understand BitShares and BitAssets all you need to know are some very fundamental facts:

1) A digital asset has a non-0 value.   (Proven by 300+ alts with non-0 values)
2) A collateralized loan is a safe loan if the collateral is relatively liquid and stable
3) Prediction Markets Work.

Someone attempting to argue against those facts has a very large uphill battle to fight. 

The straw man arguments and inaccuracies reveal that he doesn't have enough information to make a rational evaluation of the system and thus even if there were something wrong you cannot trust him to know what it was.

Exactly. It's as if he showed up for court without having prepared for his case. The more you read, the less he clearly knows about BitShares. Facts? Research? Meat? Ammunition? Who needs those distractions when you have a point to make. Too busy spreading vapor (or is that vapour?).

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I thought the article was quite entertaining... it has been a while since I read such a scathing review that said more about the author than about BTS. 

It was like someone trying to argue that Bitcoin is "impossible" simply because there is nothing behind it.    To understand BitShares and BitAssets all you need to know are some very fundamental facts:

1) A digital asset has a non-0 value.   (Proven by 300+ alts with non-0 values)
2) A collateralized loan is a safe loan if the collateral is relatively liquid and stable
3) Prediction Markets Work.

Someone attempting to argue against those facts has a very large uphill battle to fight. 

The straw man arguments and inaccuracies reveal that he doesn't have enough information to make a rational evaluation of the system and thus even if there were something wrong you cannot trust him to know what it was.
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The more people who read the article, the more will join here because they would not want to hang out with the writer. Colors, pictures, writing style, as bad as the structure, red links.. It's an angry mans article.

I agree with your critique. It's torturous and ponderous to read; talk about beating a dead horse of an argument. It would be fair if he'd stop to consider, just for a moment, that there might be something behind BitShares, a great demand that it is filling. He's a Bitcoin believer, so not a total moron, yet he fails to see that there's far more tangible substance to BitShares than there is to Bitcoin...the blockchain offers far more potential than a mere coin. Here are some interesting facts about the author of that piece, Mr. Byrne. First, he's a member of Ethereum's groupie group in London. So we know where his loyalties lie and why he's trying to bash BitShares. Obviously, he's not as open-minded as Vitalik or Hosk, et al. Second, he holds himself out as an expert in crypto regulation and a swanky securities lawyer-dude. In fact, Mr. Byrne was admitted as a solicitor less than three years ago.

His big advocacy issue appears to be the "crypto-ledger" which he says governments and banks should adopt. Such centralization would "enable a court to trace and fully reverse virtually every instance of fraud." Great, so that's why we need the blockchain? Evidently, you're not the first person to point out his issues with reading comprehension and with writing.

http://trilema.com/2014/in-which-we-teach-basic-reading-comprehension-to-a-certain-mr-preston-byrne/
http://www.samizdata.net/2013/10/preston-byrne-on-what-is-and-is-not-the-solution-to-the-housing-crisis/
http://www.cityam.com/blog/1395145295/why-independent-venice-should-adopt-dogecoin
http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/economics/help-to-what-moving-forward-from-conference-season/
« Last Edit: August 19, 2014, 04:59:16 am by donkeypong »

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The more people who read the article, the more will join here because they would not want to hang out with the writer. Colors, pictures, writing style, as bad as the structure, red links.. It's an angry mans article.