WhaleShare

WhaleShares are a new BitShares token created to lead the charge of BTS-based assets to be used for both pooling and representing community voting power on the Steem platform (and potentially elsewhere).
WhaleShares are meant to give Steem-based communities the ability to rally their votes behind trusted individuals in their community in moments when most needed. Need a whale? Consider WhaleShares a tool to empower you to summon the votes of those who trust you!
(Note: This is the Beta Phase and we must see over time how users choose to use the service before guaranteeing the number of tokens to be distributed. This is due to the fact that WhaleShares will likely also become an investment token in addition to a UIA Redeemable for Upvotes. We do not recommend purchasing WhaleShare tokens as they can be earned by doing competitions and other projects!)

What is Whaleshares?

Whaleshares is a project created the long time host of the Beyond Bitcoin hangouts, @officialfuzzy. The idea is that you are provided with a token that when used, gets you an upvote from a whale on a Steemit or Golos post of your choice.

Q: What do I need? How exactly does it work?
With Whaleshares being on the Bitshares exchange you will need to have an account on openledger.io or download the Bitshares Wallet Here. Once you have a Whaleshare in your wallet, all you'll need to do it fill out the form on:
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Greetings Steemians! Today I want to tell you about a wonderful new tool brought to us by @officialfuzzy called whaleshares. Whaleshares is a wonderful tool that helps minnows (people with low steempower) get votes from whales (people with high steempower) in the Steemit and Golos communities. This allows people to quickly build their steempower as well as increasing their payouts while simultaneously giving whales incentive to hold their steempower instead of powering down and selling their steem. This should also help the price of steem go up as there will be less flooding the market from whales powering down their accounts.
You'll simply select if you want an upvote or downvote, provide a link for which post, open your Bitshares wallet, and send the Whaleshares to the memo you're provided with.

Then BOOM!! Whale vote for you!!

I agree with you transisto, I personally think it strives against the "give & take" idea the whole system was invented for. In my opinion to put a price tag onto the aspect "give" will hurt this project. Imagine a real life scenario in which meal vouchers are handed out as support to poor. Sounds like a fair setup and a caring community.

Now comes a group in that sees bigger earning potentials here, they use their reputation in order to get big chunks of the vouchers but instead of giving them away for free they put a price tag on them.

The sellers will benefit in this scenario but the broad mass, which needs the support the most, will suffer.

In longterm the project will suffer. Dropouts, tough environment for newbies and a massive amount of poor content (as token buyers will not need to worry as much about the quality).

This project in my opinion pressurizes the caring aspect, which is needed for further growth. Users should feel welcome here and not pressurized to buy externally tokens in order to have success here.

I had been thinking about this for a while and just saw the portland thread. I'm open to anyone coming from anywhere as well. I also have accommodations for a few people if they need somewhere to sleep. Just like the Portland thread, looking for big bottles that you wouldn't get to try just like the 2 listed below. Looking for 6-10 people total. We have a tentative 3rd but will confirm when/if they decide to join for sure. Would like to round this out with a couple stouts and a couple sours. Message me if interested, I think we are shooting for next Oct-Jan, don't want to do it when its too hot out, so we still have some time as well.

WhaleShares is a token and these tokens have value and usage. Their ability is to be converted to a vote from a whale on post you can choose by yourself. 1 token is 1% of a whale vote. It could help minnows massively. No more of being depressed after you spent days on your amazing post, you put it on promotion tab and it still has been seen just by two people. Later, it will be possible to also be able to resteem your posts with WhaleShares - this could be great way how to promote your content!

Go to http://whaleshares.net You dont have to use this site, but as it is said, this is a good site to avoid any mistakes! It is very important to have it correct. Do you want to upvote or downvote someone? Choose one.

How can I get some?

Even though #Whaleshares aren't for sale on Open Ledger just yet, you CAN still WIN them through different ways right now. Some of these include:

Simply hanging out on the #Whaleshares discord channel:
Joining the Beyond Bitcoin hangouts on Friday mornings
Taking part in a #Whaleshares logo contest
Receive a FREE drop of Whaleshares into your Bitshares wallet...just for having one
Take part in the Whaleshares MEME contest
Join the Whaleshares Writing Contest
with MANY more opportunities to be announced!