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RE: Minimal required changes to revive a BitShares MPA after a black swan event?
I always said gridcoin wasn't a suitable MPA as most altcoins aren't. This is because they are volatile and can spike 100% wiping out the collateral backing them. Only stable assets like USD make sense as MPAs.
Yeah, fair enough but that doesn't dismiss the fact that handling of black swan events for smartcoins still needs to be discussed. A black swan event could occur for bitBTC, bitOil and potentially the fiat smartcoins (implying fiat currencies won't collapse at some point in the future) & using the Gridcoin MPA as a testbed for these scenarios could be productive for the BTS community/developers overall.
In terms of stable assets being suitable as MPAs, that's subjective. I'd rather not be 100% reliant on exchange backed assets (centralized) for storing/trading Gridcoin on the BTS DEX.
Perhaps a sidechain (or a 2-way-pegged asset) would make more sense than an MPA, but such functionality does not exist yet.
We should be careful not to choose bitassets that will have a high chance of black Swan event. Because any black Swan events will reduce people's trust in bitassets. Sidechains will be amazing if someone makes them work one day.
It's ultimately up to users to evaluate the risk of holding market pegged assets.
Had the Gridcoin MPA not been created, we wouldn't be talking about how to recover MPAs from a black swan event - something that will (most likely) happen in the future for existing smartcoins.
I agree that a side chain or 2-way peg for Gridcoin to be traded/stored in a decentralized manner on the BTS platform (without involving exchange backed assets nor BTS collateral) would be better than an MPA, but sidechains aren't in production yet.
I've enquired about getting Gridcoin added as one of the first sidechains, looking forwards to hearing back from the bunkerchainlabs guys.
While I do agree with jonnybitcoin that the best candidates for bitassets early on are fiat and other highly traded commodities, I also think that getting cryptocommunities onboard to work on bitassets and experimenting with them is the only way we find the best ways to help bitassets succeed in general. The more we learn (and document), the better we all are.
I don't think it looks badly on bitassets in general as long as people are informed that bitassets with low liquidity can be dangerous.
As for sidechains, its a great idea and one we should all work toward.