🔊BitShares Hangout #52 | 2017-12-30 | Sat @200PM UTC | OpenSource Agenda [Beyondbit Raffle Powered by SP!]
BitShares Speakers, Workers and Witnesses Earn Beyondbits for Updates/Q&A!
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📜 Hangout Decree
This RSVP post will go out weekly as a place for people to sign up as speakers for various topics of importance to bitshares as we prepare for an Open Source Hangout. The reason it is done this way is to enable anyone to show up to receive coverage on topics they feel matter to the community and crypto space in general. Most places in cryptomedia require you to Pay to have a voice. Bitshares Open Source Meetups are meant to give a voice to anyone who may need one!
- Only BitShares-Related Posts, Projects & Partnerships Qualify -
🕑 How Much Time Per Topic?
Hangouts will be at least 45 minutes long, but depending on attendance and projects/topics to be covered may last up to 60 minutes. Given this, we will try to stay with 5-6 core topics and will fit in others where possible.
🏅 What do we Earn for Active Participation?
Those who attend will be given an opportunity for 100 Beyondbits on the BitShares DEX (worth over $300). They will then be given directly to you via your Bitshares Wallet so make sure you have one!
Fuzzy will be giving Beyondbits to community founders who attend this weekly hangout to give their own unique perspectives and expert commentary. He will also be giving them to people who give topics and information we choose to use in our hangout!
So make sure you get a Get One!
Additionally every week one topic will be chosen for a Tokens4Tweets Post in which we reward those with Twitter Accounts for Sharing your content!
🎤How to Join as a Guest Speaker
Step 4: Reply to this Thread with the following Details:
- Topic
- Appropriate Links
- Steemit and/or Mumble account name of Representative/Speaker
- How should we Introduce you/your project/your news coverage?
- What is your bitshares account name?
⛒ Is Any Topic Off Limits?
Yes. We reserve the right to learn from the newest trickster trolling steemit consistently searching for way to insert chaos into the equation and devise future strategies for negating these. Naturally if these efforts become ham-fisted attempts at shutting down free speech in honest conversations, the audience will hold us accountable.
But with that said....pretty much anything can be covered--even up to and including current events. However, I personally will only be voting up stories that touch the blockchain in some way shape or form and will be asking the community to downvote absolute Rubbish! ;)
What are Beyondbits and Whaleshares?
Beyondbits and Whaleshares started as a conversations in the BeyondBitcoin hangout series shortly after Steem was launched historically in those very hangouts. It began as "community tokens" or "tag coins" for those who never knew to listen in who may wish to listen to the origins in our BeyondBitcoin Podcast Series. Drop in and listen to them sometime!
These tokens give their hodlers the power to Summon a Whalevote to posts without having to pay for attention. And they are only given to people who Win Contests and do other things of value to the community!
These little hidden gems are held safely just for you. Waiting for the moment when you prove yourself in the arena of contests and hangouts like the whaletank...so if you haven't yet, you should follow @officialfuzzy and watch out for his new contests, or join the Whaleshares Discord where there are a community of Beyondbit Experts!
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Bitshares HUG REST API
Hey,
During my break between semesters, I've created a HUG REST API for the Bitshares network. This serves as an alternative software stack to oxabitrage's BPAB for creating software/websites which require fast access to Bitshares network data.
It's fully open source & the readme contains instructions to establish your own BTS HUG server.
https://github.com/BTS-CM/Bitshares-HUG-REST-API/
https://steemit.com/bitshares/@cm-steem/initial-release-bitshares-hug-rest-api
Moon :)
I look forward to hearing what you have come up with man.
Some further updates: https://steemit.com/bitshares/@cm-steem/several-updates-for-the-bitshares-hug-rest-api
Very interesting, @officialfuzzy. I hope to have a Bitshares project coming soon. Previously, I helped build Euro Pacific Bank and thought that I was going to change the banking system by having a Gold/Silver backed bank and 100% reserve (no loans). Nope, can't change the banking system from the inside. I'm now obsessed w/ Bitshares and the idea of "banking in the cloud" or "banking as a service".
When are these hangouts? Maybe I overlooked it? I'd like to become a regular.
Glad to hear about this. You should really enjoy bitshares then with your background :)
it's insane. I can't believe how much has been implemented and how little attention it's getting. I fully expect it to be migrated over within EOS and be the financial layer there.
It saddens me personally...
but then makes me happy because apparently i know something most do not in crypto. That seems bullish (to me). lol
do you think it was b/c Dan pushed back against Satoshi back in 2010? Why did people start using ETH instead of BTS and why do so many early BTS supporters feel burnt by Dan? Something is very strange here.
I agree that it's bullish that we know something that most in crypto don't understand and with all these exchanges starting to enforce KYC...2018 is looking good for Bitshares and hopefully EOS. I guess we'll soon find out.
Crypto-Currencies as Medium of Payment
Suggested Duration: 2 to 5 minutes
BitShares Blockchain Foundation posted an article highlighting the benefits of a stable digital token as a medium of exchange.
A well-known obstacle to greater adoption of crypto-currencies like BTC as a medium of payment is the high volatility of its exchange value, due to its limited supply. As a consequence, the unit price varies (sometimes significantly) over short periods of time. This makes BTC unpractical for merchants that need to pay their suppliers in cash - especially in bearish markets where this currency risk can ruin a business.
The article then goes on to highlight three concepts that maintain a peg.
Great anthology of FAQs, Tutorials, and Developer Guides
Suggested Duration: 2 minutes
@tsugimoto has prepared a great anthology of FAQs, Tutorials, and Guides for the BitShares system. There are numerous helpful articles that have been prepared by various members of the community. This post provides a single place where many of those articles can more easily be found.
Topics cover general overview, accounts, assets, integration guides, blockchain interactions, witnesses, committees, and worker proposals.
AriseBank, a Decentralized Bank, Plans on Integrating with BitShares
Suggested Duration: 10 minutes
A decentralized cryptocurrency bank in called AriseBank in reported to be in the process of acquired an FDIC-Insured Bank. This bank plans to have several interesting characteristics:
Additional details can be found from an interview with Jared Rice, and also a description about some criticisms about the endeavor.
Graphene Developer Conference in Shanghai on January 20, 2018
Suggested Duration: 2 to 5 minutes
"... bitcrab, the founder of gdex.io, who is also the core leader of Bitshares Chinese community, is calling on a Graphene Developers' Conference on 20th January, in Shanghai. He will also sponsor this conference. The rest of us in Chinese Bitshares community will be volunteers.
Anyone who is interested in Graphene from all over the world will be welcomed ! And please leave your message if you know any project that are using Graphene technology."
Tether Won’t Redeem USD for US Customers. bitUSD To The Rescue!
Suggested Duration: 2 to 5 minutes
The Tether token is ostensibly a market pegged asset that bears a connection to the USD. However, the Tether company has just announced that holders of their token actors in the US will not be permitted to redeem their token at this time “to prevent terrorists and other bad actors from trafficking in Tethers." Tether also asserts that its “terms of service”, give the company the power to refuse service arbitrarily.
BitShares provides an alternative to the use of Tether in the form of bitUSD which is a market-pegged assets (MPA) that is backed by at least 1.75x collateral equivalent of USD.
"The BitShares Decentralized Exchange DEX, puts the security of funds in the hands of the user not a third party. Not only can you use MPAs to avoid the risk of volatility, but you can also avoid the risk of leaving your funds on a centralized exchange that is vulnerable to attackers."
Eastern Caribbean Dollar (bitXCD) on BitShares
Suggested Duration: 2 to 5 minutes
The Eastern Caribbean Dollar (bitXCD) is market-pegged asset (MPA) that was approved by the BitShares Committee last week. This asset is pegged not to the BTS token but rather to the USD (bitUSD) at a rate of 1 bitXCD = 0.37037 USD for the next 365 days. (Will it be updated in one year?)
"This is a unique SmartCoin, because it is not backed by BTS but by bitUSD, as a 2nd level SmartCoin."
Collected Fees Report for November 2017
Suggested Duration: 5 minutes
During the month, 1.41 million BTS were collected for 12.11 million operations (within 5.13 million transactions) on the blockchain. 51% of the operations were due to market order creations, and 43% were due to market order cancellations. However, those operations only generated 5% of the collected fees.
The leading distribution of operational fees paid/collected with BTS were as follows:
CEX with BitShares
Suggested Duration: 2 to 5 minutes
Even more CEXes are adding BitShares assets during the past two weeks.
KKcoin adding bitCNY pairs
BigOne added bitCNY pairs
ZB has added bitCNY pairs
WARNING There is always a risk with holding assets on a CEX. Recently, Youbit declared bankruptcy after a hack. Use with caution.