Topic: BitShares Loves Puppies - page 7. (Read 23201 times)

Now that is interesting...I've been whacked around by the stock market for some time, and was toying with the idea of getting into Bitshares so I could offer Assets tied to the Dow, S&P 500, and a few popular stocks.

Here is Fuzzy's list of cool BitShares Projects.



Admittedly, the BitShares Island and its landmark BitShares Office Tower complex pictured above are a bit further off, but you've gotta love the Marina del BitShares in the middle of the island where the BitShares catamaran fleet will drop anchor when not decentralized.

Wolf puppies look a lot like dog puppies, so this btswolf (Erstes deutsches BitShares InfoPortal) post still qualifies for our special "almost puppies" rate:

I'm glad you all like puppies because you're about to get crushed by the Doge.

APRIL 3, 2015    BY ADAM ERNEST
BitShares Worldwide Meetups: Blacksburg Edition

On April 2nd, BitShares community members hosted a meetup at NuSpark, a local entrepreneurship space in Blacksburg Virginia near the Virginia Tech campus. BitShares worldwide meetups have been growing in popularity recently. More and more people are being exposed to the BitShares blockchain and the possibilities that come with new forms of value and new businesses via BitShares. We typically get pizza and drinks and have great fellowship and discussion surrounding Bitshares.



During this specific meetup we gave updates on several Bitshares related projects. Some of the projects that were discussed were the new BitShares web wallet, Peertracks, and Moonstone. When we showed off the web wallet we demonstrated just how easy getting into BitShares can be. Along with this pitch we revealed several gateways to the Bitshares trading network. Some of the ones discussed were BlockTrades and ShapeShift. Peertracks was discussed as well, which is essentially Bitshares music. Peertracks allows for music artist and fans to connect on a whole new level. With this platform artist can be truly profitable and the fans become the biggest promoters. We then covered a new open-source light wallet called Moonstone. Moonstone aims to bring Bitshares to the masses by providing a better user experience. In just a few days, Moonstone will actually be launching a crowd-funding campaign.
 
Another highlight from the meetup was getting to hear from a Virginia Tech student who has been helping work with Bitshares. He explained what he has learned from the developers so far and what he likes about the BitShares ecosystem.
 
Additionally we welcomed the team from the Bitshares P2P Tour. Currently they are traveling around the United States meeting up and interviewing Bitshares community members. Their journey will be the subject of a film.  The story will be made into a documentary and will serve as a way to bring community members together. The stories and experiences of Bitshares early adopters and founders needs to be heard!
 
Be sure to join a BitShares meetup group so you can attend the next one! And if there isn’t one near you, ask us about starting your own.

Yes.  That's the point of the thread.  
Compiling all the evidence showing that the BitShares ecosystem is really real!

I almost chose that same picture myself (minus my smiling face).

Puppies won't save your Bubble.

Thanks for posting pics of the people that are your BTS "counterparty that doesn't exist"...
You guys have no idea how many US securities regulations have been breached.

The BitShares Peer to Peer Road Trip reaches the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center...

And here's what's going on with BitShares Vote team...

From your Mighty Master of Mixed Metaphors...



BitShares was "sharedropped" into existence by dacsunlimited.com who merely recommended a publicly defined distribution list specifying a targeted demographic of other coin users (BTC and PTS). Anyone could download DAC Sun's custom version of BitShares's public domain software and claim any free tokens to which they already held the keys.  The first person to run that free software launched a new blockchain and others then joined in to form a new peer to peer network among themselves based on their shared consensus that DAC Sun's software would regulate their interactions with each other.

The resulting asset, BitShares, trades as an ordinary crypto-currency on several ordinary crypto exchanges just like Bitcoin.  As a second-generation "smart coin" it supports an enhanced set of transaction types that affect how and when the internal bookkeeping tokens are transferred among users of the distributed software according to a fixed and transparent set of rules.  External third party applications analogous to specialized bitcoin wallets use those underlying transaction types to implement whatever metaphor the application designer thinks will be useful for helping ordinary folks take advantage of these new transaction types.

• Some of these third party applications use the Bitcoin wallet metaphor (aka "skin") because that is familiar to the Bitcoin community.
  
• Others use the skin metaphor of a decentralized exchange - because that is the easiest way to visualize and specify certain transaction types.
  
• Others are planned to look like checkbooks or on-line bank accounts because many consumers are familiar with thinking that way.
  
• To some, it will have an uncanny resemblance to a public voting booth.
  
• Some interfaces won't use a computer at all - you'll have an ordinary debit card that you load and spend like any other.
  

But under it all, BitShares is just an (extra)ordinary second-generation crypto-currency with many 3rd party "skins" to help different types of people use it more effectively.

Owners of BitShares tokens get to elect service providers who represent that they are legally able to perform certain unregulated functions in their jurisdictions.  These are very simple everyday functions, like notarizing (signing) digital documents, providing public data feeds, and writing open source software.  But there is no human corporate structure in any jurisdiction that owns or controls it.  

Thus, BitShares is merely a transparent public ledger that exhibits a different customized emergent behavior made manifest to each individual depending upon the set of software that individual uses to interact with it.

All right then, and thanks for the reply. I was asking from purely investor viewpoint about this legal risk. Perhaps it would be useful if you could post more about that legality issue or why it is not an issue at all.

The company metaphor is used for pedagogical purposes to help people locked into the original Bitcoin paradigm think bigger.  We interchangebly use ten different metaphors to expand people's understanding of the potential of transparent public ledgers.  

For example, see What is BitShares?


Dr. Charles Evans wrote a great (and funny) article on letstalkbitcoin about the virtues and limits of using metaphors to describe revolutionary new products.  Remember the "Horseless Carriage"?   Here's a link:  A bitRose by any other Name.

We often describe Bitcoin itself as an unprofitable unmanned company to point out the appalling waste of POW mining as its security and distribution mechanism.  Does that suddenly make Satoshi an issuer of a security?

Anyway, we have been thoroughly instructed by five different law firms about the kind of businesses in which we can engage.  Thus far shall we go and no further.  

Have the lawyers changed the US regulations without the involvement of the Congress and Senate and without making the change of regulations public? Because my understanding was that the law regarding to illegal security offering is still in effect, but gain I am not familiar with the US legislative situation regarding to this.

They've apparently spent a very, very large amount of money on lawyers to help protect them from this.