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StanLarimer

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Looks like the MineBitShares pool is having some success!

Quote from: sirky on June 10, 2011, 12:25:29 PM

MineBitShares is now listed at http://poolpicker.eu

PoolPicker is the most popular multi-pool profitability comparison site with ~2500-5000 visitors a day!

It's official! We're tied with being most profitable pool on the most days for Scrypt in the last month - see http://poolpicker.eu/table

If your a BitShares enthusiast and have been using minebitshares - do submit a review at http://poolpicker.eu/writereview to help spread the word.
Remember we've been paying out miners regularly for 6 months+.

And we're not far from having the minebitshares-reloaded delegate in the top 101 - http://bitsharesblocks.com/delegate/info?name=minebitshares-reloaded we're currently 146. We need your support to get int the top 100 for the pool to be able to carry on and continue getting the BitShares/BitAsset message out.

The benefits of BitShares self-funding delegate system keep rolling on...

Just wait till they finish hooking up with cryptosmith.info so you can mine directly to real physical gold and silver!
(Cryptosmith is up with a soft launch this week and a full launch next week if all checks out. Use your bitAssets to lock in purchase of gold and silver metal instantly!)

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This is pretty cool. Cryptosmith (another third party BitShares business) just went live with a soft launch.
They tell me they will do a full launch next week if all goes well.

Stan

The Long Awaited Moment Has Arrived!
You can buy real gold and silver with bitGold and bitSilver - right now at cyptosmith.info.

EDIT 7/30/15:

WARNING
THE OWNER OF THIS BUSINESS HAS DISAPPEARED AND WE ARE UNABLE TO CONTACT HIM.
I DO NOT RECOMMEND YOU USE THIS SERVICE AT THIS TIME.

DecentralizeEconomics

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StanLarimer

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Bottom line on the BitUSD peg...
What are other companies willing to accept right this minute?

What a beautiful peg!

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Drops link:
http://cointelegraph.com/news/113769/cyber-fund-report-daos-will-reach-mass-adoption-disrupt-politics-and-religion-by-2025
and runs away.....

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Quote from: Nxtblg on March 24, 2015, 12:06:58 PM

Quote from: Come-from-Beyond on March 23, 2015, 08:12:40 PM

Oh, btw, is there a working DAC somewhere in Bitshares?

PS: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/decentralized-and-autonomous-996522

Now that you've brought up the subject: what would be a DAC in law? The law already sez that a corporation is an artificial person - but that designation takes into account the fact that a single corporation is a centralized entity. What would be the "artificial person" in the case of a DAC? It's an interesting question, and one that the legal theoreticians will have to get around to...

They probably will, but my position is simply that a DAC is not a legal entity created by the state.

BitShares, INC
BitShares, LLC
BitShares, LTD

...would be legislated artificial persons created by a government to grant certain status, protections and exemptions to its owners.

BitShares, DAC

...is an engineered artificial person that seeks no such status, protection or exemptions and intended to be a sovereign entity operating in international waters.

Your actual mileage may vary.

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Quote from: Come-from-Beyond on March 23, 2015, 08:12:40 PM

Oh, btw, is there a working DAC somewhere in Bitshares?

PS: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/decentralized-and-autonomous-996522

Now that you've brought up the subject: what would be a DAC in law? The law already sez that a corporation is an artificial person - but that designation takes into account the fact that a single corporation is a centralized entity. What would be the "artificial person" in the case of a DAC? It's an interesting question, and one that the legal theoreticians will have to get around to...

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Pretty soon we're going to see Stan on here trying to sell reverse mortgages.

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Speaking of autonomous navigation, the BitScape.io Team is off on a Road Trip touring as many BitShares activity sites as they can cram into a 3000 mile tour of the American Northeast.

BitShares Peer-to-Peer Road Trip Daily Reports

If you are interested in sizing up the for-realness of BitShares, you might want to follow their reports over the next three weeks.

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Wonderful Question!

From Bitcoin and the Three Laws of Robotics where DACs were first introduced:

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Relentlessly honorable autonomous corporations would have many advantages in the free market. Like Bitcoin, DACs armed with a set of inviolable Core Laws are far safer to deal with than corruptible human organizations. Moreover, such entities have emergent characteristics with far more interesting applications than just keeping the books for a crypto currency. Blockchain ethics allow a suitably motivated engineer to “incorporate” some or all of the following SEG-verifiable characteristics.

They are corporations – They are, and of a right ought to be, free and independent persons.
They are autonomous – once up to speed; they no longer need (or heed) their creators.
They are distributed – there are no central points of control or failure that can be attacked.
They are transparent – their books and business rules are auditable by all.
They are confidential – customer information is securely (and incorruptibly) protected.
They are trustworthy – because no interaction with them depends on trust.
They are fiduciaries – acting solely in their customers’ and shareholders’ interests.
They are self-regulating – they obey their own rules like, well, robots.
They are incorruptible – no one can exercise seductive or coercive influence over them.
They are sovereign – over their digital resources. They don’t need governments to exist.

Of course, this is the ultimate vision behind the name but there are many viable systems worth owning that will only aim to achieve some partial mix of these characteristics.

Having spent 36+ years working on autonomous vehicles for land, sea, air, and space I can say with confidence that "autonomous" is a spectrum of automation that takes over where "teleoperation" leaves off and (hopefully) never quite reaches "unresponsive to the intent of its human designers."

Mars Rovers must navigate autonomously for considerable distances without commands from Earth - but they do pause for instructions every once in a while to give humans a chance to ask "are we there yet?".

BitShares is well on its way to its designed levels of autonomy, which is "responsive only to its shareholders". Even now, BitShares no longer strictly needs or heeds its creators and we expect that to become increasingly true over time.

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Quote from: StanLarimer on March 23, 2015, 07:39:15 PM

Oh, btw, is there a working DAC somewhere in Bitshares?

PS: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/decentralized-and-autonomous-996522

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NullStreet's new BitShares TriFold Brochure...

Download here...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1hxqfske51hxu8c/Bitshare%20TriFold%20Print%20Handout.zip?dl=0

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A Canadian company joins the BitShares ecosystem - ISG3D does 3D printing!

http://isg3d.com/products/3d-printed-bts-bitshares-bar

Here's a whole thread with pictures about how they do it and all the cool stuff they can do:

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=15051.msg194938#msg194938

Given that they can do Vladimir Putin, I'm sure they can do cats.
Puppies, being much higher order beings, may take them a little longer...

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Quote from: StanLarimer on March 22, 2015, 12:37:48 PM

We are having a community challenge to come up with the best "elevator speech" to explain "Why BitShares?" to someone in the time it takes to go on an elevator ride with them.

I kinda liked this one:

Quote from: The Koolio on June 10, 2011, 05:05:05 AM

Re: Strengthening other people's understanding of why BitShares exists

We at BitShares (ok, me in particular) believe that Wall Street is broken. Banks are no longer paying us appropriately and what's worse we are now being forced to pay them. This has got to change through technology as the "Market Makers" have proven that the system is currently rewarding corruption. A DE-centralized Exchange such as BitShares(.org) is proving that decentralization removes the ability to cheat and rewards the savers and investors instead of penalizing them.

Yeah...it's a little more down-to-earth than "Bitshares helps created a decentralized peer-to-peer financial network for the future!"

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We are having a community challenge to come up with the best "elevator speech" to explain "Why BitShares?" to someone in the time it takes to go on an elevator ride with them.

I kinda liked this one:

Quote from: The Koolio on June 10, 2011, 05:05:05 AM

Re: Strengthening other people's understanding of why BitShares exists

We at BitShares (ok, me in particular) believe that Wall Street is broken. Banks are no longer paying us appropriately and what's worse we are now being forced to pay them. This has got to change through technology as the "Market Makers" have proven that the system is currently rewarding corruption. A DE-centralized Exchange such as BitShares(.org) is proving that decentralization removes the ability to cheat and rewards the savers and investors instead of penalizing them.

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