However, has your system not already been proven to be insecure and not really decentralized because one guy ended up controlling a lot of nodes? Ands he'snjust the one that got caught
No double spend has occurred on a top 10 crypto ever (BTS and NXT included). Was Bitcoin hacked when Kerfuffle made off like Madoff? No, and neither was BitShares. NXT guys throw around the term "hacked" in the same haphazard fashion as Stan throws around the term "decentralized" when describing BitShares. The truth is that just like when NXT first launched in the first few weeks, the node structure was delicate, but it has strengthened over time, and the next stage in the game requires delegated miners to make their identity known if they even want to be considered to run a node. The next guy who gets to run several nodes will be well known. Eventually, the identity of everyone responsible for a node in the 101 will be known to the public because we will vote for
Dan Larimer for delegate
Toast for Delegate
Vikram for delegate
Argentina Matt for delegate
Max Youtube for delegate
Vitalik for delegate (I would vote to offer him several nodes if he would agree to accept the position with honor):
http://bitshares.tv/vitalik-buterin-bitshares-dpos/He seems to be on the fence, care to attempt to sway him?
I'd vote to offer Jamie Dimon 51 nodes just for the publicity (then vote him out just as soon as the price of BitShares approaches the moon)
Or how about:
Ashton Kutcher for delegate (he already pumps BTC)(he can get paid for wearing a BTS hat)
http://newsbtc.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Ashton-Kutcher-Bitcoin-Mod-Disrupt-890x395.jpgor how about Kanye West for delegate:
http://blurblogs2014.s3.amazonaws.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/04164757/Kanye-624x389.jpgSnoop-delegate:
http://i.imgur.com/56bpy8M.jpgon and on. it is now much harder to become a delegate miner than it was just a few months ago, and good luck convincing the paranoid public and becoming a delegate next year unless your name is:
Andreas delegate
Gavin delegate
The competition is heating up for a coveted BitShares mining job. Get in early and establish your reputation before you are competing with:
Oprah delegate
Obama delegate
good luck..may the best miners win!
why a put a cap (the total number 101 delegated miners) on at all?
because:
But the truth is that BitShares has a lot of haters. BitShares dudes don't dwell on the condition that the NXT network was in moments after it launched (it was more centralized than it is today agreed?). Why do the NXT people only seem to want to talk about only the earliest developed phases of the BitShares blockchain? It is now 2015, and there was no double spend on either coin ever. Do you think it is getting easier or harder to control the BitShares network now that we need to see proof of ID if you want to be a BitShares miner?
Marketing it as decentralized is misleading, trying to make comparisons with satoshi based models of complete decentralization is misleading if you do not clarify that you threw out one of the most important factors. The numbers posted on how much it costs to run a node are misleading, its much cheaper.
For now maybe, but when you are competing against Snoop D O double G, then your cost for running a node will increase. Yeah it only costs $30 per year for running a node, but in the future, when competition for exclusive high paying delegate slots heats up, and when you have to give out your name and address to the community in order to even be considered for a BitShares forger, then tell me that it is not getting a little more expensive now Mr Nakamoto. If running a delegate only consumes 10 hours of your time annually, and you are competing with Bill Gates, then how much of his opportunity cost are you paying to overcome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpyBfz7zzXc(here's the math concept of economic relativity explained)
1) is it a company or is it a currency? It cannot be feasibly both since the rules of either can have conflicts.
2) Find a new word to describe the system, tiered-decentralization wont work because all who know the word will know you are misleading them
1) it is a unit of exchange within Satoshi's low friction invention
2) forget “decentralized” we can call it “competitive” (you know like nature, free markets, and survival of the fittest)
So yeah, the dark anonymous meme of crypto is not what BitShares is going for here. We are going for a big small town vibe where everyone knows everyone else (and exactly how far we can trust them) based on their public actions. The more transparent you are, the better chance you have of becoming a rich Bitcoin2.0 miner.
Are any of you beginning to see why BitShares was born in the top 5 on coinmarketcap? When the "rules changed" the price should have risen not fallen because the market could not understand that BitShares was making moves to become more competitive in the relentless doge eat doge world that we all are subject to. Call us doge eat dogecoin or darwincoin, or something to impact upon the principle of how we threw our founders out on the cold street and made them work for living (mine at a minimum wage like the rest of us poor people). Don't you wish you could make your politicans work for the same minimum wage as you make. Well at BitShares we, the poor people, took the power back!
What "power" is that you say? The power to dictate who gets all the mining money. How much in BTC was mined into existence last year? Well, money is power, and we are in control now. This is no longer 2014. Bitcoin 2.0 is here now with a multimillion market cap and no successful double spend has ever happened. Now under the spotlight of Hollywood:
Let the games begin!