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After weeks and weeks of hard work and sleepless nights we've finally made the switch to GLBSE2.0

Hopefully there won't be any issues, we've tested the crap out of it.

If you have trouble recovering your GLBSE1.0 account (i.e. you lost your keys) please tell me.

Now the hair whitening experience of waiting for something to break, there shall be no sleep tonight  :-\

Congrats! i just signed up now.

Very nice. Its taking me a moment to get used to the new layout, but I am impressed. It might be a good idea that instead of having the cliam codes come in a popup, that they are able to be copied and pasted. Had some issues with that. Keep up the good work.

+100000000000

also the old xml contracts on the imported assets from 1.0 is not being displayed correctly..  

This could use a little editing for grammar, spelling and clarity.

"We do however recognised that for some users prefer for this not to be the case."
 - http://glbse.com/asset/view/BTC

Woops, I'll fix that soon.

Also on the XML contracts, we're phasing them out now, over the next week I'll be adding the ability to edit the contract (which would require a vote to allow). So, with shareholder permission you'll be able to constantly keep them up to date.

Looks great, when is charting going to be back up?

charts.glbse.com?

We're not getting that again, it was too pricey, we've already got some very basic charts built in, so we'll be improving and adding from there.

Nefario.

Is there a way for me to change my password?

Give me a couple of days to add this functionality.

Nefario

Also GLBSE2.0 is back up, sorry about the delay.

New site looks awesome. Just a suggestion and it may already work this way... On the portfolio page similar to the deposit history, can you have a dividend history of dividends paid to me and by what stock? I have several stocks and it would be nice to see the most recent dividend payments on that front page.

Already does this(although dividends aren't working right now, it's going to be fixed soon), later this week or early next week I'll be importing the history from GLBSE1.0

My sell orders keep disappearing

Great work Nefario!

Would you say that it's stable enough to launch an IPO or should a wait a bit for the kinks to be worked out?

I'm working on a security risk that I've just found, as I said in another post it's not a vulnerability but a risk that I want to mitigate.

Once it's up, go ahead, all should be well.

Thanks!

Sorry for the downtime and delay, please keep in mind that it was Sunday evening/night that it was brought down.

Issues should have been sorted out, GLBSE.com is back up and running.

Happy trading.

Nefario.

it started to charge fees. The liquidity of the market is still so not enough.


The new fee structure sucks.

New asset fee:   8.0 BTC
Dividends fee rate:   0 BP
Trade fee rate, paid by seller:   50 BP

it encourages new stocks to be issued, which will depress the stock price. And it discourages the trading, which dry the liquidity.

Trading volume compared to GLBSE1.0 is up considerably since launch, deposits have been rolling in and improvements are in the pipeline.

Plans are to have fees of 50BP for buyer and seller.

I'll be adding market maker fees, which will allow users to get paid 50BP(they won't pay any fees) when they make buy sell orders to provide liquidity.

New asset fee will stay as-is.

I'm excited to give it a go!

However, I have a GLBSE1 account (which is completely empty, no assets or funds) that doesn't give a proper claim # when I log in.

Same username as here on all the accounts. Should I just proceed on, or is there something you'd like to look at/fix?

This is great and smart idea to introduce a market maker into this market.

Congrats.

then throw it away. register a new account in 2.0 and you're done.
the 2.0 link to claim old account remains visible also for users that already claimed their accounts.
I guess there's nothing to transfer so no claim code is generated.

the username in 1.0 was anyway only a locally stored label (see your key pair backup) and 2.0 is open to squat user names so hurry up ; )

Please don't. As I explained in another thread, these don't do anything functionally and just create more confusion and obfuscation.

Hi there,

i think GLBSE is really important for the whole Bitcoin economy.

Are there any plans to open the stock trading system to alternativ stock exchanges?

Don't get me wrong, i really like GLBSE at is now, but i feel that people should have a choice to chose a stock exchange that suits best.

Right now, new stock exchanges will have a hard time to compete without the ability to trade GLBSE stocks.

Cheers,

roomservice

double spending? how do you transfer the stock to next exchange? will you issue 2nd batch of shares?
will you deposit then at a broker on glbse and trade certificates in the other exchange?
how does the asset manager know where are the shares traded?
I mean as long as glbse has no competitors it has time to evolve naturally
if there will be new markets then I'm not sure you could walk away with the shares just like that

Well, stockholder should have the right to trade their stocks how they like, even offline.

I didn't come with a technical solution yet, but i would like to know why nobody else have considered this before!?

and will be difficult to test properly. seriously who needs that?

and one more time a request for clarification how should overlapping orders work.

thats easy, you can only trade stocks that have been deposited into an alternative stock exchange.
this could be possible if a stock would be "withdrawed" from glbse before.

just theorycrafting yet, maybe i should start a discussion about that topic elsewhere.

Killer. I'm on it. Thanks mila.

Also, 2 more questions:

1) Is there a way to get a list of the principals/staff  @ GLBSE? I know you guys are well trusted, but I'd like to know who all I'm dealing with :) 

2) It looks like GLBSE could work for private assets as well as the publicly traded assets. If I wanted to come issue two separate series of stocks, only one of which offered in public sale, likely with different rights, could you manage the private asset (i.e. let people hold it in account, vote, distribute dividends, etc, as per other public assets) as well as the public asset? I'm presuming this would be a paid service.

Thanks for you help!!

I wonder about something similar.  I don't know jack about securities law, but from what I have heard, offering a public security and soliciting people privately to invest are two totally different things.. 

Just signed up  ;D

I am interested in the RPP (road pizza policy).  As much as I like and totally support the idea behind GLBSE..  It is kind of hastily thrown together and not so well thought out (at least from an outsider perspective)   I understand that it is in its infancy and may not be making the money required for it to be taken seriously (yet) but I am worried about a) if something happens to Nefario,  b) if the project is abandoned (it almost was).  

I already have a decent chunk of time / money tied up in GLBSE, and issues like these are REALLY holding me back from going further with it.  I am sure I am not alone in feeling this, as well, from an investor standpoint its gotta be holding people back from taking it seriously (thus investing) as well.  If GLBSE is really looking to make meaningful strides here, this stuff has to be addressed ASAP.

teek

In the example above, the one series of stock is, in fact, offered privately. The other is offered publicly. This is a very common model. In some cases you might have several series of stock with various different rights. Founder's stock (20x voting rights maybe, no dividends), Series A (private) - 10X voting rights, dividends & liquidation rights, Series B (public), 1X voting rights, dividends, maybe even a second public offering of B or a C round w/ either dividends or voting rights.

since GLBSE has the infrastructure to deal with:
- shareholders holding certificates of stocks
- transfers of certificates
- dividend payment
- (and voting, i thought I saw)

it seems it could be a great fit to have GLBSE manage private assets - especially if they are already agreed to handle a public asset at a future date. (i.e. I might have a public asset ready for sale, that is dependent on private sale of the series A round, and a vote of those shareholders before it can be sold)

Suggestion;  Adjust the listing of Buy/Sell orders so the lowest Ask is first and highest Bid is first. Right now they are all mixed up. probably listed in the order they were posted, but it's ugly.

Getting an internal server error when I try to claim my old account.

Okay, I see my bitcoin balance now and the shares I've purchased in someone else's stock, but I don't see any of my own shares in UBTC even though I do have (very limited) access to the administrative panel for it.

seems i've had a few people msg me saying they didn't get their dividend this week.. but they did go out.. and BMMO history on GLBSE 2.0 shows that.. might need your help Nefario..

teek

He's on the road for a few days, so your best bet is to email him for a quicker resolution.

PM me if you need his email address.

How long do deposits to GLBSE2 take? I've got one now with 98+ confirmations that is not showing on my balance yet... previous balance and shares seem ok after claiming form my old acct yesterday..

cheers

Hi, sorry about the delay. The server process that monitors deposits had died  :-\
Everything should be there now.

Nefario

No worries, m8. I was more concerned I had flubbed something up than anything.  Thanks for getting to it so quickly!


Cheers

How do you issue shares (i.e. non-public shares) on GLBSE 2.0?  These aren't the shares that are normally for sale in the IPO, but shares given to an asset's owner(s).

GLBSE 1 Claim code issue...

After losing my back up GLBSE key from having to reinstall Windows I had the bright idea suddenly to try to recover the text file weeks after the fact (it worked) and I reimported my account.  I logged back into GLBSE version 1 however everything is "Refreshing" or "Retrieving" and I get pop ups saying "your claim code is Claim".

Has the old system broke again or what?

I'll be adding asset transfer probably later today, you will be able to transfer assets and bitcoin to other accounts as much as you like.

This will allow you to to manage private shares.

signup broken?

No, just bad timing, I'd just restarted the server so it was down for a minute.

Forgot my password, how to get it back? there's no "forgot password".

pm'd

I need to add this :-\

So any word on when inter-account transfers are coming?

how 're you identifying the receiving part? we do no longer have the nice ID strings derived from key pair

do sub-users (asset managers) have an email address registered with their account?
or you plan to transfer to a nick name (asset name, in case of sub-user)?
is it more needed than browsing trading/asset/bitcoin history?

yes, having transfers back would be nice

Interesting question.

I'm thinking we'll accept both username and email, and then the asset for the account group with BTC being the default if not included.

So for example


would all send to my default BTC account, if I wanted to transfer to my GLBSE accounts then...

Starting off we'd just have textfields for users to enter into, but eventually we'll add their other accounts from dropdown menus.

I am still looking for an answer to the above question. Can anyone direct me to this information?

Whoa, sorry I missed that.

We did have a people page but it's not showing ATM since 2.0 has gone up.

Anyway, my name is James McCarthy, I'm based near Manchester in the UK.

I recently spoke at TDx in Leeds.
http://www.tedxleeds.com/nefario-james-mccarthy/

While we're on the topic, what happens if you get hit by a double decker bus?

Well, if I don't die I'll probably go to hospital, if I don't end up brain dead then I'll probably sue the bus company.

Thanks for your concern :p

More seriously though right now we don't have any plans for that. We're going to be having our AGM soon...ish maybe next week I think. That will be a good time to draw up plans for alien capture etc. I'd like to have them in place so that it would require the agreement of a number of people  for it to be able to go forward, and then wind up GLBSE unless we can find someone else to replace me.

Thanks, Nefario.

And you are the sole principal of the organization? the people page would be awesomesauce. Thanks!

And you do solemnly swear that you will put in place plans for continuity when you are eventually abducted by alienz? (or at least promise to send the alienz back here with the keys to our money?!) :)

I'm the only one running GLBSE, but we have several shareholders, the ones who provided the starting capital (which includes me).

Yeah, we'll put a plan in place at the AGM, this is something that I think should be put to a shareholder vote.

Nefario.

https://glbse.com/assets/ now sort by BTC volume.

Looks like a rainbow.

You can now to account to account transfers.

Visit your portfolio page.

Is it possible to have sub-accounts in 2.0? In the old version, I have several different key pairs for different entities. If I import them, will their assets all get mixed into the one account in 2.0? I liked being able to quickly switch between accounts. Having to log out and re-login with a different email address each time would suck.

Right now you only have sub accounts if you've created an asset, those are the assets accounts. For the moment I don't have plans to implement extra sub accounts, there is way too many other things that need to get done before hand.

Nefario.

In fact, when 2.0 was first launched, I found it pretty ugly and hard to use.

But it's updating very quickly, much more than I expected. There have been several times when I refreshed the page and found that it's updated. The new UI is now more comfortable to my eyes, and the tables for the asking and bidding side are much better than before. Thanks to Nefario for his hard work.

The new ask/bid tables are ok, but they will be much better if the bids and asks are in the same horizontal location. You could have a bid table immediately following an ask table, or make a single table with a clear indication (maybe a colored bar) of where one ends and the other begins.

Also, it seems wherever volume@price is displayed, it shows the volume of the last trade, which isn't useful at all. It would be better to show volume today or past 24 hours, or something like that.

By the way, the GLBSE forum seems to be down.

I saw, and performed, thank you Nefario.

I see you've made the active assets on top, thanks!

On the portfolio page, when will the history be cut off, or will it continue to add trade history to the tables in the Portfolio page?

Right now they just continue, but eventually we're going to have to limit the numbers.

What do you think is an ideal number?

I'd like to be able to pick from / to date and get results back to the beginning of time .. probably not alone on that one. 

agreed. some combo of both might be good. Im sure there are a few people who do lots of trading. 1month/100trades which ever comes first?

either way we should be able to go all the way back to the beginning.

maybe just have a history section that allows by date or asset sorting

Interesting, I have some pending orders yet my BTC reserve says 0.

I had the oposite, no buy orders but remaining btc reserved > 0
looks like he's working on it.
for a few days it looked like the btc reserve is verified after each order placement/cancelation to correct any differences
it was an issue in dev, was fixed, is probably back in some mild form and is dealt with

Investigating this.

From about two days a go, I've been occasionally seeing the 502 Bad Gateway message when refreshing GLBSE. The frequency is about 3-5 times a day.

I wonder if someone else share this problem with me, or it's just a problem from my own network connection.

Thats due to the current server setup at GLBSE, over the next week that will not be a problem.

Nefario, are there any restrictions on what characters a password may contain? Upon creation of a new account, I used Lastpass to generate a secure password with all kinds of odd characters, and got a 502 server error when submitting the registration form, and then when I tried again it said that I was already registered. So I tried resetting the password via email, and that appeared to be successful, but I cannot login still.

Also, the captcha should probably only come up after 1 or 2 failed logins, it is somewhat annoying.

Yes!!!  Kill it with fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For my upcoming IPO I'm trying to issue bonds (shares) and get an error:


I'm guessing it's because I mistakenly put 51% vote to issue shares.

If that's the case it seems like I need Nefario's help to change it, unless someone has another idea?

Yes please remove it Nefario.

Also reCaptcha isn't safe anymore (http://www.allspammedup.com/2011/01/google-recaptcha-cracked/).

That captcha is fning annoying get rid of it its useless anyway.  I'm tempted to just sell all my shares and stop using the service after loging in twice with it. 

FYP.

Nefario, please do something like only make a captcha after a failed login, or make an opt-out in the settings. It's not much help anyway, if the password is any good it can't be brute-forced.

I'm having the same issue. Getting 'Internal Service Error' left and right.

Captcha removed, I'll add it as an option and after x failed attempts

Investigating the server errors, I've just gotten up.

Fixed server errors for new signups, if any of you created an account and were not able to login as a result of a server error please pm me your email and I'll sort it out for you.

Nefario.

Looks like the GLBSE is down.   :(

Luckily my IPO started off without a hitch.  But bummer to be down on IPO day

Good luck with your IPO! I'm going to buy a few shares :)

I'm not getting much of a response from PMs with Nefario, so I'll post in here. I can't do much (anything) in the settings, can my account be deleted so I can re-setup password and two step auth?

as far as I could find out, you only can activate 2step auth for any of the 3 options and it's a one way street.
once you enable it for any of the options, it stays on and can not be changed later.

the good news is, all 3 options when activated, return the same code so it's enough to write it down once.
if you missed three chances to write down a code can't help you.

if you can't do anything now means you already clicked on all 3 buttons that activate 2step auth for withdrawal, transfer and password change and you're done. if you did not have 2step auth activated prior to that step, no idea how to help you now.

if you need a new account, just create a new one (with a different email, though) and use the new one.
deleting an account is something only nefario can help you with

Setting up the account was a mess. Everything I did led to a "Internal Service Error" and after twenty tries with different emails, usernames, and two step auth settings, I finally got in. However, I don't know which email it is using or which two step auth choices I selected, and the password is temporary and very weak. Also, nothing shows up under settings, so I can't view/change email, view which two step auth settings are selected, or change password. The settings page shows absolutely nothing. I'd rather have the account deleted and try registering again. However, Nefario is not responding to days old PMs, even though it shows him as "online" many times since I've sent the PMs. This has been a very frustrating start to GLBSE.

That sucks Brian.  It sounds like there might be some system issues occurring (GLBSE is in "Beta").  You should go to bed and setup a new email account for use with the GLBSE in the morning and try again.  

This has now been cleaned up.

Creating a new account no longer asks the user if they want to use twofactor authentication. That's now only available in the settings.

I think too many users just clicked OK to it without actually looking at what it was.

I've also added the ability to change your email and password from settings.

In charts total volume to date (since GLBSE2.0 opened) how shows.

And asset issuers can update the details of their asset (not the contract itself though, thats next).

Any issues please email support@glbse.com

Awesome.  Would it be possible to insert an extra space between these lines so the numbers don't run together?

How do you do this?  I don't see an option anywhere.

Go to your assets page, look at the admin panel, there is a link to update details there.

 ;)

Thank you for the quick response kind sir.

I'll be moving the admin panel from the assets page to portfolio soon enough.

I think it makes sense where it's at and I'd imagine it would be easier that way for people with multiple listings.  I just didn't know where to look.

Would it be possible to make the "contact email" in the settings direct the user to sending a message to my GLBSE mail account?

Wha?

Your mail account on GLBSE (i.e. the little mail icon)

or

The email address you use for GLBSE

For the first option each asset page already has a "mail asset issuer" link.

Yes, the first option.  I would like to have that be my contact email (even though I guess it isn't a real email address).  I would be happy with a link that says "mail asset issuer."

Option #2 would be very bad, as I hope my login email address is never made public for security reasons.

Can the volume also be set to display the daily volume of each asset?

Have you considered an API that would allow other sites to add credit to user accounts automatically?  I'm thinking specifically of sites adding GLBSE credits to users for promotions and compensation, instead of the paltry Bitcoin amounts they do now.  It would be a good promotional situation for GLBSE.

There's a site called BTCTip (http://btctip.com/) that tips Bitcoin from your account with them via a Tweet.  I hooked Bets of Bitcoin up with them so they could combine what they do, and their userbases as well.  If you combined your service with BTCTip (to add credit to another user's GLBSE account via Tweets) the resulting free publicity on peoples' Timelines would increase your trading volume immensely.

Were it me, I would combine that strategy with a referral link program - users earn a percentage of GLBSE's points from other user's they've referred with their link.  The result would be more promotion, more trading volume and commission, and unlike placing ads it would only cost you a portion of money it had brought you anyway.

GLBSE2.0 has a great customer support ! They helped me with an issue within minutes. That's top notch.

Thank you again

So..... I can't figure out how to withdraw BTC... it keeps saying authentication code incorrect, but I don't remember setting up such a thing.

Disregard, it now works and there isn't an auth code field (after logging out and back in).... weird.