The development so far has been very exciting.  If you don't want to link up your Facebook account you can pay for your account with my registration bot https://steemit.com/steemhelp/@dele-puppy/register-bot less than $3 at current prices. 

Its syncing

Thanks for letting us know abit.  Also thanks roadscape for getting something together so quickly.  Any plans on adding other transactions to the explorer?

If it doesn't try to launch it with the --resync-blockchain flag.  You will have to redownload the chain, but the fork should resolve.  It did on my forked nodes.

Great news.  Thanks for the update.

I would be interested in running a witness node for steem.  I have been an active BTS witness for the last 2 years or so.

Very interesting.  I'm not gonna pretend that I quite understand what you are doing yet with the vesting, but I'll keep reading.  In the mean time its awesome to see another coin based on graphene.  Sexiest framework ever.  I am currently mining. 

I don't know where you are getting this give assets to war makers thing.  I personally have borrowed some ENDWAR into existence, and begun giving it out on twitter free of charge.  So far I have given it to Lew Rockwell, Scott Horton, and antiwar.com.  I would not consider any of them warmakers.

As the description states the final decision will be with the bitshares committee.  The committee is a special bitshares account that has a weighted multi sig active authority that is determined by the votes of all of the bitshares stake.  There are between 11 and 1001 committee members with the number and their active key weight determined by voting.  To close out this market will require 50% +1 of the voting stake of bitshares.  I am personally currently on the committee, and if I am still on it on 1-1-2017 I will vote true on this market if there is a peace settlement or long lasting cease fire, or if there are no reports of hostilities between Saudi backed forces and rebel forces for a significant amount of time.

If you are looking for a means of making money then I would suggest one of the other prediction markets that bitshares has to offer.  You can bet on the SuperBowl, Democratic Nomination, Republican Nomination, US general election, Crude oil prices, S&P prices, or the price bitshares.  All of these markets will be much easier to close out.  These markets might be more to your liking.

There is a new prediction market on bitshares.  It is called ENDWAR.  Description is at http://cryptofresh.com/a/ENDWAR it is

If you would like to support ENDWAR then you can borrow the asset and either sell it on the market or give it away.  By increasing the number of people that would benefit from a cessation of hostilities in Yemen we increase the chances that these hostilities will end.  If  you do this then you will only lose money if the war in Yemen is actually ended.  I think that is a goal that is worth paying a little bit towards.  You can borrow, buy, or sell at https://bitshares.openledger.info/#/market/ENDWAR_USD

Below is a little more explanation of bitshares prediction markets.  Please let me know if you have any questions.

Bitshares prediction markets are assets that will resolve as either being worth 0 of the base asset or 1 of the base asset.  If the prediction market resolves as true then the asset will be worth 1.  If it resolves as false then the asset will be worth 0.  Prior to the market being resolved the price can fluctuate between 0 and 1. 

If you believe that a market will resolve as true then any purchase price below 1 will make you a winner.  The price you are willing to pay is the odds you are willing to take that it will resolve as true.  If you purchase at .5 and the market resolves as true you have doubled your base asset.  If you purchase at .25 and the market resolves as true you have quadrupled your base asset. 

On the other side if you believe you the market will resolve to false you can borrow the asset and sell it.  To borrow the asset you must put up 1 to 1 collateral of the base asset.  If the base asset is BTS you must post 1 BTS for each 1 prediction market asset you wish to borrow.  If the market resolves as false then you are able to buy the asset back at a price of 0 and release your collateral.  Once again the odds that you bet at is based upon the price that you sell at.  If you borrow 1 prediction market asset and post 1 BTS as collateral then sell that 1 prediction market asset at .5 you now have .5 BTS risked, and an open position with 1 BTS held as collateral.  If the market resolves as false then you get that 1BTS back in full and you have doubled your backing asset of .5 BTS to 1 BTS.  If instead you sell at .75 then you have .25 BTS at risk and if the market resolves as false then you have quadrupled your backing asset.

ENDWAR is a bitUSD backed asset, so it requires 1 bitUSD to borrow 1 ENDWAR.

Please let me know if any of this needs clarification.

Kinda.  The network is not the house though.  The network just allows private parties to take bets in a trust free manor.

Seems that the market creator is testing this approach out. SPORTS.SBLAFC has been set to a committee owned account, and the newest market.  BTSPREDICT is a committee fed account.  

In bitshares the committee is a multi sig account whose active permissions are voted on by all stake holders.  You could say that these two markets are now secured by the network.  

When it is time to close out the market a committee proposal will be made.  It will require 51% of the active authority of the committee account to close the market.  Even after 51% is achieved there is a minimum 1 hour review period during which misbehaving committee members can be voted out.

Edit.  SPFIVE and WTICRUDE are also now updated to committee fed assets.

There has been talk of moving the authority to close the market out to either the committee, or a committee owned account.  I think this gets rid of the last real weakness of bts prediction markets.  I'm hoping the asset issuer will convert them to a form of committee fed asset.

The guy that is always calling others fascist and communist says this.  The irony.

Okay.  Lets start with your quote from July of last year.  You didn't actually quote me correctly.  You quoted the person that I responded to.  The full quote is below.

As you can see I was responding to someone with questions and answering that question in the moment.  Their question was "So, if I acquire more PTS, it will still count towards the future DAC's(minus BTSX)?  You will notice that they did not say

"if I acquire more PTS, right now or in the near future, and assuming that nothing untoward happens such as nuclear war, civil war, meteorite strikes, supervolcanos, marshal law, and or any other world shattering disaster, or act of god then it will still count towards the future dacs.(minus BTSX)? and can you promise that this is the case and will never change."

 Of course they wouldn't say that.  All of those things are implied in the question.  My response "Correct"  Also did not contain any of the myriad of possible things that could prevent PTS from being used as a snapshot.  My words were true when they were said, even though they did not contain a disclaimer about all possible outcomes.  I was attempting to communicate with speeddemon, and I believe successfully did so.  Whats more PTS purchased at that time was in fact used as a snapshot.  My words were true and if speeddemon had listened to me and purchased pts he would now own bts, notes, and soon to be identabits (I have probably forgotten a sharedrop target)  If someone reads this response 14 months later and doesn't check to ensure this is still true then it is their fault for not doing their own due dilligence.

In regards to DNS, It is one of the main things that initially attracted me to bitshares.  I still think using centralized systems that are not censorship resistant is a huge threat to our security and safety.  I am still hoping that someone will solve this issue in a more satisfactory way than namecoin has.  That is a far cry from

This quote is demonstrably false runpaint.  Why did you lie runpaint?

I hope this exercise will demonstrate why your method of pulling up ancient quotes out of context is a dirty trick that should not be directly responded to.  It takes far more time to respond to these attacks than to carry them out.  Even when the attack is ill formed, and weak.  If you would like your system of attacking to be more effective in the future I would suggest you only quote old things, and never respond directly runpaint.  It was your responses and gross misrepresentation of what happened in this thread that led me to stop taking you seriously.  The problem with negative attack ads is that the viewer can end up taking a negative view of the attacker instead. 

I an not a banx investor.  I am a bitshares guy, and was interested in lottoshares, and was actually a little concerned about banx involvement since I had seen the beginning of this thread.  After reading through yesterday's fun, I feel much more comfortable with banx.  I'm still not sure if I'll buy into lottoshares, but if I don't it will not because of a fear of Banx.

Runpaint you have shown yourself to be a juvenile internet warrior.  After this I doubt I will ever take anything you say seriously.  Which is sad, because you could probably provide some value somewhere. 

When I saw you whining on polo about buying pts, I actually felt kinda bad for you.  It would suck if someone hadn't done any basic homework and had lost money because they had based their decisions on outdated information.  After seeing how you have used the permanent nature of the internet and the vagaries of the human language to completely distort what has happened in this thread I no longer believe anything you have said. 

Words have meaning.  When you use two different words that have distinct meanings and claim there is no difference between them you just show your ignorance.  While I would agree with the sentiment that both corporate fascism and communism are evil, they are most certainly not the same.  You continue to show that you clearly do not understand what you are talking about. 

DE doesn't know what words like communist and fascist mean.  Or at least is incapable of using them properly. 

I'm not sure if we should blame public education, the main stream media, alternate media, his parents.  I have tried to communicate with him, and I have come to the conclusion that he is in no way interested in communication.

He is the type of person that would talk about free speech if he was told to shush in a movie theater.  He might honestly believe that he was being censored.  I'm not sure you can reason with a person like that.

I would take him more seriously if he was able to
1) articulate an intelligent point, rather than spout large words he obviously doesn't understand.
2) Show a modicum of respect for private property, and  the slightest manners.

While I would hope the above is apparent to all, I fear that the mindless hostility exemplified by DE, the media, and politicians from the right and the left is so prevalent because it works. 

I fear for a society that allows such vitriol to be taken as serious arguments.  I fear for the minds that are swayed by such.  Now I am getting off topic.

If you are interested in learning the truth about bitshares and the motivation of the people behind it I would suggest you head on over to bitsharestalk.org or post in one of the many threads in this forum.  https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=2853.0 Is one of my personal favorites as its the thread that did the most to attract me to the bitshares community in the first place.

Identabit is a step in the right direction from the centralized solutions we have available today.  It is an upgrade compared to credit cards or paypal.  If adoption takes off, I will most certainly use it. 

I wont be completely happy with it, but I will be happier with it than the current system.  We cannot allow our desire for complete and utter change to cloud our vision when steps in the right direction come about.

I am not speaking of violating principles.  If anyone here is purely using crypto in their daily lives, I both envy and applaud them.  I however am in what I believe to be the majority that use all sorts of state controlled forms of electronic payment when necessary. 

I donated to ags after 2-28 as well.  I am also not happy with the current price.  The difference is that rather than complaining I am trying to make things better and ensure that 2.0 lives up to its potential.  I donated with full knowledge that the btsx snapshot had already been taken.  Im sure you did as well.