Proof of work is dead. Instamined coins and IPO coins with shady distribution are dead. This kills everything in the top 10 of market cap except Bitshares and maybe a couple others. Get with the program or get left behind.
It looks like you're new here, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt when it comes to knowing the fully history of Bitshares. I was around when Bitshares was just conceptual before the Protoshares launch and read all the discussions. Interesting fact, initially Bitshares was going to be Proof-of-Work, but after the success of NXT, they decided to change to DPoS (Debilitated Proof-of-Stake). I mined Protoshares from the very beginning. I remember when the PTS chain was started quite a few individuals reported problems connecting and staying in sync with the blockchain. Of course, if you can't stay in sync, you can't mine Protoshares. I find it a little suspicious that during the most profitable mining period there were connectivity issues. If I was trying to conduct a fair launch, I'd make sure all the connectivity "bugs" were worked out prior to launch. Although, I know according to Stan that's not how Bitshares works. They prefer to test in real life and if it breaks and causes others to lose money then too bad. Now, Stan will tell you they themselves barely mined Protoshares because their mining hardware hadn't arrived yet. If that was the case, I find it hard to believe that they barely mined any Protoshares because everyone and their brother were renting AWS servers to mine Protoshares. Maybe it's just me, but I find Bitshares launch just a little shady.
Oh Rly? I'm a "lying piece of shit"? Unless the posts have been removed from their forum, users at that time, the beginning of 2014, were complaining about connectivity issues and being unable to mine PTS.
OP:
I'll tell you why I didn't get into bitshares. The source distribution wouldn't compile. The binary distribution was not for my OS (Linux). The git distribution wouldn't compile. After putting my time into getting it to compile it would crash at startup.
sdp
I thought I was the only one.
The BitShares software constantly crashes on my computers. It's super alpha-stage software. I thought they should have it fixed by now.
It was just too much to keep up with. There were times where they would release updates and
forks daily and if I wasn't sitting at home watching the forums every second, my delegate would start to miss blocks because of a hard fork. It was frustrating and I didn't want my delegates to have a shitty reliability number so I asked to be voted out. The windows version has worked for me about 80% of the time! though I never tried to compile any version from scratch.
If the current software causes so many problems for so many people, how stable do you think it was in the beginning? Is it really such a stretch of the imagination to surmise that people who refer to derivatives contracts as "Safer than a Swiss Bank Account" to lure in the unsuspecting masses would intentionally release software with connectivity issues to increase their profits? I don't know if you were around in during the first few days of the Protoshares release, but forks causing users to lose sync and mine orphan blocks were an issue for many in the beginning.
