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StanLarimer (OP)
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March 24, 2015, 12:55:35 AM |
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Wonderful Question! From Bitcoin and the Three Laws of Robotics where DACs were first introduced: 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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March 24, 2015, 01:09:08 AM
Last edit: March 31, 2015, 11:32:13 PM by StanLarimer |
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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. 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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March 24, 2015, 07:21:04 AM |
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Pretty soon we're going to see Stan on here trying to sell reverse mortgages. |
"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." - Areopagitica
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March 24, 2015, 04:06:58 PM |
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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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StanLarimer (OP)
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March 24, 2015, 05:59:41 PM |
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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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StanLarimer (OP)
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March 25, 2015, 01:06:46 AM |
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Here's an updated version of the BitShares Brochure.
Think of the people of dissimilar gender you could meet on street corners everywhere
if you just had a fist full of these to hand out!
***Edited version*** Please use this current updated version. Thank you TurkeyLeg for your keen eyes and catching some errors!!
Please note...I've also added an additional photo showing a printed out brochure. It shows the folds and how it should look once done. There are two ways to feature the brochure for table tops, as shown in the bottom right photo.
Again, please use only what is currently posted! Thanks***another edit*** Just added zip file of Black and White pdf at bottom of OP.Hello Everyone, Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you're trying to explain or showcase to someone what Bitshares is all about and what it offers? And their only reaction was...... HUH?  Well.... I have... and in response I've put together, along with help from the Nullstreet crew, a full color quick info BitShares Tri-Fold brochure. This way anyone in our community can be proud to print and share this brochure to anyone and everyone they know! Below is a preview of the brochure. Beneath the previews you'll find a provided link to a .zip file for downloading the PDF of the front and back (along with .tiff and .jpeg formats). So printing should be easy enough for anyone. Please keep this in mind when you print these... the front AND back pages are meant to be printed onto ONE page so it can easily be folded into 1/3 sections. So be aware of the page orientations, so that one side isn't printing upside down from the other. Please do a test page first before printing off 100's or 1000's of these. Also note, printing these in Black and White will still turn out good, but obviously color is the better option!  Another suggestion when using this brochure. Please try to have people use the QR code if possible. That way we can get a count of how many people actually used this! Thanks everyone!!    Download zip here... https://www.dropbox.com/s/edp69vvubhnh6og/BitShares%20TriFold%20Brochure_v2.zip?dl=0Black and White pdf of front and back... https://www.dropbox.com/s/y3va5217j01i71c/Bitshares%20B_W%20TriFold%20Brochure_v2.zip?dl=0 |
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StanLarimer (OP)
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March 25, 2015, 02:36:27 AM |
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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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March 25, 2015, 05:21:00 AM |
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"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." - Areopagitica
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StanLarimer (OP)
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March 26, 2015, 06:12:33 PM
Last edit: July 31, 2015, 02:00:10 AM by StanLarimer |
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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. |
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StanLarimer (OP)
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March 26, 2015, 06:17:41 PM |
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Looks like the MineBitShares pool is having some success!MineBitShares is now listed at http://poolpicker.euPoolPicker 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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March 26, 2015, 07:58:02 PM |
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The benefits of BitShares self-funding delegate system keep rolling on...
You took Bitcoin weakness (necessity to pay money to electrical companies) and transformed it into your strength (self-funding). That was a smart engineering solution. (\(\ (-.-) (")(") |
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March 27, 2015, 12:24:10 AM
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Thanks! (But I saw you sneak that subliminal image of a cat into your signature...)  |
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StanLarimer (OP)
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March 28, 2015, 04:04:46 PM |
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Here's some recent hangout recordings on several BitShares projects:
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StanLarimer (OP)
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March 30, 2015, 03:07:22 AM |
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Gotta love watching a whole small business ecosystem develop...
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StanLarimer (OP)
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March 30, 2015, 05:08:55 PM |
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Episode #12 MoonStone - The application layer begins.
Max Wright interviews Taulant Ramabaja, one of the founders of Bitsapphire as he explains the #Moonstone Wallet! What is Moonstone? Where is Moonstone now? What's Moonstone's direction? If you like what Moonstone will do for BitShares, Bitcoin, and cryptocurrencies in general, don't forget to subscribe at: https://moonstone.io/ |
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StanLarimer (OP)
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March 30, 2015, 05:27:46 PM
Last edit: March 31, 2015, 11:33:11 PM by StanLarimer |
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Oh yes, and the BitShares Peer-to-Peer Road Trip presses on in style... Bitscape, Roadscape, Robrigo, & Riverhead show off the spiffy bts-mobile |
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StanLarimer (OP)
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March 31, 2015, 03:31:40 AM |
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Cryptosmith is now open for business as an off ramp from BitSilver to real physical silver and the same for gold.Cryptosmith http://cryptosmith.info/index.php would like to start outside testing by accepting a limited number of customers before a launch to the general public. Couple of things to keep in mind. -Bitsilver and Bitgold are currently the only accepted forms of payment. Their are other options listed but you will be kicked back to the start page if trying to pay in anything other then Bitsilver and Bitgold. -All packages are shipped USPS tacked,insured and signature confirmation required. I am thinking of allowing tracked but not insured, no signature confirmation so that users can save on shipping cost's, please feel free to weigh in with your opinion on this. -After a successful launch here in the US I will begin working to allow international orders. If you are interested in purchasing physical gold and or silver in any amount please PM me thanks.
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