Quote from: tokeweed on January 24, 2016, 05:34:11 AM

Bitshares didn't gain enough traction because they just didn't have enough users to get enough volume and liquidity.

Heard about B&C. I thought they should have a proof of concept/alpha release by now.

I think we will be living with centralized exchanges for a few more years...

I agree, Bitshares' main weakness is the liquidity. Although, the OPENBTC/BTS market actually had ~8 BTC in volume today which I think is impressive.. perhaps it is picking up steam. Some ideas being tossed around to improve liquidity:

- Changing the fee structure to resemble centralized exchanges (based on a percentage of the trade, with a maximum fee)
- Lowering fees to the bare minimum for however long it takes to gain more users and liquidity
- Sell the SmartCoin fee pool (fees accumulated from each SmartCoins' transactions/trades) back into the market X% over the price feed.
- Develop market making bots that users can run or invest in through a user issued asset (a complicated endeavor)
- Make an autonomous market making bot that users can buy shares of by depositing to its bankroll
- Implement "maker/taker" fees (lowering fees for market makers)
- Dilute BTS shareholders, and short assets into existence, then have the chain autonomously sell them X% above the feed price.

B&C Exchange has a functional wallet you can download on their website, but the exchange will not be functional for a while. Apparently, it may not be functional until later this year:

Quote from: JordanLee on January 16, 2016, 04:07:19 AM

NuBits and B&C Exchange share the same team. This gives B&C the advantage of having people work on it that have worked with the code base for a year or two in most cases. It has the disadvantage of meaning that when the team is focused on NuBit development, B&C Exchange development necessarily gets less attention and work.

The NuBit 2.1 release has been a major undertaking. We thought we were nearly done with it a month ago, but testing revealed some important performance issues that were difficult and time consuming to track down and remedy. The NuBits 2.1 release is very close to being ready for beta release. As a result, the team is once again turning its focus to B&C Exchange. The B&C Exchange 4.0 release will receive additional testing in the coming days. Over the course of the last month, glv has continued to make progress on developing the exchange messages (to be released after 4.0).

Sigmike and I are discussing a couple ways we could bring additional developers to the project to speed implementation. While I regard the pace of development as a disappointment to date, we have effectively conserved our funding and I am more convinced that B&C Exchange has a viable design than I was six months ago. Progress has taken longer than expected due to lower availability of developers than was expected, but the project is still very viable and is in fact moving forward.

Quote from: sabreiib on January 19, 2016, 01:27:36 AM

Are we going to see B&CExchange in operation in 2016?
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Perhaps in very late 2016, because we have only three part time developers.

Quote from: NuCoinGame on January 19, 2016, 05:41:09 PM

Just to quickly follow up on Jordan's words regarding the development pace. Things slowed down a bit late last year because of the holidays, traveling, and new year administrative tasks. Things should be picking up from here on out. 4.0 development/testing is in full swing. Once everything is cleared BlockShares owners will be able to start voting on the available assets for trading and reputed signers.

Year end/start is a very busy time for people, and Nu had a similar development slump around the same time last year. I'll try to produce some regular updates regarding testing and development from here on out as well.