I admit that I fell over laughing at the BitShares guy; really, you want to compare Waves to BitShares? He might be right that BitShares has had more time, but look at where Waves already is with less time. Waves is an interesting crowdfunding platform and it will be fun to watch how it evolves in time.
Also, once glance at the history of bitUSD and bitGold and their "pegged assets" are absolute joke. Kind of like Steem Dollars; can't seem to actually be $1!
Waves is now featured on
what cryptocurrencies pay a dividend.
And yet they they always return to $1 or w/e in trust-less manner because it's based on smart contract, unlike typical centralized assets like tether on centralized exchanges like waves. There's zero technical reasons to ever use waves over bitshares for any reason in any context. The only reason it's going up is pump team is good, no way to short it on bittrex, and instead of focusing on tech you focus on putting ads everywhere.
I never used Bitshares because it's too complicated, and too slow. I tried, and left.
No doubt that the dev team did a great work over the past years.
But Bitshares won't reach the average joe. Waves has more chance to do it because it's just easy and fast for anyone.
Sorry to say that guys, but Bitshares was a prototype, Waves is the new precursor.
To be fair, Bitshares 2.0 is fast, very fast. I recently made an account there but had to watch a few Youtube videos to get started. It is very complicated. But there is a faucet to pay the fees for a newly created account
The referral program and layout are confusing. It has too much. The website doesn't fit my laptop screen and many times the page froze on me. Both openledger and bitshares. It's a shame that Dan left the project before seeing it take off.