BitShares GUI Release v2.0.170829
https://steemit.com/bitshares/@ash/bitshares-gui-release-v2-0-170829

Observation from this week
This section will highlight any observations made while analysing the data.

Toni Lane Casserly (@tlc) The Joan of Arc in Bitcoin and Blockchain Technologies; has joined the Billion Hero Campaign! you can find out more about Toni on her Steemit introduction post HERE and the announcement of her involvement in the BHC HERE

This week the founders of door.one have announced and upcoming project to launch a new exchange on the Bitshares network. Door.one will have a web and mobile presence which are both currently in development.. Looking at the announcement they have a very aggressive roadmap. You can find more information HERE

@taconator has released a fee report for the Bitshares network for the month of July. The report goes in to a lot of details as to operations and fees collected. During the month of July; 698,000 BTS were collected for 16,700,00 operations (within 3,280,000 transactions). See the full report HERE

@cm-steem has drafted 2 new BSIP (Bitshares Improvement Proposals) - BSIP-0023 Titled: Sharedropping an UIA against an external cryptocurrency distribution snapshot and BSIP-0024 Titled: Locking Bitshares away as 'Bitshares Influence' for voting privileges on the BTS DEX. @cm-steem has written a number of the previously published BSIP's and these two as with the previous ones are well written proposals with a huge amount of detail on there subject matter.

@richcg has been working on an updated design for the Bitshares.org website. You can view his latest progress HERE

Stealth Bitshares... This feature is not well known as it is somewhat complex to execute in its current form (don't worry @kencode is working on fixing that!). An old but good article was linked in telegram this week and i thought it might be useful for some newer viewers to at least know that Bitshares Stealth is an option. The post written by @vikx titled 'Anonymity and decentralization: an application for the stealth (hidden) transactions of the Graphene / Bitshares / Steem' can be found HERE

Article released on medium this week titled 'Unbanking the Banked' written by @michealx over-viewing Bitsparks recent migration plans to Bitshares and what it means for the movement of money globally. You can find the article HERE

@stan has mentioned on telegram this week that he has an upcoming interview with the community from Pirates without borders - 'Pirates Without Borders is an international association of Pirates. Unlike PPI it accept individuals as members and is itself a member organization of Pirate Parties International.'

@virtualgrowth is doing a weekly market update and token give away; Check out his post and vote on your favorite asset HERE, if you leave you Bitshares username in the comment you may even be one of the lucky recipients of the token giveaway.

This weeks Bitshares hangout recording has been published and is available HERE

Current registered wallets/accounts within the Bitshares network is 394154; an increase of 9925 wallets/accounts since last week