That's exactly why I invested in the decentralized Ripple = BitShares.

BitShares was born of a traditional fair launch of a POW coin (Ptotoshares), and the Protoshares coinholders are now BitShares owners who vote on who gets to be their miners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrif9uThwSY

If you are a great miner and want to mine BitShares, then apply to work for the (Ripple-style 10 sec block times and 24/7 Bitcoin 2.0 trustless asset trading) blockchain, then fill out a job application here:

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?board=61.0
(these are miners who are begging to work for the public blockchain)

BitShares is currently a $44 million market cap DAC that you can come work for if you want to.  You just choose your salary, introduce yourself on the forum, and we vote you in!  BitShares will soon have milti-sig & escrow (due in the next release), and aslo due later on are DNS, voting, and a turing complete scripting language (not really a big deal, it just sounds cool (it's a buzz word that gets attention but is an easy feature for great devs like Dan or Vitalik to construct because they are a lot alike in brainpower)).  

I know, these facts sound an awful lot like hype, so they must be "hyperfacts"


Ripple is cool, but a little too centralized for my liking.  I tried and loved the split second trading, but I missed the cold wallet features of Bitcoin and BitShares.

BitShares is like the public's blockchain because you get to tell it what to do (like a powerful Asimov robot who must listen to your commands and obey you) unlike Ripple and Bitcoin.  The coin owners are in control, not the Bitcoin foundation or the Ripple preminers.

Fiat Russian Ruble to BitShares gateway to allow BitUSD vs. BitRUB trustless trading after Belarus initiated a 30% tax on currency trading and halted currency trading for 2 years:

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=12555.0

www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-22/belarus-full-blown-hyperinflation-panic-blocks-news-online-stores-bans-all-fx-tradin?page=1

Belarus Forex markets bow to BitShares 24/7 free (really low fees) free market currency trading solution which (without any competition at all) should become the most liquid Belarus currency trading platform for at least the next 2 years.

BTSTV is running a promotion for miners who want to get paid on our new public blockchain.

Those lucky 101 who get the most votes get a paid mining position:

All you have to do is post the name of your mining account:

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=11458.0

You may need to obtain more votes to reach the top, however, we do not require anything more than signing up and saying hi, to receive our full support of your paid position.

DPOS is POW

If you think of "delegates" as "miners"

Running a delegate is the same as running a mining rig, except that you have to be awesome to get the privilege of being voted into a mining position.

You have to "prove" to us that you can do good "work" for us (coin owners).

Also, this coin was born of a fair launch (fair distribution) POW coin (Protoshares)