sorry guys/girls.. someone is heavily raping our API looks like a mobile app or something else was published yesterday because i have a lot of request from a lot of different IPs!! i installed a new server only for the API and moved the requests to http://api.cryptocoincharts.info/xxx /listCoins /tradingPairs/xxx_yyyy ....

please change your API requests to the new url!

Btw, you can hold BTC in Bitshares 

Is the bitUSD market still expected to go live on Monday?

Amazing victory of Nxt!!! Nxt Go Go Go!!!
 

I wouldn't own any coins right now. Altcoins are taking a beating.

Seems like a no brainer to me. This is going to make a lot of people a lot of money. Get in while you can, if you aren't already too late 

Loving that even exchanges are taking part in this. They know it is a big deal to their customers so they don't mind doing it.

All I can say, really. For all the technological marvel, Bitshares marketing has been pretty poor and information is not that easily accessible. It also means that if you make a bit of effort you will be getting them at a discount than otherwise possible.

I'll also chime in for BitShares.  When I first heard about 'Protoshares' - I was skeptical.  However, I've been researching and following this development for the past 10 months, daily; and am completely blown away.  This platform is the bitcoin killer, and I don't say that lightly.  Think of any problem any other crypto has, and I'd challenge you to find out if its not solved through the BitShares platform.

The 3 MAJOR issues I believe BitShares has solved are:

• Transaction times - 10 seconds. On the dot. No more of this 10 minute confirmation [ON AVERAGE!] B.S.
• More decentralized than bitcoin by orders of magnitude - there are what, 5 mining pools?  BitShares secures the network through DPOS (delegated proof of stake), through 101 delegates that are elected.  You choose the good guys, the bad actors simply cannot sustain their efforts. [also a hat tip to the US founding fathers...1776]
• Volatility - With the coming advent of user-pegged asset markets; one can store their value, cryptographically, in an asset that has relatively low volatility in comparison to bitcoin (i.e. the US Dollar - this will be 'bitUSD')

BitShares is your 'savings' to your bitcoin 'checking' and MUCH MUCH more.  I cannot say enough good things about the core team and their efforts as well.  Good people doing it for the right reasons, not hiding behind pseudonyms, because they don't need to.

Actually if you have PTS they will convert 1:1 Bitshares once the mining period for PTS is over

If you donated BTC or PTS to AGS fund you would receive BTSX shares for every PTS/AGS  you held before Feb 28th snapshot

KEEP YOUR PTS IN YOUR WALLET ON THAT DAY!!

Btc38 apparently is taking part in the snapshot, but remember you don't follow too closely you might miss out on snapshots - there is going to be a DAC flood soon. So better to keep them in your wallet when you are not trading.

I think that everyone in this thread should take a look at bitshares-x (http://bitshares-x.info).
Basically is a distributed bank were you can hold your deposits in any currency (first iteration will have bitUSD, bitGold and bitBTC).
These are market-pegged assets or collateralized network issued IOUs .. If you have 1 bitUSD it will always be worth 1 USD worth of BTSX (the crypto that this network use).
The pegging is being done with a prediction market running in the blockchain that have 10 second confirmation time using DPOS (delegated proof of stake).
BTW: This bank makes money with transactions fees, inactivity fees, margin calls fees and this revenue goes directly to the shareholders. Just owning the underlying crypto BTSX (the one that bitUSD is backed) you are a shareholder.
For me is the most innovative thing ive seen since bitcoin.

pro tip regarding this: it is possible to setup a passphrase that is "added" to the seed (you have to enter this on the wallet host). That way the passphrase has to be brute-forced, too (or key-logged beforehand). That passphrase is not stored on trezor. You can even use multiple different ones (resulting in different wallets) for plausible deniability.

I am talking about IPOs at all they are not guarante price no mater in what you invest - i like technology behind but...
Bithsares raped people in shares graph  and chart is collapsing today with demand it can go high it can go down also. 150BTC per share stake that will be 10x loss  if they would buy today...

Anyway this is best fair IPO i have ever seen serious. - cut overhype part in march

i refer to title: "Bitshares-PTS to double/triple in price" title like that is red light :-)
anywya i back up technology more than price.