Bitshares - State of the Network - 14th November 2017

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Welcome to the 61st Bitshares State of the Network (BSotN) report. A weekly report focusing on the changes in the ecosystem and track longer term changes in a effort to identify emerging trends and changes in the Bitshares platform.

Bitshares - State of the Network - 14th November 2017

The Bitshares State of the Network Reports seeks to combine raw data from a wide range of metrics and combine them into meaningful information to identify emerging trends and changes in the Bitshares network.

Observation from this week

This section will highlight any observations made while analysing the data.

  • The Bitshares governance model is in full swing with 4 worker proposals currently being funded and 3 new proposed workers being voted on. 1 of the proposals already has the votes required to become funded on the proposed start date.

  • @lzmlam (Zicen, Bitshares Witness) and Bitcrab (Long time Bitshares supporter) have proposed a new worker proposal titled 'BTS Joint Marketing Campaign of Exchanges'. The proposal aims to work with 3 Exchanges to hold co-marketing activities to raise awareness and increase the popularity with Chinese investors. As members of the YOYOW team they have executed similar campaigns in the past with great success. This proposal currently has enough shareholder support to become and active worker on the start date proposed (24th-Nov). You can find all the details HERE

  • @abit has proposed a core development worker proposal, which if approved will see him commit 20 hours per month for 4 months at a rate of $2000 BitUSD per month for further development of Bitshares-Core; task include code review, bug fixes, new feature development, documentation, mentoring and coordination. The worker is using a USD escrow which will see 3/4 signatories sign off on any payment. Abitmore is a long time Bitshares supporter who has contributed a huge amount to the Bitshares ecosystem in the past; He is also the highest ranked witness in terms of shareholder votes. You can find the proposal HERE. This worker is currently just short of being approved by shareholders at the time of writing but I expect this will be fully approved by the start date of 1st-Dec as you would be hard pressed to find anyone in the community that does not recognise the value that Abitmore has and will bring to the platform

  • BlockchainProjectsBV has proposed a worker proposal that would see them deploy and maintain core infrastructure for the Bitshares network. The aim of this proposal is to provide core infrastructure to increase the networks redundancy and reduce its reliance on business partners. Core services would include a faucet, public API nodes as well as seed nodes with a focus on geographically distributed load balanced servers. The worker also proposes to work on development of Bitshares docker containers allowing for rapid deployment of nodes as well as servers for the testnet. You can find the full details of this proposal HERE

  • There is a lot of confusion or hype stemming from articles posted on cointelegraph and Forbes with comments such as "[Waves] is implementing new technology to enable the network to process thousands of transactions per minute and become what is claimed as the "fastest decentralized blockchain" platform in the world.". A+ for marketing! But their claims fall short (very short) of reality. Waves has claimed on their stress test they achieved "An average throughput of 2,000 txs/minute. Peak bandwidth was 17,000 txs/minute.". In relation to the quote "fastest decentralized blockchain" all I can say is that Graphene based networks such as Steem and Bitshares can process much higher rates than Waves has stated. In fact the Bitshares network was stress tested back in March 2017 on geographically distributed nodes with peak processing rates of 3,328 transactions PER SECOND (199,680 transactions per minute) more than 10x the Waves stress test results. I know this to be a fact as I was a node operator in the stresstest and look forward to contributing to the next stress test. Another interesting note is that Bitshares transactions can contain multiple operations (For example, you could include an operation to cancel an order and create a new order in a single transaction - this example is being used by trading bots that operate on the Bitshares network). The stresstest also included a component to test the amount of operations that could be processed on the network; The peak was 14,035 Operations Per Second (842,100 per minute). Bitshares has demonstrated the ability to process 3,328 TPS. You can view the Bitshares stresstest HERE

  • The Bit Universe team have released an updated version of the BitShares Wallet & Trade mobile app (v 1.2.1.4), You can find it on the Google Play store HERE

  • Bitshares wallets at PoloniEX are in maintenance mode at the moment; Bitshares developers are in touch with PoloniEX to find out why this is the case and assist if required.

  • CoinCentral has done a great introduction piece titled 'What is Bitshares? The Ultimate Guide for Beginners'. The educational piece looks into the Graphene ecosystem, technical specs, MPAs, DPOS, Governance and the DEX itself. Recommend everybody check out this resource as it might be a good tool to help new users get a better understanding of the platform. You can find the article HERE

  • @kalinh has done a good comparison of the two authentications models available to Bitshares users. This comparison compares the Wallet and Account models and explores the different advantages of each model. You can find the article HERE

  • This week’s Bitshares hangout recording has been published and is available HERE

  • Current registered wallets/accounts within the Bitshares network is 461891; an increase of 4969 wallets/accounts since last week

  • The last asset registered this week is asset #2367 and it is named 'OPEN.XPO' registered by 'openledger-wallet' with the description 'OPEN.XPO asset is backed 1:1 by the real XPO on Xronos blockchain, and can be deposited and withdrawn using gateway operated by OpenLedger ApS, company registered in Denmark, part of EU. ( https://openledger.io ) XRONOS mission is to create truly decentralized, stable and massively-applied payment instrument. For more info please visit: https://xronos.space/'.

Smartcoin issuance chart showing weekly change since the start of 2017

Bitshares stress test results

Bitshares DEX Operations per day (Only includes market activates)

blocktivity.info / @blocktivity - Blockchain Activity Matrix

How Fast is BitShares? World's Fastest Blockchain & DEX - Go Bitshares

Bitshares Stresstest from March 2017

Bitshares Distribution

This sections seeks to analyse the current distribution of the network. We look at the current supply, top 100 hodlers, Orders on the Bitshares Decentralized Exchange (DEX), Reserve pool balance and Income growth.

DistributionBalanceChange W/WChange W/W %
BTS Supply2,601,969,023 399,510.000.02%
BTS Stealth287,410 31.000.01%
BTS in Open Orders (DEX - T250)10404019.83 2,146,877.0028.84%
Reserve Pool998603932 -399,510.00-0.04%
RP Accumulated fees190,293 -1,921.00-1.00%
Collateral (top 250) backing Smartcoins430547078 -5,058,780.00-1.20%
Top 100 Total1,199,993,740 5,826,702.000.47%
Top 100 - minus Exchanges475,843,877 28,358,652.006.26%
Exchanges724,149,863 -22,531,950.00-2.87%
Non Exchanges1,877,819,160 22,931,460.001.26%

Profit/Expenses from the Bitshares Reserve Pool

The chart below show historic profit/expense from the Bitshares Reserve Pool where a positive number represents a W/W profit and a negative number means a W/W expense; Bitshares expenses include witness and worker pay and income includes network fees.

BTS Trading

Looking at the most active trading pairs for Bitshares (BTS). Data displayed is a 24 hour snapshot as taken on the date of this report and not a reflection on the week as a whole.

MarketLast PricePrice USD24hr Vol BTS24hr Vol USDVol %Vol % Change W/W
BTC0.000012590.0818032933,463,280.562,737,406.42100.0%42.7%
EUR0.08410040.102.970.290.0%

Worker Proposals

This section will identify the current approved and pending worker proposals

Active Worker:

Proposed Worker

DEX: Most Active Markets

This section will show the BTS markets within the DEX and seek to highlight the most active markets.

The most active base pair is BTS and the top 3 pairs are CNY, USD and Open.BTC

Smartcoins

This sections seeks to analyse the current supply and market capitalisation of the Bitshares Smartcoins.

AssetSupplyPriceMarket Cap BTSMarket Cap USDSupply Change W/W
BTS2,601,969,0230.0812,601,969,023$211,540,081.57 0.015%
BTS Stealth287,4100.081287,410$23,366.43 0.011%
Reserve Pool998,603,9320.081998,603,932$81,186,499.67 -0.040%
Accumulated fees190,2930.081190,293$15,470.82 -0.999%
BitUSD4,050,14411.8447,953,705$4,050,144.00 9.179%
BitCNY48,148,2251.7986,185,323$7,006,866.74 1.677%
BitEUR60,22313.98841,918$68,447.90 9.108%
BitBTC49.778,2693,889,969$316,254.50 11.435%
BitGold90156581,409,220$114,569.590.000%
BitSilver8,8202091,843,380$149,866.790.000%
Ruble2,277,1740.1967447,920$36,415.91 20.778%
HERO9931,9451,931,385$157,021.60 8.882%

Referral Stats

This section will track user referrals, to gauge active refers overtime. The chart below shows in blue the total number of referred users and in orange the new referrals for this week.

AccountReferralsChange W/W
bitshares-munich52986
btsabc4523102
compumatrix1242939
sdr23430
digital-nomad213617
jianjolly-017420
bituniverse1354144
stormheart11450
cryptofresh100928
xeroc836128
ebit7726
fav6772
predprocessing20176742

Vote Proxies

This section will track the change in proxy voting

AccountOpinionsFollowersWeight (M)Weight Change (M)
xeroc31211226.4 -2.3
bitcrab6664213.3 -1
still1014164.2 53.3
baozi237060.4 -9.6
fav2212939.9 -1.4
laomao35431.2 -0.1
blckchnd2270324.6 -0.1
abit4146217.7 -0.1
bitshares-munich-wallet192214.5 -0.4
btsabc58769.9 -1.4

Active Witnesses

This section will track top 25 active witnesses and the changes in support

RankWitnessVotesMissedMissed W/W
1in.abit 1.6.35 810.3705
2bhuz 1.6.17 742.215661
3verbaltech2 1.6.34 738.43049333
4 witness.yao 1.6.71 724.535511
5 wackou 1.6.18 720.1184024
6 witness.still 1.6.69 717.19111
7 openledger-dc 1.6.76 710.85903
8 xn-delegate 1.6.59 69628171
9 roelandp 1.6.74 680.227
10 rnglab 1.6.45 676.320573
11 blckchnd 1.6.75 675.88983
12 sahkan-bitshares 1.6.73 655.6889
13 elmato 1.6.20 648.74269
14delegate-1.lafona 1.6.28 632.728081
15 crazybit 1.6.84 626.7451
16 xeldal 1.6.22 6162252
17 delegate.baozi 1.6.37 517.51470
18 xman 1.6.64 495.41638
19 delegate.freedom 1.6.63 4544859
20 delegate.ihashfury 1.6.26 416.3869
21 fox 1.6.16 398.23608
22 mr.agsexplorer 1.6.24 381.85725
23 cyrano 1.6.21 3143539
24delegate-clayop 1.6.27 311.64842
25 harvey-xts 1.6.23 310.55809

Top 100 Distribution including Exchanges

This section looks at the top 100 rich list and compares account balances, this section will seek to identify changes in ownership which may lead to interesting investigations and early warning signs of upcoming projects

RankAccountBalance(inc orders)OrdersChange W/WChange W/W %
1poloniexcoldstorage230,001,2040-0.00%
2poloniexwallet228,225,40403,403,636.00 1.51%
3bitcc-bts-cold113,192,3520-11,999,283.00 -9.58%
4bittrex-deposit64,453,7180-3,372,865.00 -4.97%
5yun-bts31,140,3660-106,351.00 -0.34%
6zbbts29,353,739024,657,601.00 525.06%
7btschbtc28,000,9880-10,000,001.00 -26.32%
8jubi-bts25,686,720042,914.00 0.17%
9stan15,217,6200-0.00%
10abc.btsbots15,000,046250006,000,000.00 66.67%
11echocold112,847,6560-0.00%
12alexna6412,143,6950-0.00%
13evan10,659,6920-0.00%
14jy20179,750,5200-0.00%
15getch-bts9,533,3590-0.00%
16virtual-ventures9,318,0780-0.00%
17roje8,850,4190-0.00%
18ibilitlan-scoltock8,673,9580-0.00%
19a2dcdf323a8a576408f62604b17a8a528,157,6890-440,803.00 -5.13%
20cievia-waugaman7,990,2130-0.00%
21graphene20157,744,4510-0.00%
22invictus7,494,3640-0.00%
23jiny27,438,9840-0.00%
24haeassa-granovsky7,431,9310-0.00%
25exxbts7,145,11104,038,161.00 129.97%
26cass7,000,0100-0.00%
27bitcoinindonesia6,566,8920-1,610,077.00 -19.69%
28abinia-rivard6,550,5630-0.00%
29keebler-kahn6,500,7700-0.00%
30tyrone-shoelaces5,996,0900-0.00%
31fericia-brick5,766,6230-0.00%
32btszhqxf5,734,7120-0.00%
33tsuratsura-35575,667,7720-0.00%
34yoyow.team5,579,0490-101.00 0.00%
35storj5,547,7260307,290.00 5.86%
36spring5,482,7040-0.00%
37hnnr85,460,9970-0.00%
38linhan5,425,0950-0.00%
39cadord-ozois5,423,1730-0.00%
40xhunter5,192,0940-0.00%
41jeraud-kanze5,172,6980-0.00%
42btsabc-lclouis3265,101,298056,644.00 1.12%
43brother-john5,074,5730-0.00%
44arbor45,008,5370-0.00%
45geravia-mackinnon4,777,6910-0.00%
46oh-bts4,417,0850-0.00%
47xgqing4,351,9030-0.00%
48btsxzzh24,348,4320-0.00%
49bts-morning4,266,6550343,042.00 8.74%
50quonael-lievesley4,087,2350-0.00%
51slim4,057,6400-0.00%
52coldstorage14,000,0000-0.00%
53super-bts3,999,9900-0.00%
54wesley-waugaman3,921,0270-0.00%
55jonnybitcoin3,908,0540175,097.00 4.69%
56serg3,867,3490-0.00%
57livecoin-net3,815,2570-6,144.00 -0.16%
58goodc0re3,778,2070-0.00%
59wjlsf3,700,0000-0.00%
60aloha3,532,27703,440,212.00 3736.72%
61jackkang3,482,9380-0.00%
62btercom3,449,1110-500,000.00 -12.66%
63bitspark-zephyr3,422,2130-1,733.00 -0.05%
64codinat3,405,0010-0.00%
65stat-dude3,367,8350456,541.00 15.68%
66laplap53,341,2710-0.00%
67jaehyuk3,227,0530-0.00%
68bafohald-degeorge3,189,8660-0.00%
69scottmclane3,177,1160-0.00%
70wind-flower3,174,1920-0.00%
71bilbo-baggins3,151,0300-0.00%
72lao-wallet3,140,2420-0.00%
73wys3,124,9200-0.00%
74bts-scotter3,059,307112-0.00%
75null-account3,011,9470-0.00%
76billion-hero-prize3,000,0000-0.00%
77tel-9112,909,1360-0.00%
78kryptobeast072,849,9800-0.00%
79zhanzhang2,791,5260-2.00 0.00%
80koocaa2,781,3550-0.00%
81tong-xin2,772,1662772001-0.00%
82roland.sun2,733,5750-0.00%
83random1232,700,6070-0.00%
84hardfork22,545,4130-0.00%
85cybermonetarist2,531,73301,531,733.00 153.17%
86chainsquad2,528,0140-0.00%
87thread2,526,0680-0.00%
88f88992,514,5090-0.00%
89hodor2,509,8800-0.00%
90dark-angel2,505,7770-0.00%
91mybak2,502,8240-0.00%
92dev.bitsharesblocks2,419,6710-0.00%
93spook2,296,8490-0.00%
94poloniex2,234,2440-0.00%
95nana-roseannadana2,209,9860-0.00%
96yvg19002,201,0370-0.00%
97kedaliwin-tefft2,192,4330-0.00%
98wayne-btsx2,190,9120127,099.00 6.16%
99talos2,161,5390-0.00%
100top-quants2,128,0090-0.00%

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Rumor is that Binance will list BTS in December. Not investment advice. ;)

Everyone should do their research well, but bts is a good investment.

@steempower do you have any idea when will Bitspark.io will start accepting Bitshares for their remittance service? I'm tired of Bitcoin's high fee. Please let me know. Thank you!

I think you can visit https://zephyr.bitspark.io/ and see the timeline (in its page) to know details. Also you can login zephyr page and raise one ticket to their team to ask directly.

I already did that days ago. No answer from them.

Its always great to see these reports. So thorough and it's almost impossible to sift through Telegram. Any thoughts on a switch back to the Forums?

Thanks again for all these great news! I am pleased to see the rise of BTS STEALTH, now I want to invest into it too and will try to find a way to do so right now!

Namaste :)

I am going to look into becoming a lifetime member. Bitshares is the one platform I wish I got into sooner, I have had my eyes on it for a little while now.

Seems i'm out of luck with bitshares, locked myself out of €75,- of bts :-(

Somebody needs to be working with Bittrex to open up BTS BTC trading again. I am done with BTS for now because of this issue.

Could you explain why? I honestly have little use for BTS being on bittrex, as i can just sell my bts on openledger and send it to anywhere from there, i got into this in the first place because allot of my friends had there accounts closed on bittrex.

The Bitshares Foundation is working directly with Bittrex to relist.

Thank you @steempower for sharing all these information. Definitely a fan of the DAC model developed here... all entrepreneurs should use Bitshares!

Thanks for the information

Thanks @steempower for sharing updates of an amazing DEX platform... Going neck to neck with Steem in terms of marketcap.

Blockchain technology is doing so well as all cryptocurrencies rely on it just as bitshares recently a landsec which is listed on the FTSE 100-listed firm. Conceded it deals with a lot of contracts from leasing properties to hiring contractors.

When asked if blockchain technology would be used in thier part of the business, Chief Executive Robert Noel replied in the affirmative.

"Absolutely... If you look at the way what we provide, which is services to business, and those services are around contract, anything that speeds up archaic land law, and contract law, and leasing law, etcetera, will be welcomed," Noel told CNBC in a TV interview.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

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Hey @steempower I am super excited with the future and growth of BTS and assuming it will hit 1$ mark this year by Dec. 2018.
Thanks again .

I need to start using bitshares, seems contradictory to me that I'm a big enthusiast of decentralization and I'm using centralized exchanges!

Thanks for the very useful sharing

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Thank you @steempower for sharing all of these information. Definitely a fan of the DAC model developed here... all entrepreneurs should use Bitshares!

great post thanks for sharing

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Great, but too much info for me ;-)

Great information dude

Thank you very much for share. I'm going to resteem it.

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that Binance will list BTS in December. Not investment advice yes boss..

Bitcrab proposal for bitCNY force settlement offset increase from 1% to 5% is Approved.
https://cryptofresh.com/p/1.10.5244
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=25293.0

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

- Winston Churchill

Thank you Steempower, with your post I will invest in it, I'm very careful when it comes to investing digital due to fraudulent activities most especially in Nigeria. But am beginning to understand about Bitcoin investment. Thank you

Woow amazing..
Thanks for sharing @steempower

Nice update.
did you just say bitshare faster than flash ? If so, then it's definitely faster than light

Thank you @steempower for sharing all these information. Bitshares is better than bitcoin. BTC is fast few days charging high fees. Bitcoin Transactions is so expensive. This is very Good.

Wow, those Waves people are dishonest!

Thanks for halpe.

love it....keep it up

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Great work, just invested some money in Bitshares.

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Excellent post. I've been falling in love with Bitshares and I believe it has amazing potential.

I just recently invested some money in BTS and plan to invest more and more with each paycheck. Bitshares, steem, and IOTA are my top 3 right now. :)

why those three? you are impressed with their recent annual performance?

<3 Bithshares!!

Thanks a lot @steempower for sharing this updates of an amazing DEX platform, Going neck to neck with Steem in terms of marketcap.....

I couldn't figure out how to send my BTS from Bittrex to the DEX, so I had to send to Poloniex. Now I see their wallet is under contruction. :-[

It isn't clear how to send the coin to the DEX. It is some kind of special use case, unlike all the other coins.

You simply send the BTS to your Bitshares account name where you would normally put in the address. Hope that helps.

I'm trying to send it from an exchange. Does that still work that way?

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THX for your effort. But me(@lzmlam) is not zicen but zhaomu(zhaomu @OpenLedger in telegram group)

This is showing me how I should invest into bitshares because it is great. Thanks for all the info it has taught me a lot about bitshares. Thanks.

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Great post as always.

This is what I find incredibly frustrating. Where is the marketing of Bitshares? Why don't people know it is the fastest Blockchain in the land?

And before anyone dives in saying I should market it myself, I already got a job and marketing ain't my skillset. The sheer number of people completely oblivious to Bitshares in the crypto sphere alone is astonishing.

Thanks for sharing this important info with all of us

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such an informative post. its like you just post mar-tamed the whole Bitshare system. Amazing .

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Great report @steempower, keep up the good work :)
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Its a great information for all of us, @steempower we will wait for next post like this.

Informative post, good article.

Hello Bitshares and Steemit friends, I have thought of a great idea that would benefit both the STEEM and Bitshares ecosystems. Why don't we simply combine their powers? Please have a look at my proposal which I just posted here!

Thanks for your time :)

bitshares is moving up nicely. No rush, No pump, getting ready for takeoff. LIKE! 👍

Interesting info. I wish it was just as simple to get some Bitshares. Been stuggling with it for two days now. But I'm a believer: I won't give up ;-)

An easy way is to use https://blocktrades.us/ or from your Steem wallet click BUY STEEM and it will take you to the Blocktrades swap. You can exchange many currencies for Bitshares and you simply put in your Bitshares account name and click generate wallet to find the address to send it to. Hope that helps!

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