Beyond Bitcoin Community

#1 PeerPlays weekly update - for more info, visit www.peerplays.com/news #2 Gridcoin Introduction - upvote here: http://ow.ly/VDkN3024T8k #3 Cylonmaker2053's introduction of BitShares and Steem into his undergrad investing course and trading competition! #4 Speculation and opinions on Dan Larimer's proposal to improve Steem - weigh in on the conversation here: http://ow.ly/1kx63024T7O

Introduction: Collectively, user-generated content has created billions of dollars worth of value for the shareholders of social media companies, such as Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter. In 2014, Reddit hypothesized that its platform would be improved if everyone who contributed to reddit.com by posting stories, adding comments or voting were rewarded with a fair share in Reddit, Inc . Steem aims to support social media and online communities by 1 returning much of its value to the people who provide valuable contributions by rewarding them with cryptocurrency, and through this process create a currency that is able to reach a broad market, including people who have yet to participate in any cryptocurrency economy. There are some key principles that have been used to guide the design of Steem. The most important principle is that everyone who contributes to a venture should receive pro-rata ownership, payment or debt from the venture. This principle is the same principle that is applied to all startups as they allocate shares at founding and during subsequent funding rounds. The second principle is that all forms of capital are equally valuable. This means that those who contribute their scarce time and attention toward producing and curating content for others are just as valuable as those who contribute their scarce cash. This is the sweat equity principle and is a concept that prior cryptocurrencies have often had trouble providing to 2 more than a few dozen individuals. (read more at steemit.com)

CyberFund joins to talk about cyber.fund and the services offered and the metrics they use to grade various crypto projects. Guest speaker for CyberFund: Hipster (https://gitter.im/orgs/cyberFund/rooms) PeerPlays updates provided by guest speaker Cryptoprometheus (http://www.peerplays.com/news/core-development-team) The community talks Monero & the importance of fungibility.

This weeks hangout was a interesting mix of community updates, BitShares in academia and the future of liquidity. In this Hangout: Peerplays gives out the latest update about the Logo Competition. Please join and win up to $1250 (http://www.peerplays.com/news/peerplays-logo-design-contest-1250-grand-prize). Jon presented an update about the current DAO proposal and it its delay after the trouble around the DAO. Christoph Hering and the team from BitShares Munich is discussing the advantages of stealth transactions at the BitShares Platform. They are also sparking a discussion about the upcoming liquidity changes through the BlockPOS system. Today the BitShares community was discussing multiple strategies how to increase liquidity. We also celebrated new academic papers about BitShares, Graphene and Steem and the superiority of Delegated Proof of State analysed in a new research paper! https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmg/pdf/2016/06/kpmg-blockchain-consensus-mechanism.pdf

Johnathan Baha'i and Michael Maloney of PeerPlays update us that the token crowdsale SOLD OUT! Their first use of the funds? Logo Competition? Founders of STEEM, Dan Larimer and Ned Scott join the community to give a basic overview of curation reward tweaks on Steemit.com. KenCode and the team from BitShares Munich Proposes a Beyond Bitcoin site upgrade. Please vote for this proposal at steemit.com if you would like to help fund it without paying a dime!

In this Hangout: PeerPlays updates their DAO Proposal, Ronny Boesing of OpenLedger discusses Decentralized Conglomerates and future plans for BitTeaser, ICOO, OpenLedger...and announces the listing of all OMNI tokens on OpenLedger. Kencode and Chris4210 of BitShares Munich join us to provide updates on Stealth transactions, Echo and much more!

We catch up to Christoph to talk shop about what is happening in the cryptospace, where he believe bitshare's place is in the future - its unique value propositions and, of course, his new status as a BitShares Committee Member. Congratulations Chris! If anyone would like to contact Chris, please do so using the provided email contact: Chris@BitShares-munich.de Also make sure to check out the links provided to learn more about what Chris, Ken and the team at BitShares Munich are up to! www.BitShares-Munich.de www.my-echo.com

TuckFheman brings up the topic of streemian. The community speaks about what streemian offers after Tuck clears his name Datasecuritynode & Cryptoprometheus update us on the state of the Peerplays DAO proposal Merivercap of BitCash Provides an update and requests Alpha testers for bitcash's wallet!

Bunkerchain Labs gives a short update on Peerplays and the success thus far of the crowdfunder (buy in at peerplays.com). Bytemaster Gives and update on steem and a recommendation for bitshares to follow suit and implement the changes Steem recently did to ensure minimal downtime from hardforks. Then discusses why BitShares is still alive and kicking. Ingenesist brings up copyright in terms of steem and we focus on resolving this potential future issue.

Bytemaster updates us that Steemit.com (Steem), "the DAO" and MKR are bringing more users to the BitShares Decentralized Exchange. Chris and Kencode update us on the award BitShares munich has recently earned. Merivercap of BitCash informs us all that they now have the beginnings of a wonderful thing: a wallet with no centrally controlled assets. Trade and hold bitassets, Bitcoin or BitShares! Solomon Updates us on the acquisition of Codal for the construction of the MVP needed for the Sollars And Sense Kickstarter. Dan Robles "Ingenesist" gives us a quick layout of his plans and nibbles at the ideas waiting to be released in the coming weeks in his whitepaper for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). And the blockchain marches on!

Bytemaster joins us to talk about steem after it reaches CMC top 10 status. Datasecuritynode (aka bunkerchainlabs) and Cryptoprometheus join us to update on Peerplays milestones and development plans. (Cryptoprometheus once again commits to the Peerplays Showdown...) Francois from ElectricChain joins to talk solarcoin and the electricchain project. If you appreciate our efforts and would like to help us keep this vital service growing and thriving, please consider visiting us on https://steemit.com/recent/beyondbitcoin and upvote our content! Steemit pays us for trending content. Make us trend and Steem pays all of us!

Today Bytemaster, Cryptoprometheus, Datasecuritynode, Kencode and others speak about various projects. Bytemaster and the community talk about the merits of the new Graphene blockchain Steem, as well as the launch party and beginning of the crowdfunder for their graphene based chain called Peerplays. Kencode gives us a deeper understanding of how OPENPOS will only gain value as new BitShares wallets hit the scene. These hangouts are meant to bring crypto enthusiasts together to form partnerships and learn from one another's experiences in a new and fast-paced sector. Please upvote our beyond bitcoin hangout links on Steemit.com and help fund our efforts (and yours in return)!

Today we were treated to the unveiling of another Graphene-based chain soon to be launched and powered by BitShares. PeerPlays is going to be yet another powerful face of the technology top crypto-advocates recommend. CryptoPrometheus and BunkerChainLabs join the Beyond Bitcoin community to answer questions and tell those interested about how they can support this project. Enjoy the hangout and feel free to join us every Friday @ 11am EST to report live! Simply joining gives you a free press pass!

The beyond bitcoin community converges for yet another week of amazing conversation. We speak more about Bitshares, the potential for Bitshares 3.0? And the new blockchain based social network - Steem. Enjoy everyone and thank you!

Beyond Bitcoin Hangout 4/15/2016 w/ Merivercap about bitCash.