What is Bitshares?

Bitshares is a Decentralised Autonomous Corporation that uses the Delegated Proof of Stake (DPOS) governance system instead of the traditional Proof of Work (POW) used by bitcoin. The Bitshares has a core token BTS which is used to pay for fees on the network.
What DPOS means is that every bitshares stakeholder has a stake in the governance of the network, this stake is used to vote in delegates(committee) and block producers (witnesses) who ensure the smooth running of the network.

The bitshares Network is tailor made for everyone to be their own bank, here you can store your favourite currencies, trade real world assets, save money in stable coins and perform day day transactions with ease.
It has the following features:

• Lightning fast, fully-confirmed, on-chain transactions with 3 second blocks (1.5 sec on average)
• Full-fledged Decentralised Exchange (DEX) with simple/advanced Trader's Tools
• No KYC
• Thousands of coins to choose from and trade
• Free accounts
• Recently blew through 3,328 transactions per second (tps) with over 14,000 ops per second. (see blocktivity.info)
• Decentralised order books
• Prediction markets
• Multiple block explorers
• Blockchain logins (check out BEET)
• Tons of free api nodes you can connect to
• Supported by multiple Exchanges and Bridges (godex.io, stealthex, simpleswap, blocktrades, etc)
• User-issued assets and coin factory
• Multiple mobile wallets (check out BiTSy)
• Self-funding blockchain with a multi-million Dollar reserve pool
• Direct-debit options
• Weighted, Hierarchical and Deterministic Multi-signing (Multisig) accounts
• Escrow services
• Cross-chain HTLC Atomic Swaps (no more CEX's!)
• 100% free and open source software (FOSS - Open your own Decentralized Gateway!)
• No counterparty, no middlemen, no permissioned or centralised side-chains needed
• No KYC crap
• Affiliate/referral rewards program with discounts and 80% cashback
• Paper wallets
• Blinded transactions for privacy
• 20+ provably-collateralised Smartcoins/Stable-coins (upgrade in progress)
• Collateralised debt positions (zero-counterparty loans/borrowing of stablecoins (like Honest.USD, Honest.XAG, bitUSD, bitEUR, bitGold, bitSilver, etc))
• Recurring payments (bills, subscriptions, etc)
• Invoicing and payment Proposal system
• Scheduled payments (pensions, employee bonuses, etc)
• Whitelisting/Blacklisting
• Huge open source repositories and Developer community
• On-chain voting (the self-funding blockchain pays the block producers, node admins, developers, marketers, etc. Vote for your favorites)
• Human-readable account names/addresses (nathancustomboats, mobile-papa, bobs-bigboy-52, etc)
• dApp tools and libraries
• Hacking bounties (earn thousands of dollars to find a bug!)
• Decentralised, encrypted messaging
• 51% Attacks are impossible (see crypto51.app)
• Cold Storage (Ledger Nano, etc)
• ID Theft is impossible
• No KYC, ever.
• A robust Point Of Sale network (check out PalmPay)
• A growing Teller network (humans who will trade privately with you)
• Stakeholder approved funding for your projects or ICO
• Vesting Balances
• Barter tools
• Timed Transfers
• ..and way more!

Warning: Once you start trading, earning and sending BTS coins and assets around in 3 seconds or less, of any amount, with near-zero fees, you'll be hooked.
Slow chains.. tremble.

Try their web wallet:
http://wallet.bitshares.org
Bitshares Community Support on..
Telegram: http://www.t.me/BTStalk
Keybase: http://keybase.io/team/Bitshares
Try the PalmPay point of sale dApp:
http://www.PalmPay.io
http://www.PalmPay.mx
http://www.PalmPay.ro
http://www.PalmPay.com.br
Try the BiTSy android wallet:
http://www.BiTSy-wallet.com
Free your mind, leave the system, diversify into other protocols (POW, DPOS, POS), agorise and decentralise.
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