This is good @officialfuzzy but sad am not well vested in bitshares, will do well to learn about it the more.

Looking forward to it. I'll be in attendance for this one.

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# [Hertz](https://sites.google.com/view/hertz-aba/home) updates!

We're currently sitting at [9 active price feed publishers](https://btsapi.grcnode.co.uk/home), using 3 separate Bitshares price feed scripts to continuously provide the Bitshares network a stable median settle price for Hertz in a decentralized manner.

<a href="https://btsapi.grcnode.co.uk/home">![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUPzBp47GuechnHmoCSLCqDhZ5ykvFeMUFjzTdr2XRgUw/image.png)</a>

Currently Hertz is configured to become active once we've got 10 active price feed publishers, increased from 9. Once we pass 10 this will be decreased to 7 so as to not disable if one price feed publisher stops.

There's an [active 750 bitUSD bounty on the implementation of Hertz in the btsprice price feed script](https://github.com/pch957/btsprice/issues/4) used primarily by the Chinese Bitshares community. The hope is that once we've got full price feed coverage, the quantity of price feed publishers can increase to the mid to high teens & the median settlement price will become much more reliable.

Currently awaiting Wackou [creating a new BTS_Tools release](https://github.com/wackou/bts_tools/issues/48) so that the pip3 python package installer includes the latest Hertz changes. Once this is the case, verbaltech2's price feeds will become accurate.

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<th>Price feed scripts</th>
<th>Explorers</th>
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<a href="https://github.com/BTS-CM/scripts">Reference Python scripts & calculator</a><br>
<a href="https://github.com/wackou/bts_tools">Wackou's 'BTS_Tools'</a><br>
<a href="https://github.com/xeroc/bitshares-pricefeed/">Xeroc's 'Bitshares-PriceFeed'</a><br>
<a href="https://github.com/pch957/btsprice/issues/4">BTSPrice Hertz bounty</a><br>
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<a href="http://open-explorer.io/#/assets/HERTZ">Open-Explorer</a><br>
<a href="http://bitshares-explorer.io/#/assets/HERTZ">Bitshares-Explorer</a><br>
<a href="https://btsapi.grcnode.co.uk/home">HUG REST API price feed monitor</a><br>
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</tbody>
</table>

### [Consider joining the HERTZ Telegram channel!](https://t.me/HERTZ_ABA)

Any questions regarding Hertz?

Best regards,
@cm-steem

Nice update..... You are the best.

Do you mean each and every participant will get 100 Beyondbits and that's just for participation? 

>This is interesting.

And I must commend your effort for the daily updates. I can't miss this opportunity for anything else.

Topic: Update: BitShares Core Team Budget Worker Proposal - 2018
Links: < DRAFT >
BitShares name: fox
Discord name: fox#7739
Twitter name: @ryanRfox

This will be a follow up to the introduction I presented last week on the draft budget worker proposal to fund a dedicated development team. I hope you have an opportunity to listen to the Hang Out recording from last week and come prepared with questions. 

First, I will spend some time describing the Backlog, Release Cycles and introduce a Bounty Process for ad hoc development of estimated backlog items by community contributors and their compensation.  

Looking forward to connecting,
Fox

Hello @officialfuzzy
It really great to see the enomorous  effort put into marketing the whole idea of bitshares , i am certainlybin on this one

Hi officialfuzzy, I have only been on Steemit fo r about a month (enjoying it very much) I am very keen to learn as much as possible about the platform and the general wider crypto space, and consequently while having a conversation with a fellow Steemian recently (and sadly my feeble brain won't let me recall who) they recommended that I follow you. This is the first post, or at least the first that I have seen, since I hunted you down and hit the follow button. As I am new and relatively uninformed I do not completely understand what your post is referring to, however I am about to go and listen to the pod cast series that you mentioned, through which things will hopefully become clearer. I feel that I am not in a position to offer anything constructive to the "hangout forum" at this point but would very much like to hear / read the contributions of others. I have now joined Discord and have excepted the invitations so hopefully all being well I will see you there. Cheers J

wow...!!!!  wonderful post @officialfuzzy  .  i like your post to much.  thanks for share the post.

This is quite innovative, I wouldn't want to miss this. Well done @officialfuzzy for sharing this.

Thanks for this 👍⚡♨️⚡

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Bitshares is the future
![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUr2haAapSRT8UPeuM4ZoHcTgGA28Kh6AtomjstCdKg7c/image.png)

Hello everyone, this week for Saturday i'm announcing myself back to the show on behalf on @apasia.tech with following topics to be discussed:

- Infrastructure review after Foundation WP deployment and further steps.
- OpenLedger - <b>As discussed with Ronny last night in Traders DEX on Telegram, this topic is closed for the show.</b>
- DEXBot liquidity software from github and its review.
- Public apology to @ash (Fav) and clearing up dust left behind which is also bad for the network and it's community.
- Bitshares Slovenia and how to become official partner ?
- Signed collaboration between apasia.tech and cum.md yesterday in Chonburi, with CEO of cum.md itself, where network and community will be able to get really specials deals that are completely transparent, as well as the document that we will disclose, where we take nothing in return and it benefits us as top 10 rated marketing/advertising companies world wide offering resources to the Bitshares who were heavily ignored, which almost went as opportunity lost. Also cum.md will bring their work behind the scenes and on-going projects to the Community of SteemIt, starting this month.

Many thanks,

BTS Account: steem-not

Luci.

Gracias por la información. esta interesante.

Owning a bitshare wallet and investing some of my sbd rewards in it has been one of the best decisions I have made this year. I am part of the discord channel but rarely get involved with discussions in there...maybe now is a perfect time to start. My bitshare account name is samirich1

* A new version of Bitshares core (v. 2.0.180202) has been released this week. The update resolves some potential issues at the API and P2P level as well as other bug fixes and improvements. All nodes are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible. 

* The Bitshares Blockchain Foundation have been working with Lykke and have announced that the Bitshares (BTS) will be listed on the Lykke exchange. This could open pairs such as BTS-BTC, BTS-EUR and BTS-USD providing further fiat on/off ramps to the network.

* BitShares has been upgraded to B- on the Weiss cryptocurrency ratings released on the 2nd of February 2018. This puts the 3 leading Graphene chains sharing a B rating. Out of all the rating B+ was the higher rating and only obtained by Steem; Bitshares, EOS, Ethereum and NEO are all tied for third place with a B-.

* @markopaasila has released his first progress report for the recently approved worker proposal 'DEXBot - User Friendly Bitshares Market Making Software'. 

* The Bitshares blockchain is currently funding 10 projects/proposals from the reserve pool. It is great to see that the Bitshares holders overall are putting the future of the platform as a priority and approving these workers to expand Bitshares into a brighter tomorrow!.

-----------------------------
**Question:** The Bitshares State of the Network report tracks to the movement of BTS on the top 100 accounts. Currently BTS used as collateral is excluded from the total BTS per account. Would the community prefer to see BTS collateral included in the total of the Top 100 account which would give a more accurate picture of accounts controlling the largest amounts of BTS?
http://www.strawpoll.me/15041321

👍 **Another great Bitshares discussion in the books.** I am happy to see the participation and guest interactions grow each week. Thank you @fox, @Taconator and @dahaz159 for the topics of discussion and @SteemPower for the weekly State of the Network report.  Thank you @ash (Fav) for moderating and recording the event each week. I'm happy to see everyone starting to use the topic slides I create in their posts and updates.

**You are all appreciated!!!**

💬 Great discussions initiated by @fox on establishing a BitShares Core Team for future development efforts. Aside from the technical advancements to the platform, this would greatly help in the long term marketing and public relation efforts to bring the Bitshares DEX and assets to the mainstream crypto-trading ecosystem. Hopefully this topic can stay at the forefront in the coming weeks.

 ⛔ **There is an issue that needs to be discussed among those with the technical background to provide answers to it.** In recent days many of us have been experiencing multiple failed transactions on the DEX as the daily transaction volume has increased.  Each time I get a failure notice I check Blocktivity.info to see where the transaction rate is at. Just to note, I have never had a failed transaction on days under 1,000,000 mark.

We see Bitshares doing it's thing on the technical side, not even breaking 0.1% capacity for handling the transactions, even though we are now experiencing an increase in failures to complete them.
![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZsgxL43bTpmmKdGMfvSpagv4tpSoCQ3NMeFXZr5EtCmE/image.png)

Are there issues with nodes, does the base-level server requirements for running a node need to be increased (like they did recently on STEEM) to handle the increase in average daily transactions?

![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXK2xK64gcvcDko9452LGAkxVk2kwYSVWqGrRdRnLo7j4/image.png)

##### [Great anthology of FAQs, Tutorials, and Developer Guides](https://steemit.com/bitshares/@tsugimoto/bitshares-a-colloction-of-developers-tutorial-faqs-and-more)
_Suggested Duration: 2 minutes_

@tsugimoto has prepared a great anthology of FAQs, Tutorials, and Guides for the BitShares system. There are numerous helpful articles that have been prepared by various members of the community. This post provides a single place where many of those articles can more easily be found.

Topics cover general overview, accounts, assets, integration guides, blockchain interactions, witnesses, committees, and worker proposals.

##### New BitShares Core 2.0.180202
_Suggested Duration: 2 minutes_

The [full release notes](https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/releases/tag/2.0.180202) describe more changes **to nodes** including, but not limited to:

* New API calls
* Improvements to docker container build scripts and documentation
* Improvements to existing API calls
* Major improvements to API stability
* Major cleanups

Thank you for the infromation, it would be nice to participate to such event :)

That's a really great initiative.. I would definitely want to listen in on that.. 
I believe powerful and essential topics will be addressed on that hangout..

Wow..  This is amazing. I so much believe in bitshares and the future it has that's why I intend converting my SBDs to Bitshares.. 

We even had a hangout with @ejemai yesterday and I was present there.  I learnt so much about bitshares,how to buy and how to back up account....  Right there more than 20people got their bitshares account opened...  You can check here https://steemit.com/eos/@udembahenry/steemit-uyo-eos-hangout-with-ejemai for full details about the yesterday hangout.

This week we (@rudex) posted our 1st monthly [witness report for bitshares](https://steemit.com/witness/@blockchained/monthly-witness-report-for-blckchnd-1-and-rudex-update) that sarizes what we did in 2017,  so I plan come and talk about that, and our plans for February (spoiler: one of the things would be 2nd report, that would be a summary of our January activities).

Very good picture and your story