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BitShares is a revolutionary new bank and exchange that could rival the value of the largest banks in the world such as JP Morgan and Bank of America in just a few years. How could this new upstart grow so quickly? BitShares offers a bank account that earns 5% interest where funds can be transferred in minutes anywhere in the world with more privacy and security than a Swiss bank account. Your account can never be frozen, your funds cannot be seized, and the bank can never face collapse due to loan defaults or fraud. All of this is made possible without requiring any employees, lawyers, regulatory compliance, vaults, buildings, and other infrastructure required by traditional banks. Unlike existing banks, you can hold your balance denominated in gold, silver, oil, or other commodities in additional to national currencies while earning 5% interest.



In addition to acting as a bank, BitShares also serves as an exchange where currencies, commodities, and stock derivatives can be traded with most of the features used by professional traders including shorts and options. The Bank takes a cut on every transaction and pays 100% of these transaction fees as dividends to the shareholders. BitShares can achieve this feat using the same technology that makes Bitcoin possible, irrevokable decentralized automated consensus forming.



For a quick comparison of BitShares to Bitcoin you can view Bitcoin as stock in a company that earns no profits, pays 100% of its revenue to security guards, and then debases shareholders by 12% per year to fund security. Despite the inefficiencies and costs, Bitcoin has grown to be worth over $12 billion dollars in less than 5 years. How much more valuable would Bitcoin be if it could turn a profit while offering far more powerful services? The value of owning shares in this new Bank will exceed two times the value of all balances of in gold, silver, oil, and currency accounts. If the largest banks can achieve deposits of over $1 trillion dollars with no meaningful interest, how many deposits could BitShares attract and what would that mean for the value of the bank?



If you would like to get in on the ground floor of such a revolutionary decentralized business you can get involved by contributing your time, money, and services as part of the growing movement at http://bitsharestalk.org

Updating the Invictus website has been a time intensive process where we have had a very hard time getting everything from logos, to look and feel, to content addressed. It is our single biggest embarrassment right now and we want it resolved as quickly has humanly possible to the highest degree of quality possible. Super3 has been given the task of managing our website, but his time and skill set is only part of what is needed. I have asked Super3 to perform emergency updates, but we need something far better than we have right now and as soon as possible. I know there are many skilled developers, artists, writers, etc that are just waiting for an opportunity to get involved and earn some PTS.This bounty is for a complete solution and will probably require a team of people to self-organize and divide up tasks. $24,000 worth of PTS aught to be enough to motivate that kind of behavior as there is plenty to go around. It also indicates our intent for the website to be very high quality, with a solid message, integrated feel, etc. This is our public face and getting this done right should cause a nice BUMP in PTS price and thus make more money available to fund other development.I would like to propose some concepts.... Invictus Innovations builds decentralized businesses and applications. Almost every one of our products has some kind of business model, stock, or pricing mechanism. Our website should be selling the value proposition of what we are doing as the first impression people get. They need to quickly grasp some high level concepts and only a small subset of users cares to dig deeper and read walls of text that and philosophy that we have today.Given this model, I would like our website to display each of our core products with a company summary like you get when you visit etrade/etc. Everything "investors" would want to know to decide whether or not to get involved. I use APPL as an example, but replace APPL with each of our different DACs and you have a consistent them/structure on which to hang information in ready to access predictable locations.An example of the kind of summary that could go on the BitShares page:Now that you have some of my ideas I would like give some basic guidance and requirements:1) Static Content or Basic PHP to manage headers/footers/language translation is preferred to systems dependent upon databases. The site should load quickly and the content should be easily updated and versioned with github. To test/deploy the site should be as simple as a git pull into the document root of a PHP enabled server.2) Multiple Language Support - Chinese + English minimum, but the more languages supported the better3) Stock Charts and price quotes may be the only dynamic content4) Everything is up for change including logos for all products and the company itself. We like the Invictus Horse, but do not want to put constraints on the creativity of the market.5) Despite being a single bounty, we will require all development to be done in public and announced in this thread. We want people copying ideas from each other and discussing which idea is best. Before we award the bounty everyone who contributed some of the content whether graphics, translations, CSS, PHP, that is incorporated into the final site must agree to the division of the bounty. This means that anyone can propose a single paragraph of text and should encourage all competing teams to use their text in exchange for a reasonable fee if they win.6) When someone produces a complete website which we find acceptable, we will make an announcement that all other entries must be submitted announced within 24 hours and submitted within 1 week. At that time we will pick the best overall submission and award the bounty there.7) Any questions regarding what we like or the content should be posted here. We will not answer questions privately.Work must be done publicly, complete submissions that appear out of nowhere are not eligible for the bounty and others may freely copy their ideas without having to negotiate a fee. If you want to protect your right to get paid for your contributions, you must share them early and often.9) I suggest one or more team leaders take responsibility for organizing volunteers, working together effectively is the fastest way to win the bounty before other teams can get organized.10) Proposed sites must be publicly deployed where everyone can evaluate them.