Bitshares is not a "coin", it's a massive platform for Traders, Entrepreneurs and even Grandma..

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I don't think anyone would disagree, Bitshares (BTS) has served us as the perfect Point Of Sale network (PalmPay) for well over 5 years now, rock-freakin-solid, BUT...

We now enjoy many more benefits using their platform:

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 bs
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 f!!king 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.