Investors in the US markets have a pseudo-government agency that has their back, the SIPC. If a broker takes their investors' money, this "insurance" makes them whole. Contrary to some conspiracy

Firstly, let me make sure I am clear: These are my personal thoughts. I am not writing in behalf of anyone else. I am not paid by anyone to write (other than when you vote on my posts, and I am paid by

Since I reached working age, I have been fortunate to work secularly in two areas that I like. Software and finance. I have worked for insurance firms, banks, and banking software companies. I like software.

Items within the BitShares database have an identifier. They are mostly hidden from the end-user. But when we do some elementary development using the BitShares platform, database ids become important.

For the personal computer, spreadsheets were a true "killer app". Before PCs, universities had computers to do complicated (for them, at least) simulations. Banks had access to computers to keep

I am sure you can find plenty of opinions here on steemit and elsewhere about trading cryptocurrencies. I feel my perspective is a bit distinct for a few reasons. I am the type that normally sites facts

In my last posts here and here, I examined Bitshares as a trading platform. In this post, I will examine some of the challenges in implementing the FIX protocol to connect to the DEX. The vast majority

In a previous post, I rattled off the good and bad points I see when using Bitshares as a trading platform. It boiled down to the following questions: A) Should a "connector" be built that wires

From the outside, you can see Bitshares as another blockchain, with their coin attempting to survive in a soup of other cryptocurrencies. But unlike many of the others, there are some differences that