@jmjatlanta

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…

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 po…

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 …

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 …

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 co…

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 tha…

In my last posts [here](https://steemit.com/bitshares/@jmjatlanta/bitshares-as-a-trading-platform) and [here](https://steemit.com/trading/@jmjatlanta/bitshares-trading-software-opt…

In a [previous post](https://steemit.com/bitshares/@jmjatlanta/bitshares-as-a-trading-platform), I rattled off the good and bad points I see when using Bitshares as a trading platf…

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 s…