If you have been given this token you have likely been scammed!
WhaleShares is a token and these tokens have value and usage. Their ability is to be converted to a vote from a whale on post you can choose by yourself. 1 token is 1% of a whale vote. It could help minnows massively. No more of being depressed after you spent days on your amazing post, you put it on promotion tab and it still has been seen just by two people. Later, it will be possible to also be able to resteem your posts with WhaleShares - this could be great way how to promote your content!
Friendly whale shares kiss with tourist in Mexico
BeyondBitcoin Bounties -- Whaleshares "Meta-Token" Logo Contest! (Round 3/3) [1000's of Steem in Prizes!]
Why is WhaleShares important to Steem?
Infographic – “Blockchain beyond Bitcoin”
Infographic outlining what blockchain adoption could look like, the 10 key hurdles to adopting blockchain in financial services and more
Who the hell is Olaf Carlson-Wee?
In many ways, Olaf resembles a hacker straight out of Netflix central casting: stone-cut Nordic jawline, black sweater, intentionally distressed pants, fingers glittering with rings. Forbes mythologized him as the “man who has been living on Bitcoin for three years.” He somewhat infamously wired his life savings to Japan to purchase Bitcoin when it was trading at $15, only to watch it fall to $2 shortly after (Today it’s trading around $650.)
But Olaf is nothing if not a smooth operator. What comes to mind when he opens his mouth is an economist. He name-drops ineffectual, grandfathered Fed policies left and right, and then recuses himself – he’ll save the soapbox for another time.
Two weeks ago, he stepped down as Head of Special Projects at Coinbase to found Polychain Capital, a cryptocurrency hedge fund. Understanding this stuff a lot better than anybody on Wall Street, Olaf’s betting big on cryptocurrencies and the systems that enable them.
“A lot of people think blockchain technology is here to stay and that this is a good investment broadly speaking,” he explains. “I want to build a diversified portfolio that invests in the promising technologies early, based on my knowledge of the space, and which balances those carefully. No matter which technology ends up succeeding over the five or ten-year horizon, this fund will do very well.”
His bullish outlook doesn’t only have to do with his own expertise, but also the cryptocurrency economy at-large. Bitcoin’s market cap is hovering around $10 billion. Ether’s, which is built on the Ethereum blockchain, slingshotted to $1 billion after seven months, growing at a much faster clip than Bitcoin did. It’s not just an opportunity for investors, either.
Coinbase has already proved out some of cryptocurrencies’ potential for developers. The company acts as an exchange on top of the blockchain, helping users to sell and buy Bitcoin and Ether. It has an API that enables other developers to easily integrate blockchains into their products. With Coinbase, your business can accept Bitcoin and then convert it into USD.
Efficiency gains in the payment space are cryptocurrency’s clearest and most-present advantage. Olaf guesses that the layperson, when she uses cryptocurrencies, probably won’t know it. She might welcome its velocity, anyway.
Example: Bitcoin can move internationally and instantaneously in a way state-regulated currency can’t. Olaf imagines mobile payment apps like Venmo integrating Bitcoin into their product to process small transactions instantly, doing away with two or three-day waiting periods. The user would be comfortably abstracted from the unknowns of cryptocurrency, but there would be efficiency gains for the app developers (and relatively little to lose).
A curious whale got so close to a group of tourists on a whale watching trip in Magdalena Bay, Mexico, that an American visitor was able to reach out and give it a kiss.
When you give the whales in the community an incentive to stop powering down and instead to leverage a Whale Token to build within our ecosystem, the possibilities for value creation are literally endless! Why power down to build value with your stake in Steem when you can Power UP and earn the equivalence of 30+% of your SP value each year to give as rewards to prolific Content Creators and Community Leaders?
Why WhaleShares?
WhaleShares was meant to reduce friction and help end the rule of "upvote bots" on steemit and other static methods that completely take human interaction out of the equation. 
We believe the Upvotes can be the basis for an informal economy based on the trust of a community and Beyond Bitcoin, as the community that inspired Steem's very creation, means to use this tool to empower the evolution of the community we all have grown to love. According to my calculations, my whaleshares token can pay out approximately 240k per year WITHOUT me powering down!
https://discord.gg/AAdCa32
With this technology, whales will begin showing the true power of investing their hard earned wealth into the Platform!
These tokens are on BitShares! So make sure you have a BitShares Wallet to receive and send them for upvotes on your steem posts!
https://openledger.info/?r=browniedistro
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bitcoin-double-2000-usd-more-tapscotts-blockchain-2017-don-tapscott
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/blockchain-transformations-davos-don-tapscott
The last one. Sorry Adam, I forgot to thank you for getting me into this. The mark of a great catalyst is that he's taken for granted :-) Not to diminish all of the wonderful interviews and guests I've been lucky enough to have on the show but todays episode is my favourite of all. Enjoy. I know I sure did.
http://www.blockstream.com/
http://hyperledger.com
richard brown - http://gendal.me/
david birch - http://www.dgwbirch.com/
https://onename.com/
http://www.ofnumbers.com/2...
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/beyond-bitcoin-27th-and-final-an-architecture-for-the-internet-of-money
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/beyond-bitcoin-26-darkcoin
https://wallet.tokenpockets.com/
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A cryptocurrency hedge fund manager looks to the future
A blockchain (in this case Bitcoin’s) is essentially a digital ledger. It’s a public dataset that records individual transactions of cryptocurrency. Its simple but airtight protocol enables a decentralized, peer-to-peer system on which users can trade digital money, like Bitcoin, without the burden of having to trust one another. Once traded, the money can’t be clawed back.
To skeptics outside the Valley, the belief that this virtual cash and the backend architecture that supports it might displace the dollar is almost as ludicrous as a 14-year-old boy who thinks the Fed is encroaching on his allowance. But to blockchain enthusiasts like Olaf Carlson-Wee, it represents an ingenuity that will elude the skeptics until it upends them.
Olaf shares some of the younger boy’s wunderkind qualities. At Vassar, Olaf wrote his thesis on how Bitcoin would change the world. From there, he became Employee #1 at Coinbase, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed Bitcoin startup with a strong claim to being the most legitimate company in the cryptocurrency space. By the time Olaf was recruiting Daniel, Olaf had been promoted to Head of Risk at Coinbase. The startup had taken an interest in the high schooler who was bootstrapping an IPO.
“This is where real crazy innovation is happening, in this 14-year-old’s basement,” Olaf says. “When people want to know what’s happening in the future and what’s next, this is the type of person that is determining that. It’s not the innovation team at some bank trying to make a better Automated Clearing House protocol.”
There are certain irregularities in recruiting a 14-year-old. Daniel’s guardians would need to sign a permission slip. So would his school principal. Nevertheless, the kid understood the Bitcoin economy intimately and had showed technical promise. Speaking in rapid succession, Olaf pauses here to clarify.