Hive account@glitchout01 I'm impressed. You've done your research.

There are hundreds of alt-coins.

There are many centralized exchanges to trade those coins.

There is only a bare few decentralized exchanges that allow the owner of the coins the power to keep access to their coins without deposting them into a centralized exchange database like bitshares.

When you said:

It allows contracts, user created assets, prediction markets, trading, borrowing, shorting, lending...

You are right. However, only 1 out of 500 people know this... I plan to cover many of these topics. You are a very informed and educated person about this subject. Very nice to see.

I keep having this feeling when Bitcoin was 25 cents, and people were trying to convince people to buy Bitcoin and don't worry when it hits $1.00 dollar, people didn't listen.

This is the exact same problem Bitshares is having. The opportunity is obvious. Yet only a small number of people listen. It's crazy for me to watch.