Its a good time to invest into bitshares, go download the software or sign up for an online account, a bitshare (bts) is at about .05 usd right now, it was recently about .32 usd. Bitshares is a decentralized exchange....it has its own blockchain. Centralized exchanges like Bittrex and others will be targets of government, and hackers. Bittrex and other major exchanges have recently delisted bitshares as it is going to be their competitor.
You can trade into and out of crypto to bitusd with very low transaction fees less than .01 cent. You can borrow bitassets by using your bitshares as collateral. You can create user issued assets.
