My take: (Tompa) (sorry for the wall of text but there is TL;DR at the end)
Don't give anything to anybody for free. Why? We already had a initial distribution phase. It went long enough and no one on BTT can say it ended prematurely or that somebody didn't have the chance to "get in on time".
What to do with the surplus Oras?
We didn't have a fancy Ethereum or similarly BIG IPO through which we acquired thousands of BTC to be able to spend money on developers or media or something like that. But we can still have ORA if we don't do this redistribution v2.0 now. I know we have a bounty fund but what I had in mind is what I'm propose in paragraph after next one. What will be achieved if we give more oras to those who already have it? Will it bring more people to support ORA? Will it help the growth (in price/engagement/loyalty etc)? I don't think so.
I want everyone in the world with computer and Internet access to be able to participate in projects/ideas like this one. I believe most of us do too. I would like to see a widespread adoption of cryptos and I would love to see ORA leading in that field. 900+ is not enough. And out of that number how many really active people do we really see here? We all know that cryptos are going to be big in the coming years. We are now in a perfect condition/time/place to decide what way to go and how. Although we have a fantastic team so far. I love everything our present leaders say and do and how they think. But that is not enough. We need entire divisions of marketing/legal/design/customer care (help to newbies)/development etc. Ethereum guys have money to hire them. We have Oras! NHZ started something that I think could be useful for us.
It was a good idea to have ORA on NXT AE. Now it is a fact that ORA has some value. And that value now can be further distributed to help attract more people and engagement and also holding.
Why not distribute all those ORA that haven't been distributed in the first round to those who are willing to work for it? That way some newbie can acquire oras and really be a part of the team and be encouraged to do so as well as someone who already has ORA stake (and even was buying ORA asset on AE). Also sockpuppeting is gone that way. We need motivated people who won't feel they've missed the boat! Who wouldn't like to join NXT and work now if there would be a big chunk of NXTs still to be distributed? Even BTC cannot do that in this stage any more. Imagine the opportunity we'd have for inviting new people in? You could go to a friend who is maybe not a programmer and say to him: Look here is a new crypto you can really be a part of and really get some coins and in return you can help it by doing ____ (betatesting/translating/spreading the word/etc) also It would be a great incentive to invite businesses to start accepting ORA - Look every actual business that accept ORA as payment method will be given x ora per day or month for he first year. And it shouldn't be a big amount. Few oras per day. or even a percentage of 1 ora per day. Imagine being able to tell businesses that they will be paid for accepting ORA?!? a really groundbreaking stuff.
Everyday there is a new coin that tries to have a good/fair distribution that will attract as much people possible and then everybody hopes that out of that number of people a few would emerge who would carry on their shoulders everybody else on their way "to the moon"TM. But we know it doesn't happen like that.
I've been thinking what can set ora apart from other cryptos and some of the ideas are to have designated spots for potential participants with set "payments" in ora for doing that task/job/role and also very important clearly set goals. We don't want to have someone saying that he'll be IDK a wiki guy/gal and then after x months and X amount of ORA we have a 3 page wiki. I love the starfish approach and I think that is only way to have a really decentralized project and we need now to work on a solutions how to be able to make decisions quickly and in the same time allow everyone to participate. System for this MUST be included in the client. Similar to what Kora was thinking in development thread, I think it would be awesome to have fee free transactions. everyone who has the stake in ORA will be responsible for the network and also merchants. They have their computers on all the time anyway and if they want to be able to see when someone pays them, they have to run the client anyway. I think spam preventing fees should be introduced selectively. Example: If I'm going to be sending 10-20 or even a 100 transactions per day that shouldn't burden the network too much but if I want to run something like oradice then fees should be incorporated and those fees should return to this fund to pay the work. I hate fees. If I can send an email for free I should be able to send cryptos as well. For the beginning to avoid DDOS attacks and to draw more people into running the nodes, they could be paid similar to what NHZ is doing. But ora could be way better at that then NHZ if it is successful in figuring out a system how to collectively make propositions and decisions. Each point of that starfish can even have some kind of autonomy like a board.
For instance marketing point of the starfish could form somekind of a board of several people who are specialists in marketing and they would have their meetings and work similar how nioccoin is now in charge of dev. and after they've done their part they would just need a confirmation on final voting of the community. Quick and easy.
Another example: picking of logo. I'm not a designer, and I don't want to see (and take the life of my mouse wheel scrolling) here in this thread dozens of logo applications and ideas out of which 90% are total crap. Instead I want to be presented with one post with top 3 logos that our design gurus have chosen are the best and they explained the story behind those logos and then we just vote which we all like the best. and that design gurus should be paid in oras for taking all the submissions in, looking at them, improving the design, communicating to logo creators what we are seeking, making the choice down to top 3 etc. And of course the winner for the logo be paid in ora as well.
Key requirement for this to even be possible is to have a great voting system and also a great and convenient way to propose stuff. If we could have that in our clients that would really be groundbreaking. Imagine that everyone can really be a part of ORA. With this everyone would matter, every tip of the starfish would have it's own purpose and it would be transparent and well organized as well as we would
TL;DR: Don't redistribute ORAS for free. Instead pay people to participate but with clear goals and results - NHZ influenced idea. No fees. Bounties for running a node.
Guys what do you think?
BTW, does anyone know why this
http://nxtreporting.com/shareholder.php?a=16194910134118257692 hasn't been updated in 8 days?
