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I agree with all you`ve said. This is why I am proposing 10 members with 3/4 majority. This will guarantee that no one with reading rights will offend Karma team member. Keep in mind that I am suggesting only Karmashares members and eligible according to my new PoC model people to be able to read sensitive information which is making people to go crazy. Of course if someone is willing to curse here on bitcointalk, then I have no idea what to do. There are medical specialists for such behavior. Good they don`t know about me.

not sarcasm.. if you want 12 year olds to use Karma then it has to be easy enough for a 12 year old to understand ... 

it is a technical problem which can be solved with the blockchain and the right algorithm.

there are already PoS coins that use coin age to determine staking.
most of the work has already been done in that regard.

the only difference is that instead of using coin age to determine who can generate new coins you are using coin age to determine who gets a cut of profits.

its a very trivial technical distinction.

I am not sure if this is sarcasm or not, but I fell of the chair. You`ve made my day. rofl.

sure if the Karmashares members vote on any penalty system then it can be implemented.

personally though I am all for freedom of speech just as I am all for peoples right to use Karma for whatever they want.. just as long as it is sticking to the general theme and doing some kind of good.

i don't believe that people should be penalized for disagreeing with another member, but obviously if they are causing damage to the reputation of Karmashares then the members would and should have some method for dealing with it.

I respect the rights of Karmashares or any other company from doing business in the karma economy any way they see fit and making up any rules they want for their own business. if they want to decide who gets paid and who doesn't from their own money then that's completely fine by me.

I only speak out when people try to tamper with the Karma itself without providing a valid technical reason for doing so.

if you said to me something like "we will confiscate coins from people who insult Karmashares members" then I would get very vocal lolz.

On a second thought - what happens if coin holders are less than shareholders and their points are far less then share holders - how can we determine exact percentage? Two many variables. I will stick to my initial proposal.
But paying in Karma to coin holders is really good idea.

I agree it has to be easy enough for a 12 year old to understand with clearly written rules and instructions and nice pretty pictures to show you where you are on the list.

About this: "we need to remember that Karmashares LLC is a limited liability company and not a Corpration.. so "Members" can decide who gets paid what and how much.
from my limited understanding of an LLC,  members are also entitled to decide who becomes and member and who doesn't, they can decide to kick anyone out at any time so if they find an exchange has been gaming the system, then there is no problem excluding them from payouts."

As far as I have read and managed to understand several days ago, this is true. This is how I came up with the penalty model. Check it out - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.8650705

Again, this is not about to have or not to have PoC model. It is about how to improve it. Also, I see now that you didn`r read all of what I have written. In one of my posts I have said that because of the technology limitations, it will be coin holder responsibility to keep enough coins, so the Block explorer can "display" the needed 75 mill. Also as I have clarified that 5 million are needed for every 75 million in order to participate. It is not headache at all . Imagine that you are responsible for managing PoC list. I am sending you 5 million and you are checking if I have 75 mill. If I do, then I am eligible to start participating. Time for profit is coming (apf, my speller is no good and changed one of the letters ) - ok, now you look at every address from the list if it is holding at least 75 mill for the last 6 months.

To be a part of Karmashares is not the same as to profit share. This is the uniqueness of the PoC and what makes Karma different. If you don`t know, I`ll tell you that there are other coins with shares model, but no other with PoC model. And again, this is not about to keep or not PoC. It is about how to improve it without making it two difficult to understand.

Nice suggestion about the update wallet showing the percentage

About the possibility of dumping in the case of POC ending.
I do not see that as a bad thing, as the price does not really matter right now.
It would see that as a opportunity for the people with less money and a strong belief in Karma to buy more.

all of this info is in the blockchain. you can't see it in the wallet interface so if we did implement a coin age based system then we would need a nice website or updated wallet to go with it so that people could easily see what percentage they were entitled to.



selling LLC membership can only be offered privately so I take your point.. it probably is more difficult to claim that your Karmashares offering is "private" when it has 300+ members.

I am not an expert on LLC licensing in Wyoming so I can't comment on whether the current system is 100% by the letter of the law or not.
all I know is that when the LLC was set up some legal advice was sought.



I know that some people are in favor of scrapping the coin holding profits completely.. but you need to consider that some people will dump if Karmashares do that.. AND nobody will buy Karmashares until there is a very real possibility of ROI.

currently Karmashares has no revenues and no profit so it will be very difficult to convince people to buy Karmashares.

This is nice. I like your addition and I am for it.

Actually, this investment should be a bigger percentage. I am suggesting this because I want to eliminate exchanges from profit sharing. This percentage + my proposal about how all future discussions on deals should be made are making it to hard and risky for any exchange to share profit. 1.5% is worth the risk for any exchange. But 6.666e% and above doesn`t. So I think that this percentage should be kept and if majority wants even increased. And one think should be also clear. I am suggesting not 5 million for 75+million holdings, but 5 million for every 75 million. After all we don`t want Karma to be in a few hands. We want it to flow and I think that my model is good for it. Not everyone is willing to manage multiple wallets. This is another reason why I`ve reduced my initial proposal for 150 million holdings.

I like some of your suggestions for improving the POC model.

But honestly I think the POC model represents too much of a headache.
For instance, how can you really know that a given person has more than 10 million coins in their wallet?
The wallet even has invisible addresses, that I was not even aware some months ago...
You may see a balance of >10 million Karma in your wallet, but maybe not even a single address of yours has more than 10 million (although that would be uncommon it can happen...).

Also I'm not sure if having 30 members is the same as having 300 members (because of POC holders) in the eyes of the regulatory entities.

My thinking process is simple.
If someone wants to be part of the Karmashares then they should buy shares.

work out a way to use coin age to determine profit shares.

in other words.. the longer you hold the coins in one address the more X can get...

for example.. say 50% of the profits go to people who buy Karmashares... they are the ones who must register and get BTC profits.
and 50% goes to the community based on coin age.. they are the people who get Karma profits..  ie.. no registration necessary and profits get paid as Karma directly to the wallets with the oldest coins.

it doesn't have to be 50% 50% it could be any split that the community decides.

I think if Karmashares was split into two classes of "shares" ..

Class A karmashares for people who buy..
and Class B profit shares for people who hold coins.

Class A can have full voting rights.
Class B has no voting rights and only a share of profits.


I think if you do this then there will always be buying pressure for Karma.. because in order to pay dividends to the coin holders Karmashares will be buying coins on the open market. and in order to get more profits people will be holding coins for as long as they can.


we need to remember that Karmashares LLC is a limited liability company and not a Corpration.. so "Members" can decide who gets paid what and how much.
from my limited understanding of an LLC,  members are also entitled to decide who becomes and member and who doesn't, they can decide to kick anyone out at any time so if they find an exchange has been gaming the system, then there is no problem excluding them from payouts.

I agree.
What i would suggest is, like you said, people also have to send an amount of coins to karmashares llc, which is used for projects etc. This amount should not be too high! As people dont want to make a 50 euro investment for maaaaaybe proffits.
So the minimum of karma to hold in a wallet is 75 mil and of that 75 mil, 1.5% of the amount you are holding should be donated. This should be one easy click, as fast as you have this amount your wallet, there should be a possibility to say in that same wallet, i want to participate in the profit sharing, with that agreement, 1.5% will bw withdrawn from your wallet and send to the llc. As of now you participate.

Opinions?

ptman, Bierworst, Alphi and all that will read my proposal. Please focus on how to improve PoC model, not on should it be removed or not. The discussion is not about kill or keep PoC. It is about how to make PoC better. Also I am thinking of PoC model as an integral part of Karma ecosystem, which also have Code of conduct. So, I have made proposal for penalty system. Please take a look at both proposals. First I have suggested in our forum that the minimum amount is to be 150 million Karma. Then I reduced this number to 75 million, but keeping in mind about the technical limitations which affects the amount for each wallet that is displayed in Block explorer. So, every holder will have the responsibility to keep enough coins in his wallet, so 75 million to be displayed in block explorer. All of my suggestions doesn`t need any substantial work or development. They are quite easy to implement and understand. We all just have to agree on them.

This is all pure price dependent. If karma costs 600 litoshi, 100 million karma will have a price of 3000$ (correct me if im wrong). So it becomes buisiness 101, if i have 10.000 books and i sell them for 10$ a piece, 4000 of them get sold and i receive 40.000$, but if i make them 30$  a piece i only get 1000 sold because some people cant give that extra 20$ so i only receive 30.000$
Maybe not only do you reach less people, you also receive less.
What is better, 400 people with 10 million coins off the market, or 20 people with 100 million coins of the market.
I personally think its better to reach more people AND to have big whales inside the llc.

So you are just talking about its too easy for other to profit, but if it is interesting for more people it could also be reflected on the price, so or you only profit on karmashares llc, or you profit less on karmashares llc and more on karma.

Either remove POC all together or make it like someone suggested before, 6 month holding period and minimum 100 million coins. Others that want LLC profit can always exchange their coins for 1.75x shares. Otherwise it is too easy and riskless, because 1 month isn't that much of a time and 10 million is too small to cause any help for a 50 billion coin. 100 million coins off the market for 6 months on the other hand will really help the Karma coin.

unless you mean completely disband the Karmashares LLC model for membership then I don't see how that will avoid regulatory entities.

it really doesn't change the regulatory grey area all that much if someone "buys" karmashares or if they get given them for performing some service (ie holding coins)