I don't know, I used all three depository shares and converted to USD, found a bunch of averages and came up with thinking this is worth anywhere from 1.06 million USD to 127.889 million USD, with a 'backing' of 3.042 million USD, hence the name of the sheet being crypto mindfuck:
This doesn't take into account any value outside the in-game exchange of depository shares and
assumes that all depositories are legitimate.
Even if the depositories were legitimate namely fully funded they still paint a false picture if there is a deep pocketed participant dumping large amounts of XBT and EUR on the market. In this situations and assuming no fractional reserve there are essentially two possibilities:
1) The deep pocketed participant ends up owning the entire asset while over paying for it
2) The deep pocketed participant gives up trying to manipulate the price, the price goes back to its proper level, in many cases after over shooting to the downside. All this does is provide an opportunity for those who sold to buy back at a substantial profit.
On 1), the most that can be afforded by the participant, to my knowledge, is 99% of the M asset. Any amount over 99% of the asset, within the next three years, will absolutely be more than the participant's net worth (I say this with confidence now). Therefore 100% is unaffordable short of only theft and dilution scenarios which thankfully haven't happened since the CON default.
I think right now the ownership is (side-note to remind myself to thank papa for providing CK herald, find something of value to give him, and request that the CK herald be linked in as many places as possible, starting with my signature) 30.85% of the outstanding Markka. The total control of that same owner is, I think at least the top five holders, which are 56.85% of the total. There have been claims that these top 5 represent over at least 1000 people. I think the question here is, at which point would overpaying for the asset be happening?
The valuation of the online platform as a whole includes a few practical things that stand out to me -
1. Ability to act as a monetary exchange system (currently offering only Markka pairings)
2. An unprovably-fair casino
3. A transaction network backed by a non-cryptographically secure plainly observable ledger that will register the transfer of digital items directly from one to another
4. A stand-alone currency that is representative of ownership of the platform as a whole
5. An API to allow data generated to be pulled off site
6. A series of powerful commands to interact with this platform: Give, Buy, Sell, Consume, Dividend being just the most important few of more than 36 commands being available to accounts based on differing access levels.
7. A messaging system in which one can communicate their wishes outside of using in game commands to anyone or everyone for a voluntary fee.
8. Around 30-50 people minimum LARPing a Kingdom in IRC and BTCtalk
The actions of charid=1 have a direct effect on, up and until the complete destruction of each of these 8 things if so desired (this is assumed, possibly even being tested).
Every single one of these 8 things have also been affected by the CON default. The game mechanics have been placed on hold, as without decentralization of the underlying asset, every item on the platform stands to default at some point. Without money flowing in - what drive is there to have mechanics enabled?
Where am I going with this - we are shorting charid=1 right now. As long as this individual is present in a form in which the majority deems 'healthy and investable' then money would assumingly flow to the platform. I think the situation now is not so different than before with CON (Personally I am not the majority - but I see the general sentiment forming nonetheless).
I think CON worked as a whole and would have continued working if XMR didn't go up. But we all wanted it to (or at least most of us). CON hurt the platform because it was the platform, or town, or something official that offered CON.
Would it work again, if something not directly tied to the platform offered something similar? Say some FOC with a large % ownership in depo shares/markka/hopes+dreams to use as collateral if the CON fails?
And can the money raised from selling this pseudo-CON be used to pay developers and/or people to do work toward addressing flaws in at least 7 of the above points, formulating and refining game mechanics, even adding new points to the list itself?
Or is this all so ingrained toward charid=1 that nothing can be done otherwise? I mean at least 30-40% isn't in his direct control, so there's probably something that can be done, assuming the long-term prospect of charid=1 is not the total destruction of the platform (he's mentioned he's tried it and failed before)
On 2) I'm not sure if it's supposed to be ironic that fractional reserves go back to 1668 according to wikipedia. Admittedly, it's a tough sell to the first people to run to the bank (us), but for most of the population right now this would still probably seem like a natural thing to do.
With that in mind, possibly there is some % number out there in someones head that is currently preventing the paying out of depository shares. I don't know.
If the knowledge concludes that the shares will just be bought back with intent to increase relative platform ownership, then there is hardly any logical reason (short of moral obligation obviously) to pay out the depository shares, as default wouldn't be likely because first is that the shares can definitely be paid (dude's rich), and second what action could be taken by these people who obviously just want more depository shares? If the goal is to get more Markka ownership then their motive for active collection wouldn't likely involve the want to damage the platform.
Of course, if the motive is to just walk away forever - even these people will wait. Some got paid. It's a lot of money maybe it doesn't move that fast. I only got 33% of what I sent to new. Was the interest addendum voiced by zechariah or the platform as a whole? I see the in game description is that interest is paid - who edited it? Toward that matter - what logical reason could there possibly be to offer such a high interest rate on payouts? Was the desire to get Markka that high? Why? I mean I bet there's people who sold specifically to collect on the interest rate (similar to CON - you give 15 XMR and get .1 XMR 'forever').
And that is why I bet a whole billion on SGC. Seems like a deadlocked grapple. Maybe I'm wrong and lose a billion. This will pass some day though.