Topic: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated - page 226. (Read 1059181 times)
btw with cryptsy and vircurex volume's so high we are getting well above the 7.2 million dvc volume per day... the longer it stays at these prices the better
The amount of shares that are given should be derived by the developer who is willing to take the least amount of devcoins for the particular task.
That way we could introduce some kind of competition that lowers the shares, but rises the value of devcoins.
Aslong as people get large amount of devcoins for simply writing a text about anything they want nomatter the value for society we are not going anywhere.
It seemed just a matter of time for this shoe to drop. The religious zeal of market competition will have western freelance developers competing with Asian developers for $3/hour bids, which one now sees on many coding monkey projects' sites. Meanwhile writers get $50/hour for writing to DevTomes. A few shares spread around for a committee to get the mandate of this project down for referral may be a good idea.
- Nova
Open Transactions provides a lot of stuff and aims to provide more too that is not actually in the code yet but the Lex Cryptographia also wants more such as reputation systems for example of one thing I can think of off the top of my head that Open Transactions does not even have it in mind to provide itself I think.
-MarkM-
-MarkM-
A bounty exchange would be cool but when I brought it up before UTB said we simply don't have enough admins to support growing bounty list that is dynamic based on some demand... but I think if it starts small it will go a long way to 1) get new ideas of projects that may help devcoin and 2) a platform to communicate, update status and provide feedback to those working on bounties.. would help organize things, like maybe a testing phase of the bounty where people are assigned to tasks to ensure the bounty is complete to spec.
As to the risk posed by depositing with a third party at all, maybe a really good pile of bounties to consider would be bounties aimed at making tangible real and functional the Lex Cryptographia concepts: http://bitcoinism.blogspot.ca/2013/12/lex-cryptographia.html
(Which happens to be another thing that Open Transactions is expected to be an important tool for/toward.)
-MarkM-
(Which happens to be another thing that Open Transactions is expected to be an important tool for/toward.)
-MarkM-
Isn't this at the core of what Open Transactions would provide? Escrow, bonds, surety of contracts between 2 parties?
As to the risk posed by depositing with a third party at all, maybe a really good pile of bounties to consider would be bounties aimed at making tangible real and functional the Lex Cryptographia concepts: http://bitcoinism.blogspot.ca/2013/12/lex-cryptographia.html
(Which happens to be another thing that Open Transactions is expected to be an important tool for/toward.)
-MarkM-
(Which happens to be another thing that Open Transactions is expected to be an important tool for/toward.)
-MarkM-
Yes, a forum would be a first simple playground for that.
But in the end I can imagine some form of "exchange", where jobsoffers and jobrequests meet, and are somehow coordinated and pushed upwards depending on how many people find this a good idea.
The amount of shares that are given should be derived by the developer who is willing to take the least amount of devcoins for the particular task.
That way we could introduce some kind of competition that lowers the shares, but rises the value of devcoins.
Aslong as people get large amount of devcoins for simply writing a text about anything they want nomatter the value for society we are not going anywhere.
This was the idea behind the bounty site... if someone beats me to it good on them , I haven't worked on my version in over a week, too much other stuff going on at the moment
The risk involved in even depositing one's coins with a third party at all aside, the risks such an entity would itself face can be worked with in various ways.
For example the auctions proposal involves buying a license to a proprietary software package.
The Credit Union entity, being a fully legally incorporated entity, could retain ownership of that license until the loan(s) are paid in full.
For loans in general, they could be secured using collateral.
Long long ago it was realised that often it would be nicer to be able to borrow something other than BiTCoins to use as spending money or for investing in things expected to be on the long term less lucrative than simply holding BiTCoin, and DeVCoin was one of the top candidates for what to borrow. Thus already the practice of using BiTCoins as collateral to borrow DeVCoins is almost traditional in some circles.
Regardless of what borrowers use as collateral, I think that the whole concept of how fractional reserve or frozen-for-some-time deposit accounts work in connection with the making of loans, as a business plan, is quite well researched by this point in history. I do not know what percentage of Credit Union startups succeeded over the centuries or decades or whatever though.
-MarkM-
For example the auctions proposal involves buying a license to a proprietary software package.
The Credit Union entity, being a fully legally incorporated entity, could retain ownership of that license until the loan(s) are paid in full.
For loans in general, they could be secured using collateral.
Long long ago it was realised that often it would be nicer to be able to borrow something other than BiTCoins to use as spending money or for investing in things expected to be on the long term less lucrative than simply holding BiTCoin, and DeVCoin was one of the top candidates for what to borrow. Thus already the practice of using BiTCoins as collateral to borrow DeVCoins is almost traditional in some circles.
Regardless of what borrowers use as collateral, I think that the whole concept of how fractional reserve or frozen-for-some-time deposit accounts work in connection with the making of loans, as a business plan, is quite well researched by this point in history. I do not know what percentage of Credit Union startups succeeded over the centuries or decades or whatever though.
-MarkM-
I was thinking about the possibilities of devcoin and what direction it should take in the future, and there was one thing I wondered:
If we want to pay creators/developers for open source stuff they create... shouldn't we first have some kind of open bulletin board where people can request useful stuff of all kinds?
If we want to create an open market where ideas and developers meet, we should not forget the need for a platform where people can express their wishes.
I understand that at this point most bounties and wishes are revolving arount the basic management, administration and financialization of the devcoin/devtome platforms, but shouldn't we early enough implement a simple yet partitioned platform for idea exchanges?
If we want to pay creators/developers for open source stuff they create... shouldn't we first have some kind of open bulletin board where people can request useful stuff of all kinds?
If we want to create an open market where ideas and developers meet, we should not forget the need for a platform where people can express their wishes.
I understand that at this point most bounties and wishes are revolving arount the basic management, administration and financialization of the devcoin/devtome platforms, but shouldn't we early enough implement a simple yet partitioned platform for idea exchanges?
Good idea. How about a section of the new forum?
ThinkI
Yes, a forum would be a first simple playground for that.
But in the end I can imagine some form of "exchange", where jobsoffers and jobrequests meet, and are somehow coordinated and pushed upwards depending on how many people find this a good idea.
The amount of shares that are given should be derived by the developer who is willing to take the least amount of devcoins for the particular task.
That way we could introduce some kind of competition that lowers the shares, but rises the value of devcoins.
Aslong as people get large amount of devcoins for simply writing a text about anything they want nomatter the value for society we are not going anywhere.
Well bitcoin would definitely be accepted, but so would Devcoin... we would buy devcoin with any other coins to bid up the market anyway, and the devcoins we have would be used to fund shares or other projects that need funding... ie: pay for bounties for future projects instead of using shares, or pay devtome via profits instead of shares, opening up more shares for something else, like funding these type of businesses?
In the end whatever we accept, we would convert back to devcoins anyway to do what you are saying, and another reason for doing this is for another way to spend devcoins not only other coins, so those that get dvc aren't dumping at market all the time.
In the end whatever we accept, we would convert back to devcoins anyway to do what you are saying, and another reason for doing this is for another way to spend devcoins not only other coins, so those that get dvc aren't dumping at market all the time.
This is a good example.
So you have a business that accepts bitcoin/devcoin. But you really don't care about bitcoin, so it's superfluous to the definition because really you say in the next sentence that any other coins are just going to be used to buy devcoin. So what you really have is an invention that sells a product/service and turns those profits in to cryptocurrency buys/bids/funding projects/bounties/pay devtome writers.
That's not a business. You're trying to create an economic system. In fact, I've read these threads and I think I am unlearning what ya'll want to accomplish.
Devcoins are traded via bitcoin and it would help with adding buy side liquidity and bidding up the market and more speculators will start buying aswell. Isn't the idea of funding projects core to devcoin? Do you not see how this would indirectly or directly help fund projects and raise market cap?
Since part of the sentiment in this whole auctions thing seems to be some idea that since we are a community and someone in our community really really wants an auction site we the community should somehow make it possible for him to have one, how about this idea:
A DeVCoin Credit Union.
Lets incorporate a credit union whose native currency is DeVCoin.
Those people who choose to join the union - which costs money, which money becomes capital the union can use to do loans - get to decide amongst themselves, using a set of bylaws and probably Roberts Rules of Order or some similar standard operating procedure, who among them deserves a loan of how much.
This would also mean there is a legal entity that can own shares of legal businesses, so it could do financing that includes retaining equity in businesses that it helps to start up.
In order to attract capital for loaning, it could offer deposit accounts that pay interest, that interest being less than the interest it charges on loans.
Then any Devcoin holders who believe that the members of the union are makign wise choices about what/who to loan to aka what/who to invest in can deposit DeVCoins into such interest-paying accounts.
It will be interesting to measure the confidence DeVCoin holders have in the decision making skills of the members of the union by seeing how much they choose to deposit in such accounts.
-MarkM-
A DeVCoin Credit Union.
Lets incorporate a credit union whose native currency is DeVCoin.
Those people who choose to join the union - which costs money, which money becomes capital the union can use to do loans - get to decide amongst themselves, using a set of bylaws and probably Roberts Rules of Order or some similar standard operating procedure, who among them deserves a loan of how much.
This would also mean there is a legal entity that can own shares of legal businesses, so it could do financing that includes retaining equity in businesses that it helps to start up.
In order to attract capital for loaning, it could offer deposit accounts that pay interest, that interest being less than the interest it charges on loans.
Then any Devcoin holders who believe that the members of the union are makign wise choices about what/who to loan to aka what/who to invest in can deposit DeVCoins into such interest-paying accounts.
It will be interesting to measure the confidence DeVCoin holders have in the decision making skills of the members of the union by seeing how much they choose to deposit in such accounts.
-MarkM-
I like the idea. The issue is there's a lot of risk involved for depositors still. If that could be ironed out I think the idea is doable.
Since part of the sentiment in this whole auctions thing seems to be some idea that since we are a community and someone in our community really really wants an auction site we the community should somehow make it possible for him to have one, how about this idea:
A DeVCoin Credit Union.
Lets incorporate a credit union whose native currency is DeVCoin.
Those people who choose to join the union - which costs money, which money becomes capital the union can use to do loans - get to decide amongst themselves, using a set of bylaws and probably Roberts Rules of Order or some similar standard operating procedure, who among them deserves a loan of how much.
This would also mean there is a legal entity that can own shares of legal businesses, so it could do financing that includes retaining equity in businesses that it helps to start up.
In order to attract capital for loaning, it could offer deposit accounts that pay interest, that interest being less than the interest it charges on loans.
Then any DeVCoin holders who believe that the members of the union are making wise choices about what/who to loan to aka what/who to invest in can deposit DeVCoins into such interest-paying accounts.
It will be interesting to measure the confidence DeVCoin holders have in the decision making skills of the members of the union by seeing how much they choose to deposit in such accounts.
-MarkM-
A DeVCoin Credit Union.
Lets incorporate a credit union whose native currency is DeVCoin.
Those people who choose to join the union - which costs money, which money becomes capital the union can use to do loans - get to decide amongst themselves, using a set of bylaws and probably Roberts Rules of Order or some similar standard operating procedure, who among them deserves a loan of how much.
This would also mean there is a legal entity that can own shares of legal businesses, so it could do financing that includes retaining equity in businesses that it helps to start up.
In order to attract capital for loaning, it could offer deposit accounts that pay interest, that interest being less than the interest it charges on loans.
Then any DeVCoin holders who believe that the members of the union are making wise choices about what/who to loan to aka what/who to invest in can deposit DeVCoins into such interest-paying accounts.
It will be interesting to measure the confidence DeVCoin holders have in the decision making skills of the members of the union by seeing how much they choose to deposit in such accounts.
-MarkM-
I was thinking about the possibilities of devcoin and what direction it should take in the future, and there was one thing I wondered:
If we want to pay creators/developers for open source stuff they create... shouldn't we first have some kind of open bulletin board where people can request useful stuff of all kinds?
If we want to create an open market where ideas and developers meet, we should not forget the need for a platform where people can express their wishes.
I understand that at this point most bounties and wishes are revolving arount the basic management, administration and financialization of the devcoin/devtome platforms, but shouldn't we early enough implement a simple yet partitioned platform for idea exchanges?
If we want to pay creators/developers for open source stuff they create... shouldn't we first have some kind of open bulletin board where people can request useful stuff of all kinds?
If we want to create an open market where ideas and developers meet, we should not forget the need for a platform where people can express their wishes.
I understand that at this point most bounties and wishes are revolving arount the basic management, administration and financialization of the devcoin/devtome platforms, but shouldn't we early enough implement a simple yet partitioned platform for idea exchanges?
Good idea. How about a section of the new forum?
ThinkI
Of course it wouldnt be started without designing in detail. Now I said this already but the reason its works is because its devcoin funded and all profits back to it. We have a community to support it rather than individuals. So ask yourself this then: Why are we throwing $24k a month at devtome per month?
Those people that say if you dont fund it yourself its not worth it need to ask themselves the same thing about existing projects.. maybe now it will help realize the position we are in. Im trying to give devtome competition by doing one that is more aligned with a business structure instead of open source creativity.. its two different concepts and thats why I said we are evolving not being side tracked.
I will still put together a doc that hashes out alot of the questions you and others have and we can all work on it together. Then with the expertise here we can judge if we should do it or keep looking.
I was responding more to talk of bounty before designing in detail. Devtome etc, you know my view already but that doesn't negate the point that any new value proposition needs to generate value - for devcoin. That value may well be in marketing, trade flow rather than cash but propositions still need justifying, and certainly as a choice vs another option. I'm all for creating devcoin markets and have offered a startup bounty for one.Those people that say if you dont fund it yourself its not worth it need to ask themselves the same thing about existing projects.. maybe now it will help realize the position we are in. Im trying to give devtome competition by doing one that is more aligned with a business structure instead of open source creativity.. its two different concepts and thats why I said we are evolving not being side tracked.
I will still put together a doc that hashes out alot of the questions you and others have and we can all work on it together. Then with the expertise here we can judge if we should do it or keep looking.
I'm not saying it's a good/bad idea, just at this point (1) I don't get the basic a-b-c devcoin value business model (2) Without understanding that, the mechanics, specific options are irrelevant. That might just be me - there are too many pages of discussion to follow.
It kind of seems like where this is going is if we get very very very lucky and the managers / founders are extremely dedicated and talented/skilled we might end up having yet another quibids type auction site in existence from which we can then keep trying to pry some kind of something that would benefit DeVCoin.
If accepting DeVCoin would make any sense to such sites as a business proposition then creating yet another such site seems redundant, since it would make sense for such sites to support DeVCoin so if they are not themselves idiots - which presumably they are not if the are already succeeding even without DeVCoins having any involvement - they will do the sensible thing and accept DeVCoins.
Meanwhile I foresee us basically ending up having put someone into a business of their own (since there is no legal entity constituting the DeVCoin project that could own shares of the business) who will simply find, like all the other such auction sites, that it makes no sense to bother with DeVCoins.
So bottom line either it makes sense to support DeVCoins in which case we can expect more and more such sites to start accepting them, or it does not so there will be more and more business-case for such sites to free up manpower and capital and general work and pain and stress by saying sorry guys I tried but Quibids was right DeVCoins are not ready for use in this field, gosh gee wilikers ah well no one can say we didn't prematurely and without proper forethought try, meanwhile goodbye and thanks for all the customers.
I doubt we will even get that lucky though. More likely we will simply find the founder was not really qualified to found such a startup.
On the other hand if we create free open source software for doing such sites, maybe hundreds or thousands of people will try to make a go of such sites and maybe - not likely but maybe - among them will turn out to be someone who will somehow make a go of it, and at that point we could approach them hoping they are more sympathetic to the idea of accepting DeVCoins (since DeVCoins made available to them the free open source software that made their business possible) than quibids or other sites using similar models but possibly not using free open source software to do it, let alone free open souce software that is only free and open source thanks to the DeVCoin project.
So we should end up with many many more people trying to make it work thus more chance of one among them being that amazing startup founder that actually makes it really work.
-MarkM-
If accepting DeVCoin would make any sense to such sites as a business proposition then creating yet another such site seems redundant, since it would make sense for such sites to support DeVCoin so if they are not themselves idiots - which presumably they are not if the are already succeeding even without DeVCoins having any involvement - they will do the sensible thing and accept DeVCoins.
Meanwhile I foresee us basically ending up having put someone into a business of their own (since there is no legal entity constituting the DeVCoin project that could own shares of the business) who will simply find, like all the other such auction sites, that it makes no sense to bother with DeVCoins.
So bottom line either it makes sense to support DeVCoins in which case we can expect more and more such sites to start accepting them, or it does not so there will be more and more business-case for such sites to free up manpower and capital and general work and pain and stress by saying sorry guys I tried but Quibids was right DeVCoins are not ready for use in this field, gosh gee wilikers ah well no one can say we didn't prematurely and without proper forethought try, meanwhile goodbye and thanks for all the customers.
I doubt we will even get that lucky though. More likely we will simply find the founder was not really qualified to found such a startup.
On the other hand if we create free open source software for doing such sites, maybe hundreds or thousands of people will try to make a go of such sites and maybe - not likely but maybe - among them will turn out to be someone who will somehow make a go of it, and at that point we could approach them hoping they are more sympathetic to the idea of accepting DeVCoins (since DeVCoins made available to them the free open source software that made their business possible) than quibids or other sites using similar models but possibly not using free open source software to do it, let alone free open souce software that is only free and open source thanks to the DeVCoin project.
So we should end up with many many more people trying to make it work thus more chance of one among them being that amazing startup founder that actually makes it really work.
-MarkM-
Well bitcoin would definitely be accepted, but so would Devcoin... we would buy devcoin with any other coins to bid up the market anyway, and the devcoins we have would be used to fund shares or other projects that need funding... ie: pay for bounties for future projects instead of using shares, or pay devtome via profits instead of shares, opening up more shares for something else, like funding these type of businesses?
In the end whatever we accept, we would convert back to devcoins anyway to do what you are saying, and another reason for doing this is for another way to spend devcoins not only other coins, so those that get dvc aren't dumping at market all the time.
In the end whatever we accept, we would convert back to devcoins anyway to do what you are saying, and another reason for doing this is for another way to spend devcoins not only other coins, so those that get dvc aren't dumping at market all the time.
This is a good example.
So you have a business that accepts bitcoin/devcoin. But you really don't care about bitcoin, so it's superfluous to the definition because really you say in the next sentence that any other coins are just going to be used to buy devcoin. So what you really have is an invention that sells a product/service and turns those profits in to cryptocurrency buys/bids/funding projects/bounties/pay devtome writers.
That's not a business. You're trying to create an economic system. In fact, I've read these threads and I think I am unlearning what ya'll want to accomplish.
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The idea that we can compete with venture-capital financed startups / businesses on the basis of our larger amount of funding seems to me highly dubious.
Most venture capital comes in chunks much much larger than a mere $24k. Our puny $24k per month or whatever of financing would be trivial compared to real startups as they would tend to be financed in millions rather than thousands.
Heck even Mastercoin, a rather informal startup whipped up on a forum, the funding was in the millions of dollars range.
So I think this idea that our having shares to throw at things means real businesses won't be able to compete with us is silly/unrealistic.
There must be something we could do using free open source stuff that could make a viable business.
This whole focus on what can we find that is not free open source and lets base everything on that seems a bad thing. What proprietary things will be be spending our shares on next? A MacDonalds franchise maybe when our market cap is high enough? At least with a MacDonalds franchise we would be in co-operation with the whole MacDonalds system instead of like this auction idea seems to amount to saying like oh gosh MacDonalds is a sure fire business, lets make a DevDonalds... and not even thinking lets make the whole thing, franchise and all, its more like lets create one little restaurant on the MacDonalds model and call it DevDonalds and try to compete.
-MarkM-
Most venture capital comes in chunks much much larger than a mere $24k. Our puny $24k per month or whatever of financing would be trivial compared to real startups as they would tend to be financed in millions rather than thousands.
Heck even Mastercoin, a rather informal startup whipped up on a forum, the funding was in the millions of dollars range.
So I think this idea that our having shares to throw at things means real businesses won't be able to compete with us is silly/unrealistic.
There must be something we could do using free open source stuff that could make a viable business.
This whole focus on what can we find that is not free open source and lets base everything on that seems a bad thing. What proprietary things will be be spending our shares on next? A MacDonalds franchise maybe when our market cap is high enough? At least with a MacDonalds franchise we would be in co-operation with the whole MacDonalds system instead of like this auction idea seems to amount to saying like oh gosh MacDonalds is a sure fire business, lets make a DevDonalds... and not even thinking lets make the whole thing, franchise and all, its more like lets create one little restaurant on the MacDonalds model and call it DevDonalds and try to compete.
-MarkM-
I was thinking about the possibilities of devcoin and what direction it should take in the future, and there was one thing I wondered:
If we want to pay creators/developers for open source stuff they create... shouldn't we first have some kind of open bulletin board where people can request useful stuff of all kinds?
If we want to create an open market where ideas and developers meet, we should not forget the need for a platform where people can express their wishes.
I understand that at this point most bounties and wishes are revolving arount the basic management, administration and financialization of the devcoin/devtome platforms, but shouldn't we early enough implement a simple yet partitioned platform for idea exchanges?
If we want to pay creators/developers for open source stuff they create... shouldn't we first have some kind of open bulletin board where people can request useful stuff of all kinds?
If we want to create an open market where ideas and developers meet, we should not forget the need for a platform where people can express their wishes.
I understand that at this point most bounties and wishes are revolving arount the basic management, administration and financialization of the devcoin/devtome platforms, but shouldn't we early enough implement a simple yet partitioned platform for idea exchanges?
I'm definitely not reading those walls of text. There's almost nothing that can't be summed up in three lines or less.
I saw someone ask about changing an auction site/app w/r/t the currency you take. I wouldn't do that, you would want to add functionality to what exists. So just add a devcoin payment option.
In short, what I think most of you folks are talking about a big project that isn't. Just bounty out a devcoin payment mod for already existing platforms. Much, much simpler and affects more people
I saw someone ask about changing an auction site/app w/r/t the currency you take. I wouldn't do that, you would want to add functionality to what exists. So just add a devcoin payment option.
In short, what I think most of you folks are talking about a big project that isn't. Just bounty out a devcoin payment mod for already existing platforms. Much, much simpler and affects more people
I agree with this - keep it simple, streamlined and cost effective.
I wonder if we could create a Bitcoin version, and use the Bitcoin profits to buy DVC, to help drive the DVC price higher.
If we could set up a number of these "systems" to support the DVC ecosystem and exchange rate that would be awesome.
I've got a few ideas but I need some spare time to implement them!
Well bitcoin would definitely be accepted, but so would Devcoin... we would buy devcoin with any other coins to bid up the market anyway, and the devcoins we have would be used to fund shares or other projects that need funding... ie: pay for bounties for future projects instead of using shares, or pay devtome via profits instead of shares, opening up more shares for something else, like funding these type of businesses?
In the end whatever we accept, we would convert back to devcoins anyway to do what you are saying, and another reason for doing this is for another way to spend devcoins not only other coins, so those that get dvc aren't dumping at market all the time.
I'm definitely not reading those walls of text. There's almost nothing that can't be summed up in three lines or less.
I saw someone ask about changing an auction site/app w/r/t the currency you take. I wouldn't do that, you would want to add functionality to what exists. So just add a devcoin payment option.
In short, what I think most of you folks are talking about a big project that isn't. Just bounty out a devcoin payment mod for already existing platforms. Much, much simpler and affects more people
I saw someone ask about changing an auction site/app w/r/t the currency you take. I wouldn't do that, you would want to add functionality to what exists. So just add a devcoin payment option.
In short, what I think most of you folks are talking about a big project that isn't. Just bounty out a devcoin payment mod for already existing platforms. Much, much simpler and affects more people
I agree with this - keep it simple, streamlined and cost effective.
I wonder if we could create a Bitcoin version, and use the Bitcoin profits to buy DVC, to help drive the DVC price higher.
If we could set up a number of these "systems" to support the DVC ecosystem and exchange rate that would be awesome.
I've got a few ideas but I need some spare time to implement them!
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