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What is a DAO?

In a normal corporation, the investors delegate control to a board of directors and the board decides whether to retain profits or pay dividends and hire/fire the CEO.

In DAC/DAO/DO, the investors actively vote on issues. The distinctions between those three have to do with the structure of this control...

Let's first review Vitalik's chart below:

https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/05/06/daos-dacs-das-and-more-an-incomplete-terminology-guide/

Note Vitalik's conceptualization is actually not wrong, but too abstract and what The DAO codified is what I think is incorrect. I like Vitalik's chart except DAOs have humans in control ("in the center") but they are governed by protocol (which is probably what Vitalik means by "automation"):



Notice on "Internal Capital" table, the horizontal line separating "Automation at the center" at the top from "Humans at the center" at the bottom is labeled "DO" for decentralized organization, because "DO" is decentralizing the "Humans at the center" but not automating the decisions of protocol at the center controlling the "Human at the edges" (where edges means who do the work).

And the vertical line separating "Automation at the edges" on the left from "Humans at the edges" on the right is labled "Tools" because they are doing the majority of the work but not automating (thus still requiring human workers for) their operation.

You can see that table is quite insightful and abstract. This is an example of why people think of Vitalik as genius. But it is all quite obvious if one were to sit down and think about deeply for a while as obviously Vitalik did.



Now I am going to demonstrate (in a very sleepless and almost delirious mental state so please excuse the low quality of the prose) I am an abstract forward/deep/paradigm-shift thinker similar (but different of course) to what some people observe/praise about Vitalik.

It is on the term "autonomous" that Vitalik's taxonomy gets murky (muddled) as he admits. It appears that Vitalik conflated "automation" with "autonomy". It appears that Vitalik thinks that we require automation in order to obtain autonomy.

Here is the insight that occurred to me in the past 48 hours or so (the days have all run together). Whereas, I am thinking the autonomy attribute is applicable to the "humans in the center" involved in the control. In other words, DVCS open source enables each human participant to be autonomous because each can have their own individualized repository. Automation has nothing to do with it. The key technological breakthrough for DVCS was the relative changeset logic, using a hash to identify changesets, and storing the repositories locally, which isn't automation but rather a protocol for destructuring to increase degrees-of-freedom, i.e. removing hierarchies.

So whereas for Vitalik the distinction between a "DAO" and a "DO" is the former has complete A.I. automation over all decisions controlling the humans at the edges, i.e. like a master 1984 enslavement computer, I rather conceive that the "DAO" as destructuring (perhaps even automated) protocol which enables humans at the center to be autonomous. And the "DO" is many decentralized humans in the center, but they are bound together with less degrees-of-freedom in the structure enforced by the protocol that governs (i.e. by-laws for) their organization.

For example, my understanding of DASH's protocol for stakeholders is limited, but I assume it is based on a majority vote and there is no way to opt-out other than to sell your stake (unstake your masternode deposit), and thus the humans in the center controlling it are not really autonomous, thus DASH is a "DO" not a "DAO". And The DAO wasn't autonomous either and that was its critical flaw (other than the bug that enabled theft of funds) in that individual humans could not autonomously elect projects (and splitting had flawed game theory), so it couldn't be anything more than a power vacuum (slush fund) with spoils to whomever could win in the voting game theory. The DAO was worse than if the participants had invested in individual projects separately, thus the only purpose of the DAO was a game theory around controlling the pooled funds. No individual autonomy for the investors. The Ethereum and DAO developers appears to be so strongly into automation (and creating a master 1984 enslavement system? or is this just their Millennials Warcraft game A.I. culture?), that they built a DAO which was less autonomous than if each investor invested in projects separately from the DAO.

A Dash consultant Ira Miller wrote something similar but with different conclusions to mine:

https://medium.com/@gitguild/not-too-late-for-humans-to-save-ethereum-2f42f5fdfb75

Vitalik goes on to compare DAO to Dan Larimer's DAC, with the key difference being that profits are not retained in the latter. Retaining profits in the collective pool lowers autonomy, so actually DAO = DAC except when it is a non-profit. Vitalik seemed to think retaining profit (i.e. the organization is profitable) is non-profit if the profits aren't distributed back to the humans at the center. Whereas, I think the distinction is that retained profits indicates a "DO" because the stakeholders are no longer empowered to take their capital away except by selling the token which is not the same because liquidity of the float is not the same as distributing profit, i.e. 20% of the stakeholders can't sell their tokens at once to protest a vote of the majority. The DAO offered a split feature but the game theory was flawed.

I have more to write when I am not so delirious from lack of sleep. This is just a first draft to get some of my ideas written down. I'll need to expound on the differences between Ira Miller's perspective and mine.
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so how can you shut down a decentralized autonomous organization?

Do you know any decentralized autonomous organization ?

I don't ..

Yes, DASH.org.  The first DAO. 

The difference: Marketing that feature is taking a backseat to development.  Doing it right I'd say.

DASH does seem to be a functioning DAO where D is distributed but sure if it is decentralized control. The stakeholders apparently vote on the actions or management of the development of the open source. The stakeholders apparently approved to have % of the mining rewards paid to a foundation which then distributes the funds according to projects approved by votes of the stakeholders. However what is not clear to me is to what degree this is all enforced by smart contract protocol or done manually by the foundation.

There are allegations however that the distribution of the DASH tokens were highly concentrated by an alleged instamine and subsequent masternode ROI scheme which may have further concentrated the tokens held by the core insiders. But I don't know if anyone has been able to prove conclusively that DASH is not really decentralized, although the suspicion is apparently strong amongst some especially Monero supporters.
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I will expound on this soon:

You people thinking ETH will bounce back are "cooked" like seriously.. denial much? they fucked up worse then anything i have ever seen in crypto.
the fact you even compare it to BTC's problems in the past is just ridiculous.
like reality check the exchanges are locked up and it has lost already .5 billion... in like 48hrs!

Companies (even multi-nationals and some oligarchies) steal and waste $trillions all the time. Nation-states also. The goals of decentralizing the behemoths is orders-of-magnitude more valuable than some $millions experimental losses along the way.


I am going to say it straightly, 0.05 BTC.

There is a panic now, you guys are not wrong, hard-soft fork, eth pos etc. bla bla bla.

But after the dust, eth will see an all time high. Sorry.

The DAO bad news is a big challenge to ETH. If this matter gets resolved, there is a good chance that ETH will continue its uptrend.

If this bad news drags on, there is a good chance this coin will follow the footsteps of Litecoin.

Unless something else replaces Ethereum as the leading marketcap for smart contracts, then Ethereum will recover as Bitcoin did after the decline to $7 or $1. Litecoin apparently lost its main raison d'etre which was those who were pumping BTC to $1200 needed a highly liquid coin to exit into and it had served as a home for displaced GPU miners when Bitcoin ASICs appeared.

This is assuming there isn't some insoluble technical issues, such as this one I opined about:

The only way it is fixed is by the ecosystem maturing and having a wide diversity of smart contracts (many of which have been well vetted) so that the failure of any one of them can't impact the ETH price significantly. And I think also Ethereum might have a problem where bad contracts can infect other contracts, so that may prevent the ecosystem from ever being NOT TOO BIG TO FAIL (I need to research this more).

I had an epiphany also it was not to touch that link with a ten foot pole.

I practically wrote the Ethereum Paradox thread, so you are preaching to a former member of your tribe.

I don't intentionally promulgate technological bullshit.

So be careful. I think there is something very important coming as a use case in the smart contract area. I will be writing more about this soon.
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it is hype for scam purpose only

In the case of DAO, Slock.it, and Augur, then that seems to be the case. There is no valid use case which isn't game theory broken for those. Expect The DAO to eventually collapse in a massive clusterfuck of theft and waste with most losing their money. Wise people would get the hell out of The DAO as fast as they can, because the DAO is broken in the sense that you can be jammed from exiting.

Decentralized crowd funding might be viable.

Gotta love this, made my day Smiley
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A DAO can't be about having the crowd manage every day-to-day event. That is what entities hire other entities to do as managers:

Seems they have published their own security flaw and didn't close it

https://github.com/slockit/DAO/pull/247/commits/b7038eacdc3b8bb07cfb6cb8bcc98dba9e2c9302

They had 2 Pull Requests that attempted to address issue. Here is other one

https://github.com/slockit/DAO/pull/248

Seems that one was never merged as well.



It's been a known problem publically since June 9th. If I can find the link I'll edit this post.

Additionally (I could be wrong on this) the DAO requires two weeks of voting to correct such flaws.
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The only valid use case for the DAO so far has been to steal shitloads of ETH

I just wrote about that:

So the hard fork to recover the ETH means Ethereum is not decentralized. It is a top-down controlled fiat system.

I don't know if "top-down controlled" is the right description, its more like a democracy where the majority can vote to strip the minority of its rights.

Democracy is a top-down structure because it is a winner-take-all power vacuum.

But I see a very valid use case to raise money for and remove regulation from raising investment money for ventures. And giving decentralized oversight to investors replacing the function of a Board of Directors.

Note I had predicted yesterday this disaster:

Btw I agree that there haven't been really serious achievements from altcoins. Ethereum is an unfinished and highly unpolished work, that doesn't yet have a killer app. The DAO is an unmitigated disaster in the making.
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The only valid use case for the DAO so far has been to steal shitloads of ETH
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tokeweed, it is always about the marketing...

My talent is that I am am adept at technology, people motivation, and economic theory. I can often combine those three into new paradigm shifts. I am still trying to create my first big paradigm shift in the altcoin arena. I think I may have finally discovered it last night while I was sleeping. I awoke and realized I have figured out the killer app for smart block chains that millions of investors and entreprenuers really need which can not be serviced by a centralized solution such as Seedr or Kickstarter! The key insight came from studying my own insight into the key macro economic flaw of The DAO.

So after some more thought and discussions, I realized that Vitalik, Dan Larimer, and Tual have incorrectly conceptualized the conceptual structure and algorithm of a DAO and this is the reason that the DAO has insoluble design flaws and game theory flaws.

https://steemit.com/crypto-news/@dan/is-the-dao-going-to-be-doa
https://blog.slock.it/a-primer-to-the-decentralized-autonomous-organization-dao-69fb125bd3cd
https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/05/06/daos-dacs-das-and-more-an-incomplete-terminology-guide/

Note Vitalik's conceptualization is actually not wrong, but too abstract and what The DAO codified is what I think is incorrect. I like Vitalik's chart except DAOs have humans in control ("in the center") but they are governed by protocol (which is probably what Vitalik means by "automation"):



(Lol, there is that Millennials culture again, "AI (holy grail)" as if replacing all humans is a good or even plausible goal. It is not even wrong.)

My ideas address all of Daniel Larimer's above linked criticisms of DAOs.

I am not yet ready to reveal specifically what I realized, but asap I will. The hint is that the problems derive around organizing a DAO as separate projects and the loss of individual investor control through pooling funds and voting. The concept of the DAO that remains in my idea is of individual investor control which is necessary to provide the legal structure which is arguably not an investment security (not depending on any other entity securing the expectation of gains) so as to avoid regulation of raising funds for new ventures and operating those ventures. Vitalik I think sort of captures my idea in his section Decentralized Autonomous Corporations about the difference between a DAO and DAC. I am thinking more of a DAC, yet still my idea is a DAO not a DAC.

I am now seeking out how I can implement this idea pronto.
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Distributed Identity Project Wins $20k Hackathon Prize at Distributed: Trade Conference
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Also notable was that all of the winners – as well as several other participants – chose the Ethereum blockchain platform on which to develop their prototypes.
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The judges assessed the projects on a number of criteria, including the relevance of the problem being solved to supply chain challenges, its use of unique features of blockchain technology, the commercial potential of the application, the technical feasibility of implementing the application in the real world and the quality of the presentation of the project.
Read more:
https://godistributed.com/articles/distributed-identity-project-wins-k-hackathon-prize-at-distributed-trade-conference/
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I advise you to never enter something you don't understand. If smart contracts are confusing for you (and me too, don't see the use) then don't enter the game unless you are prpared to lose the amount you enter with.
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Exactly, and what is the value to the business (market cap) when there are 9x more "Preferred" holders than "common"

And your first statement is incorrect, the common shares are debased and the preferred shares (vested) collect interest but only enough to offset the inflation of the common

Please explain the way this is accomplished, because what I see is that 10% new Vested STEEM tokens are created every year. How is that not debasement?

I think you are being fooled by the fact that they debase the common STEEM tokens 100% per annum, thus you think they Vested STEEM rises in value 9X more than the common STEEM. But the common STEEM is debased by 100% and 10% of that is for the Vested STEEM, so although the Vested STEEM rises in relative value, it also falls 10% in value relative to exchange value to fiat (that is not factoring in investment flows in and out).

Thus since you've missed the key math of the economic reality, I think that might be one reason you haven't been able to evaluate properly that this can't be a good investment. My math in my prior post to which replied showed that they need to debase by much more than 10% if they hope to fund a large quantity of social networking membership motivated by leeching money off the system.

Fundamentally I think paying people to participate in social networking is not very astute marketing. It will gain some interest now while payouts are high but as more people compete and payouts drop, then there really isn't any other compelling reason to use the service so far. The marketing plan so far is too one dimensional and doesn't appear to create synergies of use.

What are you going to do, it's BitShares at heart, they come from the western corporate structure paradigm. So if you want more control, then buy more stake, while the business carries on with or
without your involvement.  The decision is yours.

Or copy them and try to do it better.  But you know how cool and buzzworthy everything is the second third fourth time around.

Oh I don't think they are any where close to having the correct formula or marketing. I am staying away, except I might try to extract some payouts for content as others are doing. A few quick $1000s is nice.

It is an unfortunate reality that their system appears to encourages users to leech off of it instead of building it up  because of some synergy.

Perhaps I can think of some suggestions of how to improve the plan for it.

Even if I do think of some good suggestions for them, I think the 2 year lockup for Vested STEEM just depresses their relative value. Of course a trading market for those will form, and the price will be discounted by the long duration lockup risk.
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I am bookmarking this post and making sure I come back and read it frequently. So I continue to try to resist my inherent attributes (resist my age and solidified methodologies) which might cause me to "miss the train" on what the youth are up to.


gustav, I wasn't limiting the use cases to the ETH block chain design. We already skewered Ethereum in the Ethereum Paradox thread.

Of course, I am assuming someone doing correct engineering, not Vitalik, Tual, et al wasting $millions on being technobullshit rock stars. When I was age 21, I coded WordUp in my bedroom for a year. When I launched a shipping product to the real market, my father invested $30,000. The company was profitable and helped 1000s of users with a real use case. I don't produce bullshit software.

https://www.google.com/search?q=neocept+wordup

Now I promised myself to not waste time attacking others, so let's just leave it at that. I hold Vitalik to the same standard as I what I was able to do at his age. I worked hard and quietly and produced real s/w. Not roam around talking and promoting pie-in-the-sky delusions to n00bs. Even the one Comdex show and another San Fernando valley usergroup I did, I was very frank with the audience about the capabilities and limitations of the s/w. I guess I have to thank Ethereum for creating so much hype in the market that investors are ready to hand over so much money. So perhaps I should be praising them for promoting crypto. So I guess I will take that perspective and HODL my engineering nose about the level of delusion and lack of frankness about the technological (game theory, economics, scaling, etc) bullshit. Everyone has their freewill and their own choice. They should be free to reap what they sow.

The DAO is really unreal. But it makes perfect sense why n00bs can be lead to that delusion. And the audacity of Tual to say he thinks it will be good for crypto even if all the money is wasted. Well in some sense, I have to admit he is correct, because everyone should be free to learn and experiment and waste $150 million. More power to them Lol.

So any way, back to OpenBazaar that seems to be potentially a valid use case if engineered correctly.

gustav, I am more Hero account than you. If I had stayed with one account, I'd be Legendary already. I don't think we are arguing, are we?

Stop comparing yourself with Vitalik
Homer Simpson doesn't compare himself with Albert Einstein either.

In my opinion, everything I wrote above is valid (and that is not true of some other posts I've made recently because I am learning very fast right now about this phenomenon I described below). I am entitled to share my opinion. I am not attacking subjective ambiguous attributes such as his ethics (although I was perplexed as to whether they believe some of their unworkable fantasy designs). I am not berating anyone nor repeating over and over again trying to force it down your throat. You incite me to respond because of your attack with an implied assertion that I am only Homer Simpson and that I am nothing in comparison to Vitalik as Albert Einstein. The difference that you perceive has probably more to do with the difference that I describe below between an Xgen and a Zgen, in that I won't actually launch something until I am sure I have worked out the details and I am confident I have something that is workable. That doesn't necessarily mean my style of work is better.

I think Vitalik said it best himself where he has basically admitted he was (at least initially) playing this like a cartoon or game with a bimodal perspective on reality. The Millennials seem to have been raised to think life is like a game. Unlike when we were kids and there were no computers, no gadgets and we needed to go climb trees and play with insects, the youth starting about with Vitalik's generation (and I should know because I have a son his age who is addicted to gaming), grew up with a different idea of what reality is. Yeah I am old enough to be Vitalik's father.

So it is important to understand they will think of the world from much more virtual reality terms than actual reality.

I think that is a valid insight to share.

Vitalik is math smart. He also knows how to inspire the dreams about a utopian virtual reality. But when it comes down to producing scalable technology and common sense business objectives, it seems that is not his forte so far. He may improve on his weaknesses as he matures. And I may improve on emulating what he does best, as I learn from studying him, his generation, and the phenomenon they initiated (which is the purpose of this thread). I understand very well that the youth drive the future, and so I damn well better understand what they are up to. It is has been difficult for me to make the transition from my upbringing which is to have solid engineering and total design before embarking, to this new way of just having a nebulous idea and raising $millions without really knowing how the idea will end up being scaled and workable. I am realizing this has a lot to do with the generational difference in attitudes and upbringing. With games, you start playing and figure it out as you go along. For example, I noticed my son was much less interested in getting all the engineering of something worked out in his head like I do, and instead he was more interested in detailed discoveries while playing. He wanted the work to be part of the game, not something separated. You can see this in Vitalik's Ethereum blogs. He was working as part of the game. For him, the burnrate was okay because it was all part of the game of him being able to work with as many like-minded dreamers. Tual reiterated this recently when he stated that it is okay that even if The DAO fails, then it still would have been good for the crypto-currency ecosystem. For them, the ecosystem is the game.

It's all about the game.

I think that is a good result for all of us, for such insight, learning, and progress to be achieved.

...

P.S. I originally underestimated either how ignorant or insouciant CC investors are. They either really believe in nonsense, and/or they really only care about trying to form as much pump excitement as possible regardless of any realities about actual user value created. It also appears to be a difference of perspective on what constitutes value with many here I guess thinking that enabling more investment vehicles of any form is an advance of value. I haven't yet determined the mix between naivete, insouciance, and different valid perspectives. I am still trying to determine if I missed some key factor about value being created. And I am not trying to tell them to change. I am trying to understand this altcoin investing market and where it will lead.

Lots of hate on this thread

I am not hating these guys. More power to them to have created so much investor interest in altcoins.

I am just sharing my analysis of the possible outcome. I am bit perturbed when people idolize this stuff so much. But I am learning to realize it is necessary. I am okay with every person having their own free will.
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tokeweed, it is always about the marketing...

My talent is that I am am adept at technology, people motivation, and economic theory. I can often combine those three into new paradigm shifts. I am still trying to create my first big paradigm shift in the altcoin arena. I think I may have finally discovered it last night while I was sleeping. I awoke and realized I have figured out the killer app for smart block chains that millions of investors and entreprenuers really need which can not be serviced by a centralized solution such as Seedr or Kickstarter! The key insight came from studying my own insight into the key macro economic flaw of The DAO.
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Never back down !!!
gustav, I wasn't limiting the use cases to the ETH block chain design. We already skewered Ethereum in the Ethereum Paradox thread.

Of course, I am assuming someone doing correct engineering, not Vitalik, Tual, et al wasting $millions on being technobullshit rock stars. When I was age 21, I coded WordUp in my bedroom for a year. When I launched a shipping product to the real market, my father invested $30,000. The company was profitable and helped 1000s of users with a real use case. I don't produce bullshit software.

https://www.google.com/search?q=neocept+wordup

Now I promised myself to not waste time attacking others, so let's just leave it at that. I hold Vitalik to the same standard as I what I was able to do at his age. I worked hard and quietly and produced real s/w. Not roam around talking and promoting pie-in-the-sky delusions to n00bs. Even the one Comdex show and another San Fernando valley usergroup I did, I was very frank with the audience about the capabilities and limitations of the s/w. I guess I have to thank Ethereum for creating so much hype in the market that investors are ready to hand over so much money. So perhaps I should be praising them for promoting crypto. So I guess I will take that perspective and HODL my engineering nose about the level of delusion and lack of frankness about the technological (game theory, economics, scaling, etc) bullshit. Everyone has their freewill and their own choice. They should be free to reap what they sow.

The DAO is really unreal. But it makes perfect sense why n00bs can be lead to that delusion. And the audacity of Tual to say he thinks it will be good for crypto even if all the money is wasted. Well in some sense, I have to admit he is correct, because everyone should be free to learn and experiment and waste $150 million. More power to them Lol.

So any way, back to OpenBazaar that seems to be potentially a valid use case if engineered correctly.

gustav, I am more Hero account than you. If I had stayed with one account, I'd be Legendary already. I don't think we are arguing, are we?

Stop comparing yourself with Vitalik
Homer Simpson doesn't compare himself with Albert Einstein either.
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imnotback, what are you talking about?

Steemit is free to join, they give you free steem to join, and you can only make more money by posting and upvoting. oh, yeah, and they pay the girls we know, to go wild!

It is impossible to give away for free what isn't free.

It has to be a redistribution from some to others.

Yes you can offer it free as an incentive initially and take money from the speculators via debasement who are hoping some greater fools will buy the pump. But that isn't a model for anything sustainable that can sale up to millions of social networking users.

That same debasement is taking the money from the users of the system also, who use and thus hold the token.

Any more delusions?

https://steem.io/roadmap/launch-and-sale/#steem-allocation
https://steem.io/SteemWhitePaper.pdf#page=9

So Vested Steem are debased at ~10% a year to fund votes and posts.

Thus with a $36.5 million market cap, it could payout on average $1 per day to 10,000 users.

But obviously those who spend more time & effort on the site will earn more and the others will earn less. So let's say on average the typical user gets $0.25 cents per day in that scenario of 10,000 users and $36.5m mcap.

To be worthwhile to attract typical users, figure a minimum of $1 per day, so for a million typical users@ $1 per day we would need a $14.6 billion mcap.

That might just barely be realistic, but I actually think most mainstream users won't bother for $1 per day. At $3 per day, probably significant interest as it approaches $90 per month. But that would require a $44 billion mcap for just a million user base.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_virtual_communities_with_more_than_100_million_active_users

I seems enticing users with a financial incentive is dubious. Users join a social network to accomplish something of their interest. To incentivize usership by debasing the investors and hoping it generates enough buzz that the market cap paces with usership growth, seems to be pie-in-the-sky hope. More than likely is that very little interest will be generated because the investors are not allowed to sell Vested Steem at-will. They forced into long lockup period on a very risky token and speculative venture.
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I would add Proof of Existence as a valid usecase.

Especially when we are talking about contracts already, providing proof that they haven't been tampered with is a useful tool.

Proof of ownership might be a usecase also. A possible usecase could be licensing of copyrighted content.

In gaming and gambling, there are usecases as well, although I admit that they are not as "serious" as others, due to their nature (being games) and due to the fact, that most people simply won't care if decentralization improves a game on the backend. Those are games, after all.
BUT, in defense of games as a usecase: It is a "safe" enviroment to develop proofs of concepts without breaking anything important. It is likely, that some mechanisms applied to games work on "more important" usecases as well*.

And then, there is the idea of a decentralized supercomputer, but I am not sure how you get the participants to play by your rules. This looks like it could be exploited too easily by just submitting anything that looks remotely like it could fit the criteria. The Elastic guys are working on it, let's see what they come up with.
However, a variety of this idea I like is the idea of using this decentralized supercomputer for evolutionary programming. I think in this case, it would be possible to reward good finds somehow.



*there are currently some game ideas on Lisk:
https://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=459
https://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=483
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ML_nI88q3c9N9oVJjyaLeBM4RoDA6LDtgxPskmTFgB8/edit?pref=2&pli=1
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nice thread this one. i will be watching closely.
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imnotback, what are you talking about?

Steemit is free to join, they give you free steem to join, and you can only make more money by posting and upvoting. oh, yeah, and they pay the girls we know, to go wild!

It is impossible to give away for free what isn't free.

It has to be a redistribution from some to others.

Yes you can offer it free as an incentive initially and take money from the speculators via debasement who are hoping some greater fools will buy the pump. But that isn't a model for anything sustainable that can sale up to millions of social networking users.

That same debasement is taking the money from the users of the system also, who use and thus hold the token.

Any more delusions?

I disagree with the claim that Steemit will be decentralized.

SP is a requirement for voting for or against content. This means that SP is an access token
that grants its holders exclusive powers within the Steem platform.

So you have the largest investors in control of censorship of content, etc.. This is just Facebook by another name.

My concept for JAMBOX is that every user maintains his own rules about which content he wants to see and the reputation of the other users trusted in terms of rating content, i.e. that aspect of Synereo's model I think is valid (although I find other significant flaws in Synereo's design).
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You're talking out of your ass. Your coins' design doesn't change your bandwidth. Crypto does not scale no matter how much you wish it.

You will learn before the end of this year that you are incorrect.

Note I added some links to my prior post.

By what coin?

There is no legit decentral coin that tries to scale currently. Because it can't be done to infinity. You can only scale so much.

ETH is not a decentral token, so spare me that one.

Which other token will scale?

None of them. The coins with bigger blocks are broken. There is just an upper limit in traffic a decental network can handle. Just deal with it.

If you say you got a decentral token scaling to infinity you're certainly a scammer. 
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You're talking out of your ass. Your coins' design doesn't change your bandwidth. Crypto does not scale no matter how much you wish it.

You will learn before the end of this year that you are incorrect.

Your conceptualization of the parameters is based on Satoshi's design. Some of your assumptions don't apply in a different design. Do note I put "larger" in quotes so that is why your assumption about bandwidth is inapplicable.

Note I added some links to my prior post.
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