After DNS is merged by Super DAC, I only have 1 M DNS, but I consider many people lost because of price of DNS drop , I donation any all 1 M DNS just for support other people.
we should support other people but it is must reasonable.
I honestly think it might have been a better idea to secretly work to put all the DACs together at some point AFTER they all were in the top 20 chains on coinmarketcap. Price discovery on each individual DAC was not allowed to occur before they were all "merged". If done in this way (maybe not possible from an engineering standpoint, though) I think the merger would have actually transferred most if not all that value to BitShares' as a SuperDAC.
As for reasonably supporting other people...we support ourselves by building into the BitShares Ecosystem a precedent for sharedropping on the chains in our system.
Why? Because no other competitor does this. Once people realize that they can simply invest in a group of tokens and have a chance at getting new shares given to them freely in the future, they will become interested in joining this ecosystem over others. My hope is that these hangouts will become a way for developers to teach people about their innovations and thus increase the "Savviness" of these "DAC-Savvy Investors".
I don`t understand what really bring to BTS by airdrop. MMC airdrop to PTS, LTS airdrop to PTS, you can see the price of MMC and LTS now , actually lost about 4000 bitusd in investing MMC, I know it is marketing except BTS/PTS and an other coin , mmc is the only coin bought. maybe a new dac would bring really value. but most of DAC is nothing.
MMC was a crap coin. LTS was a crap coin and a crap technology. Freetrade (sorry man) refused to connect with the community and never joined our hangouts. It was at the time he turned me down in my offer to run hangouts for him that I decided not to invest in those projects. And it wasn't because it hurt me in any way...It was because I knew the community would never be able to build up around him and give him their input, or receive education from him on his own philosophy and how he saw things working out for those projects. Without that connection, it was hard to feel comfortable investing in yet another "alt".
On top of that, they were not based off of the toolkit and slightly changed to provide different functionalities. They were kind of crappy coins from the old world of crypto. MMC had some interesting stuff going for it, but with some of the politics that occurred behind the scenes with someone apparently buying up a huge amount of MMC and placing himself in the head position over MMC, and no willingness to act transparently, I could not invest in it despite the sharedrop.
I have to explain something here that I have not made clear.
I want to help devs who are legitimately trying to enrich all BTS/PTS/AGS/PLAY/MUSIC/etc... holders. Each of those demographics offer a reason to sharedrop that is different from the rest. If one of these demographics seems to be going in a direction I cannot promote--sharedrop or not, I will not hold hangouts for them. That doesn't mean other's can't take my place, try to run a delegate on that chain and run hangouts. I would like to see them do so. They can even use the server free of charge.
If people do not have the same vision as I do, I do not expect them to vote for me. But I will definitely say that sometime in the future (I do not know when), there might be a chain with other legitimate devs who are also trustworthy and open like ByteMaster who might gain my respect and in that case, if they sharedrop on all of you (and to a small degree myself as well) I would be interested in serving both you and them by organizing and running hangouts for them.
I know these communities will not always operate in Unity, but I plan on finding my home where I feel I can best help the world in my own way. So if getting a paid delegate position on this chain isn't in the cards, then at least I know. If it isn't, I have no doubt there are other chains that will prove interesting to me and keep the flame that burns inside me burning bright.
I fall more in line with this way of thinking:
"Adam Smith said, the best result comes from everyone in the group doing what's best for themselves right? That's what he said.
Incomplete. Incomplete. Because the best result would come, from everyone in the group doing what is best for himself--and the group."
(http://i.imgur.com/I7bRSyT.png) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d_dtTZQyUM)
Because "That's the only possible way we can all get laid..."
I guess all I can say is that I thank you for being honest....and I fully expect you to act only in accordance with your own opinions... and be willing to change those opinions if ever new information comes to light that changes your perspective.
Thank you for your response and valuable input. This is a good time to clarify some things.
As a 100% paid delegate, I have hired 2 Editors to edit the hangouts for Audio (20% each--Emailtooaj/Mira). I have also Hired BTSWildpig to help bring these hangouts to the Chinese Community (20%). I have also set aside 10% for Mumble Server Administration (JoeyD) as he is going to be working on increasing the maximum number of participants drastically for future expansion. 10% has been set aside for the Delegate Technician.
At current marketcap, the approximate Operating Budget for Beyond Bitcoin (BTS) is: $1300-$1500/month (not including individual taxes, which will range from 15-30% off the top)
Human Resources Expense:
Fuzzy: $260-$300/month
Emailtooaj: $260-$300/month
Mira: $260-$300/month
JoeyD: $130-$150/month
Tech: $130-$150/month
Delegate Fees:
Delegate Registration: Approximately $600 to start the delegate and the team will not be paid until this initial cost is recompensed (they wanted to pitch in, but this just simplifies things).
Google Virtual Private Server (VPS) Fees: Though we are currently in a free trial period, this will run approximately $75/month starting 50 days from now. Which will cut down my personal income from this delegate to $185-$225.
Mumble Fees:
VPS Server: This Server will run approximately $50 dollars per month (we are still looking into the best deal--not the cheapest, mind you--but the best deal), but it will help us expand to 800, then 1600, and later 3200 Slots. This will be necessary as we form partnerships with complimentary technologies and DPoS-Based DACs that wish to share the burden of building onto our shared code/infrastructure base (coders/manufacturers working on tools that integrate into alternate DPoS chains in effect are building our infrastructure for free so this is a very worthy investment by my calculations). $135-$175 is the delegate pay I receive after this expense.
SoundCloud: The SoundCloud Pro Account enables us to upload unlimited amounts of content for $15/month. This means that we can start a Public Service Media Network for all DPoS-Friendly Organizations/DACs that serve in the best interests of BitShares', its holders and the decentralized networks of power that grow from it and its underlying protocols.
Past: I found out approximately 1 month ago that Gamey has been paying out of pocket for the Beyond Bitcoin SoundCloud account. This account has been up for approximately 1 year (12 months) and I intend to pay him back out of my own delegate fees. This means that I will owe $180 out of my first month's salary.
Future: $15/mo moving forward taken out of my pay, cutting it down to $120-$160/month.
As you can see, this 100% delegate actually doesn't give us a lot of room to do what we are doing on a grand scale (yet)--though it is safe to say that the team currently working on Beyond Bitcoin (BTS) has substantially improved the quality of the hangouts already! In fact, I believe that those working for it are worth approximately 10x what they currently are currently making. Luckily there will eventually be many DACs "Powered by Bitshares" to help shoulder the burden of paying for this Public Service.
So why are our workers so valuable? I hire people who have first volunteered their services free of charge and proven their intent to help build our ecosystem first and foremost. My philosophy is that those who work for our community and ask nothing in return are the first who we should compensate and trust with our capital.
Why pay people who would work for free? Because they have proven their intentions and motivations are aligned with our own with no other motivators present. Once that has been proven, the element of "Individual Greed" can be included and I can still be confident that these individuals will be here for the long haul for you. Not only that, but people who would work for free, shouldn't have to do so at a substantial opportunity cost to themselves. Those who sacrifice early on are the ones taking the largest risk both with respect to personal compensation and, in turn, voting power within the system itself--and they are doing it for everyone else. By all rights, there is actually no rational reason why anyone would volunteer for this for personal gain at these marketcaps. Indeed, it would be far more rational for them to pick up a second job and just buy BitShares (or another cryptocurrency that doesn't have this kind of service).
All these factors make them the best candidates to work for this Public Service Team we call "Beyond Bitcoin"--that started and was supported Right Here first. Now with that said, to your statement here:
A transcript would mean I would be able to cover it and stay updated in a matter of minutes.
By Transcripts, I believe you are talking about what Gamey used to do for us; adding Time Flags and corresponding topics for ease of use.
I agree that transcripts are helpful. I will speak with the team regarding this request, but my initial thoughts are that this should be a task done by individuals in the community who want to gain a reputation and believe they are the best qualified for boiling down the entirety of a hangout into a couple of words. There is a reason why we minimally edit the Context within the Audio--because this is a platform to be used by journalists. It is modeled after Public Services like CSPAN:
3rd Party Journalists Report on our hangouts and give their opinions.
(http://i.imgur.com/zMYnEu4.jpg)
I hope that we will provide the content needed for someone in the space to begin journalistic efforts that report on the happenings in the BitShares Ecosystem and am concerned about constricting the Context too much as I feel it is in your best interest as an investor to listen to the entirety of the hangouts. However I do understand how time-restrictions might cause problems for some listening to all of the content (a very small minority do not even have time to even listen to them while traveling). Though I am on the fence about whether providing these Flags is the correct approach for our own internal efforts...I am open to suggestions and will cover this topic when the Beyond Bitcoin team meets tonight.
For the time being, remember that if you have a smart phone you can listen to our hangouts ( https://soundcloud.com/beyond-bitcoin-hangouts ) while you take your morning run, on your drive to and from work...and nearly any other extra time you have available. I will keep your thoughts in mind and appreciate you taking the time to voice them.
One final note. This delegate position has been created because I in large part paid out of pocket to great expense of myself over the past year to ensure our community had something most do not. So in essence, this delegate keeps me from being in the RED for my efforts--and maybe provides me with approximately $100 a month after taxes. So I do want to let people know that this is not an easy task and it is severely underpaid and will continue to be so even at 10x the current marketcap (because the workload will substantially increase as marketcap increases). I promise I am not simply taking our community's funds and gambling them away. In fact, this is going to likely be the only source of my own personal investment in BTS as I move forward because I can no longer afford to buy cryptocurrencies with the income I make from my real world job.