@luckybit, I'm sure there will be a very rich bounty program available. There is a lot of work to be done. Wikis and FAQs and how to guides. More graphics and videos....
For marketing purposes Bytemaster would have an easier time promoting these ideas if he offered it up as "We will have lots of bounties, contests, and jobs for everyone if we get additional investment". Unfortunately it wasn't presented like that so the community didn't get behind it but perhaps there is a chance to present both the investment opportunities to the community as well as the opportunity to work for DACs and get credited for it through Keyhotee.
That is how Dacoinminster was so successful. He got us all involved in contests and the contests originally paid Bitcoin but eventually Mastercoins too.
So perhaps also pay workers in their choice of DAC currency and it can work. Like if you want to be paid in Bitshares or in Protoshares or whatever instead of $ or some combination of both. That would be great and I'd support it.
It is obvious that PTS must be mined as planned and must represent at least 10% of the total money supply in BitShares. Bytemaster has conceded this point.
Bytemaster said his friends and family purchased PTS... do you think he would intentionally do anything that would devalue those PTS? He also said his plan was to maximize PTS value which would make since considering Invictus is heavily invested in PTS. So I don't see him devaluing PTS intentionally.
The problem is that most people lack knowledge of how shares of company stock work.
Post-money valuation is the value of a company after an investment has been made. This value is equal to the sum of the pre-money valuation and the amount of new equity.[1]
External investors, such as venture capitalists and angel investors, will use a pre-money valuation to determine how much equity to demand in return for their cash injection to an entrepreneur and his/her startup company. The implied post-money valuation is calculated as the dollar amount of investment divided by the equity stake gained in an investment.
New equity is issued by diluting existing equity but the post-money valuation of the original holders usually increases as a result of the capital infusion even though their percentage ownership has decreased.
So right now there is $500K backing 1.2 million PTS. If Invictus were to raise $20M over 10 weeks by substituting a new form of mining then there would be $20.5M backing 2.2 million PTS2. It seems to me that this would dramatically increase the value of existing PTS.
So you all need to stop looking at the PTS supply side of the equation and look at the fact that this is a capital infusion that greatly favors PTS holders at the expense of those greedy angels who are only asking for 50% in exchange for 20M.
But the benefit of mining it and not treating it like shares in company stock is precisely because of the regulatory burdens which go along with it. If Invictus Innovations offered stock I'm sure people would buy stock in them but that would involve law enforcement and the SEC.
Also it's not about the short term value of PTS. It's about "A deal is a deal" and "honor the social contract as it was agreed upon" and of course trying to compromise so that everyone gets some win.
I think there are some ideas now on how to compromise so every side can win. Let's not try to attribute or treat PTS like a "stock" or apply any of the existing paradigm to the new paradigm. PTS is a new paradigm and there is nothing to compare it to in the stock market so lets not try comparing it to that and stick to comparing it to Bitcoin, Mastercoin and the other similar asset classes.