Hi guys, I hope I'm familiar enough here that this isn't going to be mauled as a spam post.

I'm beginning to run sponsorship auctions for Beyond Bitcoin - the LTBN podcast I host which had it's humble beginnings right here on these forums. More than anything I'd like to use the ~one minute sponsorship slot as something more than an ad. One way I thought this could be achieved is by promoting delegates and other trusted parties which serve decentralised networks. In this way not only will the sponsor's service reaches 3000 - 23000 ears but the platform they serve will also receive attention and we get to promote these network curator positions as a profitable enterprise worthy of a marketing budget.

The cost to you and profit to me from sponsorship will be negligible but it enables me to bring value to a platform I have an obligation to support (LTBN), provide additional content, educate the public, and support your service and platform. (Yes, I'm talking about Bitshares delegates but keeping the speak neutral)

This is the only announcement of the auctions I will be making apart from the next Beyond Bitcoin episode. To participate just purchase LTBC and submit to the auction through counterwallet.io.

I post this here primarily for discussion as I will repost in DAC Delegates.

Cheers,

Arthur/Legend - whichever you prefer

Listener Stats: https://soundcloud.com/legendface66

Auction: http://auction.letstalkbitcoin.com/auction/beyond-bitcoin-sponsorship-token

Sponsorship Calendar:https://trello.com/b/FEIZFI6q/sponsor-schedule/calendar/2014/10

I am trying to import my AGS funds

This is a discussion Delulo and I have been having which seemed suited to a forum post. . .

Quote from: legendface66 on July 27, 2014, 11:17:48 am

Incidentally, I think the only way to achieve a shift in the equilibrium of capital concentration is through technology. It's the only wild card that can sufficiently alter the landscape. The capital shocks at the start of last century were the biggest social and political events the world has seen, they evened things out but we are trending toward the old concentration again. What political, social, geological changes could potentially result in persistent wealth distribution?

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The capital shocks at the start of last century were the biggest social and political events the world has seen, they evened things out but we are trending toward the old concentration again.

Do you mean 1929 here or 2007?

By "persistent wealth distribution" you mean a more even one?

I'm referring to the two world wars and also the great depression.
During these events capital was destroyed and appropriated, resulting in an increase of the labour force's relative share of GDP through reduced total private capital holdings and also an increase in public capital holdings (in some cases, don't quote me). So what I really mean is that non-private capital earners commanded a greater share of economic activity and enjoyed greater relative income.

As established, capital necessarily concentrates. Following those shocks it has done just that in non linear fashion "compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe". The curve is becoming hyperbolic right now.
Familiar, off hand numbers:25-49.9th US household wealth percentile, average wealth 1989: 30.9k, in 2007: 52.7k. 90-100th percentile for the same years: 1009k, 3,619.6k

The US is particularly bad but Europe is somewhat similar. To my knowledge the 2008 crisis in no way resulted in a change or even a slowing down of this trend. look at this telling graph:http://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2013/04/09/a-rivarly-graphed-how-carlos-slim-overtook-bill-gates-as-number-one-richest-in-the-world/

"Persistent wealth distribution" is very sloppy and the wrong phrase. I mean an equilibrium state where the distribution of income from all sources across the socio-economic spectrum is flatter.

And the point of all this is that blockchain tech provides the opportunity to experiment with the design of economic systems which may lead to the discovery of some that tend toward such an equilibrium.

I myself would start by introducing dilution of 2% per year.

Bring on the trolls with their torches and pitchforks!

This project has been steadily evolving as fuz and I have worked on it and it's reached a point where a major shift needs to take place, rather than the incremental ones we've been making.

Things have been quiet for a while because I've been repackaging Beyond Bitcoin into two different podcasts:

Beyond Bitcoin on the LTB Network: this is a new, radio show style podcast.

Beyond Bitcoin: Hangouts : this will be lightly edited releases of the mumble hangouts.

I just can't have the podcast I would like to make and the hangouts published in the same feed without severely compromising one or the other. The mumble hangouts are supposed to be a primary resource. To turn them into a "Marketable" podcast requires too much editing. Joining the LTB Network with a show will bring attention and hopefully more devs to the mumble server.

Tell me what you think of the change, I'd be more verbose but I'm getting a twitch from so much time staring at this screen. Talk to you guys later :-)

With any luck There'll be a couple more on there this week.

Go check it out anywhere podcasts are sold!

Could someone please outline the steps required to check your AGS balance? I have founder ID shares and made a donation but cannot get a balance to return from either.