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After the NOV 5 snapshot,When will the BTS client come out and be tradeable?

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As I understand it, BTS is just BTSX upgraded. Only thing that will happen is that they will rebrand (launch new wallet, etc.) and issue new shares to honor AGS/PTS/DNS/VOTE. These new shares have a linear vesting period of 2 years.

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OMG, please don't tell me I've started another international incident!  ;)
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Can you tell us about the other one:P

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Hi, Thom. We translated your summary into Chinese.
 +5% for you great work!

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=10695.0

OMG, please don't tell me I've started another international incident!  ;)
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Hi, Thom. We translated your summary into Chinese.
 +5% for you great work!

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=10695.0
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This https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=1863.0
plus this agsexplorer.com

Should give you the power to compute the answer you seek.

From my forum reading, I assumed AGS was just a BTC address. With amencon's reply it sounds like AGS is an account somewhere you could check the balance of (b/c he said you might get 1000 AGS, which to me implies AGS is a unit of some type distinct from BTCs), but that doesn't make sense to me, as that account balance would be spent by I3 as it's put to use.

I'll check into the links you provided Stan, thanks for your reply.
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When people say something like 10/10/80 or 7/3/7/3/80.  All that means is they are talking in terms of percentages of the resulting shares.  Your share count will stay the same, but others will be added. 

Anyway, I was just going to say thanks for doing this.  I think I caught the end of this and you were asking for someone to come up with an update.  Well I grumpily suggested you volunteer to do it !  And here we go.  Nice work.
Thanks gamey. I think your format is better in many respects b/c people can go into the recording at the time index you provide and get the info without editorial bias.

"percentages of resulting shares"? I just don't get it, that's why numbers are necessary. I see talk about % of market cap, market cap / by maximum shares possible and many many other parts of the whole picture, but nothing that says if I donated 3.5678337 BTC to AGS (prior | post 2/28) and the market cap (of BTSX or AGS ?) at the Nov 5th snapshot is ?.?Million, I will get ???.????? shares of BTS. Most savvy investors around here take all this for granted but it's complicated for newbies.

If I left out an important factor or included extra ones in that calculation people need to know what the exact, complete formula is.

There is no complete formula that can readily be written down.  You need to know how many AGS you have and can't go very easily go from BTC.  I thought I had formula right for PTS/AGS but my calculations were off.  There is a thread elsewhere on the subject which translates PTS/AGS to specific BTS numbers.  It is about 100 BTS per PTS etc.  However, since I don't know how many DNS I had etc even those #s don't do that much.

7/7/3/3/80 Would mean that with 100 shares in target sharedrop, there will be 5 groups each with a corresponding amount of shares. 3,3,7,7 and 80.

What? Why not? There is no reason I can think of why a formula can't be stated. If that is true someone from I3 needs to explain in very explicit terms what factors cannot be quantified. I'm no math whiz but this indeterminate answer for a math problem sounds fishy to me.

Your making progress through my fog, so stay with me. I finally understand the percentage string, it relates to the amount to be gifted or share-dropped as a distribution. That clears up the output side of the equation, but people that invested also want to understand how the number of shares is determined, the input side of the equation. In fact it's the input side that's more complicated and deserves an accounting.

This https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=1863.0
plus this agsexplorer.com

Should give you the power to compute the answer you seek.

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When people say something like 10/10/80 or 7/3/7/3/80.  All that means is they are talking in terms of percentages of the resulting shares.  Your share count will stay the same, but others will be added. 

Anyway, I was just going to say thanks for doing this.  I think I caught the end of this and you were asking for someone to come up with an update.  Well I grumpily suggested you volunteer to do it !  And here we go.  Nice work.
Thanks gamey. I think your format is better in many respects b/c people can go into the recording at the time index you provide and get the info without editorial bias.

"percentages of resulting shares"? I just don't get it, that's why numbers are necessary. I see talk about % of market cap, market cap / by maximum shares possible and many many other parts of the whole picture, but nothing that says if I donated 3.5678337 BTC to AGS (prior | post 2/28) and the market cap (of BTSX or AGS ?) at the Nov 5th snapshot is ?.?Million, I will get ???.????? shares of BTS. Most savvy investors around here take all this for granted but it's complicated for newbies.

If I left out an important factor or included extra ones in that calculation people need to know what the exact, complete formula is.

There is no complete formula that can readily be written down.  You need to know how many AGS you have and can't go very easily go from BTC.  I thought I had formula right for PTS/AGS but my calculations were off.  There is a thread elsewhere on the subject which translates PTS/AGS to specific BTS numbers.  It is about 100 BTS per PTS etc.  However, since I don't know how many DNS I had etc even those #s don't do that much.

7/7/3/3/80 Would mean that with 100 shares in target sharedrop, there will be 5 groups each with a corresponding amount of shares. 3,3,7,7 and 80.

What? Why not? There is no reason I can think of why a formula can't be stated. If that is true someone from I3 needs to explain in very explicit terms what factors cannot be quantified. I'm no math whiz but this indeterminate answer for a math problem sounds fishy to me.

Your making progress through my fog, so stay with me. I finally understand the percentage string, it relates to the amount to be gifted or share-dropped as a distribution. That clears up the output side of the equation, but people that invested also want to understand how the number of shares is determined, the input side of the equation. In fact it's the input side that's more complicated and deserves an accounting.
It's due to the nature of how AGS were purchased.  When AGS donation were being solicited a set amount of AGS were handed out each day split among donators dependent on the percentage of daily total donated.  So one day 1BTC might have given 1000AGS and the next day 1200 (random numbers can't remember the average there).

It would likely be fairly trivial to grab the donation data from the AGS period and come up with an average BTC and PTS to AGS figure.  Once you have that then you could also then easily write the rest of the formula for BTS distributions.  Of course due to the averaging it would give general estimates only when applied for each individual.

The bottom half of the front page at AGSexplorer.com has lots of such info...
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When people say something like 10/10/80 or 7/3/7/3/80.  All that means is they are talking in terms of percentages of the resulting shares.  Your share count will stay the same, but others will be added. 

Anyway, I was just going to say thanks for doing this.  I think I caught the end of this and you were asking for someone to come up with an update.  Well I grumpily suggested you volunteer to do it !  And here we go.  Nice work.
Thanks gamey. I think your format is better in many respects b/c people can go into the recording at the time index you provide and get the info without editorial bias.

"percentages of resulting shares"? I just don't get it, that's why numbers are necessary. I see talk about % of market cap, market cap / by maximum shares possible and many many other parts of the whole picture, but nothing that says if I donated 3.5678337 BTC to AGS (prior | post 2/28) and the market cap (of BTSX or AGS ?) at the Nov 5th snapshot is ?.?Million, I will get ???.????? shares of BTS. Most savvy investors around here take all this for granted but it's complicated for newbies.

If I left out an important factor or included extra ones in that calculation people need to know what the exact, complete formula is.

There is no complete formula that can readily be written down.  You need to know how many AGS you have and can't go very easily go from BTC.  I thought I had formula right for PTS/AGS but my calculations were off.  There is a thread elsewhere on the subject which translates PTS/AGS to specific BTS numbers.  It is about 100 BTS per PTS etc.  However, since I don't know how many DNS I had etc even those #s don't do that much.

7/7/3/3/80 Would mean that with 100 shares in target sharedrop, there will be 5 groups each with a corresponding amount of shares. 3,3,7,7 and 80.

What? Why not? There is no reason I can think of why a formula can't be stated. If that is true someone from I3 needs to explain in very explicit terms what factors cannot be quantified. I'm no math whiz but this indeterminate answer for a math problem sounds fishy to me.

Your making progress through my fog, so stay with me. I finally understand the percentage string, it relates to the amount to be gifted or share-dropped as a distribution. That clears up the output side of the equation, but people that invested also want to understand how the number of shares is determined, the input side of the equation. In fact it's the input side that's more complicated and deserves an accounting.

You were asking how much you get per BTC you donated.  That fluctuated every day you invested in AGS.  THerefore there is no formula that doesn't require you looking up the ratios from every day and multiplying them out.  I'm sorry, not sure how further to explain it without writing a book that wouldn't make things any simpler.

People have posted in other threads the PTS:BTS calculation along with DNS etc.  That is about as good as you can get with what most people would consider a formula. 
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When people say something like 10/10/80 or 7/3/7/3/80.  All that means is they are talking in terms of percentages of the resulting shares.  Your share count will stay the same, but others will be added. 

Anyway, I was just going to say thanks for doing this.  I think I caught the end of this and you were asking for someone to come up with an update.  Well I grumpily suggested you volunteer to do it !  And here we go.  Nice work.
Thanks gamey. I think your format is better in many respects b/c people can go into the recording at the time index you provide and get the info without editorial bias.

"percentages of resulting shares"? I just don't get it, that's why numbers are necessary. I see talk about % of market cap, market cap / by maximum shares possible and many many other parts of the whole picture, but nothing that says if I donated 3.5678337 BTC to AGS (prior | post 2/28) and the market cap (of BTSX or AGS ?) at the Nov 5th snapshot is ?.?Million, I will get ???.????? shares of BTS. Most savvy investors around here take all this for granted but it's complicated for newbies.

If I left out an important factor or included extra ones in that calculation people need to know what the exact, complete formula is.

There is no complete formula that can readily be written down.  You need to know how many AGS you have and can't go very easily go from BTC.  I thought I had formula right for PTS/AGS but my calculations were off.  There is a thread elsewhere on the subject which translates PTS/AGS to specific BTS numbers.  It is about 100 BTS per PTS etc.  However, since I don't know how many DNS I had etc even those #s don't do that much.

7/7/3/3/80 Would mean that with 100 shares in target sharedrop, there will be 5 groups each with a corresponding amount of shares. 3,3,7,7 and 80.

What? Why not? There is no reason I can think of why a formula can't be stated. If that is true someone from I3 needs to explain in very explicit terms what factors cannot be quantified. I'm no math whiz but this indeterminate answer for a math problem sounds fishy to me.

Your making progress through my fog, so stay with me. I finally understand the percentage string, it relates to the amount to be gifted or share-dropped as a distribution. That clears up the output side of the equation, but people that invested also want to understand how the number of shares is determined, the input side of the equation. In fact it's the input side that's more complicated and deserves an accounting.
It's due to the nature of how AGS were purchased.  When AGS donation were being solicited a set amount of AGS were handed out each day split among donators dependent on the percentage of daily total donated.  So one day 1BTC might have given 1000AGS and the next day 1200 (random numbers can't remember the average there).

It would likely be fairly trivial to grab the donation data from the AGS period and come up with an average BTC and PTS to AGS figure.  Once you have that then you could also then easily write the rest of the formula for BTS distributions.  Of course due to the averaging it would give general estimates only when applied for each individual.

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Mumble Session Highlights

I tried to post this a few hours ago but the forum was offline.

On 10/18/2014 bytemaster started this thread: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=10148.msg132495#msg132495 relating his initial proposal for a merger. Two days later Ander started this thread: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=10214.msg133796#msg133796 to summarize the merger discussion as of 10/22/2014.

At the end of the mumble session today I offered to document what I perceive is the majority consensus on some of the issues, but it is by no means a comprehensive summary of all of the points discussed in the session. Gamey always does an excellent job of that. My primary objective is to help document what appears to be points of consensus concerning the proposed merger. Upon reflection and a second listen of the entire session, I don't believe I have much of a consensus to document. Nevertheless, perhaps this post may help clarify some points for someone.

Translation of Existing Stakes Into BTS Shares

From what I have seen in the forums this week, the issues around what position each stakeholder of [AGS | BTSX | DNS | PTS | VOTE | MUSIC | etc.] will have in the new BTS ecosystem constitutes the majority of the contention and concern. No surprise there.

I was quite surprised however that no discussion of this took place in the mumble session. My personal take, given the large number of forum posts discussing this is:

  • Either the majority of the community is satisfied and thus has reached a consensus
  • None of those dissatisfied were present in the mumble session
  • Those who were dissatisfied and present chose not to raise their concerns

As I think through the issues I read on the forum, I realize there are several aspects of the merger besides how a given stake will transform into BTS shares, such as how PTS will vest in BTS over time, will those vehicles continue to exist after the merger and how will they be represented on the exchanges, what market caps will be used to calculate investment values and issues about liquidity.

Since none of this was discussed at all in the mumble session, I tried to go back through the forum posts to come up with a concise position transformation formula, but I cannot, there is too many discussions and too many elements to factor in, at least for me.

Although much discussion was posted about the relative portions of AGS, BTSX, DNS & PTS etc to BTS It's not exactly clear to me when I see a statement like "7% AGS, 7% PTS, 3% VOTE, 3% DNS and 80% BTSX" what that even means. Percentage of what? If I have 1000 shares of PTS does that mean I get 750 shares of BTS? Is it a percentage of each funds market cap or of BTSX's market cap? It's very difficult to understand these discussions when so many elements are assumed or scattered on different threads.

Bytemaster was asked if DNS would be the same after the merger or if it would be a bitAsset. He said BTS would allow auctioning the domain names for bitUSD, but did not know the auction specifics.

Bytemaster also stated that PTS and AGS would not end but will continue on; they are not bought out or retired, contrary to his original proposal. Though PTS and AGS will continue to exist, he will no longer have any interest in them to divide his time and loyalties. But when asked if AGS would only be used for BTS "because they were bought out", he said yes. He also said that it's up to the shareholders of Music or Vote or other DAC team to decide whether to be a part of BTS or operate on their own separate blockchain, it wasn't his decision to make.

A summary of the current proposal should be stated for each of the entities in this ecosystem without ambiguity. Issues such as the vesting schedule and market cap should also be stated. But you'll have to wait for someone more capable than I at summarizing the forum discussions. When I asked Bytemaster  when a more formal merger description would be forthcoming he tentatively said next week.

Chinese Community

There was considerable time given to address issues from the Chinese community, as well as discussion about marketing efforts to them. Concerns were raised that individual efforts from the Chinese community were not being recognized or compensated. Bytemaster said he trusts in Bo Chen but would like to see more transparency and disclosure of how the funds he has provided are being spent.

It was stated early on in the session that we should all be aware of the language barrier and difficulty the Chinese community has in participating in the session, and to make an effort to speak more slowly. There were several people present helping with the translation in real time.

Some questions were posed by the Chinese community about the metrics for evaluating performance. Bytemaster responded by discussing what Brian Page was working on and the difficult position he is in. He related how pleased he is about the new, unified BTS and how Brian had been asking for it for quite awhile now. He said Brian's pay and that of the entire marketing staff are dependent on market cap growth, as it doubles.

They would get 10 - 20 million BTS shares if they are able to bring BTS' market cap up to match bitcoin's.
Bytemaster was asked about the model of how new developers would be added. He responded by saying anyone wishing to become a BTS developer should demonstrate their value, how they will work with the team by fixing bugs or implementing new features.  He feels it would be bad to hire someone with unproven skills.

The BTS Roadmap

After the merger a BTS marketing push slated for this December with a rebranded client, everything merged in with their vesting stake a working voting application or voting booth. IN early 2015 "KeyGraph" will be an important focus (aimed at vote validation / certification). After that the long term plan is to create a scripting app to compete with Etherium. The goal is to be able to create any other DACs without the need for continual hard forks. After that the focus will become specific appliations such as auctions and others TBA.

BTS DAC Structure

A number of questions related to the company structure and accountability to shareholders were raised, and bytemaster responded by saying the future direction would be to migrate developers into elected delegate positions and have their work rewarded by that model as opposed to being paid through I3. He emphasized that AGS funds would be invested into the growth of the BTS "superDAC" and it's staff.
When asked about revealing individual staff member pay bytemaster said they have avoided doing that to protect privacy, but salaries as a group will continue to be reported for I3.  Bytemaster said that tying delegate pay to bitUSD would be very complicated.

Another point he made was that he was calling this a "share drop" not a "merger",  My understanding of this was that, although "merger" was a usefully descriptive word used early in the discussions, he no longer feels that is the best description of what has evolved from this week's discussions.  He now thinks "share drop" is a better description.  Names matter because they set expectations and assessments of whether one has acted "fair and honorably".

He has stated that he is trying to carve out a sustainable role for himself where he can honor all his commitments without a conflict of interests.  He is also clearly trying to set the industry free by decentralizing its leadership.  He will continue to lead and compete, but as one of many.  In particular, as he has been saying from the beginning:  He is recommending how developers should honor the social consensus but it is completely up to each developer to craft his or her own specific instantiation of the Social Consensus given that she must compete under the Ten Natural Laws of the Crypto Universe.  To succeed in capturing community support a developer should present how they intend to honor the social consensus and see if the community considers that a reasonable and acceptable offer to obtain their support. 

As the number of interest subgroups grows with different snapshots and different DAC constituency groups, there may be many reasonable variations that can and should be honored.  We have long advocated that PTS and AGS can be honored through honoring DACs that have previously met this obligation.  So the mix can get a bit complex. 

In the end we must remember that all of this was about incentivizing developers to honor this community while doing what is in the developer's own interest.  It is in the developers own interest to honor AGS, PTS and their offspring without feeling obligated to do so for any reason other than their own interest in attracting demographics favorable to their enterprise. 

For regulatory reasons it is very important to keep in mind that this is structured as a gifting economy. Supporters freely give to develop the ecosystem and developers freely give to thank them and seek their support.

These are all idealistic ways of thinking that we have been promoting for the past year.  The concepts have continuously evolved but the ideals remain the same.  Concepts will continue to evolve.  We are all learning.

So, IMHO, we should try to view every developer's attempt to deal honorably with the community in the right spirit.  Someone is attempting to give us a gift.  Hopefully we all can receive it graciously.

Here's how I view what Bytemaster has proposed.  (This is another patented analogy, metaphor, pedagogical example, lens of perspective, whatever, that I am using to enable me to receive graciously the gift of his time he is trying to make to all of us.)  This is only an example, not a change in his current proposal.

Suppose BM, in his new role of single DAC developer, wanted to honor the existing community with a new revolutionary DAC concept, BTS.  Using the previously established consensus he decides to honor the existing community this way:

10% AGS
10% PTS
80% BTSX


He picks his target supply to be 2.5B BTS.  Sounds like he's right on track.  By doing this, the single DAC he is focusing on will still be honoring his commitment to give 20% of his future innovations to PTS/AGS supporters.  As he continues to work on BTS, they will get the promised fruits of his future work.  Meanwhile, independent third parties continue to honor PTS/AGS because they still represent the same demographic they always have. 

The problem is that he wants to incorporate two DACs that are still in-utero, partially born, without aborting them.  In some sense, they are still in the future too, lumped into the category of his not yet fully realized future innovations.  So he decides to do his 20% share drop gift to AGS/PTS using a weighted mix of several snapshots.  Why not?  Its become standard practice for developers to select their own mix and snapshot timings.  What's inherently wrong with selecting a mix of mixes based on a mix of snapshots?  Complicated, but perhaps necessary to accomplish all his launch objectives.  Nothing says a developer must be completely evenhanded to all demographics.  He must do what is practically feasible and what satisfies the Ten Natural Laws the best for his DAC.  This is not a dishonorable outcome, just a complicated one tailored for a complicated situation.

We now have a situation where other developers can honor AGS and PTS while Bytemaster will have met his commitments once and for all with his signature SuperDAC. 

Semper Fi


This is the first time in this discussion i would agree with you. If you would have done it this way everything would be fine. But you didn't. So PTS and AGS are not getting 10% each.

1. DNS was already out in the wild and valued much higher. Why include it in the deal and not just throw it away? Now, i feel i lost a lot of money.
2. Vote is not 50/50 AGS and PTS and with this said the AGS and PTS honoring in BTS falls from 10% to maybe 9.5%

You think 9.5% is nearly close to 10%. You are right again, but it is not the promise you made and this will forever be your problem with creating in BTS.

My advice would be make it better and clearer. If you want Adam so badly in, give him shares from I3 pool or dilute BTSX 1%, but honor your promise.

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When people say something like 10/10/80 or 7/3/7/3/80.  All that means is they are talking in terms of percentages of the resulting shares.  Your share count will stay the same, but others will be added. 

Anyway, I was just going to say thanks for doing this.  I think I caught the end of this and you were asking for someone to come up with an update.  Well I grumpily suggested you volunteer to do it !  And here we go.  Nice work.
Thanks gamey. I think your format is better in many respects b/c people can go into the recording at the time index you provide and get the info without editorial bias.

"percentages of resulting shares"? I just don't get it, that's why numbers are necessary. I see talk about % of market cap, market cap / by maximum shares possible and many many other parts of the whole picture, but nothing that says if I donated 3.5678337 BTC to AGS (prior | post 2/28) and the market cap (of BTSX or AGS ?) at the Nov 5th snapshot is ?.?Million, I will get ???.????? shares of BTS. Most savvy investors around here take all this for granted but it's complicated for newbies.

If I left out an important factor or included extra ones in that calculation people need to know what the exact, complete formula is.

There is no complete formula that can readily be written down.  You need to know how many AGS you have and can't go very easily go from BTC.  I thought I had formula right for PTS/AGS but my calculations were off.  There is a thread elsewhere on the subject which translates PTS/AGS to specific BTS numbers.  It is about 100 BTS per PTS etc.  However, since I don't know how many DNS I had etc even those #s don't do that much.

7/7/3/3/80 Would mean that with 100 shares in target sharedrop, there will be 5 groups each with a corresponding amount of shares. 3,3,7,7 and 80.

What? Why not? There is no reason I can think of why a formula can't be stated. If that is true someone from I3 needs to explain in very explicit terms what factors cannot be quantified. I'm no math whiz but this indeterminate answer for a math problem sounds fishy to me.

Your making progress through my fog, so stay with me. I finally understand the percentage string, it relates to the amount to be gifted or share-dropped as a distribution. That clears up the output side of the equation, but people that invested also want to understand how the number of shares is determined, the input side of the equation. In fact it's the input side that's more complicated and deserves an accounting.
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We now have a situation where other developers can honor AGS and PTS while Bytemaster will have met his commitments once and for all with his signature SuperDAC. 

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 +5%.    In fact its not Bytemaster who has met his commitments, it is the Bitshares organization.  Therefore after the merger/drop the association between BTS and  PTS/AGS should be jettisoned in order to insure a focused market message for BTS.   PTS and AGS will be on their own and BTS will compete with them for future developer share drops 
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When people say something like 10/10/80 or 7/3/7/3/80.  All that means is they are talking in terms of percentages of the resulting shares.  Your share count will stay the same, but others will be added. 

Anyway, I was just going to say thanks for doing this.  I think I caught the end of this and you were asking for someone to come up with an update.  Well I grumpily suggested you volunteer to do it !  And here we go.  Nice work.
Thanks gamey. I think your format is better in many respects b/c people can go into the recording at the time index you provide and get the info without editorial bias.

"percentages of resulting shares"? I just don't get it, that's why numbers are necessary. I see talk about % of market cap, market cap / by maximum shares possible and many many other parts of the whole picture, but nothing that says if I donated 3.5678337 BTC to AGS (prior | post 2/28) and the market cap (of BTSX or AGS ?) at the Nov 5th snapshot is ?.?Million, I will get ???.????? shares of BTS. Most savvy investors around here take all this for granted but it's complicated for newbies.

If I left out an important factor or included extra ones in that calculation people need to know what the exact, complete formula is.

There is no complete formula that can readily be written down.  You need to know how many AGS you have and can't go very easily go from BTC.  I thought I had formula right for PTS/AGS but my calculations were off.  There is a thread elsewhere on the subject which translates PTS/AGS to specific BTS numbers.  It is about 100 BTS per PTS etc.  However, since I don't know how many DNS I had etc even those #s don't do that much.

7/7/3/3/80 Would mean that with 100 shares in target sharedrop, there will be 5 groups each with a corresponding amount of shares. 3,3,7,7 and 80.
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Do gamey and the Beyond Bitcoin guys get paid for their work?  If not people need to be careful someone doesnt try to buy them from your community. 

Im a big holder of NXT and NHZ.  And I know they could use some guys like them.  Starting to invest in bitshares though. Much more open community than NXT. These sessions make it harder for shareholders to be scammed by letting the entire community's largest holders assess the viability of potential investments If they are not paid, they are all your guardian angels...cause most communities would pay a mint to have something like that!!

As a matter of fact, maybe you guys would like to check out NXT.  Pm me if interested!
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When people say something like 10/10/80 or 7/3/7/3/80.  All that means is they are talking in terms of percentages of the resulting shares.  Your share count will stay the same, but others will be added. 

Anyway, I was just going to say thanks for doing this.  I think I caught the end of this and you were asking for someone to come up with an update.  Well I grumpily suggested you volunteer to do it !  And here we go.  Nice work.
Thanks gamey. I think your format is better in many respects b/c people can go into the recording at the time index you provide and get the info without editorial bias.

"percentages of resulting shares"? I just don't get it, that's why numbers are necessary. I see talk about % of market cap, market cap / by maximum shares possible and many many other parts of the whole picture, but nothing that says if I donated 3.5678337 BTC to AGS (prior | post 2/28) and the market cap (of BTSX or AGS ?) at the Nov 5th snapshot is ?.?Million, I will get ???.????? shares of BTS. Most savvy investors around here take all this for granted but it's complicated for newbies.

If I left out an important factor or included extra ones in that calculation people need to know what the exact, complete formula is.
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