On 10/21/20 4:50 AM, Cuddle Beam wrote: > So, I'd like to make a kind of currency that doesn't devalue over time > and that isn't bound to the entropy of the Ruleset. So I've designed a > money around fairly immutable concepts of the game: > > - Proposals exist as a central nomic concept to Agora, and are pretty > democratic. > > - Winning is desirable. >
Neat idea overall, I think this is on the right track for how to create an asset that doesn't have rule-backed effects that might be valuable. I've put some in-line comments that I think would improve it. > This money works by being backed by your own vote for a pre-defined > Proposal of "this X single person wins". You can make (mint) Victorias > by depositing your vote for someone in the future with enough Victorias > to cash in and use for that pre-defined Proposal. > > This is just a Proto-contract for now, let me know what you think. > > > --- > > VICTORIANS > > > A member of this contract is known as a Victorian. Top hats and corsets > optional. Any player can become a Victorian by announcement. A Victorian > that isn’t bound to any Win Nuggets can leave this contract by > announcement. > > > CURRENCIES > > > The Victoria is a currency tracked by a Victorian known as the Banker, > and can only be owned by Players. Win Nuggets is a currency tracked by > the Banker, and can only be owned by this contract. > > > Cuddlebeam is the Banker. > > > MINTING VICTORIAS > > > Any Victorian without a Win Nugget bound to them can Mint Victorias by > announcement. Doing so does the following: > > * > > Creates 100 Victorias in their possession. > > * > > Creates a Win Nugget that is bound to them in ownership of this > contract. > > > If this contract holds a Win Nugget bound to you, you cannot leave this > contract. This is redundant but there still should be a way to leave, because the contract can be amended without your explicit consent. I would suggest simply letting Victorians pay 100 Victorias to destroy their own win nugget. Or get rid of 2/3rds amendment and require everyone to consent. As is, I wouldn't join just out of caution. > > EXCHANGING VICTORIAS FOR WIN VOTES > > > Any Victorian can spend 100 Victorias and the oldest Win Nugget held by > this contract to act on behalf of the Victorian bound to that Win Nugget > to vote FOR a Proposal whose sole effect is to grant an Agoran win to a > single player. Why the oldest? It would make more sense to be able to choose. Maybe I can bribe some players, but not others. Choosing would make this a lot more useful. Also, there's nothing that stops them from changing their own vote afterwards. I'm not sure how you can prohibit that really. > > AMENDMENTS TO THIS CONTRACT > > > Any Victorian can propose a Very Classy Amendment by announcement, which > describes amendments to this contract. If a Very Classy Amendment was > proposed at least 2 days ago, at least 2/3rds (rounded up) of all > Victorians consent to its contents, and it has not yet been applied, > then any Victorian can apply it by announcement, causing this contract > to be amended according to it. > -- nix Webmastor _______________________________________________ Agora mailing list [email protected] https://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/agora
