Re: DIS: the next financial tool

2018-04-27 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Aris Merchant wrote: I'm sorry, but to me this really sounds lime you're talking about types of rule defined currency, not instances. This is especially clear because one can't have a set of instances that does not describe specific instances, which this one can't because

Re: DIS: the next financial tool

2018-04-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Ørjan Johansen wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Aris Merchant wrote: > > > I'm sorry, but to me this really sounds lime you're talking about types of > > rule defined currency, not instances. This is especially clear because one > > can't have a set of instances that does not

DIS: doesn't THIS apply to "pay" without a destination?

2018-04-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
>From Rule 2166/26: If a rule, proposal, or other competent authority attempts to increase or decrease the balance of an entity without specifying a source or destination, then the currency is created or destroyed as needed. "paying" without a destination attempts to

DIS: Protos on github

2018-04-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
I don't know if this will turn out to be useful, but I've put a protos repo on our github: https://github.com/AgoraNomic/protos I've put in there an Assets start-of-proto. Right now, it's a copy of the assets rule, where I've clipped out secondary stuff that may be better housed in other

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: doesn't THIS apply to "pay" without a destination?

2018-04-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
Ok I looked up competent authority and see how it works in this context. Back to the original point: The rule here implies that if you attempt to decrease your own balance without specifying a destination, the currency is question is destroyed. (you are a competent authority for your own

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: doesn't THIS apply to "pay" without a destination?

2018-04-27 Thread Aris Merchant
Indeed, you're an authority, and you're competent, but that doesn't make you a competent authority. And you're right: although that's not what I intended (I wanted legacy for support for rules that still directly adjusted balances), it's nevertheless certainly a reasnoble enough interpretation.