Quote from: whatisbitcoin2016 on August 25, 2016, 12:36:02 AM

Quote from: iotatoken on August 24, 2016, 08:47:54 PM

Manual Claims have not yet been counted, but so far only make up a few more %, will be processed this week.

We will adjust the goal to 50 Ti. With this minimum I am confident that we can squeeze the main and necessary goals out of the negotiations, but time is ticking very fast. For all those who have not yet donated I got one question, are you really willing to risk 2-5-10x increase by refusing to part with 0.02 or 0.010x of your stake? Honestly? I would love to chat with such an individual just to get insight into what sort of fascinating pattern of thinking gave rise to that decision.

In all seriousness. 50 Ti is nothing, we as a community should be able to achieve this. This event is something we'd have 4 premium speaking spots spread out over 4 days at if this Big Deal had gone through already. There are several more of these events and equally important things on line, are we as a community going to let it go to waste over ~2% of the collective stake?

If that was imperative you should hve put it at higher priority than foundation funding OR you should have put foundation funds toward making it happen and recoup them through further donation.

No.

Alright let's put this into the realm of the real world where I prefer to operate. Ethereum had 35x more initial funding than IOTA and also had a 17% premine for their Foundation and founders. From a pure ROI PoV (since this is clearly what a lot of speculators make decisions by) we have already surpassed Ethereum in half the time it took them to achieve what they have done. So having a Foundation with the VOLUNTARY equivalent of 1/3rd of the Ethereum foundation clearly shows that OF COURSE the community also have to commit funds to projects and deals like this. It's a nobrainer.