Quote from: MrJiggledaddy on September 11, 2013, 03:10:41 PM

I think the grants are a great idea, but simply allowing anyone to make a grant address and have it voted on may not be the best way to accomplish a meaningful dent in the crypto world (people will always be greedy, and do anything they can to game the system).

My idea would be to implement a system where grants are proposed (and explained, maybe make a minimum # of words on explanation) through a "grant" tab on the QT miner, and need a certain number of votes (separate from sending satoshis) from mining addresses with >40MEG (or whatever number would work) to become a valid grant proposal, at which point they can be sent satoshis to receive grant status. It still fits the theme of decentralization since there is no central authority deciding what is a valid grant, it would just require tuning of the # of votes and amount of required MEG per valid voting address to make a grant.

Making a special Grant "tab" for people to vote on new grand addresses is definitely a interesting idea! Though I personally think that it might make it more complicated then necessary.
I think that this problem should get taken care of automatically by getting enough voting support or not. And I think for the beginning we should set minimum required vote support, for a grant address to be accepted, rather high (maybe 30k Voting Power? ).
In case you over read my initial post:

Quote from: bahamapascal on September 09, 2013, 10:48:33 AM

As you can see, you can add and subtract VP, so if the initiative you have supported dose not full fill its promises, you can remove your VP and use them on other addresses.
On the left bottom you can see a button saying " Generate grant address", when clicking on that a window should appear with a impute field for the description where you can put the name/reason and link to a website/forum for more info; also when creating a new grand address you have to pay a fee of lets say 25MEG, which will be refunded should the address get enough Vote support or else, if it dosn´t get enough VP after lets say 7 days, your address will be removed from the list and at the same time you will get the 25MEG back; though there should be a notification about that in the same pop up window as the description field.Should you have the required funds and have filled the text field you can then proceed to generate the address, which then will get listed in the List.
The 25MEG are there to prevent people/bots to spam the List with hundreds,thousands or even millions of grand proposals, which would/could brake the system.

Quote from: MrJiggledaddy on September 11, 2013, 03:10:41 PM

If you also allowed down-voting of a grant, it would ultimately give the masses capability to add or subsequently remove a grant if it was decided it should not be receiving grant coins anymore, as I'm sure would be the case if an individual managed to game that system and vote themselves a personal grant like is currently happening.

Hmm, so you suggest making a option to use your VP to cast a negative vote, is this correct? Interesting idea, will think about it some more, but I think that might be a nice option.

Quote from: MrJiggledaddy on September 11, 2013, 03:10:41 PM

If I knew anything beyond basic C++, I'd attempt this myself, however I lack the knowledge or programming experience to even have a chance of success. If anyone can point out any major flaws or necessary refinements in this idea, feel free to. If we can agree on a system that would be fair and have some semblance of balance, I'd be happy to donate whatever I can to anyone willing to undertake the actual assembly of the code.

Beyond that, I'm still having trouble going more than a day or two without the miner hanging on a block...right now I firmly believe that's the primary hindrance to this coin's success. People don't want to have to constantly monitor their miners just to make sure they're still mining, and if they have to, they'll move on to a coin that doesn't require this.

Hey thanks, that would be grate if you would help donate fore development

...but let´s first get the ideas straightened out, then when we have agreed on a plan we can look into development and donations.
Yes the hanging on a block is still annoying, though lately I have gone several days before it hang on a block, so that's an improvement from the beginning

If you are not already, try starting the normal memorycoin-qt.exe (and not the "start.bat"). I have way less problems with errors since I start without the add noods....tough this might just be coincidence, don´t know.

And thanks for your thoughts and support, really appreciate it