We all want IOTA cost as Ethereum, 1 billions dollars, isn't it?
Then we need, as Ethereum, to get REAL BUSINESSES ON BOARD!
PAY FOR IT! It may be the one life changing chance!

I have 2 points to discuss:

1) This is the problem of viewing back versus viewing in the future.
If I can buy Eth now, at 1 500 000 BTC marketcap, and if I knew that it will
go to 3 000 000 BTC marketcap, it means that I'll make 2x - or 200% RoI. Even so the starting marketcap of Eth was 30 000 BTC.

So it really doesn't matter who entered in IOTA at lower prices.

2) David may try to finish the deal with big businesses at lower amount of IOTA-s. So it really make sense to try to get at 30 Ti.

Even if he fails, there are other interested  parties (not only 2, who can get BigDeals IOTA-s in exchange of using IOTA network).

I know msin that you already donated 10% of your stake to Foundation (thank you very much), but you as I must be understanding that the thing which create market value is not bitcointalk community, not twitter ads, not even media buzz, but external real life companies, who actually use tokens/coins.

I even think that the first thing which brought value to bitcoins were, I'm not afraid to say this, it were the ability to buy weed at black market at early days via bitcoin.

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?

Reset the network with an inflated supply to accommodate the "big deal", effectively a universal devaluation aka contribution from all

Just donated 1 Ti Iota. Lets get this done guys! Its in everyones interest!

It's not a good choice. The community has to take its own responsibility. Even the largest whales of Ethereum, or even the founder (Vitalik) himself only had 1% of total ethers, now he has more like 0.5% iirc. People need to just ask themselves: "Given the amount of IOTA I hold, am I contributing even remotely as much as Vitalik did to Ethereum?" if the answer is  "No", well then you're doing something wrong.
I've reiterated this so many times since day one back in October that it just feels tiring even saying it at this point... If we reach 45 Ti, then perhaps the Foundation can indeed put in 5 Ti, but come on people, stop playing the victim of your environment, you got the choice of your and IOTA's future in your own hands, do something with it!

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.

I think we can make it to 50 Ti when manual claims have been completed and those guys have control of their own stacks. Like it or not most will want to donate the minimum amount that achieves the goal, that's what game theory tells us. Foundation donations go to guys we know, but big deal is unknown people, so most guys are thinking 'what's the minimum I have to contribute to get across the line?' - the manual claim whales will donate more, but only right at the very end, that's the rational thing to do when you're giving free funds to strangers.

+1 Very nice. Donate or die trying.
Ask not what IOTA can do for you, ask what you can do for IOTA.
Community, we are strong together! Let's do this important step - donate to Big Deal for IOTA success.