I don't think information will ever be added to Devtome in spurts again, 1) I am not leaving 2) I think traffic is just gonna go up from here.

Bounties are for items the devcoin project itself needs.

Things like free open source games, music, hardware, whatever, that is not something this project itself directly needs to have done, aren't rewarded with bounties they are rewarded after the fact (well, more like during the fact, I guess) by adding the creator or dev team to the receivers list.

So for example if you gather a few friends and form a team to create a free open source game, at some point along the line it might be noticed your game is popular and useful and the team is putting in 40 hours a month or more on it, and the team might be given a spot ion the receivers list; how they would divvy up the resulting coins among the members of the team is left up to them I guess, usually by putting their designated "team leader" or "lead dev" on the list and letting them divvy it up, maybe?

In the case of a huge project with a whole lot of bearing on devcoin, such as Open Transactions, a few pieces of the project each have a receivers list entry in effect; that is, something like three separate people, possibly even more (I am not sure, I know three for sure) are on the receivers list on account of the fact they are working on aspects of Open Transactions.

Bounties are for when we need something and no one is already doing it so a bounty seems necessary in order to get it done.

-MarkM-

Devtome is reaching a tipping point and I do not want to see the next 6 months full of people pumping it for 100+ shares and then just selling out, crashing the price, and generally not actually helping DVC in the long term. This is also my fear.

EDIT: of course though once there are enough writers, no one writer will have a huge impact on the generation share value, as there will just be too many people writing, I anticipate this will be in roughly six months from my rough intuitive projections. Highly scientific

I don't think that will happen.

1) 100,000 words is just too much. I posted 2 books I'm writing and didn't get that many...

2) I don't think it is possible to get 100,000,000 coins... I get your point, I am just making my own that 100,000 shares would probably be like 40,000,000 DVC as long as Unthinkingbit keeps writing every round.

3) If they flood the market, that will peak interest. Just like with BTC, every time they get cheap, EVERYONE comes and buys a few. The price of DVC going down isn't a bad thing unless you only have short term vision.

A round is 180,000,000 coins; not sure if that is before or after the miners take their 10%.

Oh duh it'd be after, else it'd be 200,000,000 coins. Silly me. Elementary math.

-MarkM-

Ex:
I am glad DVC does not cost $10 a coin right now, because I can post advertisements on YouTube saying "Come buy 20 coins for 1 penny!"... I really don't think it would be as easy to get people to want to buy $10 coins, no matter who they support, unless someone makes a store to spend them in.

Not with their entire lifetime ouvre of previously written work they can't, if they already posted the whole shebang during their first round. They'd sign up, dump their entire lifetime's accumulated writings (maybe from back in their college days when they actually did write stuff), dump the resulting coins for cash or bitcoins and not be back (because writing isn't even something they do, it is something the youth they once were once did...)

Plus, who is going to pay people how much to read hundreds of thousands of words per month and check it all for originality and such?

We need some limit if only to make it barely possible the stuff might actually get read in time to see it is all just "Jack is a dull boy, REDRUM" repeated tens of thousands of times...

-MarkM-

And this is exactly more like what I was trying to get across.

But it only takes that one guy to hurt the rest of the community for a long time to come.