At least you know you're part of something that can pull itself up by the bootstraps.
There was actually a hackernewscoin created on coingen: http://coingen.io/status.html
Maybe a second premine in a year, then 3 years.
I figured there can be a funnel app that allows people to cash in their coins, with the funnel app having a variety of redistribution options, eg, destroy half, equal disperse 1/4, then proportional disperse 1/4. So someone like PG or someone with a ton of karma could funnel their hoinz back into the hoinz economy rather than hoarding.
It really only requires each person to do a bit of work at the beginning, until the effort becomes self-perpetuating and infectious.
But yeah, we should be able to cash in.. it's a great opportunity.. low downside risk, high upside.. not a lot of work, good intentions. With an ABE explorer we can get on coinmarketcap and hopefully cryptsy.
add: seems like this thread was removed from all the Ask items, cool, must be a good idea.
These gratuitous microtips are getting out of hand.
A fork of Ethereum might be the key. I read it's premined anyway.
http://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1wxot1/you_ha...
Anyway, I'd weight HN points much more than reddit karma - perhaps certain subreddit karmas are worth more. Even a twitter followers stake could be worth it. The key is incentivizing the right people so they feel they can do work and not give others a free ride. Perhaps even having an application period would be best for people to hoinz up on their online identities.
Anyway, it really needs a 5 person board, so key decisions can be made with a best out of 3 majority, with abstentions and appeals possible. I personally would not want to be on that board.