I destroy "Obstruction 2: Electric Boogaloo" as the only party On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 6:46 AM ATMunn via agora-business < agora-business@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> I publish the following weekly report: > > > ████████ ██ ██ ███████ ███ ██ █████ ████████ ███████ ██████ > ██ ██ ██ ██ ████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ > ██ ███████ █████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ █████ █████ > ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ > ██ ██ ██ ███████ ██ ███ █████ ██ ███████ ██████ > > -~= Notary's weekly report =~- > > ======================================================================== > > ~~ Tuesday is better than Monday anyway. ~~ > > All times and dates in this report are given in Coordinated Universal > Time (UTC). > > Date of last report: 13 Jul 2020 > Date of this report: 21 Jul 2020 > > Abbreviations used in this report: > ------------------- > P.S.S. | Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > CB | Cuddlebeam > con. | contract > ------------------- > > > If any contract(s) have no name currently, I assign it/them the name(s) > displayed in this report. > > ======================================================================== > ======================= SHORT LIST OF CONTRACTS ======================== > ======================================================================== > Title Parties > "The Dragon Corporation" Aris, Jason, Falsifian, P.S.S. > "GRBaSTttPF"[1] Gaelan, twg, Warrigal, Falsifian > "TPP"[2] CB, R. Lee, P.S.S., G., Bögtil, Jason ... [3] > "AAA"[4] Jason, P.S.S., R. Lee, nix > "LoAFER"[5] Trigon, Jason, R. Lee, ATMunn, P.S.S. > "Co Dependents" nix, R. Lee > "Cuddlebeam's Locker" Cuddlebeam > "Card Collective Contract, Agoran" Murphy, R. Lee > "Contract No. 1: GIFT" Trigon, R. Lee > "Contract No. 2: POEM" Trigon, R. Lee, ATMunn > "Contract No. 3: CARD" R. Lee > "Contract No. 5: DECK" Trigon, R. Lee, ATMunn > "Contract No. 6: BOON" Trigon > "SEAMSTRESS"[6] Trigon, nix, Jason > "Dragon QuickExchange" Falsifian > "Obstruction" omd > "Obstruction 2: Electric Boogaloo" R. Lee > "SNOCS"[7] omd, ATMunn, R. Lee > "Dragon Political Outreach" Falsifian > "Amusing Test Case" Aris > "The Bank" ATMunn > "The Platonic Parrot" nix, P.S.S., ATMunn, omd, ... [8] > "I bet that was written by G." omd, ATMunn > "The Contract Awards: The Contract" ATMunn > "Ponzi Scheme" Jason, P.S.S., ATMunn, R. Lee, Trigon > "The Agoran Underground Betting Ring" Gaelan > > > [1] Gaelan's Really Bad At Sending Things To The Public Forum > [2] The Plunder Partnership > [3] also Falsifian, Aris > [4] The Agoran Arbitration Association > [5] League of Agorans Facilitating Effective Recordkeeping > [6] Signature Enthusiast Allows Modification of Signature Through > Rigorous Exchanging of Signature Suggestions > [7] Simple, No-Opportunity-Cost Sets > [8] also R. Lee, Cuddlebeam > ======================================================================== > > > ======================================================================== > ================== FULL TEXT AND HISTORY OF CONTRACTS ================== > ======================================================================== > > The following 26 contracts exist: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "The Dragon Corporation" (revision 4) > Parties: Aris, Jason, Falsifian, P.S.S. > > ---------- > > ## Bylaw 1: Definition > > This contract is named "the Dragon Corporation". The purpose of the > Dragon Corporation is to earn as much money as possible for its > shareholders. > > All other provisions of this contract notwithstanding, this contract > does not permit any entity to act on behalf of any other entity. > > Shares of Dragon stock (also known as "shares of DRGN", or, in this > contract, "shares") are a currency whose purpose is to represent > ownership of the Dragon Corporation. An entity which owns at least one > share is known as a shareholder. > > If, at any time, the Dragon Corporation or the Lost and Found Department > owns any shares, then those shares are destroyed. > > Any person CAN, by announcement, become a party to this contract or > cease to be a party to this contract. A shareholder who is a party to > this contract is known as a member. > > Wherever this contract states that an entity becomes a party to this > contract or ceases to be a party to this contract, all parties to this > contract are considered to consent to this change. > > ## Bylaw 2: Proposals > > Any member CAN, by announcement, submit a Corporate Proposal. A > Corporate Proposal must have exactly one of the types defined by this > contract. Thereafter, any member CAN vote FOR or AGAINST that proposal > by announcement, or retract such a vote, which causes the vote to become > null and void. Whenever a member votes, all of eir previous votes on the > same proposal are implicitly retracted. > > If a Corporate Proposal was submitted fewer than 21 days ago and has > approval (as defined in other bylaws), and the proposal has not been > applied, then any member may, by announcement, apply the proposal, which > has effects as defined in other bylaws. > > Members SHALL NOT submit, vote for, or apply proposals that are > egregiously unfair to other shareholders (such as a proposal which takes > or revokes shares from minority shareholders without just compensation). > > ## Bylaw 3: Amendment Proposals > > An Amendment Proposal is a type of Corporate Proposal. An Amendment > Proposal has approval if it was submitted more than 4 days ago, at least > one member has voted FOR it, and the number of shares owned by members > who have voted FOR it is at least 2 times the number of shares owned by > members who have voted AGAINST it. > > When an Amendment Proposal is applied, the following occur: > > 1. Each party to this contract who has not consented to the application > of the proposal ceases to be a party to this contract. A party who has > voted FOR a proposal consents to the application of that proposal, > unless e has publicly stated otherwise at or after the time at which e > voted FOR it. > > 2. This contract is modified as described in the proposal. > > However, the application of an Amendment Proposal is INEFFECTIVE unless, > in the same message, the entity who applies the proposal also publishes > a text which is labeled as being the text of this contract after the > application. E SHOULD, at that point, publish intent to ratify that text > without objection. > > ## Bylaw 4: Ordinary Proposals > > An Ordinary Proposal is a type of Corporate Proposal. A player is > Unsupportive of an Ordinary Proposal if e eir current vote is AGAINST, > or if e has no current vote and the proposal was submitted fewer than 4 > days ago. An Ordinary Proposal has approval if the number of shares > owned by members voting FOR it is greater than the number of shares > owned by Unsupportive players. > > When an Ordinary Proposal is applied, assets are created, destroyed, > and/or transferred as described in the proposal; and entities may > create, destroy, and/or transfer assets as permitted in the proposal. > Such permission expires 30 days after the proposal is applied. > > After an Ordinary Proposal is applied, the person who applied it SHOULD > publish a description of its effects in a timely fashion, including all > balances of assets defined by this contract which were affected by the > proposal. > > ## Bylaw 5: Bonds and Banknotes > > Perpetual Dragon bonds (hereinafter "bonds") are a currency. Banknotes > are a currency. > > At the beginning of each Agoran quarter, each entity is awarded a number > of banknotes equal to the number of bonds that e owns. > > If an entity owns a banknote, e CAN redeem the banknote by transferring > 1 coin from the Dragon Corporation to emself; the banknote is then > destroyed. > > ## Bylaw 6: Recordkeeping > > If a party to this contract owns more shares than any other party to > this contract, then that party becomes the President of the Dragon > Corporation, if e is not already the President. The former President > SHALL publicly inform the new President of this event in a timely > fashion. > > The President is the recordkeepor of all assets defined by this > contract, except those for which this contract specifies a different > recordkeepor. > > ## Bylaw 7: IPO > > Within 90 days after this contract is created, any entity CAN pay a > fee of 10 coins or 10 banknotes to the Dragon Corporation to buy a > share. When e does this, e is awarded 1 share. > > Within 90 days after this contract is created, any entity who owns at > least 1 share may sell the share by announcement. When e does this, the > share is destroyed and e is awarded 5 banknotes. > > ---------- > > History: > > 01 Mar 2020: contract created by Warrigal > 03 Mar 2020: contract amended by Warrigal as only party > 14 May 2020: Jason became a party > 14 May 2020: Aris became a party > 17 May 2020: Falsifian became a party > 24 May 2020: contract amended by Aris via contract's procedures > 24 May 2020: Warrigal ceased to be a party due to contract's provisions > 02 Jun 2020: Falsifian ratified contract's text w/o objection > 25 Jun 03:33 2020: contract amended by Falsifian via con.'s procedures > 25 Jun 03:33 2020: Aris ceased to be a party due to con.'s provisions > 25 Jun 21:34 2020: Aris became a party > 29 Jun 23:59 2020: P.S.S. became a party > 04 Jul 01:46 2020: Falsifian ratified contract's text w/o objection > 05 Jul 03:10 2020: contract amended by Falsifian via con.'s procedures > 12 Jul 05:34 2020: Falsifian ratified contract's text w/o objection > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Gaelan's Really Bad At Sending Things To The Public Forum" (initial > revision) > Parties: Gaelan, twg, Warrigal, Falsifian > > ---------- > > Any person may become a party of this contract to act on Gaelan’s behalf > as described below. > > Any person may act on Gaelan’s behalf to perform a series of actions, > subject to the following conditions: > > * Gaelan attempted to perform those exact actions (verbatim) in a > message to a discussion forum > * The message to the discussion forum occurred within the past 24 hours > * Gaelan's message was clearly an attempt to perform actions by sending > a message to a public forum (and, specifically, it was not labelled as > a draft of a later public action, such as a “proto” proposal) > * No actions have been performed by Gaelan, or on eir behalf, after > the message to the discussion forum > > Gaelan may terminate this contract at any time, by announcement. > > ---------- > > History: > > 08 Jan 2020: contract created by twg, Gaelan became a party > (see CFJ 3791) > 24 Jan 2020: Warrigal became a party > 01 Mar 2020: Falsifian became a party > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "The Plunder Partnership" (revision 4) > Parties: Cuddlebeam, R. Lee, P.S.S., G., Bögtil, Jason, Falsifian, Aris > > ---------- > > 🏴☠️ WHO WE BE > > The Plunder Partnership is also known as the Plundership. A party to this > contract is known as a Pirate. Any person who is not in Davy Jones’ Locker > can become a Pirate by announcement. Any Pirate can make themselves cease > to be one by announcement. > > 🏴☠️ NO TATTLE-TALES > > Any person who has objected to a transferral of coins to the Plundership > are in Davy Jones’ Locker. A person in Davy Jones’ Locker cannot become a > Pirate, and they immediately cease to be a Pirate if they already were one. > > 🏴☠️ DOUBLOONS > > Doubloons are a destructible asset that can only belong to Pirates. When an > amount of coins is transferred to the Plundership, each Pirate gains an > amount of Doubloons equal to the amount transferred divided by the amount > of Pirates, rounded down. A Pirate with at least 1 Doubloon can transfer 1 > coin to themselves from the Plundership. Doing so destroys 1 Doubloon in > their possession. > > 🏴☠️ PARLEY > > Any Pirate can propose a Parley by announcement, which describes amendments > to this contract. If a Parley was proposed at least 2 days ago, at least > 2/3rds (rounded up) of all Pirates consent to its contents, and it has not > yet been applied, then any Pirate can apply it by announcement, causing > this contract to be amended according to it. > > > 🏴☠️ Recordkeeping > R. Lee is the recordkeepor of doubloons. Any doubloons that existed before > the addition > of this section are hereby destroyed > > ---------- > > History: > > 12 Jun 2020: contract created by Cuddlebeam > 12 Jun 2020: contract amended by Cuddlebeam as only party > 12 Jun 2020: contract amended by Cuddlebeam as only party > 12 Jun 2020: contract amended by Cuddlebeam as only party > 12 Jun 2020: nix became a party > 12 Jun 2020: R. Lee became a party > 12 Jun 2020: P.S.S. became a party > 12 Jun 2020: Bögtil became a party > 12 Jun 2020: G. became a party > 12 Jun 2020: Jason became a party > 13 Jun 2020: Falsifian became a party > 16 Jun 20:17 2020: contract amended by Cuddlebeam > 16 Jun 20:18 2020: P.S.S. became a party [1] > 16 Jun 20:18 2020: Jason became a party [1] > 17 Jun 00:42 2020: R. Lee became a party [1] > 19 Jun 01:27 2020: Falsifian became a party [1] > 21 Jun 06:30 2020: Aris became a party > 22 Jun 01:01 2020: ATMunn became a party > 30 Jun 01:16 2020: contract amended by R. Lee via con.'s provisions > 01 Jul 23:45 2020: contract's text ratified by Falsifian > 13 Jul 00:28 2020: nix ceased to be a party > 13 Jul 00:36 2020: ATMunn ceased to be a party > > [1] Due to CFJ 3850 being judged TRUE, these players were already > parties to the contract. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "THE AGORAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION (AAA)" (revision 2) > Parties: Jason, P.S.S., R. Lee, nix > > Summary: > AAA provides a way for contracts to allow penalties above the Class-2 > crime provided by the rules. Accusations are made by parties to opted-in > contracts, assigned to independent Arbitrators by the Head Arbitrator, > and then resolved either by dismissing them or by granting blots to the > perp. > > ---------- > > # SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION > > This contract is known as the Agoran Arbitration Association, or as AAA. > The purpose of this contract is to provide independent dispute > resolution services for other contracts. > > # SECTION 2: OPT-IN > > A contract is opted-in to AAA if: > - all of its members are party to this contract; > - it specifies that all of its members consent to being party to this > contract; and, > - it contains phrasing that requires all of its members to be parties to > this contract. > > Each party to this contract consents to each other party acting on eir > behalf to create blots when explicitly and unambiguously authorized by > this contract. > > Any player CAN become party to this contract by announcement. Any party > to this contract CAN cease being party to this contract if: (1) e is not > party to an opted-in contract and (2) e has not ceased being party to > any contract within the past 14 days. > > # SECTION 3: MANAGEMENT > > The Head Arbitrator is the person who is party to this contract who has > been party to this contract for the longest continuous time. The Purse > is a natural switch tracked by the Head Arbitrator. > > At least once per week, the Head Arbitrator SHALL publish a list of > recently updated Arbitration Cases. In the same message, e CAN, by > announcement, transfer up to N coins from this contract to emself, where > N is the value of the Purse. When doing so, the Purse is decreased by > the number of coins transferred. > > # SECTION 4: ARBITRATION CASES > > An Arbitration Case is a matter arising from an alleged violation of a > contract. Arbitrator is an untracked switch possessed by Arbitration > Cases with possible values of any party to this contract and > "unassigned" (default). To assign an Arbitration Case to a person is to > flip its Arbitrator to that person. State is an untracked switch > possessed by Arbitration Cases with possible values "open" (default) and > "closed". > > The following must be specified when creating an Arbitration Case: the > relevant action, the relevant contract, and the alleged perpetrator. > > When an open Arbitration Case is unassigned, the Head Arbitrator CAN by > announcement, and SHALL in a timely fashion, flip its Arbitrator to any > other value. The Arbitrator SHOULD NOT assign an Arbitration Case to a > person who has a manifest interest in the case, whether monetary or > otherwise. > > # SECTION 5: CASE INITIATION > > A party to this contract CAN, by paying a fee of 5 coins to this > contract, invoke arbitration, specifying: > - an opted-in contract; > - an alleged violation of that contract; and > - the alleged perpetrator (who is a party to that contract or was within > the past 14 days). > > When arbitration is invoked, a new open Arbitration Case is created with > the specified action, contract, and perpretrator, and the Purse is > increased by 1. > > # SECTION 6: CASE RESOLUTION > > This section authorizes parties to act on behalf of other parties to > create blots, and is the only section that does so. > > The Punishment Limit of an Arbitration Case is a number of blots > specified by the alleged contract for the relevant violation, or 4 > otherwise. > > The Arbitrator of an open Arbitration Case CAN, and SHALL in a timely > fashion after being assigned, resolve that Arbitration Case by publicly > doing the following: > - determining whether the action alleged to be a violation occurred; and, > - if the action is determined to have occurred, determining whether it > violated the contract specified at initiation. > > In the same message as e closes an Arbitration Case, and if e determined > that the relevant action occurred and was a violation, the Arbitrator > CAN cause the perpetrator to grant emself a specified number of blots > that is between 0 and the Punishment Limit for that case. > > In a timely fashion after resolving an Arbitration Case, the Arbitrator > for that case CAN once, by announcement, transfer 4 coins from this > contract to emself. > > When an Arbitration Case is resolved, it becomes closed. > > # SECTION 7: AMENDMENT > > Any party to this contract CAN, by announcement, submit an Amendment > Proposal, specifying certain changes to this contract. Within two weeks > of the creation of an Amendment Proposal, any party can, without > objection from the parties, apply the changes specified by the Amendment > Proposal. When this occurs, the Amendment Proposal ceases to be an > Amendment Proposal and is destroyed. > > ---------- > > History: > > 13 Jun 2020: contract created by Jason > 14 Jun 2020: P.S.S. became a party > 16 Jun 03:59 2020: R. Lee became a party > 16 Jun 10:25 2020: nix became a party > 21 Jun 17:12 2020: contract amended by Jason via contract's provisions > 27 Jun 02:17 2020: contract amended by Jason via contract's provisions > 1 Jul 23:44 2020: contract's text ratified by Jason > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "League of Agorans Facilitating Effective Recordkeeping" (revision 1) > Parties: Trigon, R. Lee, ATMunn, P.S.S. > > Summary: > Officers' lives are hard sometimes, but we can make them easier. Parties > to this contract follow a few practices to simplify officering. > > ---------- > > ## SECTION 0: DEFINITIONS ## > > When this contract refers to an Officer, it is considered to include all > Officers as defined by the rules (hereafter "Public Officers") as well > as any entity tasked by a contract with the tracking of gamestate > relating to that contract (hereafter "Private Officers"). > > ## SECTION 1: DUTIES OF PARTIES TO THIS CONTRACT ## > > Parties to this contract should attempt to help the officers of Agora in > their official duties by following the guidelines of this contract, > which are enumerated below: > > 1. Signaling: the act of placing in the subject text of a message to the > effect of "[attn {Office}]" when actions taken in the message pertain > directly to the mentioned office's duties or "[{Action}]" when > rule-defined actions are taken that pertains to an officer's duties. > > Parties to this contract should signal their own messages. > > A list of actions that should be so signaled and the appropriate > signals is included below, sorted by which office they are most > pertinent to the duties of. If the specified action signal is already > included in the subject of the message, players should signal the > office instead. > > * ADoP > * Initiation of, voting on, or declaring the winner of an election: > [Election] > > * Arbitor > * Calling and judging of CFJs: [CFJ] > * Intendion to file and filing Motions to Reconsider: [Motion] > * Intendion to enter and entering a judgement into Moot: [Moot] > * Recusing oneself from a CFJ: [Recusal] > > * Herald > * Performing Any action resulting in winning the game: [Victory] > * Notices of Honour: [Notice of Honour] or [NoH] > * Submission of a Thesis for peer-review: [Thesis] > * Suggestions for or intentions to award patent titles: [Patent > Title] > > * Notary > * Creation and destruction of pledges: [Pledge] > * Creation and destruction of contracts: [Contract] > * Any action defined or permitted by a contract: either that > contract's full name or an easily identifiable part of that > contract's name that cannot be confused with that of another > existing contract. > > * Promotor > * Submission and withdrawal of Proposals and intentions to flip the > class of a proposal: [Proposal] > > * Referee > * Pointing one's finger: [Finger Pointing] or [Pointing] > * Submitting a CFJ to the Referee: signal Referee > > * Registrar > * Deregistration, changing of master switch, and submissions of > Cantus Cygnei (if to a public forum): signal Registrar > > * Rulekeepor > * Cleaning: [Cleaning] > > * Tailor > * Awarding a ribbon: [Ribbon] > * Awarding oneself glitter: [Glitter] > > * All Offices > * Transfer of an asset tracked by an Office: signal that Office > * Casting a vote on an Agoran decision whose vote collecter is an > Officer (if not in response to the message in which the decision > was initiated): signal that Office > * Making a bid in an auction whose auctioneer is an Officer (if not > in reponse to the message in which the auction was initiated: > signal that Office > * For Private Officers, any business impacting the gamestate e > tracks: signal that Office > * Situations not enumerated above that require special attention > from an Officer: signal that Office > > 2. Respecting Official Intentions: abstaining from doing anything that > would majorly hinder or impede an Officer's performance of an action > related to eir official duties that e has stated either implicitly or > explicitly that e would perform when there is no cause to believe > that e is performing that action for any malicious or nefarious > purpose. > > Parties to this contract should respect official intentions except > when urgent action is required or when the rules require them to take > said actions. > > ## SECTION 2: REGULAR AMENDMENT OF THIS CONTRACT ## > > A LoAFER Proposal is a document containing a list of suggested changes > to this contract or anything defined by it. A player can submit a LoAFER > Proposal by enumerating in a public message its full contents and > specifying clearly that it is a LoAFER Proposal. > > Parties can vote on a LoAFER Proposal by replying directly to the > message in which it was created, specifying either Aye or Nay as their > vote. > > Any party to this contract CAN, by announcement, pass a LoAFER Proposal > if: > > 1. the number of Aye votes on that LoAFER Proposal exceeds floor(1+P/2), > where P is the number of parties to this contract; OR > 2. the number of Aye votes is greater than the number of Nay votes, and > the LoAFER proposal in question was submitted at least 96 hours > before. > > Any party to this contract CAN, by announcement, fail a LoAFER Proposal > if the number of Nay votes is equal to or greater than the number of Aye > votes and the LoAFER Proposal was submitted at least 96 hours ago. > > When a LoAFER Proposal is passed, all the changes specified therein are > put into effect, then it is destroyed. When a LoAFER Proposal is failed, > it is destroyed. > > ---------- > > History: > > 14 Jun 2020: contract created by Trigon > 14 Jun 2020: contract amended by Trigon as only member > 14 Jun 2020: Jason became a member > 14 Jun 2020: R. Lee became a member > 14 Jun 2020: ATMunn became a member > 14 Jun 2020: P.S.S. became a member > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Co Dependents" (revision 2) > Parties: nix, R. Lee > > ---------- > > Contract: Co Dependents > > If there are less than 2 parties to this contract, any player CAN become > a party to this contract. Any player CAN quit this contract with 1 day > notice. > > The Pooled Cards are all rule defined cards. > > The Pooled Products are pendants and blot-b-gones. > > Once per day any party to this contract CAN transfer all Pooled Cards of > one type owned by the other party. When e does so e SHALL transmute all > cards of that type in eir possession immediately afterwards in the same > message, and SHALL transfer half, rounded up, of the products made by > that transmutation to the other party immediately afterwards in the same > message. > > Once per day any party (A) CAN transfer X Pooled Products of a specified > type to emself from the other party (B) where: > > * B must have more of the specified type than A, > > * X = half, rounded down, of B's number of the specified Pooled Product > type minus A's number of the specified Pooled Product type. > > Anyone who has ever violated a SHALL in this contract ceases to be a > party to this contract. > > Nobody but nix and R. Lee can join this contract. R. Lee CAN and MAY act > on nix's behalf for anything except consenting to amendment of this or > any other contract. > > ---------- > > History: > > 14 Jun 2020: contract created by nix > 14 Jun 2020: R. Lee became a member > 23 Jun 03:09 2020: contract amended with consent of all members > 28 Jun 02:46 2020: contract amended with consent of all members > 30 Jun 14:25 2020: contract amended with consent of all members > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Cuddlebeam's Locker" (revision 2) > Parties: Cuddlebeam > > Summary: > A deposit of assets that only Cuddlebeam, acting as emself, can take > from; as a protection against possible acting-on-behalf scams that may > puppeteer them. > > ---------- > > This is Cuddlebeam’s Locker, also known as “my locker” when referred to by > Cuddlebeam. > > Cuddlebeam is the only party to this contract. > > Cuddlebeam, while acting as emself and with Cuddlebeam’s consent, CAN amend > this contract by announcement. > Cuddlebeam, while acting as emself and with Cuddlebeam’s consent, CAN > transfer Assets from this Contract to Cuddlebeam. > > Cuddlebeam CANNOT amend this contract by having another person act on their > behalf to do so. > Cuddlebeam CANNOT transfer Assets from this contract by having another > person act on their behalf to do so. > > ---------- > > History: > > 14 Jun 2020: contract created by Cuddlebeam > 07 Jul 05:40 2020: contract amended by Cuddlebeam as only party > 13 Jul 21:00 2020: contract amended by Cuddlebeam as only party > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Card Collective Contract, Agoran" (initial revision) > Parties: Murphy > > ---------- > > Administrivia: > > 1) The name of this contract is Card Collective Contract, Agoran > (abbr. CCCA). > > 2) Any player CAN join or leave CCCA by announcement. Members of CCCA > are known as Collectors. > > 3) Any Collector CAN amend CCCA with Agoran consent of Collectors. > > 4) The Secretary General is Murphy. > > 5) A Person of Interest is a player or former player. > > Balances: > > 1) Each type of Card has a corresponding List, which is an ordered > sequence of Persons of Interest (who may appear multiple times), > initially empty. > > 2) When a player transfers N instances of one type of Card to this > contract, e is added N times to the end of that type's List. > > 3) If at any time CCCA has no instances of a type of Card, then > that Card's List becomes empty. > > Collection: > > 1) To perform Collection for N instances of one type of Card is to do > the following: > > a) Transfer that many instances from CCCA to oneself. > > b) Pay that many instances as a single set to earn Products. > > c) The Comrades are the first entries (up to N) in that type's > List who are players. Transfer one Product earned in the > previous step to the first Comrade (or keep it if that Comrade > is the performer), then one to the second, etc., returning to > the last Comrade after the first, until all those Products are > transferred. Then remove those entries from that List. > > Other clauses notwithstanding, Collection may only be performed if > it fully succeeds in one message and has at least one Comrade. > > 2) Any Collector CAN perform Collection for N instances of one type of > Card with Agoran consent of Collectors. > > 3) If CCCA has at least as many instances of one type of Card as the > largest single set that can be paid to earn Products, then the > Secretary General CAN and SHALL perform Collection for such a > maximal set of that type. > > Non-binding notes > > The Collectors SHOULD update these as needed for accuracy. > > Example: > > * Legislative Cards are deposited by (in order) A, B, C, A, D, E > * LC List is now {A, B, A, C, D, E} > * A performs Collection (4 LCs for 10 Pendants) > * Comrades are A, B, A, C > * A transfers those 10 Pendants as follows: keep, B, C, keep, > (back to start) keep, B, C, keep, (back to start) keep, B > * LC List is now {D, E} > > If B deregistered prior to this Collection, then instead: > > * Comrades are A, C, A, D > * A transfers (total of) 3 to C, 2 to D, keeps other 5 > * LC List is now {B, E} > > Non-players can't own assets, but remain on Lists in case they > re-register. Non-Collector players can deposit and benefit, but > can't influence the timing of voluntary payouts. > > ---------- > > History: > > 17 Jun 01:40 2020: contract created by Murphy > 17 Jun 02:04 2020: R. Lee became a party > 29 Jun 03:19 2020: R. Lee ceased to be a party > 3 Jun 00:27 2020: contract amended by Murphy as only party > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Contract No. 1: GIFT" (initial revision) > Parties: Trigon, R. Lee > > ---------- > > The party limit of this contract is 3. Players can only join this > contract if the number of parties to this contract is less than the > party limit. > > The Secret Action is the action encoded below as a salted SHA-256 > hash. No party can leave this contract until the Secret Action has been > performed. By joining this contract, players consent to acting-on-behalf > to transfer assets. > > Parties to this contract SHOULD have at least 5 coins when the Secret > Action is performed. > > Trigon CAN, when the number of parties to this contract is the same as > its party limit, and SHALL, in a timely fashion after that, perform all > the following steps in order in the same message without performing any > other actions until the process is complete. > > 1. Reveal the unhashed text of the Secret Action. > 2. Perform the Secret Action, taking all steps identified therein. > 3. Leave this contract. > > The hashed Secret Action is: > > 0e8f34ef57b57112f0f3faba7ab97eaad1c137d49c19b50862ac5b8c6bdaf4cb > > ---------- > > History: > > 19 Jun 23:42 2020: contract created by Trigon > 07 Jul 23:03 2020: R. Lee became a party > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Contract No. 2: POEM" (initial revision) > Parties: Trigon, R. Lee, ATMunn > > ---------- > > The party limit of this contract is 5. Players can only join this > contract if the number of parties to this contract is less than the > party limit. > > The Secret Action is the action encoded below as a salted SHA-256 > hash. No party can leave this contract until the Secret Action has been > performed. By joining this contract, players consent to acting-on-behalf > to transfer assets. > > Parties to this contract SHOULD have at least 5 coins when the Secret > Action is performed. > > Trigon CAN, when the number of parties to this contract is the same as > its party limit, and SHALL, in a timely fashion after that, perform all > the following steps in order in the same message without performing any > other actions until the process is complete. > > 1. Reveal the unhashed text of the Secret Action. > 2. Perform the Secret Action, taking all steps identified therein. > 3. Leave this contract. > > The hashed Secret Action is: > > af1c1429a1ead01e6e4c812e6e8514ef4bd4beca007ebcf589d34746ada51dcd > > ---------- > > History: > > 19 Jun 23:42 2020: contract created by Trigon > 07 Jul 23:03 2020: R. Lee became a party > 07 Jul 23:32 2020: ATMunn became a party > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Contract No. 3: CARD" (initial revision) > Parties: R. Lee > > ---------- > > The party limit of this contract is 2. Players can only join this > contract if the number of parties to this contract is less than the > party limit. > > The Secret Action is the action encoded below as a salted SHA-256 > hash. No party can leave this contract until the Secret Action has been > performed. By joining this contract, players consent to acting-on-behalf > to transfer assets. > > Parties to this contract SHOULD have at least one card when the Secret > Action is performed. > > Trigon CAN, when the number of parties to this contract is the same as > its party limit, and SHALL, in a timely fashion after that, perform all > the following steps in order in the same message without performing any > other actions until the process is complete. > > 1. Reveal the unhashed text of the Secret Action. > 2. Perform the Secret Action, taking all steps identified therein. > 3. Leave this contract. > > The hashed Secret Action is: > > c96b8d180a178d4761cac40e9120e35d662cd32c31050cfbf0d4c4b16fb6fce7 > > ---------- > > History: > > 19 Jun 23:42 2020: contract created by Trigon > 07 Jul 23:03 2020: R. Lee became a party > 07 Jul 23:55 2020: Trigon ceased to be a party > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Contract No. 5: DECK" (initial revision) > Parties: Trigon, R. Lee, ATMunn > > ---------- > > The party limit of this contract is 5. Players can only join this > contract if the number of parties to this contract is less than the > party limit. > > The Secret Action is the action encoded below as a salted SHA-256 > hash. No party can leave this contract until the Secret Action has been > performed. By joining this contract, players consent to acting-on-behalf > to transfer assets. > > Parties to this contract SHOULD have at least 10 coins when the Secret > Action is performed. > > Trigon CAN, when the number of parties to this contract is the same as > its party limit, and SHALL, in a timely fashion after that, perform all > the following steps in order in the same message without performing any > other actions until the process is complete. > > 1. Reveal the unhashed text of the Secret Action. > 2. Perform the Secret Action, taking all steps identified therein. > 3. Leave this contract. > > The hashed Secret Action is: > > 738b2df7c09123bbee5e9b2bfee3feb87c527e99df111ac42bc6d03c6a8ad2ac > > ---------- > > History: > > 19 Jun 23:42 2020: contract created by Trigon > 07 Jul 23:03 2020: R. Lee became a party > 07 Jul 23:32 2020: ATMunn became a party > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Contract No. 6: BOON" (initial revision) > Parties: Trigon > > ---------- > > The party limit of this contract is 2. Players can only join this > contract if the number of parties to this contract is less than the > party limit. > > The Secret Action is the action encoded below as a salted SHA-256 > hash. By joining this contract, players consent to acting-on-behalf > to transfer assets. > > Parties to this contract SHOULD have at least three cards when the > Secret Action is performed. > > Trigon CAN, when the number of parties to this contract is the same as > its party limit, and SHALL, in a timely fashion after that, perform all > the following steps in order in the same message without performing any > other actions until the process is complete. > > 1. Reveal the unhashed text of the Secret Action. > 2. Perform the Secret Action, taking all steps identified therein. > 3. Leave this contract. > > The hashed Secret Action is: > > 7f99cf8654ff0cb8b4df3cb59073860fe1b5fae00becb609a556f3fb3ce35465 > > ---------- > > History: > > 19 Jun 23:42 2020: contract created by Trigon > 07 Jul 23:03 2020: R. Lee became a party > 08 Jul 00:02 2020: contract amended with consent of all parties > 08 Jul 00:02 2020: R. Lee ceased to be a party > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Signature Enthusiast Allows Modification of Signature Through Rigorous > Exchanging of Signature Suggestions" (revision 2) > Parties: Trigon, nix, Jason > > Summary: > With this stupid contract, you can buy space in Trigon's signature at > the end of every message. What could possibly go wrong? > > ---------- > > Players can join and leave this contract at any time. > > Any party to this contract CAN submit a signature suggestion by paying 3 > coins to this contract and stating a short body of text no longer than > 10 words. > > Trigon CAN by announcement and SHALL, within 4 days of the signature > suggestion's submission, either approve or deny a signature > suggestion. E SHALL NOT deny a suggestion unless the suggestion breaks > one of the rejection criteria, which are enumerated at the end of this > contract. > > When Trigon approves a signature suggestion, e adds the suggestion to > eir signature which is included at the end of all of eir messages, then > e transfers 3 coins from this contract to emself. > > When Trigon denies a signature suggestion, e transfers 3 coins from this > contract to the player that submitted the signature suggestion. > > If assets were transferred to this contract by any mechanism not > described above, Trigon CAN by announcement and SHALL within 4 days, > transfer the coins to their owner before said transfer. > > Trigon is only obligated to keep each suggestion in eir signature for a > period of two weeks. After that period elapses, e may remove the > suggestion at any time. > > The rejection criteria are as follows: > > 1. The suggestion includes swear words. > 2. The suggestion includes serious, intentional insult to a person. > 3. The suggestion treats real-world and/or in-game issues lightly. > 4. The suggestion is otherwise in poor taste. > 5. The suggestion contains a sentence that could be interpreted as a > game action. > > ---------- > > History: > > 21 Jun 23:16 2020: contract created by Trigon > 22 Jun 00:57 2020: contract amended by Trigon as only party > 22 Jun 01:14 2020: contract amended by Trigon as only party > 22 Jun 01:22 2020: nix became a party > 22 Jun 01:54 2020: omd became a party > 22 Jun 01:54 2020: omd ceased to be a party > 22 Jun 02:00 2020: Jason became a party > 22 Jun 02:00 2020: Jason ceased to be a party > 22 Jun 02:01 2020: Jason became a party > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Dragon QuickExchange" (initial revision) > Parties: Falsifian, R. Lee > > ---------- > > -- Overview -- > > In a hurry to convert a couple of Cards? This contract permits exchange > of Cards for Products at a reasonable rate within a single message. > > Players can also make a profit by doing card-to-product conversions for > this contract. > > -- Basic use -- > > If this contract owns at least 2 of a type of Product, any player CAN > pay 1 of the corresponding Card to this contract to take 2 of that > Product from this contract. > > -- Advanced use -- > > Victory Credits, Justice Credits, Legislative Credits and Voting Credits > are liquid currencies backed by this contract. > > The Allowed Conversions are as follows: > > * 1 Card to 100 Credits > * 47 Credits to 1 Product > * 1 Product to 44 Credits > * 100 Credits to 1 Card > > An Allowed Conversion of X to Y is satisfiable if Y is in Credits or > this contract owns at least Y. If an Allowed Conversion is satisfiable, > any player CAN pay a fee of X to this contract to be granted Y (if Y is > credits) or to take Y from this contract (otherwise). > > Whenever this contract owns Credits and the above sequence is not in > progress, the Credits are destroyed. > > When Cards and Products are destroyed due to a VP win, all Credits are > destroyed as well. > > -- Management -- > > Any player CAN join or leave this contract by announcement. > > Any player CAN by announcement transfer assets from this contract to the > Dragon Corporation, if explicitly permitted by the Dragon Corporation's > text. > > If an Amendment Proposal for the Dragon Corporation is adopted (as > specified by the Dragon Corporation text) and specifies changes to this > contract, then first any parties to this contract who did not consent to > those changes ceases to be a party, and then the changes are applied. > > ---------- > > History: > > 22 Jun 02:03 2020: contract created by Falsifian > 29 Jun 17:31 2020: R. Lee became a member > 29 Jun 17:53 2020: contract amended with consent of both parties > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Obstruction" (initial revision) > Parties: omd > > ---------- > > omd consents, assents to, wants to, and does automatically amend this > contract by prepending the Secret Word, each time any of the following > occur: > > - A contract other than this one is created or amended. > - Any player is exiled. > - Any player receives a Welcome Package. > > If omd was wearing a hat at the time this contract was created, then the > Secret Word is "Hello". Otherwise, it is "Goodbye". > > [This is an attempt to exploit the following provision: > > Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, any change that would cause > the full provisions or parties of a contract to become publicly > unavailable is canceled and does not take effect. > > It's based on a discussion on Discord which seemed to conclude that > consent is not just a condition for modifying contracts but the > mechanism for it, under the relevant clause of Rule 1742: > > > A contract may be modified, > including by changing the set of parties, with the consent of all > existing parties. > > Note that Rule 1742 does not provide any other mechanism, so if consent > is not a mechanism, amending and terminating contracts is probably > impossible by Rule 2125. > > If consent is a mechanism, Rule 2519 item 2 (and to some extent item 4) > suggests that contracts can trigger it automatically. > > Whether this actually succeeds at blocking actions depends, I suppose, > on how you define "change", "cause", and "unambiguously".] > > ---------- > > History: > > 23 Jun 05:44 2020: contract created by omd > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Obstruction 2: Electric Boogaloo" (initial revision) > Parties: R. Lee > > ---------- > > R. Lee consents, assents to, wants to, and does automatically amend this > contract > by prepending the Secret Word, each time any of the following occur: > -The rule called :"Welcome Package" is amended > -Anyone votes FOR a proposal that would amend the rule "Welcome Package" > > If omd was wearing a hat at the time this contract was created, then the > Secret > Word is "Hello". Otherwise, it is "Goodbye". > > ---------- > > History: > > 23 Jun 06:21 2020: contract created by R. Lee > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "SNOCS (Simple, No-Opportunity-Cost Sets)" (initial revision) > Parties: omd, ATMunn, R. Lee > > ---------- > > Pooling Cards refers to the following procedure: > > 1. A party collects 4 Cards of the same type as follows: > > E nominates a total of 4 Cards of the same type in any party's > possession, > which must include at least 1 of eir own Cards. > > Then e acts on behalf of the owners of those Cards (except emself) to > transfer the Cards from them to emself. > > 2. E pays those 4 Cards as a set to get 10 Products. > > 3. E distributes the just-earned Products evenly as follows: > > If the 4 Cards consisted of 2 from em and 2 from a single other party, > then e transfers 5 of the Products to that other party for a truly even > distribution. > > Otherwise, e transfers 2 of the Products to the original owner of > each of > the Cards, for a total of 8 Products. As for the remaining 2 > Products, e > transfers each to the original owner of a random one of the Cards. > > For the purposes of the above paragraph, to transfer Products to > oneself is > to do nothing. > > The random choice shall be made following the guidelines in Rule 2505. > > Any party CAN at any time Pool Cards. > > - The other parties consent to that party acting on behalf of them as > specified in the procedure, as long as (a) e attempts to perform all > actions > in the procedure, in order, in a single message; (b) e does not > intersperse > them with any other attempted actions; (c) in that message e labels the > attempted actions as an attempt to Pool Cards, and (d) all of the > actions > would be successful assuming the aforementioned consent is given. > > Any player CAN join the contract by announcement; any party CAN leave the > contract by announcement. Any party CAN remove another party from the > contract > without objection. Each party consents to the aforementioned membership > changes. > > ---------- > > History: > > 29 Jun 00:07 2020: contract created by omd > 29 Jun 15:45 2020: ATMunn became a party > 29 Jun 15:47 2020: R. Lee became a party > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Dragon Political Outreach" (initial revision) > Parties: Falsifian > > ---------- > > Any person CAN join or leave this contract by announcement. > > Whenever a party (Party A) to this contact grants a Card to another > party (Party B) of this contract, party A CAN once in the same message > act on party B's behalf to transfer a Card of the same type from Party > B to the Dragon Corporation. > > ---------- > > History: > > 29 Jun 13:38 2020: contract created by Falsifian > 30 Jun 00:09 2020: Aris became a party > 30 Jun 00:09 2020: Aris ceased to be a party > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Amusing Test Case" (initial revision) > Parties: Aris > > ---------- > > Amusing Test Case > > Any player CAN become a party to this contract by announcement. > > Amusement is an untracked singleton negative boolean switch. > Destructibility is an untracked singleton negative boolean switch. > > Any other definition notwithstanding, "to flip the amusement switch to > true" (and similar variations thereof) means to change the value of > the destructibility switch to true, and has no effect on the amusement > switch. > > Aris CAN flip the amusement switch to true by announcement. > > Aris CAN Call Destruction Down Upon this contract by announcement. > This instant after e does so, this contract is destroyed. Aris SHALL > NOT Call Destruction Down Upon this contract unless the value of the > destructibility switch is true. > > One week after this contract comes into existence, the value of > destructibility switch is set to true. > > ---------- > > History: > > 01 Jul 04:32 2020: contract created by Aris > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "The Bank" (revision 1) > Parties: ATMunn > > ---------- > > Any person CAN become a party, or cease to be a party, to this contract > by announcement. > > When a person transfers any number of assets to this contract, those > assets are considered to be in eir account. A party to this contract > CAN, acting as emself, transfer any number of assets from eir account to > emself. Attempts to transfer more assets to emself than are in eir > account are INEFFECTIVE. > > The person who has been party to this contract the longest is known as > the Bankor. The Bankor SHOULD publish the contents of all accounts in a > report weekly. > > Any party to this contract CAN propose an amendment to this contract by > announcement. Once all parties have publicly consented to that > amendment, then the person who proposed the amendment CAN cause this > contract's text to be modified in the way specified originally by > announcement. > > This contract CANNOT be destroyed if any person has assets in eir > account. > > ---------- > > History: > > 07 Jul 22:02 2020: contract created by ATMunn > 07 Jul 22:09 2020: contract amended by ATMunn as only party > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "The Platonic Parrot" (initial revision) > Parties: nix, P.S.S., ATMunn, omd, R. Lee, Cuddlebeam > > ---------- > > The Platonic Parrot > > A party to this contract is also known as a Platonic Pirate. Any player > who is not currently Marked can join this contract by announcement. Any > player can leave this contract by announcement. When someone is > deregistered, e automatically leaves the contract. > > If a Platonic Pirate objects to an intent to transfer assets to this > contract, e ceases to be a party to the contract. If a player has > objected to an intent to transfer assets to this contract in the last 7 > days, e is Marked. > > When the Platonic Parrot has assets, any Platonic Pirate CAN by > announcement divy them in the following way: > > * Where X is the total number of coins owned by the Platonic Parrot and > Y is the number of Platonic Pirates, e transfers each Platonic Pirate > X/Y (rounded down) coins from the Platonic Parrot. > > * If there are still coins owned by the Platonic Parrot, e transfer > emself all the remaining coins. > > * If there are any other assets owned by the Platonic Parrot, e > transfers emself one of them of eir own choice. > > * If there are still assets owned by the Platonic Parrot, e transfers > them to other Platonic Pirates such that no Platonic Pirate receives > more than 1 more asset than any other Platonic Pirate (excluding the > coins e gave emself in the earlier step). As long as this constraint > is met, e may choose who gets what assets. > > This contract may be amended by a Platonic Pirate with the consent of > 2/3rds (rounded up) of all Platonic Pirates. > > ---------- > > History: > > 13 Jul 00:22 2020: contract created by nix > 13 Jul 00:29 2020: P.S.S. became a party > 13 Jul 00:30 2020: Jason became a party > 13 Jul 00:36 2020: ATMunn became a party > 13 Jul 01:40 2020: omd became a party > 13 Jul 02:14 2020: R. Lee became a party > 13 Jul 07:20 2020: Cuddlebeam became a party > 13 Jul 20:46 2020: Jason ceased to be a party > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "I bet that was written by G." (initial revision) > Parties: omd, ATMunn > > ---------- > > 1. Joining: If this contract has only one party, anyone CAN join it by > publicly consenting after transferring 25 coins to the contract. > > 2. Bet: omd CAN transfer coins from this contract by announcement. If > this contract has two parties, e SHALL do so only as follows: > > - In a timely fashion after it becomes reasonably clear which person > sent a message titled "[Diplonomic 2020] Chicago International Tribune" > to agora-discussion on or about 13 July 2020 08:10, e SHALL transfer all > this contract's coins to emself if that person was G., or to the other > party otherwise. > > - Alternately, if this contract has existed for at least 60 days, and > the identity of the aforementioned author is still not reasonably clear, > omd MAY transfer this contract's coins in a way that divides them as > equally as possible between the parties. > > 3. Termination: If this contract has no coins, omd CAN terminate it by > announcement. > > 4. Self-Dealing Encouraged: The aforementioned author SHOULD NOT > hesitate to join the contract emself if e sees fit to reveal eir > identity. > > ---------- > > History: > > 13 Jul 08:41 2020: contract created by omd > 13 Jul 19:17 2020: ATMunn became a party > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "The Contract Awards: The Contract" (initial revision) > Parties: ATMunn > > ---------- > > Contract Points are a fixed, indestructible currency with ownership > restricted to persons, tracked by the Notary. Once per week, the Notary > SHOULD publish a list of all Contract Point balances. > > To award a gold medal to a person is to cause em to earn 3 Contract > Points; to award a silver medal to a person is to cause em to earn 2 > Contract Points; and to award a bronze medal to a person is to cause em > to earn 1 Contract Point. > > If e has not done so already in the current week, the Notary CAN award > gold, silver, and bronze medals. E SHALL NOT do so except in accordance > with the following set of guidelines: > > 1. There are three award categories: Participation, Popularity, and > Opulence. > > 2. The Participation Award shall be given to the persons who are party > to the greatest number of contracts. > > 3. The Popularity Award shall be given to the persons who are creators > of contracts with the greatest numbers of parties. > > 4. The Opulence Award shall be given to the persons who are creators of > contracts with the greatest number of coins. > > 5. In each category, a gold medal shall be awarded to the single person > who came in first place; a silver medal shall be awarded to the single > person who came in second place; and a bronze medal shall be awarded to > the single person who came in third place. > > 6. If two or more players would qualify for a gold, silver, or bronze > medal in a particular category, no medal of that type shall be awarded > in that category. > > The Notary is ENCOURAGED to publish the list of Contract Point balances > and award medals soon after e publishes eir weekly report. > > If any person has at least 30 Contract Points, the Notary SHOULD award > em the Terms of Service Patent Title. Unless the Notary deems that a > particular person has created an exceptionally outstanding contract > worthy of bypassing this system, e SHOULD NOT award any player the Terms > of Service Patent Title for reasons outside of this contract. > > When a person is awarded the Terms of Service Patent Title, all of eir > Contract Points are destroyed. > > Any player CAN become a party, or cease to be a party, to this contract > by announcement. > > ---------- > > History: > > 13 Jul 19:33 2020: contract created by ATMunn > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Ponzi Scheme" (revision 1) > Parties: Jason, P.S.S., ATMunn, R. Lee, Trigon > > ---------- > > THE PONZI SCHEME > > # SECTION 0: INTRODUCTION > > This contract is a Ponzi scheme, and shall be known as the "Ponzi > Scheme". Its purpose is to provide a guaranteed* 80% return on investment. > > The Administrator of this contract is Jason. > > *: this is a Ponzi scheme; don't get your hopes up too high > > # SECTION 1: INVESTMENT > > A party to this contract is known as an investor. Any player CAN become > party to this contract by annoucnement. Any party to this contract > (besides the Administrator) CAN cease being a party to this contract by > announcement. When a party to this contract ceases being a player, e > ceases being a party to this contract. > > The Bread Line is an ordered list of investors. No person can occupy > more than one spot in the bread line. To "push" someone onto the bread > line is to remove em from the bread line (if e is in it), and then add > em to the end of the bread line. The "head" of the bread line is the > first person in the bread line (if any). If a person ceases to be an > investor, e is removed from the bread line. > > Investment is a natural switch possessed by investors, defaulting to 0. > The Purse is a singleton natural switch, defaulting to 0. > > When an investor transfers N coins to this contract, e is appended to > the bread line, the Purse is increased by floor(N / 10), and eir > investment is increased by (N - floor(N / 10)). > > If an investor's investment is less than or equal to 1, the > Administrator CAN by announcement remove em from the bread line. > > # SECTION 2: RETURN > > When the Purse is non-zero, the Administrator CAN, by announcement, > transfer a specified number of coins from this contract to emself, thus > decreasing the purse by the number of coins transferred. > > When this contract possesses at least two coins, and when the bread line > is not empty, the Administrator CAN, by announcement, perform the > following actions: > > 1. Transfer two coins from this contract to the head of the bread line. > 2. Decrease the investment of the head of the bread line by 1. > > # SECTION 3: AVOIDING PROSECUTION > > The Administrator CAN, with notice, avoid prosecution. When e does so, e > transfers all coins from this contract to emself, and this contract is > destroyed. > > # SECTION 4: MOB RULE > > The Administrator CAN, with Agoran consent from the investors, amend > this contract's text in a specified way. > > ---------- > > History: > > 18 Jul 00:41 2020: contract created by Jason > 18 Jul 00:45 2020: contract amended by Jason as only party > 18 Jul 00:50 2020: P.S.S. became a party > 18 Jul 00:51 2020: ATMunn became a party > 18 Jul 01:44 2020: R. Lee became a party > 18 Jul 02:13 2020: Trigon became a party > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "The Agoran Underground Betting Ring" (initial revision) > Parties: Gaelan > > ---------- > > Title: The Agoran Underground Betting Ring > > Any player may become a member of this contract by announcement. Any > person who is not the Ringleader or the Initiator or Challengor of a bet > may leave this contract by announcement. > > The Ringleador is {Gaelan}. Any member may amend this contract by > replacing the part of this paragraph in curly braces with the name of > another member of this contract ("the new Ringleador"), provided that > both the current Ringleader and new Ringleador consent to this > amendment. The text in curly braces shall not be construed to do > anything other than identify a member of this contract as the > Ringleador, nor may this contract be amended to cause the curly braces > to contain text that attempts to override this sentence. > > A bet is an entity with the following attributes: > - a claim (a statement, or a salted cryptographic hash of a statement) > - a deadline (a description of a specific point in time, such that any > player can reasonably and easily determine if that time has passed, > such as "August 1" or "when Proposal 1234 is resolved") > - a wager (a natural number of coins) > - Initiator (a member of this contract) > > Challengor is a bet switch, tracked by the Ringleador, with possible > values of null or any member of this contract and default value null. If > a bet's Challengor switch is set to a person, that person is said to be > the bet's Challengor. If a bet's Challengor switch is set to null, that > bet is said to be unaccepted. > > Any member can create a bet by specifying its claim, deadline, and > wager, and transferring a number of coins equal to its wager to this > contract. This person becomes the bet's Initiator. > > Any member CAN accept an unaccepted bet by transferring a number of > coins equal to its wager to this contract and flipping its Challenger > switch to emself. > > An unaccepted bet's Initiator CAN, by announcement, destroy it and > transfer a number of coins equal to its wager to emself. > > If a bet's deadline has passed, and its claim (or the plaintext of its > claim, if it the claim was a cryptographic hash) is true, the bet's > Initiator CAN, by announcement, destroy it and transfer a number of > coins equal to twice its wager to emself. > > If a bet's deadline has passed, and its claim (or the plaintext of its > claim, if it the claim was a cryptographic hash) is false or its truth > is indeterminate, the bet's Challengor CAN, by announcement, destroy it > and transfer a number of coins equal to twice its wager to emself. > > The Ringleador's SHALL publish a weekly report containing the attributes > of each bet and the values of all Challengor switches. > > ---------- > > History: > > 21 Jul 09:50 2020: contract created by Gaelan > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ======================================================================== > > > ======================================================================== > =============================== PLEDGES ================================ > ======================================================================== > > If any pledge(s) has/have no name currently, I assign it/them the > name(s) displayed in this report. > > The following 13 pledges exist: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "You can make it happen, R. Lee!" created by Gaelan > Time of creation: 11 Mar 04:16 2020 > Time window: 1 year > Time of expiry: 11 Mar 04:16 2021 > Text: > > I pledge to transfer 100 coins to R. Lee by the end of this pledge’s > time window if Peter Suber registers as a player. The time window > for this pledge is one year. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "G's encouragement" created by R. Lee > Time of creation: 3 Jun 03:24 2020 > Time window: 3 months > Time of expiry: 3 Sep 03:24 2020 > Text: > > I pledge to pay G. (or any other player) all my coins and victory points > if e fills in all the gaps in the CFJ database in the years 2018 and > 2019. Time window is 3 months. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "No Fraud, Becca" created by R. Lee > Time of creation: 3 Jun 03:34 2020 > Time window: 3 months > Time of expiry: 3 Sep 03:34 2020 > Text: > > I also pledge not to transfer coins to other entities to avoid the above > pledge for the same time window of 3 months. Violating this pledge > shall be a class 8 crime. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Don't touch the statute" created by Jason > Time of creation: 4 Jun 00:32 2020 > Time window: 60 days > Time of expiry: 3 Aug 00:32 2020 > Text: > > I pledge not to change rule numbers in order to interfere with the > functioning of a statute for the period of 60 days. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Offer for those interested in creating a bridge" created by P.S.S. > Time of creation: 22 Jun 22:50 2020 > Time window: 60 days > Time of expiry: 21 Aug 22:50 2020 > Text: > > I will create a contract compensating the creator and maintainer of such > a bridge[1] with good uptime and usability after it has functioned for a > month. The compensation shall be no less than that received by a > competent, law-abiding officer or its reasonable equivalent in cards. > > [1] context: > > https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2020-June/043564.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "No power abuse" created by Jason > Time of creation: 23 Jun 23:20 2020 > Time window: 60 days > Time of creation: 22 Aug 23:20 2020 > Text: > > If I acquire the office of Prime Minister, I pledge to exercise no > cabinet orders and to initiate an election within 7 days. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "No emergency regulations" created by Jason > Time of creation: 23 Jun 23:27 2020 > Time window: 60 days > Time of creation: 22 Aug 23:27 2020 > Text: > > I pledge to issue no intents pertaining to emergency regulations if I > become Prime Minister. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Honor in scammery" created by R. Lee > Time of creation: 30 Jun 14:26 2020 > Time window: 60 days > Time of expiry: 29 Aug 14:26 2020 > Text: > > I pledge to transfer those 60 VP to G, giving em a win and the > speakership, within 24 hours after the indictments of me for Uncertain > Certification are resolved (I’m doing this so I can wipe my future blots > with the blot-b-gones without an economic reset, then I will give G. the > points and e will win like I promised). Violating this pledge shall be a > class 1000 crime. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Honest officiating" created by ATMunn > Time of creation: 06 Jul 20:12 2020 > Time window: 6 months > Time of expiry: 06 Jan 20:12 2021 > Text: > > I pledge not to include anything other than official duties in the same > message any official duties. This pledge shall be called "Honest > officiating" and shall have a time window of 6 months. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Shiny loot" created by R. Lee > Time of creation: 08 Jul 00:26 2020 > Time window: 60 days > Time of expiry: 06 Sep 00:26 2020 > Text: > > I pledge on pain of class 1 million crime that if this > intent succeeds, I will distribute X coins to each member of the > Plundership where X is the number of coins from that promise divided by the > number of members of the Plundership rounded down to the nearest integer, > then I will transfer any remaining coins to the Plundership. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Mysterious hash" created by G. > Time of creation: 13 Jul 13:44 2020 > Time window: 60 days > Time of expiry: 11 Sep 13:44 2020 > Text: > > I pledge to make a public statement (under penalty of no faking) that has > the following SHA-256 hash, in a timely fashion after Diplonomic ends, if > the identity of the writer has not been revealed in the mean time: > > 2b6e3546b748a65531ceae83d69b41c59b4b809dbb4ee9fce4ccfdf3b7f69345 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "definitely not bribery" created by ATMunn > Time of creation: 18 Jul 00:08 2020 > Time window: 60 days > Time of expiry: 16 Sep 00:08 2020 > Text: > > I pledge that when the proposal "Contract Charities" passes, if no votes > were evaluated to AGAINST, I will transfer 100 coins to R. Lee. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Unmanipulativeness" created by R. Lee > Time of creation: 20 Jul 14:46 2020 > Time window: 60 days > Time of expiry: 18 Sep 14:46 2020 > Text: > > Anyway I pledge that the dicelog was the first one I made and not > manipulated > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ======================================================================== > > > ======================================================================== > =============================== PROMISES =============================== > ======================================================================== > > If any promise(s) has/have no name currently, I assign it/them the > name(s) displayed in this report. > > The following 2 promises exist: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Treasure" created by omd > Bearer: the Lost and Found Department > Text: > > I pay 200 coins to the bearer > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Justice for hire" created by omd > Bearer: the Library > Text: > > Cashing conditions: the bearer has transferred or granted Jason 1 > Justice card in the same message as which e cashes this promise. > > I transfer the bearer 15 coins. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ======================================================================== > -- > ATMunn > friendly neighborhood notary and Czar of Russia :) > -- >From R. Lee