World Domination

General plan for TerraLuna membership, mailing lists, web sites, and markets:

  • We should be prepared to scale to 400,000 members in 4 years (50,000 active; Wikipedia growth rate, doubling about every 8 months).
  • Our public-facing interface consists of mailing lists, trac sites with our decision market plugin, and trader/sponsor financial accounts.
  • Each mailing list has its own trac site, and vice versa.
  • TerraLuna.Org == t7a.org in DNS
  • Each member of any mailing list or trac site has a unique ID "FooBar" which is their trac ID, and a "foobar@t7a.org" address which forwards to their real address; they can subscribe either their real address of their t7a.org address to mailing lists
  • Trac sites (and mailing lists) are split up by major project/product/effort. Each trac site can be reached via http://www.t7a.org/sitename, as well as via any special-purpose domain names. For example:
trac sitedomainlist address
infrastructuresinfrastructures.orginfrastructures@t7a.org
isconfisconf.orginfrastructures@t7a.org
t7at7a.orgtelemetry@t7a.org
pmpitmakers.orgpitmakers@t7a.org
shopt7a.org/shopshop@t7a.org
hostingrentroot.comhosting@t7a.org
  • Each incubator member organization by default gets their own trac site and mailing list.
  • Mailing list membership includes membership in the related trac site. Trac site membership requires mailing list membership.
  • Trac site membership does not include a financial account. With only trac site membership, you can edit wiki pages, but you can't trade page contracts. Getting a financial account means providing account setup fee and personal info.
  • All sites share the same set of financial accounts; same namespace. But to trade on a given site you need both financial account and mailing list membership.
  • Trading is done in internal points (TIP)
    • Traders are independent 1099 contract consultants.
    • At least 1% of a trader's minimum monthly TIP balance must be converted to USD, at the prevailing exchange rate, before the end of each calendar month. These USD payments are the trader's ordinary taxable income, reported on 1099. However, no conversion will take place if it would result in payment below a certain threshold.
    • Traders may be periodically granted or revoked points by TerraLuna LLC; the decision to do so, and the amounts, are at the discretion of the LLC on an individual basis.
    • TerraLuna LLC books sponsorship funds as income; they are not an investment and provide no ownership in TerraLuna LLC; the sponsor is only buying information from the market, and advertizing space on the web site

Scratchpad notes below here

  • Each version of a wiki page contains advertizing space, controlled by macros included in the wiki text (there is a default). Anyone can buy or resell contracts to advertize in that space. Holding a contract grants the buyer ad impression rights on that version of the page, ranked with a random fudge factor similar to Google's. The version with the highest price is the default viewable version. TerraLuna will always buy or sell a complete basket for $1.
  • Because of the unit portfolio design, each basket is in effect its own currency (page). Traders sell pages, earning USD; this is their taxable income. Sponsors buy pages, spending USD; ad impressions are ranked proportionally according to page balance. Traders also buy pages, spending USD, so they can split the page contract up and sell off the pieces they don't want; this increases the value of the page.
  • There is a TSP/USD market -- traders post bid prices, denominated in TSP, buying USD. Sponsors post ask prices, selling USD. USD gained by traders in this way is taxable income.
  • There is a floating TSP/USD exchange rate; sponsors sell USD, driving TSP higher, TerraLuna buys USD, driving TSP lower.
  • There is a floating TIP/USD exchange rate; TerraLuna sells USD, driving TIP higher, traders buy USD, driving TIP lower.
  • There is a floating TIP/TSP exchange rate; TerraLuna sells TSP, driving TIP higher, sponsors buy TSP, driving TIP lower.