I believe that the pathway to opening up sharedropping on PTS from multiple DPOS-derived DACs hinges on the ability to build a highly competitive market of individuals capable of creating and running their own DACs. Many individuals have great ideas but not enough technical expertise to make it possible.
Of course the argument persists that there are plenty of technically capable people out there (and this is true). However, we also have to realize that many of those technical people have a very good reason to bypass PTS completely and sharedrop instead on BTS for their support, and many technical people capable of working in crypto hate it--I was actually just banned from a programming IRC channel for literally mentioning that I would like to tip someone in crypto if they could explain something to me.
That said, I would like to set up a delegate slate of individuals who make video and text-based tutorials on how to 1st) safely redeem PTS/AGS keys to claim sharedrops, 2nd) properly set up and run delegates, 3rd) how to make their own delegate slate.
Riverhead has already stated an interest in doing this so I will be asking him to help me set up the delegate slate (and add him onto it) for placement in the Mumble Server. I have asked him to head up this community effort and await his decision. His role would largely be, in my eyes, to create his tutorial content while I would focus on scheduling hangouts, editing them and putting them up.
When he is finished with his series, I will gladly give him the PTSUniversity Domain so he can use it as his own. I would do so free of charge, but as always, I love to receive reciprocation for my own efforts if others find them valuable.
One final note: I want to have at least bi-weekly hangouts for this community and its devs. This is currently seen by most to be a scam, and I do not want to be part of something perceived as a scheme. It will be far better if we can nip this in the bud and provide open hangouts in the format I have designed--as they are superior to other platforms for both keeping people honest and giving the community access to openly ask questions in a way that is recordable and utilized by anyone interested in providing journalistic content.
