• Counterparty on Bitcoin is being used to issue and freely distribute personal equity tokens (“KANZURE” shares) as a live experiment in decentralized, non-institutional fundraising; a successful test transfer (txid 75177b31299debd120bfa50a0fa2a98d737c5cae8073ce8260aaa2de29dcddbf) demonstrated the mechanics.  

• The personal-token model is positioned as a pragmatic alternative to the theoretical “Strangecoin” nonlinear-currency proposal, replacing one complex global currency with an ecosystem where every participant can issue their own tradeable asset.  

• A programmable dividend scheme was outlined: customer payments to a project could be atomically split among employee-shareholders via Counterparty’s decentralized exchange, enabling real-time, transparent revenue sharing without traditional payroll rails.  

• Participants sketched reputation-backed individual coins (e.g., “Muskcoin,” “Carmackcoin”) whose market value would track perceived network-effect potential, explicitly contrasting this with Klout-style social-reputation systems that reward spam.  

• Jackson Laboratory’s refusal to sell research mice to non-affiliated individuals was cited as a bottleneck for open-source biology, prompting half-serious discussion of DIY mouse breeding and behavioral-training manuals.  

• A #bitcoin-wizards excerpt revisited the Fischer-Lynch-Paterson impossibility-of-consensus theorem, arguing that Bitcoin’s proof-of-work escapes the impossibility result by anchoring consensus to measurable economic entropy rather than pure message-passing.  

• Shared reading list included the autonomy-and-information-theory paper (bertschinger_revision.pdf), Maturana’s autopoiesis text, and blog posts on nonlinear currencies and public shareholding, framing the conversation in cybernetics and distributed-systems theory.