Gavin’s recent post on JAMKB helped clarify why JAM likely needs a separate state footprint resource-access token rather than using DOT directly. My understanding is: JAMKB would represent access to JAM state footprint. 1 JAMKB would map to 1 KB of JAM state. Supply would be fixed, possibl…

Presuming the only usefulness of the proposed JAMKB token is for RAM allocation to JAM services, is it possible that the only owners of JAMKB should be JAM services? My immediate concern with an open market is another core time Barron situation. DOT is still the token of transaction value, but the …

I think If JAM is designed to support, for example: Target capacity: 20 GB Current usage: 19.8 GB then being at 99% utilization is not a failure. It’s a success. It means that nearly all of the available RAM is being put to productive use. The goal of the system is not to keep memory artificia…

Agreed that 99% utilization is success, not stress. nobody’s arguing for keeping RAM artificially scarce, and high usage is exactly what we want. But that’s not the question the price is answering. The price isn’t there to prevent the lot filling up; it’s there to decide who yields once it’s full. …

So what you would be saying is that whoever pays more is necessarily placing something of higher quality into the RAM. Does AWS do something like that?

“Quality” is your word, not mine. Price doesn’t measure how good the data is; it measures how much the holder will give up to keep the slot. When the slot is scarce, that’s exactly who should get it. And, actually, yes, AWS does do this; spot instances are a live auction where AWS reclaims your cap…

First, let’s cover the necessity of JAMKB. JAMKB serves as the storage credential for the JAM system, while CORETIME acts as the computing power credential. One represents storage space(RAM), and the other represents computing time(CPU). As we all know, any modern program requires both storage resou…

So what you’re saying is that the RAM should end up in the hands of whoever has the most money? I think that if someone holds RAM but isn’t really using it, they’d rather get their deposit back than keep the RAM if it’s not providing any benefit. By the way, IOTA used a similar mechanism, so it ha…

This is a good option thats reasonable.

Most of this thread keeps coming back to the same worry: how does demand for JAM state actually turn into demand for DOT? I think that depends on the pricing model more than it’s getting credit for. It’s easy to forget that state already costs DOT today. Polkadot makes a service lock up DOT in prop…

@ultracoconut I get where you’re coming from, but pUSD is not the answer for me. We all bet and believe in a decentralised, independent, powerful network. Owned by the many from all over the world. Making this indirectly reliant on one countries currency - no matter how strong or widely used - wo…

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I agree and believe there is a way to do it. Would be great to get the communities thoughts on this.

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