Disclosure: I am involved with the Tauchain project and hold AGRS tokens.
How to become a stakeholder in AGORAS and indirectly Tauchain
In my posts I've mentioned expert systems, decentralized AI, personal agents, and more. In these discussions you may have noticed I keep mentioning the Tauchain project and many people may be interested in knowing how to get a stake in that project. Keep in mind, this post is not about "investments" and is not for "investors" but is about acquiring a stake and geared more toward the type of people who see the big picture of what decentralized AI can do for the world (and for themselves economically).
AGORAS is the smart market, the intelligent market place, the knowledge market, the market where you can buy computation. In essence, owning AGORAS is owning a stake in a very important future project being developed by Ohad Asor. In particular, if you think of artificial intelligence as a means of production, as an asset, then AGORAS could be a productive asset and could easily have a very high market cap. If we take a look for instance at Golem we will find it already has a $43 million dollar market cap without even an alpha release (and that is with a billion tokens and a substantial "pre-allocation"). If we look at AGORAS we see a market cap of close to $5 million dollars. Is there a good reason why Golem has a $43 million dollar market cap while AGORAS has close to $5 million?
It is in my own opinion that AGORAS is way under priced, Golem is way over priced, or perhaps a combination of the two. AGORAS has only 42,000,000 intermediate tokens which can ever exist. What that means is that if AGORAS merely reached the same market cap as Golem it would mean each token is over $1. Currently each AGORAS token goes for around 11 cents. I would expect that if Ohad even can get an alpha to work as a proof of concept the AGORAS token can reach over $1.
This is not about speculating on the price because for those of us who find the utility of Tauchain and AGORAS intriguing we will have no intention of selling these tokens for BTC, ETH, or the USD any time soon if ever. AGORAS tokens can be used to build automated businesses (not all that different from DAOS/DACs but in such a way that you don't require a crowd sale or any of the risks associated with trusting programmers. With AGORAS you do not have to trust the programmer, and anyone can develop your blueprint into reality if you have enough tokens. What this means is these tokens represent a lot of productivity, and for that reason even without the potential for AI these tokens will have value if Ohad and others agree to develop in exchange for these tokens. And because these tokens will represent CPU cycles they'll for sure have some value as will the Golem token.
Interested parties, secure your stake and get 15% extra
Stakeholders want to secure a percentage of the pie. What percentage of the 42 million tokens do you think would be enough for yourself, your family, and or your potential projects which you want to develop over AGORAS? If you intend to be a developer or if you believe Ohad can build Tauchain then the AGORAS token can be purchased today as a way to reserve your percentage stake before the price rises. Of course a lot could go wrong and maybe Tauchain never gets developed but if it does then having your tokens now will mean you wont have to earn them by selling your CPU cycles, or programming in exchange.
Ohad recently announced token lock up incentives. Ohad stated: " another way to get the 15% discount, is simply not to move your tokens from the 1st of march which is about two weeks from now (this doesn't hold for tokens held on bittrex). i'll write it publicly somewhere.". In addition to simply not moving your tokens, Ohad also will be willing to accept payment directly and hold the tokens until the release of AGORAS. So that means long term stakeholders will be rewarded with additional stake at a rate of 15%.
AGORAS tokens can only be purchased on Bittrex or directly from Ohad
Perhaps one of the reasons for the low price is the fact that you cannot buy AGORAS anywhere but on Bittrex, direct from Ohad, or possibly on OpenLedger. AGORAS are not on any of the major exchanges geared toward speculators and for now maybe it's best that it isn't because it gives the people who truly want to use Tauchain and AGORAS (developers, power users, researchers, entrepreneurs) a chance to get ahead of the rush of speculators.
The link to purchase AGORAS on Bittrex: https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=BTC-AGRS
If you think in percents: 1% of 42 million tokens is 420,000 tokens which would cost $46,200.