I think it could but it does require a bit of "thinking outside of the box" - I could envision some sort of decentralised online *game* which you have to play in order to vote (you only get to vote when you finish the game).

If you limit the time window (and make the game something that might take an hour or so to complete) then I think you'd get close to 1 vote per person (you'll never get it 100% right).

It's really a question of whether a "democracy" is what is wanted or whether instead it should just be the largest stakeholders that make the decisions.

Maybe a better way is to simply *pay* for a vote - so if you want to vote 10K times it costs you 10K NXT (with the funds being used on whatever is being voted for I guess).

Hard to say how well that would work but I think charging to vote could be a reasonable idea - another idea that could work would be to enforce some sort of "manual work" (such as solving a Captcha) for each vote (so you might be able to split up your funds into many accounts easily enough but you'd have to spend perhaps hours and hours solving Captchas to *use* those votes).

The more cost and effort to vote the less likely people are going to do it multiple times (imagine if you had to run or walk 10km per vote).

You do need to pay for each "instruction" executed with a fee (at least that is what I understood) so you can't really do much damage unless you have a *lot* of currency units.

It will be interesting to see how things pan out but without a doubt making the script language "turning complete" is a huge twist.

I am looking into the idea of using AM for a new kind of application architecture but understand that the Ethereum model is more like the Bitcoin "script" engine being turned into a VM (where VM cycles are paid for in fees).

Did look at that - but won't be fast enough.

I think "fee dividend" is probably about the best one (it conveys the idea that you get something because of your investment without the idea that that something "comes from nothing").

Don't use the word "interest" that is what "fiat" uses and is *wrong* when it comes to a currency with a fixed supply.

You Nxt guys are really starting to rock!

So yes - I am getting interested in this project.

To make things clearer (about my idea) go to http://ciyam.org/open and then imagine that the information you see was not just local to a VPS using MySQL but instead was stored "in the blockchain" (meaning that any other server with the same app could take over the functionality with the current data).

(this is the "red pill" which I hope you guys are happy to consider swallowing)

I think the idea I have could be launched via that (although I am not really interested in asking for much in the way of funds from people).

I don't think a lot of money is required (mostly I just need some API's and assistance to use Nxt to do what I want to do).

Some additional funds would always help but actually assistance (in terms of programming) would generally be more valuable.

True - but the entire platform could be ported to other languages (you'll note that their is *no source* for CIYAM Open in that repo - yet CIYAM Open was actually built with it).

Believe it or not CIYAM Open is 100% *generated* source code.

Imagine an application development platform that is completely distributed (both Meta data and application data) and you will have an idea of what I have in mind.

The reason that Nxt would be the choice to do this is AM and TF.

I have a rather mind blowing idea actually that only Nxt is suitable for.

Can PM me for more details if you like.

You've managed to get my attention so already you are doing something right.

(can check https://github.com/ciyam/ciyam to see what I can do if you like)

Focus on the product not the price - a good product will end up being worth a good price.

Done.

An API call to get the AM size limit (currently 1000) would be helpful (in order to chop up data and send it in max. size chunks efficient).

Thanks - and is there an API to query that limit (as presumably it might be increased down the track)?

What is the size limit of a single message?