LTB E139 The Validity of Appcoins

*Subscribe to the [Let's Talk Bitcoin! show feed](http://feeds.feedburner.com/ltb/ltb) and never miss an episode again. ##On Todays Show A Lincoln-Douglas style Debate on the statment "Appcoins can achieve and maintain a value if the associated application succeeds at finding a market" Affirmative: **David Johnston** of the [Distributed Apps fund](http://www.dappsfund.com/) **Tom Ding** of [Koinify](http://koinify.com) Negative: **Daniel Krawiscz** of the [Satoshi Nakamoto Institute](http://nakamotoinstitute.org) **Pierre Rochard** of the [Satoshi Nakamoto Institute](http://nakamotoinstitute.org) **Adam B. Levine - Timekeeper** ##Sponsors for Episode 139 2014 Sponsor - [KryptoKit](http://kryptokit.com) LTBc Sponsors: ##YOU! If you like this episode, send Bitcoin or LTBc to this address and if you want to emphasize that THIS was a valuable episode enter the show number **(139)** as the last three digits. >**1JDQ5KSqUTBo5M3GUPx8vm9134eJRosLoH** --- So if you really liked this episode and you're sending bitcoin, instead of sending .01btc (5 dollars), send .010139 (6 cents more) and we'll add it to the tally for this episode. If you're sending LTBcoin (the same address will accept both), instead of sending 1,000LTBc, send 1,139 for the same impact! --- After about a month and a half of running sponsor auctions on the forums, I'm pleased to announce the [LTB auctioneer system](http://auction.letstalkbitcoin.com) has been released in its initial highly experimental form thanks to @deweller. You visit [auction.letstalkbitcoin.com](http://auction.letstalkbitcoin.com) or click the Auction option from the page menu and you'll be taken to our Token Auction portal. Anyone can create an auction - Don't have LTBc? You might want to talk to [BitOfThis Sponsor Brokers](http://bitofthis.com/ltb-advertising-broker) who accept Bitcoin and bid on your behalf in LTBc. ##Credits for Episode 139 Affirmative: **David Johnston** of the [Distributed Apps fund](http://www.dappsfund.com/) **Tom Ding** of [Koinify](http://koinify.com) Negative: **Daniel Krawiscz** of the [Satoshi Nakamoto Institute](http://nakamotoinstitute.org) **Pierre Rochard** of the [Satoshi Nakamoto Institute](http://nakamotoinstitute.org) **Adam B. Levine - Timekeeper** This episode was edited by **Matthew Zipkin** and **Adam Levine** Music for todays show was provided by **[Jared Rubens](http://soundcloud.com/jaredarubens)** and **[General Fuzz](http://soundcloud.com/generalfuzz))** Album art: Wikipedia If you're a developer, you might be interested in our upcoming Coins-for-Commits program. As the platform goes open source in the coming weeks we'd like as much help as possible and you'll earn 10,000LTBc per commit that is accepted. You can find the [github repository here](https://github.com/cryptonaut420/tokenly), and the current to-do workboard [here](https://trello.com/b/sU2rcKen/ltb-platform-support)