I JUST WANNA MONETIZE THE "DEN" MONIKER, okay -.-

That's basically what I was thinking, except for the tax part.

Maybe it should be that you have to send your own bid to SN and then you get it back when they make their higher bid (which also goes to SN).

Undisciplined

: It's conceivable to make some sort of auction system for usernames (like waiver claims), but then new users would have to wait for some period of time for the auction to play out, which would be super annoying. Also, new nyms are unclaimed while being freely available, implying that their reservation price is 0. Perhaps SN could add a feature where we each set a reservation price for our nym that would allow new users to purchase existing nyms with almost zero transaction cost. This is probably a bad idea, though.

Love this. We should do like Eric Posner and Glen Weyl in 

 and have stackers post a username sats figure... and if anybody bids that, you gotta sell your nym to them. (and you pay an SN "tax" -- rent? -- relative to the amount you bid)

econ

[SNIP 166] Make them pay!

> **Usernames**: It's conceivable to make some sort of auction system for usernames (like waiver claims), but then new users would have to wait for some period of time for the auction to play out, which would be super annoying. Also, new nyms are unclaimed while being freely available, implying that their reservation price is 0. Perhaps SN could add a feature where we each set a reservation price for our nym that would allow new users to purchase existing nyms with almost zero transaction cost. This is probably a bad idea, though.

Love this. We should do like Eric Posner and Glen Weyl in _Radical Markets_ and have stackers post a username sats figure... and if anybody bids that, you gotta sell your nym to them. (and you pay an SN "tax" -- rent? -- relative to the amount you bid)