Following on from the above.
Current market cap is $10,371,296.
If, today, we had a voted-on to-do list, and everyone contributed 1% of their holding towards paying for X work to be carried out, we would raise $103,713.
For that amount of money, we could get a fair amount accomplished. Enough, such that upon release, the new work would raise the market cap by comfortably more than 1%. That would represent a decent ROI.
Now, let's say we do this every couple of months ( to take into account administering the process and doing the work - some work will take longer than 2 months, some less ). The value of BC will increase at regular intervals, for very good, solid reasons, without P&D.
Such a process would allow us to invest a small percentage of our holding with reasonable certainty that we will get a good return. Many of us will choose to sell some BC at the point of release of the work that has been paid for, to recover our investment and turn a profit. This builds good liquidity, brings in new money, etc.
It would mean we could see very good return at regular intervals, would erase the need for large numbers of people waiting for the big pump to make a quick buck, dumping in the process.
This leads on to the following possibility.
As the value of BC ( and BTC ) increase, so does the value of that 1% voluntary contribution.
Not everyone will be willing to voluntarily contribute even 1%. Not everyone will be aware of it. However, let's say that, instead of the 1% staking interest being paid back to the address that generates it, it is paid to an address that serves as a 'development' kitty.
Not everyone keeps their wallet open to stake, but as the value of BC increases, the 1% generated by those that do stake will cover for those that don't. It will probably, over time, generate an excess. In this case, the stake could be split between dev kitty and the generating address. Or, the excess could be donated somewhere ( towards education centered around this type of technology, for instance ).
A thought ............
This is a great idea. Instead of donate 1%. We should call it Donate your Stake or Stake for Developers. Now we spin it around so you're not losing anything from your original stash. This way it will be less than 1%
I have added a post to reddit :
http://www.reddit.com/r/blackcoin/comments/28s7fm/using_1_stake_as_development_fund/It'd be great to get some feedback about whether people would be willing to automatically contribute their 1% stake by diverting it to a separate address, but also, more importantly, whether this is technically possible.
