I still remember reading the OP in this thread a few days before launch (while looking for something to mine and dump, of course)...
I read it, it seemed interesting - but not fantastic - but I figured "black is my favorite color... there's worse ways to pick a coin to mine right now" and went on my way. I was working and finally began to comprehend what I had read since it was running around in the back of my mind with all the other garbage that's in there.
Very short PoW period for mintage and distribution only... then 100% PoS.
So all of the upside to coins like PPC, NXT, MINT (I was currently mining this as it was), etc. - but none of the downside to either. PPC being pure PoW for way too long IMO and MINT for too many coins and too much inflation. And NXT... there's just not much right with it actually - other than as a concept.Near perfect mintage amount - IMO at least.
Obviously this is subjective but to me a successful coin should have enough that at it's 'apex' of popularity it should roughly have parity with the USD or EUR - as it will then be most easily 'digestable' to those respective markets as a currency and not as a speculation instrument only. Buying things for $5 with 4-5 coins is easier for both consumers and vendors to understand than buying them with 4-5 one-thousandths of one coin. Regardless of their mathematical equivalency.Super fast transaction speeds that don't break the coin.
It goes without saying that BTC and for that matter even the fastest PoW coins aren't fast enough. However, the closer they get to fast enough, the more likely they will have blockchain security issues. PoS didn't seem to have these limitations as there wasn't complex 'work' to solve and all participants were, presumably at least, invested in supporting the coin rather than just raping it and moving on (because that's what 99% of us as miners do... I will be first to admit). At the same time staking didn't require leaving your wallet open for weeks at a time just to get started.Simple algo for PoW.
Since the PoW phase was basically just to secure the distribution/mintage phase only and not support the coin long term - scrypt was a good choice. This was at a time when everyone was pushing an alternative algo as being the 'savior of PoW'. However, every one of those coins had horrible launches due to no one understanding how to configure their miners, how to solo-mine the coin, some had virus-laden mining software scams, etc... but scrypt was aready mining a hundred coins without too much confusion. So while it wasn't perfect - it was damn close.0% premine, higher (than many at least) initial difficulty, 1 block retargeting, 1 minute blocks...
rat4 was obviously thinking similarly when he mapped out what the 'next big coin' should look like! Nothing has changed about BlackCoin... just what people are willing to exchange for one - but that changes every day with all currency (even fiat).