Proposal to Improve CHC Price and Viability
Each 90 seconds, Chaincoin network creates a new block with rewards as follows:
2 CHC -> Master Nodes
6 CHC -> Miners
This is simple and elegant and something that should not be meddled with lightly, so please understand that I'm not making this proposal in a flippant manner, but rather thinking about how to change the narrative to allow CHC price to rise.
DASH has implemented a revolutionary idea: decentralized governance. With DASH, part of each block reward is allocated to a treasury that builds up over time. In DASH block rewards are allocated as follows:
45% Miners
45% Master Nodes
10% Treasury
The treasury can be used for anything, but one important use is development. At this time, our lead developer brakmic has stated flatly that he doesn't want to be paid anything, that he works 100% free (open source), so development cost isn't currently a huge concern. However, treasury funds can be used for anything the community deems appropriate, and DASH has used this to help catapult the coin to higher valuation using a time-tested technique called marketing. Note that DASH is supporting a lot of podcasts, and has commercials. CHC could follow in DASH's footsteps, using treasury funds to do good-old-fashioned marketing, both traditional (e.g., radio) and content marketing on the web.
CHC could become the Litecoin equivalent of DASH
This is a reasonably good elevator pitch, and answers the question "Why CHC?" I believe that achieving modest and achievable recognition as the next-best-thing-to-DASH could realistically push CHC valuation to $10 dollars or higher.
But how would this be done? Well, my understanding is that it would require changes to the CHC consensus rules. Technically, it would require brakmic and his helpers to port the treasury governance subsystems from DASH to CHC (assuming they are not already present), and a majority of the nodes would signal their agreement by running the new code.
My recommendation would be to do this in two steps. The first step would be to enable the DASH-like governance system to give us a structured way of voting on features and initiatives without doing anything to the mining and master node percentages. Once that system is in place, we could start taking proposals for how to modify the percentages to introduce the idea of a treasury. To be fair, it might make sense as follows:
20% Master Nodes
70% Miners
10% Treasury
This change in allocation would distribute the pain equally between Master Nodes and Miners, giving 10% of all block rewards to treasury. If my math is right, this change would start accumulating 576 CHC/day into the treasury, which should build up quickly into a war chest.
There are two benefits to doing this. First, we can use treasury funds for marketing and for any programming that brakmic isn't willing to do for free. This is clearly an advantage, and DASH has already proven that this isn't blue sky, it really works.
But perhaps most importantly, such a change to the long-dormant CHC consensus rules would itself be newsworthy, disrupting the status quo. Such a change would be perceived favorably by the crypto community, and that new faith would be reflected into the CHC price. It would signal that CHC is no longer a dead coin (one of the most popular objections), but a new coin, a coin with a plan. Even the potential for such change could affect the narrative, giving the price of CHC a better chance to rise.
Well said. Very well said. There must be a treasury and optimal balance between miners and nodes. Miners work hard (besides being a vital part of the "community"), and it does not seem fair to split (so close to 50/50) the proceeds just because someone has more capital to sit on. I say that as a node holder. Node holders should be most interested in how to increase the USE of this coin for mixing services, following an increase in the general use of the coin. They can best do that by becoming educated voters in how the treasury will be used.
Yes, CHC, a congenital twin of Dash (born same day or day apart) had every opportunity to grow like Dash in this laboratory of competing chains. Everyday, it has the opportunity to learn from Dash, and what propelled it to stardom. Born with the same basic genetics, CHC is well positioned to compete with Dash, if it can start to get it's act together. It can't all just fall on the shoulders of a couple of volunteer devs.
Think of it this way, this is about software...about competing software applications and platforms. The worst thing that could happen is this software be seen as "legacy". It won't be good enough just to copy, but copy it must. After copying enough to avoid becoming "legacy software", there must be some innovation as well (research and development), and that is expensive, hence, the need for a treasury.
There is a need to narrow down what would have the most long term impact at this stage of the game, copy it, and gradually increase R&D and marketing as a rise in price affords it.
I'm watching a YouTube right now, someone giving a speech about DASH. With 14k views, it's called "DASH Is The Best Cryptocurrency in The World! ($1000 DASH By 2018)". Everybody should watch it.
Most notably, at the 21:40 mark, he says,
"...And i believe, in very short order, what you are going to see is other cryptocurrencies that mimic our system are gonna come to dominate the field. I'm saying it right now. "