I got one PoT reward in March, and that's all. It's very hard to get PoT, you should be extremely lucky. This is the reason I don't understand why some people praise it so much. Yes, theoretically it's great, yes, it's a new feature (and I like innovations), and yes, you might catch this PoT... some day, somewhere, somehow... but in general for me personally it's almost non-existent and unimportant.
As of now I'd give more praise to PoS than to PoT because PoS can bring you a real profit while PoT is just a lottery with a small prize, and this prize will get lower and lower with block reward halving because PoS gives you 50% of the current PoW block reward. Let's say, If you could possibly win a $10 prize once a year would it really matter to you?
I'd like to see PoT given some kind of sliding scale so that every transaction can pay back a tiny amount (even if it's just barely a few satoshis or fluttaishis or whatever) or you can elect to notch it up to larger payouts that are more and more random. That way if you want to take chances for fun, sure go for it and set it to 2500 FLT at max odds, or set it to 1 FLT at guaranteed odds - in both cases the minimum Xfer to qualify should be appropriate as well, i.e. the 1 FLT payout requires 100 FLT transfer. I realize that PoT is basically a kind of one-transaction-at-a-time iterative mining process so the randomness of PoT rewards is derived from the natural randomness of mining a block. Given this, a PoT peer to peer reward pool might need to exist to take large PoT rewards and pool them into payout streams in order to make PoT 'feel' more like a reward system and less like a lottery for those who aren't really into the chance reward concept (which I suspect is most people).
How about we change the rewards of PoT and base it off of coin age. When you spend your money, the rewards are based off your coin age which sort of works well with PoS. If I have 1 or 2 days left but I want to spend fluttercoin, I'm encouraged not to spend because I don't want that to reset.
But this way, I can spend the FLT and not have to waste the 28 days of staking. You just have to set the interest rate below PoS if you want to encourage saving money, or above if you want to encourage spending. You would
need to set a minimum coin age for security. I personally think it should be lower then PoS to encourage saving, maybe have it at 1% or 1.5% whatever is popular with cashback credit cards should be fine.
The only problem with this idea is someone could generate x amount of wallets to send out transactions which create blocks and control the block chain. This introduces a security threat, if there's some way to guarantee this can't happen we could move forward with this idea.
I mean for this to be successful, the attacker would need to control the PoW and PoS during this attack to guarantee that he is the only one generating blocks. The network in it's current form is not strong enough to implement my suggested changes.