I voted no. The current reward cap of 2.5 coins per block is sufficient to keep inflation in check long term and makes it highly rewarding for early adopters to begin staking even now. But, GP still needs a fork at some point IMO. The current cap of 2.5 coins isn't actually hard coded, it is simply the result of a bug in the shoddy code. I have actually staked over 2.5GP at least once, I believe it was 2.7GP or around there. It was months ago and wouldn't even know where to begin looking in the blockchain for it but it happened I swear! Also, it is a pain because the GP client recombines your individual inputs sometimes so if you want to keep your inputs small enough to stay under the 2.5GP reward cap, you need to break your coins up into thousands of different addresses. God only knows what other bugs could pop up down the road with this codebase.
So, it's not a emergency and GP can continue on as is for a while, but it would still be advantageous for the long term health of the coin and for increased user friendliness to fork to a clean codebase.
Sure wish they would add
SplitBlock feature to this wallet!!
Dev.: Please consider TY
He is referring to the feature that comes from HYP and XRA, presstab's coins. I remember you saying the fork you had planned would cost 3 BTC, but I'm thinking presstab would be able to beat that price because it would be as simple as forking it to HYP codebase, then lowering the interest rate to 500% and the reward cap to 2.5GP, removing the limit on coinage, and changing block time to 1 minute. Relatively minor changes.
If GP took that route, it is worth it to consider whether block time should be changed to 2 or 3 minutes. 1 minute block times was sort of the standard for alt-coins a year ago, but it's causing blockchains to bloat very, very quickly. If the point of forking is for the long term health of the coin, it maybe worth it to increase block times. But, we are then led into another debate, do we increase the reward cap to 5 or 7.5 to keep inflation rate as is, or keep the reward cap at 2.5 to lower inflation?
Basically I think a fork is worthwhile but leave it on the back burner for now and consider paying Presstab to do the fork whenever we are ready as I am thinking he will do it for a better price and his code naturally fits with GP if we want to keep the parameters of the coin as is.