I'm wondering what the transaction fee will be? I hope that it isn't a hardcoded fee where an increase in the price also means an increase in the fee. That could quickly become very expensive if the price rises 10x or 100x. Maybe a kind of built in voting mechanism would work. Probably better than making a hardfork every time the fee has to be changed.
We are aiming for extremely low transaction fees, as low as possible basically.
But since we don't yet know the market cap HEAT will have at launch we can't decide on those yet.
All transaction costs reflect the actual cost those transactions have on the network.
There is a class of extremely cheap transactions.
- send payment to existing account
- transfer asset to existing account
- place buy order/sell order
A slightly more expensive class of transactions involves anything that creates a permanent addition to the shared storage among all peers, you should think of these in that case.
- anything that creates a new account+balance
- anything that creates a new asset
Right now transaction fees are hardcoded, but extremely low.
The idea here is that anyone can send transactions at almost no cost, yet still allow the network to favor higher fees over lower fees whenever there is so much traffic that we need to start deciding who gets in and who not.
But reaching that level soon is extremely unlikely since we for instance allow for 30,000 transaction blocks (NXT has 256).
By design HEAT of course can support much lower transaction fees than comparable crypto-currency frameworks that have not solved the blockchain size storage issue.
Also have you considered changing the name? When I search for Heat Ledger on google I get results about the dead actor Heath Ledger.
I'm sure the marketing department will have a look at that. Thanks for the input.