I was wrong...
LEOCoin is going to a graduated PoS model--HIGHER percentage for those who have more coins... I don't believe that has been done before.
0-999 leocoin bring you 0%
1000-5000 leocoin bring you 10% a year
5000-50.000 leocoin bring you 15% a year
50.000+ bring you 20% a year
It will be interesting to see what happens. I can't imagine the price per LEOCoin will be going up when some people are making 20% annual interest rate--that is insanely high compared to any interest bearing investment out there...
It is definitely a scheme. There is no debate there. Why 20%? Why not 18% or 22% or how about 50%? I mean, they picked 10%, 15%, 20% because they are round numbers? Arbitrary values like that tell investors that decisions are not analyzed with options thoroughly vetted, but rather, they are completely made up off the top of one's head--not good.
It is a scheme, but is it a scam?
Every altcoin gets some kind of scam-accusation treatment. However, the degree of that perception varies. LEOcoin has a very high degree of it. With that in my mind, I question the wisdom of this LEOcoin team that releases a system that depicts clearly, obviously a desire to make the rich richer. You know central banking already does a pretty good job at that, and it works only through threat of force.
The really 'dumb' part of it is... why would anyone buy into that system? Are you going to tell them that the value per LEOcoin will only decrease by 10%, so you get 10% of the value of your savings through the difference? Or do you actually expect people to believe that will be getting at least 20% return on their investment in actual value? What does LEOcoin actually offer as a purpose other than the scheme?
I think what crypto has taught us is someone will always be trying to sell a scam simply because there will always be people willing to buy it. It is a sad state of society. LEOcoin could be innovative. It could go to an NFactor 15, which caters to a wide-range of affordable hardware without serious threat from ASICs (at this point) or botnets. It would be the best way to set itself apart from other cryptos--truly unique and innovative. The price could actually go up as the creation of new LEOcoin require REAL investment in REAL hardware and REAL energy. Going full PoS simply has not worked... ever.
@Beave162
Thanks for you good post. I very much appreciate, some of the issues you address. It is true, that many altcoins get a kind of scam-accusation and with actually having an active direct selling company like LEO Ltd. backing LEOcoin up, this is also to be expected. I trust that you will also be with us, with regard to the problems that Botnet's cause to script-Jane currencies and that they are not essentially the fault of the LEOcoin development team. I also understand - and as a miner also to a certain degree sympathize - with your assessment of the switch from a mixed POW/POS to a solely POS mechanism. We will have to see if POS will work.
Much more important, beside the CC-world - that never was very enthusiastic about LEOcoin - will be the reaction of the LEO community. Certainly, LEOcoin was not created to be a closed system, nor does LEOcoin Foundation support such an idea, yet, there is reason to belief, that once the situation in which LEOcoins are dumped by parties who obviously have no mining costs, will have ended, the LEOcoin community as such, might on itself be able to effect a more reasonable price finding. I also wish to point out, that - much will be clarified in the upcoming interview - inside of the LEOcoin community, also real money has been flowing between the LEO members when they traded LEOcoin amongst each other.
With regard to the percentages that are being mentioned; as far as I understand, this is not all completely set and fixed with regard to the finest details, after all, also the LEOcoin development team has to work on the algo and will do so after good consideration and with care in respect of the underlying mathematics.
With regard of the price of LEOcoin going up once the switch to sole POS mining will be made, is to be seen. However, price is depending on supply and demand. If the botnet dumpers will be done, the supply may dry up a little. And, to be frank, 20% of not much, is still not much. Yet, as demand will continue, whereas the supply will dry out, the price may likely reach levels that are at least comparable to the current mining costs. When the LEOxChange opened in April 2015 the price target was 1£. Already then, miners immediately started to cover for the electricity costs they had spent, but that is normal with most cryptocoins who can be for the first time be publicly traded for FIAT.
Nevertheless, I value your contributions and I do hope you will see that being innovative is not strictly limited to LEOcoin or CC. At the LEOcoin Foundation, we trust that the LEOcoin prices will recover and that we on the long run will get a firm place amongst the leading digital currencies in the world. Currently, I understand that others see this differently. LEOcoin was started with a goal, and we still go for it. After all, when in April 2015 LEOcoin actually had a market cap from way over 50 Million GBP, we were ignored and laughed at, now we are at levels that caused up to drop from our own top-20 list on the LEOxChange homepage, and we are laughed at and ignored. This board is not particularly enlightening my spirit, but still an important place to be and to participate in and to share news, updates or other relevant input.