We were trying to move the block time to 90-94 seconds per block, which would have cut inflation by 1/3. In regard to having outside help, no offense taken. We are always willing and open to outside help and if anyone with experience would like to help we would welcome them with open arms. I am new to this and am doing my best, but am learning as I go so any help would be appreciated. If anyone wants to help out, please PM me. We want great things for this coin and if no one else helps out, we will figure it out, but it may take a little longer than many here would like. I know this is not ideal, but I don't want to sugarcoat anything. Nonetheless, we will be working hard to make this coin better regardless of how long it takes. We are not going anywhere.
90-94 seconds would help significantly as well, and we are already 30,000 blocks into the 28k reward level so 26k will be here before we know it. Many people are here because of the juicy staking so we don't want to strangle supply and cut it too fast, but as things sit right now 37.8 million more LiteDoge are created everyday. Thats about 0.75 BTC worth at 2 satoshis. It doesn't seem like much but we have the walls at 3 and 4 satoshis to deal with, many of them belonging to the former team members who are exiting I imagine. After a few days of low volume and staking, 37.8 million new coins a day is plenty enough to continually replenish the mini wall at 2 satoshis.
I am a patient guy. I think just about anyone who has stuck around since launch is. Normally I wouldn't be worried about the inflation rate, and I'd just hold and stake. When it comes to LiteDoge, I think the coin seems to be floundering to outsiders. Internal strife, failure to build solid upward momentum, and lack of stability are making the coin look bad. I'm not criticizing anyone here. You and others have done infinitely more for this coin than I have, I'm all talk no action. I'm just saying that since launch in March we have had multiple hard forks and 1 fail fork with the horrible masternode client, yet we still debating the inflation rate and how quickly block reward should be reduced! Still crunching the numbers, unsure of what direction we want to go. I would like to see the block time raised to 90-120 seconds, and I think the simple act of setting the reward schedule in stone and saying "thats it, we have a consensus, let's move on" would be an important statement. At the same time, turning the inflation down a notch or two allows us to focus more on eating the existing walls rather than soaking up new coins. If the protocol and price can finally show some stability, LiteDoge will look more attractive to new investors and members of the community. We need that solid base.
Talk it over with the other devs. If the only specification change of a new fork were to be a block time change, and you guys aren't sure how to do it, Presstab is pretty much the go-to freelance POS dev around here. A change that small would probably not be much work for him, so it probably wouldn't cost us much to get done. Sure we could raise the funds needed for an hour of his work if we need to.