Stake reward, for this month is 0.015*CENT per year, what is 0.00125*CENT per month. What it is means is if you has got an stake of 1,000 BTGs, your stake reward-month would be 1.25 BTGs. This low stake setting was choosed because the very lower bulk of BTGs as compared to PPC or NVC, avoiding innecesary inflaction of coin.
I take note about your appreciation, but, attending to the stake rewards computed above, it is right. It seems, rather, small amounts of reward stake in your balance are not appreciated or noted.
Stake modifiers are a security mechanism rather a reward system, so, for security, does not deactivate it under any reason.
As I understand, on 2013-Jun-20 we switched to the new interest schedule, which is 1-3% depending on difficulty, so I believe is 3% now.
The problem I have found applies to all the stake mining coins, just that it only matters much on the coins with small amounts.
What I meant by disable/deactivate stake mining, is that *users* should do that, until we get this fixed. Certainly not that we should take it out of BitGem - it's a great feature, which has the *dual purpose* of securing the network and giving the users a bonus for their contribution to that.
As an aside, I tend to think 1-3% interest is too low, because since we started with a very small/scarse coin amount, even a higher interest rate would not cause too much inflation. (and it encourages people to save/hoard the coin, which supports a higher market price). The whole idea of the stake coins is for a stake reward, and YAC/Bitbar are at 5%, and NVC at a higher variable rate. But we can say it's ok for now.
But right now, users are not getting *any* credits for stake mining, so they are using up their stake power for nothing. The reservebalance technique I mentioned is a way they can stop it, just for a while, till we get this fixed.
I am pretty sure of the finding. I generated a stake block under full debug detail.
I will have a detailed posting out shortly, hopefully by end of the day.