By having 0 reward on POS , it will discourage people to hold the coin. Then it will be dumped in the market and the price will spiral downward.
From the original thread
Reward scheme:
Proof of Work:
- NO PREMINE
- 0 REWARD until height 500 (approx 3 days, to avoid lowdiff instamine and to allow everyone to get ready)
- After block 499, reward is 50 COINS.
- Halving every 4-8 years (every 420480 blocks, see below for explantion why it is not exact when the halving happens)
Proof of Stake:
- NO REWARD, ONLY TRANSACTION FEES
- A Stake will occur ONLY IF there is a transaction in the mempool that is paying the fee
Because of unique reward structure - "no reward pos blocks", the total amount is not exact:
Case A: Nobody makes a single transaction in the entire liftime of the network, meaning all the blocks were PoW, creating rewards along the way, making the total supply 42 milion.
Case B: There is always a transaction in the mempool, keeping the average block time at 5 minutes, blocks are distributed 50:50 between PoW:PoS, totaling the supply at around 21 milion.
Case C: Things balance somewhere in between, the total supply is still predictable in the medium term <<<--- Most likely scenario
The idea behind the reward structure:
- PoW miners get payed by the network for spending energy and securing the network
- PoS miners (stakers) get payed by people using the network (paying transactions fees) in the begining that is practically zero, but the expenses of running a full node while the network is young is also close to zero (incentive to run a full node grows as the network grows or more accurately, when transaction volume grows)
- Long term competition develops in the fee market between the miners and stakers, pushing the price of fees downwards for the users.
Since this type of PoS reward sheme i never saw before this coin cought my eye i guess it needs to pass the test of time first before we jump to conclusions.