So I was thinking of an idea to help the miners with TX Fees. Don't know if this would work or if it would throw things off or what, just an idea.
What about a Happy Hour? During this time, two people trade back and forth a set amount of PMC, and bump the TX Fees up. So that way by the end of trading, lets say 100 PMC, it's been "eaten up" by TX Fees. No announcement of the Happy Hour, just a little bonus to whoever may be mining at that time. Afterwards, the Happy Hour announcement can be posted with a Congrats or something like that. Anyone can expand on this, it's just a base idea.
We've been doing kinda, sorta, something like this with Nullu's block rewarder (I think it was Nullu's, at least). Worked nice, but has eaten through those PMC at a scary rate
Yes. It was eating through 100 PMC a day when I started using it. It's still running now, but on drastically less PMC so it can run continuously.
JohnnyVicious also has his own Block Rewarder. His currently generates much higher block rewards than mine, but I believe he also has a decent amount of mining power to make it more sustainable. Mine is running off donations, but I know he's also been using PMC he bought as well.
I'm happy to run promotional runs where higher levels of PMC are injected into new blocks but to make it successful the promotion needs high visibility. So I would be happy to inject 100 PMC into the block rewards on Sunday if we can draw enough attention to it.
But doesn't the Block Rewarder reward 0 TX Fee transactions? Or am I incorrect? This is more like, well, Happy Hour. A brief period of bigger rewards. Similar to how LottoCoin has random big reward blocks. But this is user controlled.
No. That was the initial idea, but that became an unworkable solution to get functioning properly and would take a significant amount of work.
Check some blocks on the block explorer.
Nullu's Block Rewarder; 1Nt7T8VKi64mPtLZTkxv8cs3745RE4JfDY:
JohnnyVicious' Block Rewarder; 1FREE145aEP2FHcNWJx83r887L7DU1mH6V
You can see his is a lot more aggressive in how much PMC he transfers to himself. Mine is slower but I have no problems running it 24/7 without any slowdown. JohnnyVicious' script does create more traffic, though.