almost 50% of money supply being burnt for PoB.
almost 20k coins burnt out of 40k total minted
unless you found early blocks and kept burning 50% of your PoB rewards, you have little to no chance of finding PoB blocks
I burnt 50 coins on first day, and found 3 PoB blocks and nothing else so far
unfortunately this is turning out to be very centralized distribution
Its been one day only, give it some time, you've got a year to go before they decay.
My probability of finding PoB with 50 burnt coins are about 0.25%, which is 1 out of 400, and the % is getting smaller very quickly. It was at one point 1.47%, but I couldn't increase my PoB investment because I couldn't get more coins to invest. By the time my PoB blocks matured, which took 12 hrs, total burnt coins went from 3000 to 20000. even if I invest all of my PoB coins, I won't be able to compete with bigger farmers who have invested more in PoB earlier.
its not a discussion of patience. I'm talking about the fundamental flaw here.
if the PoB was distributed by %, it would be like pool mining, where you get your small share.
but PoB in itself is like solo mining, where big farmers are getting the whole block.
so If you found early blocks and invested most of your coins to PoB, you can maintain your monopoly because you'll be getting majority of PoB blocks. small miner have no chance of increasing your chance of finding PoB blocks since you won't be able to get more coins to invest more.
I doubt any small farmers are going spent 1-10 btc and burn them all just so you can have higher chance of finding PoB blocks. The monopoly will be maintained by the bigger farmers by investing big % of their PoB reward constantly until it will cost so much money to overcome it.
Edit: Even if you're willing to invest your BTC to burn, majority of supply will be controlled by the big PoB share holders and they won't let go of their monopoly for few BTCs, currently if you buy all of the SLM in market, and burn them all, you could only increase your chance by 2%. This looks like a carefully orchestrated monopoly by design.
whoever gains control of it in first 24 hours, will maintain their control forever.
needless to say, I will mine when there is a pool, but I won't be burning anymore.