I bought all my coins over the last few years but stopped buying about a year ago - I have never sold any of my Tagcoins, but I have given quite a bit away as rewards here in Philippines. The price rise has been caused by Chinese investors, and a few of them have approached me to set up the Foundation in China and do a relaunch. But this was AFTER they had bought and the price was high. Untill as recently as last week I was not going to do it, due to possible problems with SEC here in Philippines. But if launched in China, then not so many issues. Of course those investors are going to benefit from a relaunched Tagcoin - they are in it to make money as much as anyone else but they have already invested a lot in buying existing Tagcoin.
I am considering pure PoS for relaunch, but I have to take that on advice to make sure it works out. If we leave it as 5% PoS, then for 10 billion coins issued at 1 cent, marketcap is $100m. I would prefer to keep the price low, and transactions low, because we and others are building applications using the blockchain. So if we leave the PoS at 5%, that generates 500 million new coins a year, some $5m of value, which the market has to absorb. Since reward rebates worldwide is a fairly substantial chunk of money, that is probably not so much of a problem, but if price of coin increases tenfold then that's a lot more to absorb.
Burning votes is a way to reduce the total amount of Tagcoin available but still working out if this is the best way or not, but it makes your point for whatever you are voting for. We will use it, for users with Tagcoin to express their voice, either for or against any funding to be given to a new app or startup. If I feel that a project is not good, i might spend $10 of coins to state that. The ones at the top would get the funding untill funding runs out or the Foundation raises more via other means to fund more startups. Those startups have to contract to give so much of their profit as rewards rebates, as a multiplier of any investment, which helps the circulation of TAG. If we can raise the amount of money then we can fund 500 to 1000 apps, which themselves generate thousands of Tagcoin users each, all of which is recorded via the TAG Api for tracking and public viewing. As for being voted off the board, it won't matter since I would be one of the multisig signers. i will vote for or against whatever projects I feel will benefit Tagcoin, and me personally of course since I hold a lot of Tagcoin. Holders of tagcoin will vote the same way, possibly spending their PoS income on this. Using Multisig wallets and a voting system that is public will help keep this transparent, but if you have any suggestions to make this a better system I am all ears. Just remember that we are in this to make money as well as try and solve a problem, namely the handling of small amounts of Reward Rebates, especially online via apps.
Just to let you know, ex executives from Antshares (Chinese equivalent of Ethereum) have come onboard in China as investors to the project, as well as the lead investor we are working with. All of the people involved will be announced and published on the Chinese / English website. Personally in Philippines, I will be approaching large institutional investors and VCs to buy Tagcoin in advance or priming them to buy when Token Sales start.
For existing Tagcoin holders, as an incentive to move to the new Coin, we will use the price of Tagcoin on the last trading day before ICO launch, and add something like 10% on top of new coins. If that price is $2, then you will get $2.20 of new coins at 1 cent each. No idea what the price will be, but it allows people to buy up whatever is out there and move them to the new coin.
We still have to get the OK of btc38.com to do this, and will be approaching other exchanges there to list for ICO, and trade as soon as the market cap is reached. Still not sure on the total amount to be raised either. When we have more concrete info, we will create the whitepaper for everyone to see.
This all looks good so far, but if it doesn't go ahead (maybe due to the Chinese throwing a spanner in the works re ICO launches), then we would have got a lot of action and interest in Tagcoin. I have been saying for the last 4 years I was in this for the long term, so now I think is the right time to move. As ny2cafuse says, the market is primarily Chinese, not USA. Ride the wave while it lasts..