The price will never rise if everyone is holding on to their bags, waiting & staking. You can see what is happening with BlackCoin - lots of innovation and news, but everybody is holding on to it expecting huge rise, yet nothing notable happens. It happens with other POS coins too - once it goes POS, people withdraw from exchanges to their own wallets, volume plummets, price follows.
Most of WC holders are in the same boat; waiting for their ROI, many accumulating more while the price is still insanely low; thus more WC moving to bags that won't go anywhere soon. This makes it much harder still to get the price up where it belongs, even with a ton of good news and innovations.
We need to stimulate WC to more buying and selling. Great new coin features to stimulate buying, and (more) places to spend WC for goods/services to stimulate selling/spening. And focus our promotions on that area. Please stop promoting to hold, don't reward staking/holding any more than the stake itself, the real reward should be in buying and selling(spending). I'm not an expert in the field, I don't really have an idea to accomplish this, but for a community coin with lots of ideas, we can get places, right? Apps, games, whatever to throw WCs at.
I'm still no fan of anon (or 'privacy' if you will, same thing diff name), imo it's more (dying) hype than usefulness - and might even bite us in the ass one day. I've followed the discussion for pages about it, but I don't color myself convinced this is the way to go. Maintaining a 'spinoff' coin along with WC seems a hassle, and if it's rewarded by holding WC, I don't see how this will improve the price of WC. And if one takes a blow, the other probably follows. And I don't want to catch myself 'gambling' trading between WC and WOC, risking losing even more than I already did.
my 40 WC (about 2 cents)
Hey Pantalaimon, I've heard similar logic in regards to coin holding before, but have yet to see any true economics on it. As those who want WC buy right now @ 130 Sat, say plan to hold until 1300 Sat. Every WC that person buys, is essentially removed from the supply at the price of 130 sat. Lets say then a market force occurs and causes our price to rise from 130 sat to 500 sat (be nice huh lol) How much ever that person is holding at 500 Sat is still off the market until his magic price of 1300. But each new person buying in at 500 Sat to hold is say planning to hold until (1000 sat) up until 1000 those coins are not in supply. With such a small increase in coins per year of 2%, the price drives up. My math and such isn't good, but in general i'm trying to say... for anyone buying to hold for speculation the price is going up, they're removing the coins that could be sold. If demand was a constant but supply keeps shrinking in this regard, the only nature tendency is for the price to increase.
Bitcoin has an expanding coin supply still, but i've heard this situation described.
Alot of the rest, i'm mixed on. I'd love to see more adoption and promotion of WC, and
I know the volunteer PR team is always accepting volunteers Looking at Mintpal, there is currently
13BTC needed to get the price at
200sat. That's basically twice the current volume on Mintpal.
The demand is currently at a minimum; any chance surge in price causes small dumps of holders getting a small profit from it, pushing the price back where it was. There's no buy support to sustain a higher price, let alone a steady rise.
There are many holding large bags now, and given the circumstances, there will be lots of dumping when the price is going up. Many won't wait for prices as high as 500sat or even 1000+ sat. Going from 100 to 150 (4.5BTC from here) is a whopping 50% profit that many WC holders are eager to cash in. The distribution of coins is messed up now, and it will take some time to recover from that. We can't avoid those dumps, and it's needed to even out the skewed distribution.
Therefore we need a massive amount of buy support. And there lies the challenge. Let's not let one bagholder feed another bagholder