MsCollec & Nite69 - the rewards program sounds great, but there are still fundamental decisions to be made about the properties of the coin itself. My earlier posts about interest rates, timeframes and coin counts has gone without response from anyone on the team, so I'll try to sum it up as briefly as possible.
Initial interest rate | Half life | Final coin count | Effective maximum reached by |
100% | 1 month | 1,183.36 | 2015/6 |
100% | 1 year | 7,389.06 | 2031 |
100% | 1.15 years | 9,974.18 | 2034 |
1,381.55% | 1 month | 9,999.98 | 2015/9 |
Note that the last scenario is the only way to get to the 10000 limit with a halving interest rate within a year. 1,381.55% interest sounds absolutely crazy, but it would actually roughly triple the coin count within 1 month (3162 total) , hit 9994 coins by the end of the year, and finish off at 9999.98 coins some time later. Again, this assumes that everybody who owns Sync keeps their wallet open and that none sits on exchanges.
It seems to me that it would be better to use the total # of coins in existence as a half-life trigger instead of using months, years, etc. That way, the final number of coins in existence could at least be set in stone.
The first thing to determine is roughly how soon the 10,000 final count should be hit, then the math can go from there.
Having a very small number of POW coins which multiply themselves 10x via POS over several years is an interesting prospect. It would be a huge incentive to buy the coin as well as to hang on to them and keep your wallet open (contributing to the POS process and stability) for a very long time. I may be missing something, but combining an ultra-low supply with the ability to multiply your holdings by a factor of 10 seems like a big winner to me.
I have uploaded the spreadsheet I used to figure this stuff out at
https://app.box.com/s/2w238twcd57falpq7ij3 - please download & play with it and let us all know your thoughts.