IMO Changing coin circulation is a bad idea. That's all I have to say on that. Bitladen is obviously NOT an idiot, he's a pretty darn clever person. I disagree with him on a lit of things, but there is one thing I do agree with him on, and that's bounties for development, and the bag holders. Seriously, BurstDev has put in hundreds of hours, and all you miners give him nothing, apart from crap when he's a little silent. Now why not rather support BurstDev, and perhaps other devs(if bitladen wrote us some code and burstdev reviewed it and we paid him a fair price, well, why not?).
Also, callmejack's idea f the messenger, well, mczarnek and i have been discussing the options for that for a long time, and have come up with some pretty decent ideas, although there are still some flaws. I think also, that instead of trying to store stuff in our plots, we should build, like callmejack said, some sort of service which allows you to use burst to buy cloud storage. This would be like storj using the mastercoin network for it's actual coins. This would allow those with bandwidth and storage to get burst by renting out cloud space, and then those who would rather not spend their bandwidth(your average home user) could just mine burst, securing the network. Also, it would be auto switching for those who want to use their bandwidth, if there is not demand for cloud storage, they just mine burst.
In this way i believe burst would be able to easily overtake storj, sia, and maidsafe, seeing as it has so many other awesome features. Not, I only have about 2 million burst, but I would be willing to give a QUARTER of that for this to be implemented, that's 500k burst. Now, all you other bagholders, why wouldn't you do the same? We could easy raise 20 + mill burst for it and get it done!
So, let's go get storj and maidsafe! I would also give 150k burst for a bounty for decentralized irc.
That must be the best idea yet for promoting Burst into something that is used in the real world and that will give Burst purpose, utility and value.
If you look at the model offered by Maidsafe and others, they do not offer a promise to use all of your storage, all that they have is a proposal to allow a capacity farmer to get paid for some proportion of offered capacity. If I pointed all of my available storage at Maidsafe, how much could I actually monetise? 5%? 10%? I would still want to do something else with the remaining space - I would use it for Burst.
Suppose that I can dedicate 40TB to the network and Burst offers me the chance to have plots or to sell storage space as the demand for space grows. As I get deals to store data for other people I can delete plots to make way and then, if demand for storage drops, I can replot for mining.
If you had such a system,you could use some of the features of burst to good effect. Smart Contracts/Automated Transactions could be setup to ensure that good faith actions would always be rewarded and anyone trying to game the system by failing to store data as contracted or by trying to avoid paying for storage if they did not need to retrieve data would be penalized. I have a design for a scheme that would achieve this in a framework of smart contracts and automatic transactions.
Best to discuss detail away from the forum as it would involve intricate discussions of crypto methods that would be arcane and irrelevant to most folks.
I'd be willing to pitch in with development on this if it would help burst.
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I do hope devs really login to the public one too as you constructed it this way, and I do hope I've time to join you, perhaps already in July. Set your clock!