Miners are very important.
I wouldn't be surprised if they don't try and take a larger share from miners in the future.
You're not learning the lesson that's been creeping up on the whole cryptocurrency economy over the last few months. (Maybe you missed out on the "Jackpot coin" experience - that would've tought you").
The amount of coin anybody has is dwindling into insignificant in relation to the importance of generating value. Mining is a known quantity - it is now taken for granted that coins *will be mined* as long as they have any value.
Giving miners a higher share of coins isn't going to help improve this coin's value - thats why I suggest you look at the Jackpotcoin experience. They all thought that getting more coin was "getting more money". But a jackpot only works when money is temporarily *removed* from the money supply, not added to it. The same law applies here which is why progressing the network's infrastructure is a far better use of that 20% than giving it to miners.
Many people feel the same way. Now is the time for you guys to stand up. I can't do it for you. Boycott the 20%.
LoL !! Whether they are "important" or not, the mining population works to a profitability equation, not a political agenda. As long as that equation works out, the coin's safe and we can think about other things.
+11111111111 ... and why I'm into DRK long term. Its not about the mining, though miners are essential, and should be taken care of. But its about intrinsic value, not price! See do you prefer to mine 100% of a coin that is worthless, or 80% of a coin that has actual value? (and there fore, price)
Now, again rubbing my belly button here 'cos I'm so fond of them... 1 MN will generate a heck of a lot more than mining in the future. If and ONLY
a) You buy 1k dark right now at these stupid low price (6k USD give or take)
b) Wait it out until RC4, vetting, opensource,
c) World wide adoption.
If say, DRK reached, just for fun, only 50 USD by year's end, 1 node will be worth errm... 50,000 USD. Miners will swarm in for the profits, network hashrate skyrocket, so the 80% mined will be diluted between all the miners, while 20% of that will go to whoever has a 1000k in PoS sitting nicely there, providing a service, not only earning you passive income, but evaluating with time, instead of devaluating immediately out of the box. Think in terms of quantum-finance, instead of newtonian-greedyness.
So yeah, at current prices, MN are absolutely not worth your time. Nor does Darkcoin have extreme intrinsic value.