I have a couple of ideas for the coin that I think will make it a very strong coin. I did not share them on the Skype session. I do not want to share them if they are not going to be acted on, because I will take them to a different coin in that case.
So, let me ask, how strong are you as a developer? The distinctions could be, for example, you can use a text editor, change some constants, and build a new coin, or you have read the entire source and understand some of it, to you are an expert cryptanalyst, have a lot of network experience, and can change any aspect of the source and create a coin with distinctly different behaviors or novel user interface behavior.
I'd consider myself competent, I have lots of networking experience and my full time job revolves around networking. I also do a some scripting with that job, mainly in PERL, I have fundamental knowledge of C++ and have taken college courses in C++, and Visual Basic. I will never consider myself an expert at any of it as I feel I am always learning something new. I have read through the source code and I am able to understand most of it and am still working on understanding the rest of it. But what I lack in experience and knowledge I make up for in being able to find the solutions and learn what I need to get the job done. I already have some code written for if we wanted to change from halving the block reward to quartering the reward at a faster pace than the current halving (We are still working behind the scenes to determine if and when we will implement), which I haven't seen in any other code that I've looked at. It's fairly simple but definitely not a copy/paste job. I have always been fairly strong in Mathematics which helps out a lot with that part of the code as well. If you have ideas, you can definitely share them with me in PM and I will take them into consideration, if we decide not to use them I would let you know and keep the communication confidential if that is what you want. If the idea is good enough and something we can implement I am more than willing to look at it. I'm also not going to steal ideas without giving credit.
I continue to think that changing the block rewards or halving time, those fundamental constants of the coin, are a bad idea. If you think that the values are not workable, I think you must start with a new genesis block.
My analysis of the situation is that the coin should be used for commerce, as currency, and not as a speculation tool. The pump n dump crowd is pushing very strongly to make it as speculation, and that is not a long term interest.
My basic idea to improve the coin is to manage the coin volatility. One way to do this is to introduce an element of the economy that can only be done with bitcoin. Take a food store on Pine Ridge, as an example. This store could have a web page for items that it sells at a discount. The page could let people checkmark the items that they want to buy, and they could use their IIM accounts to purchase bitcoins as a coupon. These bitcoins then can be used to purchase the goods when they go to the store. If the price rises, the individual can sell the bitcoins and buy their groceries with the cash proceeds. If the price of bitcoins falls, the individuals can still purchase their groceries, and the store has already been paid at the original price, so everyone gets what they paid for.
The store gets even more than they do with coupons. They get marketing information, and pre-payment.
This requires that individual addresses be assigned. One address is the source for coupons for, say, meat, another address is the source for coupons for milk. A person paying from an address that was funded by the coupon gets the discount.
This is novel, and doing it with MZA would distinguish the coin from not only alt-coins, but also bitcoin. It would make the MZA valuable as a currency. Also, since they are purchase coupons, the store could sell them at 1 MZA/USD if they wanted to, and that would tend to stabilize the price at that same value.
