I would say we can keep PoS on the table as an option, but further down the road once we get the current Qt wallet updated and the new advanced wallet out the door. Need to space these major features out so we have realistic time for development ;-)
So, the question for the community is how would you like to adjust the block reward algorithm to encourage continued mining.
We could bump it back up to 180 coins, or 360, for a longer period of time?
Let's tackle the block reward first.
Do you know what would be really cool? To play into the idea of particles..
Change the block reward to the atomic weight of a random element from the periodic table each day. Only once for each one. Shuffle a list then each block record is the next atomic weight on the list. Then those who keep track will be able to "guess" what the next block reward will be by which atomic weights are left from the periodic table. Once all the elements have been cycled through, shuffle the the list and start again.
Pick one element to always start from. That will be the signal that the cycle has started over again. Particle would both be unique, interesting, and for those that want to play the game, they work out when best to mine Particle. Or they could always mine it and get an average reward over x amount of blocks.
Just a thought.
https://www.webelements.com/