Good news - I can say we do now have an interested developer that is willing to spend some time on this project.
Bad news - We cannot implement Reserve Share plans on POR because of lack of information on how the algorithm works. The only function we know is, users reserve their stake in the system for a certain period of time and receive an x amount of coins. Lack of information on other important issues such as securing nodes, block generation etc.
This is my opinion - We can start working on a basic POS wallet. Slowly we can add on the features we want to the software. The developer can make this happen without much work. But what determines who gets the tx fees? What would be considered "fair"?. We need to identify that before we can proceed. Nxt using Proof of Stake, Nem using Proof of Importance. Reserving share is equivalent to Stake in Nxt. Do we want to incorporate the inflation into this? This you guys need to let me know what is your opinion so we can move forward with the project. These are the details i need to speak to the developer before he officially gets involved with the project.
Let us know of your opinion. I think we can progress now. Those who wish to get into the project, get your tokens now in the Nxt AE. Those who wish to get out of the project, please dump your tokens.
Edit: Kora, how does the Proof of Burn algorithm works? Proof of burn is very clever implementation IMO. I'm still amazed it hasn't taken off more. The original inventor (Slimcoin dev afaik) launched in May and had well documented whitepaper and working code. The wallet was a bit buggy, and Slimcoin had problems with forks, but overall for a 'new' coin tech it was going pretty well. He did have a very vocal critic/troll hassling him regularly, and then in Sept he announced he was moving on. Just recently a new guy has started working on Slim to iron out some bugs, but IMO Slimcoin is still an 'orphan' in most respects, but still very innovative coin.
The original was part PoW, PoB & PoS. The dev explains everything in his announcement OP plus whitepaper, it's all there for bee7 to look over.
Proof-of-Burn mining is different from Proof-of-Work mining. More computers and higher computational power offers no advantage over slower computers. In short, how this is achieved is: when one burns coins, that transaction can be used to calculate burn hashes. There is also a multiplier that is multiplied to the raw burn hash to calculate the final burn hash. The greater amount of coins burnt by a user, the smaller the multiplier will be and the smaller the burn hashes will be. The smaller the burn hash is, the more likely the hash will meet the difficulty target (be accepted by the network as valid). Over time, the multiplier of a single burn transaction increases slowly, lowering the effectiveness of those burn hashes, acting like "decaying burnt coins". Per transaction, only 1 burn hashes is needed to be calculated per ~90 seconds. The reason low power can mine this is because basically almost any machine can hash a few SHA256 hashes in ~90 seconds.
Whitepaper:
Slimcoin Whitepaper PDFSlimcoin thread:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-slimcoin-proof-of-burn-new-block-gen-mineable-by-low-power-computer-613213If you check out the last month or so of the Slimcoin thread you can see what the new guy is discussing, basically options for altering the PoS part. IMO if we used this we just use PoB & PoS and leave out traditional PoW. Having all three in the same coin (PoB PoS PoW) probably resulted in the bugs, but the basic idea behind PoB worked quite well.
If we chose this option we would have an innovative coin with great tech, and as the original was abandoned but still had good documentation & source code, we could improve on the original and make something new and original almost. Plus, being PoB makes it possible to run on a raspberry pi, so it's got potential on small mobile devices. Low resource use, so easy to market also.