tl:dr; Staking wouldn't be so damn hard if more coins were bought from the ICO. Everyone's going to stake 1000x easier soon though.
And that happens in around 9 hours--staking being easier for smaller balances?
Based on that week growth period of the coin, followed by the various tiers of annual interest over the next five years, what would you say is the highest amount of SEED that will be in circulation in the next year, two years, five years?
Oh, so it's closer to one seed producing 10,000 new seed. So, that would bring my previous estimate up to 10,680,000 for a supply cap, but that is not counting the 16 percent annual interest that follows. I just asked in another post for an estimate of the supply cap for this coin.
That is true only if every single seed mined and bought in the ICO is removed from exchanges and in their wallet for the entire staking period.
If any coins are moved or left on exchanges (they need a new 24hr maturity period), then that drastically lowers the overall supply. My guesstimate is in the 7M coin range total supply, but who knows. It all depends on what prices the coins fetch on exchanges and whether people are willing to risk the move and sale.
There's even factors I haven't mentioned. The growing coinbase naturally makes the blocks go by faster. Imagine a coin that gets mined with 3x more hash every day. The difficulty has to keep up with that. In testing, the first couple of days were always a little sluggish, so it balanced out. With the boost to the weight system I just implemented, that day 1 sluggishness isn't too terribly apparent. So it's possible that all the growth blocks could be mined sooner.
I tried to predict the future a little bit with the code, trying to reduce this effect and make sure we got the full 7 days by stepping the weight boost down as the end of the growth period draws near, but I don't know how well it's going to work in this real world scenario. I didn't have enough time to test for that.
It's important to understand, your ability to stake works in 24 hour periods, it's time based. 1440 blocks is just the number of blocks that there is expected to be in a 24 hour period of time. If 1440 blocks go by in 20 hours, people that staked early will still have to wait another 4 hours before they can stake again. The staking system is all clock time based, but the growth period is implemented in block time. All staking coins behave that way. In truth, the growth period is just a really, really high interest staking period. Insanely high. That's why there had to be so few coins. Too many, and I'd be trying to stake with a doge sized coinbase.