Hi Guys,
This is Doug from VeriCoin. I thought I would come in and help you better understand the mechanism, it is in fact working properly. If you run getmininginfo in the rpc console you will see that the inflation rate is 0.8%, which means that of the approximate market supply of 34,000,000 there are only 272,000 SLR (34000000*.008) being created over the course of a year right now but it is being split by very few people. You will also see that the interest is in the thousands and the network weight is just a few thousand, what is happening is this. That 272,000 over the course of a year is split across those that stake, right now that is very few as the network weight is only 3k or so and PoST is new to this network. So as the number of stakers increases the interest will drop off in a logarithmic decline to reach equilibrium and it is in fact working as it should. It is keeping inflation under control at 0.8% but greatly incentivizing more to stake like when the difficulty is low in PoW because the network needs more staking. If all your coins stake you will have to wait 8 hours for another stake and your coins will be split into smaller coin lots which will smooth the staking dynamics over time and equilibrate the network during the transition period. All is in fact working as it should, you just need more stakers for security and it is greatly incentivized as it should, but inflation is still under control.
See reward section for a better more detailed explanation of this mechanism: http://www.vericoin.info/downloads/VeriCoinPoSTWhitePaper10May2015.pdf
Welcome to PoST!
"...272,000 over the course of a year is split across those that stake..." - if that was the case, it would be working properly, yes!
BUT that is not the case!
See this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gi9ttwef2e5hfvk/Lotto.PNG?dl=0So I guess you could help Steve find/fix the issue and also come up with the solution to revert the transactions in error.