http://www.reddit.com/r/myriadcoin/comments/2c99ed/block_reward_halving_schedule_discussion/MYR's block halving schedule occasionally gets mentioned as a positive, insofar as the inflationary effects of miners selling newly minted coins on exchanges keeps the price low for an extended period relative to many coins, so more people can initially enjoy an opportunity to learn about and accumulate MYR at reasonable prices.
Sounds good, but I'd like to better understand how this relates to what other coins do and how significant it actually is, hope some folks here can drop some knowledge.
As I understand it bitcoin block reward halvings occur about every 4 years, approximately 4X as slow as MYR, so BTC's inflation decreases at a much slower rate. By contrast a lot of scamcoins complete their entire mining period in 2 weeks or less! No point in comparing a long-term project like MyriadCoin to instamine / junk scamcoins, but it appears MYR's schedule unfolds in the middle ground between these extremes.
As has been previously discussed the presently consistent long-term decline in MYR's price occurs as a function of block rewards getting sold on exchanges at a greater rate than people seeking to invest in MYR wish to accumulate. Obviously the block halving will influence this dynamic, but since the usual daily volume of MYR exchanged remains fairly low, would it be accurate to describe the expected impact of the block reward halving as negligible compared to the potential effects of wider adoption / increased demand + use?
• Do very many other coins have similarly slow block halving schedules?
• How did the dev team arrive at roughly 48 weeks as the ideal reward halving rhythm?
• As I understand it MYR remains one of the most profitable coins to mine at present, will this continue to be the case after the 1st block halving?
• How will PolyMYR play into all this?
• Is slow block-halving considered an intrinsically required feature for a coin to maintain long-term stability?
• If so, does this mean MYR enjoys a significant "first mover" advantage over other coins aiming for long-term survival, which even if they wanted to copy what MYR does would necessarily need to adopt a similarly slow reward halving schedule which would make "catching up" a distant prospect?