Alice, Bob and Charlie each own 100 PPCoin, and would like to generate more using Proof of Stake.
Alice keeps her ppcoind running all the time
Bob stores them offline for a year, and then runs ppcoind for a week
Charlie uses some other arbitrary "strategy", where I define a strategy by a sequence of ON/OFF schedules, that can possibly depend on whether he finds coins in previous schedules. (Technically it's a decision tree).
Would all the above, on average, achieve equal expected amount of PPCoins in their wallets? Is there a dominant strategy? What about a combination of maximum expected value and security (running your client 24/7 might yield the max amount of PPCoins, but it's also the most volunerable one (wallet must be decrypted for coin generation)).
alice finds the most blocks. 520 confirmations + 30 days of no-stake makes a maximum of 12 blocks per year from the same coins. compound interest makes no impact at all with 12 compounds and 1% ROI .she makes max 1.00437%
bob makes a perfect 1.00% but loses a lot of stake and risks not finding a block in that week - than he starts loosing, but not much. if he finds first block after 3 years he loses 0.03%
charlie makes 1.00-1.00437% depending how often he finds blocks
actually, they can find much more blocks, as parts of wallet have different age, but its just as running many wallets, there is no difference in ROI.
