I'm sorry but just by reading the last few posts you wrote, I don't understand how that system is supposedly much easier to understand.
You talked about the terms used by PODC as a way to show how difficult it is to understand, but POG has quite a few of them too as someone previously pointed that out.
diff, min coin age, max tithe amount, min coin amount, reaper reward, sower reward etc..
There are way more variables you need to take into account to properly understand and estimate how "profitable" mining Biblepay would be and if you should mine it or mine another coin.
Again, I think you will end up with very confused people asking why their wallet is "stealing" their coins and sending them to the foundation address, why they're giving x amount of coins but just receiving y, people making a mistake and asking if the foundation can refund them, etc.
Also, can we just close the poll/thread in the other forum since it obviously won't be taken into account last the last poll?
I don't know if one should laugh or cry over this.
Look on the bright side: we are discussing a possible algorithm change openly with people pointing out potential exploits and challenges. It is like a board meeting with nothing paid to consultants
I am against POG in general since it sounds like a lottery (with somewhat predictable results and a definite profit in the end of the day) which reduces the cost of minting coins. When you tithe 300 BBP and get 4800 BBP (more or less, according to a calculation based on 100k BBP tithe cap and 1.6M BBP emission per day), you have no reason to be picky about the market price to sell them. Most people will just dump these easy earnings for BTC. My personal belief and experience is that nothing without effort and pain behind it holds any value. PODC is hard work and pain (if you are not just renting out cloud servers).
We should keep discussing, not until consensus, but until a clear majority of opinion. My biggest worry at the moment is that the progress seems to be too fast. We had a vote in the forum that ended with the rejection of POG. A bit too quickly, POG-2 was put on the table with another poll for it (which is going towards rejection of it again, by the way); and then over a quick public talk between Togo and Rob we now have a masternode proposal being voted. Why the rush? I mean, the bear market is not going anywhere, and we are already close to rock bottom. Even junk coins with no features or future potential have 200kUSD market cap, and we are a bit above that (despite all the pros and provable charity associated with BBP). It's not like we will self-destruct if we continue things as they are, right?
I see a tiny bit of your point on these aspects, however I have to disagree with all of it in general.
I still think easy-adoption is a key feature for wallet replication and therefore mass user count. We had one poll that was shot down for a completely different idea - POG1 - which had the uncertainty principle in it. POG2 isn't at all like a lottery. The difficulty level is given up front before you tithe. If you meet the parameters and successfully tithe, you are sure and definitely in the pool and will receive a reward (actually you will receive 12 rewards for one tithe) so its not like a lottery.
As far as electricity costs and suffering, this is the part I mostly agree with - miners will be reluctant to sell coins if they are sold at a loss on the exchange therefore we will have a basic propensity to maintain a satoshi level at or above the electric cost. But is that our greatest mission? To maintain a price of our commodity at the electric rate? I say no it shouldnt be. I think people need to consider the effect of how many coins are lost on average - I dont have the study in front of me - but an average of 19% of digital coins in hard drives are lost per year - and its higher on the percent scale for coins that have billions of quantity like us. So I can offer a counter argument that in scenario B when we have 2000 laptops mining as compared to 200 PODC miners, not only did they collectively spend as much in electricty, but they lost more biblepay coins. I dont mean to say this in a negative way, people have to make backups to keep their coins. But the point is 20% of those users will end up losing coins because they lose their laptops or computers. So this is the alternative with easy adoption.
Also these new users become valuable community members.
Its not true that Im manipulating polls; Togo pointed out the danger of relying on multiple choice web polls and I agree. As you can see the Sanc poll is showing a lot of interest in pog2! And I am holding off on my vote weight to see how its going before weighing in completely.
Let's face it: we have the most vocal existing PODC miners with their BIASED opinions posting here! There you have it, Im neutral and looking for the best foundation for biblepay. Lets work together.
