I stumbled upon this announcement on SouthXchange:
"On November 20th, Nosturis (NTRS) will reduce its supply in 1:1000. For example, if you have 10000 NTRS you will end up with 10 NTRS."
Which really got me thinking... I know that in theory the supply is irrelevant to the price (i.e. market cap), but when we're this close to 1 satoshi (2 right now), it could mean life or death. Take a look at the mentioned coin's order book:
https://www.southxchange.com/Market/Book/NTRS/BTCNo buy orders, just a lot of sell orders for 1 satoshi...
I wonder what will happen when the supply reduction comes into effect, I will certainly follow it so we can understand the market response. I think after the supply reduction the volume will be increased manyfold, but the price for this coin will obviously go down: 1 satoshi will become 1000 satoshi, and from there the orders will go to 900 and something and so on. Because right now the coin is obviously valued at <1 satoshi. So after the supply reduction, it will be <1000 satoshi, but how much, we will see.
However, I don't think that the outcome from Nosturis will apply to BiblePay, because we shouldn't have this drawback of price reduction, unlike Nosturis which has hit the bottom - the market pressure is for a price less than 1 satoshi.
The problem with BiblePay is actually with the value not being precise enough, because there is a hard limit, which is the smallest unit - satoshi. Right now BBP is valued at either 2 or 3 satoshi, which is a massive difference - 50%! That also means a massive gap between sell and buy orders, which is not natural. It's as if Bitcoin would have buy orders for $10.000 and sell orders for $15.000, that's how big the gap is and how imprecise BBP's value is.
The real value now is actually somewhere in between 2 and 3 satoshi, let's say 2.8 satoshi, but the problem is that exchanges don't allow decimal satoshis. So even if we reduced the supply just by 10 instead of 1000, we would have a much more precise value, because 2 and 3 satoshi would become 20 and 30 satoshi, so we would have a definitive price of let's say 28 satoshi. So compared to this Nosturis coin, BiblePay shouldn't lose value, instead it should just gain a more precise value.
It's important to note that this change should make everyone's wallet just move the decimal point to the left, not to retain the same number while the future emission drops, that would not be fair. This change actually isn't supposed to alter anything in the emission rate or the current and future supply, it is supposed to simply move the decimal point to the left for everyone with a mandatory update. This should only have a benefit of having a much better order book on the exchanges and potentially more volume. Another added benefit is not failing if we reach 1 satoshi.
I see only advantages, is there a potential drawback I am missing? What does the community think about doing this decimal point move for BiblePay? If yes, how many decimals, 1, 2, 3?